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A Beginner’s Guide to Affiliate Marketing.

October 16, 2020 By Sheldon Leave a Comment

Plain and simple, this beginner’s guide to affiliate marketing will be your ultimate go to resource, I’m not saying that for effect either.

beginner's guide to affiliate marketing

Being in the affiliate marketing business today is not difficult with all of the current technology at your fingertips.

It is much easier now with modern technology, and assuming that you’re working from home, your day might be something like this.

After getting the kids off to school, you check for new developments. As a marketer, there might be new things to update and statistics to review.

The split test has to be revised. Experienced marketers knows that a split tested landing page can increase sign ups and conversion rates.

Split testing is simply 2 versions of the same page. For example, the text on one page might be different from page two.

Time to review your current and new subscribers you are getting from your campaigns. Who is opening your emails and clicking thru and who hasn’t.

Are your subscribers checking the products out? Have you been meaning to send out some broadcast emails, but haven’t?

There are lots of options here, and as a marketer, following up with your list is one way of building a relationship with your list.

Broadcast emails are just emails you send out to your list when you publish a new blog post, have some tips or advice, an offer to help them etc.

There might be questions to answer from the replies. Reply quickly, nothing can turn off a customer more than an unanswered question.

Liking the beginner’s guide to affiliate marketing so far?


Nobody wants to be ignored and potential customers are not always the most patient of all people.

OK moving on, next you might log into Facebook and check out your favorite group(s) where you can interact with other affiliates.

This is where discussions can range from things like:

  • Best way to promote their products.
  • Learning some new traffic generation method.
  • Sharing tips and advice is always good.

There may be others in the group, wanting to join the conversation and may be enticed to do so by what you say.

Now would be the best time to see if there are some new things happening in the other Facebook groups.

These same groups are also an important tool in keeping up to date with the newly introduced products.

Here, affiliate marketers put up some promotions that you may want to know about.

There are lots of wannabee affiliate marketers that simply post their affiliate links in these groups, and right on someone else’s post too.

That’s SPAM. Spamming is just posting a link in these groups, hoping that someone will buy and they’ll make a commission.

You want take the time to write (or talk about) the product, so you can become a credible source for the product(s) being promoted.

That accomplishes two things at the same time.

The marketer gets to build the know, like and trust factor, and promote the product as well as the program they are in.

Who knows, someone may be inclined to join.

Time flies. Missed my lunch but quite satisfied with the tasks done.

Ok, so this may not happen all in one day.

But it gives you an idea of how a dedicated affiliate marketer would spend their time during the day.

Is that something you can see yourself doing in the future or what?

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Is affiliate marketing possible for you

May 29, 2020 By Sheldon Leave a Comment

Is affiliate marketing possible for you? Well, I do affiliate marketing part time, and I can say that yes, affiliate marketing is real and works for me.

Then why is it that a lot of people who try affiliate marketing are unable to make money?

Well gentle reader, let me explain why this does not work for everyone.

Guns N’ Roses sang it best: All we need is just a little patience.

Many people start affiliate marketing without seeing any commissions in the first few days and assume that affiliate marketing does not work.

Unfortunately for those people who quit, they believed the HYPE below.

That’s what happens when you believe these hypey pictures you find in some Facebook Groups, no wonder they quit after a few days.

The biggest problem why new affiliate marketers quit is that they are learning from, well, new affiliate marketers!

There are many online courses and training programs out there made by affiliate marketers for new affiliate marketers.

So, why is this a problem?

Because most affiliate marketers are only interested in making money by selling people like you their training courses.

In order to make a sale, they lure you in through hypey promises that simply cannot be fulfilled.

Honestly, whoever tells you that “this is easy” or a “quick way to make money online” is lying to you.

Sure, there are a few people who made money in the first 30 days of business, but this is extremely rare. It took me months!

Now, as time goes on, it’s taking longer and longer to make money online.

If you’re interested in getting started with Internet marketing the right way.

I strongly suggest you start RIGHT NOW.

With that said, it’s really unfortunate that so many people don’t have the patience to put in the work when they first get started.

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Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers: Boost Visibility And Profits

November 29, 2019 By Sheldon Leave a Comment

If you’re undecided about blogging, you’re missing out on a easy way to boost visibility and profits. It is one of the best online advertising methods as it allows you to talk directly to your audience.

Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers is nothing new, It’s an outlet for Internet Marketers to boost visibility and profits by becoming their own journalists.

Some blogging platforms are free, it’s the cheapest way to market online.

With Blogger, you could be running a simple blog in minutes.

How can blogging help boost visibility and profits?

If you have a business and offer products or services, you can blog to your audience and future customers about the benefits of your product.

Not only will your subscribers see it but anyone searching for information about your product or service.

They may just land on your blog and turn into a reader, subscriber and perhaps a future customer.

A blog also serves as an online reference guide for your business.

Archiving your content on a widget, it will always be available in search.

Consider publishing relevant news in the industry related to your business.

Express your opinions on other similar products or services that you use, trust and recommend.

