Ed’s method to test a market is to locate an affiliate product(s) related to your niche. There are dozens of affiliate networks where you can find products to sell as well as going directly to companies.

• The first step is to go in to Google and type in your main keyword for your niche followed by affiliate. So for example if I wanted to find affiliate products related to golf I would simply type in “golf affiliate”.
• Next you can go to affiliate networks to find products and here is a list of affiliate networks which you can join.

  PayDotCom
  ClickBank
  Shareasale
  ModernClick
  LinkShare
  Affiliate Fuel
  Commission Junction

• You can also become an affiliate at Amazon www.amazon.com. Amazon commissions are quite low but as Ed points out in the video we aren’t interested in how much we can make only that people are actually buying products in your chosen niche market. If people are buying your recommended affiliate products then that the provides the opportunity of creating your own product and making 100% of the sale price rather than 5%-15%.
• One place I don’t think Ed has mentioned so far is eBay which is another great place to discover niche markets. You can also become an eBay affiliate and promote any product that is on auction. Again commissions are low however their are millions of products in just as many niches being sold on eBay every day. To become an affiliate for eBay you need to join Commission Junction www.cj.com

So your job today is to find some products you can promote to test your market.

Today’s Videos

Finding An Internet Affiliate Program

A quick video on where to find affiliate products

Writing Your First Copy

Dan gives some tips on writing your first small piece of ad copy to promote your affiliate products.

Creating Amazon Affiliate Links

Dan explains how to create your Amazon affiliate link for whichever products you wish to promote to test your market.

Manipulating Images With Picnik

A tool which is going to be released for 30 day challenger’s is going to be released in the next few days (day 6 I believe) which is going to require your affiliate link from the previous video, a short bit of unique ad copy about the product and an image. This video shows you how to use a free online edit imaging tool called Picnik www.picnik.com to get your image of your product ready.

Overview of Day 4

Testing your market with affiliate products is very effective and some internet marketers make a lot of money simply promoting affiliate products and services however a lot of internet marketers would agree that having your own product is far more profitable for obvious reasons.

Dan mentioned a new function which I am assuming is going to be added to the Market Samurai tool, perhaps the ‘Publish Content’ function which will take the info collected above, compile it, and post it to a blog, maybe?

Today’s Videos

What To Expect In The Thirty Day Challenge

Ed talks about how crucial it is to research your market before promoting or creating a product. In fact the product comes last in what Ed calls “a magnificent symphony of four parts”. Which are market research, keyword research, traffic generation and finding or creating products.

Recommended Setup For Thirty Day Challenge

A quick overview of the tools which will be used in the 30 Day Challenge including the 30 Day challenge toolbar, Flock web browser, Stumble Upon, FreindFeed, Twitter, Twhirl, Google Reader and YouTube.

The Getting of Ideas

How to use Amazon to find ideas and keep up to date with your market by subscribing to Google News RSS feeds using Google Reader and using Google Alerts.

Overview of Day 1

Amazon is a massive “encyclopedia” as Ed calls it of products sold in every market imaginable. A good place to start is in the non-fiction books and the magazines section. You can guarantee if there is a book or a magazine on a subject then there is a niche which you can capitalize on. At this stage you want to find as many niche ideas as you can and Ed recommends finding niches which you have some interest in as they will be easier to work with.

It’s a good idea to try and find small niches as it will be easier for you to compete in rather than trying to go after the big ones such as ‘weight loss’ where there is intense competition.

You can keep up to date with your choosen markets by using Google Alerts www.google.com/alerts by simply enterting in the main keyword for your market and your email address. You can set how often you want to be emailed about any new content and you can also set up a rule in your inbox so that emails are automatically sorted for each niche.

You can also go to Google News www.google.com/news and enter your main keyword then you will get a list of the latest news related to your market which you can then subscribe to the RSS feed of these results so that you can easily keep up to date as new content is added. RSS feeds are an internet marketers best friend as it makes it much easier to manage and process large amounts of content from multiple sites all from one location. That location is Google Reader www.google.com/reader

To subscribe to the feed enter you main keyword into Google News search and either click the little RSS icon in your address window or in the left sidebar you should see a link which the name RSS. Simply right click and copy the link then go over to Google Reader, click add subscription and paste the link and click save.

It’s a good idea to create folders for each niche so that you can keep everything nicely organized.

That’s about it for day 1, feel free to subscribe to our feed to keep up to date with the rest of the challenge.

You can go sign up here and get started www.thirtydaychallenge.com

The amount of training material Ed and Dan provide for free is nothing short of amazing and not surprisingly there is a large community of people who participate, just go check out the forum and you will see what I mean.

A lot of focus is put on how to leverage social media sites to generate targeted traffic for your niche a very powerful method which has become extremely popular over the last couple of years.

For those unfamiliar with the thirty day challenge it was started about 4 or 5 years ago by Ed to teach people how to make their first dollar online. The theory being that once you know how to make your first dollar you can then repeat the process to generate more as everything that is taught is totally scalable.

The 30 Day Challenge is a free no strings attached, no obligations at all training which anyone can participate in. I highly recommend you check it out you won’t be disappointed!

Even seasoned internet marketers should follow along as each year Ed and Dan introduce a few groundbreaking marketing techniques and I gurantee you will learn something new to help improve your business in some way.

I will be blogging about each day of the 30 Day Challenge, outlining what has been taught and posting all of the training videos so feel free to subscribe to our feed to keep up to date.

So again here is the link to get started, see you on the inside! www.thirtydaychallenge.com