CB Engine

CB engine shows you the new products and is an excellent tool to use if you want to focus on the new product releases. If you are going to work with Clickbank, which is a good first step into the affiliate arena, CB Engine should be one of the sites you bookmark and use.

It has a Brand New Products list, re-listed products with a ton of information to help you make an informed choice about the products you want to promote.

Each product, new and re-listed, has graphs and visual representations about the health and viability of the products.

There are a couple of ways to go about finding out more about the product or service you are about to promote. First, you can buy the product.

Whether it’s digital or tangible, buying and experiencing the product will usually make you a better promoter. However, with 10 products, that can become a bit pricey, so you may want to buy a couple products that you can afford, and look over the sales pages only of the remainder.

When looking over the sales or pitch page, you will want to think in terms of being a prospective buyer. Ask yourself some basic questions:

Does the page, headline and opening paragraph grab your attention.

Is the page easy to read in terms of colours, graphics and layout of the site.

Is the message being presented clear and concise and easy-to-understand.

Are there highlights of important facts, headlines to break up content and pictures that are relevant to the topic matter?

Does the page lead you to the logical conclusion where you want to buy the product?

All of these things are important and will make or break you when people come through your referral link. Having a page where you want to buy the product will generally translate to high sales conversions.

In that way, the traffic you drive to the product site stand a higher chance of buying in the end. If the page left you with a ho-hum, whatever feeling, it is probably quite possible that visitors arriving at the site will have the same reaction.

As you go about promoting your affiliate products, make sure that you keep track of the products that are converting well, and the ones that are not. When you have a hot product that goes warm and then cold, you need to be ready to get rid of it.

Earlier I told you not to get attached to a product or service. This is why. You have to know when to get rid of it.

Look at the choices you first made on Clickbank and ask yourself the questions from above. Are there any products that you might want to get rid of now?

CB Trends

The popularity, price and commission paid of the product is very important.

When it comes to popularity or gravity, unless you are already a Super Affiliate avoid the products with very high gravity (125+), because it means that the market will be highly competitive and the chances of you making sales will be decreased accordingly.

This applies only to Clickbank and not the other commission driven organizations.

In order to find out if a product is good to add to your affiliate arsenal, you will want to check it out at CB Trends (www.cbtrends.com) which is a free service that shows visual representation of what is on the Clickbank marketplace site making it easier to understand. 

There are some useful tracking tools that give you an easy way to see what is happening with the products you choose including:

             Popularity of the product

             Earning per sale

             Percent per sale

             Gravity

             Referrals

             Commission

If you take the visual representation, combine it with what you see on Clickbank’s Marketplace, you will have a good idea of whether the product you’re thinking about promoting is a good one.

Out of the 10 products that you pick to promote over time, you will want at least 6 of them to be popular.

You want to mix it up so that at least half of what you’re promoting is more competitive. The rest of the products should be up and comers, those products that are newer and building in the Marketplace.

Clickbank Marketplace

How To Search

1.   Sale Price: ($/Sale) This is the amount that affiliates are earning for referring customers.    The amount earned is kept by Clickbank accounting and pays out every two weeks to the affiliate.

2.  Percentage of Sale: (%/Sale) This is the average percentage commissions earned per affiliate per sale.

3.   Referral %: This is the percentage of sales that people you refer

4.  Gravity of Product: The gravity number is important because it shows the popularity of the product over time. Every time the product is sold or a new affiliate joins and uses the link the gravity of the program will change.

Newbie to Profitable Affiliate

Build Up To About 10 Products To Promote

As an affiliate, you will want to build up to about 10 products, so that you can mix up the top performing products and add the latest releases. While you should like what you’re selling, don’t be wed to it.

What may be a hot seller may cool off and if you follow trends, you need to be able to move on. You don’t want to add all these products at once, and build slowly as you get more experienced.

Because you don’t want to overwhelm yourself with products, pick your products carefully. Choose popular products because you want to have top performing products.

Here are some things to remember when you are selecting products.

When you search for new products to promote from Clickbank, there are certain things that you are looking for.

First and easiest is the selection of the category that you want to work with. For instance, each affiliate products has some information that will help you make a good decision.

The three sites you will want to use to ascertain if a product is a good seller and a possible product you will want to promote includes:

To find out what are people looking to buy:

Amazon Best Sellers – Amazon.com

 Pulse.ebay.com

 Terapeak.com

Amazon.com Bestsellers

Amazon gives you a quick and easy way to find out what’s hot and what’s not on their site. It is a clear indicator of what the buying market is looking for, making it very easy for you to put yourself in the path of oncoming web traffic and make sales.

If you sign up with Amazon’s affiliate program, you can sell all of the products on the site, and with the Bestsellers section, you will know for sure that certain products are selling. They even give you a Top 10 list for each category so that you can use that to make articles, reviews and blog posts.

