how to find profitable niches

And then we’re going to get into the nitty gritty of how to find profitable affiliate niches, and in particular we’re going to be focusing on digital products, although I will allude to oth

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Welcome!

If you don’t know me, my name is Mark Ling and I just wanted to ﬁrstly thank you for taking the

time to download this free report and set aside some time learn how to ﬁnd proﬁtable niches

Before I get into the details I just want quickly cover who I am just so you know who you’re

learning from Following that, we are going to briefly cover what affiliate marketing is (for those of you who are newbies) And then we’re going to get into the nitty gritty of how to find profitable

afﬁliate niches, and in particular we’re going to be focusing on digital products, although I will

allude to other types of afﬁliate niches out there as well

Allow me to introduce myself

Below is a photo of me with my wife Michelle, my son Benjamin who’s just turned 2 years old, and

my son Caleb who is 5 months old In the photo is his nice train birthday cake which was made

by his Mum who I’m very proud of

HOW TO FIND PROFITABLE NICHES affilo BLUEPRINT

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And below is a photo of me when I was speaking at an internet marketing conference in Las

Vegas

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Why learn from me?

You might be wondering what makes me so special and why you should learn internet marketing from me Well, put simply, you should learn from me because I make a lot of money online

I do it through different means – half of it comes from doing afﬁliate promotions promoting other

people’s products, I also make a lot of money from marketing and selling my own products, and I’m even making good money making and selling my own iPhone App, so I really have taken to

this whole information marketing business like a duck to water – I really love it

Evidence of my successes

I’ve taken some screenshots of some recent data from a few of my ClickBank accounts and

pasted them below

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Below is a screenshot of an afﬁliate commission where I made over $21,000 just from a couple of emails to one of my lists

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Below is an email I got sent recently when I promoted a guy’s product from the dating niche

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For this particular promotion, the product was on “why men lie to women” and I ended up selling around 700 copies of this particular product, and won ﬁrst prize in that particular launch

competition I got an iPad 3, a 1-hour consultation with a guy who is a brilliant copy writer, and

this sort of thing happens all the time

Other people that I have helped to succeed with affiliate marketing

I’ve got lots of successful students and below is a screenshot I grabbed from my website – lots of successful students that have made a lot of money as well

Below is a photo of my father with my son Benjamin this was taken the day after Ben’s birthday

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I even got my dad into internet marketing! He was really skeptical at ﬁrst but now he’s into it and making all of his money from internet marketing Before he got into afﬁliate marketing, he was

working for a Government agency After 30 years working in Government, he was getting quite

stressed Then I got him into making money from afﬁliate programs, and he even went on to make some of his own products as well in different niches, and he’s done extremely well These are

niches like “dog training”, and “how to sing” He has done extremely well out of it

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What is affiliate marketing?

Afﬁliate marketing is simply when you earn commissions promoting other people’s products An example of what this looks like on the internet is in the screenshot below I typed in the words

“aggressive German Shepherd” into Google

This is what someone that’s got a problem relating to almost anything does; They go to Google or another search engine, and they type their problem into Google

Or maybe they’ll type in a physical product they’re looking for or something else But let’s say

they type in a problem they have In this case “aggressive German Shepherd”, then they’ll see

my website comes up right at the top of the search Because most people click the ﬁrst thing they see in Google, they will click through to my website

You can see what my website looks like in the screenshot below The person will straight away,

see my article there on my website, and then they’ll go ahead and read my article and for some of them that’s all they will do

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But a small percentage of the people who visit my website, and it only takes a small percentage to make a good deal of money, go ahead and buy one of the products that I recommend on this

page Further down the page I’ve got some affiliate links for different products So that’s basically what affiliate marketing is; It’s just about being the middle man and there’s a world of traffic

outside of Google

Google’s not the only way to send traffic to an affiliate offer The idea about affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to own the product that you’re promoting, but you can earn commissions and there are tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of different products that you can

promote as an afﬁliate

Common ways of making money as an affiliate

Here are a couple of examples of how you can earn money as an afﬁliate marketer

• You can earn commissions promoting digital products The good thing about digital

products is you can earn much higher percentages because it’s just bits and bytes

people are downloading, so if you promote a dog training product that is an instant

download, then let’s say that product sells for $37 and you could earn 70% commission, then that turns out to be a lot of money, especially if you make several sales per day

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• You can earn commissions promoting physical products Some places are better to

promote physical products than others Some physical product places only pay you

maybe 4% commissions, but then other places pay you much higher commissions

• You can earn commissions promoting ‘cost per acquisition’ offers That’s where you get paid just for sending somebody that will enter their name and email address So you

might get $3 for every name and email address that gets entered Or you might get say $30 for everybody that ﬁlls in a full on form that might be an application for insurance or something like that, even if they don’t take up the insurance, or even if it’s just to get a

quote estimate you might get paid quite a lot of money per lead

• You can earn recurring commissions from offers, like maybe signing someone up for a

membership where that person is paying a monthly fee, and then you end up getting a

recurring commission for as long as they stay on as a member

• You can also earn high ticket commissions Some products sell for $1000 and you can make 50% commissions In fact one product that I promoted that was $2000 a little while ago I ended up making $187,000 in commissions that week, and that wasn’t even

counting my prize which brought it to over $200,000 A few times I’ve made over

$100,000 in commissions promoting a product, and very frequently I make over $10,000 promoting different people’s products, whether it’s high ticket or low ticket Anyway, I’m not telling you this to brag, I’m just telling you what a great opportunity it is

