Newbies always ask the same question: What are the best affiliate programs and where can I find them? In order for me to respond to this question, I’ll have to answer it with a series of questions. To begin, you should ask yourself, “What am I interested in?” Then, what do you have any knowledge of? There are numerous resources, as well as an affiliate network, to match almost any interest you might have or knowledge of. Let’s see if we can make the process of selecting the best affiliate services to promote a little easier.

1. Where Do You Find The Best Affiliate
Programs?
Newbies always ask the same question: What are the best affiliate programs and
where can I find them?
In order for me to respond to this question, I’ll have to answer it with a series of
questions.
To begin, you should ask yourself, “What am I interested in?”
Then, what do you have any knowledge of?
There are numerous resources, as well as an affiliate network, to match almost any
interest you might have or knowledge of.

2. Let’s see if we can make the process of selecting the best affiliate services to
promote a little easier.
1-ClickBank
This is my favorite source of the most popular programs. They tell you the
percentage you’ll receive on each sale and they also put it in dollars and cents. They
also reveal other stats about each program that will help you to determine if the
program you chose is right for you to promote.
2-LinkShare
LinkShare pioneered online affiliate marketing, and today runs the largest
pay-for-performance affiliate marketing network on the Internet. With over 10 million
partnerships in the network, it is the most successful pay-for-performance network of
its kind.
3-Commission Junction
Maximize your revenue opportunities by developing sustainable relationships with
top-tier advertisers. Perform and get paid for every sale and lead you to generate.
For qualifying publishers, take your program to the next level with their
industry-exclusive solution for top-performers.

3. There are more equally credible affiliate program sources on the web but for the
sake of simplicity and to keep this article to a minimum length I’m going to limit these
resources to the top three. If you like, you can simply go to your favorite search
engine and continue your search for “Affiliate Program Resources”.
Tips To Find The Best Affiliate
Marketing Resources For You:
● Knowing a little something about what you want to sell will be to your
advantage but not required. After all, this is The Information Super Highway
and whatever information we need can be found here. The tools at our
disposal are many. You just need to know where they are and what they will
tell you.
● Google.com would be a good place to start your search. If you type “affiliate
programs” into the search box you will get a list of literally millions of potential
programs. At the time of this writing (7-12-06), there were 111,000,000
possible affiliate programs to chose from. That blows my mind!
● You don’t have to weed through that many sites. The first few pages should
give you a few ideas as to what you want to promote. Try and stick with
something you’ve got some background in.

4. ● For example, let’s say you’ve been working in a pet store for a while. See if
you can’t find an affiliate program related to pets. Maybe pet food, pet training,
pet care, etc. Perhaps you’ll want to target specific pets like dogs or dog
training. Dog Training and Dog Breeds are very “HOT” Markets right now and
I suspect they will be for quite some time to come.
● Let’s say you’ve chosen Dog Breeds as a topic of interest. It’s time to
research that topic and see if there is indeed a market for it.
● Go to Overture.com and type Dog Breeds into the search box. I found the
number of searches done for this topic to be 184,184 in April 2006. This would
certainly be a topic I’d want to further investigate.
● I’d follow that bit of information up by going to Nichebot.com and typing those
same keywords into the search box. The information returned will prove to be
an invaluable tool for making your affiliate program choice. Pay particular
attention to the far right column. The numbers that are closest to zero
determine less competition. Look for something in that category and copy
those keywords back to Google.com and do another search. I’m sure you’ll be
able to find a program to join and promote.

5. ● Try and find a program with at least a 50% commission, which comes out to at
least $20. for you. More if possible. You can choose a program with a lesser
commission if it is what’s called a high ticket item. A good rule of thumb to
remember is “It takes as much effort to promote High Ticket Items as it does
to promote a program for a $20.00 Sale”.
● So why waste your time and advertising dollars promoting products that only
bring a $20.00 commission when the same amount of time and money can
bring you a commission of $200.00. It’s good sense and the math tells the
story as well.
● The time and effort spent promoting small ticket items is the same as high
ticket items. The benefit is you don’t have to make as many sales with the
more expensive item as you do with the smaller one.
● The best advice I can give is to be patient, utilize as many free resources to
promote your programs as you can. There are many. Get your own domain
and web host. You’ll want to put together a site that is unlike the generic
affiliate site that the owner provides. This will put you in a different category as
you will not be promoting the same page as a thousand other marketers. It will
also make you credible and establish you as someone who is serious about
their business on the web.
● Patience is a Virtue. Possess it if you can and by the way, Happy Marketing!

6. Finally, this is my big advice for you in the affiliate marketing business, this is not
that easy thing that it appears, you must put yourself in the work, and do your
market research and take your time to build a solid business online, and be an
expert in your domain, no” become rich quick ” myths here, don’t follow scam people
to take your money from you, always think in the long game term, you will surely
arrive in a closed way and disappointment point in your affiliate business but don’t
quit and remember why you begin at the first time.
Do Your Best, Good Luck!
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