AffiliateMentor, Author at Affiliate Marketing Mentors

Most Profitable Affiliate Niches

What are the most profitable affiliate niches? The top most profitable affiliate niches fall into these main categories:

Technology
Wealth and money making
Health and fitness
Dating and relationships
Fashion and beauty
Lifestyle
Hobbies
Pets and pet care
Travel

These are known as “evergreen” niches which means they typically will make money all year round, as opposed to seasonal niches. The main problem with going in to the most profitable affiliate niches is that there’s huge competition in them.

This means your advertising costs are higher. It’s also more difficult to get traffic organically too.

The Trouble With The Most Profitable Affiliate Niches

In the most profitable affiliate niches, affiliates are spending huge amounts on their advertising budgets. If you don’t have a large advertising budget this can leave you on the sidelines, unable to compete with them in these top niches.

If a niche is over subscribed it pushes up the advertising costs because more people are competing for the traffic and outbidding other advertisers. Similarly if you’re trying to rank your website in a top niche, it’s going to be very difficult. There’s already thousands of other affiliates already pushing their content and ranking on the search engines for even the less competitive keywords in the niche.

With multiple high authority websites in a competitive niche, a new website won’t get much traffic when it’s competing against these types of site. One way around this is to find long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty. But in a top niche, even this can be tough. There’s another way to get around the issue of high competition in a profitable niche through too.

Most Profitable Affiliate Niches – Finding A Sub Niche

Another way of getting around competition in a top niche is to find a sub-niche within the niche. A sub-niche is a niche within a niche which is typically more specific and less general than the main niche.

A sub niche of money making online is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a competitive topic too, so a sub niche of this topic might be “affiliate marketing for seniors“, for example.

A popular niche in the health and fitness niche is Yoga, which is also a competitive topic. Here’s a sub-niche I found in the Yoga space “Chair Yoga for Covid recovery”:

Finding a sub niche can mean you can still tap into the earning potential of the most profitable affiliate niches, but that you can also reduce advertising costs and/or find organic traffic much more easily.

If you were to attempt to rank a website for Yoga, for example, you would find there’s a tonne of competition. But “Chair Yoga for Covid recovery” will be a much less competitive topic and therefore you’ll find traffic for it much more easily and or cheaply.

Choosing A Topic You Love

Another way to stand out in competitive niche is to choose a niche you have a special interest in. If you have a passion or specific knowledge of a subject, you can sustain your efforts for much longer than the rest. This can give you an advantage, especially if you’re creating a lot of content either written (if you’re a blogger), or in video form with a YouTube channel, for example.

As an expert in your field, you can create more relevant content in greater quantity and of greater quality than your competition. If you enjoy your subject, your affiliate business will be “labour of love”, rather than a chore to build.

This can give you a huge edge over your competition. Your content can be more easily created (assuming you know your topic) and you can sustain your efforts over a much longer period of time than your competitors.

Choosing Less Competitive Niches

The most profitable affiliate niches aren’t necessarily the best niches to choose if you’re a beginner. As an affiliate marketer you only get paid when you sell something. In a top niche, you’re going to have a harder time doing so because there’s so much competition. You’re up against affiliates who have huge marketing budgets, high domain affiliate websites and huge lists of subscribers.

An alternative is to pick a niche which has lower competition. So long as you can monetise it, a less competitive niche might be more profitable for you, if you can generate traffic and sales in it. Low competition niches have lower costs and less competition floating around on Google. This means you can tap into a low competition niche much more easily than a top niche, which has a tonne of competition for advertising, keywords and SEO (Search engine optimisation).

Here’s some example categories where you might find low competition niches:

Solar energy products
Eco-friendly products
Home office equipment
Health and beauty
Pet products
Sports equipment
Indoor sports
Hobbies and special interest
Bluetooth gadgets
Bathroom accessories
Kitchen accessories
Smart home devices
Car parts/accessories
Gaming accessories
Travel accessories
Kids and baby goods

Summary

Choosing a topic within the most profitable affiliate niches comes with some difficulties. Although a top niche may be potentially more profitable, you only make profit when you start generating sales. This is considerably more difficult in a popular niche because of the huge competition for organic and paid traffic. There’s a few things you can do to give yourself an edge:

Choose a sub-niche – a niche within a niche
Pick a topic you love or have a special interest in/passion for
Find a less competitive niche – with less competition which is easier to find traffic for

If you love your affiliate business, you’ll work harder for longer in it. This is one of the best things you can do for the success of an online business. If you hate working on and in your business, you’ll find it easier to give up!

Get started with building a business you love here.

How To Choose The Best Niche For Affiliate Marketing

If you’re wondering how to choose the best niche for affiliate marketing, look no further! In this post I’m going to cover some of the best things you can do to uncover your best niche as an affiliate.

Some niches are much more profitable than others. But they are only profitable if you can tap in to that particular market. So the most profitable affiliate niches aren’t necessarily the ones you should choose. They’re super competitive and if you’re going in to a niche you know nothing about, the chances are good that you’ll fail.

Around 95% of affiliates quit and around 90% of all affiliate sales are made by less than 10% of affiliates in a given program. What this means is that to become a successful affiliate takes more than most people realise. So you should take extra care in choosing your niche because that becomes the bedrock with which you build your affiliate success. Your choice of niche is a huge factor in whether you’re going to be successful (or not) as an affiliate.

How To Choose The Best Niche For Affiliate Marketing

Whether or not you are successful as an affiliate will depend on a number of factors. Affiliates earn money by referring people to products and services online. If they don’t make any sales they don’t get paid! While some affiliates can make astronomical earnings, many earn nothing.

