If you’re just starting out in the internet marketing world, then it’s likely that you’ll turn to affiliate marketing for some quick income. Affiliate marketing is easy to do, once you’ve chosen your product. But from all the offers available, how do you find the best affiliate product for you?

Well, that’s easy too, you just need to answer these four essential questions, to make sure that your affiliate career gets off to a great start!

No.1. Are You Interested In The Product You’re Marketing?

This definitely comes first. Just as when choosing a product to create yourself, you need to pick an affiliate product that you’re interested in or already know about. For example something connected with one of your hobbies or leisure activities, or previous employment.

Having this kind of connection to the affiliate product, will help to bring your personal experience into your promotion and will maintain your own interest when you’re doing your marketing.

You’ll find this of most help if you’re using the regular blogging and article marketing, which is recommended for the best affiliate product promotion. It’s always so much easier to write about something with which you’re familiar, rather than trying to make up a post for something that you don’t know about and have no real interest in. If you do go down that route, you’re likely to find your initial enthusiasm waning quite quickly and your promotional output slipping as well.

No.2. What Is The Commission Rate?

When you’re looking for the best affiliate product, you’re intending to make a profit. That means earning more from sales than you pay out in expenses. So, obviously, the commission rate that’s paid, coupled with the products selling price, is of prime importance.

The way to approach this step to finding the best affiliate product, is to take the subjects that interest you and compare the different affiliate offers in those markets, until you find the higher value products and their commission rates.

Obviously, at any given commission rate, the more expensive the product, the more profit you make. So, generally, the higher value products will be the best bet. However, you’ll also need to assess the product’s saleability as well (No.3.), in order to decide the overall profitability of the product.

This is something to be learnt from experience and a good step right now would be to have a look at the range of offers on ClickBank.com and familiarize yourself with the sales statistics they give for each offer.

No.3. Will The Product Be Saleable?

Here you need to consider the saleability of the product. By that I mean, is it likely to be popular. Is it something that people will want and is it something that your target market will find both affordable and value for money.

These are the key elements that will achieve the product sales, once the prospects have arrived at your site. Another aspect that will make sales easier, is if the product is seen as unique or is easily recognizable to customers, for example by having a brand name or trademark.

Picking a product that has this sort of individuality, will make it easier for you to carry out your search engine optimization and will bring more focused traffic to your site, than will a general product description.

No.4. Is The Product Merchant Well Established?

If you are right at the beginning of your own internet business, the best affiliate product to choose will be one from an established seller. Here you’ll get the benefit of knowing that all the production and commission systems are set up and bug free, and all you need to do is concentrate on making the sales.

Well established merchants will often have good quality sales aids, like ads and banners and sometimes offer affiliate help lines. They’re also more likely to have the benefit of some brand recognition, which will help your own sales and marketing.

So, if you’re ready to start, two of the best known places to take a look at are ClickBank.com and Commission Junction. Take some time and look around these sites to see how they work, what’s on offer and how the commissions are paid.

Then, wherever you choose your product remember to answer these four questions to find the best affiliate offer for you.

Marketing and branding shouldn’t have one focus. While getting yourself seen on and creating sales through the internet has increased over the last decade, the physical world should not be ignored. Although the return of investment from print advertising has declined, branding through promotional products is still an effective approach for getting seen. Instead of adding your logo and name to any common product, however, consider the items used to promote your business. The items displaying your logo should be moderately associated with your services or products, or they should be general use products that nearly everyone will need.

Finding the right product depends on your industry, as nearly all items can be transformed through an imprinted logo. If your business sells garments, for example, don’t go with paperweights displaying your name. Instead, consider an industry-relevant product such as, in your case, garment bags for traveling.

General products, however, can also make an impact, too, but the product displaying your logo should be one nearly anyone can use. Tote bags, mugs, and pens, because of this, are some of the more popular promotional products for all businesses.

While being industry-specific or all-around useful helps with getting seen, part of branding involves a recognizable image. When thinking about the logo displayed on all products and the color of the products themselves, choose shades that can be instantly identified with your brand. Creating promotional products is not an occasion to be unique. Instead, you want to create an item that everyone will quickly associate with your company or organization.

A third factor to consider is the consumer. Who are you targeting? While many promotional products go to the public, your employees or customers can also display your product. For the general public, consider promotional products that can be quickly and easily be distributed. For your employees or customers, think about items that will be useful on a daily basis.

Doing more with my 24 hours is something that has my whole attention these days. Managing your time well seems to be an art. It’s a topic that affects the productiveness of your day, and there a lot of tips and tricks that you can use to maximize your time.

But today I want to share some of the things that I notice are working for me and in my business. For some of you, they may be nothing new, but the truth is that these tips work and you don’t need to complicate things.

Some of the best systems that work are the most simple ones.

Here are some of the ideas that you can implement right away to form better time management:

• Do not open your email first thing in the morning

Have you noticed that when the first thing that you do after turning on your computer is to check your email, you usually stay there at least 30 minutes, maybe even an hour? Usually there are not important emails to attend to, but still you can’t help checking, right? Don’t be ashamed to admit this, you are not the only one. But you need to figure out a system that incorporates checking your email with being productive.

You need to have a schedule when you check your emails so that you don’t check it 4-5 times a day… maybe more.

Create a goal for yourself; spend only 30 minutes in a day to check your email (preferably when you finish all your work) and then be done with looking at your email for that day.

• Don’t use your brain too much–take regular breaks

Yes, it’s true. Your brain need some rest and you will be a lot more productive by taking a break every 3 or 4 hours. Don’t work like a maniac all day long. Here is a nice schedule that you can follow to have a organized and productive working day (especially if you work from home):

7:00 – 8:00     Wake up and work out
8:00 – 9:00     Shower, dress, eat breakfast.
9:00 – 12:30   Do your work! (NO EMAIL!)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch!
13:30 – 15:30 Do your work!
15:30 – 16:30 Take a break and anything you want
16:00 – 17:30 Do your work!
17:30 – 18:30 Reply to emails, plan the next day, finish your thing!

• Keep your focus

Keeping your focus while at your computer is one of the simplest things that you can do… and it’s very productive. If you don’t have a crystal-clear goal when you are at your PC, trust me it’s better to step away until you do. You will be so much more productive by doing this.

• Don’t compare yourself with your peeps

You will have a big problem doing this because you will not appreciate your small results.

Maybe you are at the beginning of your online journey and having 5-10 new subscribers is the best thing that happened to your business for a long time. You should really celebrate that! But if you look at the top person in your industry and see that she can get 700 sign-ups in one day, you can’t really appreciate YOUR success.

Never forget. Your SUCCESS IS AMAZING even if it’s a small or big result. It is still amazing because it’s a result that moves businesses forward.

Keep that in mind! And think about the fact that the top person in your industry was at some point where you are right now but she never gave up.

And voila… we are at the end of this post. These are my recommendations for a productive day.

But all this advice is useless if you will not implement it right away and make them a habit. Probably the most important tip is that you need to implement this new way of doing things in the way you work. To have a productive business, you need to become a productive person and the best part is when you are productive you will perform in your business–and that is probably something that you definitely want.:)