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Find affiliates for odd niche.

by intelijin
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Hey everyone,

First of all thanks for all the help! I have finished my site and now it is time for me to find affiliates to promote my product. I am selling an eBook to help the US military veterans file for Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation. Here is my website You Served Youde Serve . I have searched the forum on how to find affiliates for your niche, but it seems like there is no product like mine out there. How do I find affiliate willing to promote my product? It seems like all of my competition are lawyers, but I don't know if they have affiliate??? What would you suggest for me?

Thanks,
Ruben

PS I am using Clickbank and my product has already been approved.
#affiliates #find #niche #odd
  • Profile picture of the author greenbay92
    Your sales page is an opt-in page for a free guide. How do you expect serious affiliates to promote it?

    BTW I'm semi-active in the military niche promoting ASVAB and military benefits guides... But you really need to create a "proper" opt-in free sales page if you want to attract affiliates.

    Originally Posted by intelijin View Post

    ...You Served Youde Serve.
    This looks like a typo in your header... Fix it to "You Served, You Deserve".
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  • Profile picture of the author intelijin
    My sales page is an opt-in page for a free guide? Sorry I am not understanding that. How am I suppose to use my squeeze page? If you go to Home | You Served You Deserve it will take you to the landing page. I will fix the mistake also, thank you.
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    • Profile picture of the author greenbay92
      Originally Posted by intelijin View Post

      My sales page is an opt-in page for a free guide? Sorry I am not understanding that. How am I suppose to use my squeeze page? If you go to Home | You Served You Deserve it will take you to the landing page. I will fix the mistake also, thank you.
      What I meant was, when I use your hoplink, it leads me to your squeeze page, not your sales page or home page, where it should.

      Affiliates are unlikely to promote a squeeze page with no other content because they will see the email opt-in box for the free guide as a "leak"... you know, a case where they may not be credited with the sale if the customer buys.

      Your vendor nickname is "rdedman1" right (without the quotes)?

      So, when I use the traditional affliate hoplink, like so (representative):

      hxxp://xxxx.rdedman1.hop.clickbank.net/
      it leads me to this page (a squeeze page)...




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      Instead, it should lead to your sales page (landing page), like so... (minus the opt-in box on that page) which effectively makes it a more proper sales page.

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      • Profile picture of the author intelijin
        Originally Posted by greenbay92 View Post

        What I meant was, when I use your hoplink, it leads me to your squeeze page, not your sales page or home page, where it should.

        Affiliates are unlikely to promote a squeeze page with no other content because they will see the email opt-in box for the free guide as a "leak"... you know, a case where they may not be credited with the sale if the customer buys.

        Your vendor nickname is "rdedman1" right (without the quotes)?

        So, when I use the traditional affliate hoplink, like so (representative):

        it leads me to this page (a squeeze page)...




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        Instead, it should lead to your sales page (landing page), like so... (minus the opt-in box on that page) which effectively makes it a more proper sales page.
        Thanks for the advice! I have made all the changes! Now I am looking for affiliates!
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaolinsteve
    Hey Ruben,

    Very interesting man. My first thoughts would be to ask if you have posted here:

    Affiliate Program Database

    You may also want to consider if there is anything similar in CB or other affiliate programs and get in touch with other sellers to see if you can sort out some sort of deal with them and something you may also want to test is banner advertising on forums related to your niche.

    If you have trouble finding affiliates, then you should focus on paid traffic in my opinion. It might be tough but who knows... I'd test at least 1 or 2 banners if forums and blogs are accepting them but if you do... just be sure to ask for at least the last 2-3 months of traffic statistics if you don't have any before hand.

    All the best!
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  • Profile picture of the author intelijin
    Ok I understand. For that I will give this link to my affilaites, Home | You Served You Deserve . They most likey will be using bit.ly or another program like that so the domain wont make a difference, or no? I will take that opt-in box off the webpage, but how should I offer that free guide? just available for download?
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    • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
      Originally Posted by intelijin View Post

      Ok I understand. For that I will give this link to my affilaites, Home | You Served You Deserve . They most likey will be using bit.ly or another program like that so the domain wont make a difference, or no? I will take that opt-in box off the webpage, but how should I offer that free guide? just available for download?
      ^^This is much better than the initial strategy.

      Offer your free guide on your home page - for your own personal selling. Give your affiliates the affiliate link for sales letter page, and create marketing materials so that they can sell it for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    It seems like all of my competition are lawyers, but I don't know if they have affiliate???
    Doubtful. Lawyers generally cannot share fees with non-lawyers, so they cannot pay a share of revenue to an affiliate. Instead, they need to pay per lead or setup a marketing company to sell an ebook they write or make sure the ebook does not constitute legal advice. The marketing company can pay an affiliate. But most attorneys are not this savvy.

    But if your competition consists of professionals you will need to explain why your book is better than what they can provide, and why anyone should listen to you. Likely, you will need testimonials from others. Not just you served in the military and did some research.

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