How to Find an Affiliate Marketing Product to Make You Money on YouTube

After the success of my affiliate marketing for beginners tutorial video, I decided to follow up on a question I was asked with today’s …

• 0:00 | so a few weeks ago I made a video where
• 0:02 | I shared a bunch of affiliate marketing
• 0:05 | secrets that I feel like not a lot of
• 0:06 | people are very forthcoming with when it
• 0:09 | comes to beginners and that video did
• 0:11 | really really well mostly because of one
• 0:14 | little secret that I will add into this
• 0:16 | video and share later on this video was
• 0:18 | actually inspired by a comment thread on
• 0:21 | that first video where basically a whole
• 0:23 | bunch of people were asking me to make
• 0:25 | sort of like a follow-up video where I
• 0:27 | get a little bit more in detail and
• 0:30 | depth on how to actually research
• 0:31 | affiliate marketing products that are
• 0:33 | going to sell with your audience
• 0:35 | basically what is your audience actually
• 0:38 | going to buy into that is actually going
• 0:40 | to make you money and to be honest I’m
• 0:42 | feeling a little bit exposed sitting
• 0:44 | down and making this video because this
• 0:45 | is literally the number one secret on
• 0:47 | how I’ve made the majority of my money
• 0:49 | in the last 5 years but I’m so tired of
• 0:52 | seeing all these videos on YouTube that
• 0:54 | take beginners for a ride try to sell
• 0:56 | them these super expensive courses and
• 0:58 | ebooks so let’s let’s break this down
• 1:00 | for free no strings attached the first
• 1:03 | really important piece of the puzzle is
• 1:05 | to think like a human and not like a
• 1:07 | machine you are not going to be able to
• 1:10 | properly research and find a product
• 1:11 | that is actually going to sell with your
• 1:13 | audience if you’re more focused on the
• 1:15 | money you’re going to make rather than
• 1:17 | your audience’s return on investment
• 1:19 | just like you and I your audience
• 1:21 | members your viewers your subscribers
• 1:23 | they are all normal human beings living
• 1:25 | in the era of inflation they are not
• 1:28 | going to buy or invest in some kind of
• 1:30 | product or service or license just
• 1:32 | because you say so and put it in front
• 1:34 | of them they’re going to spend their
• 1:36 | hard-earned money on something they feel
• 1:38 | is actually worth their money and worth
• 1:40 | the investment so that is why before you
• 1:42 | even begin your research process you
• 1:45 | have to get into the right heads space
• 1:46 | and think like a human and not like a
• 1:49 | machine put yourself in your audience’s
• 1:51 | shoes and your Target customers shoes
• 1:53 | not your own shoes secondly something
• 1:55 | else that is going to help make this
• 1:57 | process so much easier is to draw up a
• 1:59 | visual of your audience if you’ve been
• 2:01 | around here before you know that I
• 2:03 | absolutely despise the idea of and the
• 2:06 | word Niche personally I do not think
• 2:08 | that it serves you as a content creator
• 2:10 | or serves your audience or serves your
• 2:13 | content to say that you are a vlog
• 2:15 | Channel or that you make fashion content
• 2:18 | you need to do what all those top
• 2:19 | corporations and businesses out there do
• 2:22 | when they’re getting ready to launch a
• 2:23 | new product and you need to be able to
• 2:25 | visualize your target consumer or
• 2:28 | customer that is actually going to be
• 2:29 | using your affiliate Link in my case my
• 2:32 | target audience or customers are content
• 2:34 | creators looking to build grow and
• 2:36 | monetize their social media they are
• 2:39 | people coming on to Google or YouTube
• 2:41 | and Performing all sorts of searches all
• 2:43 | about how to start a YouTube channel how
• 2:46 | to grow a YouTube channel how to make
• 2:48 | money on YouTube how to grow an audience
• 2:51 | how to gain customers so the type of
• 2:53 | products that I need to be researching
• 2:56 | and putting in front of them and trying
• 2:57 | to sell to them are products are going
• 2:59 | to to help them accomplish those things
