- In this video, we're talking about
how you can double your YouTube income overnight.
I teamed up with my buddy, Armando.
He has an awesome tech and filmmaking channel
and he's got one small change
that will drastically improve the amount of money
that you're bringing in from your affiliate links.
Hey guys, if you're new to this channel,
my mane is Jeven Dovey.
I do filmmaking tutorials, I do product reviews,
I also do a lot of YouTube training.
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so you don't miss one of these tutorials.
So this video's really cool
because this is an idea that I actually learned
from Armando when I first met him.
When you meet other YouTubers
and you start working together,
there are things that you're doing that other people
might not be doing and it's really interesting
when something just, like, clicks
and he has a technique on how he brings
in more income through his affiliate links.
It's really cool what he's doing
and it's something that I've actually implemented
to my channel and I've seen a massive growth
in the amount of money that's coming in
through my affiliate links.
So before we get into this technique,
I just wanna introduce Armando
and what his channel's all about.
- Hey guys!
My name is Armando Ferreira.
I run a YouTube channel called Mondo Bytes
where we talk about filmmaking, tips and tricks,
a little bit of gear,
and sometimes even dabble into technology.
In order to understand how affiliate marketing works,
I think it's important to go over the basics
and that's something that Jeven will talk about right now.
- So let's talk about affiliate marketing in general.
So, what it is is basically
you are promoting other people's products
and when you do, you get a kickback.
It's super simple.
And the way it works here on YouTube
is that you use links.
So, in my description, you'll see some affiliate links.
So if I'm talking about products,
say I'm talking about the camera I'm shooting on.
I'm shooting on the GH5S right now.
What I would do is go in the description
and put a link to this camera
and when you click on that link,
I then get a kickback.
So it might be, like, 10% or 5% or 2%,
depending on whatever the company's deal is,
you get a percentage of the sale.
So because you're driving traffic to the website,
you get a kickback and this is a massive way
that you earn money here on YouTube
and it's something that you should incorporate,
no matter what type of channel that you're creating,
there's opportunities for affiliate marketing
and I guarantee, any product that you use,
there's a way to make an affiliate commission off it.
So it's something that you can integrate
into everything that you're doing
because no matter what products you're using
or what you're talking about, if you just mention something,
well you should get kickback for that
because you're the person who introduced the viewer
on the other side of the screen to that product.
So the big one YouTubers use, in general,
is Amazon affiliates, but there is a lot
of other affiliate programs out there.
You could have one for a camera company, like Adorama,
you could have one for Target,
you could have one for Walmart.
There is affiliate marketing for any website out there.
So if you drive traffic, you should get a kickback from it.
So how affiliate marketing works
is that when you go to the website
through my unique link in the description,
there's a cookie that is applied to your browser
and a cookie is a tracking link.
So basically, if you go to a website,
the cookie will stick on your page for, say, 24 hours.
So if you buy anything within that 24 hours,
I then get a kickback for any of those purchases.
This is why affiliate marketing is so powerful.
So, depending on which program you're apart of,
it could be 24 hours, it could be 72 hours,
it just depends on how long the cookie window is.
And so what that does is it allows someone
to go check out the product
and then come back later and purchase it
and you still make that affiliate commission.
However, beyond just putting a link down
in your description, there's a technique that Armando uses
that will increase the amount of sales you get.
So Armando, take it from here
and let's talk about Geniuslink.
- So Geniuslink is a powerful tool
in the sense that you can use one affiliate link
to manage multiple accounts.
So let me explain that a little bit further.
So, right now, I have different affiliate accounts
from Amazon, not only from the US, but also Canada,
Denmark, Japan and a whole bunch of other countries.
The problem is, if I start to list every affiliate account,
say, for example, I shoot with the Canon C200
and if I have one for Canada, one for Denmark,
one for Japan, it starts to look very cluttered
and also unorganized and confusing for the audience.
What if I can just put one link
and depending on where they live,
it will actually serve them the correct home address.
So for example, if somebody from Canada
clicks on that link, it will show them
the Canadian Amazon affiliate, which is much more cleaner
and also you can create, like, custom URLs,
but that's a whole different thing.
So another way that you can optimize your affiliate links
is by creating what Genius calls a choice page,
which essentially is like a landing page.
So for example, you have your Amazon affiliate,
but let's say, for example,
there's another affiliate account
that is not related to Amazon.
