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. (Please note this is just an example). 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.
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.
