 Hey, John Crestani here, affiliate marketing, multi-millionaire. I'm going to be answering all of your questions about affiliate marketing. Everything from what is affiliate marketing, what's the market size? Is it legit or worth doing? How much can you earn? Can it be a career? How do you start? How do you join a network? How do you learn everything? How do I make money really fast and easy? What's the best way to start everything? That you have questions about getting into this 15 billion dollar industry. I'm going to show you how you can get started. How you can start getting a piece of this pie and start earning money. So, let's get into this. I've made millions of dollars doing affiliate marketing working with dozens of different affiliate programs and affiliate networks for the last 10 years. I've been doing this and making my money living out here in rural Malibu, California. I'm going to help you do the same. Let's get into it. Hey, John Crestani and where are all my affiliate marketers at? Type in me right here in the comments below if you do affiliate marketing right now. And if you're just getting started, no worries. First, I'm going to explain a little bit about what affiliate marketing is and why it's important why it's a great place to make lots of money. And then I'll be going over quite a number of questions. Common questions I've seen on my channel. Almost a million people a month watch my channel to learn about affiliate marketing. And I'm going to be going over the common questions that I see. So that hopefully your questions can get answered and how to get started, whether it's worth doing, how much can you earn, etc. But before we get into that, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I've been doing affiliate marketing since 2009, 10, something like that. Basically 10 years, I've been dabbling in it. But I went full time and replaced my job income, which was $6,000 a month in 2012 to making 25 to $50,000 a month at around 23 years old. I was making that sort of money with the power of affiliate marketing. So great wealth creation tool, very easy to get started. And I'll be going over the specifics there. Now, affiliate marketing itself is a $15 billion industry. That's billion with a B. So if you're just looking to earn an extra $10,000 a year, that is a fraction. That's less than a percent of $15 billion. So there's a lot of money to be made here. Got a big market size and only $7 billion is in the US. Because I know that only about a quarter of the people watching this are going to be based in the US. Most of the money is actually outside of America. And what's great about affiliate marketing is it doesn't really matter where people are anyways. Because if you're in Nigeria, you can make money in the US with affiliate marketing. If you're in America, you can make money in Nigeria. I don't think there's a lot of affiliate programs in Nigeria. But the point being is it doesn't matter where you're located in the world, what matters is you can get a piece of all of this pie, this $15 billion, right? Now, 60% of the money made in affiliate marketing is business to consumers. So it's sort of like if you're selling, let's say you're selling hats. If you're selling hats, that's a consumer product. An individual is buying that, not a business. Whereas if you're selling jambboards, a business is buying that. So there's a lot of opportunity just selling to individual people, but as well as selling to businesses. 40% of the affiliate marketing income is sold by businesses. Why is that important? Well, if you are an executive or if you know about different professional tools or softwares or stuff, a lot of businesses buy this stuff. And a lot of people hear about these business products through affiliate marketing. Also, the amount of money that businesses spend each year is just astronomical. So if you do affiliate marketing and you focus on recommending products to other businesses, you can make a lot of money. Now, another interesting statistic about affiliate marketing is 74% of all online purchases, people actually do research on other websites before they buy the product. Now, what that means is basically the majority of people could land on your website doing research to figure out what product they end up purchasing before they make a decision. That's a great statistic for affiliate marketers because the public's propensity for doing research on things works in the affiliate marketers favor. It means you can get credit for the sale for basically 75% of everything people purchase. End of the day, folks. There is a lot of money in affiliate marketing and the industry is growing very fast. 11% annual, which is larger than the majority of other industries in the world. So, this is a fast growing industry. It's big and almost 80% of all companies use it. So, let's move on to some of the questions. Now, the first question I hear a lot from people who are not familiar with affiliate marketing, is it legit? Is affiliate marketing actually a legitimate way to make money? Well, as we see, it's a large industry, $15 billion. And yes, it is very legitimate. 