- And so if you calculate it, yesterday,
it basically means that I made $173 passively
just from recommending free apps.
Hey, everyone, and welcome back.
So recently I made a video where I shared my strategy
of how I make over a thousand dollars a day
with affiliate marketing.
And well, when I went back
and looked at my video analytics,
I couldn't help but notice that interest spiked
when I talked about how I find high-earning,
high-commission affiliate programs.
And so I thought that I would follow that video up
by sharing my strategy of how I find
easy affiliate products and apps to promote,
because they are free and they have high commissions.
Yes, free. I don't have to sell anything.
I just introduce free apps and free products
that help people solve their needs.
And in exchange, I earn high commissions.
And I personally think that these are the easiest types
of affiliate marketing programs to earn money with
because it's a win-win.
When you recommend a free app or a free product to someone
that helps them solve their needs,
they're really happy
because they just got something for free.
And it's a win-win for you
because these products and apps pay out high commission.
So you are happy because you are getting paid.
So yes, that's what this video is gonna be discussing today.
So I'm gonna split it into two parts.
The first part is gonna be me sharing my personal case study
about how I promote free products and free apps
in exchange for commissions.
And as you'll see, these programs pay out pretty well.
With just two of these programs,
I made over a hundred U.S. dollars yesterday
in commissions passively.
And then for the second part of the video,
I'm gonna show you other free products and free apps
that pay out high-affiliate commissions in other niches
in case you are inspired to try this too.
But for now, onto the first part of the video.
So let me show you how I earn passive income every day
just from recommending free stuff.
Okay, so to get started with this case study,
let's go ahead and take a look
at one of the free apps that I recommend to people,
and that is Placeit.
Logging into my affiliate account with them,
you can see that in the past 30 days,
I have made over $2,100 in affiliate commissions.
Now, just to be transparent, that is New Zealand dollars
and it's not U.S. dollars.
If you convert that into U.S. dollars,
it comes out to around $1,340.
So for those of you that are new around here,
I'll quickly explain what Placeit is.
So as my long-time subscribers know,
I have multiple streams of income,
not just affiliate marketing.
Another form of income that I have is my merch business
where I sell print on demand merch like t-shirts.
Well, Placeit is an app that merch businesses, like mine,
absolutely love because it solves a problem that we have,
and that is creating lifestyle photos.
Now, usually, getting lifestyle photos of your products
is really annoying and really expensive.
You've gotta hire models.
You've got to do a photo shoot, that sort of thing.
Whereas the Placeit app has tens of thousands,
maybe hundreds of thousands,
I'm actually not quite sure just how many photos they have.
They have a lot of photos that have blank products in them.
And so you can just go in and choose a photo
that features a blank product that you sell
and then upload the design that you print onto that product.
And now you have a lifestyle photo
that you can use for marketing.
No annoying and expensive photo shoot required.
I absolutely love Placeit,
and so I have made different video tutorials on this channel
showing how to use it.
And then in the video description for those tutorial videos,
I will place my affiliate link over to Placeit.
But here's the thing, right?
Placeit has two different types of accounts
that you can register for.
They have their premium plan, which you pay for,
which gives you access to tens of thousands
but maybe hundreds of thousands
of photos and templates in their catalog.
I'm not quite sure how many, but it's a lot.
But that's not all, they also have a free account
which gets you access
to over a thousand templates and photos.
And they're actually really good.
But here's the kicker:
the commissions I earn from Placeit,
I only get these
if people register for the premium account.
I get nothing if they register for the free account.
But you know what, I will always recommend
that people register for the free account anyway.
And here's what happens when I do that.
So for most people, yes, a thousand templates and photos
is a lot less than tens of thousands,
if not hundreds of thousands,
but for most people, a thousand is all that they need.
And so they register for the free account
and they get exactly what they need
and they're really happy, which is awesome.
But for some people, they'll be like me
and they love it so much
that they'll just naturally start to wonder,
huh, I wonder what other photos that Placeit has.
And so on their own accord,
they'll go and browse through the premium library of photos
and they'll be like, oh, look at that, isn't that cool?
Lifestyle photo that features a dog.
Well, I sell a dog-themed t-shirt.
This photo would be perfect for it.
And so they then make their own choice
to upgrade to the premium version,
which I get a commission on.
And so this is what happens
when you promote products and apps
that have a great free version.
You will earn money and commissions
from the people that make their own choice
to upgrade to the premium version.
