Does this link hail The Death of Niche Marketing?

Over the past year or so since I started to take the idea of Internet Marketing more seriously, I always leaned toward the idea of promoting digital products as opposed to physical products. The reasoning behind that is simply because that’s where I’d been led.

However I always liked the the idea of promoting tangible products because I thought that I would feel better in myself if my customers had something they could touch or use physically. It probably stems from my up bringing when we were taught that if you can’t use it and then sell it, it wasn’t worth having in the first place.

Outside looking in

I’ve since changed my way of thinking somewhat in that there is really no monetary value which can be placed on knowledge and information can be priceless to those seeking it in order to solve a problem if indeed the problem is solved.

Still, my upbringing holds in good stead but until recently I hadn’t realized just how profitable promoting physical products can be. I always thought that because most tangible products have a low commission rate, that it wasn’t worth while pursuing. Amazon for example only have a commission of around 3-4% which when selling a second hand book for example could be as little as a single dollar or even less on a shipped item.

However, I had an email from an associate a couple of weeks ago which had me taking another look at the idea of promoting physical products as well as digital and what I found was quite startling.

What about Clickbank?

For one thing, the system he told me about doesn’t actively promote clickbank products because they are all digital products and as I mentioned, this system is all about promoting tangible products. But… it’s worthwhile noting that the same system can be used to promote any product at all including digital products.

Digital Products Have More Competition!

For example, if you sell a digital product you might make up to 75% commission on the sale which apart from some exceptions will rake you in anything from around $5 to $20 per sale or more but, taking into consideration the number of affiliates promoting the higher ranking products and the number of similar products available, it can be hard work to compete and to win a sale.

Whereas, physical products have a lot less people promoting them and if you think in dollar value a single set golf clubs for example sold for $1000 dollars with a commission of 5% will bring you in $50 for the same amount of effort on your part with a lot fewer affiliates to compete with.

A couple of fellow Aussies have come up with a system for selling physical products which I actually bought a few days ago and I’m so impressed with it already I thought I’d share it on here.

Daniel Turner and Marc Lindsay have put together a simple system which will make you in excess of $18,000 per month.

Check out the full details here.


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