 Hello and welcome to the live stream today. We're talking about affiliate programs and namely my own take one tech affiliate program. I'm going to be talking through how this works and how it's a way that you can monetize my content. So that's the idea about this. I'll just get straight on into it really. One of the reasons that I went with Kajabi as a course platform is that it makes it really easy to just add in your own affiliate program. So the way that you sign up for this from an affiliate point of view is if you head over to my website, you'll see there's a little affiliate button just up here in the menu at the top there. And then that will take you through to this page. And all you need to do is just put in your name, email and then create a password and add in your PayPal email. So that is the way that folks will get paid. And then once you've done that, you'll get a welcome email obviously. And that'll take you through to something that looks like this, which is an affiliate dashboard. And so basically here, there are links to all of my courses, but there's also some other generic links. And the way that the affiliate program works is that you basically get 30% commission on any referrals to either my courses or the Tate One Tech Academy. And obviously the Tate One Tech Academy is a monthly subscription. So that is a monthly recurring revenue for the lifetime of that referral. The other thing to note about this is that you have this thing called cookie duration, which is not the amount of time that cookies lost in the cookie jar, which is not very long in my house, but it is the time that after you've referred someone, how long that that person is still sort of attributed to you as an affiliate. And basically I've just set this to the maximum possible in Kajabi. So the default is 30 days, but I've changed it to 90, which is the maximum that Kajabi allows. So the way that that works is basically anybody that you send to my site through any of the affiliate links that you can find in the dashboard there. So regardless of which one of these links you actually use, once somebody's on the site, they're attributed to you and any purchases made within sort of that 90 day period are then obviously logged against you and those affiliate commissions are paid out. And they're basically paid out on the 20th or 22nd of the month, the sort of the following month. So whatever happens in December, for example, would be paid out in the 22nd of January. So the links that I've added into that affiliate area then, originally what I did was I linked to all of my courses because when I have special offers on like Black Friday deals and things like that, then I obviously encourage affiliates to share those links out as well, because those discount codes apply to affiliates as well. Just be sure to share your actual sharing link, but then give the discount code. But yeah, the links that I created were things like, you know, my Ecamm Live Masterclass, the Zoom Masterclass, all of these kind of things. But I realized that actually it's maybe not always those things that people want to share. So what I've done is I've gone in and created some additional links. And I've just got to give a thanks to Mark from the Take One Tech community in the Discord where recently I'm running a free workshop that I announced and he said, well, could you just create a link for us to share out that free workshop? Because as I mentioned, you know, anybody who you refer into the site on any of these links, it's still attributed to you. And actually thinking about it, you know, when you are looking for affiliates, and I'm gonna speak both as the person running this program, but also if you're thinking of setting up an affiliate program for your courses, your products, your services, or whatever, this has just sort of given me a little bit of a better insight into it. As the affiliate, you know, it's one thing to be sharing a paid product. So if we go over to my site, for example, then you could send a link out to my courses page or to a specific course. And so I do have all of these different courses, the Discord YouTube beginner's guide. I've got some of the beginner's guides coming soon. I've got these master classes that are out. So obviously as an affiliate, you can link out to each of these different courses. If you know somebody who's interested in Stream Deck, for example, there was just an affiliate sale just yesterday for somebody buying the Stream Deck Masterclass attributed to one of my affiliates. So yeah, you can obviously link to people. If you know somebody who's trying to master their Stream Deck, then you could send them a link to this course. However, if you are maybe not, if maybe you haven't signed up for the course yourself or you're not really sure about it, well, there's plenty of free resources on my site as well. So one of those would be over on this resources page, in fact. So if you know anybody who wants to learn how to create content using AI, AI-powered course creation, I've got a free guide here. So you can actually share out a link just to this resources page. And then from here, people will be able to go and go and grab their copy of this guide. But because that person has been bought into the site using your link, even though this is a free guide, obviously I'm gonna be following up with people who register on my site for anything, and there'll be an opportunity there to buy a course or whatever it happens to be. And so any sales that come after that fact are gonna be attributed to you as well. So it is a great way to be sort of sharing your sort of, the free value or the free content that I have, but that's still then leading into