Nick Quinlan» Internet Marketing

Finding Affiliate Products to Promote.

Nick Quinlan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:22:36 +0000

Finding Affiliate Products

There are literally thousands of affiliate products that you can promote. The trick is finding the correct product or program to promote.

You can try to Google “find affiliate products” or any search of that nature. Problem is there are so many out there, this can be time consuming and you might not even find the right program for you. Fortunately there are a few sites that make it easy to navigate your way through the quagmire that is affiliate marketing.

Clickbank and Commission Junction are two of my favourites and I use them everyday. These sites are basically huge directories dedicated to helping affiliates find programs and products to sell and on the other hand they help publishers or vendors (the owners of the product) find affiliates to join their program.

Once you have a product to promote it is as easy as copying and pasting your hoplink all around the internet. Your hoplink is your digital signature that ensures you get paid for your referral or sale.

How to Find Affiliate Products

Clickbank

Clickbank boasts the largest array of digital products or e-books anywhere on the internet. And is one of the easiest ways to find affiliate products to sell.

You will need to sign up for an account with clickbank. It’s free to join and as soon as you do you will have access to thousands of e-books that you can begin promoting instantly.

So which one do you choose?

To find affiliate products that are right for you it is best to stick to what you know. Choose a topic that you have an interest in and have some knowledge about it.

Clickbank makes this easy as they categorise all their products and have a rating system to help potential affiliates locate the right fit and see how well it is selling.

Commission junction

Commission junction, like Clickbank is a directory of thousands of vendors and affiliate products. The difference is that most of affiliate products are physical items rather that digital e-books.

You will need to sign up for an account here too. Again it’s free and is a great resource to help you find affiliate products.

Finding affiliate products could not be easier at commission junction. The search feature allows you to search for specific advertisers, links and specific products. You can also just browse their entire directory to find affiliate products that you will be confident promoting.

Benefits of joining sites like these

There are many different reasons it is a good idea to sign up for these sorts of sites. Mainly they make it easy to promote many different products and keep an eye on your sales and traffic all in one place. Signing up to a lot of affiliate programs is not a bad idea just the more you join the more you can loose track of what you are doing. Clickbank and commission junction allow you to use one account to manage the selling of as many affiliate products as you can promote.

How to get paid

When you sign up to these sites they each have different methods of payment. Clickbank for instance pays by check twice monthly. As long as your account has enough activity and reaches a minimum payment threshold.

Commission junction has several ways you can choose to get paid. Like clickbank they will issue a check once you user defined minimum is reached or they will even pay straight into your bank account. This makes it much easier, they pay monthly.

Year of the Affiliate

I hope you have some insight and a place to start in finding affiliate products to promote. I learned these methods the long hard way. Searching the internet eventually finding these services.

A friend of mine and very successful internet marketer (Self made internet millionaire), Sean Rasmussen has recently written a book called Year of the Affiliate.

In this book he spells out these methods in great detail. I recently purchased the book and read it from cover to cover without outing it down. I wish I had this resource when I first started out. Read about Year of the Affiliate here.

Welcome to nickquinlan.com

Nick Quinlan — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:53:43 +0000

Hi, my name is Nicholas Quinlan.

Welcome to my personal blog nickquinlan.com. Internet marketing and making money online is a passion of mine. I have had some success over a relatively short period of time, mostly through selling digital products as an affiliate marketer across several different niche markets. I have also tried my hand at drop shipping over the internet.

Here’s a short history of Nicholas Quinlan.

Now I already told you that one of my passions is making money online. The other great passion of mine is travel.

I was born in Australia in the small town of Bungaree in Victoria. I’ve lived in Canada, Greece and England and have travelled all over the world.

Some of the places I’ve been include North America, Mexico, and Central America, The UK, Ireland and almost all of the countries in Europe and Eastern Europe. I’ve also visited Thailand and the list goes on and I’ll probably never be finished.

After school I went to University and got myself a degree in IT, Mainly because of my love of computers and the internet. All the while I worked as a manager in the hospitality industry which I love.

This work gave me a great understanding of people and how easy it is to make them happy. Great friendly service is the key.

Once I had finished my degree I began work with a large company putting my skills to work. I always felt that that there was something missing. I guess I’m just not the type to be stuck behind a desk (the same desk) all day long, day in and day out. I was going stir crazy. So I packed up and went on the road.

I found myself in Canada. Where I could be outside in the nature, snowboard everyday and meet new people. I loved it. I took another job behind a bar and proceeded to have the greatest time ever. I didn’t want it to end.

I started to think of ways that I would be able to keep travelling without having to find a new job everywhere I went. That’s when my research into internet marketing began. Sure I have a degree in IT but I didn’t know anything about marketing. And guess what. All my computer knowledge means next to nothing in the world of internet marketing.

Through my research I found that even somebody with no knowledge of computers would be able to set up an affiliate marketing business.

I continued on my trip through North America and down through Mexico and Central America. All the while building my online presence. It took me a long time to learn some of the things I know about being an affiliate marketer. I did some things the hard way. There was a lot of trial and error involved.

I got my business to a stage that I was happy with. I was making enough money to travel around without having to find a job in any country I wanted to go to. The best thing about it was I could do it anywhere a wanted. Anywhere there is an internet connection of course.

I carried my laptop everywhere and worked form the beach in the Greek islands and in the cafes of Paris. I’ve worked from my flat in London. On the odd day with nice weather in London I moved my office to the park.

That’s the beauty of affiliate marketing and making money online. You are not tied to any one place of office and you don’t even need a physical product. You basically sell information, digital products. No need for a warehouse to hold your stock. Although you can do it this way if you wish through a method called drop shipping.

After doing a lot of travel I started to miss my family and being so far away so I decided to move back to Melbourne to be closer to them. I had a lot of friends that I hadn’t seen in a long time either.

I’ve been a professional internet marketer for a short time and have been growing my income all the time. I was looking for new products one day when I stumble across a site by two Aussie bloke’s names Sean and Shaun. They claimed to be internet marketing millionaires and they were putting on a seminar not far from my house in Melbourne. And they were inviting me to come.

So I thought why not? I might learn something from them. After all they have made millions doing the same thing I am trying to do. And boy, am I glad I went. It turned out the best thing I could have ever done.

Sean Rasmussen and Shaun Stenning are their names. They were true to their word and were in fact millionaires, all from online efforts. If only I had met them about 12 months earlier. They teach all the things I had learned through my own research and a whole lot more.

They are the reason I’ve started this blog. They have made millions as affiliate marketers and now want to give back and teach others how to do it. I think that’s a great idea. I haven’t made my first million yet but with a positive attitude, some luck and their help I’m sure I’m going to do it, sooner rather than later. Follow me and I’ll pass on every tip I know and everything I learn along the way.

We can all make millions, together.