If you are in search of affiliate marketing tips, then one of the best ones I can think to pass on is to learn the best ways of discovering a profitable niche. Without acquiring this skill, and using it each time you start a new campaign, there is little chance you will succeed.
Knowing and understanding your niche can mean the difference between profit and loss. If you follow the steps below the orders should naturally follow.
Offline:
When looking for a niche, you can find one wherever you are. Don’t just think online, as this is only a small part of the search area available to you. I bet you can find several broad categories to start the process off today without touching a keyboard.
Look in the daily newspaper, and magazines, look for popular items when walking around your local stores, TV ad’s for new products, etc. Keep a notebook and pen with you, and if you see a product write it down, or snap a picture with your cellphone, the iPhone has an ap that allows you to scan bar-codes and make a shopping list, so you could take all the details of a product you like the look of with the press of a button. The key is to be aware of your surroundings, and look at things with a niche hunters mindset. It is very important to make notes, if you don’t, trust me, by the time you are in front of your computer that great niche you found will be forgotten.
Online:
When looking online there are several places you can look that deliver ready-made niches. Keep an eye on trending keywords on Google trends, and popular products on eBay, (just search for eBay pulse.) Amazon has a section called best sellers that will tell you what people are buying from the site. The eBay pulse in particular will give you niches on a plate, scroll down for the most watched items, and start building your site now.
If you build it they wont necessarily come:
Once you have your niche, and have made your site or landing page, don’t wait for the buyers to come to you. There are many ways to find your consumer, and then place your site in front of them. Go to forums related to your product and post in them. Never promote your site directly in the forum, rather help people by answering questions, or responding to posts, just leave your link in the signature file and on your profile page. It is amazing how many people will click on it. You can also place free classified ads or answer questions on answer type sites like Yahoo answers and others. These can also bring a steady flow of targeted leads to your offer.
I am sure you will agree one of the most valuable affiliate marketing tips is learning ways of discovering a profitable niche. Once you have this skill perfected, you will able to produce profitable campaigns …
4 Simple Steps For Growing a Profitable Email List Online
If you’re marketing online there is no reason at all not to have an email list. You don’t need your own product to sell to grow and profit from your own list. All you need is an autoresponder system and a way for people to optin to your list from your web site.
In fact, building a list before having your own product can be pretty cool as you instantly have a list of targeted prospects for your offer once you finish your product and it’s ready to go to market.
In the meantime, you can make money online by sending out quality offers to your list as an affiliate.
Money Making Key – having a list of people interested in your topic, that trust you and see you as an expert in the field (or someone who can point them in the right direction) will allow you to grow a profitable, successful, long-term business online.
1. Bribe ‘Em!
You have to get them on your list, right? This isn’t 1998 when email was new and all you had to do was offer a free email newsletter. People are overwhelmed nowadays with email they don’t want.
So you need to offer something for free, that is QUALITY information, in the form of a short report, autoresponder series, audio or video, based on the topic that they are interested in learning more about.
If you give them quality information, they will be more likely to trust you and buy from you when you do recommend something that costs money.
2. Make ‘Em Pay First! – List size doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t make you money. One way to grow a quality list is to make them pay first! Offer something of high quality at a low price of $5 or $10.
You’ll get a lot less people to optin. The major upside is that everyone that gets on your list has already proven they are willing buyers and that’s ultimately what you want.
3. Make it Easy for ‘Em! – Don’t hide your optin box! If you run a blog or content site place an optin form in your side navbar AND at the beginning or end (or both) of every article or blog post!
4. Test Test Test! – You gotta constantly test your offer. Keep trying new ways to get people on your list to improve your conversion rate.
The more visitors you can convert to subscribers the more money you can make from your list (you should be testing your offers once they are on your list as well).…
Ways To Make Your Blog Profitable And Getting Traffic To It
If you think that blogging is easy, you’re correct. Blogging is easy. All you have to do is get a free blog, customize it, add some Google AdSense code on it, and start making blog posts each and everyday. You want fresh traffic that the search engines will love and will want to share it with others by ranking it high in the results.
I’m willing to bet that if you started your own blog that you would be able to earn money from it over a short period of time. Using Google AdSense on your blog is a great way to monetize your blog, but if you’re only making 20 cents per click from each time someone clicks on the ad… you will need a lot more traffic than what you are getting now.
But you should keep your head up high, because there is another way to monetize your blog, and to earn lots of money from it. I’m talking about selling affiliate products on your blog. You can use ClickBank, Commission Junction, Paydotcom, eBay, or even ‘s affiliate program to make money with your blog.
Or you can take things to a higher level, and become an affiliate for the “HostGator” web hosting company. At least with this strategy you earn income month after month all on autopilot – and you don’t have to deal with customer service, refunds, or answering any questions. HostGator will take care of all of that for you. And if you become an affiliate for HostGator, they even give you the tools you need to succeed to promote their services easily.
This is how a lot of people make money with their blogs. If this doesn’t sound appealing to you, you could always sell advertising space on your blog. This is also a major profit generator for those who have high traffic blogs. So when your blog becomes successful and starts getting thousands upon thousands of visits per day, you can use any one of these income generators to help you make more money with your blog.
But to get this traffic in the first place, we have to rewind and take a look at the traffic strategies that you need to be using to get people to your blog. One easy way to get people back to your blog is with email marketing. Encourage your readers to subscribe to your blog so that you can bring them back on a daily basis.
This recurring traffic along with the new traffic that you get everyday is something that boost the profitability of your blog in a short period of time. I would know, because I get recurring traffic from my email subscribers everyday. And they come and leave comments on my blog for me to read and respond to.
You should know that there are a lot of ways to get traffic to your blog, but you just have to put the time and effort into it to making it work. Along …