Niche Affiliate Marketing Systems

Niche Affiliate Marketing Programs : Which is the best?

Are you looking for a niche affiliate marketing program to learn how to make money with? Maybe you’ve been searching the web looking into this program and that program but you’re just not sure if they are legit. There is a niche affiliate marketing program for every product imaginable, from acne medication to “how to pick up women” ebooks. But if you choose one that doesn’t sell well or has really bad tools (or worse, none) for its affiliates, then you could spend lots of time and effort on a product that won’t sell and therefore, won’t make you any money.

Even worse, some niche affiliate marketing program places say they are diligent about tracking your commissions but they have an internal tracking system, and not a third party one. That’s like the wolf saying he’ll keep an eye on your chickens for you. Just how well can you really trust those types of affiliate programs? And many niche affiliate marketing program places only have several products to promote.

If you’re fairly new to internet marketing you may have vaguely heard of Clickbank. It’s the biggest online niche affiliate marketing program out there. Clickbank has been around for a long time and they have a trusted reputation. This is by far the best way to go if you’re just starting out with affiliate marketing.

Clickbank also has a million different niches to choose from (that might be an exaggeration but they have A LOT), so you can promote what interests you. This is very important, especially if you are planning on doing article marketing because you will be writing lots of articles.

The other great thing about Clickbank is you only sign up once. If you’re signing up with other affiliate programs you’ll have to keep track of all those passwords, where you signed up, and who you’re supposed to get paid from. What a hassle. [Warning: Don't go to the Clickbank website to look for niche products, because their website is so confusing. Instead use Clickbank Analytics.com, its a free website and they're a lot more user friendly then Clickbank.]

In Clickbank many product owners will give you tools to help you sell their product: like banners, email letters, testimonials for use on your page and other helpful items. Make sure you look for these when selecting which products to promote. And make sure you look for commisions that pay well. You don’t want to spend your valuable time promoting a product that only pays $5. Look for commissions of $20 or more per sale. Your time is worth at least that.

When looking for a niche affiliate marketing program to promote online I look for a quality product with owners who are willing to help me sell their product. That’s a win/win situation. And Clickbank makes it easy to find all this information.

iche Marketing is when you focus your attentions on a specific niche in order to ascertain and fulfil that niche audience’s needs.  Some of the myths about Niche Affiliate Marketing are as follows:

1- Focus on what you love to do

2- Sell digital products

3- Build your own websites

Those 3 items above are actually decent niche marketing tips but the fact of the matter is, if you gathered up some PLR (private label rights) material and sold them off your niche website, or even off a Squidoo Lens, then you’re sure to do well.

You don’t have to focus on what you love to succeed with  niche affiliate marketing, you don’t necessarily need your own websites, and some niches don’t do too well for digital products but do very well for other types of products.

What would a canteen of water be worth to a man dragging himself across the Sahara desert at high noon and what would that same canteen of water be worth to a drowning sailor? In the first instance, we have a potent marketing niche for the water salesman and in the second, we surely do not. What we are looking for is high demand for our item with low competition. What we are attempting to avoid is the opposite.

Let’s examine this in terms of actual products. We could market to the “pet products” niche (high demand, high competition), the “dog collar” niche (moderate demand, moderate competition) or the “studded dog collar” niche (low demand, low competition). None of these markets meet our criteria (high demand, low competition). What if, however, purple, studded, poodle collars quickly became “all the rage” because a famous celebrity was seen strolling with her famous poodle with one of these around her dog’s neck and a matching one around her own neck? Say you just happen to own a warehouse full of purple, studded. poodle collars and you are the only factory that does. With successful marketing, you could sell your entire stock in an hour and put your kids through college with the sales receipts.

Now, let’s look at the term “affiliate marketing.” An affiliate marketer promotes other people’s items for them for money. An affiliate marketer does not work directly for the company that has the right to retail the service or product but, instead, as an independent contractor who only gets paid for making a completed sale. The affiliate marketer can elect to promote just one type of item (as a specialty) or a large assortment of various types of products or services. In either situation, the ideal of any thriving affiliate marketer would have to be to vend to a niche or niches that had high demand and low competition. “High” and “low” are relative terms and so, in the real world, the marketer may never discover the “perfect” niche but always hopes to be as near to that goal as possible.

