A lot of people who have their own products they sell in a niche, also sell affiliate products in that niche as well.
They may go to Clickbank or PayDotCom and find products in the same niche as theirs and promote them to earn commissions.
One of the keys to affiliate marketing is to reward people who buy through your affiliate link by giving them some kind of bonus.
You can tell them that if they order through your link to email their receipt number to you and within 24 hours you will send them a link to their bonus.
You should fully explain what your bonus is on the pre-sell or review page you set up for the affiliate product.
A lot of affiliates buy PLR (private label rights) products to use as bonuses, and that can work. However, a lot of the PLR stuff out there is junk and if you pass it off on your buyers and they are unhappy, they will be less willing to buy from you again in the future.
If you have a great product of your own in the same niche as the affiliate product you are promoting, don’t be afraid to use it as a bonus!
One advantage is that no one else can use it as a bonus so that makes it unique. If they want it they have to buy through your link!
