You CAN Make Money Selling Affiliate Products

There has been a lot of talk on the web amongst marketers on how to make money selling other people's products.

Who wants to spend the time and money creating your own when you don't need to?

This article is about selling affiliate products and doing it the right way.

First, you need to find the 'right' affiliate product. One that is in a hot niche market. Say weight loss. But it's very crowded you say? Right, that means it also is very lucrative. People don't spend time and money on a market that isn't returning a healthy profit.

The easiest way to find a hot product in weight loss would be to go to www.clickbank.com and search the marketplace. There are a couple of factors to keep in mind. One, look for a product that is popular and has a high percentage of affiliate sales. What that means is the product is selling well and most sales are created by affiliates indicating that the product owner has a good sales page and isn't competing heavily with his affiliates.

Secondly, there are two web sites, one free and the other offers a free trial that gives you a ton of metrics or statistics. www.cbtrends.com and www.cbengine.com are excellent places to look for that golden affiliate program.

They offer insider info as well as Popularity Rank, Gravity, Earned Per Sale, Percent Per Sale, Commission, or Referred values. Armed with this inside knowledge you are ready to find the 'perfect' product to promote.

Next, create a landing page or review page. It doesn't have to be more than a couple of paragraphs but should offer something to make you stand out from the rest of the affiliates. A time-limited offer or a bonus of value are two ways to separate yourself and help the prospect to click on your link rather than someone else's.

There are many ways to start getting sales. Free ways and those that cost some bucks.

A few of the free ways are blogs, forum posting, article writing and sending an email to your list.

Those that are worthy of your hard earned money are:

Newsletters and pay per click search engines.

Make sure you check out the newsletter first. Subscribe and see how many ads are in each issue and ask what the wait time is for your solo ad. Only use solo ads.

The top ppc's are of course, Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture). You can start to get hits or clicks to your landing page with a 15 minutes with adwords. Make sure you understand how to find keywords (use only the most direct keywords to test your campaign). Also how to write attention getting headlines and since you only get 25 characters per line, how to get people to click through.

These are the easiest and fastest ways to start making money with other people's products.