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Live Clickbank Niche Case Study – Part 1 Finding A Niche!
By Franck | January 5, 2009
I’m happy to start this clickbank case study, I will put one hour per day five days a week into this project.
Build 10 of these niche affiliate sites, and if each of them earns $200, you are at $2000 per month.
Note that many people charge thousands of dollars for course that don’t have 1/10th of what I am going to teach you. You’d have to get many products to get everything together.
The beauty of this system is that one your niche site is up and running, you can start the next one since there is very little maintenance.
If you want a proven plan that you can replicate over and over to make money on the Internet, this is it.
There are many ways to earn on the Internet, and this model is how I got started. I have so many friends offline who ask me how I earn money on the web that I decided to show how I do it.
And …
There are many tools to earn money on the Internet. In my tutorial, I’ll show you what I (or any of my students) use with success. I’ll keep everything simple, because all you want is to get started. The details can come afterward.
The KEY to earn money on the Internet is to start with ONE model and stick to it. Do not try to do everything at the same time because this won’t work. Most of the people earning a lot of money on the web outsource the “non-money-making” work.
If you are on a shoestring (I was when I started), you can do almost everything without spending money. If you are more experienced, you can outsource everything to speed up the process.
I really hope that you enjoy following my tutorial (I am) and learn valuable things for your web business.
Before you start, I hope you already read my “7 Deadly Affiliate Mistake” report. If not, just subscribe to my blog to download it.
Let’s start…
Niche Marketing Case Study (Start 5 Jan 2009)
MODULE 1. Finding a money making niche.
This is where everything should start.
Most of my students tell me that they are stuck at this point.
Heck, believe me, in 2006 I wasn’t getting it. But a niche is nothing complicated.
What’s a niche?
Keeping things simple, I say:
A niche is a group of people with the same:
- interests
- hobbies
- problems
This is it.
How I find my niche?
I will pick three niches that are already proven to make money, and use a quick 4 step process to see what I choose.
I prefer highly competitive niches because people are already earning money…
My final choice will be the niche that have a big potential… or just the easier niche to go after.
Here is what I am doing right now:
Step 1: Clickbank Marketplace (Getting ideas for my niche)
If you don’t know clickbank, it’s an affiliate network. It’s a place that brings vendors (also called merchants) and affiliates together. In a nutshell, merchants find affiliates to promote their products, and affiliates find products to promote.
A. I just went here (open in new window): http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm
clickbank marketplace home
B. Researching my profitable niche
On this page, you can see that there are many markets: I will click on Home & Family
Many Main Markets
C. Checking profitablility
For this, I will just look at the gravity of the products on this page.
What does gravity means?
Clickbank says on this page (open in new window): http://www.clickbank.com/ranking.html
Gravity: Number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission by referring a paying customer to the publisher’s products. This is a weighted sum and not an actual total. For each affiliate paid in the last 8 weeks we add an amount between 0.1 and 1.0 to the total. The more recent the last referral, the higher the value added.
I say: Gravity indicate you how many affiliates made a sale during the last two weeks… BUT you need to know that some “savvy” or “blackhat” marketers can inflate this gravity.
Why?
Because they pertinently know that more affiliates will promote their product.
Now that you know what gravity means, let’s continue …
You can see that I added a red elipse around the gravity number.
Clicbank Gravity
I like choosing niches with products with high gravity because I know that other affiliates are already making a lot of sales.
Clickbank Gravity
There are 10 results on this page.
As you can see, in the Home & Family market, these are the top results.
I went ahead and added all these products/gravity together:
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Earth 4 Energy
410.10
Home Made Energy
93.82
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Unlimited Wii Downloads
259.12
My Wii Downloads
127.82
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Reverse Phone Detective
502.51
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Gov-Resources.com
218.61
Government-Records.com
136.69
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Rocket Spanish
89.17
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Kingdom Of Pets: Dog Training
121.96
It’s interesting to see that all these are decent numbers.
I went ahead and clicked on page two and found out that there are many other gov records products (I don’t have a clue about this market) with a gravity between 60 and 100 which is a good number.
There are also two other Rocket languages product (Learn German and Learn French).