80% of businesses do affiliate marketing. If you've gone to Amazon, Amazon, one of their biggest ways they get people into their site is through affiliate marketers. Did you know that? Have you ever wondered how you end up on Amazon? I mean, one of my favorite examples is my wife. I asked her, do you ever click on affiliate links? And she said, no, I never do. I never click on affiliate links. I don't like scammy marketers ads. And then I looked on our computer. I looked on one of the tabs she was open and I said, oh, what's this? She said, oh, I'm doing research on what diapers to buy. I want to find some eco-friendly diapers for Fiona, which is my daughter. And I said, oh, which is your favorite? She said, oh, I really like this one. I said, you know, every single product they're recommending on this site is using an Amazon affiliate link? She said, no, those aren't affiliate links. I said, Sarah, I'm mousing over this link. And I see there's an affiliate ID attached to it. You can't see it. But if you go in the code, every one of these links has an affiliate ID corresponding to it, meaning some affiliate marketer like me is getting credit for anything you purchase on Amazon right now. She said, whoa, I didn't know that. That's not real. Is it really? I said, yeah, you've been clicking on affiliate links for years, babe. It's just you don't know. And that's why it works. So affiliate marketing is legit. It's all over. If you've ever booked a flight and you haven't used the actual flight booking site, if you've used Expedia.com, Hotels.com, you've used Travelocity Orbits, those are all affiliate marketing companies. Nerd Wallet, big affiliate marketing company. Cars.com, affiliate marketing company. Hotels.com, affiliate marketing company. It is a super legit industry. It is growing fast. And there's a lot of money to be made by a lot of individuals. So now we'll move on to the second question. But John, is affiliate marketing worth doing? Yes, 100%. Affiliate marketing is totally worth doing. And if you've seen almost any YouTuber, go check out your top five or top 10 favorite YouTubers and just check the links in their description. Are they doing affiliate marketing? Do they have links to other products that are not their own or other services or other softwares? Chances are they do. A lot of the biggest YouTubers, they started making money with affiliate marketing because you can't make a lot of money as a YouTuber or it used to be that way. So yes, affiliate marketing is worth doing in almost any individual, any social influencer does affiliate marketing nowadays. Any blog you go on, any site that has traffic usually does affiliate marketing. Anybody with an email list does affiliate marketing. And there's plenty of ways that you can do affiliate marketing, even if you have zero audience yourself. And I teach that in my six week course called the Super Affiliate System. Links are down below. We updated every six months and make the course better and better and better and create more and more and more and more success. You can check out my community to see all of the success stories that are starting their own businesses making money with affiliate marketing. On to the third question. Okay, John, I get it. It's legit. You know, it's worthwhile. But can this affiliate marketing thing actually be a career? Like, can it be something I do for years? And you know, even just get a job doing affiliate marketing. I want a stable income. I don't want to take risks. I just want a steady paycheck. I have a mortgage and credit card costs. I just want a steady paycheck and something I can do for a long time. Is that possible with affiliate marketing? Yes, it is. First off, there are a lot of affiliate marketing jobs. And second off, you can do this for a long time. I've been doing this for eight years, full time, doing affiliate marketing, just posting links on the internet and selling other company's products and making commission when I match those two together. It's been great. And it's been something that I've had to adapt with over time. I started off marketing an investment company. And that company shut down their affiliate program for, you know, a year. You know, a couple of years after I started, they shut down their affiliate program. So, I started marketing other product. You know, I started marketing bed bug eradication kits and skincare supplements and weight loss supplements. I've shifted over time what companies I market. But I've been in the industry for eight years. So, I call it a career. I call it my job. You know, I tell my wife, I say, don't bother me when I'm working. You know, this is my job. If you actually want a job with a base salary, if that's what you mean by career, you want just steady money, you want to do this, you freaking can't. There are a lot of jobs doing affiliate marketing. Usually what the jobs are is they're called affiliate managers. So, I'm just going to abbreviate it MGR affiliate managers. And there's a lot of jobs working for affiliate networks as an affiliate manager, which gives you the opportunity to work with hundreds or thousands of affiliates to help them make