Finding An Affiliate Product
Article by Andrew Theobald
The second step in starting an affiliate marketing business is finding a suitable product to promote. In the last article Finding A Niche I briefly went over how to find products on clickbank and amazon. There are of course plenty of other places but for this article I will stick with clickbank and amazon.
To promote products from clickbank the first thing you need to do is sign up as an affiliate, this only take a couple of minutes and is free. Fill out a simple form, choose your affiliate id, (clickbank nickname) read the terms and conditions and submit. Now that you have an account you can promote any thing you like! But with so many products to choose from where do you start.
First click on marketplace, then select a category relevant to your niche, Then look at the sub categories. Click on one, then sort them by gravity and take note of the “grav” number for the top three items. Do this with each sub category, then go back and look at the items with the highest gravity. Click on the link of the product to open the sales page. Carefully look at the sales page as if you were a customer. Would you be tempted to buy? Look for testimonials. If there is a video did it load properly? Was it professional? Are there any obvious spelling mistakes or bad grammar?
When you have found a few items you are interested in have a look at the affiliate programs, there is sometimes a link on the sales page or you can copy and paste a link at the bottom of the description on the market place listing. What support do you get from the seller?Some sellers offer bonuses or run competitions to encourage their affiliates. You also need to check what percentage they are offering, you can earn up 75% on some clickbank products.
Ideally you want a product with a gravity of over 100 and more then 50% on sales.
To promote amazon products again you need to sign up as an affiliate which is also free. Because you usually only get about 10% commission with amazon I recommend promoting products with a price of 0 or more.Just like in clickbank find a department relevant to your niche and choose a category. Then look for products with 5 star ratings. The great thing about amazon is that product reviews come from real customers and some of these product reviews can be a great source of information for an affiliate marketer. Take note of the review dates, if a product hasn’t had many recent reviews then it might not be selling as well as it once was.
An ideal amazon product to promote costs more the 0, Has had 100 or more 5 star reviews, and has had reviews recently.
What ever product you decide to promote the most important thing is that YOU have to believe in it. Don’t choose a product you wouldn’t buy yourself. Remember it’s YOUR reputation at stake so choose carefully.
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