sales within the next 90 days or whatever it is, then that's a great way for you to just share the free stuff and let me deal with the selling for you. And then obviously you'd get paid your commissions on top of that. So what I'm gonna do is I'll just first of all say hello to you, your past driving, what's your name by the way? I'm not sure if I have ever known your name, I'm not sure I do, but hello, great to see you here. Hey George, great to see you. Great to see your lovely headshot as well from Creator Camp as well. It's been great to see everybody that was at Creator Camp and I heal did everyone's headshots and so it's great to see all these nice headshots of folks. So yeah, great to see you here, George as well. So what I'll do is I'll talk through some of the products and things like that that I do actually have to offer so that you can understand what you might want to share out. So I'll start off with the courses. I did sort of briefly touch on those, but I'll just come back to those and I'll talk about what is planned and then also what I'm planning to build out in the future, both from a course point of view, but also from the free resources and the affiliate program in general because it's something that I've had set up for, well, since I've moved over to Kajabi, I guess a year and a half ago, two years, something like that and yeah, I'm planning on now focusing on having done a lot of the course building really working to improve on the affiliate program. Hey, Terry, to you too as well, just a quick hello. So let's get into the courses and the sort of paid content then that you can sort of share out or that people may well end up sort of going on to purchase through the affiliate program. If I come over to the right screen, it might help. I'll just talk about the master classes and the courses. So first of all, I've got the Discord and YouTube beginner's guides and incidentally my sort of naming convention for these. I see beginner's guides are things that are, may well rename them actually quick start guides. The idea is that it's just to get people up and running although I guess the YouTube one's quite a large course in itself now. But yeah, the beginner's guides are just intended to sort of help people get up and running with things. So there is also a beginner's guide for Ecamm coming but that is in contrast to the Ecamm Live masterclass which I have, which is basically sort of all encompassing, covering absolutely everything. So beginner's guides are maybe not covering everything but are intended to be, as I say, quick start guides. The master classes are more about being all encompassing, covering absolutely everything. So you go from coming in potentially as a complete beginner and then knowing everything there is about the subject by the end. So that's the sort of idea behind these. I've also got a studio masterclass which I'm working on that'll be coming out shortly as well. The Kajabi masterclass. So my whole site and course platform that I use is built on Kajabi and then finally there's an automation one coming as well. This is the last one that's been long awaited actually but it's all about using keyboard maestro and all these different tools that I use for automation on my Mac. The other type of courses though that I have are accelerator courses. So these are basically cohort based courses. All of the beginner's guides and the masterclasses are sort of learn at your own pace. So you sign up and then you have access to those pre-recorded videos. The accelerators though are where we have a sort of week where we meet every day and go through a process. There's pre-recorded content in conjunction with that as well. Incidentally, the next Kajabi accelerator is coming up in January and then there's basically gonna be the ECAM one after that a YouTube and a content creation one after that as well. So yeah, the next Kajabi accelerator though is scheduled for Monday the eighth to Friday the 12th. So give yourself the first week off after the new year. But then the idea of this is to just get straight on into building your education business out of your content. So that's gonna be happening from Monday the eighth to Friday the 12th. These are available to sign up by the way of course. I'm talking about this from an affiliate point of view but yeah, obviously these courses are there if you just wanna learn yourself too. One thing to note is you don't actually have to have signed up to any of these courses to become an affiliate. Sometimes the affiliate programs are limited to you actually owning the product or service or whatever yourself. The way that I view this is because basically I do the same thing in my product, my courses as I do here on YouTube. So if you have liked my teaching style in any of my YouTube videos, then chances are you'll probably find the same kind of thing in my courses because it's me doing the same thing just in a much more structured manner. So that's why I didn't limit it to people who have previously bought my courses because you may well have followed all of my videos or some of my videos on YouTube and figure that I may well be a good person to teach on any of these particular subjects in a paid product. So that's why I don't put this sort of restriction on it. So you don't have to have done my courses yourself to become an affiliate and share out these things. And also that's where I think this idea of sharing out the free content comes in because then you are just sharing out something that's free to other people and they can take that or leave it and then as I say, I can sort of follow up with that and do the sales part of it for you so that you still get the commission when