Affiliate Marketing Tutorial For Beginners 2024 (Step by Step)



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  • 0:00 | Hey, everyone. Welcome
    back to another video.
  • 0:02 | In today’s video, I’m
    going to be walking you
  • 0:04 | through step-by-step a full
    affiliate marketing tutorial.
  • 0:07 | So by the end of this video,
    you will know everything
  • 0:10 | you need to know about affiliate marketing
  • 0:12 | to start the business for yourself.
  • 0:14 | Now, this is going to
    be one of those videos
  • 0:15 | that moves at a rather quick pace,
  • 0:17 | but it’s going to go through
    everything in detail.
  • 0:19 | There’s going to be a lot
    of high-value information
  • 0:21 | in this video, totally
    for free here on YouTube.
  • 0:24 | And what’s going to make this one unique
  • 0:26 | is that I’m going to take you
    through on screen recording
  • 0:28 | on my computer and show you real examples
  • 0:30 | and show you things on my screen
  • 0:31 | so that you can see what
    this looks like in practice.
  • 0:33 | Now, before we get into this
    video, if you don’t know me,
  • 0:36 | just to give you some credibility,
  • 0:37 | my name is Greg Gottfried.
  • 0:38 | I’ve been making videos here on YouTube
  • 0:40 | for a couple years now,
    and I’ve been doing
  • 0:42 | affiliate marketing for
    a couple years as well.
  • 0:44 | I learned how to do affiliate
    marketing kind of the hard way
  • 0:47 | before there was much information on it.
  • 0:49 | So I learned a lot of
    things from trial and error.
  • 0:51 | That’s what I’m going to
    share with you in this video.
  • 0:53 | A lot of the things that
    I’ve learned in the process
  • 0:55 | still are not common knowledge.
  • 0:56 | They’re not shared very
    commonly on YouTube
  • 0:58 | or anywhere else where you learn
  • 1:00 | how to do affiliate marketing.
  • 1:01 | So I think I have some
    very unique things to bring
  • 1:03 | to the table, and I think you’re
    going to get value from it.
  • 1:05 | Now, with all of that being said,
  • 1:07 | I do wanna spend a little bit
    of time in the beginning here
  • 1:09 | to go over affiliate marketing so that,
  • 1:11 | as we get into real examples of this
  • 1:13 | and different strategies
    and how you can do it,
  • 1:15 | you have a great
    understanding of why these
  • 1:17 | different strategies work and
    why some of them don’t work
  • 1:20 | because you understand the concept
  • 1:22 | of affiliate marketing very well.
  • 1:23 | Now, after breaking
    down the business model
  • 1:25 | of affiliate marketing,
    then I’ll break down
  • 1:27 | some of these strategies that you can use
  • 1:29 | to do affiliate marketing.
  • 1:30 | You’ll see the pros and cons
    to these different avenues
  • 1:33 | of doing affiliate marketing,
    and you can see which one
  • 1:35 | you would be the most comfortable doing
  • 1:37 | based on what skills you already have.
  • 1:39 | Now, when it comes to
    the different strategies
  • 1:41 | for affiliate marketing, in
    this video I’m going to share
  • 1:44 | with you the most basic
    affiliate marketing strategies
  • 1:46 | that would be the easiest for a beginner,
  • 1:48 | and I’ll work my way all the way up
  • 1:49 | to the most advanced
    strategies just so you know
  • 1:52 | what’s out there and you
    know the different ways
  • 1:54 | that you could do this business.
  • 1:55 | So sit back, relax, this
    should be a very helpful video.
  • 1:58 | And if you have any
    questions along the way
  • 2:00 | that aren’t covered in this video,
  • 2:01 | just let me know down in the comments.
  • 2:03 | So first things first,
  • 2:04 | let’s break down what
    is affiliate marketing.
  • 2:06 | And I wanna break it down in a
    way that’s actually relatable
  • 2:09 | and what affiliate marketing really is,
  • 2:11 | not the complicated explanation of it.
  • 2:13 | So in the simplest terms,
    what affiliate marketing means
  • 2:16 | is you partner with a company,
  • 2:18 | they give you a unique referral link,
  • 2:20 | you then share that
    link with other people,
  • 2:22 | and when anyone clicks on that link
  • 2:24 | and makes a purchase from that company,
  • 2:26 | you get paid a commission on that sale.
  • 2:28 | Now, you may be wondering,
  • 2:29 | “What is a commission on the
    sale, what does that mean?”
  • 2:32 | Well, this will vary
    for different companies.
  • 2:34 | So for instance, you may get
    25% of however much money
  • 2:37 | they spent at the company,
  • 2:39 | or you might just get a flat rate.
  • 2:40 | So you might get something like $50
  • 2:42 | for any time anyone makes
    a purchase of a product.
  • 2:45 | So essentially you are a
    commission-based salesman
  • 2:48 | for a company, but the
    beauty of affiliate marketing
  • 2:51 | is that a ton of big companies out there,
  • 2:54 | almost every big company
    has an affiliate program,
  • 2:57 | and they’re all free to
    join, no strings attached.
  • 3:00 | You don’t have to actually be
    an employee for that company.
  • 3:02 | It’s basically like a
    freelancer where anyone can join
  • 3:05 | for free and then they get
    their unique referral link,
  • 3:07 | and if they don’t generate any
    sales, they don’t get paid,
  • 3:10 | no harm, no foul.
