While the ways to do affiliate marketing with Google Adwords has become very limited, it is still possible to make good money through it and I’ll show you how.

Let me just say that the following ways to try and do traditional affiliate marketing (AM) with Google Ads (Adwords) is either very risky or pretty much dead and if you try these methods out, there’s a good chance your campaign may be disapproved or your account may be shut down:

• Linking to a page which contains affiliate links.
• Linking to a direct AM offer page.
• Linking to a page which has an opt in form.
• Linking to any sort of one page site.
• Even linking to pages which contain internal links to another post which then contains affiliate links.

Any of these 5 traditional options are not recommended anymore. Your page will LIKELY be considered a bridge page doing these things and that itself is what will cause the disapproval or shut down to happen.

Having tried all of these methods with Google Ads over the years and having my account shut down, twice, I had to stop trying to use this network, during which, I relied a lot on Bing Ads and SEO.

In fact, if you want to see proof that traditional AM is dead with Google Ads, simply do this:

• Look up any popular Clickbank product on Google.
• Look up ANY popular topic like P90X, losing weight and other topics which would at one point years ago bring up a large number of ads.

They just aren’t popping up anymore. And this is because Google has really changed how it allows ads to run, and most of the time these days, the big money to be made with this network is through advertising a business or helping a business advertise there. 

But back to the point, what about affiliate marketing?

I did say you can still do it, but I haven’t really specified WHAT exactly still works and with all the things I’ve said that don’t work anymore, it’s hard to believe it’s still possible, but it is. 

I was able to thankfully reinstate my adwords account a few months ago and before I reveal the AM method that still works, I want to say that if you are reading this and your account was shut down, call them up and try to reinstate it. You may be surprised (as I was) that they will actually do it.

But anyway, once I was able to give this network a third try, I was VERY careful not to try and run campaigns that fit into the 5 categories above and after experimenting around, I had found that one method still works and here it is:

AM still works, but through YouTube ads:

YouTube Ads is part of the Google Adwords (GA) network and I’ve been able to run multiple campaigns where I simply take a YouTube video I create, promote it through the Adwords network and drive traffic there.

The AM part comes into the picture in that the videos I make have have affiliate links in the description. That’s how I do it. But here’s the specific formula:

But I’ve also noticed some popular marketers, including people like Sam Ovens and Billy Gene use this network too, to create their own videos and link them to a webinar or even an opt in page created by Clickfunnels and they seem to “get away with it”. If so many popular marketers are using YouTube ads, clearly there’s a reason: It still works.

And for affiliate marketing, I can tell you that it 100% works.

The only real struggle if you’re new, is to actually create the video and properly promote whatever you are trying to promote in the description, then to set up the ad so it properly attracts the right audience. 

I will be putting up a more thorough YouTube Ads tutorial soon, but even without YouTube ads, you can still organically make a lot of sales by making YouTube videos if you follow this formula.

The way that formula works is that you only really focus on creating videos that review popular topics and popular products and promote them in the description of the videos. And if that goes well, then the next step is to increase the traffic to the video by promoting the video to the same audience.

One thing I always talk about is how important laser targeted traffic is to paid advertising success. This means that if I create a YouTube video that promotes a specific product, I only want people who are looking for that product to find my video and NO ONE else. Anyone else who does is likely not going to be a buyer, so if I can get that right laser targeted traffic to the video, I can then set up a YouTube ad to only target that same audience.

I will say that when I create YouTube videos, that I ONLY promote them for specific keywords that my laser targeted audience would type. So as an example, in the formula link I gave above, it provides a case study where I promoted a backpack with a specific name. Well if I were to use YouTube ads to drive traffic to that video, I would only use keywords that are literally the name of that bag to get the right people to view it.

Now YouTube ads can go beyond affiliate marketing…

And like I said, there’s many marketers using MAINLY this network to drive the majority of business to their sites and sales funnels but this article’s purpose was to only center around affiliate marketing and doing it through GA, which like I said can safely be done with YouTube ads.

If you are a beginner affiliate marketer, I will advise against doing YouTube ads or any paid advertising until you learn how to organically get targeted traffic to a blog or YouTube video in general, then from that understanding, scale to paid networks:

And if for whatever reason you are unable to reinstate your account with Google, here’s 7 other alternatives to it.