In what niche do you consider working a pleasure, rather than a chore? This is a good question to ask yourself. In the beginning of building an affiliate business there’s a lot of roadblocks. If you hate every minute of building your business, there’s much greater chance you will give up earlier. But if you’re loving working on your business, you are more likely to outperform others in your particular field of excellence.

For this reason it’s a good idea to choose a niche which you have some interest in at least, if not a huge passion for. But this can be difficult if you don’t have a particular interest. To help you choose ask yourself a few important questions:

In what topic can I maintain interest in over a few years?
What are my skills and interests?
Do I have any particular skill or knowledge which is unique?
What would I most like to learn about?

How To Choose The Best Niche For Affiliate Marketing – The Right Affiliate Products

Your topic of interest is a good place to start with a niche. But you’ll also need to monetise it if you’re going to make any money. This is done through selling affiliate products and this is another major decision which will effect your affiliate business.

Therefore aligning your topic interest with the right affiliate product is key to your success. Without the right topic, you won’t sustain your interest in it for very long. But without the right products, it’s more difficult to monetise and this can effect your motivation too.

Ideally find a product or products which you absolutely align with and can wholeheartedly promote. If you’re promoting products you don’t care about, the length of time you can sustain your interest for will be massively diminished. In any niche there’s going to be competition and this means you’ll often need to work on your niche for several months before you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

While many people suggest choosing a niche you love, it’s also a good idea to choose one in which you can make money. Top money making niches are:

Technology
Money and wealth
Health and fitness
Fashion and beauty
Lifestyle
Hobby
Pet care
Travel

A Lesson Learned – Choosing The Wrong Niche

I’ve built many websites as an affiliate and some of the worked and some didn’t. One of my websites was about a topic I knew nothing about (mushroom harvesting). I choose this topic only because it was uncompetitive and I thought I could rank it on Google and get free traffic. It did rank on the top for my main keywords. But the topic was of little interest to me and I soon gave up on the site. It fell down the rankings and eventually I let it die!

But I learned a valuable lesson from this “failure”. I learned that I didn’t want to write content on mushrooms for ever more! Each article I wrote had to be thoroughly researched since I knew nothing of the niche. So it took a long time and a lot of hassle before my site appeared on Google and started generating free traffic. Even then, I couldn’t monetise it well as I struggled to find affiliate products which were profitable in this niche.

The moral of the story is to choose a topic you love and foresee spending some considerable time on. Ideally find something you align with which you know something about, or want to learn about. Build something you love!

Summary

If you’re looking to become an affiliate in any niche there’s a few main things you should consider.

In what area would you enjoy working?
How can you use your unique insights, talents, knowledge and skills?
Is your topic easily monetised?
What’s the competition like?
What makes you stand out among the competition?
Will you enjoy working in your niche in 5 years from now?

In a competitive niche you’re going to need to either spend more on advertising or work harder (and for longer) to get traffic to your website/products.

Learn more about starting an online business from scratch here.

Best Way To Sell Digital Products

What is the best way to sell digital products? Since digital products can be accessed from anywhere online, it’s definitely a good idea to have a global reach. So your marketing campaign should definitely be scalable. A local campaign is limited to your locality.

One of the best ways to sell any affiliate product globally is through using paid marketing campaigns. Send paid traffic directly to a product online through your affiliate link. This is often the tactic used by affiliates. However, there’s a problem with this strategy. Most people clicking on your link will check out the product and then leave, perhaps even coming back another time to make the purchase.

This means you’ve paid for them to check out the product but you haven’t made a commission on the sale! You’ve even helped the product owner get more attention but without collecting a sale yourself! So you’ve spent money on marketing, but not made anything. This is a huge problem for affiliates and one of the best ways around it it to collect subscribers and send them to a product from your email messages.

Best Way To Sell Digital Products – Why Use Email Marketing?

Email marketing is definitely one of the best ways to sell digital products online. With email marketing you can send your paid traffic to a landing page where you offer something of value to your visitor. In exchange, they give you their email address. An automated email marketing campaign is triggered. This delivers valuable email messages containing something they are interested in. You can then showcase your products as part of your marketing campaign and send your visitors repeatedly to the product through your email messages.

This has a number of advantages to making sales online. First you can build a relationship with your subscribers. If you’re sending visitors directly to the product, they only have one opportunity to buy from you. After that, should they return to the sales page at a later date you miss out on the sale (if you’re an affiliate).

Another huge advantage of building a relationship with your subscribers through an email list is trust. Most website visitors won’t buy on their first visit, particularly to a new website which they don’t know or trust. They need multiple touch points with a website before they will buy.

The third major benefit is also that you can explain through your messages the value of a digital product to your subscribers. With physical products the value is often obvious. But with digital products there is often some obscurity inherent in the item you’re promoting.

Best Way To Sell Digital Products – Collecting Emails

To set up a good marketing campaign where you can build an email list of subscribers you will need a landing page. A landing page is much better than a website for collecting emails because that’s its specific purpose. On a website there’s many distractions. A visitor can browse around and look through your content at their ease! But on a landing page there’s online two options: sign up or leave. This means you can optimise a landing page for performance much more easily than you can a website. Here’s an example of a landing page:

If you’re paying for advertising, you’ll get much more out of it if you build a list of subscribers and sell digital products through your list. That’s because you can continue to connect with your subscribers over a much longer time frame than you could from a simple website.

Some of your visitors won’t sign up of course, but you can tweak your landing pages by cross testing to get the most out of your marketing budget. Access a landing page software here.

