To make money with affiliate marketing, the product that you choose to promote is crucial - you got to make sure that the product can sell. So in this blog post, let me share with you some tips on choosing the right affiliate product from Clickbank Marketplace.

1. Decide your target market. By determining your target market first, it will make it easier to identify a winner. When choosing a market to enter,  I will strongly advise you to choose a hungry market - which means a market that consists of desperate buyers. Unless you are an experienced niche finder, you should always go into these hungry markets as they are big enough for you to make affiliate sales. Examples of hungry market are like Registry Cleaning and Xbox Repair. People who are having registry or Xbox problems will be desperate to find solutions to fix their situations, which presents an opportunity for affiliates to recommend solutions to ease their frustrations and pain.
2. Visit Clickbank Marketplace. In the Clickbank marketplace, there are all kinds of digital products for you to promote. The first thing that you should do is to select a Category. Then choose a Sub Category and types in the keywords that are related to the industry that you intend to enter. For example, if you like to go into the weight loss industry, you can select Health & Fitness (Main Category) –> Diet (Sub Category) –> and enter Weight Loss as the keywords. I will usually sort the results either by Popularity or Gravity.  Note: Gravity is the number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission by referring a paying customer to the publisher’s products. This is a weighted sum and not an actual total. For each affiliate paid in the last 8 weeks we add an amount between 0.1 and 1.0 to the total. The more recent the last referral, the higher the value added.
3. Choosing affiliate products. Now, you will be able to see a list of affiliate products available for you to choose from. If you sort the result by Gravity, the top 10 products are usually the most popular products in the market and many affiliates are making money by promoting them. These products are potential choices for you to promote. The first thing that I will do is to visit the sales pages for each of the top 10 products. You can visit the sale page by clicking on the “View Pitch Page” link. At the sales page, you got to make sure that it is enticing enough for people to buy the product. Usually, the headline plays a very important role here. If the headline on the sales page is not attractive enough, most of the visitors will leave the page immediately. What you can do is to imagine yourself as an visitor who is in need of the product. Will you read on? After reading the entire sales copy, are you impressed with what you see and the benefits that you will be getting? Will you be interested to buy? An example of a convincing sales page is Chris Rempel’s Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate.
4. Check the payment modes. If you find the sales copy is convincing enough, the next thing that you should check is the payment modes that the merchant is offering. You see… affiliates make money when customers buy products through clickbank payment gateway. However, you will be surprised to see that some of the merchants on Clickbank do offer other forms of payment methods, especially offline modes such as physical cheques. If the customers pay through offline means, you will not get their well-deserved commissions. So make sure that the merchant uses only Clickbank payment gateway to accept credit cards and paypal payments.
5. Create hoplinks. Clickbank uses hoplinks to track the effort of affiliates. In order to get credit for any sale, you need to use a unique hoplink to promote a product. Before you can create a hoplink, you need to open up a Clickbank account. For affiliates, opening a Clickbank account is free of charge. Once you have a Clickbank account, you will receive an unique nickname that you will use frequently to create hoplinks. So the next step is to go back to the Marketplace. Once you have a product you want to promote, click “create hoplink” under the product and begin referring sales today. Enter your Clickbank nickname and click on the Create button. It will automatically generate the hoplink for you and you can use it immediately to promote the product.

I hope that with this blog post, you are more well-equipped now to choose an affiliate product to promote on Clickbank.

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PayDotCom.com is an online marketing place which catalog thousands of both digital and physical product. If you are an affiliate marketing, PayDotCom is definitely another great alternative to look for products which you can promote.

To use PayDotCom, you need to open up an account with them. You can either use it as an affiliate product platform to look for products to promote, or you list your own products on it and sell to people. Basically, it is quite similar to the online market place that we are so familiar with, which is Clickbank.

If you intend to promote affiliate products from PayDotCom, you can go to is MarketPlace and look for the product that you want. Once you have chosen a product, you can click on the “Promote” link, a new window will appear and tell you all the details that you need to know before you promote that product. You will get to know how much commission you are earning from each sale, when do you get paid, who is paying you, etc.

Once you are okay with the details, you can now log in to your free affiliate PayDotCom account and you will be able to get the affiliate link to promote it.

Some of the features and benefits of PayDotCom are as followed:

• Digital Products
• Physical Products
• Membership Subscription
• Manage your own affiliates
• Affiliates getting their commission transfer directly to his or her Paypal account.

I think the most attractive part of all is that affiliates will not need to bank in their commission cheaque anymore. The vendor will choose the payout date and will transfer the money directly to affiliates’ Paypal accounts. In this way, affiliates can get their money much faster and cut down on a lot of shipping and waiting time. Click here to check out more about PayDotCom now.

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One of the many questions that I get from my newsletter subscribers is what to promote when you are an affiliate… which is why i think i should address this issue in today’s blog post for the benefits of everyone.

Personally, when i do affiliate marketing, i don’t promote physical product; I think non-physical products such as e-books, softwares, membership programs, web hosting subscription, etc are more worthwhile to promote. The reason why I love non-physical products so much is because there is no hassle on delivery and the profit margin is way much higher. For e-books products, commission can go as high as 75% for each book you sell.

Many affiliates who just started out tend to go for Amazon affiliate program, promoting physical books. When it comes to physical products, the seller will usually give a lower commission percentage and thus you will not be able to earn a nice substantial commission from each sale.

Comparing physical and non-physical products,  it is definitely more worthwhile for you to promote a information product and earn a higher percentage rather than promoting a physical product with very lower percentage… as the marketing effort for both types of products are the same.

In the past, web hosting program is considered the best product for affiliates to promote. Because, for every new website to be launched, the webmaster will surely need a web hosting program first. And every year, there are thousands and thousands of new websites, so it is a never ending promotion for us affiliates. However, the web hosting affiliate business is getting more and more competitive now and it is very hard for new affiliates to earn a substantial affiliate income from it.

So if you are starting out in the affiliate marketing business now, i strongly recommend you to visit Clickbank and PayDotCom. These 2 places have tons of great information products for you to promote and most of them give at least a 50% commission for each sale you make. Commission Junction is also another great place to find products to promote, especially for web hosting services.

Before you choose a particular product to promote, it will be good if you can do some research on it first. Make sure that the product that you are going to promote can sell (which means there is a demand in the market).  Also choose something that you have interest in to get things started. By promoting a product that you have interest in (for example, if you are a golf player, promoting a golf e-book will be ideal), you will be able to express more knowledge and passion for the product during marketing, which can help increase your affiliate sales volume.

Do not worry so much about setting up a website and promote an affiliate product when you are first starting out. There are lots of great ways to promote affiliate products without a website. You should also test out the product in the market first, using Squidoo as landing pages to promote it. Once you see it starts to convert which proves to you that it can sell, you can now move one level up by setting up squeeze page for the product and collect names and email addresses of the people who show interests in the product.

If you repeat the process of Research, Promote, Test, Build List, you will be able to build up a very strong affiliate marketing business in the next few years.

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Anyone who is doing affiliate marketing will have to come across affiliate network which offers tons of affiliate products to promote. Those networks will also handle the transaction and credit the affiliate accordingly.

2 of the most popular ones are Clickbank and Commission Junction. But usually theses affiliate network does not pay you instantly. You will either need to hit a certain minimum withdrawal amount, or will need to wait for them to mail you the check.

PayDotCom is a network which will solve this problem. Whether you are a publisher selling your own product, or an affiliate promoting other people products, all sales will be credited i