Locating Niche Products for Affiliate Marketing !

They say that the Journey of a thousand miles begins with the first Step .....

It is not enough to dream one is financially free. In order to get there we have to start by taking definitive small actions each day towards achieving the desired end. In this case we start by doing the research phase. It is not enough to intellectually think about how we want to get from point A to point B. If we want to be successful , we must 1st look at those who have gone before. To go through trial and error is a complete waste of time and money. So if we find those who are already successful, and choose to study and most of all model those behaviors, habits and methods that empowered/enabled those very successful people , who are no different than us, to reach that promised land of financial freedom. This is the way that others who have gone before have actually completed their dreams of financial freedom and abundance.

There are quite a few people out on the internet making ridiculous sums of money. In order to join that club there are an almost infinite number of ways to get there.

Affiliate Programs:

Lets look at a few of the programs to get an Idea of what we're getting into.

The first of these would be a program called "Adwords", created and run by "Google". This program is a huge money maker for a number of Internet Marketing icons.

In getting to know adwords one of the key things to get understood right away is that it costs money to use. Understand that this is a business, and if you want to make the money you have to create an advertising budget. This is an essential ingredient for getting started. Having at least 600.00 to begin would be an optimum beginning. Although , one can swing it on a shoestring of 200.00 for exploring the campaign process.

In getting started, before you have a campaign you have to figure out what kind of product that you want to sell. since we are talking about Affiliate Marketing I will set forth some of the steps necessary. One of the 1st major affilliates to check out is clickbank.com they have a 900 billion dollar internet marketplace going on, and is a very awesome place to start. Register for your account, check out the FAQ and look around the market place. There are a number of different products to buy, or become an affiliate of as well. An affiliate is, a person that sells another persons product for a commission based upon the original products selling price eg. 60 % of the sale.

Choosing a Product:

Now consider that the product that you choose has to meet certain criteria before you think about creating an ad for the product. Go the the pitch page and see how well it is written and compare it to other product pages to see how well it will convert. The term convert means , that once a person lands on the page will they buy the product. In addition, a huge peice of the puzzle is to do some initial research by doing a search on Google to determine how many people are searching for that keyword. A keyword is what people type in the search engine to find out their information . For eg. I'm going to search on model trains, which gives me a number of searches of "2,150,000", on that keyword "model trains". Now here is where this gets interesting, as when we do a search on "model trains tips", we get "846,000" , so what these numbers mean is that you have a large number of seekers looking for model trains and tips and not enough competition to provide for the tips. Supply and demand, here we have the demand outstripping the supply. A very good marketing opportunity here. So when we devide the 2,150,000/846,000=2.54 which we will call the search ratio, the lower the number the better chance of making a profit from that niche.

So we have found a product now, that has a great potential and what would be rightly call a Micro Niche product. We can see by doing the search for ourselves that there is virtually no competition from an adwords viewpoint. You notice on the page that there is no other ads showing to the right of the search results. So essentially if you were to look in clickbank you would see

27) http://zzzzz.archizen.hop.clickbank.net How To Make Money With Model Trains And Rc Hobbies. Finally! Great News For Anyone Who Is Mad About Model Trains And Rc Hobbies And Wants To Make Money From Them. You Willl Discover Ways To Turn Model Trains And Rc Hobbies Into Automatic Money Making Machines! Anyone Can Do This Even If You Are A Beginner! $/sale: - | Future $: - | Total $/sale: - | %/sale: - | %refd: - | grav: - http://zzzzz.archizen.hop.clickbank.net view pitch page | create hoplink

Now please note that there are no numbers entered for the the above values such as $/sale:- ect., ect.. This usually indicates that the product is getting ready to launch. I you check out the pitch page it is pretty decent and well thought out .

The end result is that we have a product to now create an ad for that has a good chance of making some profit. Now the next thing to do is to see how the keywords look in this as we need to find out which ones would have the most traffic at the most reasonable price. This brings up the term "Cost per Click" which is defined as the amount the advertiser will be charged when the searcher clicks on the keyword in the adwords ad in google.

So now Lets look a a tool to find the keywords applicable. a good place to start with all this is to check out and register for a free trial with http://www.keywordspy.com\">keywordspy.com

We go there and then register and in the search window enter in the site we want to check out for keywords.

Keyword Research:

In addition, another great source to check out the keywords for free is also to use the google keywords tool. You have to login under your new google adwords account, and then to choose the Tools hyperlink from the menu, and there you can submit the idea keyword or if you pick a top ten website showing in the google search results for model trains this can give you an excellent idea which keywords have to be included inside your Google Adwords ad.

Your ad might look like this.

Make Money with Rc Trains
Earn a living having Fun
Learn to Earn Serious Cash
www.rc-model-hobby-profits.com

Realize that you will be in a bidding contest with other people trying to make money as well. The bidding is on the keywords. The more popular the keyword the more usually you will have to spend on the CpC (Cost per click). For example , if there are a number of people that have ads you might have to pay at least a minimum of $3.00 as the default bid. Some times you can get by with .25 cents per click. The biggest thing is make sure that you scope it out and insure that the affiliate product you have chosen is one with a really good landing page, that will convert or land a sales from your ad that you put up on Google Adwords. That way you will make a profit. That is why it is so important to look for the "micro niches" that don't have very much competition. That way you can keep your Adwords cost down and your profits high. This way your "Return on Investment" will an exciting , joyous experience. The first time you get your check from Clickbank, it is an occasion for celebration.

Now please note that I have used the product of model train tips for example. this is to illustrate the process. Of course you have to do the ground work brainstorming about the ideal product that you know something about , and in addition something that is in demand now , and also have a hot product that is mentioned in the news perhaps, for instance in "Googles hot trend searches" at any one point in time this gives a person an idea of what millions of people are searching for on the Google search Engine at any one time. You can grab an idea, see if someone is suppling the product for that idea and become an affiliate of this product. Rather than listing all of the affiliates that you can make money from, just do a search on the word "affiliate programs" in Google. You will be amazed at all of the affiliate programs available to you.

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Hope this helps ,
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Robert

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