article marketing

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

If you'll excuse the observation, in my opinion these are exactly the niches to avoid "promoting with a couple of articles".

Weight-loss and dating are hugely competitive markets in which tens of thousands of other affiliates, some of them with big daily PPC budgets, and professional article writers bombarding directories with daily content, are engaged. It's going to be extremely difficult for someone's low-key article marketing to afford a very promising start in these areas.

Internet marketing products, in a sense, are even less likely to be productive, because all the above applies, and in addition there's the added obstacle that a proportion of the potential customers will already themselves be Clickbank affiliates, and it would be naive indeed to imagine that one can make an affiliate sale of anything to someone who already has their own Clickbank affiliate account through which they can buy it.

I was initially tempted by such markets, which was why I earned almost nothing for my first few months: they're unlikely to be unsuitable for beginners to Clickbank article marketing.

I switched to obscure niches (which really are "niches" - the ones above are not: they're "markets") with low-gravity products to promote against very low competition, was rapidly making a living, and a year later have never looked back at all.

Just my perspective.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

If you'll excuse the observation, in my opinion these are exactly the niches to avoid "promoting with a couple of articles".

I switched to obscure niches (which really are "niches" - the ones above are not: they're "markets") with low-gravity products to promote against very low competition, was rapidly making a living, and a year later have never looked back at all.