• 3:01 | they’re searching for so to give you
• 3:03 | guys a couple of my own examples the
• 3:05 | first time I was ever exposed to
• 3:07 | affiliate marketing and first got my
• 3:09 | beginning in that whole strategy back
• 3:11 | when I was a beginner YouTuber my first
• 3:14 | ever brand deal was with epidemic sound
• 3:16 | they are a platform where you basically
• 3:18 | pay for a monthly or yearly license and
• 3:21 | you’re able to have an all access pass
• 3:23 | to copyright free music for your videos
• 3:25 | back then the deal that I had with them
• 3:27 | was they paid me x amount of money to
• 3:29 | sponsor video on my channel get me to
• 3:31 | talk about them along with my first ever
• 3:34 | affiliate link where I would promote
• 3:36 | that link in my video about them and if
• 3:38 | anybody were to click on my link and
• 3:40 | purchase an epidemic sound license
• 3:42 | through my link I’d be paid a percentage
• 3:44 | of the money that they spend that was my
• 3:46 | first ever exposure to affiliate
• 3:48 | marketing that’s what led me to learn
• 3:50 | how that all works how to be successful
• 3:53 | with it how to make a full-time living
• 3:55 | off of it and pretty much paved the
• 3:57 | entire way for my future with affiliate
• 3:59 | marketing so there again the target
• 4:01 | consumer the audience I was targeting
• 4:03 | were people coming on to YouTube or
• 4:05 | Google looking for copyright free music
• 4:07 | for their YouTube videos I would then
• 4:09 | have my video come up as a search result
• 4:12 | my video would be mentioning and
• 4:13 | containing my affiliate link and if
• 4:16 | anybody looking for copyright free music
• 4:18 | were to click on my link and buy license
• 4:20 | through my link I would get paid
• 4:21 | residual and passive money that is the
• 4:24 | key strategy and Method I followed for
• 4:26 | the longest time of put an answer to
• 4:28 | their question right in front of them
• 4:30 | and a product that answers that question
• 4:32 | my second ever affiliate partnership was
• 4:35 | with canva this is more of a broad topic
• 4:38 | because there’s just so much you can do
• 4:40 | with canva there are a million in one
• 4:42 | different searches that are performed
• 4:43 | every day on YouTube and Google about
• 4:45 | canva canva itself actually has a search
• 4:47 | volume of over a million so when I first
• 4:50 | began my partnership with them I made a
• 4:52 | video all about how to use canva Pro to
• 4:55 | edit your YouTube thumbnails in that
• 4:57 | video I mentioned and included my AFF
• 4:59 | affiliate link to Canvas so that if
• 5:01 | anybody again clicked on that link made
• 5:03 | a purchase through that link I got paid
• 5:05 | a portion of the profits again following
• 5:07 | along that same key strategy that worked
• 5:09 | for me once before I am targeting people
• 5:12 | on YouTube and Google who are searching
• 5:14 | for how to make YouTube thumbnails I am
• 5:16 | again putting a product in front of them
• 5:18 | they are directly searching for and
• 5:19 | upping the chances of getting more
• 5:20 | conversions and purchases and money
• 5:23 | which then brings me to my third point
• 5:25 | and most probably the most crucial
• 5:27 | weapon when it comes to making money
• 5:29 | with ilate marketing which are
• 5:31 | incentives why should somebody who is
• 5:33 | living through the era of inflation give
• 5:35 | your video the time of day click your
• 5:38 | affiliate link make a purchase through
• 5:39 | your affiliate link and help you make
• 5:41 | money leaving the video they were just
• 5:43 | watching to go through your affiliate
• 5:44 | link to whichever website and make a
• 5:46 | purchase has to come with some kind of
• 5:49 | incentive there needs to be some kind of
• 5:52 | a deal or something special that they
• 5:54 | can’t get anywhere else or on a regular
• 5:56 | basis like I said before when I was
• 5:58 | promoting canva Pro through my affiliate
• 6:00 | link my affiliate link also came with a
• 6:03 | discount that they couldn’t get
• 6:04 | regularly anywhere else meaning that
• 6:06 | anybody else who was trying out canva
