Now what is a Niche Affiliate Marketing Program for MLM?

We’ve spoken about niches, we’ve spoken about affiliate marketing programs and we’ve spoken about MLM.

The way I understand it is it’s an affiliate program that you join, in order to sell/promote a product that compliments your niche MLM marketing (the niche you’ve chosen to go with to target a specific market that would find your MLM products/company/marketing plan  a good solution for their needs)

Let’s take two examples here:

Niche Affiliate Marketing Program for MLM Customers

Say you’re in an MLM that has skin care products as its main product range.

Now you’ve had wonderful results with the product- your stretchmarks have almost

completely gone as a result of you using the stretchmark cream.

You decide to focus on attracting product customers that would like to remove stretchmarks.

You build your sales funnel complete with lead capture page, thank you page, theme based blog about stretchmarks.

You start driving traffic using social media marketing and syndicating your content across the internet.

Now you decide you’d like to monetize on all these leads you’re getting, so on the thank you page you invite your leads to take a look at a niche affiliate marketing program to include in your sales funnel.

You do a bit of research and find something you believe your niche traget market would like.

The product is an E-book called ‘How to Permanently Remove Stretchmarks”.

It costs $29.95 and, as an affiliate, you get $14.95 per referred sale.

Congrats! You have just become part of this niche affiliate marketing program.

Niche Affiliate Marketing Program for MLM Distributors

Here’s an example if you’re attracting MLM distributors:

Your capture page and blog is all about how you teach prospective MLMers your special marketing system that helps them generate leads online.

Your niche is social media marketing, specifically how to use Facebook to attract leads.

Your  theme based blog is all about tips and techniques for using Facebook for Business and you have also taken a course with Mari Smith- the Facebook Guru.

Now, Mari has an affiliate program attached to her course. You sign up as an affiliate and decide to promote the course on your blog and thank you page.

You’ll  put the Mari Smith Facebook banner on your blog and thank you page (embedded with  your affiliate code of course) and every time a lead buys Mari’s course, you get a percentage of the sale (commission).

The great benefit of this is that you are making money through your affiliate marketing program, as you provide solutions for your niche market.

It’s also known as a funded proposal. (You are being funded to propose more offers- namely your MLM- to this prospect.)

For more details on possible niches for your MLM, visit  Niche Business Ideas.

There’s another way you could think of a Niche Marketing Affiliate Program:

If you have used and loved a product that helped you find your niche or do the keyword research on your niche, (e.g Nicheology or NicheFinder) you could become an affiliate of that product and join the Niche Marketing Affiliate program.

Niche Affiliate Marketing Program- where to find one:
This is easy.

You just go to clickbank.com or paydotcom.com, enter in the keyword phrase (in the search box) and scour the marketplace to see which products would suit your niche market.

Join up as an affiliate, grab your unique affiliate link and start promoting the banners, links and videos on your website, in your emails or on your thank you page!

Why do you need a niche affiliate network marketing program?

Quite simply because you need to make money upfront on all the leads you generate!

Remember, 90% of them will not join your MLM Business Opportunity!

Why not offer them something else they will need- something that’ll take them one step closer to finding their solution.

The cash flow of your business will IMPROVE and you’ll have more money to reinvest into your marketing and business development!

If you become a power affiliate, your profits can be substantial and you can take your business (and life) to the next level!

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How to Find Your Niche: Finding Your Niche within your Network Marketing Business is not as difficult as you may think!

Firstly you need to know what a niche market is. A niche market is a definable group of people with a specific interest or need.They can also be called target market or niche target market.

Finding a niche market just means finding a sub target market or sub category of people interested in  a specific solution or having a specific interest or need.

Once you do your niche market research, you can provide solutions to them- and if you are in Network Marketing (MLM), some of your products or services may well be the solutions they are looking for. There could also be other (non MLM ) products- like E books or other info products (audio downloads, video downloads, membership sites, coaching services etc)- that answer to your target market’s needs.

Of course, your Unique Selling Proposition is the heart of the matter-making your product stand out from the crowd. Its what makes people want to buy from YOU. Its your marketing strategy and your business mission.

So, to give an example- in the category of “natural skin care” a niche, or sub category could be “natural skin care for excema sufferers”.

An even narrower niche might be “natural skin care for teenage excema sufferers”.

Generally speaking, the narrower you can make your niche the more focused you can be on providing information  to that particular segment of the population and the more relevant your marketing message is going to be to their particular, specific concerns and issues.

How to Find Your Niche within your MLM Range of Products or Services- Find Your Story

Very often when you join a Network Marketing Opportunity, you are taught to “go out there and find whoever is interested in your MLM Products and Business Opportunity”.

This is a generalised approach and what one finds happening is your target market is too broad and doesn’t really focus on any segment of the poulation’s particular problem, need or desire.

When you speak to a general broad market, you generally speak to nobody!

So for example if you’re in the Nutritional or wellness industry, it’ll be a really good idea to narrow down your focus and select a product that has a solution for a specific ailment or health care issue.

A good friend of mine did exactly this with great success.

He suffered from sinus problems and after taking his MLM Product, he found that he was able to prevent his recurring infections from coming back to haunt him.

Now, his MLM has nutritional supplements for many many different types of problems and health issues- but he decided to focus on the sinus sufferers as his targeted niche market.

