Hey guys Ryan here from on property.com.au your daily dose of property education and
inspiration and today I'm talking about whether or not we have an onproperty plus affiliate
program.
So I've got an email here from Dida.
I'm answering all of your questions, if you have a question email me ryan@onproperty.com.au
or go to onproperty.com.au/contact.
I'm answering every single question I get.
Got an email from Didier and they asked, "hi Ryan, do you have an affiliate program related
to your membership please let me know in prosperity, Didier."
Well I can answer that question really simply and the answer is no.
But what I wanted to do was, expand about why I don't have an affiliate program, what
I'm planning to do and we will see how it unfolds.
So Didier I appreciate you asking me.
You're actually the first person to ask whether I have an affiliate program and the fact that
you would want to market my site I am so grateful that you believe in me enough that you would
actually recommend me to other people.
Now there is obviously financial gain in it for you but that doesn't matter, you're still
saying here's a good product I think you should buy it and are going to recommend.
So massive massive thank you for having so much faith in me and for supporting me I'm
so grateful to my community everyone that watches, listens, reads and especially my
members of onproperty plus, thank you guys.
Now I made a decision not to have an affiliate program for Onproperty plus.
This may seem strange because I know that with an affiliate program I could get way
more sales through the door.
I didn't decide not to have an affiliate program because I didn't want to give away a cut of
the membership but I'm doing it specifically for a reason.
This year for me, 2014, is really a year for me to build my business and to build my business
skills.
Now a lot of people don't know this but for me onproperty.com.au is my flagship site but
is also one piece to a larger puzzle.
What I plan to do in the future is to create multiple websites in multiple different niches,
teaching people of a variety of different things.
I've got a public speaking site, publicspeakingpower.com that I'd like to do something on.
I've got a site about fatigue, I've got a site about energy drinks because I love energy
drinks but I know they're not good for you so I've got a site about why they're not good
for you yet I still drink them.
I've got a couple of other things that I want to do, a site on homeschooling because I'm
potentially considering homeschooling, a bunch of different stuff and then long term into
the future I would like to work in third world countries and help them with an informal type
of education that's not run by the government but that helps people to live a better life
and for me, the thing that I wanted to learn as I build my business how to successfully
create a community around a certain topic, build that community and then find out what
that community wants.
I was recently meeting up with my friend James Brian who is an epic internet marketer and
copywriter and if anyone ever needs any help with their website because I don't do client
work, I send them over to him.
You can check him out at betterbusinessprofits.com or .com.au.
But I was speaking with him and he was like dude there are so many people in your industry
who have these email lists of all of their customers; there's accountants, there's financial
planners, there's marketers, there's other websites, there's mortgage brokers.
You could go to all these people and offer them an affiliate deal, call it "joint venture"
get them to email out lists to anyone that signs up they make a profit and you could
build your membership site so much faster and I agree with him.
I think it's a great idea but for me I knew that what I want to learn how to achieve is
how to grow a community over and over again.
I don't want to rely on joint ventures, I don't want to rely on other people marketing
my product I want to learn how to market it myself.
I want to have a tight knit community that loves the content that I put out, that wants
to learn about it and I want them to drive what the product becomes and I want to find
out how to rinse and repeat it.
At the moment it's me, it's my laptop, it's my iPhone filming, my little lapel mic, I've
got a larger computer that I use as well but eventually I want to scale out, have multiple
employees; basically take education all over the world and for me affiliates are great
idea but it would take my focus away from what I want to do which is creating more free
content in building more communities and doing it in the way that I want to do.
So one of the things you don't get to do with having affiliates is you don't get to control
the message and the way that things are said the way that your product is marketed and
so I think the big thing that I took away from Steve Jobs biography was that he wanted
to take control of the full customer experience.
Because of that I have an iPhone but I can't show you because it's actually filming.
But I actually tried Android and ended up back on iPhone despite the fact that I want
one of those mammoth screens, I want one of those really big phones but iPhone is just
so much better to use it's so much less laggy, it just works you create beautiful products.
I think that's what I want to do with my site and with onproperty and with everything else
that I go into because I want to have that full control so that I can create amazing
products for people and that I don't have to chop and change to fit in with other people.
So it sounds pretty rude when I say it out loud like that and I don't mean to be rude
as I said in the beginning, I am super grateful that you would want to market my product but
at this stage and looking like into the future that's not something that I plan to do.
If things change and I do decide to go back into the workforce for whatever reason, I
would rather on property run on autopilot because I've put so much effort into it now,
then affiliates would be something that I explore in the future.
But for now and in the short to medium term, it's not something that I'm considering.
If you want to try and change my mind certainly email me let me know who you are what you
do and why we're a perfect fit and maybe I can bend the rules for a couple of people
that I truly believe in.
If you have any questions email ryan@onproperty.com.au and if you want to find out about this membership
site we are talking about its called onproperty plus and I show you how to find positive cash
flow properties, I'll list positive cash flow properties and I have some awesome property
tools in there.
You can check it out by going to onproperty.com.au/plus.
You can check out the video there find out what it's about find out exactly what you
get and choose your pricing that best suits you as well.
So until tomorrow remember your that long-term success is only achieved one day at a time.