It’s been a VERY long time since I wrote anything on MLM businesses but today I though I’d return back to the subject and discuss how to actually succeed in it.

Yes I know, the title indicated that you shouldn’t be involved in it and I will explain why, BUT for the people who in spite of my coming arguments will still stay vigilant and try it anyway, at least you’ll now have a formula to work with.

Let’s all establish what an MLM is before I show you how to succeed with it:

I may have a different viewpoint/understanding of it than you may have, so let’s just make sure there are no confusions:

MLM (multi level marketing) is a form of business where the general principal to success is referring customers into a company and then having those customers refer their own customers into the same company. This is called recruiting into a downline. This is also a different model than network marketing.

Within downlines, you can theoretically have an infinite amount of them. I can refer 2 people, those 2 can refer 2 more, each, and that will give me 2 downlines, with a total of 6 people under me:

Now the incentive for even doing all of this is clearly money. By referring the 2 people into the business, aka my first downline, they usually pay a fee to enter the business and part of that fee goes to me in the form of a commission.

Then in the second downline, the 4 people referred make the 2 people above them a commission, but there is a residual amount that still goes to me. That means in THEORY that if I keep referring more and more people into my first downline, and those people keep referring more people into the second downline and so on an so forth, that I can keep making money off EVERYONE. It’s basically a form of trickle UP economics, not down.

How to make the MLM formula a success (why it’s so hard):

Well first off, the “unfortunate” reality is that this formula is almost like a dream because most people never make it past the first downline.

They refer maybe a few people into the system, but then the second downline is where things falter. But this scenario IS a possibility never the less so here’s how I approach it:

The “keys” to success with an MLM are pretty much related to the core principals of success with a business, namely:

No matter what, this 3 step formula is universally applicable to ANY business. In the case of MLM, here is how it works:

1) The niche audience must be one that is interested in MLM topics. Here are some audiences to consider: People interested in making money online, people interested in joining an MLM.

There’s a reason why this is important:

You just don’t approach just ANYONE you see and try to get them to join, that usually results in people not wanting to speak to you. This is why in most cases, people never succeed at this business and MAYBE if they are “lucky” can get a few friends and family members in, but that inevitably leads to ruined relationships…

But if you talk to people who are OPEN to the idea, then you have a better chance. Getting the right leads into the right, corresponding promotion is what increases the conversion rate and success of that business.

2) The next step is the creation of a funnel, aka website where this audience can come to. The fact that at this point, our audience is defined makes it easier to sell the MLM program to them.

I prefer websites over physical businesses because the costs are minuscule so if you fail, you lose little.

3) Explain the benefits of whatever program you’re pitching. Make it simple. 

MLM programs have a very bad reputation of making their “compensation models” more difficult to read/understand than the tax code of say, the United States. And I always say, the more difficult it is to understand, the more you should stay away from it.

But if you can break it down to your potential referral in a way in which they will clearly understand the benefits and what is going to happen once they join including the potential money they can make, it’ll be a lot easier to sell the program.

4) Once the sale is made, the work doesn’t stop there.

In the case of this type business, your referrals success is paramount to yours because any other referrals they bring in (which is how they’ll make money) will keep them in the business and will keep making you money.

So you have to basically make sure they succeed and how can you do that? Well there’s 2 options:

A) You can personally coach them.

B) You can let the program itself coach them. Many programs these days offer training to do that, but I’ve got to be honest, it’s terrible training that makes college lectures sound like the 4th of July so if the training is NOT good, you better rely on the first option to make sure your referral makes it.

Then, if they do make it and refer others, it’s still going to be YOUR job to make sure your first referral trains THOSE referrals, because that will keep all the parties around. 

In short, you will have to keep making sure EVERY referral who enters through your promotion and then gets others in, gets the best possible training to succeed. This is the ONLY way I personally know to make this formula work. 

Through this formula, you will be bringing in referrals who have a higher likelihood of ambition and open minded to succeed. That will make them more coachable (considering you are a good coach). And also, for what I consider to be better than MLM, I offer my own coaching (Details on that).