sales. So, there's jobs working for affiliate networks. The largest cities, which you can go to that have affiliate marketing companies in them, I'm going to list out a few if you want a job working for an affiliate network. One is Toronto. That's in Canada. A lot of affiliate networks located in Toronto. One of the number one places for affiliate marketing is San Diego. I'd say this is probably the number one city for affiliate marketing. So, if you're looking for a career in affiliate marketing, a lot of affiliate networks located there. Another city is New York. Lots of affiliate companies in New York. A lot of all companies in New York. Other cities that have a lot of affiliate marketing companies based in them include Los Angeles. Probably the number one city in Europe for affiliate marketing is Amsterdam. You also have in Asia, you have Bangkok. And the last notable city which has a lot of affiliate marketing companies is St. Petersburg, Florida. So, overall, there's a lot of places where affiliate marketing companies are based, but frankly, they're based all over the world because it's an internet business. You can be based anywhere you really want with affiliate marketing so companies can spring up anywhere. Let's move on to the fourth question. Okay, John, I get it. There's careers doing affiliate marketing, but as an affiliate myself, can I actually earn a full-time income doing this? You know, I see your ads talking about you can earn a side income or you can add extra dollars to what you make. But can you earn a full-time income doing this that's at least $2,000 a month? I don't know. I take home about $100, $150,000 a month. I consider that a full-time income. But in all reality, many people are full-time affiliate. They look on LinkedIn and see how many people classify themselves as affiliate marketers. I actually regularly poll my audience to see how many people do this full-time versus part-time versus not at all. And there's many people doing this as a full-time job, even following this channel commenting in the description. So, full-time income 100%. If you do affiliate marketing full-time, type and I do it full-time. Type it in in the comments below. I have some channel regulars so I love to see who's doing it. But I know a lot of people and the income can vary, right? I know people doing affiliate marketing full-time and they earn $10,000 to $20,000 a year. But they live which is I don't consider it a lot. I understand maybe if you're in like Nigeria or something or India like $10,000 to $20,000 might be a lot of money. But there's people doing it full-time living in Cambodia. And if you earn $20,000 a year in Cambodia, you're living like a prince. You're earning like multiple times with the average person in that country earns per year. So, you're living really nice. You have servants, you have house people, all that stuff. And you can do that with affiliate marketing because you don't have to be anywhere, don't have to talk to anybody, right? You don't have to wake up at any time. So, you 100% can which brings us to question number five. Okay, John, it sounds interesting. Sounds like you can make some money doing it. But how does it work? What are the mechanics of it? How do you get paid? What age do you have to be? Okay, so to answer the question, how does affiliate marketing work? I'm actually going to do a little chart on my board just to give you a little more of a visual illustration of how the whole ecosystem works. So, what you'll be working with is you will be working with what's called an affiliate network. And I'm just going to abbreviate things. But you work with an affiliate network which connects you with a lot of companies. So, you'll sign up with a good example of an affiliate network is DigiStore or another affiliate network is ClickBank. Now, anybody from any place in the world can work with these two networks. You can sign up in the links in the description. The only exception is you used to be able to work with DigiStore from Nigeria. Nigeria cannot work with DigiStore or ClickBank right now. You have to sign up with JV Zoo. I guess there's a lot of Nigerians that are doing like scammy stuff. Now, once you're working with an affiliate network, you find products to sell. So, an affiliate network will give you a link. They'll give you a link to a web page. Now, the link they give you the web page might look something like this. Blah, blah, blah.com, backslash, ABC123. That would be a unique identifier that identifies you or whatever the nickname you gave to your account. And it would go for a website, something like this, which is a page for a doctor. This is a doctor that gets people out of pain who wants more customers. Now, if you get people to fill out their information, requesting a consultation with this doctor and clicking the button right here, then you would get $10. That would be an average amount of money to earn for helping a doctor schedule a consultation. Once you get people, you post this link up on the internet, you get people signing up for consultations, then we go on to the next step, which is you get money. The affiliate network pays you money