What exactly is niche affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a business opportunity open to those with an entrepreneurial passion. This powerful method allows you to enter the world of passive income. You earn by marketing products for other businesses, keeping your share of profit known as commissions.
Niche affiliate marketing is almost the same thing, with one difference. The market size to be targeted is much smaller. According to gurubob from the Thirty Day Challenge crew, a niche has projected traffic of 30,000 to 100,000 a month. A market has projected traffic of over 1,000,000.
By targeting a niche, you are honing in on one specific area. For example, trout fishing is a market. A niche might be a particular spot for trout fishing, or a specialized rod that is used. Or you may target some other specific area of trout fishing. The point is not to try to use trout fishing itself as your target.
If you are going to try niche affiliate marketing, consider these tips.
- Choose your niche well. Carefully select the company or product you are going to promote. Make sure there is value. Also, make sure you are dealing with a reputable company. You are in this to earn money. If you have a certain field that you're most interested in, the easier you can go through the process of deciding what affiliate program to join. So start making a list of your interests and see what affiliate programs come up from that list.
- Have your own website. One of the best ways to make the most bucks in affiliate marketing is through the creation of well-designed websites. Make sure that your site is easy to navigate and compels targeted visitors to convert - either to sign up under you as referrals or to purchase the products you are marketing. A quality landing page that has a call to action for your targeted visitors to do what you need them to do has excellent content that can either be texts that reviews the product, a video tutorial that lets visitors learns how to benefit and use the product well and a very conspicuous opt-in form.
- Give away products to build your mailing list. Useful content is what you can use in making the word free mean money to you. When you offer free content, like say, free reports, when the right people get hold of this report, it can translate to more referrals or purchases.
- Send traffic to your site. You can't benefit from your well-designed website, no matter how good your content and freebies are if you don't have the right visitors. So how do you drive targeted visitors to your site? You can do off-page search engine optimization also known as link building.
There are different ways on how you can successfully make people go to your site through this means - article marketing or the use of written content submitted to directories for publishers to pick up. Article marketing can be an effective way to drive people to your site.
You can set up and maintain social network accounts. Let people know about your affiliate sites through your bookmarks. Or, you can tap on your contacts - especially the new media savvy ones like popular bloggers and community managers to spread the word about your sites.
Follow all of those little bits of advice, and you will be on your way to being successful in niche affiliate marketing.
