AffiliateMentor, Author at Affiliate Marketing Mentors

Time Freedom Business

A time freedom business gives you both money and time. For many, time is more important than money. Would your life improve the most if you have more time or more money?

Most people sell their time for money and so are forever trapped by this relationship of exchanging their time for money to live. But what if you could break this cycle? What if you could earn money automatically without trading your time for it? You can, and one of the best ways to do this is through selling other people’s products online, and earning commissions from sales.

One of the best time freedom business models is known as affiliate marketing. Anyone can become an affiliate and use existing products and services to profit from. By selling recurring income affiliate programs such as membership products or software, you can build a passive recurring source of income from anywhere in the world. What’s even better about this business model is that you can also build it around existing work and commitments. The fastest way to build a time freedom business is with a digital business system which is already built.

Time Freedom Business

A time freedom business is something worth pursuing because it can eventually pay you a nice passive income. But in order for it to be successful, you need to give it some time and learn how to build it (start here). One of the best affiliate marketing business models is to use a product “suite” rather than selling only one product. With a range of products to sell, you can earn far more than with only one product to sell.

Plus, if you also use recurring income products such as memberships and software, you stand to earn much more. High ticket products and multi tier commissions are other considerations too. With these kinds of digital products in your sales funnel, you can benefit from the highest commissions structures in the affiliate industry. This means you can also use paid marketing and build a time freedom business much more quickly. See also fastest legit way to make money online.

Other low paying affiliate products, such as physical products, are much more difficult to sell, in part because using paid advertising to do so gives you less leeway. A physical product sold for $100 might pay only $3 in commission, (at 3% for example). Whereas a digital product which sells for $1000 can pay out more like $400 in commission, (at 40%).

If the same amount of work goes into selling affiliate products, whatever they are, surely you would choose to promote the higher paying products.

Digital Vs. Physical Products

Digital products are products such as software and memberships. These kind of products typically pay much more than their physical counterparts. Physical products like those you’d find on Amazon, for example, tend to pay between 1% and 11% commissions. So in order to be profitable, you would need to sell in bulk. With a membership product which carries a recurring commission, you can generate a good monthly income from only selling a handful of items.

Physical products pay very little in compensation to affiliate marketers. There’s much more cost involved in manufacturing and shipping with a physical product. So digital products can offer a better bet for a time freedom business.

The margin is small for physical products and this makes it more difficult to use paid marketing techniques to sell them. Content marketers build content and drive sales through it, which is a way around this. But this can take years to create and it’s an incredibly slow method of selling items online. Paid marketing on the other hand is very fast. But in order to profit from using paid marketing, you need a business model with a good commission structure and multiple earning methods. See SFM Digital Business System.

What A Time Freedom Business Can Give You

It’s important to set some realistic expectations with a time freedom business model. It’s still a business and not a “get rich quick” scheme! You’re ultimately responsible for the success or otherwise of an online business venture. However, the time freedom business model can give anyone the ability to completely replace their existing income, work from anywhere, and even build their online business around existing work.

It can give you complete financial, geographical and time freedom! Surely that’s something worth working really hard for! If you don’t think so, it might be that entrepreneurial life isn’t for you!

If you’re serious about building a time freedom business then access a free video series by clicking on the image below. You’ll learn the different online business models you can use to build a business which can give you more control, financial certainty and greater flexibility and freedom!

Hands Off Business Ideas

The best hands off business ideas work around the clock 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They generate an income through automation and through using the internet.

So how can you capitalise on the internet as a means to generate a hands off income? Simple; become a part of the growing number of people who refer sales online. In short, it’s a business model known as affiliate marketing. It’s one of the best hands off business ideas, and is available to anyone with a laptop and internet connection.

Affiliates put themselves in-between customers and products.

In 2020 online sales sales grew by 46% while overall retail sales fell by a record 1.9% – according to the office of national statistics (ONS). With so many people buying online, it makes sense to learn how to become an affiliate so you can benefit from the growing trend in online purchases.

Hands Off Business Ideas – Affiliate Marketing

Affiliates promote all kinds of products online, from those you would buy from Amazon, to digital training and education products. If someone buys an affiliate product from your unique affiliate link, you generate a commission based on the sale. When you learn how to make a single sale online, you can make many more; even selling products in your sleep!

Product delivery and customer services are already taken care of by the product owner. As an affiliate you only need to concentrate on generating the sale. This makes it one of the best hands off business ideas available today.

