What's going on everyone? I'm Marissa and in today's video we're gonna go over a
blueprint on how you can go from zero to ten thousand dollars per month with
affiliate marketing for beginners and this really is a step-by-step so don't
take any of this lightly. This is my best advice of how you could be earning these
types of checks like I did and I am like this and this and this and this and this
and receiving text messages like this and it's really incredible once you get
this affiliate marketing business going because it becomes super passive income.
We're rolling with it and so make sure you stay to the end of this video
because the end is kind of the most important part to your success with
affiliate marketing and it's step that most people get wrong, trust me you don't want to get this wrong, so stay tuned for this
video. The first step in this zero to 10k blueprint that you're gonna want to do
is you're gonna want to believe in the product. So what does this mean? So you
don't want to go to clickbank or Amazon and just select any old product just to
promote it because there's a good commission, you actually want to try out
the product and understand the product for yourself. I mean I actually made this
mistake a couple of times, promoting a product as I that I wasn't too familiar
with and I didn't make that much money and the commission's I did make, I mean
it was okay, but people were complaining about the product and I felt super bad.
I'm like "Oh my gosh I'm never gonna do that again." And so you got to remember
that affiliate marketing is great, it's an amazing business model, you can make a
lot of money with it, but you got to protect your brand most importantly
because if you're promoting a product that doesn't help people, that doesn't
solve a problem, that doesn't serve people, that isn't really good and top
quality in their specific niche in the marketplace, don't do it. You don't want
to go down that route, trust me. And so I tell people affiliate marketing is kind
of like the gateway business. I mean, everyone talks about marijuana being the
gateway drug to like all these other drugs, this is that's what I call
affiliate marketing to online marketing because once you get really good at
affiliate marketing you're gonna want to develop
your own products and that's why you only want to promote the best products
that you're familiar with because, although I have my own digital products
now and my own services, affiliate marketing is still a huge chunk of my
income because I set it up right and I did it the right way, which I'm talking
about in this blueprint. So the next step in this blueprint from 0 to 10k is to
focus, and please do not take this lightly and roll your eyes, trust me you
need to focus on one product and taking and scaling that one product because
this is how you're gonna make the most amount of commissions, grow your brand,
this is actually how you're even going to grow and build your email list. The
point is when you focus on one thing in one product one service it will grow and
you will make the most amount of commissions and sales because you're
able to, the most, understand the product and how it converts and what
you need to do to tweak it because you'll gather more and more data and
you'll understand what you need to do to continue to sell it and to scale that
affiliate marketing commission. People fall into this trap of the shiny object
syndrome because one they get frustrated that the product doesn't sell
or doesn't work for them and so they're like "Oh this product
sucks so I'm gonna jump to the next one," or they get the shiny object syndrome
because they start promoting one product product and then they see another
product launch like "Oh my god I need to promote that new product," when
they haven't even given the first product a try, and so I want to highlight
and emphasize that you need to focus on one at a time. So what that looks like
maybe is promoting one product for six to nine months, getting it profitable, if
you're confident that it will continue to scale on its own then maybe you can
add another product to what you're doing but definitely give it some time and
stay focused. The third thing you need to focus on with affiliate marketing for
beginners and hitting that 10k mark is the commission structure. So there's a
lot of different terms when it comes to this,
but when we talk about affiliate marketing commissions there's low ticket,
there's high ticket, there's recurring commissions, and I
specifically focus on promoting products that are either high ticket, which means
you earn a commission of a thousand dollars or more, or that is recurring
commission. So if you promote a business tool or a website tool or some type of
online tool, it is a really good thing because when those are monthly
memberships that people have to pay every single month, so guess what, what
does that mean for you? You get that commission check every single month in
your bank account, and so the other thing is you want to do your research on the
commission structure and what that looks like, anywhere from 30% to 70% is a
really, really sweet spot, anything more is just incredible, I would definitely do
some research into how the product performs and what their numbers are like,
what is the conversion rate of the product, so maybe the product sells
people with a webinar, for example, what is that conversion rate of the webinar?
