How I Made $17,000 Last Month With Affiliate Marketing

0:00 | I made over $17,000 last month in

0:02 | affiliate marketing alone. And that is

0:05 | specifically what I want to talk about

0:06 | today. In this video, I’m going to

0:08 | explain what affiliate marketing is,

0:10 | exactly how I make my money with

0:12 | affiliate marketing, and how I can tell

0:15 | you how to build and grow this business

0:16 | if that’s something you’re interested

0:18 | in. Now, my name is Lori Balon. If

0:20 | you’ve never seen me before, I am a

0:22 | multiple six-figure digital marketer. I

0:24 | am divorced. I’m over 50 and I live

0:27 | alone. This is what I do full-time. But

0:30 | I will tell you that I built the first

0:32 | leg of this through software affiliate

0:35 | marketing to six figures while I was

0:37 | running a different very big business

0:39 | and still had young kids at home and was

0:42 | still married. So don’t think to

0:44 | yourself, oh, she only does this because

0:46 | she works full-time. No, that’s just

0:47 | allowed me to build more spaces in my

0:50 | business and more income streams. But

0:52 | anybody could do this if you follow the

0:55 | procedure. So what is affiliate

0:57 | marketing? It’s basically when you

0:58 | promote somebody else’s product or

1:00 | service that is not your own and you

1:03 | earn a commission when it sales sells.

1:05 | So this would be no inventory, no

1:08 | shipping. It’s not your customer, it’s

1:11 | their customer. You’re generating

1:13 | interest. You’re getting somebody to

1:15 | click a link most of the time in this

1:18 | day and age. But there are there is word

1:20 | of mouth affiliate marketing. There is

1:22 | have somebody fill out a form kind of

1:24 | affiliate marketing. But I’m going to

1:25 | tell you the different ways right now

1:27 | that I do it. Number one, my absolute

1:30 | favorite way to make money with

1:32 | affiliate marketing is software.

1:36 | And that is where I’m basically

1:40 | introducing a software by teaching

1:43 | people how to use it or by just sharing

1:46 | with them this is the software I use in

1:48 | my business. It could be a lifestyle

1:50 | software or something, but in my case,

1:52 | it’s usually a business type of

1:53 | software. Could be accounting. It could

1:55 | be an AI tool. It could be a blog

1:58 | writing tool. It could be a Pinterest

2:00 | software tool. It’s something that I am

2:03 | using cat gave right on Q in my

2:07 | business. And when somebody clicks the

2:09 | link and signs up for that software,

2:11 | then I would make a commission. The

2:15 | person is not charged any extra. And you

2:17 | always have to disclose that you are

2:21 | making money. So, you’ll see it on all

2:23 | my blogs. You’ll see it on my YouTube

2:25 | channel. If I if if if I have a Facebook

2:28 | post and somebody says, “Lori, where’d

2:29 | you get that shirt?” Or, “Tell me about

2:30 | your micro wireless microphone.” And I

2:32 | put it in the Facebook, you’re going to

2:34 | see in a parenthesis, “Affiliate

2:35 | commissions benefit me at no extra cost

2:37 | to you, unless I’m sending them to a

2:39 | storefront that has that disclaimer in

2:41 | there instead, which sometimes works as

2:43 | well.” Now, the nice thing about the

2:46 | software affiliate business is basically

2:49 | if you can teach, show, tell, explain a

2:54 | favorite software that has an affiliate

2:57 | program offered, not every software

3:00 | does, but most of them do.

3:03 | Then you can make money on the

3:06 | subscription month over month. in some

3:09 | cases for life. The life of that

3:12 | subscriber, you’re going to get a

3:13 | commission on every month. Nowadays,

3:17 | you lifetime commissions used to be a uh

3:20 | kind of a standard. Now, more and more

3:22 | people are going to 12 months, but

3:24 | they’re giving scalable

3:28 | uh commissions now to try to make up for

3:30 | it. So they will say something like your

3:33 | first uh 50 signups you get 15%

3:37 | commission but after you pass that

3:40 | number of signups then we’ll give you

3:42 | 20% commission and if you get to 100

3:44 | signups then we’ll give you 25%

3:46 | commission. A lot of them are doing

3:48 | things like that. Now how do you partner

3:50 | with the software? Most of the software

3:53 | if you go to their website and you

3:55 | scroll down to the bottom of the website

3:57 | you’re going to see something that says

3:58 | affiliate. Click on affiliate and it’s

4:01 | going to tell you about their program.