You’re probably wondering how an affiliate can make a sale online? So here’s some of the ways in which anyone can create a passive, hands off business from the internet through using the affiliate marketing model.

Hands Off Business Ideas – Promoting Affiliate Products

Within affiliate marketing there are multiple ways to operate. Most affiliates will build an email list of subscribers and automate a follow up email series. They share information and link to affiliate products through their email messages. Some affiliates will even build an email campaign which stretches for months or even years. So when someone joins their email list, their email autoresponder automatically sends out emails promoting products on their behalf.

As people buy products and services through these email messages, the affiliate earns commissions based on the product sales. This can be completely passive too, once set up!

To build an email list affiliates will use various methods:

Paid marketing – using the various marketing platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Google Adwords etc.
Content marketing – content such as this article is also used to drive online visitors (traffic) to landing pages where the owner collects the visitors email address.
Social media marketing – there’s various other strategies affiliates can use including free strategies on the various social media platforms. See unpaid social media marketing.
See also 22 ways to promote affiliate products.

Passive Income From Adsense

One of the best hands off business ideas is to use Adsense (or a similar program). With Google’s Adsense program, you can profit from the advertising placed on either a website or through your video content.

Website owners generate content and get that content found on the main search engines. They place advertising on their site through Adsense, and earn revenue when their website visitors click on advertising on their site.

The amounts you earn from clicks will depend on your particular content, but are generally very small. But when you start generating free traffic to your site, you can generate an automated and passive income through using this method. See get traffic to your website free for some free traffic generation strategies.

You can also use Adsense in conjunction with free blog sites and with YouTube. YouTube’er generate lots of content and get paid for clicks on their adverts. Website owners do the same with written content.

Sell Digital Products You Own

The affiliate marketing model lets you sell digital products you don’t personally own (see above). But you can also sell your own products from a website in a hands off way. One of the best things to sell is an e-book because you can automate the sale over the internet. See also how to sell ebooks on your own website.

Anyone can create an ebook based on their individual expertise on any given subject. You can also use your own ebooks in conjunction with the affiliate marketing business model – giving your ebook away to encourage subscribers to join your email list. See ebook lead magnet.

Amazon Self Publishing

If you are creative enough to write an ebook, why not use Amazon self publishing to upload your material and get paid passively for it?

hands off business ideas - self publishing

Books you publish will appear in Kindle stores online within 24-48 hours. You can earn royalty payments on your work too. Enroll in KDP Select, (Kindle Direct Publishing) and earn more money through Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.

Here’s an ebook I uploaded to Kindle which was originally only intended to be a lead magnet for my online business.

Summary

So here’s a short run down of the hands of business ideas I’ve shared:

Affiliate marketing – sell other people’s products using automation and online systems. Get training videos here.
Adsense/online advertising – create content and drive traffic to advertising. You’ll receive revenue when people click on your adverts
Upload your own ebook to a website for sale – sell automatically through email marketing or through using a Paypal button on your website. See how to sell ebooks on your own website.
Use Amazon’s self publishing resource to publish a book of your own! This can be done quickly and Amazon uses print on demand so it’s also free!

Mastermind Affiliate Program

It’s worth joining a mastermind affiliate program if you’re thinking of being an affiliate marketer. With a mastermind affiliate program, you can learn from others who are further ahead than you. Without a mastermind group, you’re very much on your own as an affiliate.

Affiliate marketing is far from easy and there’s plenty of hurdles which you’ll encounter if you attempt to earn from it. With a mastermind group you can shortcut some of these problems by:

Learning from other affiliates who are making the same mistakes as you
Learn from mentors and coaches who have been doing affiliate marketing much longer.
Ask questions and gain insight to help you progress much more quickly.

mastermind affiliate program — On a mastermind group session learning from other affiliates and business owners.

Join a program which offers masterminds here. I even offer weekly masterminds to my members with another online business owner I know. Here’s a picture of myself hosting our weekly mastermind session (posted in our private Facebook group):

Mastermind Affiliate Program – The SFM

The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) offers a mastermind affiliate program with a range of courses, coaches and mentors available to assist you in building a profitable online business. The SFM Digital Business System has a number of advantages over many affiliate programs:

Coaching and mentorship available
1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching
A range of products you can promote and earn from
High ticket and subscription products – earn higher commissions and recurring affiliate commissions from previous sales
A built in sales team – closing sales on your behalf
A digital sales funnel you can plug into and get set up with a simple and straightforward step by step process.

the SFM digital business system — In the SFM back office using the step by step digital business setup modules

Why Choose A Mastermind Affiliate Program?

