Sagebrush Patriot

Over the last few years, many people have taken the jump and joined the world of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing allows you to work for yourself, at home, without a boss, and put your experience, determination, and independence to work for you! Of course with any business on earth, success doesn’t happen over night, and there is no get rich quick scheme but, if you are persistent, and absolutely determined to give this your all, it could be the potential business you have been looking for. In fact, it might be that residual dream you have been thinking about for the last few months. Residual money is nice because you know it’s stable money. It’s always going to be coming in and you can always make more.

In order to become a super affiliate, the best advice I can give you is to follow others that have become successful in this business. The most important step for you to become a super affiliate is to find a niche. You don’t want the niche to be overpopulated and over-saturated, but you also don’t want to sell something that no one has ever heard about because, then they won’t buy it. Once you find that one niche, you can always expand your niche or another niche, but as a first step you should consider finding one “ultimate” niche.

Once you figure out what niche you want to promote and you figure out where you are going to be getting the products for that niche, the next step is to promote. By promoting your website or product, you are getting your link out there. The best way I have found to promote is to use backlink services such as manual submissions, article writing and submissions, and social bookmarking services. You can easily find these services on almost any forum that has a service or marketplace section. Just be wary to whom you pick. Make sure the person either has great feedback, or make sure they are credible.

Make sure you know everything you can about the product your selling. There are a few reasons for this. One main reason is because when someone asks you about the product, you want to make it sound like you know what your talking about. Knowledge is power. The second reason is the more you know your product the better you can promote it and in turn earn from it. For example, promoting a nascar merchandise store on a food forum probably isn’t the best way to go. Instead, you would be better off promoting it in a sports arena or an auto arena. Its common sense!

Keep on top of the merchant trends. If you find that your e-book (or whatever your selling) is in a niche that isn’t popular right now, but you find that selling cell phones is, then switch over to the more popular niche while you can. Be prepared to change niches if need be and let those changes work for you rather than against you! Remember what may have been working last month, might not work this month. You need to learn to tweak your product.

With some hard work you are on your way to becoming a successful in demand super affiliate! Good luck!