How to Start Affiliate Marketing in 2026 (Using AI)

The exact affiliate marketing system that’s working for complete beginners in 2025 and 2026, and AI does 90% of the work for you.

• 0:00 | 7 days and $847 generated with affiliate
• 0:03 | marketing. These are the results of one
• 0:05 | of my complete beginners students. They
• 0:07 | did that without creating a single piece
• 0:09 | of content, without building a social
• 0:11 | media following, and without any
• 0:13 | technical skills. If you think you need
• 0:15 | to be tech expert to have a massive
• 0:17 | audience to make money with affiliate
• 0:19 | marketing, you will be wrong. I’m about
• 0:20 | to show you the exact system that’s
• 0:22 | working right now and it’s going to be
• 0:24 | working in 2026 and how AI is doing 90%
• 0:28 | of the heavy lifting for complete
• 0:29 | beginners. Stick around because by the
• 0:31 | end of this video, you’ll have a
• 0:32 | complete road map you can implement
• 0:34 | today. If you’re new to this channel,
• 0:36 | welcome. And if you’re back, welcome
• 0:38 | back. My name is Ross Mchiff and I’m the
• 0:40 | co-owner of Profit Avengers, a
• 0:42 | sevenfigure affiliate marketing company.
• 0:44 | We’ve earned multiple ClickBank Platinum
• 0:46 | Awards with my business partner Mark for
• 0:49 | generating more than a million dollars
• 0:50 | in commissions. And our students are
• 0:53 | consistently generating between $300 to
• 0:55 | $1,000 a day in affiliate commissions as
• 0:58 | well. I remember when I started in this
• 1:00 | industry, I was completely overwhelmed.
• 1:02 | There was so many strategies, so many
• 1:05 | tools, so many conflicting advices. So
• 1:08 | today, I’m going to give you the
• 1:10 | simplest, most beginners friendly system
• 1:12 | that actually works and it’s working
• 1:15 | right now. This isn’t complicated. This
• 1:17 | isn’t theory. This is a step-by-step
• 1:19 | system that you can start implementing
• 1:21 | as soon as today, even if you have never
• 1:23 | made a dollar online. And the best part
• 1:25 | is AI is going to do the most of the
• 1:27 | work for you. So, let me be honest with
• 1:29 | you about why most beginners fail at
• 1:31 | affiliate marketing. It’s not because
• 1:33 | they’re not smart enough or it’s not
• 1:35 | because they don’t work hard enough.
• 1:37 | It’s because they’re overwhelmed by
• 1:40 | information and they don’t know where to
• 1:42 | start. They watch a bunch of YouTube
• 1:43 | videos telling them to build a website,
• 1:45 | write a blog post, and wait 6 months for
• 1:48 | Google to rank the blog post. They hear
• 1:50 | they need to post on Tik Tok five times
• 1:52 | a day and pray that the videos go viral.
• 1:55 | They’re also told to pick a product and
• 1:57 | just start promoting it with no actual
• 1:59 | strategy in place. The truth is most
• 2:01 | affiliate marketing advices are designed
• 2:03 | for people who are already having
• 2:05 | experience and nobody’s showing
• 2:07 | beginners the complete system from A to
• 2:09 | Z. That’s actually working right now in
• 2:11 | 2025 and 2026. But here’s what’s
• 2:14 | different now. AI has changed
• 2:15 | everything. Tools that used to require
• 2:17 | hiring designers, copywriters, and
• 2:20 | marketers, you can now access for free.
• 2:22 | And I’m going to show you exactly how to
• 2:24 | do that, how to do that, and how to use
• 2:26 | them right now. So, let me just break
• 2:28 | down what is affiliate marketing in the
• 2:30 | simplest term possible. For those of you
• 2:32 | who are just getting started, companies
• 2:34 | are having their products and they want
• 2:35 | to sell their products. They will pay
• 2:37 | you a commission anywhere from 20 to 60%
• 2:40 | or even more to send them customers.
• 2:42 | That’s it. You’re the middleman
• 2:44 | connecting people who have a problem
• 2:46 | with the solution, which is the product
• 2:48 | from the companies. And the system I’m
• 2:50 | going to teach you have four simple
• 2:52 | steps. First, you find a product people
• 2:54 | are actively searching for. Second, you
• 2:57 | create a simple system that captures
• 2:59 | commissions and most importantly
• 3:01 | people’s email addresses and more on
• 3:03 | that later. Thirdly, you use AI to build
• 3:06 | everything you need. And fourthly, you
• 3:08 | drive targeted traffic to your system.