However, even in the best case scenario like this, everything crumbles eventually. Here’s 5 reasons why:

1) That best case scenario, not everyone will be making money.

As referrals keep bringing in more and more people (ideally), even the system runs out of new potential people to bring it. If 1 person has to bring in 2, 2 have to bring in 4 and so on and so forth, eventually you run out of people to bring in, and the last referrals who are unable to bring the people (because there’s no more left) are doomed to fail.

Once they realize that, they will leave the program and that will cause a chain reaction of the above referrers to leave to (since their referrals leaving means they lose money). Eventually this trickles up to you.

This is one of the reasons why a LARGE majority of people fail with MLM programs. Yes people constantly make the argument that an business has large amounts of failures, but the reasons for those failing is different.

2) This same best case scenario also never really plays out that way.

The formula I provided actually benefits the most amount of people, but in practice, it acts out quite differently as the most successful people involved in an MLM are people at the top who either start the program and/or are the first people in it who have access to the largest customer base (before the potential amount of referrals runs out).

These people can basically monopolize on the market early on and “steal” the profits. This most commonly plays out with serial MLM promoters who have large lists of prospects they promote one MLM after another to and once they join, that serial promoter gets a HUGE amount of money, but once the program inevitably crumbles, they move onto the next and send their leads their again and the leads in many cases adore the promoter as being this rich success story they want to copy, so they will keep following them into any new MLM program they recommend, not realizing they are being taken into a system that’s going to probably take more and more money away from them and pay that same person they adore so much…

3) If your MLM doesn’t have a physical product or anything of value, it’s a pyramid scheme.

All money making potential aside for a moment, if the program you’re involved with doesn’t really offer anything aside from a referral program, it is a downright pyramid scheme and if nothing else, that is absolutely illegal to run. Here is how to spot it.

This is one of the reasons why many MLMs have taken to creating high priced products that few people buy (for the prices) in order to justify including a referral program alongside it (because that’s where the money can be made) and it is the reason why there’s still few active programs like it today which have been around for decades. 

But it’s very common to see both the term MLM and pyramid scheme be synonymous. 

4) The incentive is sleazy money making tactics, not offering value.

If I tell someone they can make money easily, then get them and they try to relay the same message to their referrals, there’s nothing being offered but a lottery type of mindset. 

Compare that to a more legitimate way of running a business where a customer comes to me for advice and help and I give them a solution such a product or service that SOLVES the problem and they are happy, and we have 2 polar opposite business models. Here’s an example.

And believe me, no matter how many people (and there are many) who stick up for MLMs try to say otherwise, in the end, they don’t care about what’s being offered, they care about the money they are going to make. Unless the person sells the real products in the program and for a fair price, it’s going to end up being a pyramid scheme.

I’ve often said no to promotions which offered a good potential compensation model/affiliate program because they were just offering an unfair value to my potential customer/s. It’s not worth it.

5) There’s too many holes in the system.

Leaving the pyramid scheme argument aside, it is a near impossible scenario to have high quality, ambitious referrals keep bringing in the same types of people. There WILL be lazy people coming in. There will be unambitious people coming in and believe me, their lack of progress WILL affect the upline, which will either be YOUR referrals and/or you, if not right away, then eventually. 

You can’t just babysit every single referral in your downline to succeed. You can do your best to offer the best coaching and your referrals to coach their downline well, but even if this impossible scenario comes to pass, just read my first argument again on there eventually being NO space to get in new referrals and again, it will all crumble.

Alright Vitaliy, I see your point, but what do you offer instead?

I’m proposing NOT being involved with this business model at ALL. There are plenty of legitimate/alternate opportunities to make a business out there than having to refer someone into what is probably going to end up being a pyramid scheme.

I prefer using the 3 step business model I mentioned above, but instead of pitching an multi level marketing program at the end of it, pitching a service or product that actually HELPS people. It is called affiliate marketing and I have done comparisons between it and the other model before (here it is).

To make this short, there are billions of people in the world with serious problems who need help fixing them. Through affiliate marketing, I can make a lot of money helping those people out. Doing that via MLM however is going to lead into the opposite route, which is why I prefer the former. 

And to conclude, there is one program you should check out if you wish to learn about this whole thing, here it is. 