4:02 | Most of the software affiliate programs

4:05 | are managed by a third-party, an

4:09 | affiliate network. Some of the popular

4:11 | ones for software are impact

4:15 | uh just go to impact. It used to be

4:18 | called impact radius but now I think

4:19 | it’s just impact.com and then cj.com

4:24 | partnersstack.com.

4:26 | There is a bunch of them. So, when you

4:27 | click on, let’s just pretend you want to

4:29 | promote um uh whatever the new AI twin

4:34 | tool is. Everybody’s making AI twins

4:36 | right now. And you get all into that

4:37 | one. And you scroll down to the bottom,

4:39 | you click an affiliate, it’ll tell you

4:40 | like we pay X amount commission, uh earn

4:43 | month over month. It’ll kind of say earn

4:45 | for 12 months or earn for the lifetime.

4:48 | Click here to apply. And then when you

4:50 | click here to apply, it’ll either be a

4:51 | form or it’ll go to an affiliate

4:54 | network. And then you would just need to

4:55 | join that affiliate network. There’s

4:56 | usually no cost and you would fill out

4:59 | the application. Now, what are they

5:01 | looking for? They’re looking for what

5:03 | channels are you promoting on that they

5:06 | can look at and see if your brands are

5:08 | aligned. They want to see a YouTube

5:10 | channel or an Instagram channel or a Tik

5:12 | Tok account, which software is not as

5:15 | big on Tik Tok because we can’t direct

5:16 | link yet. Or they’re going to want to

5:19 | see a blog that you might be promoting

5:22 | on if you’re still blogging. something

5:24 | along those lines. That’s really cool.

5:27 | Now, how do you build that business,

5:29 | right? How do you get people to click on

5:30 | your links? One of the best ways is

5:32 | YouTube.

5:33 | So, if you can teach something on

5:36 | YouTube, I’ll give you an example. When

5:38 | I started on YouTube, I was teaching

5:41 | real estate agents how to build real

5:44 | estate websites on WordPress. So, they

5:47 | would want the website. So, I’d give

5:50 | them a link to the WordPress. They would

5:52 | want the theme that I was using and

5:54 | that’s kind of uh changes the look of

5:56 | the website. So, I would give them the

5:59 | link to that. They would want the

6:01 | plug-in software that allows them to put

6:04 | the real estate houses on their website.

6:06 | I would give them the link to that and

6:08 | they would click on there and they would

6:09 | sign up for those because they need

6:11 | them, not because, oh, I like Lori. Let

6:13 | me go click her link. It’s not like

6:14 | that. They’re going, oh, I want that. I

6:16 | want that. I want a website like she

6:17 | has. I want that. And so, if you keep

6:19 | telling them, I put the link in the

6:21 | description. below. There’s a link in

6:22 | the description below. You can build

6:23 | this by clicking the link below. Or you

6:27 | could come up with a little one sheet or

6:28 | a guide and say, “I’ve got uh if you

6:30 | want to know how to build this, I’ve got

6:31 | all the steps written out for you in a

6:33 | PDF. Just let me know.” And then you can

6:35 | put your links in the PDF and that also

6:37 | could convert software. So, most of my

6:41 | software uh conversions do come from

6:44 | YouTube. I am testing some things with

6:46 | Pinterest right now, but it’s harder.

6:50 | It’s easier to get people to click on a

6:54 | link in your video when they’re seeing

6:57 | you, hearing you, they’re interested in

6:59 | you, and they want to buy what you have.

7:03 | They want what you’re doing. That’s

7:04 | easier. It’s not easy to get people to

7:06 | click an affiliate link. It just isn’t.

7:09 | But I just don’t even I I’m not attached

7:11 | to it. I just let it

7:14 | I naturally will talk about what I talk

7:16 | about and then I’ll say, you know, if

7:18 | you want to get this microphone, it’s

7:19 | listed below. Or if I mention a

7:20 | particular type of software in the

7:22 | video, I’ll mention it below. Sometimes

7:23 | I’ll do a whole video around one

7:25 | specific tool because it’s a tool I use.

7:27 | I love it. Let me show everybody how to

7:29 | turn their long form videos into short

7:30 | form videos with such and such tool. And

7:33 | that will generate way more sales uh

7:36 | signups than just a general video. If

7:38 | you can teach them a strategy, show them

7:40 | how to do something, they’re more likely

7:42 | to click that. Okay, so that is a that

7:46 | is one form of affiliate marketing. You

7:47 | know, another form of affiliate

7:49 | marketing, real estate referrals. Like,

7:52 | and I say that only because a lot of my

7:55 | followers from the past were real estate

7:57 | agents and they don’t think about that.

