Jeremy has been running several online businesses behind his laptop for the past 5 years and he has worked as a freelance web developer previously. A trained marketer by profession, he also has Ruby on Rails and web development knowledge. His forte lies in eCommerce, SEO and content marketing. He’s been featured on Vice, Thrive Global, YFS Magazine, Forbes and several other publications. He prefers to connect with people on LinkedIn.
Think of affiliates as an extension of your in-house marketing team. Instead of a salary, you pay them for each new lead or sale acquired as a result of their marketing efforts.
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“Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people’s or company’s products.”
There is also a variance between each platform when it comes to the most effective times of day to post.
You can offer them an ebook (maybe bundle together your 3 best product reviews) or a special review video.
They're lucrative for affiliate marketers since many of them offer recurring commissions.
As you might’ve already noticed, the strategies and types of content you can use for YouTube are pretty much the same as with blogging – only, of course, it’s in video format.
Having a plan will make you visualize a road map on achieving success on affiliate marketing.
If you are looking to increase brand awareness and recognition, the best option could be pay per action where action can be email collection or a phone number, etc. If you are looking to increase revenues, the better option would be the typical pay per sale.
Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”
In addition to Facebook, Pinterest has become increasingly popular with affiliates. I just Googled the term “affiliate marketing Pinterest without blog” and I was amazed at how creative you can get. Pinterest is known to be a large channel to send a lot of traffic to your website.
As a test, go to the Google search bar, type in your favorite product and then the word “affiliate” afterwards. Chances are, you’ll get a hit. (I was seriously blown away that there were so many products being promoted by so many people when I realised this!)
To give you an idea of the scope of this and what’s possible, over the last 2 years I’ve made over $20k in affiliate commissions from one product alone. This includes an occasional mention in a blog post, 2 webinars, and a handful of dedicated emails. That’s it.
Some people use affiliate marketing only for profit, not to benefit their customers. Some will even mislead their audience with spammy, dishonest affiliate ads and promotions, or they try to hide the fact that it’s an affiliate link. Here’s a tip: most readers can smell them a mile away—and that’s okay if you’re honest about the intent!
These large affiliate networks connect you with many affiliate companies and products that will earn you money. You can also use these affiliate networks to search for popular products to promote.
Now you know all the basics to getting started with affiliate marketing (and some not-so-basics, too). What's next? You get started, of course! Here are some tips that will help you get started and level up your affiliate marketing efforts quickly.
See how mixing personal stories, other free resources, and offers can come together to form a holistic autoresponder sequence? Everything is driven by your visitor intent.Funnels are where you will make the money. Figure out what drives your audience at different stages in your niche (visitor intent)Brainstorm five to ten content pieces based around each of the visitor intents you identifiedCreate desirable resources that people will jump over themselves to download in exchange for their email addressCreate a sequence of emails (an autoresponder/campaign) that mixes personal stories, free resources, and, of course, affiliate offers that match their buying intentions