In this post I’ll be explaining a very useful tricks on how to find niche markets and products to promote as an affiliate. I have included a video at the bottom of the post also.
When I first started out online, many years ago now, I struggled to know what niche to enter into.
These days I find it much easier and I want to share some tips on this for you all today.
The first peice of advice I will give you is, if you are someone that sticks exclusively to the Clickbank marketplace then the first thing you should do is start to do is look to other networks.
In particular physical goods, as there is a huge potential for marketing physical products, something I love to do!
Before I provide some practical tips for finding niches and products, I first want to clear up a few common misconecptions that people can have about physical products.
Aren’t the Commission Too Low With Physical Products?
The short answer to this is “NO!!” I get regular daily commissions of $75 on physical goods. There are some merchants that give you 50% commission on physical goods, although most are lower than this, but 4-10% is quite normal.
The thing you have to remember about physical products is that they are usually priced a lot higher than a Clickbank Ebook, so you can make great commissions still, even on products that only payout 4% like Amazon (although this goes up to 6% pretty fast)
Isn’t It Too Hard to Get Accepted by the Networks?
Again all I can say to this is “No” it’s not that hard. Sure some CPA affiliate marketing networks can be a little tougher to get into, but most physical product networks I’ve joined are easy to get accepted into. If you ever have any problems just pick up the phone and call them and explain to them your plan and you’ll get into 99% of them right there on the phone, I’ve done this many times.
Ok so now that I have cleared up some common misconceptions about marketing physical products, I want to share a practical tips on how to find a niche market. Below I have included a video for you:
How to Find Niche Markets Video
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Hello Matt,
Thank you very much for that information. As always you provide value. Have a great day!
Hi Matt
Another well presented video and a timely reminder for me.
I will be putting what you said here into action very shortly and cannot wait to see the results
Thanks again Rob
Thank you so much for the information. It is hard to find a good niche.
As always Matt…great information!
Hi Matt,
Good info as usual.
Just got myself an Amazon affiliate id and it was very easy to get accepted into their program. Got in within two days.
Cheers!
Thanks for the info. I would suggest that you should let your videos have control buttons so that we can stop or rewind and so on.
Great info, Matt!! I will be putting this into play soon. The results will be good, I’m sure.
Thanks.
Matt, we would really appreciate other vides pertaingin on how to find/choose a hot niche.
Thanks
I got started with physical products with IPK but it was your interview with Dan Brock that really got me going.
I’ve veered away from electronic products because I reckoned that they’d be very competitive and I think that amazon pays less commission on electronics. But I should probably go on the individual product.
Thanks for the vidio Matt.
Thanks for the tip and all your great help and thanks for the introduction to Sara’s course. I have learned so much and not near the end. I have been pursuing affiliate marketing for over 2 years and would have liked to had her course way back then! I like the part of not having to spend any money to get started or ever!!
Matt you have been an inspiration to me. Just seeing your name in my email box gets my attention and just knowing I can go to your site and find so much helpful information that is not hard to navigate to is a plus for me.
Thanks Matt, i have seen you talking about this before.
Ond there are ten tousends product to promote.
I haven’t tried physical products before, maybe it’s time to do it now. Thanks!
Thanks for these tips, especially the Ebay Pulse idea. Love your video updates. Please keep them coming.
I would also agree with Samuel about the video control buttons. It would make viewing your videos much easier.
You´re right. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for the webinar, I have just purchased Sara Young’s program and have started reviewing the video, it seems straight forwarded. I will use the video above and Sara’s ideas to find my next niche for a physical product site.
Good points. I also use ebay and amazon for product ideas. It’s good to know others are doing the same.
Great info as usual Matt, thanks for sharing it.
Mike
Hi Matt
Which video player are you using to your video on this page.
Sam
Hi Matt, I have added physical products via Amazon, CJ and others. Problem I had was signing up for too mant at a time and not being able to devote enough time to each product vendor. I have have learned to take one project on at a time before adding newer products.
Hi Matt, very encouraging once more. I promote both digital and physical products, and I’m trying to find the best mix.
Thanks,
Tim
SDBeachguy Reply:
July 13th, 2011 at 7:25 am
Matt, I also found that marketing Clickbank products is almost impossible now and physical products are the way to go. I went one step further and coupled my online efforts to a health and wellness based network marketing company! Research problem solved as it is one of the largest markets on the web and I also attract and mentor business builders, probably the largest market on the web.