  • 3:11 | But if they do generate sales,
  • 3:12 | they’ll just get paid
    out their commissions.
  • 3:13 | So I’ll start with a couple examples here
  • 3:15 | to show you what this looks
    like in the real world.
  • 3:17 | So starting with a
    company called Best Buy,
  • 3:19 | which is a big electronic store
  • 3:21 | that you can physically walk
    into here in the United States,
  • 3:23 | if you go to their homepage
    and you scroll all the way
  • 3:25 | to the bottom, you’ll see that they have
  • 3:28 | all these different buttons
    that go to like Contact Us
  • 3:30 | or different places on their website.
  • 3:32 | Almost every big company
    out there has a button
  • 3:35 | that says Affiliate Program.
  • 3:36 | So all you have to do
    is click on this button,
  • 3:38 | and you can literally join their
    affiliate program for free.
  • 3:41 | You literally just click Sign Up,
  • 3:43 | fill out a little bit of
    information about yourself,
  • 3:45 | and they will give you
    your unique referral link
  • 3:47 | that you can start sharing with people
  • 3:48 | and automatically getting commissions
  • 3:50 | on anything that they purchase.
  • 3:51 | So that’s one example
    that would be Best Buy
  • 3:53 | that’s kind of a big box in-person store.
  • 3:56 | But once you get into affiliate marketing,
  • 3:58 | you’ll find that there are
    even better affiliate programs
  • 4:00 | that you can join.
  • 4:01 | I’ll talk on this a little bit
    more as we get further along.
  • 4:03 | But an example of this would be Amazon.
  • 4:05 | So if you go to Amazon,
    scroll to the bottom,
  • 4:09 | as you can see right here,
    they have Become an Affiliate.
  • 4:11 | And then the same concept here,
  • 4:12 | you just hit Sign Up and then
    you can create an account
  • 4:15 | and you can be an affiliate for Amazon.
  • 4:17 | Now, what’s cool about this is
    when you join these programs,
  • 4:19 | you can get unique referral
    links to any product
  • 4:22 | that that company sells.
  • 4:23 | So when you think about Amazon,
  • 4:25 | Amazon sells so many different products.
  • 4:27 | So you could literally be an affiliate
  • 4:28 | for any different hobby
    or passion that you have,
  • 4:31 | any different topic, any niche,
  • 4:33 | all through the Amazon affiliate program.
  • 4:34 | Now, one more to show you
    before we keep moving on here,
  • 4:37 | this is a more unique one, and
    as we get further into this,
  • 4:40 | you’ll start to see why I’m showing you
  • 4:41 | some of these obscure companies.
  • 4:43 | So this for instance is a
    website called Bluehost.
  • 4:46 | Bluehost is one of the biggest
    online software products.
  • 4:50 | It’s basically, if you wanna
    create a website online,
  • 4:53 | most of the times you’re
    going to be using a host,
  • 4:56 | basically someone to
    make your website live,
  • 4:58 | and Bluehost is one of the
    biggest ones out there.
  • 5:00 | So with that being said, you
    scroll to the bottom here
  • 5:03 | and you can see again,
    they have Affiliates.
  • 5:05 | So you might see that it
    says Affiliate Program,
  • 5:07 | it might say Affiliates, it
    might say Referral Program.
  • 5:09 | We’re looking for something like that.
  • 5:11 | But you click on here, and same concept,
  • 5:13 | you click the button to join now
  • 5:14 | and you can get your unique referral link.
  • 5:16 | And this is a case where
    they’re paying a flat rate
  • 5:18 | instead of a commission,
    and I’ll show you why.
  • 5:20 | This is actually really
    cool before we move on.
  • 5:22 | So you’ll see here it says you’ll get $65
  • 5:24 | for each signup or referral.
  • 5:26 | So every time you send them a buyer,
  • 5:27 | you’re getting $65 as
    a flat rate commission.
  • 5:30 | But what I love about this
  • 5:31 | and what starts to get really
    cool in affiliate marketing
  • 5:34 | is that, if you go to one
    of their products here,
  • 5:36 | if you were to refer someone
    over here on your link
  • 5:39 | and they go ahead and they say,
  • 5:40 | “Okay, I wanna start with this plan,
  • 5:41 | this is the cheapest
    hosting that they have.”
  • 5:43 | So what’s awesome about
    this is that the person
  • 5:45 | that you referred here can
    literally spend $35.40,
  • 5:49 | they can check out, and
    then you are going to get
  • 5:51 | a $65 commission.
  • 5:53 | It seems kind of weird
    when you’re just hearing
  • 5:55 | about affiliate marketing,
    how this can happen.
  • 5:57 | How can someone spend $35,
    and then the company Bluehost
  • 6:00 | is going to pay you a $65 commission?
  • 6:02 | Well, the reason for that is
    something like website hosting,
  • 6:06 | traditionally speaking,
    when someone signs up
  • 6:08 | to have their website
    hosted with a company,
  • 6:10 | they typically keep their
    hosting with that company
  • 6:12 | for three to five-plus years.
  • 6:14 | So Bluehost is going to get that $35
  • 6:17 | over and over and over again,
  • 6:19 | and they only have to pay us the $65 once.
  • 6:21 | So it’s kind of like a win-win.
  • 6:24 | Someone only has to
    spend $35 and then you,
  • 6:26 | for sending them there, is
    going to get a $65 commission.
