Sept 2010 Product
Affiliate Rockstar
One of the most lucrative aspects of affiliate marketing is in being able to build an online income even without a product of your own. While information development is an incredibly profitable market, when you're just entering the world of online business, affiliate marketing simplifies the process, while giving you the opportunity to gain hands-on experience without having to deal with the multiple tasks and responsibilities associated with being the developer or merchant.
For example, as an information product developer, you're responsible for all customer support inquiries and requests, and you need to spend time updating your product, working on keeping it consistently fresh and current based on market demand.
It's your job to satisfy customers, to handle refund requests, and to consistently work to optimize conversion rates. As an affiliate marketer, however, you never have to spend any time on the product development, delivery or support issues, and instead, can focus on developing profitable campaigns that jack in commission payments 24 hours a day!
Your only job is to develop highly targeted campaigns that promote high quality products and then build powerful traffic campaigns that funnel in red-hot prospects who are interested in purchasing the products you promote. Affiliate marketing is not only incredibly simple to get involved in but it's a very rewarding experience.
It gives you the freedom to choose as many different niche markets as you wish, exploring countless opportunities and learning the ropes as you go. What other way can you "earn as you learn"?
So, now that you know just a few of the reasons why so many new marketers begin their journey into online business as affiliate marketers, let's take a closer look at what you can do to join the ranks of successful earners!
Choosing Products To Promote
Choosing quality products is an important part of every affiliate campaign, because you want to make sure that you are setting up campaigns around products that are likely to convert.
This means that you need to spend time carefully researching and evaluating products in order to create your "affiliate swipe file". When it comes to choosing a niche, there are two methods that will help you get started:
- Choose a niche that is evergreen
- Identify demand and profitability based on existing competition
Take down notes of possible products and niche markets that look interesting to you. Then, search for related forums, groups and blogs to determine what people are looking for, how big the market is and what is currently in demand.
Then, investigate keywords to determine how much competition is in the marketplace as well as how many searches take place each month for specific keyword phrases relating to each niche market.
Master Resale Rights License Terms:
- You can sell MRR to your buyers.
- You can sell RR to your buyers.
- You can include these packages inside of a paid membership site.
- You can use these packages for your own personal use/marketing/list building.
- You can sell these reports as a package collection for $17 or more, or individually for $8 or higher