and different affiliate networks pay you different ways. So, DigiStore, for instance, will pay you money through PayPal. They will pay you money through a wire. All you need is a bank account to get a wire or they will pay you money through a check, which all you need to receive a check is an address. Another great thing about affiliate marketing is any age. There's no age restriction with affiliate marketing. There's no country restriction except for Nigeria with DigiStore, for instance. But the point being, anybody can do this no matter what age. If you're eight years old, you have an address. You can get checks sent to you. You probably live somewhere. So, anybody can do affiliate marketing and it's very easy to do. Okay, that's really interesting how it works, John, but it seems a bit confusing and overwhelming. Like, how do I just get started with it? I just want to know how to start. You probably don't just want to know how to start. You want the easiest way to start. You want the fastest way to start. And I made a video for you on that. Check out my video on how to start doing affiliate marketing if you're just a complete brand new beginner. So, check out the other videos on my channel. All I talk about is affiliate marketing and marketing. But the way I would recommend to get started is, as I said before, you start by joining an affiliate network. And the affiliate networks that I recommend you join are DigiStore. And I have a link to DigiStore in the description below. And if you apply through my link, you're guaranteed to get into DigiStore unless you're in Nigeria. The other affiliate network that I recommend is through ClickBank. And again, these networks, they like working through referrals. So, make sure you use my links down below when you sign up for these affiliate networks. I also have more affiliate networks you can sign up. Links are in the description. I suggest you sign up for every single affiliate network you can so you can get accepted to at least a couple of them and start making money, whichever one has the most interesting products to you. And in order to learn about how to promote these products, check out my video on free traffic methods for how to get your links out. And again, you can get your links out. I mean, if you can copy, paste, you can post a link on Facebook, Google, blogs, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn. I mean, the opportunities are endless. That's the easy part. Let's move on to the next question. How exactly do I join one of these affiliate networks? I just click on the link and fill out some information. Like, what if I don't have a business? What if they don't accept me? If you're nervous about clicking a link, you really don't belong to do affiliate marketing. You should probably just work a job. You have to click the links below to join the affiliate networks. You don't need a business. If they ask for a business ID, just your social security number or whatever, these networks, they do ask for your tax information or what have you, your personal identifying information because, again, this is a company you're working with. Just like any job you would get, they need your personal information in order to issue you checks. It's literally a requirement by almost any country in the world that they need your tax ID or your personal identifying number, whatever it is in your country, to actually work with you as an employee. So you need to do that. Other things to join networks is if you want to join more advanced affiliate networks, generally speaking, you need more than one referral and you need experience and a track record doing affiliate marketing. So that's how you do it. And again, I have the best list of affiliate networks down below. So sign up for every single one that is in the links in the description so you can get started. Okay, John, I get it. I get how to start, but how do you actually do affiliate marketing? I understand the concept. I understand how to join affiliate networks, but how do you actually do? How do you get your links out there? Once you have a link, how do you get it out to people? Great question. Now, once you have a link, it's very easy to get it out there. It's as simple as copy and paste. So we all know how to copy paste. We all know how to, or if we're on a mobile phone, we just click it and hold down and click copy. And by the way, for those of you that are using your phones on portrait mode, let me show you what portrait mode is. For those of you watching my video like this, please flip it like this. Okay, make it full screen. You want to get the full experience of these videos because I'm trying to teach business here and I see you over there. You 13-year-olds who are watching my videos like this and just checking through the comments. If I got you, type in I got you. If you're watching the video like this and you're kind of scrolling through comments, this is about focus. If you can't focus on a video, you're going to need it to be an entrepreneur. So flip it in landscape mode so that you can get the most bang out of it. So let's talk about how to get your links out there. Now, a lot of people