  • 6:29 | So I just wanted to show you that,
  • 6:31 | just a couple different
    examples of affiliate programs
  • 6:33 | before we start getting
    into different strategies
  • 6:36 | and moving on from here.
  • 6:37 | Okay, so before we get
    into these strategies,
  • 6:39 | a couple little rapid-fire,
    frequently-asked questions
  • 6:42 | that are probably going to
    be really helpful for you
  • 6:44 | if you’re just getting into this business.
  • 6:46 | So the first question here is do you need
  • 6:48 | any prior experience if
    you’re going to start
  • 6:50 | affiliate marketing today?
  • 6:52 | The short answer here is no.
  • 6:54 | There are so many different
    routes or avenues,
  • 6:56 | different ways that you
    can do affiliate marketing,
  • 6:58 | that even if you’re starting
    as a complete beginner,
  • 7:00 | you’ve never had an
    online business before,
  • 7:02 | you can start today and
    you can have success.
  • 7:05 | Another fun fact about this,
  • 7:06 | while we’re talking about getting started,
  • 7:08 | affiliate marketing is 100% free to start.
  • 7:11 | As you can see with
    these different programs,
  • 7:12 | you can join the programs
    totally for free.
  • 7:15 | And then the different
    ways that I’ll show you,
  • 7:16 | you can do the marketing
    to get people to click
  • 7:18 | on your links for free as well.
  • 7:20 | Okay, the next question,
    if you are to start
  • 7:22 | affiliate marketing today,
  • 7:23 | how soon can you start making money?
  • 7:25 | Now, this is going to depend on your pace
  • 7:27 | of how quickly you are
    creating marketing content
  • 7:30 | and sharing that online, but I would say
  • 7:32 | that it’s safe to say that
    you should start making money
  • 7:34 | from this in the same
    month that you start.
  • 7:37 | This is not one of those
    business models where you start
  • 7:39 | and you have to wait
    and wait and wait a year
  • 7:41 | until you start making any money.
  • 7:43 | This is one of those business models
  • 7:44 | where you can start seeing
    results very quickly.
  • 7:47 | So if you are someone who’s in a position
  • 7:49 | where you want to start an online business
  • 7:51 | but you don’t really know
    if it’s going to work yet,
  • 7:53 | this would be one that I
    would recommend starting.
  • 7:55 | And then within a month,
    you’re going to see
  • 7:56 | that it’s starting to work,
    and basically you can then
  • 7:58 | just start working on it
    more and more and putting out
  • 8:00 | more content and then you’ll
    start making more income.
  • 8:03 | Okay, another really common question here
  • 8:05 | is how do you get paid?
  • 8:06 | So how do these companies,
  • 8:08 | when you join their affiliate programs,
  • 8:09 | how do they pay you your commissions?
  • 8:11 | Well, there’s a couple different ways.
  • 8:12 | I would say the two most
    common ways are PayPal.
  • 8:15 | So if you have a PayPal account already,
  • 8:17 | you can literally just send the companies
  • 8:19 | your email address to your PayPal account.
  • 8:21 | And then typically every
    month at the end of the month,
  • 8:24 | for whatever sales that you sent them
  • 8:25 | and whatever commissions you are due,
  • 8:27 | they will automatically
    send to your PayPal account.
  • 8:29 | Now, speaking of the PayPal account,
  • 8:31 | you don’t need a business
    account for this.
  • 8:33 | You literally just need a
    personal PayPal account,
  • 8:35 | totally free to create, and
    then you just share your email
  • 8:38 | with them for the PayPal account.
  • 8:39 | You don’t have to share
    any other information.
  • 8:41 | Now, the second most
    common way I would say
  • 8:43 | that you are paid is by direct deposit.
  • 8:45 | So the same concept, once a month,
  • 8:46 | the companies will automatically
    pay your commissions,
  • 8:49 | but this way it just goes
    directly into your bank account.
  • 8:51 | Now again, you don’t need to have
  • 8:53 | a business bank account for this.
  • 8:54 | This is something something
    where you can literally
  • 8:56 | just use your personal bank account.
  • 8:57 | Now with that being said,
    whether you’re getting paid
  • 8:59 | through PayPal or you’re getting paid
  • 9:01 | through direct deposit, you
    can do affiliate marketing
  • 9:03 | from anywhere in the world.
  • 9:05 | You don’t need to be located
    in the United States.
  • 9:07 | You literally be in any country
  • 9:09 | and you can still do affiliate marketing.
  • 9:11 | You’ll see what I mean
    by this when we talk
  • 9:13 | about the different strategies
    of doing affiliate marketing.
  • 9:15 | It doesn’t matter where you are based.
  • 9:17 | All right, the next thing
    I think you’ll find helpful
  • 9:18 | is do you need a business entity?
  • 9:21 | I know we talked about
    personal PayPal account
  • 9:23 | and your personal bank
    account to get paid,
  • 9:24 | well, do you need a business
    entity for affiliate marketing?
  • 9:27 | The answer here is no,
    you don’t need to set up
  • 9:30 | a business entity for this.
  • 9:31 | I would say once you start to
    make about $50,000 per year
  • 9:34 | in profit, then you might wanna consider
  • 9:36 | starting a business entity for yourself.
  • 9:38 | It’s just going to make all
    your commission payments
  • 9:40 | coming in a lot more
    organized than having it mixed
  • 9:42 | into your personal bank account.