• 3:11 | And yes, it requires some investment,
• 3:13 | but we’re talking about $10 to $20 to
• 3:16 | start, not thousands. The reason this
• 3:18 | system works so well for beginners is
• 3:19 | because you’re not guessing, you’re not
• 3:21 | hoping. You’re using data to find
• 3:24 | products people already want and you’re
• 3:26 | putting yourself in front of them at the
• 3:28 | exact moment they’re looking to buy.
• 3:30 | Step one is finding the right product to
• 3:32 | promote. I’ve been using a platform
• 3:34 | called exporting topics recently. So,
• 3:36 | let me show you how it works. And this
• 3:37 | tool has been a gamecher for finding
• 3:40 | opportunities before they get saturated.
• 3:43 | What this tool does is simply it shows
• 3:45 | you what people are searching for right
• 3:47 | now that’s growing in popularity. So
• 3:50 | let’s see some examples here. When I
• 3:53 | checked exploding topics recently, I
• 3:54 | found this AI image enhancer is trending
• 3:58 | up significantly. This means thousands
• 4:00 | of people are searching for tools to
• 4:02 | improve their photos using AI. Here’s
• 4:05 | the key. This is a validated market with
• 4:07 | real demand. When you find a trend like
• 4:09 | this, you go find affiliate programs in
• 4:11 | that space. For AI image enhancers,
• 4:14 | there are multiple companies. For
• 4:15 | example, Topazlaps and another company,
• 4:18 | let’s say, Hens and other companies like
• 4:20 | that. They offer from 30 to 50 to 60%
• 4:23 | commissions. Some companies even offer
• 4:26 | recurring commissions, which means you
• 4:28 | get paid every single month that
• 4:30 | customers stay subscribed. For example,
• 4:32 | let’s enhance does that and it offers
• 4:35 | 30% recurring commissions. And there are
• 4:38 | also well-known affiliate networks like
• 4:40 | ClickBank, dig store 24 or impact.com.
• 4:43 | Here’s another example from completely
• 4:45 | different niche. Grounding shoes. These
• 4:48 | are shoes designed for grounding health
• 4:50 | movement and they are exploding in
• 4:52 | popularity right now. There are
• 4:54 | affiliate programs in that space
• 4:55 | offering 20 to 40% commissions on
• 4:58 | products that sell for $100 $200. Now
• 5:01 | you can do the math how much a
• 5:02 | commission you’re going to get for this
• 5:03 | type of an item. When choosing which
• 5:06 | trend to pursue, ask yourself three
• 5:08 | questions. Do affiliate programs exist
• 5:10 | with at least 30% commission rates?
• 5:13 | Second, is this something people will
• 5:15 | actually spend money on? And thirdly, am
• 5:18 | I comfortable recommending this product
• 5:20 | to other people? Just pick one trend,
• 5:22 | commit to it for yourself and for your
• 5:24 | first funnel. Step two is building your
• 5:26 | system. Now, don’t panic. This is way
• 5:28 | simpler than it actually sounds. You
• 5:30 | need a platform that can do three
• 5:32 | things. Create a landing page, send
• 5:34 | automated emails, and track your
• 5:36 | results. That’s it. And the tool I
• 5:38 | recommend for complete beginners is
• 5:39 | system 304. Here’s why. It handles
• 5:42 | everything in one place. Your landing
• 5:44 | page, your email automation, and all
• 5:46 | your analytics in one dashboard. And the
• 5:49 | best part, it has a free plan that lets
• 5:51 | you get started without any upfront
• 5:53 | investment in the software. Here’s what
• 5:55 | you’re building. A simple landing page
• 5:57 | that offers something valuable for free
• 5:59 | in exchange for an email address. This
• 6:01 | is called a lead magnet. For the AI
• 6:04 | image enhancer example, your lead magnet
• 6:06 | could be five free AI tools to enhance
• 6:09 | your photos in seconds. For the
• 6:11 | grounding shoes, it could be the
• 6:13 | complete beginner’s guide to grounding
• 6:15 | and and earthing. Now, here’s where I
• 6:17 | make this incredibly easy. Go to Chad
• 6:20 | GPT and type create a detailed guide
• 6:22 | about AI image enhancement tools with
• 6:25 | comparisons and use cases. And within 13
• 6:28 | seconds, you have a complete PDF guide.