In my case, it's B&H Photos.
So I also have an affiliate account with B&H Photos.
So what you can do is you can create this choice page
and then, what it allows you to do
is give your audience a choice
of where they wanna buy a product.
Now, what's neat about this is,
like Jeven explained about the cookie window,
is that they're almost forced to, kinda,
click on both links,
depending on the text that you implement.
In my case, I put something like,
click here to find the lowest deal.
So as an audience, as the viewership,
if they're looking at that,
they're gonna wanna click on both links
and you have to understand, like he mentioned,
is some affiliate accounts have a 24 hour cookie window,
some of 'em have a 48 hour or even longer.
So, the fact that they're clicking on multiple links,
it just drops that cookie onto their computer
and now you have a better chance
that you'll be able to generate more income.
And this is something that I've implemented
on my channel now for over a year
and it's helped my affiliate income grow substantially
and I know that Jeven has also been doing this now
for quite some time.
- So when I first met Armando,
he showed me Geniuslinks and this was really cool.
We were just chatting about YouTube in general
and just, kind of, different strategies
each of us were using and he was talking about Geniuslink.
So, I'm glad he turned me on to this
because there's so much more potential
to earn commission sales by using Geniuslink.
Now, another tool that I wanna bring to your attention,
because we're talking about affiliate marketing,
is kit.com.
So I use kit.com and it's a great place
to house all of your products in one space
and you can create lists.
So kit.com is basically a place
where you can create, like, playlists of products.
So you can create a bucket of products
and in there, you can have all the products you use.
So for example, if you go to my kit,
I have my favorite filmmaking gear
or I have my iPhone filmmaking gear kit.
You go into that bucket and it has every product
that I would suggest you use
if you're gonna get into iPhone filmmaking
or iPhone vlogging.
Now what's really cool is that every one of these links
is an affiliate link.
So it's basically a housing of buckets of affiliate links.
And so, you can set up all of your buckets
and then from your YouTube channel,
if you're talking about, say, your vlogging gear,
you can send people to your vlogging kit on kit.com
and you have all your affiliate links in one place
so you don't have to litter your YouTube description
with all of your affiliate links.
Now something Armando does and I do, as well,
is I'll put a few links in my description,
some of the main things
that people will be interested in clicking on
and if you wanna see the rest of the gear that I use,
go to kit.com and I send 'em to my homepage
where it houses all of my kits.
So if someone wants to see my GH5 kit or my iPhone kit
or my GoPro kit, they're all there
and you can start sorting through and click around
and, you know, you can use this
as another tool for affiliate marketing.
Armando also uses kit.com
and here's his strategy when he's building out his kits.
- So my strategy with Kit is trying to build groups.
So for example, I have something like my studio setup,
which encompasses camera and gear that I use for my studio.
Then I have something like my vlog setup.
The idea is that if you create these groups,
somebody might be interested
in looking at all those products.
I even have one called best gear under $35.
So these are little knick knacks that I found
that are essential to my workflow
that are under $35 and they're all, kind of,
grouped together and that allows me to just, kinda,
place that and people can, kinda, search for that
and of course, drive affiliate income.
So hopefully these tips and tricks help you guys out
and I appreciate Jeven for having me on his channel.
- Now like I said earlier in this video,
there is an affiliate marketing program
for everything that you do.
So, any product that you talk about,
anything that you talk about in your videos
that has a product is gonna have an affiliate.
So, I highly suggest signing up for affiliate programs,
incorporating it.
It's not something where you have to be, like,
super sales-y in your videos and be like,
hey, buy this product,
but as you talk about products naturally and organically
in your videos, people are gonna be interested in 'em
and they'll wanna see more information
and potentially, they're gonna wanna buy something.
So you should have an affiliate link
so you can capture some additional income off of that
and you should use a Geniuslink
because then you can create more options
for people to choose and potentially get more sales
and that's how you can really expand
how much money you're making off affiliate marketing
and make it one of your main income revenue streams
here on the platform.
All right guys, I highly suggest going over
to Armando's channel, checking out some of his videos.
He's got some really awesome content.
And guys, that is it.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about affiliate marketing
down in the comments below.
Do you guys do affiliate marketing?
Have you been using Geniuslink or is this new to you?
I'd love to hear from you guys on your thoughts
around Geniuslink.
All right guys, I'll see you on the next one.