There are still a lot of markets where affiliate marketing is still growing. One of my skills is finding those markets where affiliate marketing is still relatively new and then asserting myself as the market leader or the "come to person" for information in regards to affiliate marketing. Many people concentrate on markets already developed and saturated like the USA, Canada and Australia. Places like Indonasia are also doing fine.
But there are still many other European Countries that affiliate marketing is still growing and about to explode. Take the Netherlands for instance.
Affiliate marketing in Netherlands is growing at such a fast rate and there are very few competitors in this market. Just imagine all those hungry information seekers looking for help on how to write articles, keyword research techniques, affiliate programs to join, traffic generation methods. The list is endless.
All you have to do is simply follow the following steps.
Use a simple tool like google insights and see what people in the Netherlands are looking for in terms of affiliate marketing. I love this tool because its free and comprehensive.
So I just search my relative keyword, say article marketing and I select the Netherlands.
It will bring up all the people searching for this keyword and it would even tell you their location.
Now many people will know about google insights but I will tell you how I use it in a unique way.
Once you have found enough interest in the keyword you are researching in this case it was article writing, then simply note down the locations where this search was made.
What you simply do next is to write an article as a teaser with specific keywords and submit to article directories. Let me explain further.
Find the keyword of interest, search the country or location, discover if there is sufficient interest in that topic. The write your article on which keyword with the name of the location in the keyword. Now search google using the exact phrase match to see your competition. I guarantee you most times the results would either be 0 or between 2000 to 14000. I always smile when I see this because you can easily dominate this type of competition especially when using these specific keywords in your title.
Then sit back and watch all the targeted traffic come in.