By Jared Lu

Finding the right product to promote is essential to succeed with affiliate marketing. There are thousands of internet-marketing products out there, but only a few can make you money. Some products are horrible and don't work as promised. Another product might be very good, but its landing page is bad so visitors are scared away. To make money with affiliate marketing, you need to find a product that's proven to sell well. Why sell something that nobody is buying?

To find that right product to promote, we're going to use the Clickbank affiliate network. While there are many excellent affiliate networks out there, Clickbank is one of the best for beginners. They have an enormous selection of affiliate marketing products to sell, they always send your checks on time, and it is easy to get accepted into the network. Unlike other networks that make you apply to promote specific offers, Clickbank lets you promote every offer on their network immediately.

The first thing to do when choosing a product to promote, is to think about a niche. The best way to do this is to brainstorm on a piece of paper 5-10 areas you think you would be interested in. When promoting a product, you will be doing a lot of research and writing about it, so make sure the topics you write down aren't something that will bore you to death.

Once you have everything written down, go login to your Clickbank account and visit the Marketplace section. Clickbank has its products separated into categories, so choose an appropriate category and perform a search for each of your topics. In the search results, you will see a list of products that Clickbank sells that best match your search term. Underneath each product description, you will see a list of different metrics.

The key metric to look at, is the product's gravity score. Gravity basically tells you how many affiliates have made sales with this product recently. If many people are making sales with this product then this says you can probably do well selling this product as well. Usually I try and pick a product with a gravity score over 35. The other metric to look at is the dollars per sale. If you are going to use pay per click marketing to promote your product, then pick a payout greater than $30 per sale. This allows you to cover your advertising expenses and still make a decent profit.

Using the two metrics mentioned above, note down the products that satisfy these criteria. Now pick the product that you would be most interested in researching about and selling. You already know that other affiliates are doing well with these products, so the key here is picking the product that will keep your interest so you can promote it successfully. This is the first step to becoming a successful affiliate marketer.

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