• 6:08 | Pro for the first time would have to pay
• 6:10 | the full price for that license whereas
• 6:12 | if they were using it through my link
• 6:14 | they got a discount whenever somebody
• 6:16 | uses my affiliate link to sign up for
• 6:18 | and pay for vid IQ they get my unique
• 6:21 | deal of getting one month for a dollar
• 6:24 | whereas anybody else using it for the
• 6:25 | first time has to pay full price
• 6:27 | whenever you are watching try on
• 6:29 | clothing hauls on YouTube that are
• 6:31 | sponsored you will often have them show
• 6:33 | you some kind of code where if you use
• 6:35 | that code to make any purchase on the
• 6:37 | website you get 10% off 15% off a
• 6:40 | certain amount of money off your
• 6:42 | purchase again an incentive to use their
• 6:44 | code and or their link whenever you shop
• 6:46 | on that website and of course how many
• 6:48 | times have you watched one of David do’s
• 6:50 | videos and heard him say use promo code
• 6:53 | David for $20 off your first purchase
• 6:55 | again giving his audience his viewers
• 6:57 | and his Target customers a unique
• 6:59 | incentive so definitely make sure
• 7:01 | whenever you are setting up and
• 7:03 | negotiating affiliate Partnerships with
• 7:05 | any kind of brands or companies that you
• 7:07 | are also negotiating a unique incentive
• 7:10 | now from having your target audience how
• 7:12 | you go about finding affiliate products
• 7:14 | that are perfect for them that they’re
• 7:16 | actually looking for number one piece of
• 7:18 | advice here think and look outside of
• 7:20 | just your regular viewers and
• 7:22 | subscribers and focus more on people on
• 7:24 | YouTube specifically searching for that
• 7:26 | topic or question usually those people
• 7:28 | perform specific searches on YouTube and
• 7:31 | or Google are usually a lot more likely
• 7:33 | to actually purchase things than your
• 7:35 | regular everyday viewers keyword
• 7:37 | research and a whole lot of trial and
• 7:39 | error are the key there are a million in
• 7:41 | one keyword research tools out there
• 7:43 | they pretty much all do the exact same
• 7:45 | thing give or take a feature or two so
• 7:47 | it really comes down to your personal
• 7:48 | preference and which one works best for
• 7:50 | you so again visualizing your target
• 7:53 | audience and specifically what they’re
• 7:54 | on YouTube looking for so in the case of
• 7:57 | my examples copyright free music for for
• 7:59 | their YouTube videos keyword research
• 8:01 | tools tools to help you actually grow on
• 8:03 | YouTube some kind of thumbnail editing
• 8:06 | software or anything else in that
• 8:08 | ballpark ask yourself what types of
• 8:10 | products or services or companies are
• 8:12 | out there serving that purpose if for
• 8:14 | example you are doing some kind of try
• 8:16 | on clothing haul that’s going to contain
• 8:18 | affiliate links you want to Target
• 8:20 | different types of fashion companies
• 8:22 | that are on the rise that a lot of
• 8:23 | people are searching for Brands and
• 8:25 | websites like teu Shen princess paully
• 8:28 | all these other trending brands from
• 8:30 | there you perform a keyword research to
• 8:32 | see for each one of those products and
• 8:34 | or Services how high is the search
• 8:37 | volume on YouTube and How likely are you
• 8:39 | to actually get a bunch of views and
• 8:41 | clicks you can also do the complete
• 8:43 | reverse which is what I most often do
• 8:45 | where instead of targeting a specific
• 8:47 | brand and or product you are instead
• 8:50 | targeting a specific topic or search you
• 8:52 | find out what topics your target
• 8:54 | audience is searching for most often
• 8:56 | what topics or searches have the highest
• 8:58 | search volume make a video targeting
• 9:00 | that topic and or search and you include
• 9:03 | your affiliate link to whatever product
• 9:05 | in that video and get more eyes on the
• 9:07 | product for example the last video I
• 9:09 | made all about affiliate marketing as a
• 9:11 | subject matter affiliate marketing has
• 9:13 | millions and millions of monthly
