My niche has no affiliates!

[Joff]

I've got a bit of a niche that I'm interested in and have a good few contacts in, but I'm struggling to find an affiliate program with decent merchants that I can work with.

Affiliate Window has one but I'm not using that merchant for personal reasons.

To save me time of trawling endless programmes and creating accounts just to see their merchant list, does anyone have a list available or can point me in the right direction?

[Joff]

Oh, one option would be to create my own affiliate program, which I've not ruled out

[Brian Turner]

Um...what sort of niche would this be?

[thehost]

I heard this first time, you could use adsense like program and follow the ad if that are from your niche, you can contact the advertiser for affiliate program.

[Joff]

Originally Posted by thehost

I heard this first time, you could use adsense like program and follow the ad if that are from your niche, you can contact the advertiser for affiliate program.

That's quite a good idea and something I've been considering. One of my projects was to sell a physical product directly, taking on stock and everything but cashflow and time constraints meant that's not viable at present.

There are a couple of proactive retailers in the niche which might be suitable for an affiliate programme.

[introdor]

Hi

Have you tried Commission Junction, Associate Programs, Chitika, ClixGalore, LinkSynergy, SiteBank, of course there's even ClickBank?

Hope you find what you're looking for.

Cheers
Rik

[Joff]

Thanks Rik,

I've already got a CJ account (along with many other UK based affiliate companies) but I'm not sure the others you've listed would be that relevant.

The niche I created this thread for is primarily UK based with little exposure overseas for the niche itself and even less for the brands within the niche.

I've made contact with a number of retailers and hope to have them on board with an affiliate manager in the near future. If the mountain won't come to Mohammed...

[introdor]

Sounds an interesting niche.

Good luck!

Cheers
Rik

[Joff]

Originally Posted by introdor

Sounds an interesting niche.

Good luck!

Cheers
Rik

Not really that interesting as such, but it's an area I've got a lot of experience in so think I can do well from it.

[introdor]

Having experience in your niche I suppose is very helpful. I have also learned recently that also having a passion for a niche is vital too.

The more passion the less it will feel like a job or work and the more you want to do it and do it well.

I suppose that's just common sense, but until someone pointed it out to me I hadn't thought of it.

It's always the simple ideas that are the best!