- I'm John Crestani
and I make over half a million dollars a month
with affiliate marketing
but I'm gonna show you how to get started
if you're a complete beginner
and I'll be going over
on my computer right here a step by step way
for you to go
from zero to hero.
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Hey, so if you're looking to start affiliate marketing
and you are a complete beginner, first of all I recommend
you do check out my introduction series
to affiliate marketing
but in this video I'm gonna be showing you exactly
how to get started.
We're gonna be doing a couple things here.
We're going to be, one, the first part
of affiliate marketing is joining an affiliate network
and this is where you find products you can sell
or link to and make commissions from.
First step.
Second step, is you wanna find a product.
A specific product that you can sell on the internet
that you resonate with and that you can make money with
so that's going to be our second thing.
The third thing that we're going to do, is we're going
to actually go out there and sell it.
Now, if you are a serious action-taker,
I recommend go through all these steps in this video
and actually you can start earning
your first commissions right now
if you just take these steps.
So let's get on my computer
and I'll show you everything step by step
so you know what you're getting into.
So here i am and if we Google just affiliate networks,
for instance, we'll find a bunch of results,
we'll find a ton.
And we'll see
if we just look up the top 10 affiliate networks
that aren't Amazon, we'll see a ton of affiliate networks,
we see ClickBank, JVZoo, GiddyUp, ShareASale, Avangate,
how do you decide what to join?
Now, first off, two great affiliate networks
to join are Amazon and my other favorite is ClickBank.
So Amazon is very easy to join
and let me show you how to join Amazon's affiliate network.
Now, if you're on Amazon right here.
As you see I'm on amazon.com okay?
We'll scroll down to the bottom of the page.
And what we see is in the footer
it says, Make Money with Us.
Okay?
Right there.
And you'll see there's a lot of ways
you can make money with Amazon.
Selling, private label brands, business, et cetera
but what we're interested is Become an Affiliate.
Now, that's what we're gonna start with right there.
So when we click on this
we'll see, profit from our experience.
Earn up to 10% advertising fees
with a trusted e-commerce leader.
Join now for free.
Okay?
So very easy to join and start selling stuff on Amazon.
See it says, Join, Advertise, Earn
and basically you'll just wanna join
and one of the things it will ask you for is
it will ask you to put in a website.
Now, do you have a Facebook profile?
My guess is yes.
Or if you don't, you can create a Facebook profile for free.
That's your website, okay?
Very easy.
Also you know, I've heard of some people
just putting in random websites that have a lot of visitors
in their niche and I guess Amazon doesn't check
but keep in mind, your YouTube channel,
you can set up a YouTube channel for free.
Your Facebook profile is free
and you can set these things up
and use them as your website.
Okay, very easy.
Now, Amazon, you don't make a lot of money.
For purposes of demonstration,
I could you know, say I'm selling this book "Anathem"
which is about $20 book.
If you earn 10% of that what are you making?
Two bucks.
You're not gonna become a millionaire, selling,
recommending books to people
unless you're making more than 10%.
So the affiliate network
that I really like is called ClickBank
and you can see ClickBank right here.
There's a lot of affiliate networks
but ClickBank is the most trustworthy
and the oldest affiliate network around.
It's been around for 21 years, it's based in Boise, Idaho
and this is the network that I made my first commissions on,
many people have made their first commissions on
and it's also been the affiliate network
that I currently make most of my money with.
Now, if we click here, Affiliate Market place, right there,
we'll see all of the products
that you can sell on a commission-only basis.
So let's click this search icon, right here
and see how many products we can find.
Okay, now you'll see there's over 4,500 products
in the Marketplace.
Let's zoom in.
So this gives you a lot of options
of what do you wanna sell.
Okay, what do you wanna sell to make a lot of money with?
Okay and you'll see they tell you how much money you'll make
if somebody buys what you're selling as an affiliate.
You see, $37 if you sell this.
$56 if you sell this.
$41 if you sell this.
There's a lot of money to be made selling
these different products.
Now, to find something you resonate with,
you kind of wanna choose, what I recommend,
I personally sell business-opportunity-type products
but what I recommend you do is, let's just get started
on Amazon, okay?
As I said the way you make big money is
with another affiliate network outside of Amazon
but let's just get started with Amazon for the time being
for demonstration purposes.
Is that okay?
Okay, cool.
Sorry, I didn't hear you there for a second.
So back to Amazon.
Now, I'm gonna go to amazon.com
and once again, let's say I wanna start off
with advertising this book, "Anathem" which is a book
I'm reading right now, it's a really good book
and we're gonna search this on Amazon
and look it up.