wonder about this, but it's actually very simple. Now, if you have a social following or anything, really you can post your link in Instagram. You can post it on your profile. You can post it in a direct message. If you don't have any subscribers, you can just direct message people your affiliate link. Same thing with Facebook. You can post your affiliate link in your profile or you could send direct messages to people who you think would be interested in buying the product. Let's say you know somebody who has pain, right? This is a website. This is an affiliate offer where it's directed to people who have pain and it's doing lead generation for a doctor, as I said, $10. You can advertise this. You just find groups on Facebook of people who are in pain, you know? Maybe there's a group around chronic pain and you put a link to this. You say, hey, this doctor is offering a free consultation to get out of pain. Here's a link. So you could put it in Facebook groups as well. It's another way to do affiliate marketing. Just take your link, post it in the Facebook group. Another example is YouTube. Just like here. Check the links in the description. Bunch of affiliate links. Every single YouTuber. Almost every single YouTuber, I'd say 80%, have affiliate links in their description. Check your favorite top 10 YouTubers and you'll see affiliate links in the description. So there's a ton of ways. I could go on with examples, but you get the idea. LinkedIn, you posted, DMs or whatever. And all of these, you can do ads. And that's how I do affiliate marketing. And if you're looking to learn deeper about how to do advertising with affiliate marketing, check out my course called the Super Affiliate System. Once again, there's a link in the description. My course is not cheap. It's $2,000. It's a six-week program, but there's accountability. I have coaches. There's support. We have homeworks. We have a lot of stuff to help out our students, but our success rates have been amazing. If you look in our community, you can actually see, just check out some of the comments. Check out some of the people having success making their first commissions, making the first $10,000 from affiliate marketing. It's really exciting. And if you want to join and be one of my students, love for you to join the club. I'd love to help change your lives, because that's why I do this. This channel started as just a way to communicate to people and let people know how easy it is to make money in this spot. And what's great is being able to connect with people and helping change so many people's lives. It's not about the money. It's about what they're able to do with their life because of that money. They don't have to commute to work every day. They don't have to leave their house. They don't have to leave their family every day to work or they're able to travel the world. Whatever that is, it's great. And this is what I teach. I teach advertising. And the reason I teach advertising is because once you get a profitable affiliate campaign, instead of just growing your audience slowly like you do on Instagram or Facebook or YouTube, where the money just slowly goes up. And this is time with ads. It starts slow and then you ramp up whatever the market is and you can make a lot of money a lot faster. Okay, John, I feel a little confident. I understand what it is. I realize it's legitimate. I know how to post links, but how do I actually learn this? I'm still feeling a little lack of confidence and a little nervous about doing this with zero guidance. How do I go about learning? I already told you how to learn affiliate marketing. Learning affiliate marketing is easy. You can be a student of my course. Again, it's $2,000 and most people can't afford that. But if you just keep watching my YouTube channel, I have tons of videos. I have hundreds of videos. And what I suggest is watch as many videos as possible to start learning the terminology, what's working, what's not about affiliate marketing. Watch through my videos. I have a bunch of videos on free traffic methods for doing affiliate marketing. And I suggest you watch that to learn how to do affiliate marketing. I also have beginner videos for affiliate marketing. So check that. I'll have my editors kind of link to those videos somewhere around my head. And you can click on the little icon to watch more videos. But make sure you subscribe to this channel, like the video, and also enable all notifications so that you're aware of further videos that I do about affiliate marketing. The next thing is also join the communities. So I've created communities for you to interact with other people doing affiliate marketing. There's a Discord chat channel where you can chat with people in real time. We have a Reddit sub forum or sub Reddit, I think it's called, where you can chat, you can post comments and links and articles and whatever you want on the forum. And we also have a Facebook group which you can join and be active in and learn about what's going on. So join the community. Learn from people who are where you want to be. Learn from people who are wealthier. If you want to learn about