Obviously, one of the most significant steps to be a successful entrepreneur in affiliate marketing is to select profitable niche affiliate products. With those lucrative affiliate niche products and multiple affiliate marketing strategies, you can earn huge of affiliate commission online. You will discover and learn 6 affiliate marketing ideas to choose hot niche affiliate products to sell online in this article.
Now, I am going to give you 6 affiliate marketing
ideas to get great niche affiliate products to sell on the internet. You will
discover workable and proven affiliate marketing ideas to help you succeed in
selecting the affiliate products on the internet.
1. Participant actively in the well-known forums,
web boards, chat rooms or membership sites. The first critical step to find
profitable niche affiliate products to sell online, like crazy, is to find out
and try to identify the problem in your markets. This means you have to know
exactly what people's problem is in your markets. You have to identify what
they are looking for or what the solution for their problem is. Without this
action, it is difficult to discover highly profitable niche products or
affiliate products to sell on the internet. Well-known forums, web-boards, chat
rooms and membership sites are great places for affiliate marketing
entrepreneurs to find the problem and solution in the market. Those places are
perfect for people to exchange their experiences, be socializing, find out
their problem and look for the solution. My experiences show that people always
have their own problems and they are looking for how to solve their problems
always on the internet. They believe that the internet is a global library
where there is a ton of information. Additionally, the easy and quick way to
find out the well-known forums, web-boards or chat rooms is to search from the
search engines. You will discover a lot of great sites over there. My
recommendation is to pick up the active and popular forums or sites. With those
forums, it is easier for you to participant and get people's problem.
2. Read articles, news, review information and
blogs. Obviously, choosing lucrative niche products requires an effective
research. All you have to do is to do your own research by reading articles
from articles directories, news from Google, Yahoo and MSN group, review
information and blogs. With this action, you will discover what the market is
and what people are talking about or what their concern is. Personally, I have
no doubt that those articles, news, review information and blogs are great
places to find out up-to-date information, people's problem and solution. That
information will lead you to discover niche products to sell online.
3. Research effectively on keywords. The
effective keyword research will lead you to discover profitable markets and
products to sell online. There are many keyword tools to help you to generate
hot niche keywords on the internet. Additionally, search engines are absolutely
great places to find out niche products to sell online. Focus keywords (or
search keywords) play a major role in those search engines. At the present,
those search engines are so smart and intelligent. With those keywords and
search engines, you can find out what people are currently looking for. I am
sure that with the effective keyword research and search engines, you can
discover untapped market and niche affiliate products in the market. The real
keys to your success in this step are: to brainstorm your initial keywords, do
your market research with those initial keywords, and dig down those keywords
for hot niche markets and products respectively.
4. Exchange the ideas among affiliate marketing
entrepreneurs. This approach is one of the most effective and easy ways to find
out the niche products to sell on the internet. I highly recommend you to
exchange your ideas, experiences and knowledge with other people. Sometimes,
you can get the lucrative niche markets and products for your home based
affiliate business by discussing with others. However, I highly recommend you
to have your own ideas and exchange your ideas with others. Personally, I
believe this is a give and take scheme. You have to give your ideas to other
affiliate marketing entrepreneurs first and then you can take others later.
More importantly, this could be a join venture relationship in the future.
5. Join the affiliate marketing networks. Many
reliable and secure affiliate products are in the affiliate marketing networks
such as CJ, Clickbank, and Linkshare. You can find great affiliate products on
those marketplaces. Some of affiliate marketing networks like CJ and Clickbank
have great tips, top recommended affiliate products, and hot new products for
affiliate marketing entrepreneurs to advertise and sell on the internet.
6. Test the niche affiliate products by yourself.
My experiences show that niche products are sold like crazy and are very
profitable for affiliate marketing entrepreneurs, but it does not mean that
those products can be profitable for other entrepreneurs always. All you have
to do when you found your niche products to sell online is to test them. By
testing, you have to plan, work and track results closely.