Now with all this being said, I’d love to hear what you think of my positions on the whole MLM business model and if my scenario in succeeding with it is something agree or disagree with (respectfully please!), especially on the point on how it is inevitably going to break down.

Quick Report:

Name: Top Tier Side Income.

Price: $7, then $1,000’s in up-sells.

Overall Rating: 2 out of 10 stars. This “program” is basically another one of those affiliate sites promoting the high ticket program known as MTTB. Except in this case, it provides a cheaper entry into it, but make no mistake, there’s BIG up-sells behind this whole thing.

Is it a Scam? No.

But is it recommended? No.

 

What is Top Tier Side Income?

This program is an affiliate of the following 2 places (they’re actually one big program):

1) The first is MTTB. It is 21 lessons (or steps as they call it) to building an online business. Here’s what you need to know about this program:

Now the last time I dealt with MTTB, that was the case (the $2,000 up-sell). I don’t know if it’s changed since, but this was a big issue for me the first time I encountered it.

2) The second is MOBE, which is actually the parent of MTTB, and it continues off the 21 steps (if you get beyond them). But just like with MTTB, there’s something you need to know about this place too:

Now while the price of this program is huge, it is worth noting that it’s broken up into different, optional to buy packages, but each more expensive one holds advantages the previous one did not as well as commission payouts bigger than the previous one/s.

So how is Top Tier Side Income connected to these 2 programs?

What this program has done is that it’s taken the MTTB program, which normally costs $49 to join, but made it $7. So you’ll go through the 21 steps for a cheaper price, but remember what I said about one of their steps above and the price:

That’s really all you need to know about this program and what ends up happening if you join. While it is good to explore this system for a cheaper price (and I have in the past), it is worth noting and pointing out the real price and I can tell you that the $7 will only get you several lessons, most of which from my previous experience with the MTTB program are really hyped explanations of making money online.

While they are true, I feel there’s more value offered in other programs I’ve reviewed, such as:

But if it’s not a scam, why is it not recommended?

If you may have noted above, while I gave it a low score, I also said this place is not a scam. What’s the deal then? Well there are programs on the internet which can have a combination of things that cancel out the recommendation.

For example: 

• You can have an outdated program which I wouldn’t recommend, but not call it a scam because it costs little.
• You can have programs which lie to you, but cost little or a lot. Those are the actual scams.
• Then there’s things where you can have a high value program which I would recommend, but end up not doing so because it costs so much.

So in the case of Top Tier Side Income, the issue I have is the last option (high level training, but HIGH prices):

Specifically speaking, the main problem is the price of this whole program and I’m not talking about the $7 entry, I’m talking about the $1,000’s in high ticket stuff after because within those huge prices is where the high value training is found.

I personally don’t agree with a lot of the sales funneling done by this whole program, but I have said before that their training is good. However, I keep having to come back to the prices for their package levels (plus the monthly costs of each of those levels) being extraordinarily high.

This whole system remains one of the highest priced internet education programs there is and as someone who has seen a part of it, as well as seen other options out there, which also provide internet education, I have to say…I think it’s far better to try the other programs out there (that are way cheaper):

Final Rating: Top Tier Side Income.

Red Flag

2 out of 10 stars. The ONLY benefit I see is the $7 you pay instead of the $49 if you went into MTTB directly. But it just gets crazy with the prices after. That’s just how it is.

My final thoughts: 

You know lately I’ve actually been seeing a lot of sites promoting MTTB, but their approach was actually a scam because they charged their own, separate price tags to access that program (on top of the $49) and they also neglected to mention they were getting me into MTTB. It was because of those deceptive practices that I called them scams and basically said that they shouldn’t be promoting this program like that (or any program in that fashion).

In the case of Top Tier Side Income, they are up front about it and they let you in for LESS, which is why I said it’s not a scam. But I’ve seen that initial training and I’ve seen the prices and I have to say, I don’t want to pay that much and I don’t recommend paying that much if you wish to learn the business of making money online.

Now I have always provided alternatives I consider to be much better…

Especially when it comes to pricing and more so the fact that the alternative I keep recommending to anyone looking to understand and succeed in making money online is free to explore and that it actually provides FAR more in value than Top Tier Side Income.