  • 9:44 | Okay, and the last question that I’ll put
  • 9:45 | in these rapid-fire
    questions is how much time
  • 9:47 | do you need to invest
    in this business model?
  • 9:49 | This is one of my favorite
    benefits to affiliate marketing.
  • 9:52 | The affiliate marketing
    business model is one
  • 9:54 | where you can create content
    and you can put time in upfront
  • 9:58 | and you publish that
    content onto the internet,
  • 10:00 | and that content lives on the
    internet for years to come.
  • 10:03 | So it’s literally going to make you
  • 10:05 | passive income commissions
    for years in the future
  • 10:08 | where you don’t have to
    keep updating that content,
  • 10:10 | you don’t have to keep
    publishing more content.
  • 10:12 | Once you get that out there
    and you’ve put in a lot
  • 10:14 | of work up front, it’s
    literally going to keep
  • 10:16 | making you money for years.
  • 10:17 | This is something that I can
    absolutely say from experience.
  • 10:20 | I’ve been doing affiliate
    marketing for a couple years now.
  • 10:23 | And without lifting a finger,
    there’s content that I’ve made
  • 10:26 | a few years ago that’s
    still making me hundreds
  • 10:28 | or thousands of dollars every month
  • 10:30 | from a single piece of content.
  • 10:32 | All right, so now that we’ve gone over
  • 10:34 | what affiliate marketing
    is, we’ve answered a bunch
  • 10:36 | of these common questions,
    hopefully we’re on the same page
  • 10:38 | about the business model.
  • 10:40 | Now let’s move on to the fun part here,
  • 10:41 | which is what are the different strategies
  • 10:43 | for doing affiliate marketing,
  • 10:45 | just so you can see which
    one fits best for you
  • 10:47 | and then you can get started doing it.
  • 10:48 | Okay, so there’s three main categories
  • 10:51 | that affiliate marketing
    strategies fit into.
  • 10:53 | Now, this is where some
    of my personal experience
  • 10:56 | is going to come into.
  • 10:57 | What I’m about to share with you
  • 10:58 | in these three different
    categories is not commonly shared,
  • 11:01 | especially this way.
  • 11:02 | So hopefully this is very valuable.
  • 11:04 | So the first overall strategy
  • 11:06 | on how to do affiliate marketing,
  • 11:08 | which happens to be the
    most beginner friendly here,
  • 11:10 | is what I call search.
  • 11:12 | So basically when someone goes to Google
  • 11:14 | or they go to YouTube and
    they are making a search
  • 11:16 | about a product that
    they want to purchase,
  • 11:18 | we want to show up in that
    content as the results
  • 11:21 | and make a recommendation
    on the best product
  • 11:23 | that we think would fit them
    with our affiliate link.
  • 11:26 | So for instance here, if we
    type in best dirt bike helmet,
  • 11:30 | you can see in the results
    here we’re going to get
  • 11:32 | kind of these suggested products
  • 11:33 | that you can make a purchase right away.
  • 11:35 | We have Google suggesting us an article,
  • 11:37 | which is the “5 Best Dirt Bike Helmets
  • 11:39 | For Track and Trail.”
  • 11:40 | And then just to show you what else
  • 11:41 | is on this search results page,
  • 11:43 | we have videos that are
    coming from YouTube,
  • 11:45 | as you can see right here,
    they all say YouTube on them.
  • 11:48 | And then we have different
    links to things like Reddit,
  • 11:50 | which is a forum.
  • 11:51 | We have different articles
    or individual articles
  • 11:54 | that we could read, and this
    is where we want to show up.
  • 11:57 | So when someone searches for the best item
  • 11:59 | or they’re about to make a purchase,
  • 12:01 | they’re coming and they’re
    searching for something,
  • 12:03 | we wanna show up in these results.
  • 12:05 | Now, I’ll start with an article result
  • 12:06 | just to show you what that looks like.
  • 12:08 | So any of these, basically,
    websites that we’re seeing here,
  • 12:11 | you can click on this, and
    it’ll bring you to their website
  • 12:15 | where essentially they’re going to give us
  • 12:16 | their recommendation of what they think
  • 12:18 | is the best product for us,
  • 12:19 | and then they’re going to
    put their affiliate link.
  • 12:21 | This is common practice
    on almost all websites,
  • 12:23 | but you’ll see things like this.
  • 12:24 | So number one we recommend is this helmet,
  • 12:27 | and here’s the link to that
    product, and it’s on Amazon.
  • 12:31 | So if we click on that link,
  • 12:32 | it instantly redirects us to Amazon.
  • 12:34 | So for me as a buyer, this
    looks like I’m just on Amazon,
  • 12:37 | nothing’s different.
  • 12:38 | But when you look at the actual link
  • 12:40 | that it sent us on right here,
  • 12:41 | you can see that the
    tag is dirtbikeplanet.
  • 12:44 | So you can see that this
    is actually a referral link
  • 12:47 | from Dirt Bike Planet,
    which is this website.
  • 12:51 | So to us as the buyer, when we come in
  • 12:53 | and we’re reading this article,
    and we click on that link
  • 12:55 | and we go make a purchase,
    it makes no difference to us
  • 12:57 | that that’s an affiliate link.
  • 12:58 | The price of the helmet is
    the same price on Amazon.