A mastermind affiliate program gives you support and help on the journey to becoming a digital entrepreneur. Earning online isn’t an easy thing and most affiliates will quit before they even have 1000 email subscribers. Going it alone therefore is more likely to end in your quitting! See affiliate marketing failure rate. With help and support, you can more easily glean what is required for success with an affiliate business and decide whether it is right for you, or not!

A digital business system like that of the SFM is also a huge help. Digital products pay much more than physical products. See affiliate marketing commission rates. With many affiliate products you can promote them through a email marketing system. With a digital product range, you can earn far more than from selling a basic level product because you can earn from multiple products and you’ll have multiple sources of income.

So from a $100 product, for example, you can potentially earn $1 a month per subscriber to your list. With a high ticket product range this number increases to about $5 per subscriber.

A mastermind program can also mean you get the support you need when you’re encountering problems, as you surely will! Coaches and mentors can help you overcome obstacles and approach your online business with the right mindset. See affiliate marketing mindset. Coaches can hold you accountable to your plan/strategy, or simply help you not to quit when things seem like they aren’t going your way!

On your own, these battles are much harder to overcome!

Your Best Chance Of Success As An Affiliate

Affiliate marketing is a performance based business model in which you promote other people’s products online and get paid when you make a sale. No sales equals no payday! Many quit affiliate marketing too easily because they don’t get the traction they want in the early days. But affiliate marketing is a long term thing. It doesn’t happen overnight. Most new affiliates starting out will assume it doesn’t work. But they would be wrong. Thousands of people make a living from affiliate marketing.

It’s just that it takes some time to find your feet and start making sales. First learn how to sell an item online. Once you can do this once, you can do it again and again! It’s a skill which can serve you for a lifetime, so you have to keep an eye on the bigger picture when you’re starting out.

A good analogy to affiliate marketing is to view it like the Chinese Bamboo tree. The Chinese Bamboo tree has a 4-5 year gestation period in which nothing sprouts above the surface of the soil. If you didn’t know what it was, you would probably give up assuming that the plant was dead. But after the 4-5 year gestation period, the Chinese Bamboo suddenly sprouts to 90 feet tall within a matter of 6 weeks!

In James Clear’s book Atomic Habits, he shows us this chart.

This is also a good analogy of the timeline of an affiliate marketer. “The valley of disappointment” is what many would-be affiliates experience when they give up. They work for some time but see no tangible results. But as you persevere through this difficult time, you come out the other side and things can change dramatically.

Without a mentor, it can be very difficult to get through this initial period of disappointment as an affiliate marketer. The work/activity:results line is not linear. Rather 80-90% of what you will do as an affiliate will not work. Only 10-20% of what you do will actually work. Once you have done enough work to see some tangible results, you’ll understand what needs to be done. You can then apply Pareto’s principle (the 80/20 rule), to your online business. See Pareto rule in business.

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Best Strategy For Affiliate Marketing

What’s the best strategy for affiliate marketing? There’s countless affiliate marketing strategies you can use to sell affiliate products. Here’s just a short list of some of the most popular methods:

PPC – Pay per click direct marketing. Paid advertising is fast and scalable, but expensive. You need to know your business model and whether you can actually profit while using this strategy. See affiliate marketing business models.
List building – most affiliates build a list of email subscribers. This is worth doing whatever your traffic generation methods are. List building puts you in control of your audience.
Content marketing – bloggers and v’loggers spend years creating content to draw the attention of Google, Bing and other search engines. If they are successful, they can get free traffic. But this takes time and a lot of commitment usually and a good understanding of SEO – (search engine optimisation). See also find long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty.
Social media – you can attract an audience with several social media tactics. Here’s one I share in the article: unpaid social media marketing. You can also use paid marketing on many social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube etc.

Best Strategy For Affiliate Marketing

So what’s the best strategy for affiliate marketing? This of course is massively subjective. What might be the best strategy from someone escaping a corporate career, definitely won’t be the same strategy from someone who has nothing to invest. Some strategies are cheaper than others, some take much longer than others. Generally speaking the long term slow strategies which take more time to do are cheaper than the ones which can work super fast. See fastest legit way to make money online.

But speed might not be appropriate if you aren’t desperate to escape a well paid job. If your in the “I hate my job but are pays well” camp, paid marketing is definitely the way to go. But to use paid marketing you’re best off with a high ticket affiliate program which offers recurring commissions. To purchase a sales funnel which contains high ticket programs isn’t cheap, so you’ll need to invest if you’re going down this route.

