Hot Niche + Winning Product = Cash!
Confused about what to sell as an affiliate? Worried your affiliate marketing strategies will fail? It’s best to sell what people are already buying. Here’s how to find a hot niche and winning product.
Two Steps to Selecting a Hot Niche
Go to ClickBank and choose one of the nine categories. Whichever one strikes your fancy is good as you’ll find gold in all of them. Leave the keyword field empty and browse through the products using Sort by: Popularity. This will reveal which niches and products sell well.
1) Test interest level.
Look at the last item in the line under each product listed–grav. A big number after grav shows the niche has ready buyers.
Test this with the Google keyword tool where you search for a general term for the niche. If you chose the computing and internet category in ClickBank and see registry cleaners have good grav numbers, search for registry cleaners in the keyword tool. A monthly search volume of 5000 is good, more is great.
2) Test competition level.
First, look for at least three competing products in ClickBank.
Second, with your browser do a Google search for “registry cleaner” and see how many Google Ads appear on the right. Five or six ads is a good sign that affiliates make money from their ads.
Three Steps to Selecting a Winning Product
1) Look for healthy ClickBank statistics.
See the line of symbols/numbers in the ClickBank search results you got before? Here’s what those notations mean to you.
- $/sale — average amount earned per affiliate per sale, a number that can be driven down by refunds and chargebacks. If the number is less than the next number (we’ll get to that in a minute), it’s a signal that customers demand refunds. Not so good.
- Total $/sale — Go for a minimum of $20 to profit from your affiliate marketing efforts.
- %/sale — average percentage commission earned per affiliate per sale. You want at least 50%.
- %refrd — fraction of product owner’s total sales that are referred by affiliates. You want to see 70-90% as that suggests lots of affiliates make a generous commission on this product.
- grav: # — an estimate of the number of affiliates with at least one sale in the last 30 days. Look for a product with 50-100 which indicates affiliates do sell it, but not too many, so there’s room for you at the table.
2) Look for a professional sales page.
This is crucial to your success. Visit the sales page, read it and see if it motivates YOU to buy. Some great products have lousy sales pages that turn off customers. Pass up a bad sales page.
3) Check for ready affiliate marketing tools.
Go to the product website and check out the affiliates section. You don’t want to rely entirely on your own devices and have to invent enticements. A smart product owner supplies you with a wide array of tools like PPC keywords, ad copy, email ad copy, banners and support.
Did you find a product that passes all your tests? Congratulations! With this as one of your affiliate marketing strategies, you can now proceed with confidence that your efforts will pay off. What’s next?
See videos with screen shots of these steps. Hope they help boost your success as much as they help mine.
P.S.
I learned these steps (and so much more!) in a nifty little report called Article Cash Robots and I highly recommend you grab a copy for $7!
P.P.S.
While all the links in my post are meant to help you, some are affiliate links, which means if you click and buy, I could earn money.