• 6:31 | Done. For formatted nicely in Canva,
• 6:34 | which also has a AI tools to design it
• 6:36 | if you want to. And your lead magnet is
• 6:38 | done. Inside system.io. You will create
• 6:40 | your landing page. But here’s the
• 6:42 | secret. You don’t write any of this
• 6:44 | yourself. Go to charg again and say,
• 6:47 | “Write compelling landing page copy for
• 6:50 | a free guide about AI image enhancer
• 6:53 | tools. Include a headline, sub headline,
• 6:56 | three bullet points of benefits, and a
• 6:58 | call to action. AI writes your entire
• 7:01 | page in seconds. That’s it. For images
• 7:04 | on your landing page, use AI image
• 7:06 | generators again like Chat GPT or Nano
• 7:08 | Banana from Google AI Studio or the AI
• 7:11 | tools built into Canva. Type what you
• 7:13 | need. Professional person editing photos
• 7:15 | on a laptop. Modern clean background and
• 7:18 | you have a custom images without hiring
• 7:20 | a designer. So now after someone enters
• 7:22 | their email address on the landing page,
• 7:25 | you need a thank you page and this is
• 7:27 | where you present your first affiliate
• 7:29 | offer. Keep it simple. Thanks them for
• 7:32 | downloading your guide and then you can
• 7:34 | leave a message. If you want the most
• 7:35 | powerful AI image enhancer, I personally
• 7:38 | use this tool and you leave your
• 7:40 | affiliate link, product name, whatever.
• 7:42 | Include your affiliate link. Some people
• 7:44 | will buy immediately and you’ve made
• 7:46 | your first commission on the actual
• 7:48 | thank you page. Now you need to set up
• 7:50 | automated emails. Again, AI does the
• 7:52 | work. Go to Chajip and here’s the
• 7:54 | prompt. Write a seven email sequences
• 7:57 | for people who downloaded a guide about
• 8:00 | AI image enhancer. Include value in each
• 8:03 | email and naturally recommend affiliate
• 8:05 | products. And here you go. You’ll get a
• 8:08 | complete email sequence written for you
• 8:10 | in minutes just from the AI. Here’s how
• 8:12 | it works. Email one delivers the guide.
• 8:14 | Email two shares a helpful tip about
• 8:17 | photo editing. Email three tells a
• 8:19 | relevant story or case study. Email four
• 8:22 | presents your main affiliate product
• 8:24 | with a clear recommendation. And emails
• 8:26 | five through seven provide additional
• 8:29 | value while mentioning different product
• 8:31 | options which is which are probably
• 8:34 | should be your affiliate links. So load
• 8:37 | this into system.io and they will be
• 8:39 | sent automatically. The place where you
• 8:42 | load them is called email campaigns or
• 8:44 | email newsletters. Now, step three is
• 8:47 | getting people to see your landing page.
• 8:49 | And this is where Facebook ads come in.
• 8:51 | Now, I know what you’re thinking. Oh,
• 8:53 | Facebook ads sounds too complicated and
• 8:55 | too expensive. But with AI, this has
• 8:57 | become incredibly incredibly simple.
• 8:59 | First, because Facebook now has a new AI
• 9:02 | update called Andromeda, which helps
• 9:04 | complete beginners to see results from
• 9:06 | day one. And more on this update you can
• 9:08 | see in the video in the description
• 9:10 | below. And secondly, you you use AI to
• 9:14 | create all the ads and you don’t have to
• 9:16 | create them yourself. You can start with
• 9:18 | as little as $10 to $20 per day. Yes,
• 9:21 | this is an investment, but think of it
• 9:23 | like this. If you spend $30 and make $60
• 9:27 | back in commissions, you just doubled
• 9:29 | your money. That’s how this works. When
• 9:31 | you have a good system, and here’s how
• 9:33 | AI makes this beginners friendly. Go to
• 9:36 | Chad GPT and say, “Write three Facebook
• 9:39 | ad variations for a free guide about AI
• 9:42 | image enhancer tools. Target
• 9:44 | photographers and content creators. Make
• 9:47 | make it compelling and curiositydriven.