Alternatively, if you’re prepared to work harder for longer, creating content, you won’t have to spend as much on your affiliate business. But results can take time to show if you go the content marketing route. See also get traffic to your website free.

Best Strategy For Affiliate Marketing – Cheaper & Free Routes

To do affiliate marketing for free can be a long term affair. It’s tough, even if you can invest some money on the software which will make your life easier:

Your own domain name and website – hosting provider (less than $5 a month) and domain name shouldn’t cost more than $10.
An autoresponder is probably the best investment you’ll make if you’re serious about starting an affiliate business. See the power of email marketing. An autoresponder is around $10 a month and this rises as you get more subscribers.

With your own website and an autoresponder, you can build an affiliate business by picking an affiliate niche and building content. You can use YouTube to create video content for free, if you have a smart phone or recording device. Use your website to start blogging.

You can also write reviews using free blog sites such as hubpages.com. Free blog sites let you write on them even without owning your own website However, search engines are less likely to rank your content and so getting views can be more of a challenge. See affiliate marketing without investment.

Fastest Strategy Using High Ticket & Paid Marketing

Some will definitely consider this to be the best strategy for affiliate marketing. And if you can afford to put yourself at the highest commissions levels and devote several months to learning how to market your business, I would agree! Start here. With paid marketing you can scale up a business much more quickly. So by devoting time and energy to a scalable method of doing affiliate marketing, you give yourself the best chance of building a large income business – even if you’re starting from scratch.

high ticket funnel Best Strategy For Affiliate Marketing

A high ticket commission product range plus recurring commissions (from memberships) and multi-tier commissions can give you the best opportunity for making money with affiliate marketing. See SFM Digital Business System for more on this.

The Best Strategy Is One Which Works!

Whatever your strategy with affiliate marketing is, you need it to work for you. So whether you are trying to escape a job, or just looking for another source of income, you need to find a strategy you can pursue which fits with your work style, financial position and timescale. If you want to be making money from affiliate marketing quickly, the paid route is much faster. But if you have more time spare but less money, you might want to choose a path which requires less investment.

Generally speaking the cheaper routes are slower than the paid ones. For more strategies and tactics see my article 22 ways to promote affiliate products. Choose just one strategy and become an expert at it. Don’t jump all over the different strategies looking for a quick win.

At first affiliate marketing can be difficult. But if you choose subscription affiliate programs (which pay recurring commissions) and use a high ticket sales funnel, your efforts can go much further than if you use low value affiliate products which pay only small commissions. See affiliate marketing commission rates.

Keep going and never quit if you want to be successful with affiliate marketing. Whether you succeed or not with affiliate marketing is as much to do with your attitude and ability to learn from the journey as it is from choosing a strategy. I’ve failed hundreds of times with affiliate marketing. But learned from every one of these “failures”. Don’t see them as failures, just stepping stones to success. The more you fail, the more you’re moving forwards. “Fail forwards” and eventually success will be yours!

The best strategy for affiliate marketing is to bring this “die hard” mentality into your affiliate business. Whatever the journey throws at you, see it as an opportunity for self discovery and for learning. With this attitude, you can never fail.

Pareto Rule In Business

The Pareto rule in business runs according to Pareto’s principle. Vilfredo Pareto made some important contributions to economics; particularly in the study of income distribution, and the analysis of individual choice.

The principle states that 80% of outcomes can be attributed to 20% of causes. In business this means that you should focus on the 20% of activities which have the greatest influence on the outcome you desire. Knowing what these activities are is the first step towards using the Pareto rule in business.

If you can’t measure something you can’t improve it. But what do you measure in business? You must measure activity and how it relates to outcomes. In the affiliate marketing business this is done through tracking. Before you are able to track the actions which lead to online sales, you must first take some action. This might involve running adverts, creating content or generating leads in some other way.

Pareto Rule In Business & Affiliate Marketing

With affiliate marketing, a large portion of your activities can amount to nothing. As a beginner in affiliate marketing this can be a tough pill to swallow. But as you gain experience you’ll discover that some actions are leading to sales. Once you uncover those actions you are performing which lead to you making an online sale, you’re in a far better position to work on your business using Pareto’s principle.

Until you get to this point, you can often work for a long period of time and see nothing for your efforts. But don’t forget in these difficult times that once you have “cracked the code”, you can simply rinse and repeat. Previous efforts can work towards generating commissions over time. Affiliate marketing gets easier the longer you do it, knowing how to apply the 80/20 rule. At first it can be very time consuming and you get little for your efforts in tangible rewards. As you gain experience and knowledge, things get easier.