  • 13:01 | But since I clicked on
    this affiliate link,
  • 13:03 | anything that I go purchase
    on Amazon right now,
  • 13:06 | they are going to get a commission on.
  • 13:07 | So you’ll see as you go down here,
  • 13:09 | you’ll see kind of the
    perks to this helmet,
  • 13:10 | and then they’ll go on
    to their next helmet,
  • 13:12 | which is number two, again, another link.
  • 13:14 | It’s the same concept here.
  • 13:16 | So that would be the first
  • 13:17 | of these kind of search results here.
  • 13:18 | Basically you’re writing an
    article that’s going to show up
  • 13:20 | on Google for when people
    are searching for something
  • 13:23 | that they want to purchase.
  • 13:24 | Now, the second way that you
    can take advantage of search
  • 13:26 | is with videos.
  • 13:28 | Now, this is quickly
    becoming my favorite way
  • 13:29 | of doing affiliate marketing.
  • 13:30 | And without getting into
    too much detail here,
  • 13:32 | the reason why is that these
    articles that I just showed you
  • 13:35 | down here that are text-based,
  • 13:37 | well, there’s artificial
    intelligence tools
  • 13:39 | that are coming out just
    in the last year now,
  • 13:41 | and they’re getting
    more and more powerful,
  • 13:43 | where basically you can
    go in and you can say,
  • 13:45 | “Write me a blog post about
    the best dirt bike helmet.”
  • 13:52 | You hit Enter, and this is a free
  • 13:54 | artificial intelligence
    tool that’s basically
  • 13:56 | going to write you an entire blog post
  • 13:59 | or an entire text-based article
  • 14:01 | that you can then essentially
    copy and you can go paste it
  • 14:03 | on your website and
    publish that to Google.
  • 14:05 | Now, this is going to keep writing here,
  • 14:07 | but just to show you here,
  • 14:08 | this is why I’m not a huge fan of creating
  • 14:11 | the affiliate marketing websites
  • 14:12 | and creating the written articles anymore
  • 14:14 | because anyone can come
    in here and they can write
  • 14:17 | a hundred of these
    different articles per day,
  • 14:19 | and they can basically just take
  • 14:20 | what are these
    recommendations, go to Amazon,
  • 14:23 | find the affiliate link and
    just paste it into here,
  • 14:25 | and basically go publish
    that all over Google.
  • 14:28 | And with that being totally free to do
  • 14:30 | and so easy for people to do nowadays,
  • 14:32 | it’s making it a lot
    harder for us to show up
  • 14:34 | on this first page here
    with our written article
  • 14:36 | because Google’s just
    getting so many more people
  • 14:39 | sending in articles.
  • 14:40 | So that’s why I like these videos.
  • 14:42 | So basically videos show
    up here on Google as well.
  • 14:45 | So for those of you
    who don’t already know,
  • 14:47 | Google is the number
    one most visited website
  • 14:50 | on the internet.
  • 14:51 | If you look at just these crazy numbers,
  • 14:52 | there’s about 99,000 searches
    every single second on Google.
  • 14:58 | So we just typed in best dirt bike helmet,
  • 15:00 | that’s happening 99,000 times
    a second on the internet.
  • 15:04 | So there’s a ton of traffic going
  • 15:06 | to all of these search result pages.
  • 15:08 | Now with that said, YouTube
    is the second most popular
  • 15:11 | website on the internet.
  • 15:12 | Now, it doesn’t say how
    many searches are on YouTube
  • 15:15 | per second, but there’s more
    than three billion searches
  • 15:18 | a month on YouTube.
  • 15:20 | So that’s totally separate from Google.
  • 15:21 | Those are in addition to each other.
  • 15:23 | But coming back to this example
  • 15:24 | of the best dirt bike helmet,
  • 15:26 | if instead of creating a
    text article and posting that
  • 15:29 | on your website and
    showing up here on Google,
  • 15:31 | if you instead create a video,
  • 15:33 | and you don’t even have
    to be in the video,
  • 15:35 | you can be showing with the camera
  • 15:36 | what that dirt bike helmet
    is or what that product is
  • 15:39 | you’re talking about without
    you physically being on camera.
  • 15:41 | If you create that video and
    you publish that to YouTube,
  • 15:45 | you are going to be taking
    advantage of all of the traffic
  • 15:47 | that comes to YouTube, the three
    billion searches per month.
  • 15:50 | But also, and this is
    kind of the secret here,
  • 15:53 | you’re also going to be
    able to take advantage
  • 15:55 | of the Google traffic of
    99,000 searches per second.
  • 15:59 | Because, what not many people know,
  • 16:00 | is that Google and YouTube,
  • 16:02 | they’re owned by the same company.
  • 16:04 | So Google is now showing
    these YouTube videos
  • 16:07 | on Google’s search results.
  • 16:08 | So you’re kind of getting
    double the traffic
  • 16:10 | or double the people to
    potentially see your content.
  • 16:13 | Now, when you click on
    any of these videos,
  • 16:15 | it’s going to take you back to YouTube,
  • 16:16 | and then you can see right here,
  • 16:18 | this is the affiliate link right here.
  • 16:20 | So you click on this, it’s going
    to take you to the website,
  • 16:22 | and you can make your
    purchases right here,
  • 16:24 | and you earn your commission the same way
  • 16:26 | as if you had a text article.
  • 16:28 | So without getting too much
    into the nitty gritty here,
  • 16:30 | those are the first two options.
