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Start Affiliate Marketing – The Advantages Of Niche Affiliate Marketing

©2010 Doug Champigny, http://affiliate-marketing-domination.com
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In the affiliate marketing world, as in Internet marketing in general, there is a tendency to divide areas of focus into niche affiliate marketing and mainstream affiliate marketing. In actual fact they are all niches, as a niche is just one area of focus. But no doubt through the egos of the big-dog marketers, selling to other marketers has been termed mainstream, while in fact its a smaller niche than most.

Be that as it may, unless you have a strong background in marketing before coming online, you’re best to avoid the mainstream market and focus on a sub-niche of one of the big niches like health & fitness, kids, travel, etcetera. There are millions upon millions of potential affiliate marketing leads interested in these niches, so even sub-niches can be very profitable.

For example, within the health & fitness category are sub-niches like fitness or holistic health. In the former there are e-books, exercise videos, workout programs and fitness equipment being sold online, and each of these areas has affiliate programs you can promote. If you choose the latter, there are no end to the possibilities as you start affiliate marketing, from the numerous how-to guides and recipe books to affiliate marketing the various health practitioners and their services one sees online. And there are great cross-over products as well, such as vitamins or kineseology information.

So not only does niche affiliate marketing open the doors to a much larger potential group of affiliate marketing leads, but it also means you have a greater variety of products and services to fuel your niche affiliate marketing commissions, too. Another major bonus is that you have fewer experienced marketing pros to compete with in most niches as well.

While niche affiliate marketing has evolved to the point where some professional Internet marketers are in almost any niche you enter, they are spread out across all niches instead of all focusing on one area as they do in mainstream online marketing. Instead, a lot of your competition have little or no online marketing experience. In fitness, for example, some will be personal trainers, some are fitness equipment manufacturers or retailers, others will be sports medicine practitioners. All may know more about their specialty than you do, but few would really know much about niche affiliate marketing. In fact, most would be good merchants to find affiliate opportunities with, precisely because they are experts in the niche and don’t know the best ways to market their products and services themselves.

If your end goal is to build a big name for yourself in the mainstream that’s fine, but even then you should use your niche affiliate marketing to fine-hone your skills, learn all you can about marketing online, and ultimately finance your foray into the mainstream. While you may or may not be successful going up directly against the big dogs of online marketing, at least you’ll be able to maintain your niche affiliate marketing income in the meantime in case it doesn’t go as well as you’d hoped, or takes longer to reach those levels of success than you had imagined.

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Marketing mentor and speaker Doug Champigny is a world-famous online marketer with a major online presence in both the affiliate marketing world and the mainstream Internet marketing arena, often speaking publicly at marketing seminars, conferences, conventions and workshops around North America. With more than 35 years of online and offline marketing experience, Doug Champigny is uniquely qualified to teach you how to succeed online through his Internet Marketing Coaching and his Affiliate Marketing Coaching programs. Doug created both of these programs himself through his PowerStart Marketing division, and gives his students direct access to him and his vast wealth of marketing knowledge both during their course and afterwards. Give your marketing the PowerStart it needs today – enroll now!

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Affiliate Marketing 101: Now You Have To Work For A Living!

©2010 Doug Champigny, http://affiliate-marketing-domination.com
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Affiliate marketing is rapidly becoming one of the primary and premier ways to start your own home business online, but far too many people start affiliate marketing for the wrong reason – they’ve been led to believe that it’s a great way to make money online with very little effort involved. Boy, are they in for a surprise!

In reality, there are a great and growing number of people who do make a lot of affiliate commissions every month, and affiliate marketing may well be the number one way to make money online today. But those affiliates who are succeeding, especially those making the biggest commissions, are working much harder than the employees of the average corporation.

So where does the confusion stem from? In part from over-zealous marketers all trying to portray their products as easy, as resources that reduce your affiliate workload greatly. And while some products and services are of major help, there’s still a lot of effort required for online success, especially when you first start affiliate marketing and haven’t made a name for yourself yet.

Another major reason is the broad scope covered by the word ‘easy’. If you’ve been slugging cement blocks around a construction site for the last few years, sitting at a computer to work from home might seem really easy. If you’ve been a teacher trying to deal with today’s undisciplined youth, you might find the peace and quiet of working from home very easy.

If your current position has you living out of a suitcase and eating airport food as a regular diet, you might find being at home to work very easy. And if you’ve spent the ten years since they mapped the human genome trying to use that information to cure any major illness, you’ll definitely find the challenges of affiliate marketing easier!

But don’t confuse easy with no effort needed. While affiliate marketing isn’t rocket science but mostly rather a series of simple steps repeated over and over again, you do have to take those steps and keep at them. There are a number of ways to build residual income online, and a number of emerging technologies that put a lot of the steps on autopilot for you, but these benefit the pros who’ve been at this the longest and have already built a name for themselves, a large responsive opt-in list and a virtual empire of online resources – not the person just looking to start affiliate marketing.

But don’t worry – if you get started now and really work at it consistently, persevere through the toughest startup period and stick to the basics that have proven over and over again to be most effective, you too can one day be one of the pros who know how to make money online while using affiliate marketing to fund our dream lifestyle – there’s still plenty of room here at the top online!

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Affiliate marketing mentor, coach and speaker Doug Champigny has been teaching companies new marketing strategies since the 1970′s, having owned and operated his own retail advertising agency before transferring to marketing online full-time since 1996. A recognized expert in how to market a product online or offline and master of these new online marketing strategies, Doug Champigny is the creator of the PowerStart Marketing coaching program and the Affiliate Marketing PowerStart coaching program, and is occasionally available for private 1-on-1 consultations and mentoring as well.

Doug is a regular speaker at many of the live marketing events and conventions around North America – watch for him speaking live onstage in your area soon! In the meantime, for more help getting started as an affiliate, see the Affiliate Marketing 101 lens on Squidoo and the Start Affiliate Marketing info at WetPaint.

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