Affiliate Sales Programs - Why Making Money With Them Is So Easy

By: Jack Lowry
Affiliate sales programs offer, in my opinion, the best online business opportunities for people looking to make good money online, with virtually no risk and virtually no startup costs. Setting up a business or website to promote an affiliate sales program can even be free.

Many new businesspeople unfamiliar with affiliate sales programs may find it difficult to find the right product to promote, or which affiliate network to join. One of the better online affiliate sales programs is Clickbank. They focus exclusively on digital products, or informational products like e-books which can be downloaded directly to a customer's computer.

To get started, all you really need is a blog, which can be setup for free, or even just a simple website for your affiliate sales program that redirects traffic directly to the product owner's website. Below I would like to offer 5 tips on selecting an affiliate product from Clickbank to promote.

1. Go to the marketplace and decide upon a category that you might have particular knowledge about, or are just generally interested in.

2. Look at the products with the highest popularity in that particular affiliate sales program category.

3. Select a product with gravity between 60 and 100. This will mean that your product is new and popular. Anything lower than 60 will mean that is generally a product of low quality or with low demand. Anything above 100 will mean there is too much competition, meaning that the product might be saturated with affiliate sales program competitors.

4. Make sure the commission fee payout is $20 or more. Anything lower will be a waste of your time.

5. Check out the product website and make sure there is already tested sales material provided by the owner, such as sales graphics, e-mail copy and classified ads.

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