  • 16:31 | They both fall into the search strategy
  • 16:33 | for affiliate marketing.
  • 16:34 | So that brings us into the
    second overall strategy
  • 16:37 | on how to do affiliate marketing.
  • 16:39 | This one is called social.
  • 16:40 | So rather than using the search approach
  • 16:42 | where people are searching
    for content regularly
  • 16:45 | and we are creating that
    content as an answer
  • 16:47 | to their search, this
    is using social media
  • 16:50 | to build an audience and then present
  • 16:52 | our affiliate products to people.
  • 16:54 | So to show you an example of this,
  • 16:56 | let’s come over to Instagram.
  • 16:57 | This is just a run of
    the mill Instagram page
  • 17:00 | that is a perfect example
    of affiliate marketing.
  • 17:02 | So this is called toponlinefinds.
  • 17:05 | They actually have 487,000 followers.
  • 17:07 | So in order to do this strategy,
  • 17:09 | you kind of do have to build an audience
  • 17:11 | or already have an audience
  • 17:13 | on some kind of social media channel.
  • 17:15 | That’s why I say that this one’s
    a little bit more advanced.
  • 17:17 | But if you are someone who has that,
  • 17:19 | this could be a good fit for you.
  • 17:20 | And basically you are just showing photos
  • 17:23 | of different products that
    you are an affiliate for.
  • 17:26 | So in this case, it is most likely Amazon,
  • 17:29 | and she can be creating
    posts on any product
  • 17:31 | that’s on Amazon or even
    any product elsewhere
  • 17:33 | ’cause you can join multiple
    different affiliate programs.
  • 17:36 | And then rather than writing
    an article about that product
  • 17:39 | or creating a video about that product,
  • 17:41 | you’re literally taking
    a photo of that product
  • 17:43 | and then writing in the
    description what that product is.
  • 17:45 | And then, although a
    little bit of a nuance here
  • 17:48 | on Instagram specifically,
  • 17:49 | you can’t put clickable links
    in each one of these posts.
  • 17:52 | So she’s going to say, “Click
    the link that’s in the bio,”
  • 17:55 | which is right here.
  • 17:56 | You click on this link, it’s going to say,
  • 17:58 | “Okay, what are you looking for here?”
  • 18:00 | I came in here, I’m looking
    for the Amazon storefront.
  • 18:03 | And then before you know it,
  • 18:04 | you’re on Amazon on her affiliate link,
  • 18:06 | and here’s all the products that you see
  • 18:08 | on her social media page.
  • 18:09 | So if you come into here,
    you click on something
  • 18:11 | that you’re looking for,
    something you saw on her page,
  • 18:13 | now you can go purchase
    one of these products,
  • 18:15 | and she’s going to get
    her commission that way.
  • 18:17 | So think of this one as kind of
  • 18:19 | the opposite approach from search.
  • 18:21 | The reason that I like
    Search for beginners
  • 18:23 | is because you can create
    content that’s kind of responding
  • 18:25 | to what people are already searching for.
  • 18:28 | With this social method, you’re
    kind of building an audience
  • 18:31 | and then you’re continually
    presenting new products to them.
  • 18:34 | Now, as you continue
    to grow your audience,
  • 18:36 | every time you make a post,
  • 18:37 | you’re going to get more and
    more people seeing that post.
  • 18:39 | And if they like that product
    that you posted about,
  • 18:41 | they’ll click on your link,
  • 18:42 | they’ll go over and make a purchase,
  • 18:43 | and you get your commission.
  • 18:44 | Now, something else that
    would be good to note here
  • 18:46 | is that you can join as many
    different affiliate programs
  • 18:49 | as you want.
  • 18:50 | You’re not limited to
    just Amazon, for instance.
  • 18:52 | You can join 10, 20, 30
    different affiliate programs
  • 18:55 | all at once.
  • 18:56 | And then you can share
    those links simultaneously.
  • 18:59 | It’s not something that’s exclusive.
  • 19:00 | You don’t have to be an
    affiliate for just one company.
  • 19:03 | And also, with that being said,
  • 19:04 | each company has their own
    kind of affiliate terms.
  • 19:07 | So we already talked about the commission.
  • 19:09 | You could get paid a
    percentage of the sale
  • 19:11 | or the percentage that the person spends
  • 19:13 | on the website after
    they’ve clicked your link,
  • 19:15 | or you could get paid the
    flat rate as a commission
  • 19:17 | for anything that they purchase.
  • 19:19 | But something that we
    haven’t talked about yet
  • 19:20 | is the cookie window or
    the attribution window.
  • 19:24 | Basically what that is is a timeframe
  • 19:26 | from when someone clicks your link,
  • 19:28 | how long after they’ve clicked that link
  • 19:30 | are you still going to
    get the commission for?
  • 19:32 | Now on Amazon, specifically,
  • 19:34 | it’s a 24-hour attribution window.
  • 19:37 | So when someone clicks on your link,
  • 19:38 | like I just clicked on her
    link and now I’m on Amazon,
  • 19:41 | anything that I purchase in
    the next 24 hours on Amazon,
  • 19:44 | she’s going to get the commission for.
  • 19:46 | This could be something totally unrelated.
  • 19:48 | So I could close out of
    Amazon, I could go make lunch,
  • 19:50 | I could come back and I could
    purchase something tonight,
  • 19:52 | something that I just
    needed to buy anyways.
