Archive for May 22nd, 2008

How to find the best affiliate products to sell

May 22, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing

There are thousands of affiliate products out there covering every topic and niche you can possible think of. They come in many different flavors, e-books, reports, videos, coaching programs, training systems, the list goes on and on. For each of these affiliate products there are tens, hundreds and in some case thousands of people just like you trying to sell them.

But with so much diversity and choice how do you which products are the best. By this I mean which ones will sell more easily, make you the greatest commissions and raise your profile in the internet marketing circle.

The first thing you need is a idea, what are you passionate about maybe you have a keen interest in health and fitness or you enjoy taking photographs. Maybe you are an expert in internet marketing. Find a niche that you know something about, you need to be able to write about it and educate others.

Now dont panic, you do not have to be an expert on your chosen niche, you just need to know something about it. Chances are that you will already know more than 99% of the people out there.

Where is the best place to start? We need to first establish if your chosen niche or subject is suitable for affiliate marketing. To do this simply follow these 3 steps.

Step 1 - Use Google

Google is a great reference to how competitive a niche is and how many people advertise in it. If you open Google in your browser and search for, lets say health and fitness. You will get pages and pages of results, however we are interested in the sponsored results. This are shown on the right hand side of the search results and sometimes in a purple box above the natural or organic results.

Companies and individuals have to pay for sponsored adverts so this is a good indication if your niche is going to profitable. The more sponsored links the better as more people want a slice of the action. You are better choosing a overcrowded niche than a quiet one. You know this is popular it is easier to try and sell into a competitive niche rather than be a pioneer with a new product and a untested niche.

Step 2 - DMOZ.org

DMOZ.org is a huge directory of the web. We are going to use DMOZ to find out if there are any forums and chat sites for you chosen niche. I have found the best way to do this is to find your chosen niche using the links on the homepage and then look for the Resources option in the list. You can then breakdown this again and find chats and forums. It can take a little time to get used to, but if there are forums for niche you should find them here. Forums offer a good marketing opportunity that I will be covering in another article.

Step 3 - Find the products

I use two ways to fid the products now that I have identified that my niche is competitive and that there are forums and chat rooms where people go to discuss and advise each other.

Method 1 - Go back to Google and search for your niche + affiliate product or + affiliate opportunity. It depends very much on your niche but this can lead to good results.

Method 2 - Go to Clickbank.com and click on the Marketplace. You can now search in your chosen niche and you will be given a list of products that are available for you to sell. Each product includes a link to the sellers homepage, the cost of the product and the amount of commission you can receive for each sale and most important of all the gravity score. This is basically how good the product it, the higher the score the better, this signifies a good commission rate and a high rate of conversions. A conversion is when a visitor goes to the sellers site and buys the product.

We have run through the 3 basic steps that will help you to find the best affiliate products. If you want to take your affiliate marketing to the next step get the step by step video course at GetAffiliateMillionsNow.com.

I wish you the best of success.

Mark Voce

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The 4 Step System the Pros Dont Want You To Know About Selling Affiliate Products

May 22, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing

Ever wonder why the pros and gurus get the maximum amount of sales with what seems like little effort. It does not matter what type of affiliate product you are selling, this technique can be used to sell pretty much anything. It has been used by the best in the business and I will now share this with you.

The system is called the 4 Ps.

The 1st P = Pain

Pain, this is the primary driving force behind a customer buying your product. They are in pain and they need your help. They have a itch and they need you scratch it, not literally. I dont think you will make much money traveling around scratching peoples itches.

The best examples of this are affiliate marketing and internet marketing products. There are thousands of products out there for instance so if someone is struggling with making money from the internet and you have a product that can take them step by step on a path to internet success you have a solution to their problem.

A more common everyday example is a kitchen cleaner, the problem or the pain is that the customer needs to clean a work surface or a kitchen appliance. You have a excellent new cleaning product that will do this for them. You have the perfect product to remove the pain.

The 2nd P = Process

Process, This is how your product will help to solve the customers pain. In the example above about the kitchen cleaner the process would be how your product can remove all dirt and stains and leave the cleaned object looking like new. Essentially you have to explain to the customer how you can solve there problem.

To do this you need to supply the potential customer with information, the most popular and successful methods are informative product descriptions, features, benefits, reports, presentations, step by step guides etc. The exact type of communication method depends on what you are selling and how your competition are doing it.

The 3rd P = Proof

Proof, OK, you have identified the customers pain, they have read your sales literature but they are still skeptical. It is our human nature to question everything and believe nothing until it has been proven to us.

How do you prove to the customer your product will work and do everything that they wish. The best way is to provide case studies, reviews and testimonials from your existing customers. Nothing sells a product better than a review, just look at all the giant electronics websites out there. They all have reviews of products and star ratings that have been left by existing customers. This is the single best piece of proof you can get, it reassures the customer that somebody else had the same pain they did and this product has removed it.

The 4th P = Profit

Profit, If you can follow steps 1 to 3 you will make profit. Its as easy as that.

The 4 P system allows you to maximize your affiliate sales, you can apply it to virtually any product in any market niche. If you want more tips and secrets go to GetAffiliateMillionsNow.com and you can learn the tricks of the trade that will earn you serious money from the internet.

I wish you the best of success.

Mark Voce

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Why most affiliate marketing products don’t work

May 22, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing

We have all seen them, these amazing affiliate products, programs and systems that advertise you can make huge amounts of cash from little or no work all in extra quick time. It all sounds great doesn’t it. The reality is this, affiliate marketing is not easy, if it was everyone would being doing it. Affiliate Marketing is like any other business it requires work. That work however maybe be very different and often much easier than the work you are currently doing but it is not a overnight success story in a box.

You might be completely new to field of affiliate marketing or you may have tried a few things before but never got the return that seemed possible at the outset. I’ll be straight with you, you have been lied to.

Many of the affiliate marketing systems out there are missing vital elements. The 2 most common missed out parts are traffic and time. Without these your affiliate business will not succeed.

Traffic

I see countless products and even fallen victim to some of them myself that offer you a program or a guide to make money from the internet. They will show you how to build and host your website, how to get the affiliate products to sell, how to setup the electronic payment systems etc etc. The end result is you get a nice flashy website with nice affiliate products to sell, but you are missing one vital thing, Traffic. If you have no visitors to your website you are not going to make any money. Visitors don’t just find your website after it has been launched.

“You are now setup and all you need to do is drive traffic to your site” seems to be a common statement with some of these affiliate marketing products. Thats great, just one question. HOW? Traffic is the hardest part of launching a new website. There are thousands of ways to get traffic some cost money, some are free, some take time, some are instant. But out of these thousands of different methods some reign supreme, although it does depend on the product you are selling. The best affiliate programs will show you how to get targeted traffic.

Time

As I mentioned earlier all business require you to invest time and affiliate marketing is no different. Too many of the affiliate marketing systems seem to neglect this, similar to the traffic problem. The upshot is this, you have to invest time to make money from affiliate marketing. The majority of time is not spent creating and setting up websites it is invested into producing content. This content can take many forms, I am investing my time writing this article. You can produce videos, MP3s, e-books, blogs the list goes on and on, but you have to invest your time to get traffic. This is where these two points link. You need to remember this, You have to invest time to get the traffic. You can have the best website in the world but if you have no traffic you wont make a dime.

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