My results are coming faster as the competition isn’t as sophisticated and I don’t need to do deals to build a large list, the numbers of both consumers and business builders I need to be fabulously successful are much smaller because of how the network marketing compensation plan is built.
I would appreciate your thoughts on this!
EXCELLENT stuff, Matt!! (as always) 🙂
I wanna ask you a question, if you don’t mind…
What do you look for when you do your Google Keyword search? Like, how many searches per month are good & I noticed you were looking at the local search & not the global search…. Why is that?
Your insight is SUPER APPRECIATED buddy!!!
Definitely gonna pass this onto my friends! 🙂
Keep rocking!
~Omar
Matt- you take the mystery of the the basics- thank you for simplfying the process of identifying good niches.
Thanks, Matt. I really like your posts and introductions. I purchased your RapidReWriter and Sara Young’s courses through your recommendations. Please continue to post those useful info.
Hi, Matt,
Great video, based on your experiences, do you think selling Clickbank’s product is much more competitive now than selling physical products on Amazon?
Good review. Searching for the best product is one of the most important parts of affiliate marketing. I have 10 wordpress websites with products in 10 different niches and I find it very hard to monetize them. If you use the wrong keywords in a competitive niche you won’t get any traffic. It’s a tough road to success but I believe in it.
Matt,
Do you ever have a problem using the brand name in the URL?
Or do you optimize the page without the item name in the URL?
Thanks,
Angela
Matt-
AWESOME! I was just looking around Amazon this morning —looking for what was selling. But Ebay Pulse never occurred to me. Thanks for the killer free info!
Great video Matt. I was only using Amazon to research niches, but the E-Bay pulse is really cool and adds another way for me to research niches. As always you are more then willing to share your experiences…Thank you
Nice little video. Informative and certainly well worth working with and like most everybody, I would guess, I never even heard of eBay Pulse. So this pretty much excites me because I am sure I will find products I would like to know more about for myself and then sell them online. So thank you Matt Carter.
Thanks again Matt. You always give great advice. The information givesw better ways to brainstorm with.
Thanks, Matt,
a very useful video. I was struggling with these niche ideas which are now much clearer to me.
Keep your good work going.
God Bless you,
Helga
As always, thanks and stay blessed.
Great info Matt,
Some very good tips, thankyou. Never knew about Ebay Pulse!
Thanks Matt this is great together with Sara’s webinar you had on
Some of us have been brainwashed to only look at Clickbank’s digital products. Thank you for clearing the myth out of physical products. Your article gave me the boost I need to look again at physical products. Thanks Matt
John
Hi Matt,
Thanks for these tips.
One thing that I’m puzzled by is if you choose a domain name based on a product name, what do you do when that product becomes outdated/is no longer manufactured? All the work you’ve put into the site is dead. So I presume its a better idea to build a site using a generic name and then have pages which target specific keywords (product names) so the site retains its rankings in Google over time?
Cheers
Phil
Matt Carter Reply:
January 29th, 2011 at 8:21 am
Hey Microsoft Office Training,
Yes if a product goes out of date then you will drop off in commissions, that’s just what happens sometimes, so you want to get rankings quickly and build more sites.
Thanks
Matt
Hi Matt,
Great video, you always have great ideas thanks and keep them coming.
Thanks
Thanks for sharing this Matt – Great ideas!! and I’m not surprised you don’t know anything about Coach handbags – be kinda odd if you did!!
Hi Matt,
Thanks a lot for the great content you always provide us.
Just bought the easypaycheckformula through you and hope it provides great content like you do for free.
Thanks
Onalenna
There was a question regarding using product names in domain names. Be very careful using brand names, model names and trademarks in domain names. I previously had a domain that included a trademark of a massive company. I was kindly asked by their lawyers to transfer the domain to them or else…needless to say I complied. However, all of the work that I did on that site was lost. Well, not lost…just someone else benefited from it 🙁
Another great video Matt!
I want to get into physical product sales from Amazon focusing on the high end products, maybe the commissions will be better there i.e. watches, designer handbags, Jewellery etc…I guess the keyword research would be the same as Clickbank research yes? Looking for terms with buyers intentions.
At the moment I need to master Clickbank to get regular commissions, then I am focusing on Market Health products then hopefully Amazon goods by the end of the year.
Nice video Matt – thanks. It goes without saying – avoid registering domain names with company names – i.e. – best Coach handbags.
Kent
Hi Matt!
Love your blog. With you as a mentor, affiliate marketing seems so easy.
Thanks a million!