  • 19:54 | She’s still going to get the commission
  • 19:56 | because it’s within the 24-hour window.
  • 19:58 | However, on some of these
    other programs out there,
  • 20:00 | the attribution window is 30 days,
  • 20:03 | or even 365 days, a full year.
  • 20:06 | So when someone clicks on your link,
  • 20:08 | if they come back in 25 days,
  • 20:10 | or if they come back on
    some of these programs
  • 20:12 | in five, six, seven months from now
  • 20:14 | and they decide that they
    wanna make a purchase
  • 20:15 | on their own, they don’t
    even have to come back
  • 20:17 | and click your link again,
  • 20:18 | you are still going to
    get that commission.
  • 20:20 | That’s kind of the beauty
    of affiliate marketing.
  • 20:23 | What makes it so passive
    is that when someone clicks
  • 20:25 | on your link, they have
    a timeframe after that
  • 20:28 | where they can come back on
    their own and make a purchase
  • 20:30 | and you’re still going
    to get that commission.
  • 20:31 | So that is the second overall strategy
  • 20:33 | for affiliate marketing.
  • 20:34 | We’ve covered search,
    we’ve covered social,
  • 20:37 | and now let’s get into the last strategy,
  • 20:38 | which is the most advanced,
    and this is what I call spend.
  • 20:41 | So in this strategy, you
    are going to be finding
  • 20:44 | affiliate programs and
    you’re going to be spending
  • 20:46 | your own money on advertising
    to get those products
  • 20:49 | in front of the right people
  • 20:51 | when they’re ready to make a purchase.
  • 20:52 | Now, this strategy is by far
    going to be the most advanced
  • 20:55 | strategy for affiliate marketing.
  • 20:57 | Many people that I know
    that do affiliate marketing
  • 20:59 | and have been doing it for years
  • 21:00 | still haven’t even
    gotten into this strategy
  • 21:03 | of affiliate marketing, just
    because it is so technical,
  • 21:06 | it’s so hard, there’s a lot of risk here.
  • 21:07 | But I want you to be aware
    of what this strategy is
  • 21:11 | so that if you do have this skillset,
  • 21:12 | you can absolutely do it this way.
  • 21:14 | Now, the most common example
    for this is found on YouTube
  • 21:17 | or on Facebook.
  • 21:18 | So basically, if you type
    in anything on YouTube,
  • 21:21 | basically using the search approach,
  • 21:23 | so if we started with best electric bike,
  • 21:27 | you can see two things here.
  • 21:28 | So first, there’s an
    advertisement at the top here
  • 21:30 | that says, “Best Electric Bike of 2023.”
  • 21:33 | If we click on that,
    it’s going to bring us
  • 21:35 | right to a company that
    sells electric bikes.
  • 21:37 | Now, this ad is actually
    being run by the company,
  • 21:40 | they’re selling their own products,
  • 21:41 | but you as an affiliate
    could be running that ad.
  • 21:44 | And knowing that, let’s
    say that you make $100
  • 21:46 | as your flat rate commission,
  • 21:48 | as long as you can get
    people to click on this ad
  • 21:50 | and make a purchase with
    you spending less than $100
  • 21:53 | on that advertising,
  • 21:54 | you are going to have somewhat
    of a profit margin there.
  • 21:57 | Now, another way you’re going to see this
  • 21:59 | is with an actual video.
  • 22:00 | So if you click on the first
    video that shows up here,
  • 22:02 | or any of these real videos
    that are here on YouTube,
  • 22:05 | this ad that’s going to
    show up here and play
  • 22:07 | before this video is being
    paid for by someone else.
  • 22:11 | So in most cases, what
    you’re going to see here
  • 22:13 | is an advertisement about electric bikes.
  • 22:16 | So it’s targeting someone who is coming in
  • 22:18 | trying to find the best electric bike,
  • 22:20 | trying to get you to click on their links
  • 22:21 | so that you go make a
    purchase from the website.
  • 22:23 | And then again, the same concept here.
  • 22:25 | The person running that ad is
    hoping that they’re spending
  • 22:28 | less money than the amount of flat rate
  • 22:30 | or percentage commission
    that they’re going to make
  • 22:32 | when people do make a purchase.
  • 22:33 | Now, you will see these
    video ads on YouTube
  • 22:36 | and you will also see them on Facebook.
  • 22:37 | That is the number one and
    number two most common places
  • 22:40 | that you’re going to see these ads.
  • 22:41 | When you are on Facebook, the
    way you’re going to see it
  • 22:43 | there is just as you’re
    scrolling through your feed,
  • 22:45 | you’re going to see an
    advertisement, and it’s a video.
  • 22:47 | That’s where this is coming into play.
  • 22:49 | So with that being said, the
    reason that this strategy
  • 22:51 | is so advanced is, when we
    look at the other strategies,
  • 22:54 | basically creating
    written articles or videos
  • 22:57 | and posting those on Google
    or posting them on YouTube,
  • 23:00 | and even the next strategy of
    social where you are building
  • 23:03 | an audience and you’re
    creating posts to them,
  • 23:05 | both of those are entirely free to do.
  • 23:07 | You don’t have to pay anything
    to create that content
  • 23:10 | and put it out there for people to see.
  • 23:11 | And then people will find
    that content on their own.
