How @TheRawAdvantage Uses Affiliate Marketing

Chris Kendall ( @TheRawAdvantage ) shares how to make passive income with affiliate marketing, whilst maintaining authenticity …

• 0:00 | do Brands reach out to you or do you uh
• 0:03 | use Brands and then reach out to them
• 0:05 | how how do you go about like affiliate
• 0:07 | marketing it’s it’s been both to be
• 0:09 | honest it’s really been both um I was
• 0:11 | really hesitant to do any kind of
• 0:13 | affiliate marketing in the very
• 0:14 | beginning except for Excalibur and
• 0:18 | Vitamix those were my first Affiliates
• 0:20 | and then the next one was Zero shoes
• 0:22 | which really made a huge impact in my
• 0:24 | life minimalist Footwear um and I still
• 0:26 | wear to this day you know it’s been like
• 0:27 | 11 years I’ve been doing those and um
• 0:30 | but I’ve had a so like those ones I
• 0:32 | actually reached out to myself you know
• 0:34 | like I I reached out directly like hey I
• 0:36 | love what you’re doing do you have an
• 0:37 | affiliate program some of them just have
• 0:38 | it on their website you can just apply
• 0:40 | right up you know so there’s been some
• 0:42 | of that um and then there’s been a few
• 0:44 | things that either like a friend you
• 0:46 | know got me to try or recommended and
• 0:48 | and same kind of thing that I reached
• 0:49 | out um but there have been a few things
• 0:52 | that people reached out to me and some I
• 0:54 | delete automatically like I’ll be honest
• 0:56 | I probably get
• 0:58 | like I’d say probably about two or three
• 1:01 | a week wow usually like brand offers you
• 1:04 | know and like I used to I haven’t for a
• 1:07 | long time but I used to consistently get
• 1:09 | offers to start my own supplement
• 1:10 | company you know it’s kind of crazy bet
• 1:12 | um yeah I used to get a lot of those and
• 1:14 | never did any of those um and some stuff
• 1:17 | I write back and say okay I’m sorry I’m
• 1:19 | not interested um and other stuff I just
• 1:21 | you know I mean it’s on YouTube or
• 1:23 | Instagram it’s uh probably templated and
• 1:26 | sent to every single person in this
• 1:27 | Niche you know so a lot of it I just I
• 1:30 | feel bad about just immediately deleting
• 1:31 | especially if it’s like totally far off
• 1:33 | Bas because sometimes you get stuff like
• 1:34 | are you kidding me like why really
• 1:36 | that’s not even relevant yeah not even
• 1:38 | relevant but um if it’s something that’s
• 1:40 | that I I you know lines up with what I
• 1:43 | do then sometimes I ask you know like
• 1:45 | it’s kind of funny and and you
• 1:47 | know a company a company approached
• 1:51 | me and I was like I’m sorry like I I’ve
• 1:53 | never tried it I know some people who
• 1:55 | love it and they really swear it’s
• 1:56 | amazing but I don’t promote things
• 1:58 | unless I really believe in them and used
• 2:00 | them and authentically use them myself
• 2:02 | and they’re like well can we send some
• 2:03 | to you I’m like sure so they sent some
• 2:04 | to me which was like 80 bucks worth and
• 2:07 | you know I used it consistently and I
• 2:08 | didn’t notice a thing and I didn’t enjoy
• 2:10 | using it so I’ve never shared anything
• 2:12 | about it on social this is the first
• 2:13 | time I’ve talked about it you know um I
• 2:15 | could make a bunch from it but you know
• 2:17 | but it wouldn’t resonate with you it
• 2:19 | wouldn’t sit well no exactly and that
• 2:21 | doesn’t mean that definitively it’s not
• 2:23 | good it’s just it didn’t resonate with
• 2:24 | me it’s not really part of what I the
• 2:26 | ethos of what I’m trying to do you know
• 2:28 | so I’m pretty selective
• 2:30 | um I’m also cognant that the uh the
• 2:34 | niche that I’m in is like even more
• 2:36 | selective you know like I mean you know
• 2:38 | it’s it’s it’s pretty wild right like I
• 2:41 | I started promoting barleygrass juice
• 2:42 | powder and I got some flak for that and
• 2:45 | I lost some subscribers and and some
• 2:47 | people think it’s really ridiculous but
• 2:49 | it made a huge difference in my life and
• 2:51 | I genuinely feel like it it has helped
• 2:53 | and can help people um but you know I’ve
• 2:56 | had other people then like say like okay
• 2:57 | well what about this powder and how
• 2:58 | about that powder I’m like I don’t need
• 3:00 | a thousand powders you know like I like
• 3:02 | this really works you know I’m not
• 3:04 | saying it’s definitively no matter what
• 3:05 | the best but from all my research and my
• 3:07 | personal experience I think it is um
• 3:10 | yeah so I mean yeah that’s what you can
• 3:12 | draw upon like as as long as you’re
• 3:15 | sharing your own personal firsthand
• 3:17 | experience then that is people people
• 3:20 | can say what they want but you you’re
• 3:21 | telling the truth and how how you’ve
• 3:23 | experience things because obviously on
• 3:25 | YouTube there’s some that are like oh
• 3:27 | hey guys uh even if they didn’t pay me I
• 3:30 | I’d still use it and it’s like M okay
• 3:33 | would you would you yeah yeah I think
• 3:35 | people can tell and when you for sure
• 3:39 | for sure yeah no I can I can honestly
• 3:42 | say like everything that I sell and do I
• 3:44 | would still use and even like if I
• 3:47 | didn’t make any money doing this I would
• 3:49 | still be doing what I’m doing like I’ve
• 3:51 | often actually said like what is
• 3:52 | retirement for me retirement for like
• 3:54 | actual retirement would be zero thought
• 3:57 | of concern around my consistency and
• 3:59 | posting I’d be still doing the same
• 4:01 | thing I just I wouldn’t even think about
• 4:03 | it like okay I want to post or I don’t
• 4:05 | want to post maybe I I missed a whole
• 4:06 | month of posting you know that’s fine
• 4:08 | because I have all the stuff kind of
• 4:09 | working in the background always posting
• 4:11 | anyway yeah but I wouldn’t feel like any
• 4:15 | kind of thought that I I need to be
• 4:17 | regular in order to be a little bit more
• 4:19 | regular with income or to not lose my
• 4:22 | audience you know like yeah but uh but I
• 4:24 | still be doing the same stuff I I yeah
• 4:27 | it would just be like if you maybe
• 4:29 | wanted to push a little bit harder at
• 4:31 | that stage then you could P publish
• 4:33 | content but there’s no pressure at all
• 4:35 | not that sounds like you have I don’t
• 4:37 | put a lot of pressure on myself to be
• 4:38 | honest

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