7:58 | Affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing

8:00 | is anything you can refer somebody to

8:02 | and get a commission. That’s all real

8:04 | estate referrals are. We get 25%. If I

8:06 | send you a lead in California and that

8:09 | person buys or sells a house, when it

8:11 | closes, I get 25% of the commission.

8:13 | It’s a referral agreement. It’s an

8:14 | affiliate agreement. Same thing. Same

8:17 | thing. So, bottom line, if you’re good

8:19 | at building an audience or interest,

8:22 | this is something that could be for you.

8:24 | Most of the people that I see do really

8:27 | well in software are people that are

8:30 | pretty natural at getting on camera or

8:33 | they can create faceless videos with AI

8:35 | if you want to do it that way or they

8:38 | can do really good short form content

8:40 | and point people immediately to a link.

8:42 | Here’s the tool I use. Here’s the tool I

8:44 | use. You know, I I made $20,000 last

8:47 | month selling ebooks and I did it all

8:48 | through this. I sell them all right here

8:50 | at this store. People would go click.

8:53 | They’re hearing $20,000 in ebooks. I

8:56 | want that. I didn’t, by the way. I’m I’m

8:58 | just new to ebooks. So, a couple

8:59 | thousand. But whatever it is, let’s just

9:01 | say I’m I’m I’m

9:03 | forecasting the future. I’m going to

9:05 | make 20K in a month on ebooks. Or I

9:07 | really do make I could say I’m I’m a 30K

9:09 | content creator and I do it all through

9:11 | Stan. Link is below. That’s my Stan

9:13 | store is where I sell my books. I sell

9:16 | my coaching. There’s a built-in it links

9:18 | your coaching calls to your Zoom calls,

9:20 | yada yada. So, a lot of people would be

9:22 | interested in that. So, if you show show

9:23 | up and tell them how you do that, but

9:26 | you use this tool, they’re you’re you’re

9:29 | going to that’s going to get some

9:30 | affiliate signups. Okay. What doesn’t

9:33 | what I can’t stand is when somebody

9:35 | emails me. It makes me nauseous. I get

9:39 | all these emails and all these Facebook

9:41 | messages and everybody targets me

9:42 | because they know I am an affiliate. So,

9:44 | they think I will respond to their

9:45 | affiliate offer, but I can actually just

9:47 | see right through it. So, it’s the

9:49 | opposite. I’m the worst candidate to do

9:50 | that with because I can spot it in the

9:52 | first two words.

9:54 | Anyway, when you email somebody and go,

9:56 | “Oh, I just know you would be.” And then

9:58 | there’s all these emojis and check marks

10:00 | and you can see it’s blanketed and sent

10:03 | to everybody. Nobody wants that. That

10:05 | that’s not the way I would approach

10:07 | this. Um, not with not with software

10:10 | signups. Software signups are best when

10:13 | you can get somebody to they want they

10:16 | already want a format or a tool. Okay.

10:20 | Um and and maybe that’s working for

10:22 | somebody out there. It doesn’t work on

10:23 | me, that’s for sure. So, another way I’m

10:26 | doing affiliate marketing is Amazon

10:28 | product reviews. So, basically, if I buy

10:30 | something from Amazon and um oh,

10:34 | actually, you don’t even have to buy it

10:35 | on Amazon. It just has to be sold on

10:38 | Amazon. The exact same product. So, this

10:40 | DJI mic, I keep calling it DJI, DJI mic.

10:45 | It’s a wireless microphone. There’s two

10:48 | microphones, so I could interview

10:49 | somebody. The other side just pops into

10:51 | the end of my phone. There’s no apps. It

10:53 | auto records as soon as I put the mic

10:55 | on. Great sound quality. We’re good to

10:57 | go. The only time my sound quality is

10:59 | ever off is if I have a jacket on or

11:02 | something that’s rubbing up against the

11:03 | microphone. My hair usually is fine. I

11:06 | try to hide it under there because it’s

11:08 | it’s obvious. Anyway, let’s just say I

11:10 | did that on on Amazon. I would do a

11:12 | little 30- secondond video, usually

11:14 | vertical. Here’s the camera. Here’s how

11:16 | it sounds without the mic. Here’s how it

11:18 | sounds with the mic. And when people

11:20 | click on that vid, watch that video, and

11:23 | then they buy that item, I get a

11:26 | commission. There’s several ways. One of

11:29 | the ways is with Amazon’s influencer

11:31 | program and that is where you’re able to

11:34 | upload your videos and your videos

11:37 | actually run sometimes on the product

11:40 | page. So somebody goes to Amazon and

11:42 | they type in best wireless microphone,

11:44 | let’s just say, or whatever, and the DJI

11:46 | mic happens to pop up there and they go

11:49 | in, they watch videos, the very last

11:51 | video they watch before they buy gets a

11:54 | commission. Not the ones on the bottom

11:56 | that are like reviews uh from it’ll say

11:58 | reviews from customers. There’s a

12:00 | different set. There’s like five.