If it is above 2%, that is amazing because industry standard is between 1
and 2% you can also look at the affiliate page of an offer and see if
there's any other big names or well-known names in the industry that
are promoting that affiliate product and, if so, if there's good testimonials from
other affiliates. If there's good data then that is a great sign
that you should continue or that you can promote that product so certainly keep
the commission structure and the conversion numbers in mind when thinking
about promoting an affiliate offer. Alright, so the fourth step in all of
this is to find the product. So I'm going to go over a couple of places where you
can find an affiliate product, it's really that easy and even my best advice
is if there's a product or service tool, whatever it is that goes with your brand
and that is that has to do with the niche of your online business, I would
definitely start promoting that first. If you type in virtually any company in the
world, they have a referral program or an affiliate program,
but I highly believe there is a digital product or digital course that anyone
could promote and in that mastermind I've seen the most incredible online
courses about so many different things. There's a guy teaching other
up-and-coming veterinarians how to have an amazing vet career, there's a woman
who teaches about anxiety, and another woman who teaches actors how to be great
actors, another woman who has a Pinterest course, another woman who has a course on
manifestation, and another guy who sells a course on how to flip houses. The list
is endless and my recommendation to you is to find an influencer, you
don't even really have to contact them, just do some research on their Instagram,
their YouTube, their website, and more than likely if that influencer or
solopreneur, entrepreneur, whatever you want to call it, if they have an audience,
99% of the time they have their own offer, their own digital course and I
guarantee they have an affiliate program. And so if they're selling their offer
for $800, $1,000 that is really great news because, more than likely, they're
gonna give 40 to 50% commissions to their affiliate, so don't just promote
biz opportunity affiliate offers and business tools, not
everyone has to do that because if you promote a digital course that you
believe in, not only is that really good for your brand down the line, but also
that's great because that is considered the high ticket level, you're
going to making 400 to 500 dollars per commission and that is
really good for you. And so here's a couple of places where you can find
affiliate offers, if you go to Capterra.com you could search through the
list of products on that website, there's tons and tons of different options for
tools and other offers on there, of course there's Clickbank as I mentioned,
and I know I was like "Oh don't just go to clickbank and grab a link," but there
are some really great offers on Clickbank and I definitely recommend
checking it out and also Amazon, of course, Walmart, Target, I know you're
thinking like "What the hell? I didn't really even realize that Walmart and
Target..." And you can also consider JVZoo if you are in the online marketing space
Hot Mart, Share Sale, and CJ Affiliate. CJ Affiliate is kind of cool because that
is a platform or a website where you can go and not only promote different offers
but you could promote things like events and masterminds which is really cool and
I made this video quite a long time ago but it is still extremely relevant, I
think it's I made it eight or nine months ago, but it's about
affiliate offers within the traveling niche where you can get paid for just
sharing your knowledge about a vacation you just took, so definitely check out
that video after this video. Alright, so now we are on step five, and this is
arguably the most important part that will take you to 10k so pay attention,
and this is called the bridge. You're like "What is the bridge?" When you figure
this out, when you start implementing it, I'm gonna tell you right now, start to
implement it right away on your affiliate marketing offers, your
conversions are going to go through the roof. So what does this mean? This means
that you have to bridge, you are the bridge, you have to bridge nicely the
offer to the person that is going to buy it because if you're just out spamming
the internet, putting your affiliate links wherever, on my YouTube videos,
stop doing that. Stop putting your links on my videos! It happens all the time, I'm
like "Oh,why do people do that?" But this is the legitimate way to do it, this
is how you build a real online affiliate marketing business, you have to have a
landing page to capture interest and to capture the name and email of a person
so that you can follow up with them later, but the next page they go to is
called the Thank You page, but we're gonna call it the bridge page because it
is going to be a video that you create. Normally it'll be you talking in the
camera, some people do animation videos, but the highest converting bridge pages
have you in it like I am in this video talking to the
camera and introducing what the offer is, so I have my computer here and this
is an example of a bridge page video that I made as an example of a product
on Clickbank, as a matter of fact, and so the idea is I would actually change this
video to a video I create where you see my face and I would say something like
"Hey guys! Congratulations for being on this video!" Introduce what the
product is, introduce how it changed your life, the benefits of it, what they could
expect, you're more than likely going to drive them to another video
sales letter or VSL or a checkout page depending on the price of the product,
but you have to introduce the offer that you are promoting because you're going
from your brand to somebody else's brand so it has to be clear that you're
handing them off to another person's offer. And so let me give you a prime
example, the other day on this YouTube channel I did a collaboration with a
girl named Louise Henry and I was an affiliate for one of her products, right?
In that video I didn't make a bridge page because you saw her in my youtube
video, so that was kind of the bridge, but when I continued to promote her offer
throughout the rest of this year I will create a bridge page that has a video of
me explaining how, because I actually bought that course that she has, it's on
Asana, and how to get organized, it's an amazing course, check it out by the way,
but I will definitely make a bridge page with maybe her and I in it.
If you know the person and you can do a bridge video with them in it, that is even better. You
don't have to have that, but if you can that's like icing on the cake. And so I
would say what I learned, how her organization course on Asana saved
me ten hours a week, how I was able to actually hit the big goals in my
business, and so you really have a lot of room for creativity on that bridge page
because you can say your true thoughts about the product and then at the end of
the video give a call to action going to the offer and in her case she has a
webinar for the product, and so I have a bridge page and I'm sending my people,
when I say click the button below, I'm sending the people that land
on the page to her webinar and when I make the sale, she fulfills the
product and we're all happy. Alright, so the sixth step in this blueprint is the
follow up. Now, this is a whole entire video in itself, I'm not going to get
into it in depth, but basically you want once you capture their email when you
have your landing page, the whole point is to follow up with them. So you're
gonna create an email sequence, I personally use Kartra for my online
business, sales funnel marketing, and email marketing, but if you use click
funnels you could use get responses, a lot of different email marketing
platforms that you could use, but the point is you want to set up follow-up
emails and so the reason you want to follow up for seven days is because, more
than likely, people are not going to buy on the first sight of seeing the offer
or the sales page or the webinar or whatever and so those seven emails is
the industry standard for you to follow up with them and continually show them
the offer after seven days of introducing the product of when they
land on your bridge page. The seventh step in the blueprint is to give it time.
As I mentioned in the first couple of steps, you need to focus if you get
your bridge page and your funnel up and running and you're promoting it and
driving traffic for a month and you get no sales, who cares? That's very, very, very
normal. You may not see sales for six months, give it nine months to a
year to really get your funnel going and to start making commissions on that
affiliate offer. Alright guys, so I know if you're getting massive value and if
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