  • 23:14 | When you get into this spend category
  • 23:16 | where you’re spending
    money on advertising,
  • 23:18 | every time you’re trying to get
    someone to see that content,
  • 23:21 | you have to pay.
  • 23:23 | So when you look at these
    other two strategies,
  • 23:25 | there is really no risk to them.
  • 23:27 | Anytime someone comes and they
    decide to make a purchase,
  • 23:29 | you get paid a commission.
  • 23:30 | But when you look at
    this advanced strategy,
  • 23:32 | right off the bat, you have to spend money
  • 23:34 | and you have to hope that
    your ad is good enough
  • 23:36 | and it’s targeting the right
    people, that one out of every,
  • 23:39 | let’s say, 100 or 1,000 people
    actually makes a purchase.
  • 23:43 | So as your costs start to build up,
  • 23:44 | you wanna make sure that
    you’re getting a sale
  • 23:46 | that has a commission
    bigger than the amount
  • 23:48 | that you’ve spent.
  • 23:49 | Now, just for reference
    here, when you are doing
  • 23:51 | this spend approach, the
    margins are typically,
  • 23:54 | if you’re doing this right, about 20%.
  • 23:57 | Now, I say that just so you are aware
  • 23:59 | of what that looks like,
  • 24:00 | although that is a very advanced way
  • 24:02 | to do affiliate marketing.
  • 24:03 | You will typically see
    the people that are doing
  • 24:05 | that approach are spending
    5, 10, 15, $20,000 per day
  • 24:09 | in advertising, and they have everything
  • 24:11 | kind of dialed in here and
    they’re making a 20% margin.
  • 24:15 | Now, with that being said,
  • 24:16 | something that I’ve absolutely
    learned that I think
  • 24:17 | you should know before you get started
  • 24:19 | with affiliate marketing
    is whatever strategy
  • 24:21 | you choose here is really
    going to have a big impact
  • 24:24 | on your lifestyle as you’re
    doing affiliate marketing.
  • 24:27 | So for instance, if you are
    doing the search strategy
  • 24:29 | and you are creating content,
  • 24:31 | whether that is a written
    article or that is a video,
  • 24:33 | and you’re posting that on the internet,
  • 24:35 | that is stress free.
  • 24:36 | You have no risk there, once
    you post that on the internet,
  • 24:39 | it’ll live on the internet
    for years to come,
  • 24:41 | and people are just
    organically going to find it.
  • 24:43 | It’s basically you are
    answering what people
  • 24:45 | are already searching for.
  • 24:46 | Also, every dollar that
    you make in commission
  • 24:49 | is just straight profit
  • 24:50 | because you don’t have to be
    paying for any advertising.
  • 24:52 | Now, as you move into the social approach
  • 24:54 | for affiliate marketing,
  • 24:56 | there’s a little bit more stress here
  • 24:57 | because you have to
    consistently be posting
  • 24:59 | and giving your audience a
    reason to stay subscribed
  • 25:02 | or stay followed to your social account.
  • 25:04 | Also, you’re not going to
    be getting that steady flow
  • 25:06 | of organic traffic like
    you do on the search.
  • 25:08 | It’s more of you’re building an audience
  • 25:10 | and then you continually
    share posts with them.
  • 25:12 | So the lifestyle starts
    to become a little bit
  • 25:14 | more stressful there
    because you have to keep up
  • 25:16 | and stay on top of it.
  • 25:17 | And then once you get
    into the spend strategy
  • 25:19 | for affiliate marketing,
  • 25:20 | that comes with a very
    stressful lifestyle.
  • 25:23 | You only have a 20% margin there.
  • 25:25 | And in order to make money,
    you have to be spending money.
  • 25:28 | So you’re always going to
    be thinking about your ads.
  • 25:30 | How are they performing? Do
    I have to create new ones?
  • 25:32 | Are they starting to perform worse?
  • 25:34 | Do I need to optimize things?
  • 25:35 | There’s a lot that comes with
    that for just a 20% margin.
  • 25:39 | Now, you’re probably saying,
    “Why do people even do that one
  • 25:41 | if it’s so high stress?”
  • 25:42 | Well, the reason is, once
    you’ve created a really good ad
  • 25:45 | and a really good video,
    you can scale that up.
  • 25:48 | So you can go from $500 a day to 5,000,
  • 25:51 | in some cases, $50,000
    of ad spend per day,
  • 25:54 | and you’re just going to get 20% of that,
  • 25:56 | as long as everything stays the same.
  • 25:58 | So there you have the three strategies
  • 25:59 | for doing affiliate marketing.
  • 26:00 | You’ve got the search,
    you’ve got the social,
  • 26:02 | and you’ve got the spend.
  • 26:03 | If you are just starting
    affiliate marketing,
  • 26:06 | I highly recommend starting in the search.
  • 26:08 | Search is simply going
    to be the easiest way
  • 26:10 | for you to get started as a beginner,
  • 26:12 | and it’s super low risk.
  • 26:13 | So I know this is already
    a really long video,
  • 26:15 | but if you wanna learn more details
  • 26:17 | on how to do the whole search strategy,
  • 26:19 | I’ll put a link down in the description.
  • 26:21 | So guys, that’s it for this video.
  • 26:22 | If you have any questions
  • 26:23 | or anything that you’re still wondering,
  • 26:24 | let me know down in the comments,
  • 26:26 | and I’d be happy to help you out.

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