money, learn from people who have more money than you. I'm a multimillionaire. So you can learn from me. You can join a community. And ultimately, the third part of education is actually being able to be teachable and have an open mind. And be able to do things that you yourself may not necessarily be comfortable with. That's what hungry is. You know, I talk about my hungry wolves here. But what is a hungry wolf? A hungry wolf is willing to do things that they may not necessarily agree with. And I'm here telling you, if you're only staying in your comfort zone, if you're only doing things, if you're only advertising products that you're comfortable with, if you're only marketing in the ways that you feel comfortable with, you're probably not growing. Growth comes from moving beyond your comfort zone. You grow when you are outside of your comfort zone. And on my channel, I'm going to ask you to do things that you may not feel comfortable with, especially my free traffic methods. I show you how to post ads for free, how to post direct messages, how to get clients for YouTube. I show all sorts of methods, but you probably won't feel comfortable doing all of that. If you know that I got you, type in you got me in the comments below because my goal is to make you money. My goal is to push you. And to push you to learn, you have to be teachable. And being teachable is having an open mind, not just an open mind, but taking action on things you may not be comfortable doing. If you allow me to guide you, you can look me up, you can verify that I'm a real person and I've made a lot of money doing this. And you'll see that's the truth. If you really want to be teachable, if you really want to learn, you're going to be willing to step outside your comfort zone. It's very important. Most people are not willing to do this. So allow me to guide you, take a little bit of a leap of faith and come along for the ride. And you'll learn a lot. Hey, John, that's cool. I understand you have to learn and all this stuff, but can you just tell me like the easiest, fastest, quickest way to just get started and make big money really fast? You know a lot about affiliate marketing, John. I just want the biggest money in the shortest amount of time, like just sent me as fast as possible. How do I do that, man? Just tell me the best thing. Come on, just the best thing that I should do, the only thing. You want fast big money, bro? You want it fast and you want it big? First off, if you want fast big money, yes, it's possible in affiliate marketing. And I have a number of videos that show you how you can make fast big money. And I'm going to have my editors link to a video which goes over how to make quick money in one day online. This has helped a lot of people get their start in affiliate marketing and make some big commissions really quickly. And it's something you can only do one time, but it works. And you can try that out for yourself. It shows you how you can hit up your own social network, can't hit them up every day. You want fast big money and consistency? You're not going to find that unless you have skills to do online advertising and unless you really know what you're doing and how to test and how to optimize. And that's what I teach in my course. I teach paid advertising and affiliate marketing. So, when you learn paid advertising, you can make a lot of money. But again, it's a skill. It's something you have to learn. And you can learn that, check the links below in the description to learn how to do that. Woo! So, if there's a question I didn't answer, please ask a question about affiliate marketing in the comments below. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of variations of what is the best affiliate program or what is the best affiliate network or what is the best ad network, etc. But one thing you have to understand is there is no best. And what that is is that scarcity mindset. There's a lot of companies doing affiliate marketing. There is no best. It's like asking is Nike better than, you know, Microsoft. They're both different companies selling different things. You can't compare apples to apples. 80% of all companies in the world do affiliate marketing. So, you have a lot of programs to choose from. There is no best. Is Facebook better than Google? You know what? They both have billions of people using them every month. You're not going to go hungry if you're able to work on one or the other. So, just get out there and do it. I hope I've motivated you. If you're going to get your start, if you're saying I'm all in, right? If you are ready, if you've been watching my videos and you're finally ready to do affiliate marketing, if you had your questions answered, type in I add my questions answered or type in I'm all in. If you're ready to start doing this, join my community, subscribe to this channel, like this video. And I look forward to seeing you in future videos and teaching you and helping you become successful. Once again, check out all these amazing students that are making tons of money with my program. Really excited to share all these people with you. Have a good day and talk to you soon.