The Awful Mistake Most Beginners Make in Affiliate Marketing

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One of the worst mistake most new to affiliate marketing, or any online business for the matter, make is choosing the wrong niche to compete in. You may have come across affiliate marketing when you are looking up on ways making money online witout a product, and purchase an eBook on Internet Marketing.

Turns out that the eBook is an affiliate product itself, and most of internet marketing techniques are explained by promoting the eBook itself as an example. After reading through, you come away impressed, and decide to follow the example and market the eBook as an affiliate marketer yourself.

Bad idea! The Internet Marketing niche has been heavily saturated, and you will be cutting your chances of success. Google turns up 488 MILLION sites on internet marketing. What chance do you have against the heavy weights in this industry?

That's why deciding on a niche is often the first make or break point of your business online. Here are the reasons why you should find a tight niche market to compete in.

Easier to compete

As I have said in above, competing with less than 400 thousand websites is definitely MUCH easier than to compete with more 400 MILLION websites. You have understand that opening a small grocery store next to Walmart is suicidal.

Find something which most websites on the Internet do not offer. When you do find something different, a niche, to sell, your website will definitely shine out brighter to those who are looking for what you are offering.

Easier to learn and recognized as an expert

Which scenario is better; shouting to get attention in the middle of a quiet night or in the middle of a rock concert?

Search the web for information. Visit forums where your prospective customers congregate and observe. Hunt down the experts and talk with them. Buy or borrow books on them.

All the research that is necessary to be knowledgeable in any field. However, it's certainly much easier to become an expert in a niche area with fewer key players around. You may not be the best, but your prospects in the niche with fewer experts around will come to recognize you as one of them.

Easier to focus your marketing on

Once you have identified your target audience and understand their language, it's much easier to produce effective promotional ads which focus solely on them, instead of having to produce one trying to get its message across to different groups of people.

If you try to reach out and promote to different groups of people simultaneously, chances are you will leave your prospects wondering what you are trying to say. It's like mixing Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French and German together in this article and getting you to understand what I'm talking about.

Conclusion

Finding the ideal niche is critical to ensure the first step success for any of your online businesses.

However, finding the ideal niche is not everything. You must proceed to learn which internet marketing technique you want to concentrate on, how to create great content for your information hungry visitors, how to build and design easy to navigate websites...It will be wise for you to find out more.

Building a successful online business is like a jig-saw puzzle. All the pieces must fit, and finding the correct niche is just one of the first few. Learn as much as you can, and before long you will have all the right pieces fall into place.

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Article Author: Thien Kai Wei

Kai Wei is sharing his online ventures and experiences through his blog at <a href="http://www.InternetMarketing4Noobs.com" target="_blank">Internet Marketing 4 Noobs</a> to let visitors to get a feel of what building an online business is like.

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[gobbo mon]

Thankyou, very interesting. It's puts a new angle on what to actually get into at the moment.

 

[dh7448]

I agree totally. It'd definitely alot easier to compete with a hundred thousand sites than it is to compete with 4 million people all trying to sell the same thing.

 

[Andy Choopa]

Very good advice right there

 

[DerkThunder]

great advice. Thanks much.

 

[Meanna Blog]

I absoltely agree, i've been running a Make Money Online blog for over a year now with very little reward (apart from the huge learning). It is way too competitive.

However now, I want to take all that knowledge into a niche i've been thinking about.

Thing is. I need some help working out whether the niche is profitable. How do I do that without someone knicking the idea???

 

[Anomaly]

Nice article ...

to throw another angle on things ... my first sale came from the renewable energy niche back when it was just a baby in July ... as a less-than-a-month noob back then i didn't really know how to capitalise on my success, but i at least made some money out of it ...

now the niche has exploded and with the big boys in its a lot harder to make sales ... hence i've started looking for other smaller but promising niches, with the hope that for any that take off i am better able to exploit the increasing demand

 

[myfreelance]

It is really hard to find a niche today that has not been exploited by many. People are always on the look for the newest craze to be first one to make the most out of it. Then the next thing they knew everyone is a member and the competition gets tough.

 

[jbirdmanjr]

400 million?

Thats alot of NEW people trying to get in to the Internet Marketing Niche. Does that mean there are more potential customers in that Niche as well? So with bigger Niches there are alot more customers, and with smaller niches there alot less customers.

 

[dangregory]

Well, I used to think about it that way - always avoid niches with big competition.

The problem is that there is huge money being spent in those niches. Huge traffic. Tons of buyers.

So what I tend to do is to focus on both a sub-niche within a large niche and the large niche itself - both on one site.

The sub-niche has a more narrow focus and the large niche is the top level topic that might take years to get traffic for.

The goal for me is to build the site over time as an authority site by either posting articles in the back related to that bigger niche or on a blog on an internal directory of the site.

Meanwhile, the pages I've posted which focus on the sub-niche usually start making me money right away.

Focus on a mixture of small and large related niches on one site can be very successful, even in big niches like making money online or weight loss. So there are many ways to skin a cat.

Dan

 

[growingtrees]

hi there....

Very interesting post. I think the biggest mistake people make is while selecting an affiliate. they sometimes doesnt search enough and join programs without knowing the program.

Actually the basis of choosing affiliate should be based on:
1. The reputation and popularity of the product and company
2. The commission structure.
3. Relevancy of product with your blogs or site.
4. The terms and conditions of the affiliates.

Cheers

 

[PPCguySCOTT]

I think I've let this cat out of the bag before, but if you want to find a cool new niche, one strategy is to look up the convention center in your nearest metropolitan area and get a schedule of events for the next few months.

What you will find are lists of conventions and conferences where people come from all over the country or all over the world to learn more about and share common interests.

Hmmmmnnnnn????? Large groups of people All interested in the same thing Probably have to buy something related to that special common interest sometime Might call that a niche huh?

You'll be amazed at what people assemble for and usually the more bizzare, the more crazed the market is and you can bet in today's society, they all shop for things related to that niche online.

Run Forest Run.............

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Your words of wisdom will be added to the 5 Star Hall of Fame.

"I think I've let this cat out of the bag before, but if you want to find a cool new niche, one strategy is to look up the convention center in your nearest metropolitan area and get a schedule of events for the next few months."

 

[Linda Buquet]

Hmmm, really smart tip Scott. Lots of opportunity with passionate groups of raving fans
which is what lots of convention goers happen to be.

 

[Larwee]

That was a great tip and a great post, Scott.

I have added it to our Hall of Fame.