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We're going to be talking today about making money making a living actually from your home with affiliate marketing and That's the subject But if you've got any other questions about starting running and growing online businesses, feel free to put that the chat box there I'll be happy to answer any questions on that But that's our subject matter for the day I'm still trying to get my move together for those of you who know I am moving to Texas And we've got about gosh, I think it's like 19 days now something like that That's the big countdown and I will probably be doing these throughout the end of this week Next week. I cannot make promises unfortunately because we've got to get everything together And I won't be able to do as many lives. So, you know stick with me all this week, right? And at least that way you'll get the training for this week Also, let me see here. Let me pull up some of my information for you guys I'm going to give you guys a bunch of steps today on how you can do this affiliate marketing and Let's see here. There we go. There we go. There's all my information You know, let me kind of fill you in on What affiliate marketing is first off affiliate marketing essentially is getting paid for selling products that you don't own I mean, that's a pretty good deal, right? I mean almost sounds illegal, but it's not It is very legal and a lot of people make a lot of money doing this on a daily basis They do affiliate marketing. They've been doing affiliate marketing for years I do affiliate marketing and I also have my products sold as affiliate products. So, you know exactly What is affiliate marketing? Well affiliate marketing is when a publisher or a company Gives you a cut of each sale when you promote them on your site or you promote them through email Or ads or whatever you choose to do There's a lot of different affiliate opportunities from courses To web hosting to books to tapes DVDs Survival food because we have survival food too So there's all kinds of different products out there that you can be an affiliate marketer for But I will tell you you want to go in the right direction and you want to make money in the right way The more effort that you put into your affiliate marketing product You should get paid a higher commission The example I will give you is the lowest Commissions I get are for Amazon. That's the very lowest commissions I get on affiliate marketing However for Amazon, I almost do nothing. All I do is list links in my description So if somebody's interested in those things they can click on one those links They can buy some of those products or any product they buy for the next I think 24 or 48 hours I get a commission on them, but I don't do hardly any effort for that But I don't get paid hardly anything either I'm I mean very very small percentage maybe one two percent now some products like I have a friend of my John Kristyne contacted me the other day and said he was doing a promotion That's usually going to be a 50% commission on any products that I sell of his and vice versa when he sells my products I normally pay about a 50% commission But that takes a lot more effort that may be a webinar that may be emailing my list That's going to be a whole lot more things Then what I need to do for Amazon So keep in mind you want to weigh this out with what you have to do in what you get back for what you do affiliate marketing Is often kind of looked at is like this get rich quick scheme By like these shady sites offering pyramid schemes that promise quick cash with a little effort But that's not what affiliate marketing is. Okay, that certainly exists out there But that's not what I'm talking about when I'm talking about affiliate marketing Successful affiliate marketers, you know, I'll give you an example like Pat Flynn Smart passive income put in a lot of effort towards building an audience and creating quality content that will bring in Sustainable passive income So you got to expect to do a lot of legwork up front But if you play your cards right you can build a solid source of revenue for years to come So, you know when you're getting into this guys don't think that it's a get with get rich quick type thing It is not it's nothing could be further from the truth than that It is something that Takes effort However, you can earn a lot of money you can replace your job or you could actually make millions of dollars doing this I know people that do that right now. They literally make millions of dollars just doing affiliate marketing Now the key to really successful affiliate marketing Is several different things your success is a Neffiliate marketer is tied to how you answer these simple questions Can you find products or services to offer that offer you a great commission rate now? You can but you got to know where to look. I would say look at share a sale I would say look at click bank any of those. Let me put these in here share sale I'll put that in here And I would say also click bank is really good. I would put that in here Now both of those are great sites and there's commission junction. There's JB zoo I mean, there's a whole lot of different ones out there, but those are a couple ones to really get you started Can you find a niche market that is likely to buy what you were offering? Okay, is there a market out there? That's the next thing you got to say is say this one looks like a great product But where am I going to find this audience that maybe it's your email list you've got Maybe it's content that you've been putting out for years that people are interested in and this matches that content Maybe you're going to run ads to this particular niche market So you got to ask yourself that and then the last question is are you able to build content and traffic around these products? Can you do that? Is this something