I have 2 websites based on two CJ products in the Garden section. And I am making no sales at all. I know my websites are pretty good because they have good rankings, I get a decent number of links from other websites and I also receive emails from my visitors thanking me for the information I provide to them. I've made reviews of the companies I promote, and their products. I sent about 30-40 visitors a day to the websites I promote. This have been going on for a few months now; I sent them thousands and thousands of visitors and still no sales. I am also promoting only reputable companies that have a high EPC so I don't think it's the company's fault. My guess is that I am not promoting the right products. One products is fairly large and the shipping is pretty big (this may be one of the reasons) and the other one is small, shipping is low, but you can find the product anywhere. For example, who would buy a lantern/flashlight online? Why wouldn't you just go to your local store and get one? Why would you buy common products, that you can find at your local store online? So my questions is: what type of products do you promote? Products that are hard to find at your local store? Products that are small and have low shipping? What's the catch? Thank you
you should study more on your niche. put yourself in the potential buyer shoes. what are you looking for ? which is hard to get from the local store. in other word unique. agreed with you the lantern/flashlight is not really a good item to promote. the fee also too small. water fountain has a good potential. study the subject and try to break it even further. the more specific you are the better. good luck.
Might be that the the merchant's website is not converting the visitors into buyers at a high enough rate. I agree with the comment above to study the niche further and build additional pages of content on your site.
You probably have done this, but just in case you haven't- have you recently checked your links to make sure they are all coded correctly to track commissions? In answer to your actual question, I think Bjuk's advice about studying the nice was good. I tend to promote products that I personally buy, or would like to buy, online. I'm an artist and I buy a lot of art and craft supplies, so I am usually pretty familiar with the products I link to. This is not a good way to get rich, by the way. I really wish I had expertise in higher paying niches like real estate!
I did study my niche, my visitors are very targeted and I know what they want to buy. I did not build the website first and then choose which products to promote. I first chose the products and build the website around them. So if I were to promote water fountains, I would make an informative website around water fountains. It would only be common sense that the people that visit this website, are interested in water fountains right? So it's not whether or not I am promoting the right products to my visitors, because I think I do. My questions was what kind of physical products do better online?
Hi there, I get the impression these are products you have a passion for. Then it will probably be easier for your to put yourself in the position of a buyer of these products and think in terms of will they buy this product online or why should they buy this product from my site. If it's too much of a specialized product then the task becomes a little tougher because you may have a very specialized audience too that you must seek out and get them to your site. Just my 2¢.
Here are some more random thoughts... All gardeners need seeds, right? So, find a way to promote seeds. No, this will not make you huge money. Seeds are cheap. Commissions on seeds would probably be pennies. But, sales are likely to trickle in, and some penny sales are better than no sales. Pennies eventually add up to dollars... Just FYI. I bought some organic heirloom seeds on ebay recently. (I wanted to be sure I was getting GMO free seeds.) In the world of industrial agriculture, genetically modified organisms and "terminator" seeds are an issue. Not sure if this has become an issue to the average gardener yet, but if it hasn't it might. I am concerned about it, personally. Ask your average gardener where to get GMO free heirloom seeds, and they might not know. If you tell them where to get them and why they should buy them, maybe they'll buy...
My website is about aerophonics. For those of you that don't know what aerophonics is: the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate media. I am promoting different aerophonic systems (different system are good for different plants). I am also promoting different lightning systems and nutrients. These are all hard to find at you local store. I have about 80 articles on my website. I write about which system is good for which plant, what lightning systems to use, how to make your own system (and I recommend merchants that sell different components) etc. Hope everything is more clear now. Any thoughts why I am not making any sales?
Well...I'm no expert, but it sounds to me like you are doing everything right. Seems like you should be making some sales. I'd say just hang in there and keep on keeping on. You'll probably make sales soon, I hope! Best wishes for lots of them!
Very specialized indeed. There are some "experts" who'll tell you that some niches are just too small to spend your time on. I don't know if your niche is small or big, only you can answer that. As for your target market, do you know where they "hang out"? Forums? Social communities? Membership sites? If you know where they are, that's where you should probably concentrate your marketing efforts. Just my 2¢.
it seems like you have a website that is providing good content and you're getting the right visitors. One thing you can do, is read those emails that the adv sends to your inbox, put those promotion links on your site. like... 'take advantage before 12/31' - hope that helps.