Then, on page three, there are other dating and wedding products.
What I will do now?
Since I already have a site in the Learn French market and one in the Renewable energy market, so I will not go for these niches.
I took a note of these 3 markets:
- Wii Downloads
- Gov Records
- Reverse Phone Lookup
D. Looking in other clickbank categories
I just look in other categories to find if I find some other products with high gravity. l make a search in the other top categories (like I did above – from point B to C).
I found some interesting in the Computing & Internet category.
See screenshot below:
Clickbank Computing & Internet
Computing & Internet
I found 4 interesting niches to go after:
- Registry
- Spyware/Adware
- Satellite Tv For Pc & Mobile
- World of Warcraft
I’m done with clickbank!
I know that affiliates are making sales in all these markets, and in the next step, I will try to choose a winner by researching on Google.
I have now a total of 7 markets to work with:
- Wii Downloads
- Gov Records
- Reverse Phone Lookup
- Registry
- Spyware/Adware
- Satellite Tv For Pc & Mobile
- World of Warcraft
I don’t have a clue about these markets, except the registry and spyware. I know people making money in these markets, so I may just go for them. I will see.
Next Blog Post: Step 2: Searching for my market in Google.
Stay tuned …
Franck.
PS. Your Homework (for those who are following):
1. Go to clickbank.com
2. Find at least 3 markets to go after.
3. Wait for my next post
Note: All the posts will be added in the Clickbank Case Study category of this blog.
If you have any question, just leave your comments below.
Update: I’ve added all the links to the case study below (links open in a new window):
1. Introduction the the niche marketing case study
2. How To Find A Profitable Niche
3. Checking The Niche Popularity
4. Ckecking Niche Profitablity
5. Choosing My Money Making Niche
6. Learning More About The Spyware Niche
8. Getting Website Content And Backlink Strategy Starts
About The Author:
Franck Silvestre is a full time Internet and affiliate marketer who teaches others how to create an online business at http://www.mynetmarketingland.com
Topics: clickbank case study | 32 Comments »
January 5th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Thanks for the comments…beneficial information.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
1. Jamorama
2. Zune Download
3. Gamer Testing Ground
Looking forward to the next post. I think one of the biggest things I don’t understand is how a person even begins to compete in the highly saturated, money making niches. From what I’ve gathered it’s all about picking keywords that haven;t been used yet and drawing in the traffic that way.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
i also consider %ref criteria in choosing my niche in clickbank. %ref is the percentage of the sales that originated from affiliates only. so, if the number is 85% – means that 85% of the total sales of the product from clickbank are from affiliates.
i’ll be following this series and maybe learn more about clickbank products marketing. very informative indeed.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Hey,
@ Rodney, glad that you like it.
@ Eric, well done. As for being saturated, it’s not a problem and everyone can have his share of the pie. The bigger the market, the bigger your share!
@ manuel, %ref criteria can help as well. Thanks.
Franck
January 5th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I’m looking forward to more of your blog. I have started a few niches and have had some success, but I am always looking for new information that I may be missing.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Are you researching just CB when digging for the products?
I am interested, because I have a network of niche blogs and CB is not always a great option in some niches.
Do you have successful experience in choosing (+ converting into money) the products from other services, not CB?
January 5th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Looks interesting. Bookmarked your blog and would try to follow your case study. Saw your post on warriorforum.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Hi Franck
I am Looking forward to the next post.
Dawid Ryba
January 5th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
You’re off to a good start Franck. I’ll be following along to see your results.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Hi Franck,
As usual, top information and direct to the point. Congratulations for your new Blog and all the best for 2009.
@ Eric: Do not set your goals too low. Attack the competitive fields and trust your self to get well ranked there. It would may ba take much more time but it is worthwhile. Stick to Franck’s comment: The bigger the market, the bigger your share! From my 1 year experince in making money online, I thought I would attack top hard niche like internet marketing products and if i succeed to make money there, I would make money in any other field and it was the case thanks to the tips and products of SEO I bought from Franck.
I wish you all here a good luck,
Regards,
Asem
January 7th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Hi everyone,
@ Dawid, next post is ready.
@ Mike, thanks.
