Affiliate Marketing Research Tips for When You Are Getting Started!

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When you are starting a new business it can be a bit overwhelming
especially an online business when you are doing it on your own.
You will not know the best route to follow.

Here are a few things you must know.
How to research niches and find the best one for you.
How to source the best products and which ones will give you the best commissions.
Who are the people to follow that you can trust.
What keywords to target.

However there are some things
that can help you with your research online.

Researching niches is very straight forward.
What you are looking for is competition.
Some people will look at the competition
and feel that there is no way that they can have a chance of success.
But competition really means
that it is a healthy niche with enough for everyone.
If you find a niche that has no competition
then it probably means that there is no interest in it
and that means no sales and no commissions.

Look on the bookshelves in your local bookshop
and notice what non-fiction topics are to the fore.
These are the best sellers, the hot niches.
Go to the magazine section and read the covers
these are your best selling headlines.

You’ll see everything from running to nutrition to needlecraft.
The big magazine publishers are at the cutting edge of what is selling well.

Online news sites give lots of good insight into niches too.
Major news sites like FoxNews and CNN
have categories for science, technology, health and lifestyle.
Keep an eye on those to track what’s happening in your niche.

Also you can set up a Google Alert
so that you get an email when a new alert for your topic crops up.

When you are doing your product research
you will need to drill down a bit.
You first want to go to sites like Ubersuggest
and see what your audience wants to know about the product.
Enter the product name or niche topic
and the tool will come up with the best results.
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You can then go to the product creators website and check the product.
You can download reviews and testimonials and facts to use on your blog.
You can get product images and maybe a video snippet.

If it’s a product you can find locally just go into the store
and look at the product and try it out for yourself.
Take some pictures or make a video to put on your website.

If you are thinking of promoting a digital product
make sure you check up on the product creator.
You can check their social media accounts.
Look at their blog and see what sort of interaction
they have with their visitors
Look at their Twitter account and Facebook Page.

Your keyword research is most important.
It is however made easy with free and paid tools that are readily available.
Ubersuggest is a great tool, as is Google Keyword Planner.
You can also invest in paid tools like Market Samurai
which will show you the competition and profit potential of a niche.

As with everything else about affiliate marketing there is a lot to learn.
But it is far more important to put your knowledge into practise.
Keep doing and trying things and before long you too will be a pro.