So we'll see, okay, well, it's $9.
Okay, $9 right here.
So I'm gonna click on the book and what you'll see is
when you're in, accepted for an affiliate network,
you see this little bar?
It says, Amazon Associates SiteStripe, right here.
This is where I'll get my affiliate link.
So what I'll do is I'll click Get Link Text.
Right there.
And you'll see it says, Text Link created below.
Now, this is my affiliate link
which I will use to sell this book.
This is the link people need to click on this link
and buy the book and I make money.
Okay, does that make sense?
People click on this link, they buy the book
and I make money.
So we can look at the full link here.
I'm not gonna go into what the full link is
but this carries, basically the link carries information
that tells, the way affiliate marketing works is
the link contains information that tells Amazon
that's the person clicked on my link versus
they searched for it online or what not.
And that link is in right here, the tag.
So that this stuff tells them
but we're just gonna grab the short link, copy it.
Now, I have my link.
I joined an affiliate network, I selected a product
and we're going to move on to posting
about how we can actually, you know, get in some people
to come to my website.
Okay, so now there are a few ways to get people
to come to your link.
Okay, you will already have access to them
now, do you communicate with anybody digitally?
My guess is yes,
you do.
You probably use text messages.
That's a way you can get your link out to people.
You use email,
that's a way you can get your link out to people.
You use Instagram,
that's a way you can get your link out to people.
Do you ever post comments on YouTube?
That's a way you can get your link out to people.
Facebook, that's a way you can get your link out to people.
All of these methods are ways
you can get your link out to people.
Now, most of the time
you're probably having very like,
just you know, you're talking
about random, social male, female, social dynamics
in your life.
That's cool but we're talking about making money here
so that's what we'll need to be talking to people about
in our emails.
Now, let's say I'm recommending this book.
The first place I could start is through email.
I want people to click on my link.
I could send an email
to a couple of my close friends, let's say,
you know, or just people I know.
I could send one to my friend Carlos,
I'm not actually gonna type in my friends' emails here
just so you don't email all my friends
but I could type in my friends
and I could write something like, book recommendation.
And I could say, you know, I remember you asked me
for a sci-fi book recommendation
and I'm reading a really good one
right now.
I absolutely love it.
Check it out.
And I put my link there, see?
There's my link.
So I wrote a little short personal email
in the way I normally communicate
and then I just put my initials.
So that's a way to get your link out to people.
You could send an email to people that,
whose emails you have and in this case
I'm sending an email to Carlos
who I know is interested in science fiction books.
That would be a good way to start affiliate marketing.
Another way to start affiliate marketing is
I could go on my Facebook and I have, a lot of the people
I'm friends with on Facebook are, you know, like the future
and science fiction and all this stuff.
I'm not going on my Facebook page.
I'm going on my personal Facebook
because I wanna communicate with people personally.
Do you buy things from ads?
Probably not.
Do you ever buy things or see movies
or listen to music based
on other friends of yours personal recommendations?
My guess is yeah.
Again, if we want people to buy from our link,
it needs to be somewhat of a personal recommendation.
That's why I'm posting on my personal profile.
Now, if you don't wanna sell anything, that's cool, okay?
But again, the other methods
of getting your link out there are expensive,
they cost money.
So we're doing this for free.
Now if you are interested
in going deeper into affiliate marketing
and paid advertising and the art of copywriting,
I suggest, I'm gonna have my assistant put up a link
to my playlist called The Art of Copywriting here
which will go over how you can use paid advertising
to actually make money with marketing.
Okay, so here we go, create a post.
I'll just say,
really good sci-fi book
I'm reading.
Mindgasms
every day so far.
Check it out.
Neal Stephenson is a genius.
Now, I'm not spelling correctly
because I'm doing personal communication.
That's what sells.
Again, if you look, if you're writing something
that looks like an ad, nobody is gonna buy, ever.
Ever.
Nobody wants to buy from ads.
Nobody wants to get raped
and that's what buying from an ad feels like,
it feels like your wallet is being raped.
You wanna have, you wanna feel like you're in love
and a personal recommendation feels like you're in love.
So here it is, here's my post.
Very simple post.
So then, I just share it and that's how it works.
Okay?
Then, I'll just post it right here.
Now, that is how to start affiliate marketing in a nutshell.
I hope this video was helpful.
You can check out my playlists
on the basics of getting started with affiliate marketing
on my channel homepage or there should be a link
somewhere around here.
Make sure to subscribe to my channel
if you want more information on affiliate marketing
and make sure you like and comment on this video
about what you'd like to see next.
Thank you so much for watching
and I will see you soon.
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