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 year, 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?

One of my good blogging friends, Jim (from The NetFool.com) has just let me know about an amazing offer he has over at his blog.

In fact, I put on hold a blog post I was working on just to let you know!

The Bloggers Stimulus Package

This is what he has on offer:

• A FREE PREMIUM BLOG THEME From The Website Of Your Choice
• A FREE CUSTOM LOGO Designed By Jim
• A Copy Of His BLOGGING EBOOK FREE – To Get You Started
• Plus FREE BLOG CONSULTATION – So You Hit The Ground Running

Now, when you look at what is on offer, say $50 for a theme, $30 for a logo, $10 for the ebook and $100 for consultation, you are easy getting ATLEAST $190 in value – for free!

Now What Is The Catch?

As always nothing is free, but this is pretty close. All you have to do is sign up to HostGator through his link (so he get’s an affiliate commission) and you get all of that free! (View TheNetFool.com Post)

HostGator is a fantastic host, and has been my host for over 2 years now! So I cannot recommend them more, and the last time I was an affiliate of them I got $50 for each referral – so I really have no idea how Jim is doing this! All I can say is that if you are looking for new hosting, or planning a new blog – you should really take advantage of Jim’s generosity (cause I’m sure the offer wont last long!)

To view Jims post with all the details click the link below:

The NetFools Blogger Stimulus Package

I was doing my regular visit of my blogs today, to check that everything was going well and received a very welcomed surprise.

Google had passed by and given my new blogs their first Page Ranks.

While StandOutBlogger continues to be a PR3 Blog, I received one new PR2 and two new PR1 blogs.

1. FranchiseBuzz.com.au (PR0-PR2)

   
   Launched in the middle of November, I have spent quite a lot of time working on this Franchise Business Opportunities blog. And While my posting has dropped off over the holidays, I am planning to jump straight back into things coming into the new year.

   The thing I am very excited about is that I also received a lot of internal PR2’s. In fact all of my individual posts, minus 4 of them are PR2. (You can check internal Page Ranks at: http://www.askmie.com/internal/)

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Looking back on 2009 I thought it would be a great idea to posts the most Tweeted articles on StandOutBlogger, as well as listing a few that should have been.

This is a great way to give a couple of posts a second wind, and a few that deserved it but missed out, a first wind. I am not to pleased with the amount of Retweets that my posts got, but considering I didn’t take full advantage of Twitter until later in the year, I will just strive to improve on these results in 2010.

Top 5 Tweeted Posts Of 2009

1. 30 Creative E-Book Covers (25 Tweets)
2. 6 Ways To Take Your Blog Up A Level (22 Tweets)
3. Twitter Backgrounds: Top 10 Bloggers (21 Tweets)
4. Using Alexa To Highly Target Your Blog Posts (14 Tweets)
5. Twitter Marketing: Branding With Unique Backgrounds (11 Tweets)

5 Under Rated Posts Of 2009

1. 5 Things More Important Than Blogging
2. The One Thing Stopping Your Blog From Succeeding
3. Turning Failure Into Success In 3 Easy Steps
4. How To Overcome Procrastination – Tomorrow
5. Unleashing Creativity In 5 Easy Steps

BONUS: Best Post Of 2008

10 Things Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Goals

I hope these posts will keep you interested enough to to continue to follow me through 2010 – which is set to be a very exciting year!

First of all I must start with an apology. I just realised that it has been two weeks since I posts here at SOB and I am sure you guys are wondering if I even care anymore.

Well I do, and it has been nice to see my feed count continue to grow in my adsense, but everything has been crazy busy and I don’t see it slowing before Christmas.

1. I Am Doing 40 Hour Work Weeks At A Cabinet Making Business
   A family friend offered me a casual job up to Christmas at his business and for the last 5 weeks or so I have been working about 40 hours a week – on top of the work I was already doing. The money has been nice, but I am glad it is only for a season.
2. My Regular 3D House Design Work
   I work at my brothers Architectural Design company, and handle all the 3D house designs. We are trying to get a new product out for builders in the early new year as well as individual designs for clients.
3. Freelance Design Work
   I had the opportunity to design a series of t-shirts for a friends new clothing line (and she is looking for 2 more designs before Christmas), and I also recieved a website design contract from one of our clients at Archilads. Preview the website design here: Tin Can Bay Builder – still a work in progress.

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