- Imagine liking a brand product or service
and referring people over to it
and getting paid for it.
Well, that's what affiliate marketing is,
but the problem is, you might be thinking to yourself,
Dale, I don't have a website, I don't have a following.
You don't have to sweat it, don't fret,
I've got you covered 'cause we're gonna talk
about how to make money with affiliate marketing
without a website.
Stay tuned.
Hey, I'm Dale Robertson, a best-selling author,
as well as a self-publishing advocate
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Stick around to the very end
'cause I'm gonna give you a step-by-step plan
on how to get this going and where you
can make money with affiliate marketing
without a single website.
Here's the problem.
A lot of people believe that in order to make money online,
they think they have to have a website.
Yeah, having a website is definitely a benefit
but let's just say for instance, you don't know how to code,
you don't have the money to put up a website.
Maybe you feel a little overwhelmed with the technology.
Well good news, you don't have to have the website.
The fact is, with most affiliate programs,
they already have the websites and the landing pages put
in place so why would you slow them down with a website?
So how do you make money
with affiliate marketing without a website?
Well, first of all, let's get you set up with getting
into an affiliate program and there's five steps you're
gonna do this to making money with affiliate marketing
without that website.
So number one, identify products and services you like.
It's just that simple.
Pull out a notepad,
write down all the things that you enjoy.
And no matter how crazy or small it is,
I want you to write it down.
As a for instance, I really enjoy Grammarly,
and I said to my wife one day,
"I don't know what I should do for affiliate marketing."
She recommended that I do that
and it became my most popular video here on YouTube.
So all I had to do was I would go on to Google.
You're gonna do the same thing.
Think about your product name plus
the word affiliate program.
So I typed in Grammarly affiliate program
and it pulled this up.
now it's gonna be important that before you sign up
for any affiliate program, read their Terms of Service.
Read all the fine print, figure out how much you make
by referring traffic over towards that direction.
it's good to know the fine print because some of them
will require you having a website.
You're gonna have to check
from one affiliate program to the next.
Most will go without.
Then, all you gotta do is sign up for an account.
Now, they may need some tax information
and they may need a bank account or a way
to pay you like PayPal, is one of the ways
I've seen most used.
And now, the next step is number five is promote it.
It's that simple but you might be going,
"Oh, Dale, where do I promote this stuff?
"I mean I don't have a website,
"so what do you expect me to do?"
Okay again, refer to your Terms of Service
when it comes to the affiliate program
'cause some of these, you can do that,
and other ones, you can't.
Number one, social media.
Oh yes, social media is probably one
of the easiest ways to do it.
Now, you're probably thinking should I just copy
and paste the referral link on there
and just send people there?
That's probably not the best practice, you know.
You're going through and spamming people
with the link and expect them to go there.
They may not do that,
but what you can do is lead with value.
Maybe put out some type of a Tweet or a Facebook post
that gives people information that they can consume
and then put in the link and then,
go for the call to action and say,
"Hey, you can go and check out
"this product I really enjoy,
"It's over at XYZ and I appreciate this
"'cause this is an affiliate link."
It's always good to disclose, by the way,
that it is an affiliate link
and that you do get financially compensated for.
Number two, video,
YouTube, hello.
It is so simple to put up videos
and you don't have to have anything super fancy,
you don't have to have a video editor.
You can even just get a phone and just put
it up and shoot it and put it on there.
I've known many people that have made thousands
of dollars by just setting up their iPhone
or their Android, putting it over top of a box
that they ordered through Amazon of a product.
They unbox it, they review it, they share it,
and then, they put a link inside the description
that will take 'em on over to Amazon,
they purchased the product
and they get a certain percentage back to them.
There's other platforms you can utilize
for video including Facebook live, Periscope.
Even Amazon live has an integration.
Pretty cool, right?
Number three, an email list.
Now, you're probably scratching your head.
Oh gosh, how am I gonna do with email list?
What the heck is an email list?
Well, an email list is a way that you actually
can attract in people to sign up to a newsletter of sorts.
And whatever your niche might be or the type
of product could be the way that you entice them in.
So let's just say, for instance, I can say,
"Hey, would you like to learn a little bit more
"about English grammar and such-and-such?
"Then subscribe to my email newsletter."
And people would subscribe to the email newsletter.
And then, at that point, I can probably start
to tell them about the products and services.
Don't beat up your email list
with products and services all the time.
It's always great to lead with value first.
You can actually set up a free account
through services like MailChimp
or even MailerLite is really good.
I'm gonna actually put some links down inside
the description down below that you can go ahead
and set up your free accounts through there.
And number four, shocker, you're on a channel.
It's called Self-publishing With Dale
and I'm gonna say self publish books.
Yeah, you can put out books with products
and services and brands that you enjoy
and put your link in there so that way,
someone's in their ebook, they can click on that,
and it'll take them over to that specific product
that you're starting to share with them.
That is a really good way, and also,
you can put like a Bitly link or a Pretty link
or something that will shorten that down,
that will send them over
to whatever product or service.
Again, there are some affiliate programs
that don't like that.
For instance, if you use Amazon Associates,
that's an affiliate program for Amazon,
they don't want you to put it into any of the books.
But if you're kind of thinking to yourself,
"Ah man, Dale, that seems like a lot of work.
"I can do social media, I can do videos,
"I might be able to build email lists,
"but I'm not sure about self-publishing books."
But the good thing is, I've got you covered.
You get an entire video series takes you
from point A to point Z with a few steps in between
that makes it as simple as possible.
It's called How To Self-Publish A Book video series.
I'll see you in this very next video.
What are ya waiting for?