How Do You Find Affiliates When You Launch Your Product in A Non IM Niche?

honestly I'd also like to know that as well.

I will join you in asking that same question. I need to expert to please respond.

Affiliate tools and 50%+ commission, I am assuming that your product will be available through clickbank or a similar payment processor. Affiliates are much more attracted to a product that offers killer affiliate tools and at least 50% commission.

You should offer promo emails, effective keywords, banner ads, articles, web-content, and even a step by step affiliates guide. Most of your affiliates will not be IM Guru's, they may need a little guidance as to what they should do to be successful with your product.

I'm no expert, but a technique that Jason Fladlien recommends is to distribute free reports, which are cut-down versions of your product. At the end of these reports are links to your clickbank product. The key to getting affiliates is to make these links re-brandable so these links become affiliate links to your product. So affiliates will have incentive to mail these reports to their list.

I have a 10-point checklist. It's actually written about Clickbank products, but much of it would apply in more or less the same ways to anything else, too.

It's here.

Use this thing called "Google" and find the other people in your market. Who's selling stuff, who looks like they collecting emails, who looks they've got a following, etc.

BTW, you find them by searching related keywords to your products -- they're usually the guys ranking on Page 1.

Also, search just PPC ads with your keywords -- people spending money on advertising are usually making money selling ****.

Make a giant list of all of those people and contact them. Normally, I'd recommend you become friends with them first, build a relationship, promote and make them money and THEN finally ask them to promote you, but it sounds like you don't have a lot of time so when you approach them -- come clean, tell them exactly why you'r contacting them and explain to them the benefits of promoting your launch.

If you're taking care of all of their marketing for it, tell them. If it converts at 1.1%, tell them. If promoting your product is somehow gonna get them laid like a rock star and show them how to fart the entire Tommy album, tell them.

Give them a date they have to respond by, let them know what other big players are involved that they know of (even better if its friends of theirs) and do it all from a position of power.

If none of this works, internally launch the **** out of your product, make it sell like crazy and then come back to them with those great numbers (make promoting your product a complete no-brainer).

And if that doesn't work, I hear there's a lot of money in nursing right now..

The best way to find Affiliates for your new CB product in whatever Niche is to go and find people IN that Niche and ask them to promote it.

Look for blogs, forum owners, similar product owners, anyone with a list or related website.

Get around 100 of these contact details. Send each one a message asking them to promote your product. As well as the commission you should try and offer them something else as well, so your offer is too good to refuse.

For example, you might contact a blog owner telling them about your great new product, why it would benefit their list and why they should promote it. You may then offer them something, for example write X unique articles or posts for them or create X # of backlinks for them etc. Chances are that you'll get a lot of people wanting to promote your product. As long as you can invest the time, you can easily get high quality affiliate marketers to promote your product from page 1 of google and with big lists.

It's a sure-fire way to make a lot of money providing your product is good quality.

The first thing you need to realise is that the gatekeepers in other markets aren't necessarily marketers. They may not even be trying to monetize their sites. What they may be looking for is great stuff (free or paid) to share with their readers.

Finding the top forums, blogs or groups of people in any industry isn't hard. What's hard is finding out what motivates the owner. In the IM niche you can be sure that's money. It's got to be a top quality product but ultimately you need to show how your affiliate program (for your great product) will earn them more than the other 50 things they could be promoting this week.

However, in other niches, they may not care. They may not even want to make money. You may find they are more motivated by a $10 discount for their readers than a 50% affiliate commission.

Treat them as individuals. Treat them as people. Spend time building relationships with people. Find out what they want. Find out what motivates them ... and give it to them.

Don't just assume everyone is out to make a buck.

Yeah definitely, go to Google and type in your keywords that are related to your product or that you want to try and rank for. Find out who is on the first page, and contact them. But remember what's in it for them.....how can you help them.

See if there is contact information on the website and if not go to the who is information about that website and see if it is public.

Once you have a little bit of success with affiliates, tell new prospects about the successes that your affiliates are having.

there is a special section at Joint Venture (JV) Lists, Announcements, Blogs, And Community Forums. for non IM niches, however i have never checked it out. It would be great to have a more of non IM product launches

Here is a suggestion. Try the same tactics that IM'ers use to sell products...instead of selling a product, pitch your affiliate program using article marketing...and use it to send them to your signup/squeeze page...just a thought.