The primary thing an affiliate marketer has to do is to discover a supply of affiliate products to promote and then detect which of those items are aimed at the best niches. “Best”, in this sense, means those niches most nearly approaching an ideal niche as outlined above. To do this, the marketer must initially get rid of all products that aren’t selling very well and concentrate, rather, on services or products that display enough, proven sales volume so as to be deserving of the time, work and funds that it will take the affiliate marketer to promote them profitably. From this listing, the smart affiliate marketer then gets rid of all items that show a lot of competition. If 100,000 purple studded poodle collars are present on the globe and there are one million marketers trying to sell them, this would no longer be a money-making niche because of high competition.

Our example of the thirsty man stumbling across the desert may not represent an excellent niche either, as it turns out, for the reason that there is only one customer and he is located very far from civilization. Putting it another way, the niche is too small to be profitable considering that the expenses to furnish the desired item to that niche are too lofty. If this is sounding like niche affiliate marketing is a bit more complex than you thought at first, you are correct. There’s more:

The conundrum with fad products like purple, studded, poodle collars is that they will 1) all at once go out of fashion and 2) that when the news gets out that they are “all the rage,” every supplier from here to Timbuktu will soon be manufacturing them in sufficient quantities to inundate this single, unique, money-making market, thus drowning it with competition. The affiliate marketer must, therefore, search for items that would seem to possess a long lifetime. Toilet paper and dog food would qualify as products with a potentially long lifetime but they would be eliminated from the list because of high competition. All of these difficulties will rapidly reduce the affiliate marketer’s list to a small number of items, perhaps no more than a hundred to pick from. The good news is that all of these 100 items are, at least, potentially, profitable.

As an Internet affiliate marketer, there are really two, broad merchandise categories to consider: 1) physical products that must be boxed and delivered to the consumer and 2) informational products such as e-books and computer programs that can be distributed immediately over the web at affordable prices with no freight or storage costs. For the purposes of this article, I’d like to concentrate on the second type because of the benefits just stated. The Internet, at its commencement, was called the “Information Super-Highway.” It was not labeled the “Physical Products Superhighway” because, to this day, no one has determined how to push a big carton through a matrix of wires, satellites and fiber-optic cables. So, even though you can promote physical products over the Internet, they lack the price-effectiveness and immediate deliverability offered by informational and software products.

While there are a number of places to unearth informational and software products to sell as an affiliate marketer, I’d prefer to zoom in on only one of them, as an example. That place is ClickBank.com and I’ll talk about it for the reason that it has several distinctive benefits to an Internet affiliate marketer. The most valuable benefit of these is the capability to show which of the thousands of offerings listed there are the best sellers. The best tool for this is a number provided by ClickBank for every item called “gravity” which is a quantifiable, ever-changing number showing the quantity of recent sales. The larger the figure, the greater the sales. The clear knee-jerk reaction is that an affiliate marketer should only promote those items with the highest gravity but that strategy fails to consider the truth that everyone and his brother (or sister) is going to be out there attempting to sell those clear winners. It is also frequently true that items at the very summit of the gravity list may just be enjoying their “moment in the sun” of popularity: Here today, gone tomorrow.

Gravity can run from a low of zero to a high of about a thousand. To dodge the competition, I like to sell products that exhibit a gravity figure no less than 10 and no greater than two hundred. These are approximate figures, so if I find a perfect product with a gravity of two hundred fifteen, I am definitely not going to pass it by. Using this system, I have picked out a list of possible affiliate products to retail that are selling quite well and may not have as much competition as those products at the top of the list. My process of elimination is not over yet, though: I still need to find the perfect keywords for those items to use in promoting each of these products. It turns out that each keyword is, by itself, representative of a niche. For example, the keyword phrase “pet supplies” would represent a huge niche with a lot of competition while “purple, studded, poodle collars” (a so-called “long-tail” keyword) would undoubtedly represent a small niche with much less competition.

So, your last chore, then, in the discovery procedure is to find keywords that represent niches with low competition and high demand. Using a keyword research tool you can spot which keywords have the greatest number of recent searches (highest demand) and, by using a standard Google search utilizing each of these keywords, one by one, you can ascertain the number of competing pages that exist for each particular keyword. You’ll find that figure right under the Google search box. As an arbitrary figure, I like to see less than 5 million competing pages across the Internet for any keyword. Best wishes on your prospecting for the perfect affiliate product to market to the perfect niche!

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