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Choosing the Right Affiliate Niche to Promote

Wesley Atkins — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:49:02 +0000

How do you find the perfect affiliate program or product to promote? It can be difficult, especially when you’re new to affiliate marketing. There are a lot of opportunities and if you choose the wrong one you can waste a lot of time and money.

Choosing the right affiliate niche to promote doesn’t have to be stressful or a huge uncertainty that could result in months of worthless effort. There’s an easy and simple way to find the right affiliate niche, it just takes a bit of intuition and research to find something that will payout big and convert well. To learn more about choosing the perfect niche to promote in make sure you read on now to avoid making huge mistakes and to learn the trick to finding the perfect niche.

Go where the money is – Promoting something that only pays out $7 isn’t worth your time unless you know exactly how to dominate the niche you’re in and there’s enough volume to make it worthwhile. It takes just about as much effort to sell something for $7 as it does something that’s $999—so why not earn a bigger commission with the same amount of work? While it’s true there are people making a ton of money promoting very affordable products or services they’re able to justify it through a large enough sales volume so don’t fall into the trap of breaking a sweat to make a $7 commission or a 10 cent click.

Look for conversions – A good way to do this is to look at what the most competitive niches are. Obviously weight loss and insurance are two extremely saturated niches where people are spending a lot of money to compete. However these people are still able to turn a profit since the traffic online in these niches converts extremely well and pays very well too. The only catch? You’re competing and fighting tooth and nail to stay at the top of the search engines and get the traffic. Items where the consumers are desperate convert the best. These are things like male enhancement, balding, weight loss and so forth.

Recurring commissions – This is a good way to make sure you’re paid down the road for work you did months ago. Promoting a membership site is a great way to build on your income every single month. The only problem is identifying a membership program to promote that will retain those members you recruit. Things where people absolutely need the information or service to run their business or make their lives easier are a good way to identify good membership programs to promote. These types of membership sites will have better retention rates and often better payout rates.

How you plan to monetize – If you are hell-bent on making sure you promote a ClickBank product or some other affiliate network’s products make sure you reassess your strategy. There is a lot of money to be made promoting things on Amazon’s affiliate program or through Google Adsense. When you choose to monetize a different niche through selling physical products or through Google Adsense you can reduce your competition and branch out into new areas. When you choose to monetize through something like Amazon Associate’s you can then promote anything from software to lacrosse sticks.

This guest post was written by Jason Acidre, a Marketing Consultant for Affilorama, an affiliate marketing portal. They provide affiliate marketing education and advanced affiliate marketing tools for beginning and advanced affiliates.

Maverick Money Makers Review

Wesley Atkins — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:26:07 +0000

About 2 months ago I signed upto an internet coaching program called Maverick Money Makers run by a very savvy internet marketing business giant called Mack Michaels.

Mack is not as well known as most of the internet marketing gurus online and that’s for a good reason. He’s not the kind of person to put out a ton of products simply to line his bank account with your hard earned money.

You see, Maverick Money Makers is a members only coaching program that encompasses all of Mack’s work. If there is something new that Mack discovers about making money online then he simply creates a step by step video to explain everything in detail and you get access to it in the club.

Most gurus would simply create a new product, orchestrate a big product launch and sucker you into buying yet another product that will gather virtual dust on your computers hard drive.

Let me say this, and I don’t ever say this lightly…

Simply Put: This is the only program you ever need to buy to learn how to make money online. It does not matter if you are a beginner or an advanced marketer there are guides that will take you by the hand at any level and help you generate a life changing income.

If your anything like me, you’ve spend $1000’s of dollars on products that you simply read and don’t follow, then you struggle to find them again in the future for reference and before you know it your expenses are getting out of control from all the products you bought..

Put an end to it now…

Maverick Money Makers has so much content all in one place, you never need another product again. Making money on the internet comes down to 2 basic principes.

Traffic & Conversion…

Master both of those aspects and you have a winning formula for success online. Maverick Money Makers has TONS of information on both those topics and that is all you need to master. Don’t get suckered into buying product after product, you have everything you need with Maverick MOney Makers for a ridiculously low price of $97.00.

I know what you thinking, oh not another monthly recurring payment… Trust me, YOU DON’T NEED ANTHING ELSE apart from this coaching club, keeping that in mind – it’s a small price to pay comparatively speaking…

Check it out for yourself, if its not for you, get a refund, but do yourself a favour and at least see for yourself the amazing content inside..

