in today's video we're going to talk about the best affiliate marketing programs i have
personally made over 500 000 from affiliate marketing and i know the importance of choosing
the best affiliate program to promote promoting the wrong affiliate programs can result in a
lot of wasted time and zero commissions but if you choose the right offer it can make your process of
earning that first commission a lot easier and a lot simpler and faster as well if you're new to my
channel my name is greg kononenko on this channel i talk about affiliate marketing blogging and free
traffic generation so click subscribe just below this video and enable all notifications to make
sure that you never miss my future videos thanks let's get into the video before we talk about
the actual programs to promote i want to address something very important and that is do you need a
website in order to be an affiliate marketer and there are two answers to this question
because actually no you don't really need a website to promote the affiliate products but yes
you do need an affiliate website to get into some of the affiliate offers so in order to be accepted
into some of the networks you need to have some kind of a base and why am i saying this well when
you start signing up for some of the affiliate offers you will see information similar to this
where the affiliate network or the affiliate program will be asking information about you
and some of the questions will be website url see it says important you must have an operator at
least one website in order to create a publisher account at sale.com which is one of the affiliate
networks and they're asking you for your website url now you need to have a simple basic website in
order to get accepted into a lot of the networks you will not need this website to actually promote
the affiliate offers because i'm going to show you a bunch of ways to drive traffic even without the
website but you do need to have a website kind of like your home base so that you can tell that you
are a legitimate brand in order to get accepted into these networks so having just a very basic
website maybe similar to what you can see here on the screen is very important and if you currently
don't have a website check the links in the description below i'm going to put links to
my videos where i show exactly how to set up your own website just a website with two or three pages
who you are or maybe a little bit about your brand that will really help you all right so the
affiliate offer number one that i want to talk about today is the cash superstar pay-per-lead
affiliate program i have promoted these in the past myself not on this youtube channel but i have
years ago i used to promote it via email marketing and it's a good program james pays on time
he runs this program himself and he pays one dollar per free single opt-in lead so that means
as you can see here you don't need to make a sale in order to get paid you just need to send traffic
that traffic needs to simply sign up to a free offer so they just enter their email address
and you get paid one dollar so this is called a single opt-in lead and they need to be from usa
canada uk australia or new zealand this needs to be real traffic and as you can see on average it
converts a 25 to 50 percent opt-in conversion so that means that if you send let's say 100 visitors
to an opt-in page you stand to make anywhere from 25 to 50 dollars for those 100 clicks that you
generate there are some conditions of course that you also need to make sure that you comply with
you can't send fake traffic or anything like that and you also will need to provide some information
about what you do so you need to have a way of driving traffic otherwise james might not accept
your application for his program so if you don't currently have a way of driving traffic
to affiliate links then make sure to check the description below because i've recently
recorded several videos which show how to get a huge amount of free traffic free high quality
traffic to the affiliate links then go and watch those and this way you'll have a way of
generating traffic to all the affiliate offers that we're going to be talking about in this
video all right number two on the list of the best affiliate marketing programs for beginners
is the envato.com affiliate program this program is really awesome because it pays high commissions
and you can earn those commissions on a variety of different things so if you actually scroll down
below the enviro affiliate program covers three of these marketplaces enviro elements place it and
environment you may be familiar with themeforest this is an online marketplace that sells
wordpress themes wordpress plugins various templates kits marketing and cms software so
there is just so so much code and video and audio and wordpress plugins that they sell through on
the enviro marketplace now theme forest and envato are joint brands and you can promote thousands as
you can see of wordpress themes and website templates but also there is a bunch of other
stuff that is in really high demand very high quality offers and you can earn uh 30 on the first
purchase of anyone who you refer so for example if you refer a customer to themeforest or to envato
marketplace and they buy a wordpress theme there for fifty dollars you can make 15 commission there
are also these other couple of things enviro elements so that's assets like fonts and themes
and photos stock photos etc that you can promote as well once you're accepted into the envato.com
affiliate program so one of the ideas for how to promote the enviro.com affiliate program would
be if you look at best wordpress themes search in google you will see that there are a lot of
websites here that are listing all the different wordpress themes or wordpress plugins for example
and they will have links to all of those products within the enviro.com marketplace this is you know
i think it's the largest online marketplace for for wordpress tools themes and plugins
you can promote that marketplace and if a person registers there and buys something you can get
paid these amount of commission affiliate program number three that i'm a personal fan of is the
