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Page 1: Affiliate Marketing Guide...list their products or services in Affiliate Networks. The major brands hire affiliate management companies to recruit affiliates, manage affiliate marketing

The Affiliate Marketing Guide to MakingMoney Online From SuperAffiliate.com

by Kit Elliott

AffiliateMarketing

GUIDE

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The Affiliate Marketing Guide to Making Money Online

For the month of December, we're going to focus on Affiliate

Marketing for beginners and more importantly, how to make

your first $1,000 with affiliate marketing. I've now been doing

affiliate marketing going on 15+ years and have surpassed

$10,000,000 in commissions. Let's break down how to make

money with affiliate marketing.

Before we dive in, there are two different sides to Affiliate

Marketing. For example, if you're looking to become an affiliate

and partner with different companies to earn commissions,

then you want to know what it means to join an affiliate

program, the best practices for promoting products and

services and how much you're going to get paid for doing so.

On the other side of this channel are brands that want to pay

YOU to promote their product and service. Next month, we'll

create a series about how brands can create affiliate programs

to attract super affiliates.

If you're looking to make money with affiliate marketing, then

let's get started.

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What is Affiliate Marketing?Affiliate marketing is an agreement in which an online retailer

pays commissions to an online sales agent known as affiliates.

Affiliate marketing is based on performance and commissions

are generated through a per sale or per lead arrangement.

Get to Know the Key Players in the AffiliateMarketing Business Model

 Online Retailers and Brands Online Sales Agents, Partners AKA Affiliates Affiliate Networks Affiliate Management Companies Target Audiences and Customers

The online retailers are looking for online sales agents. They

list their products or services in Affiliate Networks. The major

brands hire affiliate management companies to recruit

affiliates, manage affiliate marketing tools and pay

commissions. Affiliates market the products via blog, sales

funnels, articles, social media, solo ads or ppc advertising.

Online retailers pay affiliates a percentage or a flat fee per sale.

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Understanding the AffiliateMarketing Business ModelThe affiliate marketing business model hasn't changed much

in the past 20 years. What has changed is focus. Affiliates have

narrowed their focus to discuss relevant information regarding

their sub-niche and have deleted ANY additional/outside noise

that doesn't fit within their space. Write that down. This is

important to earning your first commission with affiliate

marketing.

How the Affiliate Biz Model Works

The affiliate business model works like this: Once you select a

niche, you'll partner with brands to promote their products and

services. They will provide you with marketing tools including

a unique affiliate link. I recommend providing as much value to

your niche's audience through channels (Blog, Social Media,

TikTok, YouTube, Podcast). Check out our How to Start a Blog

series to setup your affiliate marketing blog.

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Customers click on your recommendations through your

affiliate link. They are redirected to your brand's website.

When a customer clicks on your affiliate link, a cookie is

stored on their computer. When that same customer

purchases a product or service, the network automatically

calculates and pays you an affiliate commission.

These commissions are based on rules set by the brand for

driving that sale. They could pay you per sale, per lead or even

per display.

If you're looking for more hand-handing or on-demand

learning where you learn affiliate marketing and implement at

the same time, then, get on the waiting list for our upcoming

Unstoppable Affiliate Affiliate Marketing Training.

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How to Get Started with AffiliateMarketingBefore you get started with affiliate marketing, think about a

topic you really enjoy. Let's say you enjoy cat videos (and who

doesn't) or you enjoy knitting sweaters or doing yoga. These

are known as sub-niches. This is one of the most important

steps because you don't want to pick a topic that you dread

because you'll get bored or dread doing the day to day steps

before. This will lead to burn out & honestly, no commissions.

For me, I enjoy graphic design, teaching, cooking healthy food,

tinkering with WordPress, building membership sites, and

crafting really hot ad copy that drives traffic. That's why

teaching affiliate marketing & creating sales funnels around

my healthy cooking fitness niche is really enjoyable. That's

why I've been active full-time doing this for going on 20 years.

Wouldn't you love to get paid around what youenjoy doing?

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The Most Profitable, Most Popular Affiliate Nichesto Make Money Online

1. The Lose Weight Niche

2. The Health Niche

3. The Tech and Gadgets Niche

4. The Dating Niche

5. How to Manage Your Money Niche

6. The Animal Niche

7. How to Invest Money Niche

8. The Self-Help Niche

9. How to Make Money Niche

10. The Beauty Niche

These niches appeal to people's needs, wants, fears and goals. If

you can give people what they need, what they want, solve their

fear and help them conquer new goals within these niches,

then, you can make a full-time income with affiliate marketing.

