From doing this niche marketing stuff for so long, and teaching it to so many people and watching their successes and failures, I can tell you without doubt at all, that what I’m going to talk about today is one of the most important factors in the whole make money online process.
What I’m talking about is…
NOT Niche Research.
I want to draw a distinction here between finding a niche… and finding a product to promote as an affiliate in that niche.
The thing is, a great niche doesn’t necessarily equate to a profitable product to promote. Lots of great niches have no good products that the average person can profitably promote. Lots of great products aren’t in niches that the every day aspiring online marketer can penetrate for a profit… so where do we draw the line?
It’s worth noting that out of the two of those… a great niche and a great product… a great PRODUCT is the only thing that makes sales and makes you money.
A great niche where you can get easy rankings and tonnes of traffic doesn’t mean sh** if you can’t convert that traffic into a sale right? And how it converts into a sale and how much money you take from that sale comes down to the PRODUCT… not the niche.
And you know what?
EVERY person who I’ve seen make money in niche marketing shares this in common: they promote high selling, high converting products. And in the same way SO MANY people who I’ve seen not make so much money, fail with their niche site, or quit have a product that doesn’t sell as their main problem.
Rather than a full discussion on this, I wanted to make the point that finding good products and finding niches need to be separate areas of discipline. So many guides tell you to find a great niche, then the picking a product part doesn’t matter – just pick any product that’s got a related affiliate program and you can make a commission! WRONG! The affiliate program is the money and hence the MOST important part of the market selection process.
The reason for making this post is I wanted to share with you this service that I’ve started using for finding great products to promote. Some of you might have heard of it or used it, but the best thing about it is, it’s FREE.
This site lets you compare offers from many many different affiliate networks. So instead of looking for an offer by going to the clickbank market place, commission junction market place or any other – you go here and you can find offers from all the networks – well 25 of them at least.
I really wish I could make money by recommending this to you because it really is so valuable but it’s free and there’s no affiliate program – so I can share it with you from the goodness of my heart 
The site is Offer Vault – go create a free account and check it out.
I found two great products just moments after I logged in. I’m talking high commission, great sales letter, product name being searched for kinda products.
It’s insane – go spend some time there today instead of buying the latest and greatest ebook launch.
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This is great info, I signed up for Firepow yesterday and will now look at this site to find an effective product. Good advice Andrew, thanks
Hi Andrew,
Thank you very much for always looking out for us.
This is a great site just like you said
Regards
William
Hi Andrew.
This was really a nice tool. It even give you the convert rate on your keyword, if the product has been long enough in the marked.
Thanks for sharing.
- Oddvar.
Thanks Andrew. Useful tip.
Cheers
good resource mate, thanks!
Isnt it a delight to discover another one of these amazing sites that reveal high paying niches?
I’ve been collecting resources like this for 2 years now and I will certainly be adding Offer Vault to the already-long list at FindHotMarkets.com
So Andrew…. thanks for sharing it here.
Gary
That’s just awesome andrew, thanks for sharing that…
Colleen
Cool..you got a good pint there.
Thanks for the notice for the offers site too
Stu
Hi Andrew,
This is really going to be a time saver.
After signing up I immediately found a high commission offer that fits perfectly with a new site I’m building.
Thanks a million for sharing this resource with us.
Michael
Excellent stuff, Andrew:)
this is so true.
i notice that some aff products , with minimal efforts, would give me great conversion.
other products, even with same number of visitors, gave me 0 or little conversion.
but i guess u’ll never know til u try.
Thanks for passing this on Andrew, most affiliate search functions are lousy, so I’m looking forward to getting this up and running.
Duncan
I found it a bit hard to understand, would anyone be willing to give me a heads up on it, in the sense of how to use it.
I would like to iterate what Neil said in his comment on 6 November (at 12.35pm).
Would you have any explanatory notes on how to use what seems to be a very exciting program – the Offer Vault.
regards
Gareth
Hi Andrew.
Great resource.
Makes finding affiliate programs a snap.
Cheers
Brett.
G’day Andrew and all, another great resource, great stuff Andrew! Andrew, doesn’t it make you feel all gooey inside when you give away great advice like this, without an affiliate link in sight?
I do it myself sometimes just for the inner glow, but I try not to make a habit of it.
Neil, if you go there and sign up you will see that it is easy enough to follow. On the main page there is a search box just like the search engine boxes. Type in anything you like, or maybe something that you have been thinking about building a niche website around.
I just typed in ‘luxury yacht’, and came up with fourteen offers from various affiliate merchants, varying from $1 to $18.70 PER LEAD — you don’t even have to sell anything, just send people to their websites to get paid!
If you join up and type in the same, you will see two offers in particular that both pay well, and might be worth considering for niche websites. All you need to do now is do some keyword research on the two phrases and see what sort of demand there is for them, and what the competition is like for those two phrases — they both could be profitable niches for you.
In the past I have been checking Clickbank, CJ, ShareASale, etc, manually looking for affiliate products to sell in niches, but with this website you can check a couple of dozen merchants all at the same time — a BIG time saver.
Bye for now,
Terry Chadban
Thank you Terry,
Just the heads up I needed!
Thank you.
Gareth
No worries Gareth, glad to help! BTW, did you check out the two phrases I was referring to above? I haven’t had a chance to do any keyword research on them yet, I just got home, but they MIGHT be the beginnings of a new niche website!
Bye for now,
Terry Chadban
G’day Gareth and all, just a quick update — both of the phrases I mentioned above were from the same merchant, and BOTH have been withdrawn today! So don’t go crazy if you can’t find them, it isn’t anything you are doing wrong!
Bye for now,
Terry Chadban