optimizepress affiliate program optimizepress is a landing page builder for wordpress so it's a tool
that is in extremely high demand by pretty much anyone who's got a website everyone wants to build
landing pages and their sort of sales pages in optimizepress as an example of what optimizepress
can do i built this fairly simple home page on my caffeinatedblogger.com blog with optimizepress so
it just allows you to create various types of landing pages sales pages etc here are examples
of some of the pages that come as templates with optimize press but then of course the users can
build their own pages from scratch and you can earn 30 percent per sale on the front-end units
there are um various pricing models for optimized press users that includes annual fees as well as
one-time purchases it's a very very good tool very useful tool and if you look at optimized
press pricing it actually is very competitive it's 99 per year between 99 per year to 199 per year
now optimize press can do everything that click funnels can do all right and it's quite easy
to sell optimize press because click funnels is anywhere from i think 97 to 297 per month
whereas optimize press is that per year it's a very high quality software they've got probably
hundreds of thousands of users i would say around the world so it's been around for a really long
time excellent software easy to promote the best affiliate program number four to promote
is thrive themes thrive themes is a collection of really high quality tools for wordpress and
website owners and that includes such uh products such as thrive theme builder so this is a visual
builder similar to optimize press there is thrive architect thrive quiz builder thrive leads thrive
membership so basically it's all of the different tools that extend the functionality of wordpress
very high quality software they pay really good commissions as well as you can see they paid 35
percent commission on the initial purchase and 25 on recurring commissions now they're the way that
their software is sold is let's say somebody wants to buy thrive architect they are offered to get
this thrive membership okay so they can either buy the thrive architect adjust that product itself
and they can buy five licenses for 97 and that is that includes uh one year of support but it's kind
of like a one-off price but what they are sort of pushing i guess or offering for the customers to
do is to get this thrive membership which a lot of customers actually end up doing and you they get
all of the tools for 19 per month which is paid annually at 228 dollars per year so this is the
option that a lot of the customers end up taking and you end up getting these yearly commissions 35
percent upfront plus 25 ongoing on 228 purchases which is really really good and a lot of people
stick for many many years so once you've made the sale you're going to continue making those
commissions every year affiliate program number five is various hosting affiliate programs i'm not
going to name a single one it's i'm just going to actually give you an overview of a few different
ones but as a category hosting affiliate offers are amazing to promote because it's a service
that everybody needs everyone needs hosting every person who's got a website needs that website to
be hosted somewhere the payouts are great i personally promote mostly the siteground.com
affiliate program i've promoted a few other ones in the past um siteground is a very good hosting
company and they pay anywhere from 50 usd per sale and more you can get custom commission tiers so
if you're hitting 20 sales a month you're getting 100 u.s per sale but if you're getting 21 or more
you can get in touch with them they will bump up your commissions to maybe 110 120 or more per sale
so that's a really good commission for a service that people are actively actually searching for
every single hosting company that you can possibly think of has got an affiliate program for example
hostgator pays even more they pay 65 usd per sign up if it's 21 or more sales it's 125 usd per sign
up they've got that on their site and if you start referring even more once again you can get
in touch with them and potentially negotiate an even better commission for any of their referrals
for example if you're doing 50 sales a month or more you can probably get a slight bump in the
commission as well and if you google you'll find a list of dozens and probably even hundreds of
hosting companies for example there is bluehost there is hostgator there is hostinger there is
green geeks there is dreamhost they all have affiliate programs you'll never run out of
hosting companies to promote fill affiliate program number six that you can promote
is sem rush it's a very high quality service it's a competitor to ahrefs.com and many industry
professionals recommend and use semrush they have a suite of tools it's a it's it's a tool that
literally anyone who does online marketing really needs and they have some tools such as keyword
research for seo they have some ppc related tools so that's pay-per-click that's paid advertising
they have some tools related to social media to content marketing and market research
so for anyone who's got a website for example they can use semrush to find excellent keywords for
their website to try and rank for what kind of keywords they uh can target with their new content
so bloggers can use these content agencies pretty much anyone who does any sort of online marketing
uh can and should be using a tool such as sem rush so it's an easy sell now their affiliate
program is really really good i'm just going to make this a little bit bigger you can see that
for every sem rush subscription sale you can earn 200 usd and you can also earn 10 dollars
for every new trial activation alright so the way that sem rush is priced is that people
start a seven day free trial so let's say if you recommend this product to somebody they can sign
up for this seven day free trial and then as an affiliate affiliates get ten dollars for that new
seven day free trial so that's that's a really really good deal and as soon as
