A great way of earning money online is through affiliate programs, or sometimes called partner
programs; and the idea is that you promote services that you already use. Now, most people
are aware about Amazon and so if you are talking about microphones that you
use or cameras that you use and things like that. But there is also a great opportunity
for affiliate revenue, even if you don't have many subscribers on your YouTube channel.
There's plenty of chances for affiliate revenue using services that you already use,
and so what I'm going to show you here is how you would get started with promoting
your affiliates. Of course, the first thing is you've got to look up to see is there actually
an affiliate program and what I've learned from about this from affiliate programs, I'm especially
grateful to Primal Video, so Justin and Mike Brown and the team at Primal Video are just wonderful
at helping you to grow your YouTube channel. So, initially what you do is you want to investigate
is there an affiliate program? And you can look that up on their website. It may be
called a partner program. You also look at services that you're already using,
that you're already happy with or that you can learn very quickly and that you would be happy
to promote. First, you want to get the initial setup. After you've done the investigation,
there's the setup and then you do an initial promotion once you're all set up with how they're
going to pay you and so on. And then you might do some ongoing promotions. So, in this video,
I'm just going to give you some ideas of how you might do each of those. So, in the setup,
first, there is—obviously after you have found out that they do have an affiliate program and that it
is something that you'd be happy to promote, then you can apply for that affiliate program and once
that gets approved … okay we'll check that box. So, what I'm really doing here is keeping track
of different affiliate programs that I'm already part of and then you get the link. They give you
a custom link and anybody who uses that link to buy their program—usually within a certain time
frame—then you will get some commission. And very often, they may have a free program
people will use your link to buy the free program, and then eventually
they may become a paying customer...and that's when you get paid! So, you would receive the link.
I've done that for each of these and then share the link...well that's what I'm doing right now!
I've got the link to each of these in the description for this video. So, ConvertKit
is all about email automation so that you can get people onto an email list so that you can offer
them value without you being dependent on social media or on the YouTube algorithm. You can share
the link or you can share it also through through email and and through social media and so on.
So I've got those links for Primal Video and I'm going to share those links in the description to
this video. Then you should go on to their website usually and grab the assets; by that I mean logos,
fonts, they've got certain colors that they use and so you can see that in this spreadsheet here.
In this Google Sheet, I've actually used the colors of the different companies, okay? You
can get those assets and that will make it really easy. If you are starting to promote them you can
include those assets. There are all different rules and regulations but you can include
those logos as part of your—for example—of your video. You've got to get permission to do that but
they will usually grant you that permission so you're getting the brand asset. So, I've done
that. If I were to become an affiliate for some other service, then I would just create a column
here. This is a good way of me keeping track. Now, I need to learn about the features because
I want to talk about the features so I can promote the features, right? So I need to learn about the
features. That could involve watching some videos. it could mean speaking to somebody from the
company and asking them, maybe over a Zoom call or something, and asking them “tell me. What's
the main use? What's the main benefit? The main features? The main advantages. The main benefits
from different things that you're promoting so let me speak about Primal Video I've spoken about
ConvertKit. So Primal Video the is just a great way of you learning in a really systematic way
how to grow your YouTube channel and in fact I'm really indebted to the team at Primal Video
for how they have shown me through their amazing material about all kinds of aspects of “What
is YouTube?” “What is the YouTube algorithm?” It's how to create videos; how to find topics
that people are going to search for. There's a whole lot of other wonderful things that
they do and “how to check your analytics” and “how to improve your videos” and so on. Really,
how to turn a business; how to create YouTube into a business. And PickFu, I'll speak about
in a moment. So you learn those features and then they may already have some promotional material.
They will usually be in the form of small videos, short videos and so on, so that you don't go have
to go and create it all yourself. You can share their promotional videos, for example and, say
I use ConvertKit for my email automation and have a read of this article. And I've included
my affiliate link in there so I haven't done that for Primal Video. I've only just become their
affiliate. And for PickFu I have watched some of their promotional videos. So, now the next step
is really doing the initial promotion. So, you've got the link and you can share that link but
what is it that's going to drive people even to look at your link? Well that's where we get to the
initial promotion and then the ongoing promotion. But now, I can enhance each of these but first of
all I might have an explanation video. So I've done that for PickFu. I definitely haven't done
it for Primal Video yet and I haven't done it in a big way for ConvertKit so I'm going to leave that
one blank. So it's really just: “hey! Here's an introduction to this software. Here are the
sort of circumstances that you might like to use it.” So PickFu as an example so PickFu allows you
to do some really fast user testing and to get market feedback super fast; as in—like—within
45 minutes I did one. I got 50 responses asking do people prefer to learn via video—to learn software
over video or would you rather have an article and with some screenshots in it. Which way would you
prefer to learn? And many people preferred one. Many preferred the other. Some preferred both
and so especially if it's a demo video of “hey! Here is how I do this step by step.” Then so that
was picked for really, really wonderful now then also you might like to say “here is how I do the
initial setup of ConvertKit and of Primal Video if that's applicable. it's actually not software that
I'm using here but here is the initial setup and so it's basically it's just a tour...a
tour video of “here is what's available and here is how to get started with using this yourself.”
And then PickFu. I've certainly done that. I've done that for a couple of videos. Once you've done
those videos are you kind of just done? Wel,l yes. Your video there might explain “hey, this
is how to use it” is “here's how to set it up.” But you can also enhance that more and get more
potential revenue affiliate revenue by doing an ongoing promotion. These things might be,
for example, a comparison video so I might can compare ConvertKit and MailChimp or ConvertKit
and ActiveCampaign or ConvertKit and Drip; which is better? So, too, I could do a Primal Video and
I could do a comparison video between Primal and Learning it yourself. Or between Primal Video and
some of the other many programs that are around, that help people to grow their YouTube channel.
Maybe Think Media, for example. Or Nick Nimmin. And then, so too, I could do a comparison video
between PickFu. So remember, that was the one for sharing, for doing split testing to be able
to say “which title, which headline do you prefer?” So, that was PickFu and so I could
do a comparison video. There I haven't done one yet between that and maybe some other polling
software or polling tool. Now, other potential ideas is that I could do a new demo video.
So I've done my setup demo video but now I do a new one, okay? So, here's how I set up my first
campaign on ConvertKit, for example (my email campaign). I'm going to do a new one and I'm
going to show off maybe some other feature or do a new a new demo and so I actually haven't
done any of these ones yet. But these are all potential videos that I could create
to generate more leads to generate more clicks on my affiliate link,
okay? And you could do this for Primal Video and you could do this for PickFu as well. So,
these are all different ways of generating more income through your affiliate links.
Now, if you want to learn more then subscribe to my channel. And if you want to, I could,
I really am very indebted to Primal Video and the guys there and so please have a look at their
amazing video. Their amazing channel and click on my affiliate link if you decide to subscribe
to their monthly program. The Primal Video Accelerator program is really highly recommended.
So, that's it from me and that's how I am using YouTube to generate more
affiliate revenue. Let me know in the comments whether you have started with
getting affiliate revenue with setting yourself up for affiliate revenue using YouTube.