My Results With Maverick Money Makers

Ok, now onto my results.. As I said I’ve been involved in the club now for just over 2 months and in that time I put a lot of focus into just a couple of areas, and I’m thrilled to say that without spending a penny on advertising a website I setup is now pulling in around $1032.00 every week – and that’s just from one website.

You can see my affiliate account at Revenuewire below:

Now for obvious reasons I can’t tell you my site as I don’t want competitors to destroy my income, but I can tell you it is a pure affiliate site that I put together about 6 months ago. The site didn’t do much for a few months while I built the content but the SEO & traffic strategies in Maverick Money Makers made a huge difference to my income.

My goal for the next 12 months is to build one site per month and to be completely honest I don’t expect any of them to do as well as the first as the first time around I hit on a HOT market..

But, even if the sites only doing 20% if the income as my first attempt here is what i’m looking at in 6 months.

1 site x $1000 Per Week = $4000 Month

12 Sites x $200 Per Week = $9600 Month

Total = $13,600 Per Month.

Now that is exciting

Sure… that is a huge amount of money and it will require a lot of work, but it sure is possible with the step by step instruction you get in Maverick Money Makers.

If you are still struggling to make a decent income online, then you owe it to yourself to check out the Maverick Money Makers Club..

Ok, So What’s Included In The Club

Well bearing in mind that its a monthly elite membership club where you get new content every month.. Here is a snapshot of the core material you can find Inside the Maverick Money Makers club:

1. Core Training – In this section members get to learn the main theories and processes behind the Maverick Money Makers system. The videos will show you exactly how to build your online marketing business from scratch and into a steady stream of income.

Within this section there are 7 main videos, I will break down each one for you here…

Step 1: Development

In this video, you’ll discover several powerful principles that will guide your entire online business adventure. You’ll learn manypowerful, yet simple concepts that you can apply again and again to help any of your sites generate not only more money online, but an unlimited source of traffic.

Step 2: Online Spying

In this video, you’ll discover how to become one of the most powerful online spies in the world. You’ll tap into the endless power of the Internet to find out where the money is flowing in your market so you can get in front of it. You’ll also learn how to find all the working strategies and methods in your market so you can ‘borrow’ them for your own use. Once you learn how to utilize the methods in this training you’ll laugh at how easy it is to generate traffic.

Step 3: Keyword Mastery

In this video, you’ll discover the most powerful keyword research secrets that the majority of online marketers don’t know exist. Most marketers know all the common keyword research tools and the basic metrics to look for but that’s only 5% of what you need to know to generate maximum traffic and income. This online training will take you deeper. Much deeper

Step 4: SEO Intelligence

n this video, you’ll discover the latest SEO strategies and techniques you’ll need to know to optimize your websites for high rankings. You’ll learn all about the “behavorial” evolution of SEO and how you can stand ahead of the curve. You will also go deep into the backbone of LSI tactics (like adding related phrases to ‘bookend’ your targeted phrases) and tons of other ways to use LSI properly to get those high rankings — and many other hardcore SEO tricks. (this is the one I was telling you about above – It’s AWESOME )

Step 5: Content Creation

In this video, you’ll discover how to set up your own online assembly line to be pumping out high-quality, traffic-magnet content on a regular basis. If you want lots of traffic you absolutely must be doing this. In a very short amount of time those that aren’t doing this will be left with very little traffic and business. I guarantee it.

Step 6: Video Marketing

In this video, you’ll discover the exciting new world of Video Marketing and how you can quickly and easily use video in your own marketing to generate a ton of sales on the internet. It’s a lot easier than most people think and you don’t even have to appear in a single video if you don’t want to. Most marketers are clueless when it comes to truly utilizing the power of video syndication across the Web.

Step 7: Social Marketing

In this video, you’ll discover how to tap into the VIRAL elements of Social Networking on the internet. You’ll also learn how to use it to automatically syndicate your content so it gets put in front of a MASSIVE CROWD of people everytime you publish something online. There’s definitely a ‘right’ way and a ‘wrong’ way to do this and you’ll learn the ‘right’ way that will generate a steady flow of new daily sales for many years to come.

2. Quick Money Blueprints – Mack provides some of his quick money blueprints that show you how to start earning money immediately. The quick money blueprints can be used to generate income as you continue to build the other aspects of your online business.

