5 Affiliate Marketing Secrets For Success
You may have been working on your affiliate marketing business for a while, but you are yet to see a lot of success.
Maybe you haven’t even made a commission yet?
It’s frustrating, right?
Maybe you even feel like giving up?
Don’t be too hasty, just yet!
The concept of affiliate marketing (selling other people’s products to receive a commision) may be simple, but it’s not necessarily easy!
Not unless you know some affiliate marketing secrets.
In this post, I am going to share with you 5 simple, PROVEN secrets that “crack the code” of affiliate marketing!
Secret #1 “Choose” Your Niche…
When people first start out learning about affiliate marketing, the most common advice I always hear is that you need to “pick” a niche… BUT, I like to look at it from a slightly different angle and actively CHOOSE a niche…
Sounds similar?
Let me explain…
Everything starts with the three big markets…
Health…
Wealth…
And Relationships…
So, in the Wealth market, you can chunk it down further to a niche… for example, real estate, share trading, or the make money online niche… but the trouble with “picking a niche” is this is where most people stop…
The make money online niche, in particular, is a very crowded market and is in what I call a “red ocean”… It’s overcrowded and filled with too many sharks, bloodying up the water…
What’s needed is to break it down further to a sub-niche in a less crowded “blue ocean”
For example, we can break down, Wealth > Real Estate > Renovations
Wealth > Online Business > Facebook Ads
Wealth > Online Business > Selling on Amazon
Or in my case Wealth > Online Business > Affiliate Marketing
So here, we are actively “choosing” our niche in a less crowded blue ocean.
But here, I also like to take it one step further and build out of our sub-niche our own personal brand.
For myself I have created a brand around The Financial Freedom Warrior and the Residual Profit Secrets – essentially creating financial freedom with residual income by affiliate marketing.
I have found that the people that take the time to invest in their own personal brand are the ones really knocking it out of the park!
So what can be your blue ocean?
Secret #2 Crafting your affiliate offer
There are plenty of quality affiliate offers to promote, but what will incentivize people to click on your offer rather than directly from the vendor?
I always recommend that you make your affiliate offer AT LEAST 10% better than what the vendor is offering…
It could be as simple as offering a free eBook or cheat sheet, or a video walkthrough… or even a skype or zoom call.
You can start with something simple and build it out over time…
Quite often, people will buy through your link just because of the bonuses you offer.
Once you have your offer crafted then you will need to set up a simple funnel to collect people’s email address so you can deliver their bonuses.
This can be easily done with a software called Clickfunnels.
Secret #3 Choose your traffic source
Once you have crafted your affiliate offer and set up your squeeze page and funnel, then you need to send traffic to your offer…
This can be done organically (free) by blogging, SEO, YouTube, using social media, Facebook lives, and messenger…
Paid traffic is much quicker though, and you can do this with Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Bing Ads and YouTube Ads…
For the “make money online” niche, however, I recommend starting by running Solo Ads… This is where you pay someone with a big email list to send your offer out to their audience…
You pay for each click so you’re guaranteed to know up front exactly how many people are going to see your offer. (If people don’t click – you don’t pay.)
I use and recommend a marketplace with tons of different solo ad providers called Udimi for my solo ads.
Secret #4 Follow up via email
The money is in the list!
You may have heard this, right?
In the marketing world, it is often said that a prospect has to see your offer seven times before a sale is made…
This is why it is SO important to capture people’s email address…
Then you can continue to follow up with helpful content and other relevant offers for as long as they continue to subscribe and you can build out the lifetime value of each customer.
A general rule is that each email subscriber on your list is worth around a dollar a month, so it is vital that you always continue to build out your list and follow up…
I use and recommend Aweber as my autoresponder for sending out my emails…
Step #5 Track everything
This is an often overlooked, but vital part of affiliate marketing success, especially when using paid traffic.
In the past, I have received commissions, but I wasn’t sure where they were coming from so I couldn’t scale…
It was a bit like throwing crap up against the wall and seeing what sticks!
Once I started using ClickMagick to track where my sales were coming from (and where they weren’t) and figure out my cost per email optin, I could quickly work out where to scale my campaigns.
I could no longer worry about getting sales from the front end because as long as I was following up with offers to my email list, the lifetime value of my customer was growing…
Tracking everything like a science like this is what separates the amateurs from the professionals…
Those that can afford to spend the most to acquire a customer wins!
Bonus: Residual Profit Secrets Business in a Box
As a bonus for reading this far through this article, I’m going to give you a done-for-you affiliate marketing business in a box for free!
Done for you as in turn-key, plug-and-play and ready to earn… I’m going to give you the product, the funnel, the emails, the traffic source AND the training… If you haven’t started earning money online yet, or you’re not happy with how much you’re earning, I’m giving you a complete system (one that I’m currently using to earn passive income online) where you can follow these 5 affiliate marketing secrets for success!
So I hope that sounds exciting to you because it is for me!
Let ME, help YOU, get success online!
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To your freedom,
John W. Newman
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