One thing I have learned as an affiliate marketer is that the best way to sell an affiliate product is to review the product so that prospects can get an idea of how good it is from an actual user of the product. The problem many affiliates run into is that they don’t have the money to buy these products and they can’t get a free copy to review because merchants want to see some sign that you have success as an affiliate marketer before they do that. So here’s how you get around this problem.

What you want to do is purchase a very low end product… maybe even one that sells for as low as $7 and only pays about $3 in commissions. Why do you want to do this? The answer is simple. For one thing, the price isn’t going to break you at all. If you can’t afford $7, you don’t belong trying to market online anyway. This should be easy enough for you to pull off. But there’s an even more important reason for doing this.

Think about how easy a $7 item is to sell. Many people, especially in the “make money” niche, have a problem spending money on high end items but will have no problems purchasing a $7 item. Therefore, you should make plenty of sales of this item. The dollars actually earned don’t matter. The reason is because NOW you have some level of success to show the merchant whose product you want to sell. You can prove to him that you’ve successfully marketed a product as an affiliate. He will now be more likely to give you that free product to review, one that will probably be a lot more money.

Now you can work on selling a higher end product and get even more merchants to give you free copies when they see huge dollar amounts earned on your part. The more money you can show THEM the more likely they will be to provide YOU with a review copy. And if they don’t, it’s no big deal. There is going to be somebody who will. Not everybody is going to say yes. Some merchants won’t allow you to even be their affiliate, for closed programs, simply because they don’t know you. They wouldn’t care how much money you’ve earned. You FIRST have to earn their trust by letting them get to know you. And that takes time.

Point is, you shouldn’t let the problem of getting review copies of products get in your way. Find yourself a cheap product, buy it, review it and sell it and that will lead to you getting review copies down the road with very little problem at all.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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