Affiliate marketing is constantly growing in popularity as a way to make money online. You sell another company’s products (which takes out the hassle of having to have your own) and you earn a commission from that sale.
Sounds easy enough but sadly it's not that simple. If everyone could be a successful affiliate, every one would already be doing it and raking in the money. The single most important aspect ofaffiliate marketing is knowing which products to promote.
It's not like you're short of choice as people are bringing out more products every day, buthow do you go about making sure you back the right ones? Well, a product that works for one person, won't work for everyone. You
need to have a decent knowledge of the product market and ideally have some interest in it. If you're interested in the subject you're far more likely to understand the market needs, the lingo and more invested in giving people
the best product possible. So for example, let's say you're an avid golfer. It makes sense then that you would look into golfing products to promote.
The best affiliate program also depends on what your customers will want, use and buy. So consider who your visitors to your site are and what they would be willing to buy. If you think you've found an interesting product, you
know the market and you think you could promote it well, here's what you should be looking at next:
1. The website of the company/product you hope to promote. It is reputable? Does it look good? Is there potential for strong sales performance?
2. What is the conversion rate of the website you hope to promote? If it's poor it's likely that your sales will be.
3. What commision will you be getting? A lot of products offer as high as 50-70% commission. If yourcommission percentage per sale is low, it may not be worth the time and effort you'll be putting in to promoting it. You'll also want to find out how quickly you get payed.
4. Look at cookie duration. If it’s a 30 day cookie, the customer has 30 days to go back to the merchant website to complete their purchase in order for you to receive your commission. If the cookie has expired, so has your
commission.
5. Does the merchant provides a range of high quality tools for its affiliates. Do they provide you with email swipes and banners?If they do this takes some of the work out of promoting as you already have tested material
to help you get selling. If not you'll have to create your own.
6. Look at the product rating on Clickbank. They're rated out of 5 starts. The higher the rating, the better the product will be in terms of refund rate, quality and popularity.
Think carefully about which products you promote and keep all the above in mind. By doing this your far more likely to be on to a winner and you'll see a good return for your time.