Hey hey guys… yet another of the Ask Kirsty questions I’ve been trying to catch up with! Mike recently sent me a question about promoting make money online e-books as a first niche option. I thought it was a really interesting question because these kinds of programmes are the first things a lot of would be affiliates hear about when they try to find out how to make money at this game.

Hello Kirsty

Best regards
Mike

Hello Mike.

Now, I think what you are asking here is a really good question. The reason being, a lot of would-be affiliates get drawn into this area when the start out. This is because the first time they tend to search for something like “make money at affiliate marketing” they have hundreds of e-books thrown at them as examples of how to make money online.

What these schemes basically want you to do is sell their product to other people in exactly the same position you are in right now. Now, ask yourself this… how many e-books have you bought? I bet its not many! E-books are actually very difficult products to market (affiliates are also least likely to buy via an affiliate link).

I have many, many doubts about the ethics of a lot of e-books and make money products. Now, don’t get me wrong there are guys out there selling bonafide useful information, but there are also a lot of products which make promises that are basically lies. Promises such as “6 figure is easy” and “fully automated” are just there to milk the unwary of their money. They actually make my blood boil, so if you did choose to market e-books I would hope you’d only promote genuinely useful tools. I believe It’s important for every new affiliate to know and accept that they have alot of hard work in front of them.

I think it would be far better to go down the product related route. Make money products are hugely competitive and you would most likely struggle with making SEO and PPC work(if you dared open your wallet!). If you find a niche without a great deal of competition you are much more likely to have some success and also to hone your skills as an affiliate.

Here are some previous Ask Kirsty’s about finding a niche and setting up your first site that might help you out: -

http://www.affiliatestuff.co.uk/getting-started-as-an-affiliate/ask-kirsty-how-do-i-find-my-first-affiliate-niche/

http://www.affiliatestuff.co.uk/getting-started-as-an-affiliate/what-size-of-affiliate-site-effective-content-ask-kirsty/

Take care

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