somebody signs up to one of these courses. So yeah, the accelerators then as I say are these cohort-based courses where we sort of get together and learn and grow together on over a particular period of time. One of the benefits of doing these accelerators is sometimes people find that they learn better in this kind of environment where they have a specific period of time where they're gonna do this along with other people and have that sort of live interaction. The other thing is there is then obviously a commitment of actually being there and doing the course whereas what happens often if somebody buys a pre-recorded course, there is a quite a high percentage of people that get it with the best of intentions but then because there is no time element to it, sometimes it can slip by and I've done that myself, I've bought courses before that have sat there and watched for quite a long time sometimes. So yeah, that's the idea behind the accelerator courses. The other thing though is there is my Academy and basically the Take One Tech Academy then and there's links to all of these pages by the way in the affiliate dashboard but the Academy is basically a way for people to get access to all of these courses on a subscription model. So obviously there's quite a lot of courses that are available and so the Academy provides a more sort of cost-effective way to get access to all of these courses on a subscription model and obviously all the new courses that come out, they get access to those as well. In the Academy, we also have monthly workshops. So these are basically deep dives in some particular topics. So here's just a few previous ones, technical setup for virtual presentations and webinars, strategies for effective task and file management. So it's more than just about the tool itself. Often these workshops are related to the sort of business of what we're doing here as well, unlocking the power of AI for content creators, practical guide to building an online content business. So these are just a few of the workshops that we've had. So those are included in the Academy as well. Then there's also weekly Q&As that we have at one particular tier of the Academy. So that's sort of a group coaching environment. And so these are the different tiers. We've got the professional and the premium, which are basically for the professional is giving you access to the monthly webinars and all of the pre-recorded content. The premium, what that gives you over the professional tier is that as well as all of that, you also get access to those weekly Q&As, plus you also get access to the in-person, sorry, cohort-based accelerator courses as well. And that's available on a sort of monthly or annual basis there. So of course, any referral from an affiliate point of view, if you were to refer somebody to my monthly premium tier of the Academy, then that would be basically $60 a month there about revenue for you on an ongoing basis for as long as they were a member of the Academy. So those are my sort of paid products, but as I say, there are a few other options in terms of what you can refer people to. I've already talked about the resources page, but the thing that sort of triggered this different sort of thought process in me about the whole affiliate program and this idea of actually creating links for you to share that are links to my free content, that all came about because I was talking about this upcoming workshop that I have. And the workshop is called Meeting Tech Mastery. It's in collaboration with Vivo Meetings. Vivo Meetings is an online meeting platform that is a sort of alternative to Zoom. It's got some benefits over Zoom in that first of all, you can just set the resolution that you want. So anybody who's used e-cam live virtual camera and use that with Zoom will know that we do occasionally have some issues with resolution when we're using a virtual camera into Zoom. Well, Vivo Meetings allows you to just select, yes, I want 1080p, I want 720 or whatever it is. So that's a great thing right out of the gate for my audience for using e-cam with Vivo Meetings or with a meeting platform, I should say. The other thing it's got is AI transcriptions and also the recording as well is 1080p recording too. And then there's the price point. It is actually quite considerably cheaper than a Zoom thing without the Zoom restrictions. So I know there's some people in my academy, for example, who use Zoom not particularly regularly with they don't want to necessarily have a paid Zoom account, but then you've got restrictions on, certainly the resolution is then definitely an issue if you're not on a paid Zoom account, but also the issue with the time limit that you've got if you're on a free Zoom account. But the jump up to go to a paid account is sometimes a bit of a leap for people who don't necessarily need to use it all that much. Vivo Meetings offers a much more cost-effective way of doing that. But anyway, aside from that, that's just who Vivo Meetings is in case you are wondering, but this is a free workshop that I'm running for them on their channel. And the idea of this is that it is for the benefit of the Vivo Meetings users, it's all about, it's called Meeting Tech Mastery, it's all about how to basically transform your online meetings, as it says, just there in fact, let me just read that, transform your online meetings with pro-level video and audio. So it's over five days, it is a each day is basically 60 to 90 minute stream and it is going to be day one, it's gonna be all about video and lighting, so how to improve the way that you actually show up and look on your meetings. Day two is gonna be about audio. Day three is about thinking