Best Way To Sell Digital Products – Paid Advertising

Why use paid advertising to send visitors to a landing page? Why not build a blog or a YouTube channel? There’s a few reasons why paid marketing is the best way to sell digital products. One of them is speed. Getting traffic organically is tough and it takes a long time and huge amount of effort to get traffic from the search engines organically, especially in a competitive niche. With paid traffic you can turn it on almost instantly and begin to collect subscribers from a landing page.

The other reasons is scalability. Since digital products can be bought from anywhere globally, you ideally want to use a globally scalable marketing strategy. It’s very difficult to scale up an organic marketing campaign which uses SEO (search engine optimisation) as one of its main sources of traffic. But with paid marketing it’s as simple as turning up your marketing budget.

There’s several marketing platforms which can be used to specifically target the audience who is most suitable for whatever you’re selling. YouTube, Adwords, Facebook, Bing etc. all offer platforms which allow marketers to target people by a number of different criteria. These are things such as search terms (things they are specifically looking for online), age, location, interests and other important demographics.

Summary

Of course there’s many ways to sell digital products and I’m writing this article on a blog! So it would be remiss of me to not include other methods of marketing which can work well when it comes to selling online. Blogging can of course be used very effectively to sell digital products online.

From a blog you can sell directly from a banner, or build an email list. But blogging is much slower than through using paid advertising of course. But if you’re tight on budget, blogging or YouTube can be used to gain organic traffic over time.

The “best” way to sell digital products is of course one which works for you. So even though I’ve mentioned paid advertising, that might not be the best way (for you) if you don’t have a marketing budget to do it with! But whatever method of marketing you choose, you should definitely use an email list.

An email list is an affordable “must have” if you’re selling digital products online. It lets you connect with your audience, build trust and showcase your products, giving your subscribers multiple touch points with the product through your affiliate link (assuming you’re an affiliate, not the product owner).

The Power Of Blogging

What is the power of blogging? Blogging can be super powerful over time because it can attract your target audience for free. This is something which initially will take a lot of work. At first, you might find there’s a lot to do and you’ll need to create a lot of content on a blog just to get the teeniest, tiniest bit of traffic! For businesses and affiliate marketers blogging can give you some leverage, and it’s especially useful if you don’t have a large marketing budget.

Blogging is free of course and you blog to attract traffic from the search engines such as Google. But there’s over 600 million other blogs out there too, all wanting free traffic. This means if you choose a particularly popular niche for your blog, you will have some stiff competition.

It can take weeks or months of work before you start seeing people coming to your blog for free. At this point, many new bloggers will see blogging as futile. But if you keep going, you will start to stand out among the many other blogs. When this happens, it can be magical!

The Power Of Blogging – Exponential Gains

Blogging is slow and labour intensive. You’ll need to publish a lot of content before the search engines (especially Google) takes any notice and starts to rank your content. If your blog website is new, there even may be a sandbox period of time where Google sidelines you. This means in the early months of blogging on a website, you may see nothing for all your efforts in terms of free traffic.

But that’s no reason not to do it. Long term bloggers have built up such a volume of content that they get customers through their blog completely for free. This is surely something worth working for if you own a business or are an affiliate marketer.

After a certain period of blogging, you should see an “uptick” in your number of visitors. This might be after a few hundred posts or a few dozen, depending on your niche and the competition on the SERPS – search engine results pages.

You might expect your blogging to give you gains relative to the work you have put in. But this is seldom the case. More likely you will see very little for your first hundred posts, particularly in a popular niche. This is why you need to promote your content yourself, and not rely on Google to rank it.

The Power Of Blogging – Effort Vs. Results

Bloggers all would like to have tens or hundreds of thousands of visitors coming to their content every single day! It would mean more leads and more sales, if you are using your blog for business. But before this can happen, you need to put in a lot of work. Most people can’t sustain this effort if it doesn’t align with something they would do otherwise anyway, or that they enjoy.

So many bloggers will give up if they choose a topic which they don’t love writing about. I gave up on a blog I was writing for over 6 months because I had no interest in the topic. I only wanted to earn from a blog somehow and I had to research every post (because I didn’t know about the topic) and I had no passion for my topic either! It was a big mistake – but one I learned from!

Here’s a graph from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits. I think it’s quite a good representation of the path of the blogger!

Where many bloggers quit is “the valley of disappointment”. This is where what you think should happen with a blog meets what actually happens.

I nearly quit too, thinking maybe I’m wasting my time blogging. But once you get to the place where these lines cross, you will experience traffic rising exponentially on your blog. When this happens nobody knows! It will depend on a number of things including your number of blog posts, quality of posts, other blogs within your niche and how Google perceives your blog posts. But one other thing you can control is what you do after you publish a post.

The Power Of Blogging – Blog Promotion

Yes blog promotion is a massive factor in getting people to your blog posts. Why do all that work writing a post and then just leave it to Google to decide whether you get any traffic or not! Promoting your blog posts gives Google (and other search engines) data on how people perceive your content. People may even share your content themselves once they see it. Plus, your blog promotion might attract leads and sales of course too!

I like to automate as much as possible when it comes to blog promotion. So I use social media plugins to enable visitors to easily share, and post planning software which syndicates my content as I publish it throughout my social media presence. Take a look at some of my recommended best blog plugins for WordPress:

Revive Old Posts – automates post sharing on social media – both old and new
Postplanner – similar software to Revive Old Posts.
Social Media Share Plugin – puts share buttons on your site to help your audience share your content
I also use Yoast SEO – to help me write SEO friendly posts.
Push Engage – Alerts subscribers to your new posts
Aweber – email marketing software lets you send people back to your newer content via email messages.

