Success Affiliate Business - 6 Affiliate Marketing Ideas to Select Niche Affiliate Products

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):

1. Goal: to create awareness of our service, and incite the potential customer to begin a relationship with the company.
2. Market: students - in this case, students right at the beginning of their course (the most valuable to us)
3. 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.
4. Message: we'll deliver a copy of the database and a presentation - we'll insist they register to use the free stuff.
5. Media: we'll use a disc - this way they have to take it to their computer (where they study)
6. 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)
7. Implementation: need to find a company that will make this happen for us.
8. 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.