12:02 | There’s the brand videos and under that

12:04 | there’s the influencer videos. Then

12:06 | under that there’s whatever the little

12:07 | feedback ones, which is another

12:09 | different program that I I’m not

12:10 | involved in. But anyway, I think that’s

12:12 | just where you get free products, but

12:14 | I’m not 100% sure. Now, these products

12:16 | are not generally provided to me for

12:18 | free. I’m usually just buying them and

12:20 | reviewing them. or if I got them for

12:22 | free, maybe from another platform I’ll

12:24 | review on. But the catch is if you get

12:26 | items for free, they have to be

12:28 | disclosed always. No matter how many

12:30 | times you make the video, I forget which

12:32 | ones are free and which ones aren’t

12:33 | free. So, it gets very confusing. But I

12:36 | do like to take if I’m getting samples

12:38 | from Tik Tok, like all my Laura Geller

12:40 | makeup, and then I go put it on Amazon,

12:43 | there’s only a very short amount for a

12:44 | title, so you’d have to put it like in a

12:46 | parenthesis gifted or something along

12:49 | those lines. I I wish Amazon would give

12:51 | us a little check mark so we could check

12:52 | it off and they could add the disclosure

12:53 | for us, but they haven’t yet. But that’s

12:55 | just Federal Trade Commission

12:57 | regulations. Anyway, so another way with

13:01 | Amazon is if you’re part of the Amazon

13:03 | Associates program, which is back in the

13:06 | day, we only had the associates program

13:08 | and it was primarily for bloggers. Then

13:10 | the influencer program came out. And the

13:12 | biggest difference is Amazon Associates,

13:14 | you usually submit a website and they

13:18 | give you links that you can share. Like

13:21 | I could go write a blog that says the 10

13:23 | best wireless microphones and I would

13:26 | get a link for each of the 10

13:27 | microphones and if somebody goes clicks

13:28 | on that and buys it, that’s more Amazon

13:30 | associates. Or you can just throw off

13:33 | throw out your links every now and then

13:34 | if somebody says, “Hey, Lori, where did

13:36 | you get that cat tree?” And I tell

13:37 | people where I get the cat tree. It’s

13:39 | really not designed as for friends and

13:41 | family. So, it’s really catchy. I’ve had

13:43 | people that have lost their accounts

13:44 | because they shared links on Facebook

13:46 | and a bunch of their friends went and

13:47 | bought the item off Amazon and Amazon

13:49 | said, “Hey, that’s not the purpose. You

13:50 | need to be an influencer if you’re going

13:51 | to do that.” So, before we only had one

13:54 | program. Now, we have a second program.

13:55 | So, Amazon influencer, you apply with a

13:57 | social channel. That would be a Tik Tok

13:59 | account, an Instagram business page, a

14:01 | Facebook business page, or a YouTube

14:05 | account. And they they you know

14:07 | influencer is a term they use very

14:09 | loosely. Basically they want to see what

14:11 | you’re posting and do you have any

14:13 | engagement. You know you can’t really

14:15 | apply with your Facebook page that has

14:17 | 10,000 uh followers on your real estate

14:21 | page and you’re promoting a bunch of

14:22 | real estate listings that nobody cares.

14:24 | Nobody’s commenting because it’s not

14:25 | really that’s not really what is not

14:27 | designed for engagement. That’s that

14:29 | that’s not going to get you approved.

14:30 | You could have 200 followers potentially

14:32 | on Tik Tok with a bunch of comments on

14:34 | your videos and they might approve you.

14:37 | So that you know I Amazon influencer is

14:40 | is going to be anywhere good. You know

14:42 | you could make a thousand, you can make

14:43 | a few thousand. You’re not going to

14:45 | probably get rich off of it. It’s 1 to

14:46 | 4% commission unless the you’re part of

14:49 | the creator connections program which

14:51 | throws a 10% bonus on there for a

14:53 | temporary amount of time. But it’s it’s

14:55 | small but it’s steady. I wake up every

14:57 | day to Amazon commissions every single

14:59 | day. If I’m buying the item anyway, why

15:01 | not review it? Literally, I have made

15:03 | commissions on my Blue Diamond almonds.