@ Asem, thanks for the kind words, and I’m happy that my products help you to move towards your goals. I need to update my seo book by the way.
Franck
January 7th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
What about my question about product research?
Can you please answer.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Hi Nick (I think it’s your name Free traffic system?),
“Are you researching just CB when digging for the products?”
Please can you tell me more? I don’t get it.
We are not searching for products right now, but for a niche.
Franck
January 8th, 2009 at 4:15 am
I have yet to make a cent (USD20 once but the buyer decided to get a refund – either a freeloader or an unsatisfied buyer) from ClickBank since (probably) the others have been robbing my affiliated links despite cloaking them.
Part 1 of this case study is interesting and I’m looking forward to get more goodies.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Hey DPC,
More goodies are coming…
Franck
January 9th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Sorry, missed this point.
At the moment this is just sniffing around, not a product search.
But I think there is one nuance, CB is mostly for digital products.
When you sniff around in the car loan niche, for example, you wouldn’t see much of an option for this niche. But in reality there a lots of lead programs that promise to pay $5-$20 and more per free lead. There are some car loan products in CB as well, but they are … nothing great to talk about.
So, my experience is that CB is great for sniffing around about possible profits in niches that are ‘historically’ great for digital products. You must always remember that CB will never tell you about great money which you can make by referring people in loan industry, hotel business – anywhere where they have real offline business attached to the online.
This is what I noticed from my experience when doing research for car loans niche. CB showed very poor future, and lead programs instantly got my interest back.
P.S. I am Dim (I’m in your notification list) – you are doing a great job here. People are missing free step-by-steps like the one you are doing.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Hi Dim,
I’m sorry, I went on your site and saw “Nick”, so I thought it was your name. My mistake!
As for loans niche (and everything financial by the way), you are right, these niche are really profitable (I just revceieved a $60 commission in the forex niche – I don’t even promote this site). But… for personal reasons, I don’t promote anything in these niches anymore (a long time ago I worked as a financial advisor, it’s what I learned at the university: banking).
I’m glad that you like the case study.
Franck
January 9th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I was in the accounting professional for more than 35 years. Since my retirement in late 2005 all my bills are being paid by earnings (Adsense, Kontera, Amazon, etc – ClickBank = 0) from several personal financial and forex websites of mine.
There is good money in financial niches.
January 10th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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January 13th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Good day every one. I logged on to clickbank but what I found was not good for me. There was no option for my country as I belong to Pakistan. I will learn with the examples of you all. Regards
April 5th, 2009 at 1:22 am
I’m skeptical about making any money from promoting ClickBank products to the Geeks who will change the hoplinks (hoplink thefts).
April 6th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Hi Digital Products Center,
This usually happens in the Internet marketing niche.
It is good to cloak your links anyway.
Franck
April 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Hi Franck,
I hope you are fine. Three short questions:
a} Do you recommend any service to hide my affiliate links?
b} Do you include one anchor text link or two in your author box? And why?
c} If the main keyword of your page e.g. affiliate marketing experts.
Do you link to this page in the author box using ONLY “affiliate marketing experts”? Or do you use also similar keywords like: learn affiliate marketing, affiliate marketing training, make money with affiliate marketing, etc.
Thanks a lot for your very useful guidance.
Regards
Asem
P.S. I got your new book and my homework this week is to study it well. I am proud to be one of your students -:) Take care and enjoy the spring.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Hi Asem,
I’m fine, many thanks.
a. to hide my affiliate links, I just use simple php solution, or… most of the time, I just use my ad tracking software and it does the trick.
b. I guess you are talking about my articles?
Yes, I do use anchor text. On EzineArticle, I only use 2 links because it’s the maximum allowed.
As for other sites, I use 3 links.
Note: I always use the html version (http://www.mynetmarketingland.com) because I want to make SURE that the reader
c. Good question.
In fact, I will mostly use the keyword ‘affiliate marketing expert’. Sometimes, I use another keyword.
I’m happpy that you like the ebook.
God bless Asem,
Franck
June 1st, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Unconventional good stuff here. I normally don’t find nothing but junk but when I get something I know my people will like I link back. This is good stuff and I hope you don’t mind if I add a link back to you from my website
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