Pareto Principle Example

For business sales, 20% of a company’s customers are responsible for 80% of the sales. 20% of the employees are responsible for 80% of the results. For project management, many managers have noted the first 20% of the effort expended on a project yields 80% of the project’s results. Therefore, the 80-20 rule can help managers and business owners focus 80% of their time on the 20% of the business yielding the greatest results.

In affiliate marketing, you can spend a lot of time initially building content, blogging or uploading videos. If you track your sales, over time you’ll start to see where you sales are coming from and therefore be better able to spend your time accordingly.

In business, remember that 80% of your results comes from only 20% of your efforts. By focusing on the 20% which has the greatest effect on your business, and spending less time and energy on the 80% of efforts which are less effective, you can learn to be more efficient in generating a greater outcome.

Pareto Rule In Business – Summary

The 80-20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, asserts that 80% of outcomes result from 20% of the causes for any given event. In business, a goal of the 80-20 rule is to identify inputs that are potentially the most productive and make them the priority.

In affiliate marketing the same is true. An affiliate should endeavour to determine which actions are the most valuable to repeat on a consistent basis for the maximum possible benefit – to maximise sales.

Learn more about affiliate marketing with a free video series. Click on the image below for access.

See also affiliate marketing mindset for more on affiliate psychology.

I Hate My Job But It Pays Well

“I hate my job but it pays well”. Are you highly paid but dissatisfied with your work? Could you imagine another 10 years of doing your job? Does the thought of this fills you full of dread? Is the thought of Monday mornings getting too difficult to bear?

If this is you, you’re not alone in this predicament. Many well paid executives suffer from work dissatisfaction and burnout. But by the time you realise you’re in a trap, you’ve become accustomed to the lifestyle your income affords you.

This is also known as the “golden handcuffs” of a well paid career. With a mortgage to pay and children to look after, the possibility of escaping a job you hate seems even more remote.

I Hate My Job But It Pays Well – The Sunk Cost Trap

Sunk cost trap refers to a tendency for people to irrationally follow through on an activity that is not meeting their expectations. This is because of the time and/or money they have already invested. With a well paid job, this is not so irrational of course because you’re being well paid for your misery! Often by the time you want out of a well paid career, your lifestyle is already meeting your expenses and you don’t have any buffer to build your way out. Are you already living to your means?

To build your way out of a well paid career can take some time. One of the first things you can do is to lower your outgoings and pay yourself first. Paying yourself first is a strategy of the wealthy use to build up savings over time. Most people pay their bills and spend what’s left. The wise know to pay themselves first. They pay 5-10% of their income into a savings account before spending any of it; paying any bills or buying anything.

This does two things which can help you escape a job you hate:

Allows you to create a savings account which can later be used to start a business or invest in money producing assets.
Gives you the self discipline to live on less than you earn

I Hate My Job But It Pays Well – Confirmation Bias

If the statement: “I hate my job but it ways well” applies to you, you are probably quite well sucked into your job/career and the people within it. People around you are probably feeling stuck too, but too afraid to leave, or they don’t know how.

As you look for solutions from within the organisation, you’ll probably ask others what they think. They will then feed back what you already know and believe. “Yeah it sucks but it pays the bills eh?”, “What other job will you get on this salary?”, “I don’t want a pay cut, do you?”, “Who’s going to support your lifestyle, family etc.?”, “You’ll be starting again if you leave.” Etc. etc.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favour, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports your prior beliefs and values. So even though you are feeling utterly miserable about your job, your environment supports you staying in it. Only when the pain becomes so great you cannot tolerate it any more will you take any action. When will this be? 5 years, or 10? Consider stepping away from your work colleagues, when you can, and looking for another environment and other options.

Shift Sideways & My Story

Consider also the possibility of shifting sideways from a position rather than totally quitting, if you can. Shifting to part time hours can give you more space even though it will reduce your income.

But within that space you can create another income which can eventually replace your existing one. I started an online business and was eventually able to replace a lucrative income from the film industry. This can be done alongside a full time career too.

I worked as a stunt performer in the film industry. Over the course of 10 years I became utterly dissatisfied. Some years I didn’t work at all and I needed many other “fill in” jobs – see jobs with independence and freedom. Then other years it was so busy I was miserable because I was constantly working.