Where the value of the $7 in that program provides what I consider a lot of hype in “training”, the alternative program provides incredible, valuable lessons in online education, as well as tools such as free sites to get started. There’s actually more, but…

In conclusion, I have to say I’m somewhat happy to see a program like Top Tier Side Income finally promoting MTTB and MOBE in a somewhat honest way. Though they don’t mention the higher up-sells, at least they aren’t hiding the fact that they are promoting it. 

And while that is somewhat good, it’s not just about the promotional style here, it’s also about what you get and as I said, the $7 in my opinion doesn’t get you much in terms of training, it’s spending the bigger money that does and I provided an alternative to not having to spend this kind of money.

Quick Report:

Name: Internet Income Pillars by Michelle Johnson or Stacy Stevens.

Price: Small time charge of a few dollars for a trial to the site, then almost a $100 to remain.

Overall Rating: 1 out of 10 stars. I’ll teach you what this program is supposed to teach you, but for free in this article.

Recommended? Nope.

Internet Income Pillars in a nutshell:

This is one of those old school, low quality programs (possibly even scams) which charge you a small fee to try out their system, then use your credit card info to charge you on the back end if you don’t cancel.

The info you learn inside this program basically pertains to drop shipping, the “art” of buying wholesale products and selling them, in this case on eBay (although you can do it on a personal website and/or Amazon too).

The amount of projected money they say you can make which is over $200 a day is really a made up number since this business technically has no limits to how much you can earn, so it’s hard to make a prediction on sales estimates because it depends on how well you work in the business of drop shipping, what you sell, what you profit margin is and what it adds up to at the end of the day, so again I believe that $200 figure is made up.

There are a lot of “Pillar” type systems out there. Which one is right for you?

Even though I am reviewing Internet Income Pillars, if you do a search for it on Google, you’ll find many systems, tutorials and topics on this, most of which are completely unrelated to this program, so please do not mistake my review of this program for the other places you find that have the word pillar in them.

I also want to clarify that the word itself in general is another way of saying business ideas that basically make money, which you can depend on. 

It can involve business investments, stock market things, websites that bring in money or something different, but in the end, it’s an investment into a type of business or market that makes you money which you can rely on.

Personally, my “pillar” is knowing how to make profitable websites:

But in the case of our review, we’re looking at a version of making income from the internet through drop shipping.

Now I did say I’ll teach you about it, and what you need to know is written here on the topic. I will say that while I am involved in making money online, it is not through drop shipping and my main reason as to why is because I don’t like the tedious nature of it as well as how deceptive it can get.

The concept of drop shipping is legitimate, but I’ve had bad experiences with it on the seller side, that I’ve come to distrust it. Don’t get me wrong though, you can make good money on it, but there is an aspect of it that I’m not a fan of and that is the idea that you pretend to own a product, find a seller and then if they buy it, you have to go and buy the product yourself from the whole seller and that whole seller will probably make you buy the product/s in bulk, so you will have to find multiple sellers to make a profit and so on.

Drop shipping is good, but it is not easy and there are risky elements in it, among many other issues which inevitably turn me away from it.

Stay away from places that offer trial kits and easy money:

Going back to the original review, I was talking about the Internet Income Pillars program. One thing I advise people avoid, especially nowadays is any program like this because of it’s easy money promises, the free kits which actually act more like fishing rods to get you to buy their system and their back end costs which are usually not mentioned until you buy the kit.

Furthermore, it is undeniably true that you can find info on things like drop shipping rather easily (Google, YouTube). Perhaps one can make the case that “kits” like this one were necessary 15 years ago when finding good information on Google and YouTube was hard, but believe me, it isn’t today. I would even argue the content you find on Google and YouTube regarding this topic is much more valuable. Actually, I’d guarantee it.

Final Rating: Internet Income Pillars.

Red Flag

1 out of 10 stars. While I have my own opinions on drop shipping, I will say that it can be used legitimately, but even then, this program isn’t the place I’d recommend to find it.

My final thoughts: My personal tutorial on making your own pillar/s:

As I’ve said, I have my own set up in the form of profit generating websites and it this has been my go to approach to making money online for years.