15:07 | A bag of almonds. I show people the

15:09 | almonds. I bought these on Amazon. I

15:11 | swear, I don’t know why they would watch

15:13 | a video about almonds, but they do. Cat

15:15 | food. I’ll open a can of cat food. My

15:17 | cat loves this Frisky’s cat food or

15:19 | whatever the the um whatever the cat

15:22 | food is that he likes, the tiki cat, and

15:24 | people will buy it. Cat treats or

15:26 | whatever. is basically anything you have

15:29 | that is for sale on Amazon. That lamp

15:32 | behind me, I bought it I think at Lamps

15:34 | Plus, but it’s for sale on Amazon

15:36 | because it’s the same brand, it’s the

15:37 | same lamp, I could promote it. That’s

15:39 | that’s a nice thing. Another way I made

15:42 | that $17,000 in affiliate commission was

15:45 | Tik Tok Shop. So, Tik Tok Shop has its

15:48 | own affiliate program. They run all of

15:52 | the stores. They manage all the little

15:53 | all the you have big brand sellers in

15:55 | there, too. when you have a whole lot of

15:57 | off-brand sellers in there. And

16:00 | personally, I I love Tik Tok for the big

16:04 | wins and it’s steady every day like

16:07 | Amazon for me. It’s money every day. You

16:10 | know, I know I’m going to make a

16:11 | thousand plus a month on it. I’ve had

16:14 | $5,000 days back toback on Tik Tok, but

16:17 | over time things are changing with Tik

16:19 | Tok. The game is changing. It’s not as

16:22 | easy as it first was. They really want

16:24 | you to stay in a particular niche. You

16:26 | got to work with brands that are putting

16:28 | money behind your videos where in the

16:29 | beginning it was all organic reach. So

16:31 | you got to you got to play the game a

16:33 | little bit. I don’t love playing the

16:34 | game a whole lot. So I just kind of dab

16:37 | right now I’m just dabbling in it.