that's sustainable long-term? So it's not flashing the pan kind of stuff guys This is stuff that you're going to have to work on you're going to have to build up It's going to take time today. I've got the big bottle of water here. So I don't have my cup ready, unfortunately But the money could be great. I mean I have a decent list now I mean it's not as big as I want it to be never is as big as you want to be But I have a decent list now and I could go to click bank right now. I ought to do a video on this but literally I could go to click bank right now I could set up some affiliate links I could send out an email and within probably an hour or two I would have money that quick that quick but Understand for the past decade. I've been building up these lists for the past decade I've been working online for the past decade. I've been learning how to do this stuff So anyhow, if you could answer To any of those questions a yes rather than jumping to conclusions immediately Take time and research whether or not others out there are making a sustainable affiliate income from products And the content in that particular niche So, you know, that's that was my thing all along is I if I could see somebody else doing it and they were making money Then of course, hey, you know, so I'm gonna do it too in a sense competition is really a good thing here It'll help you validate your idea and prove that it's worth building a business around So if you find competition out there, don't get scared of it. Don't go. Oh my god, there's competition No, that's a good thing It's a good thing if you have competition because if you have competition that means that people are making money Other people are doing it out there. Now, the next thing I want to talk about is actually getting a favorable Commission rate. Okay. So like I said in the beginning Amazon's commission rate is pennies for each dollar of merchants ice that you sell. It's not much, okay What many people don't know is that there are affiliate opportunities out there that pay commission rates that are much more favorable I mean twenty dollars hundred dollars five hundred dollars or even more So you want to go through these Affiliate networks. I told you about I told you about share a sale. I told you about click bank There's also Commission Junction. There's Rakuten There's E junkie for opportunities and general commissions So there's all kinds of different ones out there, but you got to kind of look around and see what's gonna fit for you You want to use a trustworthy Affiliate site if you're gonna use one these affiliate networks that has all these products on there make sure it's a good one Make sure it's one of the ones I listed You know, I guess there's other ones out there, but I know all of those are solid. They've been around for years You can be assured you're gonna make money out of so I would say let me put it in here Check out the affiliate networks to make sure they are reputable There we go, so it's like that in there too, but that's really super important guys Because you don't want to get in a situation where you're promoting a product and you've made a lot of money And then you don't get paid. Okay, so we don't want that to happen when you use one of these reputable Commission Affiliate networks, you're gonna get paid. You don't have to worry about that. You're not gonna get ripped off So you do want to protect yourself now if you know an individual or if you know a company That is reputable and you want to you know sell their product you can certainly do so we have a reputable product We have a lot of people that sell our products on a daily basis through our survival food company And those particular products we always pay out on you don't have to worry about it But we've been around, you know for over 10 years. We're established next thing you want to do is target a Niche target a niche when you're just starting out a niche market is the obvious way to go look for a market that has clearly defined need and Willing audience. Okay, that's super important Then find the affiliate opportunities that actually match up to that particular niche So you want to go niche first and then product I think too often people go product first and then they try to match it up to a niche And that's not what you should do. You've got to find a niche market. And what is a niche market? I would say Stay at home moms who like cats. There you go Accountants who work from home is a niche people who are survivalist and Want to protect their family from disasters? That's a niche and that's that's what we sell to because we sell survival food The next thing you're going to want to do is create an effective website or landing page now If you use something like cartra and I do recommend cartra cartra will be in the description when this video is over with Cartra is an excellent tool for doing digital marketing But you could build an affiliate page opt-in page in there in like 10 15 minutes. Okay, so get cartra There is a link to cartra in the description once this video is over with you can watch it and there's a video there That tells you everything about cartra. And if you're interested and you should be okay You could join for only one dollar trial to try it out make sure it's the right thing for you So you're going to either have to do a web page or you're going to have to do cartra I would recommend cartra in the beginning because it's a whole lot less effort And you're not trying to build out an entire site unless you've already got a site if you've already got a site And you've been posting content about single moms who love cats who work from home You know, then of course, you know, you could just use your website You can add another page there and send them to that Next thing you want to do is build an audience through building trust The most successful affiliate marketers build