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How To Choose Affiliate Products To Promote

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Many Internet Marketing gurus say it’s easy to succeed at this business, or at least they make us think it. I think everything is easy when you already learned how to do it, for example to walk. We learned to walk when we were childs, but for a just born baby it could be an impossible thing aka nightmare.

The other day I talk about The Secrets Behing Finding Niche Markets where I gave you details about finding niche markets. Today I’m going to give you some tips to help to take part in this business. Many people when join to affiliate networks think they could start promoting the first thing they see, or may be the hottest thing. Well, that’s not so easy because if it were, everybody should be sucessful and rich.

Recommendations for Choosing an Affiliate Product


Be familiar with the product: The reason why I’m giving you this advice at first instance is because this is the key to suceed. You should look for a product you are familiar with, a product which you know and will enjoy promoting it. This way, you won’t need to research before promoting it because you have the knowledge to talk about it.

Also, it’s not good to promote something you don’t believe in. This is like blogging, if you blog just because of the money you can earn, you will end failing. So to resume this first advice, pick a product you know and you think it worth.

Be interested in the product: You can be familiar with the product because everyday you hear about it, but if you are not interested in it you will lose your time. At the beginning you can do it fine, but then when you need to work hardly writing many articles about the product and submit it in article directories, it will be a pain in the ass!.

Almost every week I see people promoting Herbalife products in my community, but for any reason I would promote them.

Check its landing page: When you think you got a good product, check its landing page, email creative or whatever is supposed to convince people for buying the product. The landing page needs to be easy to navigate, and it should call to action.

When you see the html email or visit the landing page, think as you were a costumer near from buying the product. If YOU are persuaded, it means your costumers will too. In the other hand, if you don’t feel motivated or persuaded, probably you should look for another product with a better catching interface.

Check if it converts: Talk with your affiliate manager and ask him about the conversion rates of the product you want. In other words, the conversion rate tell you if the product makes sells or not, 3 or more sales per day is ok. Conversion rate is the ratio of visitors who convert casual content views or website visits into desired actions based on subtle or direct requests from marketers, advertisers, and content creators.

I talked with my manager of NeverblueAds and he told me some good conversion rates related with different offers:

  • Email submit = about 25 – 35%
  • Free trial offer = about 2% – 3%
  • Dating offer (short for submit) = about 10%
  • True sale offer = about 2 – 5%

Those numbers are relative, so talk with your manager to assure.

Stay with the winners: What I want to mean with this, is to promote those things that are working. Promote popular/hot products, promote that things you know other people are making money with. Why, won’t be harder because of the competition? If you try to promote those products that are not converting well, you will lose money and time promoting it.

What you need to do is to effort promoting it, that’s it. I will talk more about promoting your affiliate products in other article, as well as how to find keywords and how to find these products that are making the people richer, using Affiliate Espionage.

Money back guarantee: This is not always available but if so, it would be better for you. Money back guarantee programs inspire peace and trust, your consumers will feel safe of blackhat tricks or scammy programs.

As I said, this is a plus. The good thing is most of the U.S. and Canadian offers have this policy, but if you find a great product without it don’t worry!.

Which are your tactics?

The other day I read something that recommends the opposite of me about the popular products. I read it is better to get an unsaturated market, this way you could sell “better” than if you take a saturated one, such as making money online for example…

What do you think about it? What about the wasted money until you discover the trick of the product?

If you are promoting a product I would love to know how did you choose it, teach me! :cool:


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17 Responses to “How To Choose Affiliate Products To Promote”

Comment by Minnesota Attorney | 6 Feb 2009 at 00:45

This is excellent advice from someone who clearly is experienced with affiliate marketing. Great article, Javo!

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Comment by Rahul Jadhav | 3 Mar 2009 at 12:47

I agree with what you said. I am new to Affiliate Marketing and i am just trying out new services. I liked your post as it has explained the aspects of Affiliate Marketing in detail

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Comment by The Moneyac | 6 Feb 2009 at 05:12

I have 2 ways how I do it.

Follow The Money and Trying New Things.

Follow the Money is when I promote other hot stuff, easy as that. It’s easier to have a slice of the pie, than bake your own pie.

And Trying New Things – Well basically with this I just try to find new and untapped niches/products. Mostly I lose money, but boy, when you hit a small goldmine, the money is rolling in like crazy, especially when there is no competition and CPC is low.

Then again, the possibility of hitting a goldmine is quite low, and it takes time and patience to find it.

Cheers,

The Moneyac

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Comment by Mr Javo | 6 Feb 2009 at 09:29

Thanks for such an excellent feedback dude. It would be great to find an untapped niche/product that sales, that would be ideal… But to do it is quite hard and also you need to be lucky.

Good point!

 
 
Comment by George | 6 Feb 2009 at 09:43

Great advice. I think it’s especially important to know and like the product you are an affiliate of. I am not sure how important the money back guarantee is if the product converts well. However, it’s a good thing to look for.

Very nice post.

 
Comment by Indo Contest | 6 Feb 2009 at 20:54

Great article, Javo.
Thanks for sharing it.

Indo

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Comment by Dennis Edell | 7 Feb 2009 at 11:35

I like to see your #1 as #1. It gets tiring seeing hundreds of wannabes and even some experienced marketers pimping products that they obviously don’t use or even know anything about.

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Comment by Motorcycle Trader | 9 Feb 2009 at 03:36

The important thing to do when you start with affiiate marketing (picking your first affiiate product) is to do some keyword research and also take a good look at the gravity at clickbank. The higher the gravity is, the better the products sell (in most cases)

 
Comment by Web Site Promotions | 11 Feb 2009 at 09:02

Great advice. Always stay with what works. Don’t try to re-invent the wheel.

 
Comment by The Blogger Source | 12 Feb 2009 at 01:18

Know your product and make sure it fits with your site. How annoyed do you get when you go to a store and they know nothing about what they sell.

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Comment by Odzyskiwanie Danych | 2 Mar 2009 at 07:10

You need to be familiar with the product and that’s the most important advice you could’ve given. If you know nothing of the product you’ll discourage potential buyers and you might also miss some part of the market.

Comment by Mr Javo | 4 Mar 2009 at 11:14

That’s totally truth, if you don’t demonstrate a good knowledge of a product you will be frightening your potential customers…

 
 
Comment by Current accounts | 18 Mar 2009 at 10:49

You are one good writer. I’ve never been lucky in choosing an affiliate program that makes any revenue.But you’ve just made some things really clear and succinct. Thanks

 
Comment by Meeting rooms | 18 Mar 2009 at 10:57

I got a 50% conversion rate the other day for some sippy cups I linked to on Amazon. I have a baby/parenting website with a page about weaning baby off the bottle. I mentioned that parents LOVE this particular sippy cup because picky babies who won’t drink out of anything other than a bottle will actually use this particular sippy cup.

In my experience, if you can attach a story to the product you’re promoting (preferably a personal story) then it converts much better.

 
Comment by Health Insurance St Petersburg | 2 Jun 2009 at 04:46

You have great knowledge of promote affiliate products. Conversion ration is most important factor of affiliate marketing. Thanks for information.

 

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