Get Started – Affiliate Marketing For Beginners
Introduction
Getting Started – Affiliate Marketing Strategies
The first thing you must do is get started in affiliate marketing if you are still on the fence. In the past few years, I have generate handsome profits in affiliate marketing commissions, and these are the things I would do if I was starting over in 2024, and I wanted to hit that number again, I would follow the rule of ones religiously. This is the rule where you only pick one traffic Source. You pick one lead magnet and you pick one product to promote, and this is the only thing you promote in the beginning. You focus on one. When I first started, I was using Social Media.
I was putting out YouTube videos. I was promoting 40 different products and I thought it was great, but I wasn’t making any money as soon as you start focusing and you follow the rule of ones. You will see massive results and you will see that your skill level in each of those one thing goes up exponentially once I’d set up the rule of ones and I’d pick the one of everything that I wanted to focus on, I would follow it for 6 Months, I would commit to doing that traffic source and that lead magnet and that product for 6 months without changing.
When I first started, I bounced around a million different times between things, thinking that they didn’t work, even though I’d only given them a month or or so of effort. You will do significantly better if you focus for 6 months and give something a real chance, because it’s not in the first 3 months when you really start to master something it’s in the next 3 months.
Affiliate Marketing – Where Focus Goes Energy Flows
I would focus everything on building a list, including email addresses. First names and phone numbers because when I first started I did not get anything but an email address. It is very hard to personalize emails and get in inboxes and get people to read your emails when you don’t have a name associated with it. But as soon as you have a first name, you can personalize and say: hey (first name). How are you doing today and your emails. Become much more personal and you can sell a lot easier with your emails.
I also came to realize that emails only have a 20 to 30 % open rate, but you can send texts and get almost a 90 to 95 % open rate. So when you’re promoting a product, it’s much easier and you can make a lot more money. If you have both an email address and a phone number that you can send out messaging to, I would choose a niche. That’s in an exciting growth opportunity phase and what I mean by that is you don’t want to choose a niche or a product or anything like that. That’s been around for a long long long time.
Get Started in Affiliate Marketing And Grow
The reason for that is when I first got started the very first Channel that I started to do on YouTube was actually in the Dog Care space and I had terrible videos to be frank, really bad videos, bad audio, bad editing. Just kind of like me sharing my screen talking about stuff way. Overthinking it way over talking it everything you could think of was not good about my videos, but I blew up almost every video did extremely extremely well, and that’s because that was in 2017. That’s when crypto was brand. New people were just starting to talk about it.
Over the you know, Thanksgiving table and things like that, and so there was a lot of conversation going on about this new thing called Dog Care. But in addition to that, there wasn’t nearly as much competition as there is now in the Dig care space right, because this was a new thing. There wasn’t nearly as many channels about it. There wasn’t nearly as many videos about it, not every little video had 4,000. You know different videos that were trying to Target one keyword.
Less Competition – More Affiliate Marketing Success
There was just a lot more space for me to create content and a lot less competition for me to create that content against, and because of that, I was able to do very well, despite not being a great content creator. In that space, I would focus on building a personal brand that set me apart from everyone else. I’m a traveler, I’m a sports person, I’m a family person.
All of those things are things that I can show to set me apart and to make me different and unique and show people who I really am as a person. I was hesitant in the beginning to build a personal brand, but you will find that as soon as you build a personal brand around your affiliate business, where you’re no longer just a business, emailing people and talking to people you’re a person they can connect to you and when people connect to you they buy from you, I would focus all of my time and all of my effort on building an audience through creating content.
So creating content does great at building an audience, but what it really does well is it helps you build an audience that trusts. You know you and likes you. It’s also going to give you three really important things as you’re growing your affiliate marketing business and the first one is instant Authority.
Finding Your Audience in Affiliate Marketing
Okay, this is an authority that will come whenever you talk to anybody if you’ve managed to build up an audience and build up a group of people following you, you have instant Authority on on that subject matter and one of the cool things about that instant Authority.
You’re going to find that you have a lot of confidence you’re going to find that when you teach and when you talk about it, you do so with a lot more confidence, because you have real people following you to learn from you about that.
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You’ll also find that having an audience will help you build leverage with affiliate programs, and you have this instant leverage. When you join any affiliate program where you can ask for things that other people couldn’t ask for, because you’re coming in already with an audience and the last most important thing having an audience, is it’s going to? Let you pivot around a little bit, it’s going to. Let you change affiliate programs.
Persistence is Key in Affiliate Marketing
If something goes wrong with the one that you’re currently promoting it’s going to let you change niches, even if you want to change to a niche, that’s similar. If you have an audience, you’re able to do so much more and change direction so much easier because you already have a group of people that know you and like you, and really want to know what you have to say. I would choose affiliate programs for products that I like love and Trust. At this point, I won’t promote a product that I wouldn’t happily tell my own mother to buy.
In the beginning, I just focused on promoting stuff that had high conversion rates that I knew I could get a lot of sales on thanks to the 100k Alliance. This is not a long-term game plan for an affiliate marketer. Apply the mother test and only promote something that you would be happy if your own mother purchased through your affiliate link.
I would also focus on newer products things that hadn’t been around for very long you’ll, find that there’s a lot more excitement and a lot more trending things going on around brand new products, and if you promote brand new products, it tends to be much easier, as people are much more willing to listen for something they’ve never heard before.
I would change my mindset so I learned to level up without getting stuck in the trap of comparing my myself to bigger affiliate, marketers and people that have been there for a long time, and what I mean by that is this is a long term game.
Content Creation
Your first few pieces of content that you do in this are going to be terrible, that’s just how it works, so I would learn how to review everything I did and make the next thing a little bit better.
Every YouTube video a little bit better and if you keep doing that by your 200, 300 400th YouTube video, you will be making incredible content, but as part of that growth process, there’s going to be hail, storms, wind storms, there’s going to be entire months and periods of winter, where nothing seems to be going good, but that’s part of this growth process and as part of that you’ve got to not compare yourself to the big trees, while you’re still a seed right.
When you come out of the ground, you can’t be looking at the big, huge Forest around you and thinking. Why are they better than me? Well, they’re better than you, because they’ve been doing it for 150 200 years, they’ve been growing, but you can get just where they are.
You Are More Than Enough
You’ve got the same potential as all these other people. You just have to put in the time that everyone else has put in to get there. I would join communities masterminds and events so that I could connect with people that were just like me, so that we could help each other not quit when the times get hard. And honestly, I would go the extra mile and I would try to find a partner if you can find a partner.
You will find that you can push each other much harder than you could ever push yourself if you’re alone and if you’re not able to find a partner, hire someone and give them a salary.
Nothing pushes you through hard times more than knowing that you are paying someone’s salary and you need to keep trying and pushing, and I would never ever quit because I want this, and I know that affiliate marketing is not a game for quitters or people. A short-term Vision, it’s for people that can try and try and try again until they start winning
All the best from Kevin Clarke and the 100k Alliance team.
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