The Power Of Blogging – Why It’s Good That Blogging Is Tough!

Blogging is tough, especially at first. Google won’t give you a tonne of traffic easily. This is a good thing though because if new bloggers could easily rank and get traffic, it means that older bloggers would lose their rankings! Long term bloggers are rewarded with greater volume of free traffic because they’ve put the work in already – and continue to do so.

The greater volume of quality content you have on your blog, the more credible you are as an authority in your niche. Those who are committed to creating quality content over the longer term will get rewarded with free traffic. If you “dabble” with a blog and write a few posts and then quit, this is a signal to Google that you’re not creating regularly, or taking it as seriously as some other might be. So your content is less likely to get traction through ranking on the search engines and your competitors will get the traffic.

Finding The Low Hanging Fruit

New bloggers can get traction quickly though if they find the “low hanging fruit” and create quality content which out-performs what’s already there. This can be done through finding long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty.

These are the keywords which get fewer monthly searches, but also have far less competition. It can be easy to look for those short term keywords which get the most traffic when using Google’s keyword planner. But this is a mistake, especially for new bloggers because these terms are super competitive on the SERPS – search engine results pages. A newer blog simply won’t have the authority to rank for these competitive phrases.

By finding longer tail search phrases, you can more easily rank your content and get found. As you build a library of content based around these kinds of terms, you should find more traffic is arriving on your website for free.

Summary

There’s huge power in blogging and if you choose a subject you can create an unlimited volume of content in, you can keep going long after others have quit. This gives you an advantage over those who only want the outcome of financial gain from a blog! As one of my mentors said “The man who enjoys walking will go further than the one who wants to arrive”!

Initially though it can be tough coming up with ideas for a blog and getting traffic. To start generating traction from a blog might takes weeks, months or even years. Ultimately a blog can give you free traffic, leads and sales. This can give you complete financial and geographical freedom if you figure out how to earn from blogging.

But before you can earn regularly from a blog, you need traffic and a lot of it! This takes time and many will quit when nothing happens.

Blogging Earning Potential

What is the blogging earning potential? While many bloggers don’t earn from their blogs, some bloggers can make six figure incomes from blogging. Finance blog Millennial Money reports that after just two years of building traffic and subscribers, bloggers can make upwards of $100,000 annually.

During the first year of a blog your earnings can vary dramatically. Depending on your monetisation strategy and your ability to attract traffic to your blog, you can earn very little. You can monetise a blog with various advertising platforms and place ads on your content. Or find a good affiliate product or products which are a good match for your topic.

The biggest barrier to a blog is traffic generation and beginner bloggers can easily lose belief when nothing much happens for a while. But if they keep at it for long enough, there’s a tipping point.

Blogging Earning Potential – Blog Tipping Point

The blog tipping point happens after you’ve put a lot of work in. It might come after a few weeks or a few months. Once you’ve build a lot of content and make an effort in building backlinks and promoting your content, you’ll start to build traffic from a number of sources to your blog:

From your blog promotions on social media accounts
Through your email list
From the search engines results pages (SERPS) – through your SEO (search engine optimisation)
From backlinks you have built
From social shares from your visitors (through a share button, for example)
From backlinks your visitors have built to your content

In the beginning a blog can take a while to generate traction and a lot of work. But stick with it long enough and you should see some traffic coming to your site with or without your input.

This is where the huge blogging earning potential comes in.

Blogging Earning Potential – Traffic

But before this can happen you should expect to do a lot of work first. After all there’s over 600 million blogs out there on the internet covering most available topics. This means there’s going to be plenty of competition for your blog ranking on the search engines (mostly Google).

So ranking your blog may take some time and commitment, especially in a competitive niche. To give yourself the best chance of success with a blog, it’s a good idea to pick a topic you enjoy writing about. Otherwise it can be difficult coming up with new ideas and writing fresh content continuously.

Once you start earning from your blogging, it means you’ve proven it can work! Before this happens it can be a little daunting writing blog posts, especially if you’re doing it only for the money!

If you enjoy writing, you’ll go much further than the person who is only wanting the end result. This is why it’s a good idea to choose a topic you’re passionate about when it comes to picking your niche.

Monetising Your Blog

There’s a couple of main things which stand in the way of you making money from a blog. One is your blog topic and the competition. Choose a topic you’re not bothered about, and your interest will likely wane long before you break through to the tipping point. The other thing is how you monetise your blog. Ideally find a good affiliate product which is suitable for your audience and which you can wholeheartedly promote from your site.

You can also monetise in other ways using advertising programs such as Adsense, Advertising/Publisher Networks, Ezoic Ads and so on.

With adverts on your blog posts you can make small amounts from each click from your visitors. But with affiliate product sales you can make a lot more. To generate more interest in your affiliate products using your blog, you should definitely build an email list of subscribers. That way, you can take your subscribers back to new blog posts and follow up with an email marketing campaign to showcase your affiliate products in more detail.

Why Use Email Marketing From A Blog

While a blog is a great way to generate free traffic, most website visitors don’t buy from a blog on their first visit. It takes multiple “touch points” for a visitor to become a buyer. This is where the power of email marketing comes in. On a blog, you only have a few minutes to make the sale, after which time your visitor is gone forever!

But if you capture their email address you can keep them in the loop and follow up for a much longer timeframe. I’ve often have subscribers on my list make a purchase even years after they have signed up to my list.

