When you think about digital products to promote online you naturally think of Clickbank, however, when you think about promoting physical goods on the Internet as an affiliate marketer Amazon should be the first place that comes to mind. People who are thinking about starting a home based business online usually follow everyone’s lead, experienced Internet marketers included, and begin by advertising digital merchandise from Clickbank as an affiliate marketer.
This is fine as long as you don’t mind massive competition from people who have been working on the web a lot longer than you have and who know the tricks of the trade which allows them to gain the inside track and make a very lucrative income based on their affiliate marketing experience. It will take you longer, as a Clickbank affiliate, to begin making the money you need to give up your day job because your learning curve is a lot longer and you will have to put in the time necessary to gain the experience to be able to compete with the super affiliates who are making a killing every day online.
However, if you want to start making money now, as most people do, you should consider promoting Amazon’s physical products as an affiliate as opposed to Clickbank’s digital merchandise for a number of reasons:
1. First of all, hundreds of people are joining Clickbank as affiliates each and every day so the competition among fellow marketers is much more intense for Clickbank merchandise as opposed to affiliates marketing Amazon’s physical goods. Less competition, of course, means a much smoother path to closing a sale and depending on your level of effort and your marketing experience it should mean more sales and profits in a shorter time period than when competing for a Clickbank sale.
2. There are literally tens of thousands of products on Amazon which means no matter what hungry niche you uncover you shouldn’t have any problem finding the product you want to satisfy your potential customer’s needs on their website. If you’re looking for something different to promote then their wide ranging selection should provide just the right good you need to advertise to your new market.
3. Because of the lack of competition among Amazon affiliates you will find that the market is virtually unsaturated. In other words, marketers aren’t stepping over one another trying to reach their chosen niche before someone else gets there with their product.
4. Physical goods seem to be a much easier sale to close than selling digital merchandise. People aren’t as suspicious of material products as is the case with digital goods. Because your potential buyers can actually see what they’re getting they seem to be much more comfortable ordering these products online than purchasing the unknown digital variety of product. This of course makes your pre-selling process much shorter thus saving time and allowing you to move on to the next prospect.
5. The beauty of promoting Amazon merchandise is all you have to do is drive traffic to their website via your affiliate link and they take care of the rest including paying your commission. Sometimes a potential customer will just browse through their inventory of products and purchase something totally unrelated to their original intended search thus making additional sales for you without any additional effort on your behalf.
Promoting Amazon products is virtually unchartered territory when it comes to affiliate marketing which translates into virtually no competition in most niches making this home business opportunity a no-brainer for people just beginning their affiliate marketing career on the web.