that trial converts into subscription sale you can also make these two hundred dollars
so um really awesome affiliate program for a very good tool that pretty much anyone needs
now once again guys you will see that it says here who can become an sm rush affiliate it's content
publishers paid search enthusiasts etc you can't apply for pretty much any of these programs that
are in this video that are legitimate affiliate programs if you've got no website you need to
have some kind of an online base where in your application you can provide a link to
your website to your profile and say this is who i am this is my website i'm a legitimate business
if you don't even have a website and you try to promote a tool such as semrush you're just
not going to get accepted because people won't take it seriously so make sure that you check
the links in the description below i'm going to put links to videos that will explain to you how
to set up a simple website which will actually help you get approved and start promoting all
of these products affiliate program number seven that i wanted to talk about today is clickbank
clickbank is not just one program not just one product it's actually a network and they have
got thousands of affiliate programs that you can promote once you are approved for clickbank
and the reason why i think clickbank is a really great affiliate program for beginners
is because there are no real strict requirements and clickbank also accept affiliates from every
part of the globe and every country there are only a few countries that are restricted but
i'd say like 99 of the countries are accepted on clickbank and in order to get started you just
go to clickbank.com click sign up and then you need to fill out a quick information form here
it's 100 free to join so you just need to fill out all of this information and
generally your account will be either instantly approved or will be approved
pretty quickly after you submit the registration and once you're inside clickbank you can
navigate to the marketplace menu tab at the very top and then you will see all of the different
categories of products that you can promote now um pretty much any niche that you decide to
be in you can find a product for that niche on clickbank clickbank products in general are mostly
digital products and software information books courses those types of things and the
commissions on them are generally really good on average i would say it's anywhere from 50 to 75
commission which is really awesome and here is just a quick example i've done a search for all
products in all categories you can see here that uh this particular offer it's called research
this is i think a weight loss type offer on average per sale they pay 117 u.s so it's really
great a great payout and gravity you can see is 354 so that means that 354 different affiliates
have made sales this offer in the last couple of weeks so it converts for a high number of
affiliates and if you keep going down the page you will see that those kinds of offers are very
common on clickbank and you don't need to get approved for the for each individual offer once
you're on clickbank you can just click promote on any of these offers and you will get an instant
affiliate link that you can start promoting right away if you still don't know how to start driving
traffic to your affiliate links i've actually made a bunch of videos about this topic just recently
on my youtube channel so go into the description below i'm going to put links to those videos
because traffic is really not a problem once you know what you want to promote you can get traffic
you can get 100 free traffic even if you're a beginner so just go into the description below and
you'll be able to find links to all of the videos about how to get traffic to your affiliate links
number eight on today's list is cj.com now cj.com works with some of the largest brands in the world
very famous well-known brands and it is a little bit harder to get accepted into
cj.com than to clickbank you will need to submit your own website once again
uh but once you are accepted to cj.com you will get access to 2994 different affiliate programs
now they are in a variety of different issues you will see here on if i go into category on the
left-hand side uh once again it's accessories art automotive beauty you can see all of the different
types of offers so no matter which niche you're currently in you will be able to find offers to
promote on cj.com just as an example if i choose clothing and apparel on the left hand side and
we've got 468 different programs you can see there are some really huge programs such as the
north face you can refer people to the north face you can get paid three to five percent commission
if you refer people to michael kors you can get four to five percent commission
and that is actually a lot higher than what you could possibly make on amazon.com
right some of these parallel apparel offers are paying eight percent commission
and if you go into other categories you can find some products here that pay really high
commissions there are hosting offers you know computer and accessories and software offers that
buy a lot so you really get access to thousands and thousands of different offers once you're on
cj.com so i just wanted to reiterate once again that if you are not yet sure how to start getting
traffic to your affiliate links check the links in the description below i've got videos on the topic
in the description if you're also not sure how to set up your website for affiliate marketing or
how to set up your website to use as a home base to when you apply to promote different affiliate
programs you will need to have some kind of a home base for your brand for your profile
to prove that you are a legitimate business if you're not sure how to do that then once
again check the links in the description below i'm going to put a link to a video that will walk you
through step by step how to set up your website from scratch here are those two videos here on
the screen so you can just click on the screen to go and watch them right now if you are not yet a
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