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I’m going to say something that might surprise you. If you can

make $1000 in affiliate commissions, then you have the tools

and know-how needed to make $100,000. So what do you need

to do to make that first $1000? Let's get started…

How to Pick a Product Inside Affiliate Network

If you want to hit the ground running, then you need to

promote in-demand products that people are already buying.

Here’s how to do that:

Run a search for your keywords that fall within your niche in

marketplaces like

Amazon.com

and

ClickBank.com.

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The bestsellers in your niche will generally appear at the top of

the list. Amazon even shows you the sales rank. Meanwhile,

ClickBank will show you seller stats, including “gravity,” which

shows you how many affiliates have sold the product in the past

three months. Gravity is simply the number of affiliates who

have earned affiliate commissions for that product or service.

The higher the gravity, the more affiliates are earning

commission.

Beware of the internet marketing niche because the higher

gravity could mean affiliates buying through their own link.

Gravity is not a true indicator for conversions.

 Check what the top sites in your niche are selling.Just run a search for your keywords in Google,and see which products are popular acrossmultiple sites. Chances are, these products haveaffiliate programs. Check your competition. Be very careful with thisone because I have fallen into the trap ofassuming that products and services are goodbecause of a well-crafted blog article, but youcan still check your competition to get ideas onwhat to promote within your own niche.

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What are the Most PopularAffiliate NetworksIf you're looking for products within your niche, these are the

most popular affiliate networks.

Share a Sale

Amazon Affiliate Program

Clickbank

Rakuten

Avangate

Flex Offers

Avantlink

eBay Partner Network

My goal in 2020 is to create a stand alone directory for affiliate

networks so you can find your products fast within that

directory. Some of the challenges affiliate marketers face is

finding quality products to promote with converting sales

pages in place. Let's tackle that issue in 2020.

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How to Determine the Products toPromoteReview the sales page to be sure it looks professional. You may

even ask the vendor about conversion statistics.

TIP: If the product is really good but the sales page stinks, there

may be ways to work around this. I've created my own sales

page and then linked directly to the order form. Another work

around is to work with the vendor to get a personalized landing

page up with better copy. Finally, solid preselling may help you

overcome a poor sales page.

Purchase the product and carefully examine the ordering

process. You want to make sure affiliate cookies (tracking for

your unique referral link) stay intact.

Check the sales page for leaks, such as links to other products

or even other payment methods for which you won’t get credit.

Review and use the product to be sure it is a solid product,

something which you’ll be proud to promote.

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Chances are, as you do all this research you’re going to find

multiple products you’d like to promote. Which leads us to the

next step…

How to Select Additional Backend Offers

Here’s one of the keys to making those first $1000 in

commissions: create a sales funnel of affiliate offers, rather

than selling just one affiliate offer. So while you’re finding and

reviewing products, pick several products that are highly

related to each other.

Here’s what your affiliate marketing sales funnel will look like:

Entry by way of a free lead magnet. This could be presented

within a blog post or a stand alone lead capture page.

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A low cost, high value offer to turn browsers into buyers (this is

your “tripwire” product that will be from $7 to $20). This works

well for a coaching program but remember, if you already have

built in the presell with your audience then you don't need a

tripwire – they are pre-sold. For example, a few of my clients

have a built-in audience through their podcast. When people

have listened to most of their episodes, they come in with their

credit cards, ready to buy. They don't need a tripwire.

Higher ticket core offer (e.g., $497 price tag, $1997, $5997,

$20,000). This works very well for group coaching.

Assorted other backend products. This could include

membership sites, high-end offers, services and more.

Assorted bonus products to add value to every affiliate offer

you promote. This will boost conversions, build loyalty and

improve customer satisfaction.

Example: You’re promoting a blogging plugin. You can offer

free installation and customization to anyone who purchases

the plugin through your affiliate link.

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Funnel Example: you offer a sales letter template as a lead

magnet. You promote a copywriting overview course as the

tripwire low-cost product. You promote an in-depth

copywriting course as the main offer. On the backend you sell

an assortment of affiliate offers including additional

copywriting instruction, sales copy templates, copywriting

services, and copywriting apps.

Your goal is to bring prospects into your affiliate marketing

sales funnel, build relationships with them, turn them into

buyers, and then turn them into repeat buyers. Which brings

us to the next step…

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Create a Lead-Generation SystemAround Your OffersNow you need to put together the following pieces:

Design your lead page. For design help, check

Lead Pages

. They have ready to go landing pages, capture pages with built-

in tracking. You could also use the free page builder Elementor

that I recommend in our

How to Start a Blog for Affiliate Marketing

series.