The way I generate profits on my sites is through affiliate marketing which I happen to think is better than drop shipping because it takes a lot of potential problems like negotiating with whole sellers and buying the item yourself unnecessary. I just send people to the product page and that’s really my main goal (and to make them buy it).

Now while affiliate marketing is awesome, it takes work to get good results, but make no mistake, so does drop shipping and in any legitimate industry, a portion of potential success comes from the person whose working to achieve it and how much work they actually invest into it.

If you are interested in making your own financial pillars to rely on, I strongly believe, speaking from personal experience that affiliate marketing and creating profitable websites is where you should invest your time in. 

One more thing…

I also recommend affiliate marketing for generating money because the up front cost is almost NULL. With many of these other opportunities, they usually require a large investment, including drop shipping, so with something like affiliate marketing, to just steer people into product pages and promote products for FREE is a huge benefit none of these other opportunities possess.

I have created lists of niche markets before, but since there are so many out there, every year (or maybe even more often) I decided to start writing a fresh new post on them.

This time, we will focus on the hungry ones as well as which of them in 2018 are the best to make money with.

The more I learn about this topic, the more I see just how many different options there are as well as how much potential money can be made through marketing to people correctly. Nothing to this day in my opinion beats a hungry audience. 

But what do I mean by hungry? How does it it relate to the topic? Allow me to elaborate:

What is a hungry niche?

It is a specific crowd of people who have a problem which they need immediate help and solutions with. They literally CRAVE an answer and as they need that as soon as possible, this is key to understanding the “hungry” part of this whole thing.

And in some cases, the market can be such that people are STARVING for answers. Those are the ones you really need to look for as well and some on this list do indeed fit that category. You can also label these audiences, laser targeted traffic & niches.

By targeting this particular crowd and offering them solutions, you are more likely to make more sales and this mainly because they are in a hurry for an answer. That basically already does all the selling for you. In the examples below, you will understand more so why. I also explain this concept here, where I literally say that if you want to see success online, to target the hungry niche crowds.

Normal niche markets still are GREAT for making income through, but the hungry ones are generally those which will be more successful in the short and long run, depending on the seriousness of the problem they are having as well as the solution you’re offering, but as we go through each one below, you will understand exactly what I’m talking about right now.

So let’s get this list going! 

5) Hair loss for women.

As tough as hair loss can be for men, it is generally A LOT more serious for women and it’s the sort of topic where if there’s a little bit of hair loss happening, then there’s generally an immediate search on Google or at a local store for hair products to solve this issue. 

I hope any women reading this could comment on this topic below and let me know more about this topic from their point of view, but based on the research I’ve done, this is a huge topic. Even doing a LITTLE bit of keyword research shows the tip of the iceberg potential this niche market has.

I only looked up one keyword, but even that was enough to tell me, this is a market where having a top ranked site on Google or advertising it on search engines is going to get you 100,000’s of visits monthly with relative ease:

A plan of action:

• Are you a woman who has had this issue?
• Are you someone (man or woman) who understands how to deal with hair loss issues?
• Do you know a lot about this topic?

If there are at least 2 out of the 3 questions that have a yes answer for you, then you have a big business opportunity on your hands with immense profit potential. You can and should start a blog site on this specific topic and get going.

I’ve often considered compiling an email list for this particular demographic with this issue to sell them an affiliate product for good money, but what’s personally stopping me is offering that great, good priced solution. If you have it, then you already have the answer to help these women with this problem.

4) Diets for brides. 

As a wedding is coming up, the bride to be (and groom) as well as many of the people going to the wedding want to look their best. And believe me, during this period, a lot of them look up ways to drop pounds and they are pretty specific about their searches. Thanks to great keyword tools like Jaaxy, we know the numbers behind this niche:

Now the numbers may seem low just based on this one screenshot, but understand a few things:

1) Having a website for this market rank high means you will rank for pretty much ALL of those terms, including the related ones on the right hand side you see, which means those numbers add up. That’s several 100 visits a month right there.

2) Furthermore, there’s a bunch of other terms I didn’t look up but relate to this one, which would also add to the traffic, probably a few more 100 a month.