This just wouldn’t be possible from a blog. Also with an email list you can follow up with email messages and help your subscribers out with a specific problem they might have. Build trust, and over the longer term, they are more likely to buy from you.

Summary

The blog earning potential is unlimited and many bloggers enjoy six figure incomes (and above) from working only part time on their blogs. But they do this because they’ve put the work in before hand.

This is the secret to blogging and although you should expect to work hard for very little in the beginning, the rewards will come later if you choose a good topic you’re passionate about and stick to your blogging habit for as long as it takes!

You should also continue to learn about SEO (search engine optimisation) and employ email marketing to collect subscribers from your blog too.

Affiliate Marketing Earning Potential

The affiliate marketing earning potential is unlimited and some affiliates earn six figure salaries and above. But many affiliates will struggle when they start out and there’s a 95% drop out rate. The average salary of an affiliate marketer in 2023 according to Glassdoor is £38,040 (or $47,245.10).

It is the earning potential of affiliate marketing which appeals to many who get into the business. The entry level requirements to become an affiliate are incredibly low, especially compared to other traditional business models which would require equipment, business premises and staff. With affiliate marketing you only need a laptop and internet connection. Anyone can start from anywhere, providing they can join an affiliate program and get online.

This perhaps, in part, explains the huge drop out rate. But for those who stay there can be huge rewards.

Affiliate Marketing Earning Potential – Large Value Products

Many new affiliate will join a program which they know of such as Amazon’s. Amazon has one of the most popular affiliate programs available. But Amazon’s commissions are tiny and you can earn as little as 1% on a sale.

So if you sold a $100 you would only earn $1 from the sale at this level. Digital products pay much more – around 30% – 40% and then there’s high ticket affiliate products. With a high ticket affiliate product you can earn as much as $500 and above from a sale. Take a look at this item:

The Golf Cart Hovercraft sells for $58,000 and pays 8% to affiliates who refer the sales. So you could earn $4,640 in commissions if you refer a sale as an affiliate.

With higher valued products and services, affiliates can earn substantially more per sale than with low value products. Some new affiliates don’t know about this and try selling lower valued products which can be much more difficult. To earn the same from lower priced items, you’ll need to sell thousands of them. Compare this to just one sale and you can see the difference in earning potential according to the products you choose to sell as an affiliate.

Affiliate Marketing Earning Potential – List Building

Most top affiliates will have an email list in which they provide some kind of value in exchange for a subscribers email address. Top affiliates build email lists into the hundreds of thousands of subscribers. With such a list you can send out a single email and make tens of thousands of sales, or with a high ticket item, one or two sales would earn the equivalent income.

The bigger your list becomes, the greater the earning potential of your affiliate business. To build a list can be done through generating content on a blog, for example, or through using paid marketing.

Paid advertising is the fastest way to build a list and affiliates use advertising platforms such as Google Adwords, Facebook and YouTube, among others.

Affiliate Marketing Earning Potential – Subscription Products

Subscription products can vastly increase an affiliate’s earning potential. A subscription product might be a membership fee, or some kind of software product. Good subscription products offer a large value. An example is a business tool such as an email autoresponder. Autoresponders are used to build online (and offline) businesses by collecting email addresses and automating follow up messages.

Since this tool is vital for some businesses, customers of the product are likely to maintain their membership subscription for years if not decades. If you have referred the product, you can earn a recurring income from the sale. You can essentially earn a lifetime recurring commissions from these kinds of products with the right customers.

High Ticket & Subscription Products & Product “Suites”

A product “suite” is a product range and can be very lucrative for affiliate marketers. With a “one off” product you only earn a single commission per sale. This means you need to keep finding new customers in order to keep earning commissions. But with a product range, you can refer a customer once and benefit from later purchases they make from a product “suite”.

High ticket mastermind courses, training courses and mentoring programs are good examples of product ranges. These can be super profitable for affiliates because they can earn from multiple strategies including subscriptions, low ticket, mid ticket and high ticket items within a product range.

Combining this kind of business model with the use of email marketing can give you the largest affiliate marketing earning potential.

Get started here and learn how you can use this kind of online business model.

Summary

The affiliate marketing earning potential is unlimited since it’s a performance based business model and you can use automation to sell other people’s products online to a global audience.

The average salary of an affiliate marketer in 2023 according to Glassdoor is £38,040 or $47,245.10. Despite the huge potential of earnings in affiliate marketing many affiliate struggle to make their first sale and lose motivation. There’s a huge drop out rate of around 95%.

This is why it’s important to get the right knowledge and training if you intend to become an affiliate. Get started here and build your own affiliate business from scratch.

High End Affiliate Marketing Secrets

What are the high end affiliate marketing secrets used by the top super affiliates? Why is it that most affiliates fail and some succeed? One of the main tricks or “secrets” of the top affiliates is to use high end courses rather than sell low value items.

With a high end course, you can earn substantially more as an affiliate, even with fewer sales. This is one of the main secrets of the top earning affiliates. They don’t focus on selling thousands of low value products. Instead, they sell a few high end products from which they can earn the same amount, if not more.

Most new affiliates will start with a popular website such as Amazon. They pick up a product and start learning a marketing method. Unfortunately this strategy is already working against them. Amazon only pays between 1% and 10% on most of its products. So for a $100 item, you stand to earn around $10 maximum if you generate a sale as an affiliate. Even if you use the most profitable items on Amazon, you still only earn once per sale.