• 9:15 | searches which is why by doing keyword
• 9:17 | research and finding out how highly
• 9:19 | searched affiliate marketing was making
• 9:21 | a video on that topic and targeting that
• 9:23 | keyword I was able to get my video in
• 9:25 | front of a whole lot more eyeballs and
• 9:27 | get a lot more views on that video than
• 9:29 | my typical videos do in that case I was
• 9:32 | targeting an audience of people coming
• 9:34 | on to YouTube and or Google searching up
• 9:36 | loads of different things all relating
• 9:38 | to affiliate marketing beginners wanting
• 9:40 | to learn about affiliate marketing and
• 9:42 | getting that video a viewership full of
• 9:44 | people looking to learn about affiliate
• 9:46 | marketing in that case if I had had an
• 9:48 | affiliate link to any kind of affiliate
• 9:50 | marketing platform or service that would
• 9:52 | have been the perfect time to promote
• 9:54 | that affiliate marketing program to them
• 9:55 | and get a lot more people using that
• 9:57 | service through my link that is the key
• 10:00 | mentality and strategy that has changed
• 10:02 | the game for me now to close off this
• 10:04 | video I did want to address one more
• 10:06 | question that I got asked repeatedly in
• 10:08 | the comments of that last video which
• 10:10 | was all these questions about how do you
• 10:12 | actually keep brands that you have
• 10:13 | Partnerships with accountable if you set
• 10:15 | up some kind of affiliate partnership
• 10:18 | with any kind of brand or company how do
• 10:20 | you actually keep them accountable to
• 10:22 | actually pay you what you’re owed my one
• 10:24 | piece of advice here never ever ever
• 10:26 | partner with any company or brand in
• 10:29 | affiliate Partnership if they do not
• 10:30 | have some kind of dashboard you can sign
• 10:33 | into any kind of brand and or company
• 10:36 | that you’re able to have some kind of
• 10:37 | affiliate partnership with they usually
• 10:40 | have some kind of affiliate section on
• 10:42 | their website that you can sign into
• 10:44 | whenever you sign into some kind of
• 10:46 | Brands affiliate program you’re then
• 10:48 | supposed to be able to see some kind of
• 10:50 | a dashboard that tracks how many clicks
• 10:52 | your links have gotten how many
• 10:54 | conversions and sales your links have
• 10:56 | converted as well as the total amount of
• 10:58 | money that you’ve made off of those
• 11:00 | conversions this goes for every brand I
• 11:02 | have ever worked with every single one
• 11:04 | of my affiliate links I have ever
• 11:06 | promoted there has always been some kind
• 11:08 | of dashboard I could sign into and track
• 11:10 | if a brand is offering you some kind of
• 11:13 | affiliate partnership or some kind of
• 11:15 | collaboration if they do not have some
• 11:17 | kind of dashboard for you to sign into
• 11:19 | and see that is most likely a scam if
• 11:22 | you do not have any kind of dashboard to
• 11:24 | sign into you have no way of staying in
• 11:26 | control no way of keeping them
• 11:28 | accountable to actually pay you what
• 11:30 | you’re owed and you’re going to be taken
• 11:31 | for a ride so always ensure before
• 11:34 | agreeing to some kind of partnership
• 11:36 | before beginning to promote any kind of
• 11:38 | affiliate link and or program always ask
• 11:40 | whether or not there is a dashboard
• 11:42 | available but that you guys is it for
• 11:44 | this video that is everything that I had
• 11:46 | to share and break down for you guys all
• 11:48 | about how to actually research products
• 11:50 | that are going to work for you and your
• 11:52 | target audience hopefully this video was
• 11:54 | a good enough answer to all those people
• 11:56 | who were asking that question on my last
• 11:57 | video hopefully was insightful or
• 12:00 | helpful in some way shape or form if you
• 12:02 | guys have any more questions feel free
• 12:04 | to comment them down below I will answer
• 12:06 | every one of them and as always I hope
• 12:07 | you guys enjoyed love you all to the
• 12:09 | moon and back and I’ll see you in my
• 12:10 | next video bye

source