In this short article you will read and learn about the initial steps of selling your products via Click2Sell system. The process is very simple, short and costless. So let’s begin:

1. Signup to Click2Sell

   Signup is absolutely free and you need only one account for both merchant and affiliate activities. There are also no upgrade costs, no monthly fees and so on. Once you finish your registration, you can start using Click2Sell immediately.
    

2. Add a product

   After you login to Click2Sell member area, go to “For Vendor” section and then click on “Add product” link in green sub-bar:

   

   Fill in the required fields going through all the necessary steps. If you are not sure what one or another field means, you can move your mouse over [?] symbol and read an explanation. See an example below:

   

   (of course, you can always contact Click2Sell Support if you have any question).
    

3. Get “buy-now” buttons

   Once you finish creating a product, at Step 5 you will see such page (you can also find this via: For Vendor -> My Products -> “Buy Now Links” in the table):

   

   “Your direct link:” is just a simple URL which leads to Click2Sell checkout page. There is no difference for your buyers between this “direct link” and scripted “Order Now!” link (the first one with the grey field full of java code), but we recommend using scripted link or button because they gather statistical information about your visitors, views, conversions (and so on) which you can see in your Click2Sell account.

   On the left column you can see what will appear in the place where you put the code (from the grey text field): it can be just a simple text link “Order Now!” or a graphic button. Choose the desired one and copy all the code from the grey text field.
    

4. Paste the code into your website

   Paste the copied code into HTML area of your sales-page. Be sure that you don’t accidentally alter the code. Check your page via your browser to see if it’s working correctly.

Well, that’s all. Basically, you have done all the necessary steps in order to start selling your product via Click2Sell. Once a buyer purchases your product, Click2Sell will automatically register the purchase and gather all the required information about transaction.

If you need a thorough review of each option and setting in product adding process, please read this article "Everything About Products Management at Click2Sell (Part 1)".

By the way, just make sure that Click2Sell buy-now button is not placed nearby other payment options (for example, Paypal button or your own shopping cart). Potential affiliates who see more than one payment button (e.g. Click2Sell.EU and Paypal) might not want to promote your product, because there are high chances that customers (brought by affiliates) would click on another payment button and the commissions would be lost. So in order to prevent this – always use only one payment button on one sales page.

If you have any question, thought or anything else, just let us know!

Hot products in the Internet will give you chances of earning big affiliate commissions online. You just have to know the right approach, discovering and choosing the right product that you will sell online will be the key for you to start earning money online. Excellent strategies are also needed for your success. There are ways for you to learn how to start affiliate marketing. Here are six steps that will guide you where to begin.

Step 1: Follow Your Passion Doing something you love will be a big plus factor for being successful. Your passion will steer you to the right direction which is the market of high profitable products and services, it will also be the driving force that will lead you to achieving your goals and be a successful person in the future. Using your interests and hobbies as a means of earning money online will help you discover great products or services to sell online.

Step 2: Research your product to know if it is going to be the profitable one Step two is done by conducting appropriate research and studies with the particular product or service you have chosen to sell online. Once you have discovered the right market for you in the Internet, the next step you have to take is to discover products that are selling like ‘hotcakes’ online. By having an instant and right discovery of hot selling products online you’re bound to be successful and you’ll soon start earning big bucks as soon as you established you networking market. It is very important to be aware of what people want and what product is more sellable in that particular market. The product’s current demands should also be taken into consideration and the state of the competition you’re going to be involved with. Reading article directories or other articles related to your chosen affiliate products will give you edge on your chosen field.

Now, I bet you would like to know how to search for the ‘hotcakes’ online. It’s easy! Just type in ‘keyword search count’ into Google or Yahoo and they will give you a list of websites that offer the keyword search count tools. Such tools allows you to find out how many times the certain keyword was searched last month. So, just type in ‘product niche’ you are going to promote into that keyword search count tool and you will find out if your selected product is in the ‘hot’ and very good selling niche. The higher search count for a certain keyword – the better.

Step 3: Research allotted to the expectations, wants and needs of your potential customers The products or services you have chosen should meet the requirements of the customer’s reason to purchase. A customer may look for a particular product or service for the ‘need’ of it alone, considered to be the qualifying dimension or a gatekeeper dimension of a purchase. Determining dimensions are ‘wants’ of considering such a purchase. Intangible aspects or values of certain products are associated with the ‘expectation’ involved in a purchase.

Do not target niches where people basically search for free information. E.g. free tattoo photos, etc. Because in most cases people that are searching for ‘free’ stuff, doesn’t want to buy anything. You won’t make any sales.

Step 4: Be wise when it comes to the competition leveling of you chosen product or service. You can easily find untapped and low competition niches online One of the considering factors to your quest for hot products to sell online. The total market share versus your brand, product or service determines the level of competition you are going to be in. the competitive frame is decided by market affiliates who exercises their power for product or service purchasing. A leadership role should be considered, if what you want is not only to satisfy the expectation and needs of your potential customers but to be more profitable and successful than other affiliate businesses on the Internet.

You need to search for products that are doesn’t have high competition. E.g. ‘make money’ niche is a very competitive niche, a lot of affiliates target it and try to sell the products. Of course, you can make some sales, but you will also face a huge competition.

The best way is to find a quite narrow niche. E.g. ‘lcd monitor repair’. Such monitor repair niche doesn’t have much of competition and the best thing is that not much affiliates actually even thinks about this niche to promote the product. Such niches can bring you huge money. Why? It is because the competition is low, you can get high rankings for your pay-per-click campaigns on Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing for a very low price… This way you can make money. There are a lot of untapped niches that most affiliates never consider promoting… So all you need to do is just to make some research to find the niche.

Step 5: Identify your potential competitors on the net Affiliate products should be examined for their features and benefits. One you know how the competition works on your chosen market field, you’ll be able to conduct effective strategies on how to sell your product better than other affiliate marketers.

Step 6: The benefits and features of your product should be well disclosed to your customers Remember to make a list of the benefits of your affiliate products. The features of your products and services will be the one to tell your customers what they really are. There is a marked difference between features and benefits, be sure to advertise them both.

The thing is that if you know your promoted product really well – all the benefits to the user, etc. In most cases the client won’t know that… The problem is that the client doesn’t know that he/she ‘doesn’t know’ something. Sounds strange but let me clarify.

In most cases, all similar products look completely the same to the customer. Customer sees them all the same. So you need to educate your website visitor about the certain product and show its all unique selling prepositions. What does this product do? What kind of benefits it gives? Why is this product so good that customer must buy it? What differentiates this product from the competitors?

I think you get an idea. You need to educate and show your website visitor that the product you are offering just can’t be refused… By showing all the benefits and unique things that such product gives, you will make the customer want the product even more. You need to provide an affiliated product in a way so that it would solve one or the other problem – easily, fast and without much work… All people want to hear such things, so if you can market the product in such way, you will definitely have a hot seller.

Oh, and don’t forget… It doesn’t really matter about the product’s price or if such product is really unique. All you need to do is to make customer think that such product is ‘a key to its success’ . This way you will achieve the affiliate marketing success online.

Step 7: Use affiliate programs networks to find hot selling products online There are numerous of affiliate programs networks online that offer products for affiliates to promote. One of the reputable affiliate marketing network companies is Click2Sell Affiliate Network. Such companies make your job finding a hot selling affiliate product easy. All you need to do is just to search for the product in your just found ‘hot niche’ and select to promote. Soon your affiliate commissions will start rolling in and you will achieve a real success online. Happy profiting!