Your blog is very helpful, and I appreciate your honesty! I would like to ask if there is any post on your blog where you show how to set up these affiliate mini-sites?
For example, how many pages they have and so on. I know how to set up a wordpress blog. I was just wondering how you do these sites and find content for them.
Thank you!
Hi guys,
Maybe its just me, but I have been searching and searching for physical products to promote as an affiliate on Amazon, but they all seem to be SUPER competitive.. Especially the ones that are ‘best-sellers’ on their list.
Is it that everyone has been doing this for a long time and there is too much competition out there?
It seems half the work and effort just goes purely to finding the right product to promote.
Any help will be really appreciated
Duraid
Great tips Matt!
Cheers!
Jorge
On a similar note… is Amazon the only place where one can promote products as an affiliate?
I cannot understand how so many products have thousands of the keyword in the title AND in the anchor texts..
A frustrated affiliate marketer 🙁
Excellent video Matt thanks for posting it.
I am currently doing affiliate marketing with great success, and I am getting a whole lot of traffic, so I think it’s certainly time for me to test out my free traffic strategies on some niche markets.
You just made the job of finding a niche to focus on much easier for me
Speak soon Alex
Thanks for the info Matt.
I’ve also been searching Amazon. Although there are a lot of products, there are also lots of affiliates when it comes to finding something with a buyer keyword that has >100 monthly searches.
I will persist though..
Physical Products. I must be so new I didn’t know this. I knew amazon had some deal and just recently found out that one could affiliate for some travel agencys. I need to look into some more things so I can expand my horizons and possibly affiliate more things once I get settled in the one I am doing now so I don’t do too much at once and spread things out.
Jeremy, let me know how you get on.. its been a passion of mine to find a niche to promote for the last few days..
Finding profitable niche markets is a matter of using the right tools. Testing niches is for the lucky people who have
lots of money, time and patience.
Before putting effort in a particular niche you should already know that the niche is profitable. The testing part is only to determine your marketing strategies…
Finding the niche market for your site is very difficult and thanks for the information provided. I would like to say that doing a thorough research on the popular keywords will be of help to you. It can attract more traffic to your website as your site will be listed as one of the top sites in search engines.
I keep seeing these great ideas, but I don’t know the first thing about using them myself, I have been looking around trying to find out how to do affiliate marketing, and no one will tell me exactly what to do,lol.
Cool video! This is so true. Finding a good niche is crucial.
This a great information. Thanks for providing a forum to learn things quickly. Thanks Matt.
Hey Matt,
I’ve been reading over your blog for a few weeks and I gotta tell you that you are offering great advice! And also the affiliate WP themes are awesome!
Thanks
I agree that Clickbank isn’t the ONLY marketplace where you can make money online but it is useful for beginners at affiliate marketing. Once people get used to it then they can check out Ebay and Amazon and see a whole lot more products they can promote without much competition.
Thanks again. Used this video and found a physical product to sell easliy.
Your tips are highly appreciated .It is important for every person interested in the affiliate market to realize that their market niche pretty much determines their future in the business and hence need to be very careful
Hey Matt.
I have just bought into your suggested Sniper program.
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Thanks, Matt. I really like your posts and introductions.
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the great video! I am just waiting for you to send me video #2 in your 12- part video coaching series. Hurry, hurry and many thanks.
Matt, Just wanted to thank you for sharing the video on finding hot products to sell! You make it look so easy! Thanks again for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us!
video doesnt work. was very interested in watching.
I haven’t tried physical products yet but this gives me the heads up – all i need to do now is my home–work! Thanks again!
Thanks Matt, it was useful stuff and well demonstrated.
More power to you.
Steve, UK
Great Stuff. Thanks Matt.
Matt, having done your courses in full, if I am prepared to spend a $1000 on coaching, what would you recommend?
I’m really loving the theme/design of your weblog. Do you ever run into any internet browser compatibility problems? A handful of my blog readers have complained about my website not operating correctly in Explorer but looks great in Opera. Do you have any advice to help fix this problem?
Hi
I am not experiencing any problems with the theme, perhaps you can send me an example site that is having problems and I will look into it
Matt
Hi Matt
I also thought of going for products but when I enter “home gym reviews” for instance and look at Google Shopping it seems to me that a single product page of mine can hardly compete with Google’s multi-choice page. Am I wrong?
Holger
Thanks for the information and the video. I have tried both clickbank and amazon still workoing on getting sales although have made google page 1.Will try your ideas. Thanks Brian