Selling Information Products

Posted by Suzanne Wells Published in Affiliate Programs, Clickbank

Information products can be a very lucrative product to sell. How do I know? Because I write and sell my own. (Click here for my eBooks.) But what if you aren’t so great at writing and want to enjoy the benefits of selling information products? Become an affiliate selling popular information products written by other people.

Your next question is, “How do I know which ones to sell? What topics sell best?” I am going to give you a list! Research shows that people will buy information products to help them solve a problem. Maybe they want to know how to do something. Maybe they want to make money. Maybe they want to feel better.

Research shows that information products addressing these topics sell the best:

How to make more money
How to look younger, more beautiful, thinner
How to stay healthy, feel better
How to get well (recover from surgery or an illness)
How to live longer
How to save money
How to work at home (make money at home, be your own boss)
Hot to find romance or a mate

Can you see a trend here? Most of these topics have to do with vanity or money. Stick to those topics and you will do well. Go to Clickbank or e-Junkie to find thousands of information products that you can promote and get paid to sell. You don’t have to have a blog to sell these – you can promote them on Twitter, Facebook, through email, or on your groups and forums. For strategies on how to correctly promote affiliate links, see my post “Affiliate Marketing Tip – Text Links vs Image Ads.”