Now that you have the tools, and you know what type of products you
want to market, where do you find the best ones that have affiliate
programs? Well, there are multiple places that you can start looking,
depending on what your objective is. You must know what your objective
is first.
If you plan to use affiliate programs as add-ons, such as upsells or
backends to a product that you have, or another high ticket product that
you are promoting, you may want to look for inexpensive ‘lead in’ or
entry level products, such as ebooks.
ClickBank at www.clickbank.com is one of the best places to find
affiliate programs for information products.
If you want to promote hard goods, meaning goods that are delivered
via a shipping company or postal mail, there are many different places
you can look. First, let’s cover sites that are essentially directories
of affiliate programs.
AffiliatePrograms.com
Link Share
Commission Junction
Share-A-Sale
Performics
Fine Clicks
Web Sponsors
ClixGalore
QuinStreet
MaxBounty
The majority of these sites are networks, where many different
affiliate programs are managed. This allows you to promote a large
number of affiliate products and services, and to receive one check for
all sales across the network.
Alternately, you can use Google to search for products that you are
interested in promoting, and visit those sites to see if they have
affiliate programs. This is usually ideal for more specialized products.
Also, if you don’t see a link for an affiliate program on the site you
are interested in promoting, use the contact email that is usually
provided to inquire about the possibility of an affiliate program, or an
affiliate arrangement with the company