Finding Affiliate Programs
Published on February 25, 2014
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Depending upon your niche finding affiliate programs might become a daunting task. My website cybernetcounselor.com deals with issues of mental health such as depression, stress, anger management, etc. and I encourage individuals to seek professional guidance to deal with these issues. Logically, I would want to affiliate with online counseling services. This niche however is in its infancy therefore there are not a lot of affiliate programs available.
When the method of searching "affiliate +", and I used every keyword I could think of (online counseling, e counseling, e therapy, online counselor) I knew I had to try something else because the results I was getting lead me to psychics and many other things that try to appear they are online counselors. So......I began searching for the services themselves without the addition of "affiliate +" and going to their sites to see if they had a link there to become an affiliate.
This method was proving to be unfruitful as well. I was getting very frustrated and thinking that maybe I had picked a niche that was not going to produce for me. I was determined however to get this done.
I took a couple days away from my site and started dealing with other things I needed to accomplish. When I started back again I had an epiphany! Every one of these sites had a "Contact Us" button. I thought why not! So I started using the contact buttons and writing to these places and asking them if they had an affiliate program or were interested in starting one. I have received multiple responses either telling me how to apply or that they do not have one at this time but will now look into starting one and thanking me for the work I am doing on my site.
My point here is....When you keep hitting brick walls you shouldn't just stop. Yes it can be very frustrating but this is when you need to step outside of the box and find a way over, under, or around that wall because it does exist. Walk away and come back with fresh eyes. It's there - you just have to be creative and find it!!
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