To make a sale as an affiliate you need to successfully refer someone to a product through your affiliate link. This can be done in many ways, but one of the simplest methods is through paid advertising. To make a profit using this method (and using Amazon) you’ll need to pay less than your commission value in advertising costs to make a sale.

For most of the low value products on Amazon, that’s less than $10! That’s incredibly difficult as it gives you no room for experimentation and error. So many affiliates will go mad creating content and attempting to get traffic to their affiliates sites for free, another incredibly difficult and time consuming task.

High End Affiliate Marketing Secrets – Digital Vs. Physical

But with high end affiliate products you can earn much more per sale, ongoing recurring commissions and also from later purchases from those same customers. Each customer is worth much more with a high end product or program, so you don’t need as many customers to become profitable.

With a low value product you only make a few dollars on a single sale. That means you need to sell in bulk, which can be a huge challenge.

Let’s compare a high end product which sells for $10,000. For a digital product you earn earn up to 30% on a sale, much more than with physical products (from the likes of Amazon) which only pay up to 10%. There’s high valued items on Amazon too, of course. But the commission rate means you still earn a smaller amount than with digital products even from these sales.

Sell a $10k digital product and you’ll earn $3000. Sell a $10k physical product and you could earn as little as $100 (at 1% commission).

High End Affiliate Marketing Secrets – Recurring Income Products & Product “Suites”

A high end affiliate marketing training course not only sells for $10k and gives you more profit with a 30% commission structure, but you can also earn ongoing commissions from sales of a membership or subscription product. A high ticket sales funnel will typically contain a multitude of products from a single product range or “suite”.

Affiliates promote the first product in a range of products and later products are automatically offered to customers when they make a purchase. This is known as a tripwire funnel where a specific action automatically triggers another offer.

By having multiple products to sell in a range, subscription and membership products and high ticket affiliate products, the “high end” affiliate can earn more from each customer than they would from trying to sell a single affiliate product many times.

This is one of the biggest “secrets” of affiliate marketing success. Your sales funnel automatically gears you for a better outcome, once you start generating sales.

Marketing High Ticket Vs. Low Value

With a high ticket sales funnel, filled with high value training courses and subscription products , you can earn far more per customer than through selling any old affiliate product you would find online. This gives you more leverage and more ability to learn a marketing strategy which works.

If you’re running paid advertising selling a low value product, your margin for experimentation and error is very small. You can easily run up a huge advertising budget deficit without making it back in sales, just while you’re learning.

But with a high valued product range, you can earn large chunks of income from product sales which can be injected back into your marketing budget. A bigger budget gives you more reach with an online business.

The typical sales funnel will give you around $1 per month per subscriber, as an industry standard. But with a high valued product range this is more like $5 per month per subscriber. This gives you much more leverage when learning your marketing strategy and more access to the more expensive advertising platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, for example.

Summary

A low value affiliate product is much more difficult to promote with the faster and more scalable marketing strategies (using paid marketing). But with a high valued product range which also offers recurring income products, an affiliate stands to gain much more for the same amount of effort as selling the low value affiliate product.

It also gives them better opportunity for using scalable and faster marketing strategies.

To learn more and get started with your own high ticket product range, click here.

Keywords For Blog Titles

There’s a few reasons why you should use keywords for blog titles. As a blogger, you want to attract traffic to your website. Ideally free traffic from blogging. But that doesn’t happen easily and you’ll need to work hard (and smart) for some time before your website is super busy with traffic. In a competitive niche it can take even longer too.

But one way to give yourself more chance of your content ranking on Google (the most popular search engine) is to find long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty.

Short “tail” keywords are two to three word combinations. These are typically much more difficult to rank for because of the huge competition. So instead of writing articles with two or three word titles, look for longer strings of keywords which give you a better chance of getting found on the SERPS – search engines results pages.

To find suitable keywords for blog titles, you can use Google’s free keyword planner tool. You’ll just need an account with Google Adwords to use it.

Why Use Keywords For Blog Titles?

Some say you should find an enticing heading for your article titles which “draws” in visitors when they see your headlines. Many of the most popular articles on the internet use this tactic to get eyes on their content. Checkout Buzzsumo.com for some of the most popular trending pieces of content online to see which articles do the best.

While this can work you also need to get your headline seen first! Which works fine if you’re promoting rabidly on the various social media platforms. But if you’re on a low budget, that can be tough, even with some free tools which help you automate the process.

Using keywords as your blog titles is a different tactic; although the two can cross over occasionally and you can find a good keyword which also is an enticing headline too! With a keyword based headline, you can attract more attention from the SERPS – search engine results pages, which can give you free traffic. Particularly if you choose a title which has low competition.

Using the keyword planner for blog titles can also help inspire you to create a lot of content on your blog. Coming up with new ideas for blog posts can be one of the biggest challenges for bloggers. But with Google’s keyword planner there’s an almost unlimited supply of ideas which are already being looked for.

Aligning Keywords With Your Product/Service

Aligning your blog titles with your particular product or service is just as important (if not more) as getting your content ranked. Imagine getting your content ranked after months of work, only to find that most of your visitors have zero interest in your product/service. All that work for nothing!

This is not what you want as a blogger. Of course most website visitors aren’t going to buy from you and only a small percentage will take action on a website. That’s why you want to also build an email list and use the power of email marketing.

To make the most out of your content you want to target your audience carefully. You don’t just want anyone coming to your website. You want your perfect customers coming to it! To know your perfect customer you can do some work on your customer avatar. The “customer avatar” is your perfect customer. You want to find small cross section of the online marketplace who is going to be most interested in what you have to offer.