differently about presentations and the way that you actually present in your online meetings. And then day four is gonna be about the Vivo Meetings platform because although this is obviously for existing Vivo Meetings users, there will no doubt be some people completely new to the platform. So day four is gonna be a sort of deep dive into all the functions and features of Vivo Meetings for new folks, but also to existing users to make sure that they understand all of the new features that have been added in and how to get the most out of it as well. Finally, day five is going to be about how to use live production techniques into your meetings. And anybody who has obviously been following my stuff will know that I'm a huge Ecam live fan. That's what I use to make all of my videos. It's what I'm using to stream now. Well, you can take all of that production quality into Vivo Meetings as well until I'll be talking about how to do that. So whether or not you are interested in this new meeting platform, whether or not you're an existing user or not, there is still plenty there for folks to maybe using any other platform. And this is a free workshop. As I say that I'm running, you can find a link for it in the description. And then also I've dropped a link to it in the chat here as well. And this is a great way for you to share out to your community to bring people in. You're giving value. People will come in to find out about how they can level up their online presence. It's a free workshop. Plenty of value there. Five days, as I say, an hour, hour and a half each day. And there will be downloads associated with it as well. Incidentally, it's Monday to Friday, but on the following Monday, there is a sort of bonus session which is gonna be a live Q&A in a Vivo meeting itself. So we'll all come together. We'll be able to see each other face-to-face and then any questions that you've got out of the workshop, which will be basically the workshop will be live on YouTube, on Vivo Meetings website, on Vivo Meetings channel, I should say. So the questions there will be sort of chat-based questions. And I will obviously answer all of those. But yeah, the following Monday is the bonus session in Zoom, sorry, in Vivo Meetings, I should say. Bit of a slip there. In Vivo Meetings, where we'll be able to have a chat and people will be able to come up and ask questions and things like that. So it's a great thing to share out though, because that means that you're just sharing value out to your clients, your contacts, whatever it happens to be. And then they're coming in and getting all of this free value. And then obviously, I make no secrets about it. Guess what's gonna happen at the end of this five-day workshop? I'll be contacting people to say, hey, if you found this useful and you'd like to learn more about any of the things I've talked about in this free workshop, then I have courses available on X, Y and Z. And so that's the sort of process with these free workshops there. They're intended to give total value, but then also, there's a limit to how much you can cover in a five, one and a half hour session. So there's always the scope there to go on further than that. So yeah, if you sign up to become an affiliate, you will find in the affiliates list here that there is somewhere in this list, down at the bottom there, meeting tech mastery workshop. So all you would do is you just literally copy that link from there, and now you've copied that link, and then you would share that out into your network or whatever, and that would take people through to this landing page. But then that contact would then be attributed to you, so that when they then potentially go and sign up after the fact, then those sales would be attributed to you for commission. Just a quick check in. Hey, Gary, thank you very much. Great, it's always great to have a name to put to you to folks, so great to see you. And thanks George, I really appreciate that. Your multi-day workshops are amazing. I always learn something new. I'm really pleased to hear that. Yeah, I've done a couple of those for ECAM before, so I did the ECAM tools and tech workshop, not was it two months ago, three months ago, and then the ECAM advanced one previously. So I will be doing more of those in the future as well. So yeah, sharing out the link to this free workshop though is, as I say, a great way to just, you're just giving out free value. There will guaranteed be value for folks in coming along to this. And the same thing then applies to having done this. Thanks again, Mark, for the suggestion. What I've also just added in, if I go to my right page, I'll go to this one here. There's also a link down at the bottom to my free resources section. So if you click on this one here, where it says free resources, that's a way that you're basically gonna be sending people through to my resources page, which has just escaped me for a second. Here it is. This one, so if you've got somebody who wants to know more about these things, then as I say, they can go and grab their Zoom settings, Sony ZV-1 guide, five step digital marketing blueprint, these checklists, ECAM live shortcuts, live stream checklist. What is on my agenda for next year or my plan for next year is to really build out these free resources to make plenty of them in the, they're technically known as lead magnets, if you wanna use the very technical term for them. So when you put something like this out there, obviously it is to provide free value to folks and demonstrate your knowledge as a creator or whatever. So it's giving something for free, but always there is the exchange there that that's in exchange for an email address. And people can