Affiliate marketing starts with finding the right niche to market in.
It isn’t as difficult as seems at beginning. You find a niche of buying activity, and you plant yourself firmly there to market as many hot products as possible to a very active market of potential consumers. It’s worked for hundreds of marketers who have become rich. However – when you’re getting started, nothing is ever quite that easy. Let’s dive deeper into the idea of niche research, along with the mistakes that so many of the beginners tend to make over and over again. Because, when you can eliminate those mistakes, life gets much easier and the profits are more consistent.
The Niche Research
First up, let’s take a closer look at what so many starting affiliate marketers do wrong. At the very top of the list is diversification. The majority of super affiliates make their profits almost entirely from one or two niches. They spend hours a day working on just dog training, or just marriage advice or just weight loss. They find a profitable audience, and they hit them up over and over again with different products, sites, and selling points.
Second, as you might have guessed, they stuck to the big niches – the evergreen ones that have always been solid money makers. Sure, they experiment a little bit, but only enough to check out other niches, not so much that they dilute their income from big one or two niches. Which niches are considered the “big niches”? Weight loss, making money, satellite TV on PC, muscle gain, self help, anti-spyware, forex, and making money online. People are always looking for new products in these niches, so you cannot cannibalize your sales, nor can you run out of warm leads. Of those niches, weight loss and fitness are the biggest across the board, with making money coming in at a close second.
Finding Your Niches and Products
Of course, just saying “try out the stuff that works” isn’t very helpful, so let’s to go into a bit more detail on what you can promote and how to make your selection.
Amazon.com Research
Let’s start with Amazon.com first to find a niche that has a large buying base. You can always find a product in Clickbank with high gravity, but even before that better to identify the breadth of a potential audience first. You’ll see why very shortly. To start with, visit Amazon.com and start reviewing products and topics in niches that you are interested in. This is very important, because you’ll be spending a lot of your time investing in that niche, especially if it becomes one of your big two niches. So, be sure it’s something you’re willing to write about and market extensively for months to come. If you care less about weight loss or are afraid of dogs, those might not be the best paths to success. With that in mind, start searching on Amazon for books, products, and other niche products. Your goal here is to find products with at least 20 reviews. Why just 20 reviews? Considering the fact that Amazon estimates only 1 in 1000 people actually review something they buy from their site, a product with 20 reviews is likely to have been purchased by at least 20,000 people – that’s a huge market, especially if it’s just one product in an information niche. If you can find multiple products in the same niche that all have 20+ reviews, you’ve hit the jackpot. It doesn’t matter if the niche has 100 products or just 2; if there are people buying products, it’s a good niche. You don’t need to do any keyword searching, competitor research, or product searches, because you know you’ve found a good one.
Research on Clickbank
With that in mind, it’s time to find a product that you can actually market. In general, it isn’t recommended promoting physical products on Amazon. With only a 5% commission (to start), you’d only make $1 on a $20 book, and most Amazon products are on massive reductions, so profit potential is limited for info products. If you find a highly valuable product in a niche like ‘solar energy kits’ or ‘home stereo equipment’, you might rethink that, because you can make $15+ per sale. Generally speaking though, you should never choose a niche where your minimum commission per sale is less than $15. That should be your magic number. So, with that magic number in mind, we take a stroll over to Clickbank – the number one affiliate network on the Internet, where info products are sold by marketers like you and me for commissions up to 75%. A single $20 book on Clickbank will net you a profit of between $10-$15 – much better for the time you invest into it. As for finding a niche product in Clickbank, go to the Marketplace and search for the product niche that you’ve already identified on Amazon.com. For most popular info niches (the major niches we discussed at the beginning of the newsletter), you’ll find dozens of products. It is recommended sticking to these major niches because they have more options and have proven conversion rates. Seasonal and speciality niches require more work and are hard to focus on in the long term. Look for a $ per sale of at least $15. Ideally, you’ll get even more than this – upwards of $30+ per sale. Additionally, look for a gravity of at least 30. The gravity represents how many affiliates have successfully sold that product in the last few weeks. The higher the number, the better it converts and the more room there is in the market for you to join in. Later, you’ll need to review the competitor sites to be sure you can find a place for you own websites, but for now, just identifying the niche is enough.
Research on Google
Of course, Clickbank is not the only affiliate marketplace, and if you find a product on Amazon that doesn’t show up in Clickbank, you still have other options. Go to Google and search for “NICHE affiliate program“. Many times, other networks will pop up with plenty of options. A big chance for profit here would be in CPA networks that offer non-info product opportunities with massive chances for profit.
Getting it Right
There is no right answer for which niche you choose to work in. However, if you’re even remotely serious about being successful and becoming the next big super affiliate, you need to pinpoint a rich, evergreen niche that can be solicited time and again for profits without boring you to tears. Do that, and you’re well on your way to a successful marketing plan.
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