16:39 | Fourth quarter holiday season, I expect

16:41 | I’ll amp it up quite a bit. Um I got put

16:44 | in the beauty niche which was not my

16:46 | target at 54 years old. Uh, but it if

16:50 | when I post about beauty products, they

16:52 | work, they do well. And um, so I I I did

16:55 | a bathing suit once and I made 20 grand

16:57 | on a bathing suit and I figured I’ve got

16:59 | a pool. I’m out in a bathing suit every

17:01 | day anyway. Why not make the video? And

17:03 | that’s I made uh I had a video go viral

17:07 | for a jewelry mirror that had like two

17:09 | million views on it. I made thousands

17:10 | and thousands of dollars on that. So,

17:13 | we’ll see where that goes. But that’s

17:15 | steady for me. It’s steady income every

17:16 | month. I know it’s going to be there. I

17:18 | just kind of make it part of my daily

17:20 | flow. I don’t purposely say, “Let me go

17:23 | time block two hours to go make Tik Tok

17:25 | videos.” Right now, I’m only working

17:26 | about four hours per day. Um the

17:29 | exceptions are on my big coaching days

17:31 | because I have a coaching group like

17:33 | today was. Then I usually will work a

17:34 | little bit longer on those days, but

17:36 | most days it’s about four hours. and I

17:40 | just make my Tik Tok videos as I use

17:42 | products that are sold on Tik Tok or

17:44 | I’ll pop into my beauty room where my

17:47 | stuff is and I’ll grab an eyehadow

17:48 | palette and I’ll just make a quick

17:49 | video. Here’s an eye today. I liked my

17:51 | hair this morning. I used a shampoo that

17:54 | Tik Tok sent me. It’s a nice salon brand

17:57 | and I said today’s the day I should go

17:59 | tell people about this shampoo. And so I

18:01 | remembered, okay, on days I do my hair,

18:03 | I should go do a curling iron. I should

18:04 | go do a uh some sort of hair product. If

18:08 | I have makeup on that day, I should go

18:10 | today. They sent me a MAC lipstick. So,

18:12 | I did the lipstick. Um that’s just kind

18:14 | of if I’m cooking dinner in my kitchen

18:16 | and the pans I’m using are for sale on

18:18 | TikTok. I’ll put that I’ll go make a

18:20 | quick video and throw it on there. Just

18:22 | natural part of my daily flow. A top, a

18:26 | sweater, a pair of shoes, a pair of

18:28 | jeans, jewelry. Oh, let me go put on

18:31 | that necklace that I got and and tell

18:32 | people about it really quick. Where

18:34 | other people are that are doing five

18:38 | figure months on average, I would say

18:41 | mine are definitely four figure months

18:42 | on average, although I do have five

18:44 | figure months sometimes. The five figure

18:46 | plus, they’re doing 10 to 15 videos a

18:49 | day, a lot of them. And a lot of them go

18:51 | nowhere. It’s a it’s just a kind of a

18:53 | gamble like, okay, let me try these. I

18:54 | mean, they know what brands to work

18:56 | with. that they know what how to pick a

18:58 | a product that’s probably going to sell

18:59 | pretty well and then they’ll make 10

19:01 | videos on that same product and some of

19:03 | them don’t go anywhere and some of them

19:04 | do. Same with me. I’ll make videos on a

19:07 | product that don’t go anywhere and all

19:08 | of a sudden two months later it pops off

19:09 | and I’m making a bunch of money on the

19:11 | one video but not on the other ones. You

19:12 | know, it’s just that’s just kind of the

19:14 | I enjoy it. I enjoy the variety, the

19:19 | change. I enjoy the gamble of it. like

19:21 | it’s not really a money risk, but it’s a

19:24 | we don’t know if it’s going to go

19:25 | anywhere and it’s kind of fun. It’s it’s

19:27 | just I like the thrill of it, right? I

19:29 | guess that’s what I’ll just say. It’s

19:30 | like a lottery. You just don’t know

19:32 | what’s going to happen. But I do know

19:33 | that no matter what I’m going to have

19:34 | four figure months and sometimes a five

19:36 | figure month, you know, that’s that’s

19:38 | way I look at there’s there’s there’s

19:39 | people doing six figure months on Tik

19:41 | Tok shop. So, it’s it’s you’re not going

19:43 | to pop off and go viral on Amazon like

19:45 | that. You’re going to do well. You could

19:47 | do well, but you’re not going to it’s

19:48 | not the same thing. Plus, Tik Tok pays

19:50 | 15% commissions. And the only time it

19:53 | usually drops down to 5%, which is still

19:55 | higher than Amazon, is when the brand

19:58 | runs ads behind your videos. Sometimes

20:01 | they’ll drop it to 5, 8, 10, but they’re

20:04 | putting all the money behind it, you

20:05 | know? So, you they’re sending you

20:07 | they’re not they’re not sending out free

20:09 | products as much as they were, but maybe

20:10 | you’re getting for free or maybe you’re

20:11 | buying it. My theory is this. I only buy

20:14 | things that I want or that I’m willing

20:17 | to take a risk on because I really think

20:18 | it’s going to be like a a glowing

20:20 | talking head pumpkin for Halloween or

20:22 | something. I did just go by, which will

20:25 | take me to the next segment. The next

20:26 | segment of where I make affiliate money

20:28 | is YouTube shopping. That’s a different

20:32 | channel, YouTube Shopping. And what

20:34 | YouTube Shopping does is it they have

20:36 | their own affiliate program, too. but

20:37 | they link to places like Pottery Barn

20:39 | and William Sonoma and Nike and

20:42 | Nordstrom and all Walmart and all the

20:44 | different brands. So, I did just buy

20:47 | like $1,500 worth of Halloween pillows

20:50 | from Pottery Barn. I don’t think I’d do

20:54 | it again.

20:56 | um trying to see if I could get these

20:59 | pro promote these Halloween uh pillows

21:02 | on YouTube and link it to YouTube

21:04 | shopping and earn commissions.

21:07 | But now the pro the reason one of the

21:09 | reason why I said I wouldn’t do it again

21:10 | is because they’re huge. I have like 20

21:12 | Halloween pillows now back in one of my

21:15 | rooms that I really wish weren’t in the

21:16 | house and they’ve been here for 4 weeks

21:18 | cuz I started a month ago and I’m not

21:21 | making enough videos to really keep

21:23 | those selling. So, I probably wouldn’t

21:25 | do it again. Again, it for me, I’m This

21:28 | is This is really creator preferences.

21:31 | If you’re a creator that you know, you

21:34 | just want to make full-time living off

21:35 | of YouTube shopping, you’ll show up

21:36 | every day and make YouTube shopping

21:38 | videos. You’ll do well, or twice a week,

21:40 | you could do 20-minut shopping hauls.

