What is Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is the partnering with companies that are offering you the opportunity to create an affiliate link to a product with your specific affiliate ID embedded within the link that you will place on your blog post or web site with a brief description so that your reader will have a chance to click on it and possibly purchase the item that you are offering. The product can be either digital or physical.
Affiliate marketing basics is that you have an opportunity sell other peoples products, services or , digital or physical, filling the needs or solving the problems of your readers and you will receive a commission for doing so. Between 3% to 90% of the sale.
When I was doing my research
There were some things that I did not want to include in my new business and they were:
- No inventory
- No customer contact
- No refund hassles
- No brick and mortar
- No calling customers
- No shipping costs
- No postage costs
- No packaging costs
- No storage costs for inventory
- No set schedule
- No MLM
- No up-line
- No Down-line to deal with
I did not want this type of unnecessary expense or headache to deal with on a daily basis. I found that through affiliate marketing these goals would be met. A win-win opportunity.
So now you know what affiliate marketing is, now you need to find and fill a profitable Niche that you can start promoting.
There are so many niches out there and available to you and you can pursue those interest if you want to.
Your blogs and or web sites can be used for anything that your heart desires and will work with any business that you have an interest in like staying local selling cars, trucks, statues, campers, motor homes, Real Estate, or promote your child care center….really anything that you want to promote.
All of these are awesome, however, they all require the options that I did not want to include in my business model.
I wanted to be free of all of this, be able to conduct business from anywhere in the world that I might be at that time. Maybe I am on vacation in Hawaii, as long as I have my computer with me , I can work an hour or two and still enjoy where I am and be with my wife and family.
Below you will find the hottest most profitable affiliate marketing niches in the world. With the business partnerships that I have with the successful business affiliate networks that are available, I am able to research the situations in each of these niches and offer the readers solutions to what ever “problem” that they might have or are looking to solve and create an alternative stream of income for my retirement if they choose to click on the solution link and purchase the product that will solve their situation.
The Top 3 profitable Niches Are:
* Wealth
* Health
* Relationships
When starting out these are the niches that you need to target. Either work on the one that you are comfortable with or you could chose all three. Remember if you can fill their needs, solve their problems, you will have a nice stream of alternate income. You will get out of this business exactly what you put into it. Every one of these (and other) niches have situations (problems) that they (your readers) are looking to solve. If you identify what they need and can offer them an alternative solution that will fix their problem…. think of the possibilities….
Note: I will include the links to the programs that you need to join to get started with and I will give you a brief explanation of each one, and tell you a little bit about them in another post. These links are for the longest established companies that have never failed to pay the affiliates their commissions for the work in posting and advertising their products.
Warning: there are companies out there that appear to be in good standings offering you a lot of hype however, they are not always able to stand up for what they claim to be and cannot and will not be able to pay you the commissions that you are due. The companies that I am going to recommend are proven and established.
Success to you….
Kris
