Internet marketing is a lot of fun for me. I love learning about the different methods there are to earn money, and I especially like affiliate marketing. No products to create, no customer service hassles, no headaches. Just promote the product and get paid when someone buys.

What I found myself doing was that when I was looking for products to promote, I almost always went straight to Internet Marketing related products. These were the products that I was being exposed to day after day as I opened my marketing related emails that I had subscribed to, the ads on blogs I read, and links on the forums I visited. That made sense because virtually all of my email was marketing related, as were the blogs and forums I visited.

Then I started reading posts on blogs and forums about how a lot of the big names in Internet Marketing made most of their money in other markets, and not by selling to the IM crowd.

I went to ClickBank.com, and instead of heading into the IM area, I started to take a look around at the other categories of products that were being offered. Once I took the time to browse through several of the categories, I was amazed. There are thousands of products at ClickBank, and a lot to choose from.

For example, in the Home And Garden Category, there are over 1,000 products. Sorted by popularity, at number 6 was a guide on building a chicken coop, and at number 7 was another product on building a chicken coop. I never thought that chicken coops would be so popular.

Drilling down in Home And Garden, I went to Animal Care And Pets. In this category, there are 376 products available, with the top spot going to a guide to dog training secrets, and in the rest of the top 10 were  healthy food for dogs, cat care, and more dog training products.

What I discovered was that while I was focusing on the IM niche, I was missing out on a lot of other opportunities.

Do you realize how easy it is to select a niche such as chicken coops, find a few chicken coop products, and set up a site? Whether you use a blog or a HTML site, it wouldn’t take very long to get a site set up and start driving traffic.

How about products that never go out of style, such as weight loss, exercise, recipes, dog training, cooking, or travel?

The Internet Marketing niche is pretty crowded, and if you’ve been exclusively promoting IM products, and not having much luck, take a look at ClickBank and other affiliate networks. There are a lot of markets out there beyond IM, and it’s worth your time to put up a site or two and see what happens.

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