All his marketing content, messages and products are focused on the needs and concerns of sinus sufferers.

More specifically, he is targeting people who want to PREVENT sinus suffering, rather than continue treating only the symptoms.

He has also decided to focus on individuals who are averse to taking drugs to solve their problems.

He is targeting people looking at natural remedies for sinus prevention. So instead of going out there and flogging his company, its products and its compensation plan, he is actually targeting a niche market of people with a particular problem, wanting a particular solution.

He is then able to provide them with the answer to their problems (in the form of information and products), and in that way, introduce his MLM products to his prospects.

Some will have such good results that they’ll eventually sign on as distributors within his downline.

How to Find Your Niche: Where to Begin

A good place to start is to ask yourself the following questions:

1. What do u know a lot about?
2. What are you passionate about
3. What do you do every day?
4. What have you overcome in your life?

This will narrow down your focus and allow you to target exactly the questions and concerns your ideal clients have.

Have you noticed how the Network Marketing heavy hitters all use their “how I overcame” story?

Usually the story starts off with how their life was before joining XYZ Company…and moves to how his life is now. This is a great business marketing strategy, allowing many listeners to identify with the leader and have hope that they too will succeed, just like he did.

If you can craft a story relating to your MLM product (how your particular problem was treated/solved) or your MLM business building efforts (how you were able to generate leads or make a profit or succeed in some area of business, start paying off your debt, put your kids in a better school, stay at home with your kids etc), you already have a head start.

You will be able to talk to a specific target market with authenticity-  in such a way that your audience is able to identify with you. You instantly become a likeable character and someone your prospects can relate to and trust.

Luckily, most of us started in MLM because the products did so much for us. If this is the case, use this as your starting point. But it goes much deeper than that.

After you’ve formed a general idea of the niche you’d like to focus on, its time to do some keyword research.

How To Find Your Niche: Do Your Keyword Research

Go over to www.SEObook.com.

Its a free keyword tool that’ll help you get an idea of what people are typing into Google and how many searches are being performed on keywords related to your niche.

Start by typing in a generic term  for example, knitting.

You’ll see that there are around 2063 searches/day for free knitting patterns!

When you’re looking at analysing the results of your research, for your generic keyword (e.g knitting), make sure there are at least 300 searches per day for that keyword.

Less than this probably means there’s not really a market for your chosen niche.

Then take a look at related keywords: For example you’ll find 275 searches per day for the word ” knitting needles”.

Ideally you’d like to have lots of related keywords that have lots of people searching on them!

Of course, one can always use Google to get an excellent idea of what’s going on (or not!) within your niche.

When you do a Google search- look in the left hand side for the organic results.

Ideally you should look for returns from around 30 000-50 000 pages on your topic. (More than this could mean your niche is too broad).

Also remember to look for paid adverts too. If there are quite a few people selling info products, you’ve probably found a lucrative niche!

How to Find Your Niche: Finding Additional Products for a Niche (or finding a fit with your MLM Products)

The goal here is to really find out what the target market’s specific problems, issues and concerns are. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine your prospect sitting over coffee with their best friend saying:” I’ve gotta do something about my…………………(fill in the blank!)”

If your target market is excema sufferers who want natural skin care products- and your MLM provides that – great!

But there are other ways of providing your audience with what they need as well. For example, information on excema and natural skin care. An E book on this would be an excellent way of pre selling your prospect, educating them about natural skin care solutions for excema and priming them to buy your products.

If you don’t have your own E book, you can start recommending existing affiliate products/books.

Buy some affiliate products related to your niche and promote them as an affiliate.

You can do this by doing a search on Google…find affiliate programmes that are out there that are selling a product that your target market would enjoy. (For example an E book on Sinus Treatment or Excema)

Sign up for the author’s newsletter and actually buy their products as well. It makes for a much better recommendation when you write your emails to your list.

Always think of your customer as a living breathing person. Try and be specific about them- who they are and what their issues are.

This is called having a customer avatar- the ideal customer you want to attract to you.

When you communicate with them, keep the picture of them in your mind.

Clickbank is also a great place to get digital affiliate products.

They are inexpensive too- so try them out! Just do a search in Clickbank’s Market Place.

Type in the key words related to your niche.

Other places to go are Commission Junction (CJ) and PayDotCom.com.

Spend a lot of time finding the right niche. Find the niche first, then find out what they’re looking for (ask them) and then give them what they want.

Promote affiliate programmes first (to get some money coming in).

Then write the E book.

If they’re  saying : I like it, I love it, I want more of it…you have a profitable niche (rabid buyers who love that topic!)

Finding a Niche is probably the single most important thing you need to to before to start with your marketing efforts.

If you’d like to know more about Niche Marketing and finding your Niche within your MLM, you can always contact me or visit put Your MLM Biz Online, to join the Savvy MLMers in Training Club.

How to Find Your Niche: Niche Finding Training Resources:

Free Resources

Attraction Marketers Manifesto (pg 59-66)

Lots of Niches PDF

Unique Selling Proposition (USP) (Inside Renegade University)

Paid For Tools

SBI’s Niche Find It Tool

Niche Marketing 101 (Inside Renegade Professional)

How to Find Your Niche: Related Posts

Niche Business Ideas

Definition of a Niche

Niche Market Research