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Affiliate Marketing is one of those things that you probably ignore. I am here to tell you, that Affiliate Marketing will change your life. Forget about all of those useless Warrior Plus, and JVZOO offers you have been getting. Let us talk about something real. A line of business that you can, and should, invest in. The idea is to create an income that can be sustained over the long term.
I know most of you are expecting me to be sending you Warrior Plus types of offers. You are looking forward to the next hot secret marketing funnel thing-a-ma-jigga. But let me ask you this, how far will you get promoting fad after fad? I admit that Warrior Plus is an Affiliate Marketing platform. However its a gross, Affiliate Marketing platform.
I am sorry to disappoint and tell you that I am only going to offer you real business opportunities that are worth your while. That includes being careful about the products that I send your way.
While we are on Warrior Plus and the likes – Take a look at the screenshot below from MunchEye.com
A lot of the products that email marketers sell to you are found on websites like MunchEye.com. As you can see, the website is very prolific when it comes to launching products. The fact that new products are being launched daily should tell you that, generally, you should not take the products that are sold to you seriously. Imagine if Apple launched a new iPhone every day. Would that lead to you getting proper iPhones or just some knock offs? That’s what is happening here with MunchEye.
What you get in your emails from marketers who sell these types of products, are carefully crafted messages meant to sell you some junk. The email marketer makes a bit of money and then moves on to the next product. I am sure that you can see that this type of approach to Affiliate Marketing is not sustainable.
What Is Affiliate Marketing?
OK, I jumped the gun there. Let’s take a step back and get the definition of Affiliate Marketing out of the way.
Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people’s (or company’s) products. You find a product you like, promote it to others and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you make.
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So, let’s cut to the chase. I am here to share an Affiliate Marketing Blueprint that will see you make your first $10000 online.
The Affiliate Marketing Blueprint
Product Considerations
Sell One Product
For starters, you should concentrate on selling ONE product. I know that sounds boring but remember, Affiliate Marketing is your side hustle. You cannot afford to spread yourself too thin by delving into too many endeavors.
You should be ready to sell the product for a year or more. This fact alone means that you have to choose a product from a reputable organization, that will still be appealing in the long term. The issue of longevity is why I took a swipe at the products sold via Warrior Plus and JVZoo. Check products that have been launched in the past from these websites, and you will realize that most of the products are now useless. The products sold on those sites are built by small-timers, looking to make a quick buck.
Examples of products with longevity are health-related products such as diet guides. People will always want to go on a diet. A product that manages to solve the problem of weight gain now, will most likely be able to solve the problem in the future. Another example of a good product with longevity are sales funnels from reputable organizations such as ClickFunnels.
Promote A Digital Product
Most people who are new to marketing think in terms of physical products. I do not blame you, it is what you are used to. I used to see things that way as well.
Selling physical products comes with a lot of issues, that you do not want to deal with as a beginner.
A physical product has lower profit margins. As a result, you get lower commissions which are usually less than ten percent. With digital products, getting a commission of 50% is the order of the day.
When you sell physical products you have to deal with issues like shipping, breakages, and returns. This is a result of the nature of moving physical goods from point A to point B. The result is lower customer satisfaction, and lower profit margins.
Geographically, the market is also smaller for physical products. There are some places that you cannot ship goods to for various reasons. The shipping times are also prohibitive in some instances, like where a customer is not willing to wait for months to receive the product on their remote island. Digital products face no such issues with similar delivery times all over the world.
Membership Products Are The Best For Affiliate Marketing
The idea of passive income stems from the fact, that you get money while not doing anything. The term is thrown around a lot in the Affiliate Marketing circuit. What most marketers do not do, is explain that passive income is not earned on every type of affiliate product. The scenario is different from that of investing in shares, which are the best example when you look at earning passive income. You buy shares, and then sit while other people work to earn you a dividend.
The best way to earn passive income from Affiliate Marketing is to sell a membership-based product. A membership-based product ensures that you get paid every month. You get paid every time that your customer pays the subscription. If the customer pays the subscription over three years, you get paid for 3 years.
Do you see how important it is for you to promote a quality product? If you sell one of those Warrior Plus products, the customers will drop off one by one until you don’t receive a cent from monthly commissions.
With a membership-based product, you benefit from the Snowball Effect. Month after month, you make more money each month. This is because as you recruit more people, there will be more people month after month paying subscriptions for the product that you are promoting.
Sell A Product With A Free Trial
A free trial is an easy way to convince people to purchase a product that they are selling. When you give someone a free trial, you give them a risk-free opportunity to put the product through its paces.
A clever person will then offer support throughout the trial phase to ensure that the customer is convinced to purchase after the trial. If a product is not offering a free trial, do not sell it.
How To Sell The Digital Products
There are three ways in which you can sell products in Affiliate Marketing. The approaches all come with their pros and cons so it is a matter of choice. You also have to match the approach that you use with your situation.
Selling Through Paid Advertising
For this one, Google Ads is the best approach. The Google Ads approach is the best, when you have a good budget to start with.