21:42 | Here’s all the Halloween pillows I

21:43 | bought from Pottery Barn. If you look at

21:45 | Well, if you know me and you know my

21:47 | other channel, I’m wearing a witch’s

21:48 | outfit in a full costume and I’m

21:50 | unboxing these pillows. Well, I need to

21:52 | do it again. I did it once six weeks

21:54 | ago. Like I need to do it again, but I’m

21:57 | finding my creator energy doesn’t want

22:00 | to go there. I would rather be sitting

22:03 | down in the afternoon with a nice cup of

22:06 | tea and revisiting my Pinterest blog or

22:10 | pushing out a Instagram carousel for my

22:13 | ebooks or something else. It’s it’s that

22:15 | type of affiliate marketing with

22:16 | products. I’d rather that just be kind

22:19 | of like a little side hustle that’s just

22:20 | natural part of my daily flow for

22:22 | products I’m already using. That’s just

22:24 | kind of the direction where I think I’m

22:26 | taking that place. Another place I make

22:28 | I earn affiliate marketing within that

22:30 | $17,000 is with blogging. And I will

22:33 | tell you that uh blogging blogging

22:37 | dollars aren’t as high as some of the

22:38 | other dollars, but again, it’s income

22:40 | that comes in all the time. So, if I go

22:42 | write a blog on the best 10 best shoe

22:45 | storage

22:47 | organizers and I it could rank with Chat

22:52 | GPT, it could rank with Google, it could

22:54 | rank with Bing, but I typically nowadays

22:56 | I’m making Pinterest pins and I have a

22:59 | lifestyle blog, a home and garden blog

23:01 | mostly and I make Pinterest pins and

23:04 | people click on the pins and they go

23:05 | over to the blog and they read the blog

23:07 | and then they buy things. So, another

23:09 | example is I have a blog all about how

23:11 | to hold a lady’s craft night. Craft

23:13 | night. Ladies crafts night. That was

23:16 | hard to say. And I’ve got something like

23:18 | uh wine and paint glasses. And I’m

23:21 | showing them how to paint the glasses.

23:22 | And underneath the paint glasses, I have

23:24 | a paint kit and the paint brushes and

23:26 | even the disposable wine glasses that

23:29 | they’ll buy. So, if I have a blog that

23:30 | starts to pop off, then I will go in and

23:33 | look, okay, how could I monetize this in

23:35 | other ways? So, I’m also monetizing it

23:37 | with ad revenue, but I’m looking down

23:39 | there going, “Hey, is there a spot for

23:40 | an affiliate link? This might be a good

23:42 | opportunity for affiliate link. Let me

23:43 | drop that in there and see if if see how

23:46 | that works.” Uh, one of the tools that I

23:48 | use for that, I am going to put the tool

23:49 | below, lasso. It is a WordPress plugin

23:54 | that integrates with Amazon, and it’s

23:55 | really cool. So, I can go in to I’m

23:59 | working on my WordPress blog. I’ll click

24:01 | the little plus sign to add a block and

24:04 | I’ll cl I’ll choose a lasso widget and

24:07 | it’ll say add a link. So I’ll put a link

24:09 | to let’s just say this microphone. Then

24:11 | I have options. I can actually put the

24:13 | whole image in as a block. I could put a

24:16 | little call to action. I could put a

24:18 | button. I could put a call to im uh a

24:20 | call to action that has kind of the

24:22 | image and it has a title and it has

24:24 | reviews and it has a little thing. I

24:26 | could do carousels. I could do lists. I

24:29 | could do comparisons. I could do tables.

24:31 | So if you’re a big blogger who’s

24:33 | interested in affiliate marketing and I

24:35 | can put in thirdparty affiliate links

24:37 | too, but then it doesn’t pull in the

24:39 | data like it does with Amazon. It has

24:41 | the API so it’s pulling in the data

24:44 | which means it’ll change the price

24:45 | automatically for me so I don’t get in

24:47 | trouble with Amazon. So that’s I’ll put

24:48 | that down there. That’s a that’s a cool

24:50 | tool if you’re interested in blogging

24:52 | and making uh affiliate income. Another

24:55 | way I make affiliate income is LTK, like

24:58 | to know it, formerly known as Reward

25:00 | Style. It’s like a beauty, fashion, home

25:01 | and garden app. Mostly fashion, mostly

25:05 | beauty. Uh, definitely lends more

25:08 | towards the younger influencer side.

25:10 | There aren’t as many of us in my age

25:11 | group on there. Um, and that’s fine cuz

25:13 | that’s not really what I want to be, but

25:15 | but I make some money there. And the

25:18 | other nice thing about LTK, so right now

25:20 | if I want to go on LTK and show people,

25:23 | well maybe I want to show them the top

25:24 | or the lipstick or whatever, I’ll take a

25:25 | picture of myself or maybe make it a

25:27 | video and then they have a large library

25:30 | of affiliate brands and links. So you

25:32 | don’t have to go partner with a brand

25:34 | separately. You do it all right there

25:36 | through their app. There’s a little

25:37 | Chrome extension. So, Pottery Barn,

25:40 | William Sonoma, um, uh, a lot of the

25:43 | women’s fashion, Made Well, and

25:45 | Nordstrom and and Men’s Fashion, too,

25:48 | and Home Depot and Lowe’s and all kinds

25:51 | furniture stores. All the regular name,

25:53 | a lot of the regular name brands that we

25:55 | would use, you can find on there. You

25:57 | can also use those links on Pinterest.