opt out of subscribing to your future email marketing, but that's the reason for part of those being there is to then drive future sales. So I've got a huge list of these sort of guides, things like that that I'm gonna be adding in over the coming months. And that's kind of one of my things for next year. I won't go too much into the evolution of Take One Tech. I talked about that in a previous live stream, but this year very much has been about sort of building the infrastructure, putting in a lot of the courses. And next year is about actually then, putting that more out into the world. And that's part of the reason why I'm talking about the affiliate program now. But there will be a lot more of these guides coming. So definitely worth watching out for that. Incidentally, if you want to know where you can find out about these things, I will be sending out sort of emails to affiliates when anything new is added in. But if you wanna have a sort of conversation about this, and I mentioned Mark suggesting this thing about promoting the free event, you can find that in Discord. So if you haven't already joined the Take One Tech Discord server, it's free to join. Don't be daunted if you're not familiar with Discord. There's some guide to help you there, but you just simply join by going to takeonetech.io slash family. And there you can sign up. And once you come into the Discord community, you'll see that we've got these different channels. So basically, if you wanna talk about Ecamm Live, questions about that, Roadcaster. We've got little channels down the side for all of these different things where you can go and get your questions answered. It's so much more efficient than, well certainly, than certainly in Facebook groups if you've got a community. Discord's a great place for it. But it's also much better than the YouTube comments because it does become a little bit of a black hole of somebody posts a comment on YouTube and may well respond to it, but then the follow-up conversation is lost. The beauty of this is that the conversations can be sort of followed by everybody, so everyone gets to benefit. But also it's not just then about me answering a question. There is quite often, in fact, always somebody with a much better response or idea than me that can answer in there as well. But anyway, enough about Discord. The point is that you'll see that there is this affiliates section in there just down on the sidebar. And when you have not sort of signed up to become an affiliate, you'll just see that this takes you to the affiliate signup page. So this is another way to find it if you are in the Discord already. You'll find the link to go and sign up there. Once you sign up, you just need to let me know that you have signed up and then I can give you access to these other two areas, which is basically the affiliates area. This is where, as I say, Mark asked the question. And so I sort of implemented his suggestion. I'm looking to really build out my affiliate program next year. So I'm open to any and all suggestions of how I can improve it, things that you want, resources and so on. To that end, I do have a resources section here, which again, I'm looking to build out. But here is where you can find things where like notifications for affiliates. So when I launched my keynote course, for example, I always let my affiliates know the link is now available in your affiliate area. Same with my Black Friday deal that I recently run. So that was 30% off all courses. So that was open to affiliates to share out as well. So they could share that with their contact base or social media or whatever and share the graphics as well. So I'm looking to do a better job though of creating a dedicated area where you'll have all of these resources to all of these different things that you might want to share out. And yeah, this is part of my plan for next year is just to make this a much better experience for everyone as well. So if I just come back over to here for a second, let me just switch this off something weird has happened with my Discord has just gone a little bit funny on me, but there you go, all better, all better now. So that is a little bit about the affiliate program. I'm gonna keep this one short today because that's really what I wanted to focus on is just making people aware of the affiliate program. No doubt there will be an email going out about this to everyone as well. But if you've watched and enjoyed my content and you think that somebody else could benefit from it, then this is a great way for you to share that content and then also go on to actually monetize it yourself. Just one thing that has come to my mind now that I think about it is a great way to share this would be if maybe I should create a dedicated page on my site just with all of my different links to my social media and specifically to YouTube. So that if ever you wanna share the YouTube out, then you send it through to the page. And so if you sent somebody to my YouTube channel, you would also get attributed for that. So let me just make a note of that and I will add that one into the links as well. So there we go, that is all for today. Thanks so much for watching and let me just have a final check-in with the chats to see if I've missed anything out here. Just had a very odd thing happen with my chat, there you go. And no, it looks like I haven't, so great stuff. Thanks so much for watching though and I will see you all next time and I'll leave a link to some of my other content over on here, look at that huge hint. I've just transitioned over to my new Mac and it looks like this scene, I forgot to update. Thanks so much for watching, I'll see you next time.