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How do you find emerging opportunities before they're saturated?

by Norfolk
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It's no news that if you tap into an emerging hot market early, beat the competition and set up your sales funnels right you're on to a winner. So how do you find these opportunities, hot stuff that's just been released or is going to be released in short time? And how do you know it's going to be a smash hit with the buyers? Share the tips, sites and anything you will on the subject. Hopefully this will help a lot of people.

I'm going to start and share two websites:

JVNotifyPro 2.0 - find upcoming big product releases and become an affiliate.

Clickbank Analytics - a lot of useful stats about ClickBank products.
#emerging #find #opportunities #saturated
  • Profile picture of the author Toby Lewis
    I think you just have to keep working and trying new things. To be honest my best success has been getting 'lucky'.

    For example, I built a site promoting a clickbank product and I was one of the first affiliates for it.

    After I cemented my place at the top of the search results, the product took off and now it's making good passive income for over a year. I'm actually in the process of selling the site now.
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    Watch the google trends, the amazon and ebay best sellers and the amazon new releases.

    However, having said that, I generally don't do that. I would rather find something that a lot of people are already buying a lot of that doesn't have any competition and sell that.

    I'm going for a long term business rather than a possible "flash in pan."
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  • Profile picture of the author ReachOneMedia
    here we go with the saturation again...

    I wonder if all the 7/11 have the same problem when their coke or pepsi inventory are getting low.

    "Hummm... don't know if I will be able to sell them... market is pretty much saturated"

    To me saturation is a mental thing... nothing else.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Norfolk View Post

    How do you find emerging opportunities before they're saturated?
    Just "by finding emerging opportunities", I think.

    As ReachOneMedia wisely explains above, saturation is a myth.

    (What proportion of homes in Scotland already have one or more TV's? How many TV's will be sold this year in Scotland?)

    Originally Posted by Norfolk View Post

    how do you know it's going to be a smash hit with the buyers?
    Other than "vendor reputation", it's pretty difficult, I think. (And not always so easy for most affiliates to cash in on vendor reputation, anyway, I think? Vendors like the best value out of that for themselves. As I would, too). I prefer to stay well away from launches, myself: I like selling things that people are already looking for, rather than things they haven't yet heard of. Just personal preference: I find marketing a lot more profitable, in proportion to the time and energy I put into it, when I don't really have to persuade people much.

    Originally Posted by Norfolk View Post

    Clickbank Analytics - a lot of useful stats about ClickBank products.
    For myself, I find ClickBank's own Marketplace much more reliable.

    None of the other websites/services offering "ClickBank statistics" actually has access to any more information than you and I do, directly from ClickBank. They just try to apply "secret proprietary formulas" (also called "guesswork and hypothesis") to it, to make it look like information that nobody else has.

    Call me idiosyncratic, but I prefer my own interpretations of the available information to those made by others in undisclosed and unassessable ways.
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  • Profile picture of the author Norfolk
    Thanks for the answers! So, if I get the general tone right, the approach should be to take what is already selling and find a way to tap into the market, rather than trying to "create" a market for something brand new? I find myself agreeing with that. Although a "lucky strike" like Toby's would be nice. Pity there's no formula for luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author Global Warrior
      Its a funny thing, but often you are exposed to amazing opportunities early on but because the early adopters haven't taken it on, or taken it on visibly, you skip it. The more calculated risk you take, the more likely you are to see the opportunities early on.

      If you're someone who will run with a bug filled software, and use it and give feedback on it and accept that it doesn't work right strait away but you want to be the first and you want to have input and you want to shape it and you want to be part of the innovation, you're an early adopter.

      If you're someone that gets a bug filled software and all you can do is complain about it, the chances are you're part of the middle majority.... those that need early adopters on board to validate your purchasing decision.

      Neither status is right or wrong.... its just part of the buying cycle and its what makes some people miss an opportunity.....because they didn't want to be the first to run with it.

      Take Care

      GW
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      • Profile picture of the author jordyhill
        I think I'll stick my oar in on this one.

        I've had great success finding products on Clickbank with little or no affiliates. I use the advanced search to find products at least 3 years old and gets searched for by product name, regardless of how many monthly searches it gets. If it comes up on Google instant, I've got a winner.

        Just because a product on Clickbank doesn't have many or any affiliates doesn't mean its no good. As a rule I generally stay out of the IM arena though. Do the standard checks, sales copy and landing page etc, use due diligence and develop your "gut instinct" and you'll know whether or not to pursue it.

        As far as saturation goes, I guess some markets are more crowded than others. It depends how much of a challenge you want to give yourself. I like to make things as easy for myself as possible because half way through a new project I'm already itching to start the next one so I don't want to get bogged down with months of SEO.

        Therefore I'll not be launching my own brand of cola any time soon:rolleyes:
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