- Fast Action Guides -

In this sub section there are 9 guides… and these are incredible.

These guides have more cutting edge strategies in them than most stand alone products. Here is what one looks like…

You will find guides on:

Press Release Marketing
Bum Marketing
Forum Marketing
How To Choose Your Niche
How To Find Customers
How To Flip Websites
How To Gather Keywords
Make Money On A Budget
Make Money On Ebay

Now firstly, let me point out something… Don’t be fooled by the lame titles that these guides have… They are Incredible. I can honestly say without a shadow of doubt that just the Bum Marketing one is worth x5 times your investment in this program. Yeah, I’ve read tons of information about Bum Marketing from other gurus too, but none compared to this..

Seriously…, this is killer…

… and that covers just one sub section in “Quick Money Blueprints” – there are other sections with videos on Adbrite, Google Trends, Yahoo Answers, Ebay etc…

3. Skill Set Videos – These videos will help you to develop the crucial skills necessary to become successful at making money online. There are 3 sub sections to this category covering everything from Affiliate Marketing, Traffic Generation & Conversion.. Tons of quality information here.

4. Mindset Coaching - One of the most difficult aspects of being successful online is keeping your head in the game and staying focused. There are always difficulties and frustrations when starting any business and it is important to develop the correct mindset to stay focused on your goals. So, what has Mack done.. He’s put together some of the best audios from the likes of:

Zig Ziglar
Anthony Robbins
Mark Victor Hansen
Lee Milteer
Jerry Clark
Mike Vance
Randy Gage
Tamara Lowe

There are literally hours and hours of audios in this section and this stuff will get your attitude in the right mindset to move forward with your online business…

5. Bonus Items - Maverick Money Makers members also get access to a bunch of bonus items including turnkey websites, insider reports, niche marketing ideas, and much more.

Wow, there is so much in this site I can barely feel my fingers.. In the next few days I will have to create a video for you showcasing the site in detail

Until then…

Making More Money With Affiliate Marketing

Wesley Atkins — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:07:05 +0000

Whether you are using performance-based cost-per-action affiliate networks or regular pay-per-click, the trick to making more money lies in how much traffic you can attract to those offers. Internet marketers understand that is isn’t just a simple case of getting the highest earnings-per-click (EPC) offer, it’s also about understanding how to attract highly targeted traffic to these offers in large streams. If you are having a little bit of trouble generating the income you desire from affiliate marketing, think about implementing some of these traffic-generating strategies to amp up the performance and your final payout.

Article Marketing

Join several article directories and start posting targeting articles in the niche you are trying to market. This does two things, it allows you to quickly find people who might have an interest in the product or service being promoted in your affiliate offer and it also let’s you add a link in the resource section sending them back to some area where you can market them further. Just keep in mind that there are guidelines on what you can do with these articles, although making them search-engine friendly with keywords in your niche is always appreciated. Don’t overload the articles with too many keywords, instead keep them to 1% to 2% of the total content of the article. Add your link to the resource box, either to the affiliate offer (if that’s allowed) or your website and pages that offer that include that offer as a promotional link.

Answer Some Pertinent Questions

There are numerous online question and answer sites that are ripe areas to mine for leads. Don’t spam these services, and instead seek to contribute to the conversation and make the link relevant to the dialog. Since users will rate the communities answers, if you show up and just post a link back to an offer, it will be flagged as spam and you will have wasted your time. Instead seek to add value to the conversation while gaining a foothold to allow your link to be valuable to the readership. Take a look at Yahoo! Answers and Mega to start generating leads from these areas.

Pull Traffic From Social Networks

This is one of the newest and hottest ways to generate traffic back to your offers. Build a profile in any of the popular social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or LinkedIn. Add information to that profile that is relevant to the market niche where you have promising affiliate offers to promote. You won’t be allowed to solicit people within the social networking site, but you can update your status with links back to an intermediary page where your offers are posted. It takes a very suave touch to learn how to market these sites successfully as any hard sell will quickly get you a reputation as a hard core marketer, and you might end up losing friends and sales.

Other Ways To Plug Into Traffic Streams

Any site that allows you to contribute to their content and has large amounts of traffic is a good place to generate some Internet presence. This can be popular blogs, commenting on major news sites and stories, online groups and forums, and video sites. Just find a way to add your links in accordance with the terms of service and use these sites to generate traffic to boost the income from your affiliate offers.