- Hey everyone, this is Neil Patel here,
and today, we have another Q&A Thursday video.
I'm here with Adam LaDolce from Viewership.
- Hello everyone.
- And this week's question is?
- Oh, I'm gonna get this name wrong, but I'm gonna try.
Kubalb Khan.
And, did I get that right?
Kubalb?
- I don't know. - All right,
we got-- - I apologize
for not knowing how to pronounce your name.
I really am sorry about that. - But thank you
for your comment, and the question is that
can I make a website for free just to start up,
and then will it work for affiliate marketing?
Basically, affiliate marketing.
- This is a good question,
and thank you for leaving the comment.
A lot of people believe,
and they have this misconception in their head
that if you want to do affiliate marketing,
you need to spend money on a premium domain name,
spend a lot of money on a design,
and that is completely wrong.
You can start up with a free WordPress theme,
start up a site, you can even have your site
on wordpress.com, you can try
to build your traffic and then monetize.
It does not cost money to do affiliate marketing.
Yes, most affiliates make money
from Facebook ads, or Google ads,
and then they send that traffic to their landing page
and then push people to whatever products
or services that they're selling.
That works, that's a good model.
But you don't have to start off that way.
Doing something as simple as throwing
up a free WordPress site will do well.
And if I was to start off in doing affiliate marketing
and I had little to no money,
here's what I would do.
I would go to wordpress.com, set up a website,
pick a vertical that I'm passionate about.
If you're not passionate, you won't create enough content.
When you're passionate, you're willing to put in the hours,
the time, energy it takes to succeed.
It's not gonna be easy, but I believe in you.
You can do it.
Once you have a topic you're passionate about,
go and create content, whether it's text-based content,
video-based content, audio-based content, you pick,
whatever is the easiest for you.
You can take out your phone, create some videos,
write some blog posts, whatever it may be.
Now that you got your content going,
I want you to do a simple thing.
Go to tools like Buzzsumo, they have free versions.
Look at other titles that have done well.
You can also use SEMrush for free, or Ubersuggest.
Put in keywords, see what ideas are popular,
and go and see what's working,
and start creating more of that kind of content,
'cause that'll help you get even more traffic now.
You got a base of content already before you do this,
now you're trying to write content
that people want to search for, share.
You can even do that at first if you want,
but generally, I say you should start off
just by writing what you're passionate about
and want to get off your mind or your chest.
And then what you wanna do is
you wanna start sharing the content.
Look to see on Twitter who's tweeting out similar content.
Ask them to tweet out your content.
You want to see who you're linked to.
Email them, let them know that you linked to them.
Ask 'em to share your content.
If you're in places like the European Union,
make sure you follow GDPR rules.
I don't know if you can just randomly email people.
Worst case, use their website contact form,
let 'em know that you emailed,
let 'em know that you linked to them
and ask them to share your content.
This will start helping you get traffic.
Then you wanna use tools like subscribers in Hello Bar
to collect emails, to collect subscribers,
get people coming to your site.
Once they subscribe, you can notify 'em every time
you have new blog posts that are coming out.
You do this for six months, you've built up a community,
a audience, and then, when you mention products
within your blog posts that you're affiliate for,
and you push 'em, you'll start seeing income.
That's how I would start if I were you
and I had no money to spend on Facebook ads
and you're just starting off.
And I'm not saying that doesn't mean
you can't do Facebook ads and make that work,
but that's how I would start off
if I had little to no money.
You don't need a registered domain name,
you don't have to pay for hosting.
You can monetize by just creating
a simple website on wordpress.com
and following the steps I mentioned.
- Yeah, I mean the only thing I would add
to that is just make sure you're getting
people's email addresses
when they're coming to your website.
Like if I were to start YouTube all over again
and just wanna collect email addresses,
I would literally have a one-page address
that I would send everyone to for my YouTube videos,
be like, hey, go here,
click the email, - Yeah.
- and then when you want to launch an affiliate program,
or obviously your own product,
- That's true. - boom.
- You can promote to the email list.
- Yeah. - And you can use hellobar.com
to do that for free.
- There it is, so, there it is, all right.
- Thank you for watching this week's Q&A Thursday video.
If you have a question that you want answered,
leave it below, I'll answer it,
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