Step 2: Find Affiliate Products to Promote

Head to my two favorite places – ClickBank and PayDotCom. Those aren’t the only two affiliate communities available – you also have the chance to market tangible items through sites like Amazon, for example. There are many others but let’s get started with these for now! (see recommended resources)

In ClickBank, I can instantly see a whole list of affiliate options when I type in (in quotes) “dog training.” The ClickBank products you see almost all pay out at over $20.00 per sale.

You want to go through and review each sales letter to see if you feel it will convert well. Then use the Create Hoplink to create a file of your affiliate links. You’ll want to cloak them, of course – but have the raw link on file for your own records. There are 30 products listed on ClickBank at the time of this writing specifically for dog training.

Next head to PayDotCom and check out what’s there. (see recommended resources )

Now you can go with smaller, more niche specific products to promote, or go with a more broad dog training product that has a higher price tag (and ultimately more commission for you).

In the PayDotCom system, you see products specific to each breed, but you also see a $97 product with a 50% payout that covers dog training in general. You’ll want to pick and choose among the pages of product possibilities based on how you set up your email capture system to promote your free report.

If you have a site specifically for Pekingese dog owners, then go with that e-Book. But mix it up and see if the higher priced product converts better with the same crowd. You want to give them many choices on what they buy … and make more successful sales!

If you decide you do want to promote tangibles, go to Amazon and see what types of things are available in your niche. Conducting a quick scan for dog training, I find print books, dog training collars, DVDs, whistles, clickers and more.

Step 3: Set Up Your Home on the Web

It can be a WordPress blog on your own domain or a minisite with a squeeze page on it or a full-on content site with hundreds of articles – a WordPress.org blog is the easiest one to install and you can easily find a theme to match your niche’s subject out of the hundreds of free theme offered on the WordPress.org site. (see recommended resources)

You will need a domain name and the first choice is between dot.com, dot.net, dot.org that cost around $9 to $10. A dot info domain only cost $1 to $2 and some people believe in them …  it does seem that when that option is seen through a non marketer’s eye it doesn’t matter.

I asked several of my non-marketing friends about domain extensions “You know how there is dot.com and dot.net and dot.org? What do you think of when you hear about a dot.info domain? What would you consider that site to be?”

All of them said they’d consider it an information website – an authority site. They wouldn’t expect to see a sales letter there (consumers avoid sites they think will do nothing but sell to them if they’re just searching for information). They like to find valuable information that’s not biased.

So let’s think about that, then. If you, as an affiliate, have a dot.info domain and you construct it PROPERLY with good information so that when they land, they see value and get freebies in exchange for opting to your list, they’re going to have a good first impression of your site.

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