Choosing the right product to sell is essential to succeed with affiliate marketing. There are millions of affiliate marketing products out around, but not all of them will make you money. Some products are terrible and don’t work right at all. Another product might be fantastic, but its landing page leaves something to desired so visitors are scared away. To make money with affiliate marketing, you need to find a product that’s proven to make money for its affiliates. Why promote something that nobody wants to buy?

To find that right product to promote, we’re going to use the Clickbank affiliate network. While there are many good affiliate networks out there, Clickbank is one of the best for those starting out. They have a large selection of digital products to sell, they always send your checks on time, and it is easy to get accepted into the network. Unlike other networks that make you apply to promote a certain offer, Clickbank lets you promote all offers on their network immediately.

The first thing to do when choosing a product to promote, is to think about a niche. The best way to do this is to brainstorm on a piece of paper 5-10 topics you think you would be interested in. When creating your site around a product, you will be doing a lot of research and writing about it, so make sure the topics you write down aren’t something that will bore you to death.

Once you have your topics, visit the Marketplace section in your Clickbank account. Clickbank has its products divided into categories, so pick an appropriate category and perform a search for each of your topics. In the results, you will get a list of affiliate products that best match your search term. Underneath each product description, you will see a list of different metrics.

The key thing to look at, is the gravity. Gravity basically tells you how many affiliates have made sales with this product recently. If many people are making sales with this product then you should have no problems promoting this product as well. As a rule of thumb, try and pick a product with a gravity score over 40. The other thing to look at is the dollars per sale. If you are going to use pay per click marketing to drive traffic to your product, then pick a payout greater than $30 per sale. By choosing a high enough payout, you can cover any advertising expenses and make a good profit.

Using the two metrics mentioned above, jot down the products that meet these criteria. Now pick the one that you would be most interested in researching about and promoting. You already can tell that other affiliates are having success making money with these products, so the key here is picking the product that will keep your interest so you can promote it successfully. This is the first step to becoming a successful affiliate marketer.

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