3 Simple Steps To Making Money As An Affiliate

Welcome to my guide on how to make money as an affiliate. I’m going to break down the 5 easy to follow steps to making money as an affiliate.

Step 1 – Finding Your Target Audience

Whether you’re looking to promote something in the health and fitness niche, the real estate niche, the online marketing niche, vegan niche, etc etc. You need to find out if people are actually searching online for what it is you have to sell them! Because without people looking online for what you have to sell, you’re not going to sell much. So the first thing we need to do is to find your target audience.

We do this by using Google’s “Keyword Planner” tool (https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner).

Step 2. Finding The Perfect Product

Step 3 – Creating A Killer Sales Funnel

Okay, so at this point we have identified an audience with a problem or desire and we have an offer to promote to them. Awesome.

Next (and this is the most important piece that most people do wrong or completely skip altogether and fail) we need to create what’s called a Sales Funnel. This enables us to sell as much of this product as possible, almost on complete autopilot. 

Here’s the Blueprint for creating your Sales Funnel:

If this doesn’t make sense to you right now, don’t worry I got you.

Lets break this image down:

The circle “Audience” above represents the audience we’ve identified, now noticed how inside of that audience is an image labeled “Ad”.

This represents the advertisement that we’ll deliver to that audience (We’ll get to that part next).

When someone clicks on our ads online they’re going to be taken over to what call in the online marketing world a “Squeeze Page” (as seen in the Blueprint above).

What is a “Squeeze Page”?

Good question.

A Squeeze Page is a  basic website that we’ll use to capture the visitors email address (we’ll example why in just a moment).

This simple website (squeeze page) pre-frames the offer and gives the visitor an incentive to hand over their email address to you.

For example, if we were to run this weight loss campaign our Squeeze Page headline might say something like…

Free Video Reveals…
How To Lose 10 Pounds of Belly Fat In The Next 10 Days
Without Giving Up The Food You Love!

Enter Your Email Address Below To Get Instant Access…

If goes without saying that we’d only use a headline if the offer can actually fulfill that promise which means doing a bit of research on your end first to see if the product can deliver that. (NOTE: Never lie in your marketing, it ruins the industry and make you look bad).

If the person who clicked on our advertisement is series enough about getting the results you’re offering them, then they’ll likely enter their email address to get the free video / more information.

What is an Autoresponder?

Without boring you with the technical stuff, simple put an Autoresponder is an email marketing database. When someone enters their email for on your Squeeze Page to get more information on the offer we’re promoting, it will capture that email address and it allows us to send more marketing material to that prospect via email.

Here’s the cool part, it’s called an “Autoresponder” because it emails the visitor automatically for you. (How cool is that?)

Think about this for a moment…

The chances of someone landing on the sales page for the affiliate offer you’re promoting and deciding to buy right there on the spot is pretty slim right?

I mean how often do you stumble upon an offer online and instantly pull out your credit card to buy it right there on the spot?

Let me guess, not often, right?

Well, the same is true for almost everyone else online. Minus a few exceptions.

So, by capturing that prospect’s email address, we now have the ability to follow up with them via email, all on autopilot. This gives us multiple opportunities to present the offer to the prospect and get the sale.

In other words, before we ever place the Advertisement for this offer, we’ve already created a series of 7 – 1o simple emails in the autoresponder that will go out to the prospect’s everyday for the next 7 – 10 days after someone enters their email for more information about the offer you’re promoting. (Don’t worry this is really easy to set up)

Those emails might contain:
– Testimonials from people who’s tried the offer
– More in depth information about the offer
– Objection handlers
– Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
– Bonus’ and incentives for them buying through your link
– Etc etc…

In every one of those emails, not matter what the content, we always have a link that will go back to the affiliate offer’s sales page, giving the prospect another chance to purchase…

… and when they finally do purchase, we get paid a commission!

Summary:

As stated at the start of this post, there’s obviously a lot more to this than I can possibly convey in a simple blog post…

… which is why most of our readers choose to Click Here And Register For Our Free Online Training Workshop where we can better teach you how to implement all of this.