So with all this in mind, in this report I’m going to show you how to ﬁnd proﬁtable digital product

niches And in particular I’m going to focus on the ClickBank afﬁliate network

Yes, there are a lot of other ways of proﬁting in afﬁliate marketing, and I’ll cover all of the ones I

just mentioned in my AfﬁloBlueprint course which is coming out on 29th May 2012 But for now

I’m focusing on ClickBank, and the reason I’m doing that is because the vast majority – over 60%

of my income – comes from ClickBank Other people make the majority of their income from other afﬁliate networks

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There are other ones out there and there other ways of making money which I’ll cover in my

AffiloBlueprint course But seeing as the vast majority of my money is made in ClickBank, I think it’s only appropriate for me to show you how to find profitable ClickBank niches

Finding Niches On ClickBank

The ﬁrst thing you need to do is visit www.ClickBank.com, and at the top of the page you’ll see

there’s a link to the ‘Marketplace’ From here you can pick a category – any category that

interests you

I’m going to pick ‘Parenting and Families’ You have to scroll down a bit to see it

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On ClickBank you’ll ﬁnd that the vast majority of products are digital information products on

topics like “how to train your dog”, “how to pick up women”, “how to play guitar”, or software like

“search engine optimization software” like “Trafﬁc Travis” or business software like “daycare

management” So we’re trying to ﬁnd niches and products that are proﬁtable but don’t have too much competition, at least for the moment

Thankfully ClickBank now makes this quite easy using their tools Later on in this report I’ll show you how to find profitable affiliate products that do have competition, but right now we’ll stick to

the low competition offers So you’ll want to use the ﬁlters on the left hand side of the page to do this What I recommend that you do is you set the minimum ‘gravity’ score to 6 and the maximum gravity score to 25

This means that at least some sales are being made but not too many different afﬁliates are on

board promoting this particular offer And you’ll also want to set the average $ per sale to a

minimum of $15 Look at what I’ve done in the screenshot below I’ve set average $ per sale at

$15, minimum gravity 6, and maximum gravity 25

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This narrows down the number of products in the Parenting and Families category that I’ve gone

to You can do this in another category of course, but it’s narrowed it down to about 15 products Now it’s just a matter of checking out the sales process for the products that you’re interested in promoting

You basically want to ﬁnd out for yourself whether or not people will be likely to buy any of the

products you’ve found Obviously some people are buying these products or there wouldn’t be any gravity at all, and I’ll get onto gravity shortly, so don’t worry if it sounds complicated, I will

reveal everything soon! Let’s just take a look at the ﬁrst product in our narrowed down search by clicking to open the website

Checking the sales page

So the ﬁrst product opens up a sales page with an opt-in box, and this can be a good thing as it means the vendor is trying to collect visitors’ email addresses, and this means that they can follow

up and make more conversions for you so you can earn more commissions

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So the users will enter their details into that opt-in box then they will be taken to the sales page

The sales page is actually a video, it’s got very little text

Some video sales pages convert very well, especially if they’ve got proof and elements of product scarcity and so forth Usually when I see that it’s a video sales copy and I see that there’s gravity

of over 5, I’ll just assume that it probably converts okay and will be a good money maker

You can’t really tell for sure until you’re promoting it but with video I’ll watch the ﬁrst few minutes

and try and get a feel for it, but give it the beneﬁt of the doubt and try it if I’m not sure

Let’s look at another product This product on “Baby Gender” offers a recurring commission and quite a high average dollars per sale (over $30 per sale)

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Promoting products that offer a recurring commission can be a really good idea because you can keep making money from the same sale over and over again.

Let’s take a look at the sales page

This sales page above looks very promising, and could potentially convert highly Notice the

attention grabbing headline, it’s got a slick presentation, and there’s ‘social proof’ – 11,993

couples have used this method already

I like the look of this product, and think it’s probably pretty effective, so let’s take a closer look at gravity then move onto some basic keyword research to check if there’s potential to proﬁt in this particular niche

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What is gravity?

The gravity on this particular product is 16.53 That is a measure of the number of separate

afﬁliates that make sales of that particular product An easy way of thinking of it is there’s roughly

16 different afﬁliates making sales of that product every week

So one afﬁliate might make 100 sales a day, another afﬁliate might make 1 sale a day, another

afﬁliate might make 12 sales a day Each afﬁliate can only add ‘1’ point as a maximum to the

gravity

If an afﬁliate made a sale say three weeks ago, but they haven’t made another sale since, then

they might only add say 0.3 to the gravity It works on a sliding scale The longer ago they made

a sale, the lower the amount they add to the gravity

A rough rule of thumb is just to think of it as the number of separate afﬁliates that are making sales

of that product And if there’s anything under 25 the competition is not really that high But if it’s over 5 then at least you know some afﬁliates are making regular sales of that particular product

which is a good sign

Basic niche keyword research

Anyway, let’s move on to some basic keyword research The ﬁrst thing to do here is to go to

Google.com and type in ‘Google Keyword Tool’

You will see that the very ﬁrst listing listed is the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and you just go

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And then type the niche topic into the search ﬁeld In this case I’m using “baby gender” as the

basis of my search Then just ﬁll in the CAPTCHA security code

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What this tells me right now is that there are 450,000 global searches per month related to “baby gender”

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The reason I’ve got broad match selected is because I want to get a rough idea of how big this

particular niche is I’m not researching any individual keywords just yet, I’m looking at the overall size of the niche We can look at what broad phrase and exact phrase are shortly So anything

over 100,000 though indicates that there’s enough interest in the niche for me to consider

pursuing it

So scrolling down the page we can see that there are quite a few different keywords and phrases that people are looking at relating to “baby gender” For example, "predict baby gender" and

"choosing baby gender”

Now this is a ‘broad match’ result as you can see right here I’ve got ‘broad match’ selected You can select this option from over on the left

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