Affiliate marketing can be challenging. First, you need to decide what to promote, and then you need to figure out how to promote it. The combination can either lead to lots of frustration - or to success. Find out how to go after the easy wins - the low-hanging fruit!

How to decide what to promote?

You could either go for products that bring huge commissions - but they can be hard to sell. Or you could go for one that seems very popular on ClickBank as indicated by its high gravity. Unfortunately, the competition is likely to be very high as well. Either that, or the high gravity is due a few super affiliates with huge lists who are responsible for most of the sales.

On the other hand, you could try to find a niche product with a real demand but not too much competition. That could take some detective work, but will be worth the effort because it could easily turn out to be your low-hanging fruit.

What you must do before sending traffic to your offer

Before you send traffic, you need to focus on what happens with the traffic once it gets to your offer. Sending the traffic to an affiliate offer cold does not usually result in a lot of sales.

Instead, the first thing you should do is create a pre-selling report with your affiliate link inside that you give away to your prospects. Ideally, you'll also set up a squeeze page in front of your report, where you capture the contact information of the people in exchange for giving them your free report.

The good news is that these are very targeted leads for your product. As you follow up with them, you're likely to convert a good number of them to buyers.

How to get traffic to your squeeze page?

The next step is the most challenging: how to get traffic to your squeeze page. You could write articles, distribute your report on websites that specialize in giving away free reports. You could send tweets or buy ads on Facebook or Google. Or you could create videos...

Why you should consider creating videos

Videos are earning more and more top spots on Google, so you may as well focus your efforts on creating some videos of your own in order to attract visitors to your affiliate offers.

The good news is that the videos don't have to be very fancy or expensive. In fact, there are free or very low-cost options available that allow you to create compelling videos that can even go viral and get you lots of traffic.

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