• 9:50 | Within seconds, you have multiple ad
• 9:53 | copies to test in your Facebook ads
• 9:55 | manager. For ad images, use the same AI
• 9:59 | image generator. Create three to five
• 10:01 | different variations for AI image
• 10:03 | enhancers. You might show before and
• 10:06 | after photos examples, someone
• 10:08 | frustrated with lowquality images or a
• 10:11 | clean professional workspace. Test
• 10:13 | different angles because you won’t know
• 10:16 | what resonates until you try. Inside the
• 10:19 | Facebook ads manager, you create a
• 10:21 | campaign. Choose conversions as your
• 10:23 | objective because you want people to
• 10:25 | become leads when they land on your
• 10:27 | opt-in page or landing page. For
• 10:29 | targeting, test two variations. First,
• 10:32 | keep it open. Let Andromeda update do
• 10:34 | the rest. And second test, which you’re
• 10:37 | going to do, try a small interest
• 10:40 | layering. Target people interested in
• 10:42 | photography, graphic design, Adobe
• 10:44 | products, or content creation. If you’re
• 10:47 | promoting AI image enhancers or courses,
• 10:49 | right? Run your ads for 3 to 5 days
• 10:52 | without changing anything. This is
• 10:54 | important. Don’t change anything. You’re
• 10:56 | collecting data. Now, Facebook needs
• 10:58 | time to learn who responds to your ads.
• 11:01 | You will see how many people click, how
• 11:03 | many uh people give you their email
• 11:05 | address, and how many buy. That’s it.
• 11:07 | The most three important numbers to
• 11:08 | watch are these. How much each email
• 11:10 | subscriber cost you, what percentage of
• 11:13 | people actually uh buy your affiliate
• 11:15 | product, and your total return on
• 11:18 | investment. In other words, if you’re
• 11:20 | spending $3 per email subscriber and 10%
• 11:23 | of them buy a product that gives you 50
• 11:26 | $50 commission, you you’re making $5 per
• 11:29 | subscriber against a $3 cost. That’s a
• 11:32 | profit right there. After your testing
• 11:34 | phase, turn off ads that are not
• 11:37 | working, that are not performing.
• 11:38 | Increase spending on ads that are
• 11:40 | profitable. Create new variations based
• 11:42 | on what’s performing best. This is a
• 11:44 | simple cycle. Test, measure, optimize,
• 11:47 | scale. That’s it. Even your optimization
• 11:50 | can be AI assisted. Take your ad
• 11:52 | performance data to Chat GPT. Let me
• 11:54 | show you how it works. Pretty cool. Now
• 11:57 | go to Chat GPT. And the prompt you’re
• 11:59 | going to leave there is as following.
• 12:01 | I’m running ads for AI image tools. My
• 12:04 | ad one or ad A has 2% click rate. Ad B
• 12:09 | has 4%. What changes should I test? AI
• 12:13 | will give you specific recommendations
• 12:15 | for improving your results. So let’s
• 12:17 | illustrate what we have here. You
• 12:19 | identified a trending product using data
• 12:22 | with exploding topics. Now you’ve built
• 12:24 | a simple funnel with a landing page and
• 12:26 | email sequence all created with AI.
• 12:29 | You’re now running Facebook ads that
• 12:31 | cost $10 to $20 per day and you’re
• 12:34 | collecting 10 email subscribers, let’s
• 12:36 | say every single day. Let’s do simple
• 12:38 | math. If 10 people join your email list
• 12:42 | per day and over the next week two of
• 12:44 | them purchase a product that gives you a
• 12:47 | $50 commissions, you have made a h 100
• 12:50 | bucks. Your ad spend was, let’s say,
• 12:52 | $200 for that week. That’s not
• 12:55 | profitable yet. But here’s the key. You
• 12:58 | now own those 70 email subscribers and
• 13:00 | you can market to them repeatedly. those
• 13:03 | 70 people on your list. Over the next
• 13:05 | month, you’ll send them valuable emails
• 13:08 | with more products, more
• 13:09 | recommendations, maybe five more people
• 13:12 | buy. That’s another $250. Now, you’re
• 13:15 | profitable. And the next month, those
• 13:16 | same subscribers might buy something
• 13:19 | else. This is why email lists are so so
• 13:22 | valuable. One subscriber can generate
• 13:24 | revenue multiple times throughout the
• 13:26 | year. So, now, how do you scale that?
• 13:28 | Once you’re profitable, even if it’s
• 13:29 | just $10 per day in profit, you scale,
• 13:32 | increase your ad budget by 20%. Instead
• 13:35 | of $30 per day, spend $36. Keep scaling
• 13:39 | gradually while, you know, maintaining
• 13:41 | profitability. This is how our students
• 13:43 | go from $50 per day to $500 per day in
• 13:46 | ad spend. And after you have one
• 13:48 | profitable funnel, you build a second
• 13:50 | one in a different niche. Remember that
• 13:52 | grounding shoes trend that I showed you?