Final thoughts, with those 6 action ideas, I am
sure that it will help you to find great niche markets and products to sell
online. My bottom line is that you should not focus on #1 best selling products
on the internet, but you should focus on the problem and solution people are
looking for in the market. I strongly believe that everyone can earn huge
affiliate commission in any markets and products if they have their passionate
in those markets and products.
How to Evaluate an Advertising Or Marketing Idea, From Start to Finish
Are you just starting out in business? Perhaps
your business is less than six months old. It's an exciting time for you, with
a world of opportunity ahead and the power to take your business in any
direction and to any market you choose. All you need to do is get your business
in front of your target audience. So you're probably thinking about advertising
and marketing, and wondering which method to pick for the best return.
One of the most useful tips I've learned in my
career when evaluating marketing ideas is to always follow the 4 Ms. What are
the four Ms? They are 'message', 'market', 'media' and 'moment'. For any
successful marketing communication you need to get the message, market, media
and moment right. All 4 must be right or it's highly likely that the
communication will fail.
For most ideas, 'moment' is going to be the one
where they fail - the person on the receiving end of the message needs to be in
the right frame of mind for buying from your business. The moment we want to
deliver a message about our services is when the target customer is doing what
they usually do when they think about a need for your product or service.
To take an example, let's say your business is a
journal database for students. Good places to advertise might include the
library (preferably near the online facilities), or online adverts on student
support websites. Here, you're catching your student at the right moment -
right when they're studying and might need some help, and are near a computer
so they can visit your site.
Get the idea of the 4 Ms concept? Great. Let's
fill it out a bit. Any marketing idea is evaluated/planned as follows:
STEP 1: Decide what the communication goal is -
what do you hope to achieve? For example, you might want to incite action,
create/raise awareness or create/strengthen buyer preferences.
STEP 2: Decide what your market is - who are you
aiming the message at?
STEP 3: Work out the best moment to deliver your
message - what moment are they best primed to receive your message? In other
words when will they most want your product or service?
STEP 4: Decide on the message itself - this
encompasses the product, service, brand, price or incentives as well as the
availability of the offering.
STEP 5: Select your media - selecting the best
media type based on the above and the budget and schedule.
STEP 6: Find a creative solution - consider the
appeal type - either emotional or informational and execution style e.g. how it
works, function, feel, look, audio etc.
STEP 7: Plan and carry out implementation -
pre-production, production, post production and distribution. In other words,
make it happen.
STEP 8: Measurement of effectiveness - possibly
the most important step. This involves measuring what worked and what didn't
and the achievement of any goals. If I can't measure how effective an idea is,
it's less likely I'll run with the idea.
Before you embark, if you can mine some stats to
get an idea of success, great. Let's say you have an idea for a banner and
you're paying for 10,000 impressions. The banner company say they have an
average click through rate of 1.5%. You're likely to get 150 people visit the
site. What's your conversion rate (number of visitors to number of orders)? If
it's under 1%, with your conversion rate, you're likely to get 1 order.
To take an example that demonstrates the use of
the 4 Ms very well, consider the journal database that we mentioned and consider
how we could use a student fresher pack to market the database (the box that
arrives in their halls of residence):
- Goal: to create awareness of our service, and incite the potential customer to begin a relationship with the company.
- Market: students - in this case, students right at the beginning of their course (the most valuable to us)
- Moment: the pack lands straight in their dorm room. We need to get something near or on their computer as this is where they study.
- Message: we'll deliver a copy of the database and a presentation - we'll insist they register to use the free stuff.
- Media: we'll use a disc - this way they have to take it to their computer (where they study)
- Creative solution: we need to appeal to students. we'll make it fun and quirky to use (plus we're giving them stuff free, incentive to use it)
- Implementation: need to find a company that will make this happen for us.
- Measurement: we can measure how many people sign up from the disc, how many visit our website, how many use the database, how many go on to order a subscription. We can compare this to the cost of producing the disc and distributing the disc, and we can work out the cost to acquire a new contact and the cost to acquire a customer.