compelling content first That's the first thing they do and then affiliate revenue later. Okay, so they built up this good audience When there is an opportunity to bring something of value to your community and make some money for your efforts Then you're looking at what I think is a great opportunity So you can do that now we do have a blog on survival k food I don't I don't have it kept up as much as I should right now But I also have another blog one jrfisher.com which you can go to and get all kinds of information To build a successful affiliate program. It helps to care about the products you're selling. Okay, so you got to really like them You got to have a legitimate value beyond that quick sale You got to think they had value While you can build an affiliate business around any type of product It does help if you actually use the product and endorse it personally. Okay, so like survival king food I would definitely eat that food. That is good food. Okay. It's it's high quality. It's Humanely processed. It's all natural. It's a really good product. So, you know, even though that's my product I like it when I send this product out to affiliates when they try it out as samples They like it. They love it. Okay. They get it. They understand why it's so good now I'm gonna also tell you you want to stay out of trouble Okay, so, you know being an affiliate marketer is a business You're gonna need to get the proper business licenses You're gonna need to run your company as a business because it is a business guys a lot of people say well Do I need license to run an online business? Yeah, the only difference is it's online. It's not that it's not You know a real business you got to do that the other thing that you got to look for and I see a lot of people mess this up Okay, this is super important the FTC the Federal Trade Commission in the United States enforces a set of rules that covers the increasingly professionalizing world of bloggers and online influencers you must now at this point, okay This is the rule. This is the law You must now disclose when you have a financial interest in a product or service you feature on your blog This is very important. Make sure you put that on there. This goes for sponsored posts But most importantly for affiliate links, you've got to let people know you gotta let people know that you're making money on this product, okay? many affiliate marketers including copy blogger media and Chris Brogan attempt to use this to their advantage how Well, they use this disclosure as an opportunity to talk about how much they personally love the product They are selling so I would do the same thing if I'm selling a product and I'm repping it and I'm an affiliate I'm gonna say hey guys. I am an affiliate, but you know, I'm an affiliate because I use this Let me tell you how I use this product in my everyday life. Okay, if you're doing it Like I talk about Cartra all the time, you know, I'm an affiliate for Cartra. I'm make no bones about it Okay, I get a commission if you buy Cartra. However, I use Cartra for all of my marketing every single thing I do every email I send out every sales page. I do every promotion. I do all my video courses are in Cartra I use it every single day. That's why I'm so bought into Cartra and why you should be too Cartra is amazing. It's gonna make you a lot of money if you put forth the effort and you use the tools in Cartra You're gonna do well. That's my disclosure. Okay, cuz I told you a couple minutes ago Hey get Cartra. I want you to get Cartra. I get a very small commission off Cartra. I don't make much money off Cartra I'm not gonna make a living off Cartra by any stretch of the imagination. However, I Do promote it because I like it and I use it and it's literally made me millions of dollars Okay, if it's made me millions of dollars and after 10 years of doing this, you know, I'm getting results Why wouldn't you want to do that? Okay, so I would let me put this in here check out Cartra in the description and Get a trial for only one dollar Okay, it's changed the word Cartra to Cartario. I have no idea why I would do that. Let me change this Cartra There we go, it's in there. Okay, so That is my overview of affiliate marketing guys affiliate marketing is really pretty amazing I think no matter what your business is. Okay, no matter what you're doing I think it's really important that you get involved in Affiliate marketing and the reason I think it's really important is You know number one if you've got a good product and you want to get it out to a lot of people You're gonna want to have affiliates, right? That would make sense Especially if it's a good product you would as many people as possible to get your product If you've got an audience built and you've built up, you know some credibility Why not capitalize on that and sell other people's products, too? So that's another thing you can do is sell other people's products So you don't you don't have to be in just one end or the other you can be in both ends, right? You can offer your products to affiliates and you can have affiliate products that you offer to your audience Okay, why not, you know Capitalize on all that's out there if you have any other further questions You can put them in the chat box right now Feel free to do that if you're not watching this live I know a lot of you aren't you catch this video later on what you're gonna want to do Is put any of your questions comments, whatever in the comment section below the video the comment section It's not there during the live video that only pops up After the video has been I guess the live is over with I guess something like that So that's when that's gonna pop up, but feel free to do that Also, if you're not watching this live or if you are watching it pot make sure you subscribe, okay? 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