So before you start writing, ask yourself whether the content is something which will attract the right kind of person to your website. Ask yourself what the search intent is of that particular keyword.

Summary

So there’s a few reasons why I personally use keywords for blog titles.

You can use Google’s keyword planner to plan your article titles
You can see how many monthly searches each keyword gets on Google
It gives you plenty of blog post ideas
You can see the competition for each keyword with a Google search (and a phrase match search)

Ideally find long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty – this will give you more chance of a top page ranking for your chosen keyword on Google.

Make sure your keyword aligns with the product/service you’re offering. That way you don’t waste your time attracting the wrong audience. You can do a simple “sniff” test for this. Simply ask yourself whether the search intent might bring a paying customer to your website.

While many of your blog posts won’t rank, some of them will. If you do a good job writing quality content, you should start seeing your content rank, if not on Google, on other search engines providers. Start with the longer tail keywords which have very low competition and build a lot of content over time. As your domain authority improves you can start aiming at the more competitive keywords.

Easiest Business To Startup

Looking for the easiest business to startup? One of the easiest business models you can use is an affiliate marketing business. You can start an affiliate marketing business without any products of your own and without any prior experience. Affiliate marketing is the online referral based business system where third parties are paid commissions based on selling other people’s products and services, mostly online.

To make a sale online all you need to do is join an affiliate program and get your affiliate link. Then learn how to successfully promote your affiliate link online. Most affiliates will use one or more of these tactics as their marketing strategy:

Blogging
Video blogging
SEO – search engine optimisation
Paid advertising
Email marketing
Social media marketing

The main thing you’ll need to learn to sell affiliate products is online marketing strategies and anyone can learn this. Affiliate marketing can also be done from anywhere at very low cost. All you need is a laptop, internet connection and a few online tools and skills which can be bought and learned. This definitely makes affiliate marketing one of, if not the easiest business to startup from anywhere!

Easiest Business To Startup – What’s The Catch?

Yes affiliate marketing is easy to do. Anyone can join an affiliate program and learn how to promote their unique affiliate link. Affiliates earn commissions for sales they generate. There’s no upper limit as to what you can earn either. Plus, you can work from anywhere and choose your own working hours! “What’s the catch?” I hear you say!

Well despite all these benefits many affiliates will drop out and quit; around 95% of affiliates in fact. The affiliate marketing success rate is therefore pretty small at 5%. But the same can be said for most businesses. The difference is, almost anyone can “have a go” at affiliate marketing, which means many people do. The barrier to entry is so low because you can join a program and promote your link absolutely for free. No other business model is so easy to access.

A traditional business has a few more limitations. Before you can even attempt to build it you need business premises, staff, equipment and perhaps a franchise “buy-in” if you go that route. All that is prohibitive to the masses and that means you can only start with large capital to invest. No so with affiliate marketing.

Easiest Business To Startup – Starting Is Easy!

So anyone can join an affiliate program and call themselves an affiliate marketer. But to achieve success is another story entirely. Many affiliates will quit before they even make a single sale online. The most difficult part of affiliate marketing is the marketing. Without marketing you only have a link, which won’t earn you anything unless you put it in front of a buying customer.

To learn the skill of online marketing takes some commitment which most new affiliates don’t want to give.

There’s all kinds of products you can promote online too. How do you choose which ones to use? Just in terms of commissions there’s a huge range in what you can earn from promoting other people’s products online. Physical products pay from 1%-10% commission on average, and digital products will pay between 30% and 40% typically. But there’s high ticket affiliate products too which pay much larger commissions than most. Subscription affiliate programs pay out recurring commissions

The 6 Figure Sales Funnel

The easiest business to startup (using the affiliate marketing model) is the high ticket sales funnel model. With a high ticket sales funnel you offer digital products (which pay the largest percentage in commissions) and high ticket products (which offer the most value and the highest cost). Combining these types of products with those which offer recurring commissions gives you the best “bang for your buck”! So for each sale you make you can earn ongoing commissions and the potential of a later sale should you customer buy another product later from the same range.

This is by far the easiest business to startup, but that doesn’t mean it’s a given you’ll succeed. Even with such a great product range you still need to learn how to market your sales funnel and this is something which takes a bit of time. But such a sales model allows anyone to learn online marketing techniques more easily, because they can recoup their marketing budget very quickly with a high ticket sale.

If you promote products from Amazon instead, for example, the commission structure only pays between 1% and 10% commission on a sale. This gives you very little breathing room for learning how to run paid advertising and come out ahead.

Learn more about this online business model here.

Summary

Affiliate marketing is definitely considered one of the easiest business models to startup. But it’s not easy, especially if you choose low value products to promote which offer tiny commissions.

But if you choose a high ticket sales funnel which has multiple items within it and which offers recurring income commissions you have a much better chance of success for a couple of main reasons. You’ll obviously be able to make larger commissions when you do make a sale and therefore more profit, but you’ll also be able to access the more expensive paid marketing platforms which charge a premium for their use.

Paid marketing is much faster and more scalable than other cheaper forms of online advertising, such as blogging, for example. So with a high ticket product range, and through using paid advertising, you can be profitable quite quickly and with the minimum hassle. Plus, you can leverage existing businesses which offer built in sales teams and use plug and play software which makes the whole process of setting up your online business fairly straight forwards.

To learn more take a look at this video.

How Can I Increase Traffic To My Blog?

If you’re wondering “How can I increase traffic to my blog?” listen up! This post is for you! Getting free traffic does take some time and effort. But if you’re consistent with those efforts on a daily basis, your blog can start getting more and more traffic: steadily and certainly.