EBay Pulse tool: http://pulse.eBay.com

This is a great place to find out what the hot products are because if a person is typing it into eBay, they are typing it into Google and Amazon. Ebay Pulse gives you a real-time look at what people are looking to buy.

You can log into eBay and do a search on the completed items. It will tell you what people are selling, how many have sold and the average price.

Look for items with bids, and this is a great way to get an idea of what people are looking for.

Terapeak is another great way to do things www.terapeak.com

Go to Hot Research, sort of like eBay pulse. It will give you a listing of what’s hot on eBay. You can then drill down and it will give you an idea of some of the different auctions that are going on. If there are bids, this is a good item to become an affiliate for.

Hot Research > Hot Searches and then Search

Good average price above $30.00, with a good commission rate of no less than 40%, the higher the better. Also, don’t go for the very high end products that are priced at above $125 dollars.

Researching Your Products

Pick a niche product and start to research if it’s a viable topic or subject. Whether you want to go with Clickbank products or with other affiliate products, you will need to do your research.

Finding a profitable niche should be the very first thing you do when starting in affiliate marketing.

You want to have a product that is Hot! If you find a product that isn’t very hot, don’t expect to make any kind of money with it.

The reason I picked the Maverick Money Makers is because it is a hot item. People are interested in the niche, and it’s marketed well, presented in a professional manner, and has tools for its affiliates to use to make money.

The ClickBank Marketplace

Clickbank has been in business since 1998, and has built their network to one of the largest retailer of digital products. With over 10,000 digital products, it is one of the premier affiliate networks.

It is easy to use, easy to join and there are products in a ton of different areas from pets to electronics.

In order to earn commissions, all you need to do is take your affiliate ID and you get a link which you can use to send customers to. When they click on your link, it will record your commissions when they buy the product.

These affiliate networks generally require that you have a website that is related to the affiliate program you want to sell.

However, that’s not impossible to accomplish, and you can get one at www.blogger.com, www.typepad.com, www.wordpress.com and the like.

You can also sign up with very reasonable hosting services that provide one click installation of your blog site where you can start posting articles and blog posts related to the product or service you apply for at one of the larger networks like the ones listed below:

Clickbank is a Fast Start, Needs no website and pretty easy to be accepted into this program.

                www.clickbank.com

Need to have a website, makes sure that it’s established with an About Us, Contact Us and Privacy page on the site. Should have a few weeks of posts at the very least.

                www.shareasale.com

                www.cj.com

                www.linkshare.com

                www.amazon.com

                www.ebaypartnernetwork.com

                www.pepperjamnetwork.com

                www.datafeedr.com 

                www.goldenCAN.com

                www.rubiconproject.com

Wait at least 90 days before putting Adsense on your site. To ensure that you will be accepted to the Adsense program, it’s best not to apply until you have an established site to show them.

                www.adsense.com

These two are secondary and shouldn’t be considered until you’ve got your sites up and running for a few months.

                www.azoogleads.com – CPA network

                www.cpaempire.com

Before you apply to any of the other sites, you need to have a real site. You will want to blog on the site for at least two weeks, one blog post per day.

If you aren’t a writer, you will need to hire a freelancer. Go to Elance.com, rentacoder.com and the like to find a writer. You can hire a freelancer fairly inexpensively who will deliver you blog posts to add to your site.

It takes some basic things to be successful at affiliate marketing:

 Stay focused

Pick a niche product to start with and then START

Read all coming posts and then take action.

Make a

schedule and then stick to it.

Start small and apply what you learn as you go.

Avoid being overwhelmed out of the gate. You want to learn, apply it on a small level and then scale up when you feel you have the basics under control.

While you are doing this, you will start to make money. By staying focused, I mean avoid the multi-tab distractions. You can open a ton of websites in browser’s nowadays.

If your plan calls for answering email between a certain time and certain time, avoid reading emails before that time. Tell yourself, it will still be sitting there waiting for you at.

Affiliate Marketing 101 – The Basics

Since you are reading this post, I will assume that you are interested in making your fortune. Before you can even contemplate picking an affiliate program to join, you will need to make some basic changes in your thinking.

Change the way you think about money.

You’ve got to really change the way you view money and you want to begin to feel  like you deserve to be wealthy. While this concept seems simple, many people don’t feel like they deserve money.

As a result, their activities reflect their feelings of lack of worthiness. Instead of coming home from work and hitting the computer, reading an eBook, taking action on a plan, they will instead come home, sit in front of the television and time will pass.

Instead of becoming a veteran internet marketer, they will become the master of television watching.

People who feel like they should be able to make lots of money online will naturally make a lot of money online. This is not some spiritual mish-mosh, although I feel that spirituality is a part of everyone’s journey. However, that is not what I’m talking about when I say people can make lots of money.

The most important thing to remember is that if you feel like you deserve lots of money, you will take the actions to make it happen.