How to Find Quality in a Stack of Affiliate Crap (11)
I posted this question in another thread but thought it deserved its own thread.
It seems like a lot of CPA offers and clickbank products I've been looking into are pretty crappy overall. Bad reviews and so on.
(By customers not affiliates)
If you want to promote a high quality product what do you look for to qualify a good product or offer as actually being good?
You could buy it yourself through your aff link?
Or you can promote ours and we'll give you a review copy! 
Branded products are typically decent quality, as they are not hit and run style offers.
The problem with branded products is they seem to come and go on affiliate networks. Commission Junction has a lot of solid affiliate products, most will be CPS.
TeeSpring is pretty hot right now, it's just a online tee shirt store.
What niches are you looking at?
I was looking at a hobbyist niche for woodworking, and some gaming offers.
The reason why I ask is mainly because down the road I would like to
grow a few authoritative email newsletters that can promote solid
long-term products that are "set and forget" in my autoresponder,
which will also add value to the readers.
Rather than, you know, just take their money :P
I was lookingat a high gravity CB product and thought it was perfect,
till I researched the niche and realized how notorious it is lol.
Originally Posted by beastmode
Or you can promote ours and we'll give you a review copy!
People have a very negative opinion of infoproducts in general, and rightfully so. This is the reason all the gurus from the "guru bubble" around 2005 or so packaged their infoproducts up as physical DVDs and books when they sold them. Your average consumer has a much higher inherent idea of the value of a physical product than they do for a ebook or something. This has been a mail-order tactic for decades and a lot of these guys took lessons out of Dan Kennedy's book, among others.
Originally Posted by t0mmy
It seems to be more people are just pissed they spent money on garbage content rather than the ebook factor slanting their opinion.
I do remember that guru trick though, I even bought a product from then
lol. Still have the crappy bound computer print out pages they stapled together.
I have never actually run infoproducts FWIW. But I think, if you look at what Frank Kern and those guys were pushing out, your average consumer would balk at dropping $6k on an ebook but would consider it for the same thing repacked into a physical product regardless of the actual content. It is just a perception thing people have with physical goods. Keep in mind though they were excellent copywriters as well and had very responsive lists.
hmm
I use to hear about people writing small info products themselves and selling it online. They seem to have been doing pretty good. Just selling PDF packages or video courses etc.
On all sorts of weird subjects too, like the new one on CB about learning how to jump higher that apparently was a huge hit lol.
A few of the gaming guides are actually very high-quality. It's been a little while since I pushed them, but I remember looking at some of the WoW guides in particular and being impressed at how high-quality they were.
Generally infoproducts go one of two ways, in my experience. They're either surprisingly excellent or really, really bad.
Yeah I agree with you caurmen about infoproducts both being really bad or really good.
I was thinking of writing one in the make money writing niche, as for a while I was pulling in a $1,000 a month pretty easily off
of little Fiverr articles and a few other sources haha.
But maybe later after I learn more affiliate marketing voodoo.
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