25:59 | You can use those links on your blog,

26:01 | but you do need to apply and you do have

26:04 | to be some sort of an influencer. But

26:06 | again, I use that term loosely. these

26:08 | people are not holding you. You got to

26:09 | have thousands and thousands of

26:10 | followers to get in a lot of times. But

26:14 | in in any of these cases with affiliate

26:16 | marketing, all these things that I just

26:18 | mentioned, they still do require you to

26:20 | have the ability to generate interest.

26:22 | You’re not just going to go make a bunch

26:24 | of affiliate income just putting links

26:26 | out there. Why do people care? You got

26:29 | to build something. A blog, a Pinterest

26:32 | account, a YouTube channel, an Instagram

26:34 | account. You have to be somewhere. And

26:37 | you have to be somewhere where you can

26:38 | include links. Now, Instagram just

26:40 | rolled out the ability to do reels and

26:42 | put Amazon links in your reels. That’s

26:44 | pretty incredible. I’ve dabbled. I

26:46 | haven’t done a lot with it cuz I’m

26:47 | working on another project. I was so

26:49 | excited when it rolled out, then I just

26:50 | kind of dropped it because I don’t

26:51 | really want to be a beauty fashion

26:53 | influencer. I’m more in the tech space,

26:55 | the digital marketing, the software. I

26:56 | really love that space for a million

26:59 | reasons. One, it’s just a lot more

27:01 | money. And it’s I love to teach digital

27:04 | marketing. So, it’s it it’s so good for

27:06 | me. I don’t love to be on camera every

27:08 | day putting on makeup looks at all. I

27:11 | don’t like that at all. I’m very

27:12 | naturalbased. I don’t like to do a lot

27:14 | of that. And same with fashion. I bought

27:16 | this top like four years ago at a

27:18 | farmers market.

27:20 | So, I’m not I can’t even promote it. I

27:23 | don’t even know it has a brand attached

27:24 | to it. So, I’m not like going out and

27:25 | buying all these new trending things

27:27 | that people are. And so, when I do that,

27:30 | I usually lose money. I did it once. I

27:32 | did a Nordstrom shopping haul and I went

27:34 | and reviewed all the products. It didn’t

27:36 | do so well and I did buckle. I sold a

27:39 | few things, but you have to be willing

27:40 | to do that every week. You can’t just

27:42 | pop off oneoff videos and expect them to

27:44 | show up. I would have to show up every

27:46 | single week at least once a week and do

27:48 | a 20 minute long form shopping haul. And

27:51 | for some reason, I just don’t want to do

27:52 | it. But I did interview some women that

27:55 | are doing it in my age group over 50

27:57 | that are making 250 3K a year, some

28:00 | more. Seems like the average kind of

28:03 | kept falling into that 250 3K, which a

28:05 | lot of us creators fall into that space

28:07 | that make money. There’s a lot of us

28:09 | doing 200 to 300K a year in these

28:13 | spaces. So now I also monetize all of my

28:16 | marketing with ebooks, which you’ll see

28:18 | right there. I teach people how to do

28:20 | ebooks. Uh, I mean, I teach people how

28:22 | to do all the marketing that I do. I

28:23 | also do have a coaching program,

28:25 | Blueprint Coaching, but those are not

28:26 | included in the 17,000. That’s just

28:29 | affiliate marketing. I’m promoting

28:31 | somebody else’s product or service and

28:32 | I’m earning a commission. And then I

28:34 | also have a little uh my my two brothers

28:37 | own a WordPress company and I send them

28:40 | business and I get 10%. So, that’s my

28:42 | other affiliate side of it. There’s a

28:44 | pretty nice little healthy split amongst

28:46 | them all. So, if I want to go crank it

28:48 | up a little bit, if I want to go turn it

28:50 | up, I know where to go. Like, let me go

28:51 | push some stuff to my brothers. Let me

28:53 | go push some stuff. Let me go do some

28:54 | more Tik Tok videos. Let me do an actual

28:56 | shopping haul on YouTube this week. Or,

28:58 | let me do another software. I like

28:59 | having all the levers that I can pull.

29:02 | Anyway, if you like this style of

29:04 | teaching, I’m Lori Balon,

29:05 | balonbloopprint.com. Love to have you.

29:07 | pick up an ebook and I’ll talk to you

29:09 | soon.

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