Other good sources of affiliate programs are the companies that are selling the products you’re using yourself.
For example, if you’re in the internet marketing niche, you’re bound to buy certain online tools that can help you build and grow your online business.
It could be your web hosting, website theme, email autoresponder, landing page builder, etc…
Or it could even be a course or membership that you've signed up for yourself, and have benefited tremendously... so you'll want to promote that to spread the word and help more people like yourself -- and of course, make affiliate commissions at the same time.
It's a membership site that features tons of experts sharing their best tips and top strategies in different aspects of online marketing (as well as business and self-development) -- that will help you tremendously in building, maintaining and growing your evergreen online business.
What you'll get is unlimited access to hours and hours of training that you probably have to pay thousands of dollars to gain access to otherwise.
And guess what? You can try it out for just $1, and if you like the contents and the community (yes, you get to join the awesome Freedym community as well), you can sign up as a Freedym member for just $1/day.
I'm not kidding. UNLIMITED access to tons of leading industry experts in online marketing, business, and self-development... ALL for just $1/day. To be honest, when I first saw this offer I was absolutely blown away!
Anyway, like I mentioned, most of these companies from which you buy your marketing tools and coaching (e.g. Siteground, Getresponse, Instapage, Freedym, etc.) have their own affiliate programs that pay good commissions too. So, for the tools that you enjoy using, why not make affiliate commissions by recommending them to your target audience, or even to your friends and relatives?
And you don't have to limit yourself to the IM niche. For instance, if you enjoy buying healthy organic foods from places like Thrive Market, you can also apply to be an affiliate and promote their products on your blog and make commissions from them.
If you wish to learn more about affiliate marketing, go sign up for this Affiliate Bootcamp Training by world class marketer Russell Brunson (it's free) -- he and his team will show you the essential bolts and nuts of becoming a successful affiliate marketer.
If you do not wish to promote other people's product though, you can use this great Idea Mapping exercise by Growthlab to find your own profitable business idea.
Now that we’ve covered the few things you MUST do (market research, niche selection, customer avatar, and product research), it’s time we get to the 3 important skills you need to build and grow your business.