• 13:54 | That’s a funnel number two. Same system,
• 13:57 | different product. This is how you scale
• 13:59 | from $300 per day to $1,000 per day by
• 14:03 | running multiple profitable funnels.
• 14:05 | Here’s a realistic expectations. Week
• 14:07 | one, you’re building and testing. Week
• 14:09 | two, you’re optimizing. Week three, you
• 14:12 | might break even or see small profits.
• 14:14 | Week four, you should have clear data
• 14:16 | showing you whether this is valuable.
• 14:19 | Most of our students reach consistent
• 14:21 | $300 plus per day in affiliate
• 14:23 | commissions within day 20 to 40
• 14:26 | depending on the work ethic and the
• 14:28 | niche they’re in. Now, here’s exactly
• 14:29 | what you need to do in the next 48
• 14:31 | hours. First, go to exploring topics and
• 14:34 | find one trending product in a category
• 14:36 | that you’re interested. Spend 30 minutes
• 14:39 | researching affiliate offers or
• 14:42 | programs. Go on different websites and
• 14:44 | trends. You can go on ClickBank. You can
• 14:46 | go on Digi Store 24 Impact. Whatever it
• 14:48 | might be, choose one offer with at least
• 14:51 | 30% commissions. Second, create your
• 14:53 | free system account. Use Chart GPT to
• 14:56 | create your lead magnet content and your
• 14:58 | landing page copy. Use Canva with AI
• 15:01 | tools to design everything. Build your
• 15:03 | landing page and set up your seven email
• 15:06 | sequences. That’s it. This should take
• 15:08 | you two to four hours total. No more
• 15:10 | than that. Maybe a day. Third, use
• 15:12 | Charypity to write you a Facebook ad
• 15:14 | copy that I just showed you. Use AI
• 15:16 | image generators to create your ad
• 15:18 | visuals. Set up your Facebook ads
• 15:20 | campaign within like 20 bucks, 15 bucks
• 15:23 | a day budget. Launch it and let it run
• 15:25 | for 5 days before making any changes. 3
• 15:28 | days. Okay, if you’re not passionate
• 15:29 | patient, 3 days it should be like don’t
• 15:32 | touch them before the third day.
• 15:34 | Ideally, you want to leave them for 5
• 15:36 | days. And that’s your entire system.
• 15:38 | Okay. So, leave a comment below telling
• 15:40 | me which product trend you you’re going
• 15:42 | to test after this. I will review
• 15:45 | comments and provide you with guidance
• 15:46 | where I can. So, you know, I want to
• 15:49 | help you. So, leave me a comment which
• 15:51 | trend you have decided on. So, you know,
• 15:53 | I’m going to critique it, maybe give you
• 15:54 | some advices, etc. And if you want more
• 15:56 | step-by-step content like this one,
• 15:58 | subscribe to the channel. I break down
• 16:00 | real strategies that are proven and that
• 16:02 | actually work. They’re proven because
• 16:04 | myself and my business partner and my
• 16:05 | students have tested them multiple
• 16:07 | times. and also send this video to
• 16:09 | anyone who’s been waiting to start
• 16:11 | making money online with affiliate
• 16:13 | marketing but doesn’t know where to to
• 16:15 | begin. This is the most beginner
• 16:17 | friendly system I can teach literally
• 16:20 | using AI and a bunch of systems that you
• 16:22 | click a bunch of buttons and they set up
• 16:24 | everything for you. No technical skills,
• 16:26 | no special knowledge required. Look, I
• 16:28 | know this is this might feel
• 16:30 | overwhelming if you’re just brand new,
• 16:33 | but here’s the truth. Every successful
• 16:35 | affiliate marketer started exactly where
• 16:37 | you are are right now. The only
• 16:40 | difference between them and you is that
• 16:42 | they took action. That’s it. But think
• 16:44 | about it. You even have an advantage
• 16:46 | that they didn’t have. They didn’t have
• 16:48 | AI tools that do the work for entire
• 16:50 | teams. Use them. They’re free or they’re
• 16:53 | free or they’re cheap and they eliminate
• 16:56 | every excuse about not having skills or
• 16:58 | experience. So, will this make you rich
• 17:00 | overnight? No. Will it work if you
• 17:03 | implement this system? consistently for
• 17:04 | 90 days based on what I’ve seen with
• 17:08 | hundreds of students. Yes. The question
• 17:11 | is whether you will actually do it or
• 17:13 | not. I’m Ross Mitch from Profit
• 17:14 | Avengers. Like this video, subscribe to
• 17:18 | the channel, and now it’s time to go and
• 17:20 | build something.

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