Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I have several inventions (some designs, some prototyped) that have a lot of potential (I’m not some moron who’s inventing snuggy pt.II I’m actually an engineer with an ok business background so I’ve vetted my “sellable” ideas and ditched the “will never make it” pipe dreams.
Unfortunately I have a full time job and can’t afford to “walk away and persue my inventor dream” I have too many responsibilities that are tied to my paycheck. It seems all the web pages/literature (even the experts at Eureka Ranch) basically say “If you don’t do it yourself you’ll never make any money” A concept that I find impossible to believe.
Is there a company that will vett my idea, and if it passes first round then just take the lion’s share of any money that comes from it? I’d be happy with 10-20% of revenue and Name recognition (some of my inventions for the disabled I’d just settle for name recognition)
Every single “Inventors/Invention” company I’ve looked at is a scam, they’re all companies that just want to sell you a boilerplate portfolio and/or different levels of patenting.
I’ve watched about 10 ideas that I’ve had over the course of the last 7 years turn into money makers for someone else (I have poor man’s patents but a lawyer will laugh at those, I only did that in order to have proof of my ability. So surely this can’t be the only niche in the world where there’s not a company ready and willing to exploit me and my ability to make more money for themselves?
Any help, pointers, links?

Hey, I have been trying to make a buck on the net just like you and have not had much luck except for spending all of my money. So I told my self I would not waste any more money to these online GURU’S. I cought my self spending more money online but only one more time and this was the last program/software i bought. (Mass Money Makers – Proven to convert by over 7,551 affiliates.) FINALY i found something that works.
Best of luck

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In today’s article, we’re going to take a close look at how to pinpoint the most profitable niches.

Affiliate marketing starts and ends with finding the right niche to market in. It’s pretty simple, really. You find a hotbed of buying activity and you plant yourself firmly there to market as many hot products as possible to a very active market of potential customers.

It’s worked for hundreds of marketers who have become very, very rich. But, let’s face it – when you’re getting started, nothing is ever quite that easy.

So, I want to delve deeper into the idea of niche research, along with the mistakes that so many of us tend to make over and over again. Because, when you can eliminate those mistakes, life gets much easier and the profits are more consistent.

The Niche Research No-Nos

First up, let’s take a closer look at what so many starting affiliate marketers do wrong. At the very top of the list, and something I’ve been preaching against for years is diversification. Of the super affiliates I’ve met, the vast majority (pretty much all of them, including myself), make their profits almost entirely from one or two niches.

Yup, that’s right, it’s exactly as it sounds. They spend hours a day working on just dog training, or just marriage advice or just weight loss. They find a profitable audience and they hit them up over and over again with different products, sites, and selling points.

Second, as you might have guessed, they stuck to the big niches – the evergreen ones that have always been solid money makers. Sure, they experiment a little bit, but only enough to check out other niches, not so much that they dilute their income from big one or two niches. Which niches are considered the “big niches”?

Weight loss, making money, satellite TV on PC, muscle gain, self help, anti-spyware, forex, and money online. People are always looking for new products in these niches, so you cannot cannibalize your sales, nor can you run out of warm leads. Of those niches, weight loss and fitness are the biggest across the board, with making money coming in at a close second.

Finding Your Niches and Products

Of course, just saying “try out the stuff that works” isn’t very helpful, so I want to go into a bit more detail on what you can promote and how to make your selection. Lucky for you, I have a couple of methods I like to use that have always been highly successful for me.

In terms of finding product ideas, I usually stick to Clickbank and Amazon. On occasion, I will also use Google to review possible affiliate networks in greater depth.

Amazon.com Research

Let’s start with Amazon.com. I start here because I want to first find a niche that has a large buying base. You can always find a product in Clickbank with high gravity, but even before that I want to identify the breadth of a potential audience first. You’ll see why very shortly.

To start with, visit Amazon.com and start reviewing products and topics in niches that you are interested in. This is very important, because you’ll be spending a lot of your time investing in that niche, especially if it becomes one of your big two niches.

So, be sure it’s something you’re willing to write about and market extensively for months to come. If you could care less about weight loss or are afraid of dogs, those might not be the best paths to success.

With that in mind, start searching on Amazon for books, products, and other niche products. Your goal here is to find products with at least 20 reviews. Why just 20 reviews?

Considering the fact that Amazon estimates only 1 in 1000 people actually review something they buy from their site, a product with 20 reviews is likely to have been purchased by at least 20,000 people – that’s a huge market, especially if it’s just one product in an information niche.

If you can find multiple products in the same niche that all have 20