Create a lead magnet that’s directly related to the tripwire

product in your

affiliate marketing sales funnel.

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Promote the tripwire at the end of the lead magnet. Your lead

magnet may take the form of:

 Report or ebook. Video. Audio. Gear list. Worksheet. Checklist. Templates. Cheat sheets. Planners / calendars. Mind maps. Webinar (or replay). App.

… Or any other similarly valuable and useful product.

TIP: Create a lead magnet that your prospects will refer to

often, like a checklist. That way, they’ll see your links and calls

to action often !

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Create an autoresponder series that’s purpose is to close the

sale on the tripwire product. For example, if the tripwire

product is a copywriting course, then you might create an

autoresponder series that shares five sales tactics and how to

use them. Every email would include useful info plus a pitch for

the paid offer.

Final step…

Drive Traffic and Build Relationships

At this point you’ve set up an affiliate marketing system where

people enter your sales funnel by requesting your lead magnet,

you turn them into buyers with a “no brainer” tripwire offer,

and then you sell more products (and more expensive

products) on the backend.

Your next step is to send traffic to your lead page.

Examples of Affiliate Marketing Traffic Techniques

Focus on this strategy until you have traffic coming in

regularly.

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The four most used traffic strategies by affiliate marketers are:

1. Pay Per Click (via Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Bing)

2. Social Media (via Groups and Fanpages)

3. Social Media (via Entertainment on TikTok, SnapChat &

YouTube)

4. SEO (getting ranked for people searching for their problems)

Purchase advertising. You can also buy ads or solo emails

through niche sites directly, or use platforms like Facebook

Ads and Google Adwords to find a targeted audience.

How to Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Business

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 Do something every day to get new traffic to youraffiliate marketing lead capture page or affiliatemarketing blog. Focus on solving your subscribers’ problems. Thisbuilds liking, trust and familiarity, which make itmore likely they’ll purchase your affiliate offers. Add new offers to your sales funnel frequently.That way even long-term subscribers will havesomething new to buy from you. Create multiple mailing lists. Once a prospect haspurchased something through your affiliate link,tag them to a customer mailing list so that youcan start promoting your other offers. Segment your audience with tags. Get clever withyour email marketing. Tag people who click linksto let you know they are interested in differenttopics. That way – you can email specific content& offers to that segment.

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Affiliate Disclaimers for YourWebsiteWhen the FTC started requiring disclosing relationships,

many affiliates thought that sales would drop. The opposite is

true. People trust you more & will buy BECAUSE you get the

commission.

A disclosure for your website is a statement that informs your

readers that you have an affiliate relationship with certain

brands and they pay you a commission. Before you start

reading any blog post, you will see a full disclosure below the

title of every single blog post.

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You can easily find privacy policy generators, affiliate

disclaimer examples and terms of use created by attorneys for

you. For this, I recommend using the Website Policies to create

your Affiliate Disclaimers and Disclosures.

You can create a more thorough, lengthy affiliate disclosure

and put it on its own separate page, but this can’t be the only

way your disclosure is made available to your users.

It’s not clear and conspicuous enough.

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If you receive any form of compensation for affiliate links or

relationships on your website or blog, you need to:

 Disclose the affiliate relationship that lets yourusers know about this compensation Place this disclosure in a clear, easy to read wayon your website.

This will keep you compliant with the FTC, with third-party

affiliate programs, and will help earn trust of your users by

being transparent and open about any financial gains from

your blog.

Affiliate Marketing SummaryYour first $1000 in commissions is easier than you think. To

recap, here are the three steps to earning affiliate

commissions:

Create an

affiliate marketing sales funnel

with a lead magnet, tripwire, core offer and multiple backend

offers.

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Craft a lead generation system with a lead magnet, lead page

and autoresponder.

Pick ONE traffic source, master it, and then add another

source.

And yes, it really is that simple.

Have anything to add or want to share with thecommunity? Leave a comment at our blog here…

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 How to Start a Blog How to Find Profitable Niches Affiliate Marketing Strategy from 2009 that StillWork s

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How to Start aProfitable Blog

Are you looking to make money doing what you love.  I recommend starting a

blog and sharing this with the rest of the world.  You can make money with

affiliate marketing by recommending products and services (just like in this

guide).

Let me show you how to get setup and start a profitable blog in the next 10

minutes.  Click here for our How to Start a Profitable Blog guide.