For over a year now I have been using WordPress for internet marketing purposes. I have been using WordPress to build a community around my marketing, grow my list, promote products and make money using AdSense and Affiliate Marketing.
Lately I’ve noticed that there’s a growing amount of internet marketers doing the same thing, so I decided to post a list of 10 useful WordPress plugins that every internet marketer should use.
In one of my recent articles, I shared the way I find affiliate products that sell themselves, so I can benefit from better conversions and higher profits. In this entry, I want to indulge into WHERE I find those products and how do I know what’s going on in my niche.
There are only so many ways to get information about what’s going on in your niche and it’s using one or all of the following:
Forums
Affiliate networks
Search engines
PPC ads
Email newsletters
See what others are promoting and join in on the fun
These are 6 top ways for finding hot affiliate products that convert that you can promote to your list. However, I am too lazy to be using all of them, so I stick to Forums.
The first thing that a top affiliate is looking for when searching for affiliate products to promote is whether the offer converts (e.g. how much money he can expect to make promoting it). While it’s handy to check what’s hot in your niche using ClickBank, the conversion of a certain product depends on couple of things: relationship with the list, quality of the traffic and the offer.
Affiliate Products That Sell
To find a product that sells itself, you need to be looking for the magic bullet. More often than not-it’s software. Software is always the highest converting product because it promises an easy solution to a frustrating problem with a click of a button-something all of us are constantly looking for.
It’s never particularly easy to find the right balance between networking and keeping your competition at a safe distance and when your business is exclusively online. This is perhaps more of a concern than for offline businesses.
If your site is based on the Internet only, it’s much easier for your competition to keep an eye on what you’re doing and the temptation is always to feel ever so slightly protective as a result of this.
But actually, embracing your competition and networking within your niche can have huge benefits for your online business. Whether you’re an e-commerce site, affiliate site, lead generation business or something entirely different, networking can establish your presence within that niche area and keep you up to date with what’s going on.
As an example, I’ll discuss affiliate sites. There are a number of blog networks and forums on which affiliate site owners and webmasters discuss everything from business, changes to the service of major affiliate providers, to the weather!!