I think you're much better off directing your bum marketing at affiliate offers rather than using it to get paid from places like Helium or Associated Content. Pick a Clickbank product, set up a Squidoo page or
hubpages for it and write articles that you can submit to Ezinearticles.com (which is what Travis recommends).
Ezinearticles won't pay you, but they let you attach links to your articles and that will make you much more money. Right now, I have 9 articles published at Ezinearticles and I've already made $341 from Clickbank, just over $42 from Adsense (all from
hubpages )and $16 from
Copeac . My first ezine article was accepted less than a month ago.
You will have to write dozens of articles to make that kind of money from AssociatedContent or Helium.