And actually this applies
to another great free app that I recommend,
and that is Canva.
I absolutely love Canva.
Now, they also have two versions.
They have a great free version
and they have a premium pro version.
And so just like with Placeit,
I will always recommend the free version if I can.
Although sometimes the tutorials that I create
do require using pro account-only features,
in which case I'll always strongly recommend
getting the free 30-day trial for the pro account.
Either way, I focus on my tutorials
on how to maximize the freebees that Canva offers,
and just like with Placeit,
every month I earn passive commissions
from people choosing to upgrade to the premium pro version.
And so I was curious,
since yesterday's sales have been tallied,
I wondered how much money did I earn yesterday
just with these two free apps?
And when I calculated it,
it turns out that I earned over a hundred U.S. dollars.
Yes, I made 126 New Zealand dollars,
i.e 77 U.S. dollars with Canva,
and I made 157 New Zealand dollars,
i.e 96 U.S. dollars with Placeit.
And so if you calculate it, yesterday,
it basically means that I made $173 passively
just from recommending free apps.
And so that's why I love
this affiliate marketing strategy so much.
By focusing on recommending apps
and products that have great free versions,
you can help other people for free while also earning money.
Yay.
But of course, I understand
that not everybody is a t-shirt creator
and so therefore not everybody is as interested
in Canva and Placeit as I am.
And so what I've done is I've compiled a list
of other free affiliate products
from a wide range of different niches to inspire you
that also have high commissions, at least 50% commissions.
So first up is GetResponse.
This is an online marketing software suite.
I personally use GetResponse
for their email marketing tools,
but they have other ones as well,
such as their website builder.
But you know what, their free account is super valuable.
It comes with a website builder,
email marketing services,
free web hosting, even a free domain name.
As you can probably imagine,
there are a lot of internet marketers
with low startup budgets
that would love a free service like this.
And then for the customers that, like me,
try it, love it, and upgrade to the premium plan,
you can either earn 33% on the monthly payments,
or you could opt to just get $100 upfront right now.
And when you consider
that most people purchase the $16 a month plan,
that is 600% commissions.
But if you're more interested in the travel niche,
then this next affiliate product is super interesting.
And that is Tripadvisor.
Yep, Tripadvisor is a free website that you can go to
to find reviews for things like hotels and tours.
And you can even book these things
through Tripadvisor as well.
Well, Tripadvisor has a very unique affiliate payout system.
So each time that someone is browsing through their website
and then clicks on the link to a hotel
and goes and views that website,
you will get anywhere from 15 to 75 cents
for that free click.
I had no idea about this.
And so as an avid traveler that uses Tripadvisor a lot,
I'm sure that I have made affiliates
a lot of money over the years.
And as an added bonus,
each time that somebody goes and book something
like say a hotel or a tour,
you will earn 50% commissions
on the profit that Tripadvisor makes.
Yay.
But if you're somebody that's more interested
in personal finance and investing,
then you might be more interested
in the next affiliate program on my list, Personal Capital,
one of the most popular personal finance apps in the world.
People create a free account
and then they connect their investments to it,
such as their retirement funds and their bank accounts.
And now they can track their investment portfolio
all through the app.
And the really cool thing about this affiliate program
is that you can earn $100 in affiliate commissions
just by people creating a free account.
That's right, they can create a free account
and then you can earn $100.
All they need to do is create a free account
and then connect at least $100,000 worth of investments
into it to track.
And then you will automatically get
$50 to $144 in commissions.
Nice.
But if you're more into marketing
and you love getting free Google traffic,
then you should check out
this next affiliate program, Semrush.
Semrush is an online app and website
that has a bunch of SEO tools
and their free account is super valuable.
The free account gets you access to 12 SEO tools,
including their very popular keyword research tool
that you can use up to 10 times per day.
So for new internet marketers,
this is going to be super helpful.
And then for the advanced internet marketers that decide
that they want to have unlimited access to these tools,
you will earn $10 in commission
just for them having a free trial of a paid account.
And then you will earn $200 commission per sale.
And considering that their cheapest plan
is currently $119.95 a month,
that is a 160% commission on the sale.
And these commissions, they can add up.
A blog post over at BloggersPassion
shared how they've made over $400,000
in affiliate commissions, just with promoting Semrush.
And they give some tips
and tricks and strategies that they've used
to earn even more money with the program too.
Yay.
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