When I say a good budget, I mean at least $10000. You need $10000, because of the trial and error that is required in pay per click advertising. You shall learn how to serve ads online, at a cost. Not all of your ad campaigns shall be successful. Who knows, all of the advertising campaigns might fail.
The benefits of using pay per click advertising, are that you get to put your offers in front of customers immediately. If done right, you can target the exact customers for your products with little in terms of effort and skills.
The drawbacks are that, pay per click advertising is expensive so most beginners will not be willing to go this route. The other matter is that, the return on investment for most is low. I have wasted thousands of dollars myself on pay per click advertising.
With bridge funnels, you get a higher return on investment though. I talk about bridge funnels later on in this article.
Using Email Marketing To Sell Products
A lower-cost approach is using email marketing.
To get a good email marketing program going you need about $100 to $150 for the software like MailWizz and the email lists. This makes email marketing look good but the skill required to make it work is rather high. Setting up the autoresponders and getting them to deliver sales is a major task in itself.
As a newbie, you can benefit from having experts who help you write the good emails that will get you conversions. After a year or so you will be able to build up a monster list to sell products to every time you are pushing something.
However, when compared to paid advertising, the conversion rates are lower. A lot more patience is required to get those on the email leads to warm up to you.
Making Sales From Organic Traffic
Getting sales from organic traffic is the hardest way to make an income from Affiliate Marketing.
What makes using organic traffic the toughest method is a lot of skills are required. You need to be good at copyrighting, search engine optimization, website design, and a host of other things.
When you manage to put all of this together, you then have to convince those that have visited your website to buy your products.
In the long term, organic traffic has the highest return on investment as the traffic is free. The lower risk profile associated with getting traffic to test your products is also attractive. I talked about using Instagram to get tons of organic traffic a few weeks ago. I have other methods that I am testing like Twitter and TikTok. You get an update as soon as I am convinced that I have valuable information to share. Twitter and TikTok are looking promising though, my pages grow daily.
Read that article on Instagram Theme Pages because the method I talk about there is life-changing. I am also going to write some follow-up posts on that so it’s wise if you read the first one. Do not listen to other tips like posting in Facebook groups because that does not work unless you are privy to certain types of information. I reveal that information in posts down the line.
A Big Tip On How To Find High Quality Digital Products To Sell
There are websites that have poor quality products such as MunchEye and Warrior Plus. Then there are websites that have good quality products that you can build an Affiliate Marketing business around.
I am not saying that all of the products on Warrior Plus are not good – but it’s a dangerous website. You have to know what you are doing to mess around on it.
Capterra.com is an example of a website with references to good software on it. I am sure you are familiar with Bitrix24. Anyone who watches YouTube has come across their advertisements. You can find Bitrix 24 and other good software to sell on Capterra.
If you install the Similar Sites extension into your browser, you can use it to find websites with similar services to Capterra. From there you will find the best digital product to sell on an Affiliate Marketing basis.
Bridge Funnels – The Fastest Way To Get To $10000
We discussed the methods that people use to drive traffic to affiliate offers. Creating a bridge funnel powered by pay per click advertising is the fastest way to get the money flowing in.
A Bridge Funnel is a strategy to help you pre-frame cold traffic for the thing you really want to sell – your affiliate offer. Especially useful for affiliate marketers since you don’t control the offer pages of the products you’re promoting.
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What a bridge funnel does for you is to warm up what we call cold traffic.
Cold traffic is people browsing on the web who are not necessarily looking to buy what you are selling. Think of those human billboards that you see on the pavement telling you about the latest specials that are instore. The human billboards try to pique your interest and attempt to change your plans for the day by making you go instore on impulse. If they fail to change your plans for that day, the billboard will make you come back some other day.
Piquing interest is the role of a bridge funnel. All that is needed is you to create convincing pay per click advertisements that will drive traffic to the bridge page. Click on the image above to see one of my bridge pages for Builderall.
After a potential customer hits your bridge page, they can leave their email address. You have to give them a good reason to leave their email address. My bridge funnel landing page has a 14-day free trial laid on the page to trap you into leaving your email address.
If you don’t sign up there and there, there is an email sequence that will convince you to sign up sooner rather than later.
With bridge funnels, you have a sales team pushing various products that you are selling to your customers around the clock. You need a bit of a budget for it though. If you do not have the budget like me or you are risk-averse, you can go the blogging route like I am doing.
Are Sales Funnels The One For You?
With Affiliate Marketing, there are many ways to kill a cat. This is an introduction to one of the more expensive methods that give quicker results – or not.
At some point, I am going to use bridge funnels again. Once I have learned and earned a bit more. If you have the budget, you can go into this now. I am happy to give you more tips and pointer in the comment section below. You can also drop me an email on my contact page or from somewhere in the footer of this webpage.
I am pursuing more conservative ways of selling like building my organic traffic platforms. My Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok accounts are growing. I am going to sell products on those pages later on.
What do you think about using bridge funnels to skyrocket your Affiliate Marketing like, next week? I think they are a pretty good option with tools like Builderall and the likes lying around.
Let me know what you think in the comments section below.