3) If you make a blog type website, you will not just be writing about this topic, you will be writing about other hot diets on the market because that same crowd is going to be looking at them on Google, believe me and if your site ranks for those diet plans and a someone who is getting married clicks on it and sees that your site is focused on helping people lose weight for a wedding, they’re going to feel like they landed in the right spot.

And in terms of traffic, the sky is the limit there. I know many diet plans which get 1,000’s of searches monthly, some even 10,000’s so adding that to your site targeting this topic is really going to make traffic skyrocket for you.

3) Getting rid of belly fat (specifically).

This type of niche market isn’t exactly starving, but it is still a hungry one. The market for getting rid of fat on the stomach is huge, evergreen (what is that?) and it will always sell well if you market your site/sales funnel intelligently.

I’m actually running an experiment like this on an existing weight loss page I have and will keep you guys posted in the future on how it goes. I am currently building an email list for this type of crowd and seeing what results I get, but anyway…

You have a market here with millions of people worldwide seeking solutions to this problem. Belly fat is a huge issue considering the rising rates of obesity and overweight stats. Though there are people who seek general weight loss solutions, there is a sub category (aka the niche audience) who specifically seeks the belly fat solution and that is the market we’re targeting in this example:

Again, we have an example where a simple keyword search shows us just how much potential there is in this market. The general term “burn belly fat” already gets well over 3k searches monthly, and a simple add on of “how to” before that makes it over 7k searches.

Add to it topics like exercises that burn fat, foods that do that, diet plans that do that and again, we have a niche market with 100,000’s of HUNGRY people with a problem. 

If you’re the type of person whose into personal training, have experience with this topic from the point of view that you had a belly but got rid of it, then you’ve got another clear winner here. 

The kinds of products and plans you can market to this crowd are quite vast and there will definitely not be a shortage of what you can promote as an affiliate marketer to them.

2) Getting rid of love handles.

Love handles are the type of fat located on the waist of a person. Now you may be thinking, what’s the difference between burning fat on the belly and love handles. Wouldn’t this qualify as the same niche? 

The answer is yes, but not exactly at the same time. Let’s put it this way:

A person who seeks to lose belly fat and lands on a site covering losing love handles will not feel like they’re EXACTLY where they need to be to find that solution.

But if a person who seeks to lose love handles lands on the same site, then they WILL feel like they are EXACTLY where they need to be.

People do make connections between niche markets all the time, but the more precise you are in this stage of marketing, the better it’ll be. It’s sort of like the difference in how many points you get on a dart board if you get close to the bulls eye vs the actual bulls eye:

While you can cover both topics on a SINGLE niche website (say burning fat in general), you can and SHOULD attract the specific sub niche crowd (belly fat is one and love handles is the other) to it’s own sales funnel because it will affect sales positively if you do. For example:

If I have a single site covering fat loss, I can have sub sections on love handles, belly fat (and one more we’ll be covering in a moment as the last hungry niche). This will basically funnel my specific niche crowd into the right corresponding places depending on WHICH particular area of fat loss solutions they seek. 

1) Getting rid of cellulite. 

Here’s another example of a sub niche topic. Cellulite is the fat located on legs/behind and it is a problem many people have and WANT solutions to. But targeting this topic ALONE is still a HUGE market:

And once again, I have to point out that this is just a single keyword search I did and having nearly 8k searches on this one query I did is enough to tell me that this is a huge market.

Believe me, people while making connections as I said before still differentiate the different sections of a main niche topic. In this case, they differentiate cellulite from love handles and belly fat. 

My final thoughts:

So there you have it, 5 more topics I added to the existing lists I’ve done. Here are 10 I did before. 

Here’s another 3 big ticket ones I think you’ll like. 

I want to point out that those lists still work just fine today even though they were written at least a year or more ago. As I said, there are many out there and I’ll cover them from time to time. But at least now you have 5 HUNGRY ones you can market to. 

If you have a particular niche you are interested in which ISN’T mentioned on this list, do let me know below and we’ll figure out if it’s a hungry one.

Furthermore, if you decided to start a blog/website on them and need guidance on going from the niche selection to having it make bank, then this is what I recommend:

There are plenty of ways to make GREAT money off a niche topic, but essentially, a program with all in one training to help you through the process is what will determine how successful and far you go with it.

Thanks for reading this list!