Firstly to get traffic to a blog you’ll need to create a lot of content. Find long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty to write your posts about. That way you have a greater chance of your posts ranking on the search engine results pages. Despite those shorter tail keywords getting tonnes of traffic, you’ve very little chance of ranking for them because of the huge online competition; even in an uncompetitive niche!

There’s over 600 million blogs on the internet and they can’t all rank number one on Google for their chosen keywords. So looking for the “low hanging fruit” of keywords means you have a chance of ranking; especially if you make a good job of creating some quality content for those particular keywords.

How Can I Increase Traffic To My Blog – Writing Quality Articles

So start by using Google’s keyword planner and make a plan of finding those long tail keywords in your niche which have traffic, but also low competition on the SERPS – search engine results pages.

If you go after the more competitive keywords, you’ll often have zero chance of a ranking on the first page of Google. Even with some long tail keywords, it can be competitive. But a small chance of a ranking for low search volume keywords is better than no chance of ranking for high search volume keywords.

Create a lot of high quality content and use an SEO plugin to help you write. I use Yoast SEO which is free for WordPress. Yoast gives you an easy to use plugin which helps you write for SEO. But also you should write for your visitors, since the people who actually read your posts aren’t robots!

How Can I Increase Traffic To My Blog – Automate Content Promotion

While you should aim to steadily grow your volume of posts over time, more content doesn’t automatically mean more visitors. You also need to promote your content and get eyes on it. Otherwise Google (and the other search engines) can’t see how people are reacting to it. This is one of their ranking factors among others. Google uses a lot of factors to indicate how to rank your content including:

Backlinks from other sites – how many and the quality of them
Volume of content on your site
Quality of your content
How visitors interact with your content
Age of your domain
Topic you cover and other competing sites

You can promote your content on social media, through email marketing and you can also use some paid advertising to do it too. Ideally you should automate the distribution of your content as you publish it. You can give yourself a hand with this by using a few free plugins:

Revive Old Posts – lets you syndicate your content (new and old) to your social media profiles
Social media like buttons – use them to encourage easy sharing of your content from your visitors
Push Engage – lets visitors opt in to be notified of new posts as you publish them

How Can I Increase Traffic To My Blog – Pay For Traffic

Another quick and simple way to increase traffic to your blog quickly is through running some paid advertising. You can even use platforms which will crawl your blog and create dynamic ads based on your content. Set up a Google Adwords dynamic ad in minutes and it will show ads based on your content.

You can also set your budget at a level which you can afford, from as little as a few cents a day if you wish. Paid traffic is of course the fastest way to generate traffic. Plus, it’s easily scaled up when you’re ads are working, bringing in sales.

Build Backlinks

Backlinks are an awesome tool if you want to generate more traffic to your blog. Backlinks have a double fold benefit to bloggers.

They can bring in traffic directly from the websites which link to them.
They boost your SEO score with Google and the various other search engines, boosting your listing power on the SERPS – search engine results pages.

It’s no secret that backlinks are one of the biggest ranking factors of Google so it’s definitely worth taking the effort to build them. Back linking starts with creating valuable content which people should naturally share over time. If you build a back link profile (manually) which doesn’t show a natural progression over time, it can be flagged as deceptive practices and you’re back to where you started. Google may penalise you and down rank your content as a result.

Ideally build backlinks from other authority websites within the same niche as yours. This can be done by reaching out to website owners who offer guest posting opportunities. Start with a Google search for guest post opportunities within your niche. You can also comment on some blogs and they allow a backlink to their site.

If building backlinks sounds like your idea of a nightmare, you can outsource this task to the professionals. I’ve used this site for outsourcing of my SEO.

Keep Going

Over time if you do enough of the above measures, you should start to see your traffic growing. But with blogging this can take some time and it will of course also depend on the niche you have chosen to build your blog in. In a competitive niche, it will take much longer to attract free traffic than in one will little competition.

After around 400 blog posts is typically where you should see a big uptick in your traffic stats. Google have recently changed their algorithm (again, sign) and this has meant a lot of previously ranking content has taken a hit. Unfortunately there’s no way around it – you are a little reliant on the search engines for your traffic as a blogger. It does however remind you to take charge of your traffic through building an email list.

Build An Email List From Your Blog

An email list puts you back in charge of your traffic. By sending out regular updates you can send subscribers back to your newer content. Getting eyes on your content is a good thing because your visitors will share it with their friends (if they have any!) and on social media. Some will even link to your content if they are a blogger themselves.

To build an email list from your blog you need to offer something of value to your website visitors. An ebook or some kind of free course is perfect. Make sure you showcase your offer on every page of your site, so more of your visitors get to see it. Have a clearly defined benefit driven offer which is appealing to your visitors. See also the power of email marketing.

Summary

You can increase traffic to your blog in many ways. Here’s the shorter version:

Write quality content which is optimised for the search engines – use an SEO plugin such as Yoast SEO. This is the cornerstone of all your other strategies, so make your content as good as possible.
Build backlinks by reaching out and doing guest posts, blog commenting or outsource this task to a professional.
Use plugins which help you syndicate your content and get more eyes on it – Revive Old Posts, Postplanner, Push Engage, social media share plugins etc. See also best free blog plugins for WordPress.
Build an email list – an email list puts you in charge of your traffic. I use this autoresponder.
Keep going – although it can take some time and serious effort to build your blog readership, it’s worth the effort in the long run. Make a habit out of doing the above over and over and never quit!
Don’t forget to thank me when you make it!