Once you’ve found a profitable market, then
you need to find out what these folks are already buying.
You see, this isn’t a time for you to
reinvent the wheel. Don’t go looking for some obscure solution and then cross
your fingers that your market will like it.
Instead, what you’re looking for are
popular products that your market is already buying. Because the best way to
figure out what people will buy tomorrow is to look at what they’re buying
today.
That’s what you’ll find out how to do
in this video, plus you’ll find out how to pick the very best solutions for
your market. In other words, you’re going to discover how to find an uber
profitable golden needle in a pile of affiliate marketing hay.
Okay, so the first thing you need to
do is find affiliate offers to promote to your audience. What you want to do is
a bit of market research. Hit up Amazon, toss your keywords into the search
box… and see what comes up.
Here you’re looking for two things:
1. First, you’re looking for
bestsellers.
2. Second, you’re looking for types
of products with a lot of competition.
When you find those two things, then
you know you have a product on your hands that your market is already buying.
For example, if you were working in a
weight loss market, you might notice that there are a whole lot of products
about low-carb diets, PLUS some of these low-carb diet products are bestsellers
in their category. That tells you that people are buying low-carb products, so
this is something you might want to promote to your audience too.
You can browse other marketplaces to
get a feel for what is selling, including affiliate marketplaces. For example,
check out JVZoo.com and Clickbank.com. These sites will tell you what affiliate
offers are popular in your niche.
Now if you haven’t figured it out,
these are also good places to start when you’re looking for specific products
to promote.
Another way to find products to
promote is to hit up Google and search for what you know is a popular product
or solution, followed by words like “affiliate” or “affiliate program.”
For example, if you’re
hopping on the beer-making bandwagon, then search for something like “beer
making affiliate” or “home brewing affiliate” or even “beer making associate
program.”
This should turn up plenty of
opportunities for you across a wide variety of companies. Just be sure your
market is already buying these types of products.
Some affiliates look at the price of
a prospective affiliate product, look at the commission rate, and then pick the
product that will stuff the biggest wads of money into their pocket.
Except for one problem…
They start promoting the product and
it doesn’t sell. Or it sells like crazy, but then they get oodles of refund
requests. Or maybe they’re even doing okay and selling products people love…
but when affiliate payday comes, their PayPal account is as empty as a
politician’s promise.
Yep, you got it… sometimes vendors
cheat affiliates.
So let’s make sure this doesn’t
happen to you. Let me share with you several tips for finding a good affiliate
offer that’s going to get your PayPal account humming hallelujah.
I’m going to assume you’ve already
found a popular product – and you know your market is already buying this type
of product. So let’s go from there…
• Okay, first things first – when you
find something that looks good, job #1 is to make sure it actually IS a good
product. This means using the product, reading it, watching it, consuming it.
Then ask yourself: is this solution
something you’d recommend to your mother or your best friend?
If you’re thinking “oh heck no” …
then don’t promote it as an affiliate, or you’ll soon see your own reputation
sink faster than a bowling ball in a swimming pool.
You can also read reviews to be sure
that people in the market are satisfied with the product. Just take these
reviews with a grain of salt, because something they’re created by biased
affiliates and shills, and sometimes they’re created by competitors who are out
to destroy the product.
• The second thing you want to look
at is the commission rate and the overall price of offer. In other words – how
much money are you gonna make every time you send a paying
customer the vendor’s way? Make sure it’s worth your while.
• Next, have a look at the
conversions rate. Now, not every vendor shares this information. If you don’t
see this data, you can ask. If the vendor doesn’t provide it, then take a look
at the sales letter. Do you think it will convert? Truth is, a low conversion
rate isn’t a total deal-breaker because you can overcome it by doing some solid
pre-selling… but a solid conversion rate just makes your job a whole lot
easier.
• Next, have a look at the sales
process. Do you see any weird commission leaks, like does the vendor send the buyer
off to payment options that won’t give you affiliate credit? Or does the vendor
do something sneaky like insert ads and links for other products, which again
you won’t get credit for? Point is, go through the sales process very carefully
yourself to make sure there is nothing shady going on.
• Finally, the last thing you want to
do is a bit of research. Hit up Google and search the product name as well as
the vendor’s name. Sure, you may find a few disgruntled customers with
complaints. Very big company does. But what you’re looking for is a pattern of
legitimate complaints signaling that something is wrong with the product or the
vendor. I’m talking things like not offering refunds, poor customer service,
not paying affiliates… stuff like that.
So there you have it – once you do
the research you just learned about, you should be able to uncover the very
best affiliate products and services in your niche.
Before I leave this topic, let me say
one more thing – be sure to pick several good offers to promote, because you’re
not going to make a living as an affiliate promoting just one or two offers.
Instead, you should be setting up a sales funnel with a wide variety of offers
to promote to your prospects.
Okay?
So go ahead and start your research, which will put you one step closer to
becoming the king of affiliates in your niche…
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