I don’t know about you, but having been blogging for over 3 years now, I have always been looking for that ‘top affiliate product‘ that just sells like hot cakes every time I promote it.
After reading a post over on BuildThatList about the best affiliate products, I was reminded of the most important key when it comes finding that top affiliate product.
The products you use are the best affiliate products to sell!
I think that Tom has made a fantastic point that I recently had the pleasure of experiencing.
My Top Affiliate Product
I am not the type to go around sharing my online earnings, but I have set myself a goal to go full-time online by the end of the year with a minimum income of $3,000 a month.
While I am still quite a long way off this figure I have been taking the necessary steps to make sure that I find myself on top of the goal by the end of the year, and the first of those steps was to find my top affiliate product.
Now I know it is going to take a lot more than just one successful affiliate product for me to consistently make $3,000 a month, but I found my start when I downloaded a trial of a keyword research product called Market Samurai.
After purchasing the product, I seriously could not think of why every single affiliate marketer and blogger was not using this software – I believe it is that good!
The Problem was when I started looking for their affiliate program.
At the time they didn’t have an affiliate program and all I could do was email them my details asking them to let me know when they decide to set one up.
I got a reply saying that they were working on adding about 7-8 new affiliates a month, but there was a long waiting list – so I was left in limbo until sometime near the end of January.
I was estatic.
Here I had a product that I love. That I seriously recommended to everyone who asked anyway and they offered to give me about half of every sale that I sent over to them. Sounded like a pretty good deal to me.
In the month of February, I sent an email to my mailing list and made a couple of blog posts, one about a Market Samurai Discount, one about a review of the software using a case study for my new large dog kennels niche site.
During the 28 days of the month I made 12 sales (which is almost one every 2 days) and this month is on target to do even better.
Why Is Market Samurai My Top Affiliate Product?
If we go back to the way to find your top affiliate product,
The products you use are the best affiliate products to sell!
The reason I believe I made the sales that I did was a result of my review posts, where I showed my readers how I personally use the software to find the keywords for my websites.
So Where To Now?
Obviously I am going to continue to find ways to introduce bloggers and internet marketers to Market Samurai but now my focus is to finding my next top affiliate product.
Sure 10 x $50 commissions a month is nice, but that is not even 20% towards my monthly goal for the end of year. So now I am looking for my next top affiliate product – because we can either continue to improve our sales of one product, or introduce a new pipeline (I am trying to do both!)
So what is your top affiliate product, and why is it working for you?
Tags: Best Affiliate Product, Market Samurai, market samurai discount, Top Affiliate Product
My top affiliate product is The Best Spinner by Jonathan Leger – it’s the best spinning software I have ever used, it REALLY makes massive article marketing a reality. Everyone that bought it listening to my advice said that they are more than satisfied.
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Maybe I’m missing something, but 10×50 per month will end up being 6k by the end of the year — that’s twice the 3k you said is your goal.
If you’re looking for good affiliate programs, check out these two:
1. SiteBuildIt: You make $75 per sale, and it’s residual. http://www.sitesell.com/downloadSBI.html
2. The Keyword Academy: You make $10 per month for each signup. http://thekeywordacademy.com/coaching/275.html
Anyway, just two suggestions. :)
Davor – That is great! I will be testing out article marketing a bit more so the Best Spinner sounds really interesting. The only thing that puts me off is that it’s not a one off payment. But then again it gives the chance for ongoing commissions (I assume).
Shaun – I will have to fix that up. What I meant was that by the end of the year I want to be making $3000 a month.
And I have heard great things about the keyword academy!
I totally agree – it really helps to promote a product you are passionate about and that you use. I have found a great product for my next niche site (just waiting until I have the time to set it up). I really believe in the product and I genuinely think it’s a great solution for people who are searching about it (I’m being very vague, but I don’t want to give away my niche). I strongly believe in only promoting products that I feel will provide a good solution.
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My favorite affiliate product is anything that Amazon sells. Amazon Associates is currently my best earner and I made about $41k with it back in 2009 here’s an article I wrote about it: http://www.makemoneyontheinternet.com/top-7-tips-to-make-more-money-with-amazon-associates/. I’ve had a lot more success in selling a real tangible product than some over hyped information product that may or may not be attempting to scam me (I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing here).
When it comes to the internet marketing niche I agree that it’s best to only promote stuff you use because it’s all about establishing trust. I think of my readers as friends. I wouldn’t screw a friend out of money by telling them to buy something stupid so as long as I keep that in mind all the time it works out fine :)
Do you run other blogs? I highly suggest you branch out of the internet marketing niche if you want to go full time. As soon as I moved out of it I started making a full time income and left my job (got fired) in October and the only reason why I still blog about the topic is because I enjoy learning from others stuff that I can use on my OTHER blogs where readers are less savvy about aff links etc.
Wow I just noticed I wrote a ton of info so you win my longest comment of the day apparently.
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Yep yep yep, #1 your own product, #2 someone else’s that you use and love! And your right, your personal reviews showing your passion for the product will do it every time. ;)
Did you really mean you DON’T like recurring commissions or was that a typo?
Those are the things I’m hoping to be some top products for me…hosting, autoresponder, etc., I use and love and monthly recurring. Woohoo! lol
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My top product to date, the one I get consistent sales from, would have to be the theme my blog is built around. I think it’s because people can see what I’ve done with it and what it can do. It’s a lot more tangible than a lot of other affiliates out there.
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Haven’t heard of Market Samurai, but I was actually looking for a new product to promote and this might be just the ticket. I’m in the process of building up a new list, so hopefully I can get that together and see some conversions like you have. Thanks for the tip Tom!
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I find that that it is very important to promote products that you love and I find that practically every product that I love has an affiliate program…so it all works out :)
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My top affiliate product is ‘Forex Self Tutor’ by Money-makers-online. It is a great product and has sold like super hot cakes after I promoted it.
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