Day 5 - Find Affiliate Merchants and Other Income Potential
Posted by Hendry Lee on 10/30/06 in Affiliate Marketing, Niche Selection
Today, you have done enough work to make sure the niches you brainstorm are indeed profitable. Although cashing in on advertising networks is not the only way to profit from a site, it is the easiest way available for almost any online publisher, even if you are quite inexperienced.
There are more you can do with your site though. Because it is yours, you can find out what people in the niche want and give them exactly that. This is when you can offer related products or services directly instead of just selling ads.
Do a research to see if there are suitable affiliate products for your topic. Again, if you are passionate about the topic, you already know what products and services people want. It turns the process into fun things to do.
You can start in affiliate networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, and potentially others. For digital products — most of them information products — use ClickBank.
Make notes on ideas and bookmark interesting sites while researching so you keep track on them.
In this step, if you still have more than one profitable niche, it’s time to decide on just one you are going to carry on and proceed to the next step.
Don’t worry though, you can just grab the second niche and run with it after you build a successful site with the first. Just that we want to concentrate on one topic at a time. It will keep you sane and achieve results faster.

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