The best product to promote is whatever is making you money. Only trial and error will tell you this Good luck!
This really depends on a lot of factors. Do you already have a website in a certain niche? If so I'd try to find a product that fits into it before building a whole new website for another niche.
The best product for you is where you make alot of money! Try to find a product with a good conversion like 1 signup for 20-25 hits.
1 : 25 would be awesome. I can only give a few tips: I stay a way from big mainstream products like KW Elite, Affiliate Elite, Rocket-Spanish etc...its just totally insane what people bid on those eg for PPC. You can however write articles, blogs etc. about those very known products and hope to make some sales. But IMHO wasted energy. Clickbank has some VERY nice niches, some products with very, very nice keywords to be found Also...it doesnt hurt to look here on the forum, there are people who have products which are great and never ever anyone heard anything about them. But they also have great search volume for their keywords and some are VERY good niches!
i think it depends on experience also.. make money and weight loss are not for beginners niche products with little competition allows you to bid less on PPC
First of all, you can make money with any niche product. It only depends on how well you promote and how good your salesmanship is. Focus on one niche area fist. Pick something that you are interested in. Then promote the hell out of it. Use everything you can think of, from websites, forums, email, blogs, squidoo, article submissions, social bookmarking, myspace, facebook, youtube, ebay, landing pages with email subscription, PPC (if you want to pay), and etc. Research keywords, demographics (US only, world-wide, younger generation, baby boomers [they spend the most money], and educational level), product saturation, variability of product niche, and accessibility of product knowledge (if the information is already feely distributed on the internet). Then interconnect everything (web links with variable, keyword rich anchor text). Finally, when your website and blog are SEOed, submit your website to every search engine and ping your blog. And if you want to, use a website translating tool so that it can be accessible in the 14 main languages. Next step, work on a new niche area. Then repeat process over and over. You will find out at the end that there is no "best selling product," (it might be a better seller for a short period of time). If a niche product is listed in any affiliate network, then it will sell. If it could not sell, then it would not be there. To answer your original question, my best selling product (currently, this year) is Joanaguide and the other World of Warcraft informational products. In due time, this will change, as with any new fad. I’m just riding the wave until it dissipates.
As an affiliate I would NEVER venture to the "micro niches" simply because of the size of the market you have to deal with. By promoting other people's stuff, you want to make sure that you can make enough to justify your time marketing it, so it's got to have a pool of people large enough to suffice your thirst for cash flow. @Chaos4u - I totally understand your point about if a product is in an affiliate network then it has to be worth promoting but I have to say that this statement is totally unfounded and, in my eyes, untrue. Anyone can list a product in an affiliate network like CB. You don't have to be a multi-million $ company or even an experienced marketer, you just need a few dollars for admin fees and that's it. Therefore, there are hundreds of crappy products in affiliate networks which are quite simply not worth your time one bit.
Point taken... peeg is correct. Not every product will sell, but every heavy niche group will sell. A stand alone, singular niche product might not have a shot at monetization. I guess, if there is, say a dozen, products that promote a particular niche, then there is a market for it. I was a little too vague on my last post. When you start promoting niche after niche, there will never be a time when you can say that you are finished. You will never promote the small, minuscule niche products. The internet is dynamic, always evolving. There will always be something new; a new idea, a new technique, game, marketing strategy, whatever. When you just finish promoting the top product, there will be the next top product. I hope this clarifies a little of the misunderstanding. Thank you peeg for pointing that out. One more thing... It's almost midnight here in Germany and today I had another marketing epiphany, so I've been drinking quite a bit in self-celebration. It's sad really. I drink in solitaire.
My post was just meant to pass opinion I'm not saying that you should never promote niche products because you never know - you might have found a very hot niche or something, but as a rule of thumb - if there are several products in the network AND those products are popular (Alexa rank, etc) then you can almost be sure which ones are the converters and which aren't. Out of interest, may I ask what you're celebrating in marketing - did you hit a new target?
>>> By promoting other people's stuff, you want to make sure that you can make enough to justify your time marketing it, >>> Now just speaking from a PPC point of view (NOT saying that PPC is ultimately the best for this...but) 1) Cloning a site and having a web-presence for any product, eg. any ClickBank product: 7 mins (see my sig..blatant pitch ) 2) Setting up a PPC cmapaing for that site: Another 5 mins. <--- "Ghetto Marketing" but it works sometimes "Time marketing" ???? I can market my grandma or whatever you like in under 15mins...ok, this is PPC now...but hardly any time worth mentioning I compensate by volume...on avg one/two new sites a day..i see something interesting....zinnng....15mins later i have the site up and PPC running. If i see it runs well i leave the campaign, if not i delete and grab any other product/niche. I really dont have the patience or time to make a full blown PR/marketing campaign now for whatever product, eg. social bookmarking, squidoo, whatever. I do that for my own products, sure. But not for 3rd party products i promote. I make sure the get picked up from the search engines tho..but thats about it. Really no patience to write an article about acne cure, "female" diseases or similiar
You're marketing model focuses heavily on PPC whilst I shy away from that to focus on building a sustainable, long-term network of brandable sites which capture an audience in the niche. Although I applaud the use of PPC to test markets, I would not use it for any length of time due to the sheer amount of work involved in maintaining AND the added risk of not getting any sales. For me, writing articles, blog posts, testing copy on site, building a brand is all part of affiliate marketing. That's why I am concerned about time factors
Patience is the essence to success. My epiphany…. Well, lets say, … This is harder than Hades for me to type right now because of my complete inebriation. Anyways, here it goes. I live in a remote village where technology is something of a mystery. I cannot convey my passion, my internet success, or computers in general. My wife does not want me to tell her anything that has to do with computers, internet, or “online†ideas. She thinks that it is just a complete bore and waste of social life. I found a way…no, I figured out a way that I can also not have my wife ever work again and have enough residual revenue that financial problems will only be a thing of history. Well, I have never had financial problems, but if I did. I currently don’t work because she makes enough money…government people always seem to get paid more. And also, I have a… I don’t know how to say this…a history. I was federally incarcerated for one of my other “business ventures.†It was only white collar, so no big deal. Just a couple weeks of solitary confinement and 4 months of “general population†confinement. And my wife, she tells me that I am not allowed to do anything remotely illegal. So, I don’t anymore. With all of this being said…I had to find a way to legally make money without the physically aspect, mainly because I can’t get a job. So, I did. I will not start this next venture until late December or early January, during the holidays. If I am successful…then I will immodestly display my earnings as an example of the possibilities for online marketing. I am not sure if I will let anyone else know my idea or not because the potential is too great. There is always something out there, and from my first sentence…patience is the essence to success. One last thing, I know I am long-winded, and I am sorry for going out on a tangent in this thread.