Besides your own products, you can also sell other affiliate products or services on your blog.

Blogging is great for gathering feedback from your readers too.

Simply ask them how you can improve your products or services to continue serving your customers better.

If you want that professional look, it is better to host your own blog.

When starting your online business, it’s the ONE thing you must have, and that’s complete control of your content.

So, if you’re new to blogging, and you’re really passionate, but you just don’t know which blog niche is for you.

For most people, affiliate marketing is how they get started.

Perhaps you’re new to affiliate marketing and interested in the possibility of passive income.

Click the link below for more information.

100% Free Affiliate Marketing Training!

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What is affiliate marketing?

June 27, 2019 By Sheldon Leave a Comment

What is affiliate marketing? Plain and simple, affiliate marketing is the ultimate business model of all time. And it’s a legitimate business too!

what is affiliate marketing

Typically, you earn a percentage of the sale which can be incredibly high. Sure, there might be some costs involved in placing ads, for example.

But, compared to traditional business models (I talked about a restaurant in my last post for example) those costs are a drop in the bucket.

What is affiliate marketing?

Many people, including myself, have suffered at the hands of MLM, or other similar business models. And many people mistakenly think of affiliate marketing has somehow shady, it’s not.

Most companies are not out to take advantage of affiliates, they need their affiliates to make money and to scale their business.

And there’s certainly nothing wrong about getting paid a commission for connecting a company with the new customer.

Many businesses operate this way, if you’ve ever bought a car for example, you might have dealt with a commissioned salesman.

The same is true for furniture salesman, real estate agents or any other individual who brings a customer into a company for a commission.

The only difference with affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to do any of the selling if you don’t want to. The website you are promoting for can do all the selling for you.

Here’s how I feel marketing works.

Let’s say I develop a training product for business owners who want to learn how to create their first website and start collecting leads and it’s priced at $997.

They’re more than happy to pay for it because if they implement the strategies that I teach in this training product…

They will be able to generate thousands of leads for their business, which could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

So $997 it’s a no-brainer.

That’s where you come in, you become an affiliate for my business by joining my affiliate program and your role is simple, to bring in potential customers to my website, that’s it!

Once they are my website, I can sell him or her my course.

If they buy it, I agree to split the $997 with you. After all, without you, I wouldn’t have made the sale in the first place, only seems fair right?

So how much of the $997 do you get paid?

Different affiliate programs will pay different amounts to those who close the sale, some pay 10% commissions others pay up to fifty percent.

Now, let’s come back to your role of getting people to someone’s website.

How you do this is by using an affiliate link that is unique to you only.

Then you can place your link on Facebook and other websites.

You could go on Facebook right now post a link to someone else’s website and have someone click that link in the next 30 minutes.

That is what driving traffic is, sending people to a website.

So how much traffic do you need to send to a website in order to make your first commission?

That depends on the people who make up the traffic and how good the website is at making an irresistible offer that gets people to buy.

Now you may be wondering why these business owners who have a website just don’t place your own ads?

So they can generate their own traffic without having to pay affiliate commissions.

Well actually most do, but the internet is so enormously large and vast that they can get additional traffic from affiliates, because they can’t reach it all on their own.

So that’s the basics of affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is by far the easiest way to earn money online, but there’s still a learning curve.

Luckily it’s not a steep one, and it’s entirely possible to be earning money within a few hours if you take action.

There’s a lot of shortcuts to make in your first commission and programs like Clickfunnels are built to help you take advantage of them.

Just about everything is done for you.

Even if you don’t know much about computers or navigating around the internet.

You can still get started with the basics.

If you need help, I can help you with things like getting a website and domain name.

And how to set up an email autoresponder so you can follow up with leads, and know how to start generating traffic.

You see, some companies don’t offer much for its affiliates.

For example, no websites, no lead capture page, no coaching or assistance at all.

Your pretty much expected to hit the ground running, knowing how to do it all yourself.

I can tell you from my experience that I didn’t hit the ground running.

You could say I did a tumble, but I got up, brushed myself off and kept going.

It took some time to learn how to build my business, from the tools already available to me.

The first thing you should do when you start any new businesses is to focus on bringing in cash.

Sounds obvious right? Of course you should focus on getting some customers and making some cash.

But so many people waste their time creating logos, business cards going out and buying stationery.

And doing busy work that doesn’t directly bring in the critical ingredient you need to grow, cash.

Don’t spend days watching videos and reading books and blogs without implementing the things you’ve learned.

In other words, stop getting ready to get ready.

A good rule of thumb is that for every hour you spend learning go spent 3 hours doing.

Learn as you go and don’t be afraid to make mistakes.

If you feel like there’s too many things to learn.

Then focus on the things that are bringing in money right now.

Learning to generate traffic is a lot more important than learning how to design a logo.

Remember that as an affiliate marketer.

Your job is to find a great offer and put people in front of it.

That’s all it comes down to.

You become an affiliate for that offer, get an affiliate link and get the right people to click it.

When they buy, you get paid your commission.

Next Post: What is an Affiliate Link?

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