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What You Need to Know
I’m not going to waste your time by filling page after page with theorybased strategies, or talk endlessly about the history of affiliate marketing. You don’t care about that and neither do I. Instead, I’m going to cut straight to the chase and tell you exactly what you need to know about affiliate marketing so that you can start making money in a matter of a few days.
When you’re just starting out, the most time you’ll spend will be in building your mailing list and fostering a relationship with those leads. Once you have that foundation, you can set 80% of your tasks on autopilot and then focus on reviewing products that you believe in and continuing to extend your marketing funnel. Who knows? Maybe you’ll even branch out and become a product developer yourself!
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. You want to know how to get started so that you’re setting yourself up for success, right? Here’s how:
Hands down, the easiest way to get started in affiliate marketing is by piggybacking off the success of major launches.
Instead of doing all the usual legwork involved such as: building a brand, becoming an authority, developing a product, and providing endless customer support, you can forget all about that. Instead, all you have to do is build a mailing list, cultivate a relationship with that list and promote high quality products in proven markets where authority niche leaders are already developing content for you to siphon traffic from.
Here’s one thing that you need to do in order to stand out Never, ever promote a product that you wouldn’t personally use, or that you don’t believe in.
It may sound like common sense, but you’d be surprised how many new affiliate marketers focus on promoting products only because they offer a higher commission per sale. If you do this, and the product is absolute garbage, you’ll ruin all credibility with your subscribers and end up always having to rebuild. Trust me, I’ve learned the hard way.
Back when I started out in affiliate marketing in early 2011, I made every rookie mistake imaginable.
I promoted the most expensive products I could find because I knew that meant more money in my pocket even if the products kinda sucked. STUPID MOVE.
I failed to offer anything new or exciting to motivate people into purchasing through my affiliate link. I just sent them straight to the vendor’s sales page. ROOKIE MISTAKE.
Yeah, you read that right. I didn’t focus on building my own website, list or brand. Instead, I funneled traffic through my link directly to the merchant’s sales page in the hope that the traffic would convert into sales = affiliate commissions.
There was no warm up. No building a relationship with my subscribers. No developing a recognized brand of my own.
Not exactly a long-term strategy, right? Yeah, I know. I sucked! These were the biggest and most costly mistakes I have ever made. Listen, most the work has already been done for you, right? You don’t have to create a product. You don’t have to create a sales page. You don’t even have to provide support or worry about refunds. And most affiliate programs even offer all ad copy, banners and graphics and even email promo so you can just plug it into your system and activate with a couple of clicks.
So, why are so many affiliate marketers afraid to roll up their sleeves and put at least a little effort into building a long-term business that eventually they can set up on autopilot?
Things like:
• Building a mailing list and offering incredible content for free to motivate visitors into becoming loyal subscribers.
• Creating a simple website (WordPress takes 2 minutes to install) that offers original, in-depth product reviews where you promote products while giving visitor’s valuable intel that helps them make better purchase decisions.
• Cultivating a customer base of your own by connecting with subscribers via your mailing list, offering extended value, free content, tips and helpful advice.
• Creating or outsourcing bonus content that enhances the digital products you create so that you can encourage people to purchase higher-priced offers through your affiliate link instead of the competitor’s.
If you do these things you will absolutely outsell other affiliate marketers, and put yourself in an authority position within every niche market you choose. I promise you.
Because the truth is, if you want to make a lot of money in affiliate marketing, you can’t be afraid to do some work and to go beyond what other affiliate marketers are doing. You need to stand out. You need to give people a clear reason to listen to you so they’ll click on your links and purchase the products you recommend.
The work you do now will undoubtedly pay off in the end. Once you’re making $10k a month, you can be lazy. Now isn’t the time. Right now, you need to do the upfront work that will set you up for long-term success.
So, where should you begin? What are the absolute essential steps that you need to take to start making money while looking out for the future? I touched on it a few minutes ago, but in the next chapter I’ll jump into the trenches with you and show you exactly where you should start.
Keep a Steady Pulse on Your Market
If you want to make a ton of money in affiliate marketing, you absolutely must be fanatical about keeping tabs on your market so you can effectively position yourself in front of your target audience long before others do.
In fact, the easiest way to make money in affiliate marketing is to have your system in place weeks before the launch ever happens.
That way, you not only position yourself in the search engines (and in front of the line with subscribers) for when the big day comes, but you're given enough time to create content, value enhancers and bonus products that will draw customers to you, rather than the competition. When you subscribe to a JV or launch notification program, you'll receive emails and updates about upcoming product launches long before the information is made available to potential customers. In fact, many times, you'll find out about upcoming product launches long before the merchant even begins to contact their own affiliates!
If you aren’t sure where to begin, or who these developers are, you can join http://muncheye.com/, which is a launch notification system that will send you emails about upcoming launches. Really cool website. If you’re interested in business and Internet marketing products, check out http://www.JVZoo.com You’ll need to apply for approval with each vendor, but typically it only takes a couple of hours to get approval. Then, you’ll have immediate access to their JV promotional page where you’ll be able to download swipe files, banners, ad copy, and more.
Plus, you’ll get to see their entire sales funnel and how you can earn more money through their backend offers.
There are countless other affiliate marketplaces online so run a Google search to find a few that offer products that you are interested in and then subscribe to their updates.
The sooner you know of a product launch, the more prepared you will be; it’s as simple as that. If you only start prepping your website and list within a few days of an upcoming launch you’ll struggle to generate enough traffic through your affiliate links to make it worth your while. Instead, if you know of an upcoming launch weeks, even months ahead of time, you can set up a killer system that will maximize exposure, and of .
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