Get it? Try and make your niche market as fresh and new as possible. If you choose a niche that's old and tired and "over-fished" so to speak you're going to have a tough time. Choose a product that fits really well with your chosen niche. For this struggling affiliate marketing example, you may choose a service that helps you with keyword selection.
Learn how to get really good at thinking outside of the box so you can come up with keywords that will really attract and promote your niche product to your market niche. And finally this fifth point, a point that should be considered throughout all of the stages is that you have to be finding and promoting to a very hungry crowd of consumers.
I guarantee that if you get all 5 points right you will be very successful at affiliate marketing. Get one or more of these items wrong or out of sync and your efforts are wasted. You will still be very busy going through the process and it does take a lot of time and effort but at the end you will not make any money. For many affiliate marketers reading this article, you know exactly what I'm talking about. For those of you that don't, I hope that this information helps you immensely to be successful. When I started into the affiliate marketing game I failed miserably.