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

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Can anyone point out some tips or things that you have done in attracting affiliates while launching your product on Clickbank in a non IM Niche?

Please let me know the things you look for when you are searching for new products to promote.

Also please mention anything that turns you off from considering that product.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidTT
    honestly I'd also like to know that as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author pacesetter007
    Originally Posted by yourreviewer View Post

    Can anyone point out some tips or things that you have done in attracting affiliates while launching your product on Clickbank in a non IM Niche?

    Please let me know the things you look for when you are searching for new products to promote.

    Also please mention anything that turns you off from considering that product.

    Thanks
    I will join you in asking that same question. I need to expert to please respond.
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  • Profile picture of the author danes1
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author yourreviewer
      Thanks Danes. I have noted all your suggestions. Are there things as a merchant you don't want someone to do on their salespage?

      For example, I am wondering if affiliates would promote a video sales letter as opposed to the traditional long sales letter.
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      • Profile picture of the author danes1
        A good copy is a good copy. Video has become very common and it does work well for sales because the potential buyer feels like they are dealing with a real person. On the other hand if you can write a killer copy or hire someone to write one for you it shouldn't be hard to convert visitors into buyers.

        I don't have a preference as long as the product doesn't have a big return rate.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by danes1 View Post

          I don't have a preference as long as the product doesn't have a big return rate.
          "Products" don't often have a big refund rate: affiliates do.

          Different affiliates commonly have vastly differing refund rates on the same product, according to how it's been pre-sold. This is mostly down to the affiliate, rather than to the vendor's sales page. Affiliates who have problems with this tend, typically, to be those who are promoting products they don't themselves own, and sometimes therefore have great difficulty reviewing and/or writing about, and may well inadvertently make misrepresentations about the product, thus arousing unreasonable expectations leading inevitably to a proportion of refunds.

          Retailers like Clickbank quickly remove from their marketplace products which have high refund rates equally among a wide range of different affiliates, but that's actually very rare.
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          • Profile picture of the author JamesPenn
            Here's a few ways to find affiliates that I've employed in IM and non-IM niches. There's hundreds of different places you can find affiliates - these are just some of the ones off the top of my head.

            1. Go to Google and just find sites and blogs in your market. Contact the owners.

            2. Go to Google and find newsletter publishers in your market. Contact them.

            3. Go to EzineArticles.com and find authors writing articles in the category of your product. Follow the links to their website in their sig links and contact them. This is a good method because you'll find a lot of publishers on EZA are into affiliate marketing.

            4. Go to the Clickbank marketplace or other affiliate networks, such as RAPBank.com, and contact authors of similar products. If you have the resources perhaps you could do a reciprocal mailing.

            5. Type product names into Google from the same market as you. For example, if you're in the weight loss market then type "Truth About Abs" into Google. Find the people that are paying for traffic to promote this product, find out who they are and contact them. Maybe they'll start sending paid traffic to you, too.

            There's plenty more ways and maybe I'll pop back in here again with a few more.

            Thanks,
            James
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          • Profile picture of the author yourreviewer
            Thanks for the 10 point checklist Alexa. That would VERY helpful for me. James your tips very great as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author marcuslim
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by yourreviewer View Post

    Please let me know the things you look for when you are searching for new products to promote.

    Also please mention anything that turns you off from considering that product.
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlexMaroko
    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..
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    Sorry if this makes too much sense.

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  • Profile picture of the author Hoodyy
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tyzao
      Thanks

      Its really appreciated when people give insightful answers that make sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Fletcher
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidSimpson
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author majidmaskat
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    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.
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