Usually, when I’m planning to make money through affiliate marketing I tend to consider affiliate programs with both high and small commission.
Recently, I tweet this question “Which affiliate product do you promote?”, and I was not surprised I received different answers.
If on one hand a product or service with an high cost have an higher commission for each sale is made and less traffic you need to meet your revenue goals, on the other hand some affiliate marketers prefer to promote an affiliate product with a smaller commission because are more easy to convert into sales.
Which Affiliate Programs Do I Promote?
In general, my aims is to promote affiliate products with both high commission and small commission.
As I said before, promoting big items could bring large commissions for every sales done. For instance, by reading Affiliate Handbook I’ve discovered that if you promote Elite TR6633 Treadmill which sells for $6,495.00 as an affiliate of MegaFitness, they will pay you a 10% commission… or $649.50. Not bad!
However, especially in these month, I’ve noticed a grow of affiliate sales with smaller commission.
For instance, recently I’ve promoted a series of VistaPrint business card. The average commission for each sale is from $15 to $20.
What it done the difference compared other products with small commission was the quality of the product. So we sold 50 packages of Vista print in one month.
So at the end, in my experience, the best strategy is to promote different products with both higher and smaller commission
How To Find Big And Smaller Affiliate Product To Promote
Here, a few tips on finding affiliate programs. They each have their advocates, and they can all work.
Look at your competitors – Check out your competitors and what they are promoting in your niche. Give a quick glance at the sidebar of other successful affiliate marketers in your niche and take inspiration by what products and services they are promoting.
Search Online Stores for Products – Many online stores like Ebay have thousand of affiliate programs to join. Usually, the comissions are not high but site like this have a lot of products to choose and can be a good place to start while you build traffic and find other programs.
Check out AdSense Ads – Note: Don’t click the ads on your own blog. As many of you know, many of the AdSense ads are displaying on Google search results. For instance I was recently surfing on Google and saw an ad relevant for my blog. Once clicked on it I found a new affiliate product that not know, yet.
Google.com – This is one that you should tend to do if you have a blog. For instance, If you have a notbook Product blog, type on google “notebook Products Affiliate Program” to find products that are relevant to your niche.
Looking for Affiliate networks – I reccomend you to join to affiliate networks in order to find many affiliate programs. Through their integrated search engines you can type the search tearm related your niche and discover hundred affiliate product. I usually use, Clickbank, Commission Junction, PepperJam Network, Shareasale and E-Junkie.
Books I Highly Recommend
Super Affiliate Handbook – Learn affiliate marketing from super affiliate, Rosalind Gardner’s book ‘ The Super Affiliate Handbook: How she made $436797 in one year selling affiliate products.
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Thanks Nicola for the info. Haven’t had much luck with the affiliate programs in the past. But still trying out new programs.
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Thanks Aswani! I’m testing affiliate programs from 3 years by now. Some worked well with me, other not. In my view, there’s no secret, you need to test it every day, and have a lot of patience.
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