Nothing paid as well as the stunt work, but I couldn’t guarantee the work. So I felt trapped by the money. Many others in the industry claimed to want out too, but they were also trapped by the money or the kudos of the “stuntman” image!

Plan Your Escape

If you’re in a well paid job, you can build an online business much more quickly than someone with no money. Access free training videos here to learn more.

Save your income and sell things you no longer want. Set aside 10% of your monthly income for savings or put aside whatever you can. Use that money for investment or for building an online business.

Start to live below your means and eliminate debt. Once you build a buffer of cash in the bank you’re in a much better place to leave or reduce your hours. You can also build a side hustle income from the internet alongside a business, working flexible hours to suit.

WeWorkRemotely Alternatives

Are there any WeWorkRemotely alternatives? Weworkremotely.com is a remote working website which lists remote working jobs around the world. But you can find remote work from other places too, such as Fiverr.com and Upwork.com. Both these sites offer freelance opportunities for self employed workers from anywhere!

WeWorkRemotely Alternatives – Self Employed & Entrepreneurial

Sites which offer freelance work such as fiverr and Upwork require you to build up a portfolio of work and gain reviews. There’s a fair bit of competition on both these sites and as a freelancer, you’ll need to build up your portfolio over time to gain authority and win customers.

With freelancing you’ll also need a skill of some kind which you can sell. But if you’re looking for WeWorkRemotely alternatives you probably have some marketable skill.

Working Remotely – Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is another opportunity for those wishing to work remotely. Affiliate marketing is a business model in which the affiliate promotes other people’s products and services online. Anyone can become an affiliate if they want to work remotely from a laptop. Unlike with weworkremotely.com, though, affiliate marketing is a business model in which you receive performance related pay.

You only get paid when you make a sale. So to become profitable as an affiliate you’ll need to learn how to make sales online. This can be done in a number of ways including:

Blogging
Email marketing
Social media marketing
PPC/direct response (paid) marketing.

WeWorkRemotely Alternatives – Blogging

Blogging is another alternative to remote employment. Blogging is generally seen as a long term strategy to generate an income online. But if you have a passion in a particular area, your blog can be used to help monetise it. Most bloggers will monetise blogs with either Google’s Adsense advertising program, affiliate marketing or their own business/products.

Bloggers also often build email lists and then promote affiliate products through their email marketing.

For more on blogging see Blogging Q n A.

Selling Memberships & Subscription Products

If you’re entrepreneurial you can create a course which you can sell online. Alternatively you can sell other people’s membership products and earn ongoing commissions based on the sales.

Membership affiliate products can be some of the best to sell because they give you recurring commissions from each sale. With a good product, a single sale can bring in an income for years.

Learn more about subscription affiliate programs.

High Ticket Affiliate Products

A high ticket affiliate program can give you much larger commissions than the average affiliate program. See affiliate program commission rates. With a high ticket program, you can more easily scale up an online business too using paid marketing.

High ticket affiliate programs are often training and mentorship programs which help people build online businesses.

Learn more about high ticket programs through this video series.

Direct Selling

Direct selling is like dropshipping. You can refer customers directly to products and services which you don’t personally own or need to store. As a third party referrer, you act as a promoter for products and businesses which already exist.

This means you don’t have to worry about product fulfilment or customer services. Simply refer customers to products and services online. The product owner deals with customers and delivery. This is similar to affiliate marketing but with physical products which you source directly from the manufacturer/wholesaler.

Watch the video below for more information on direct selling/drop shipping.

Weworkremotely Alternatives – Summary

So if you’re looking for “weworkremotely alternatives” there’s plenty of options available. Here’s a quick rundown of the ideas mentioned in this article:

Use freelancing websites; Fiverr.com and Upwork.com. Build up a profile and offer yourself up as a freelancer. Build your reviews over time. More (and better) reviews = more jobs.
Affiliate marketing is a business model in which the affiliate refers sales to businesses and products as a third party referrer. When an affiliate link results in a sale, the affiliate earns a commission. Learn more and get started here.
Blogging – can be used in conjunction with affiliate marketing or with your own business/product. Bloggers also use advertising on their content to generate an income.
Memberships and Subscription products – Either create your own or use other people’s membership products to earn recurring commissions. See subscription affiliate programs.
High Ticket Affiliate Programs can allow you to build and scale an online business quickly using paid marketing and an automated sales funnel.
Direct Selling lets you align with current products which can be directly sent to customers when you make a successful referral. Also known as drop shipping. See also alternatives to dropshipping.

Alternatives To Dropshipping

There’s various alternatives to dropshipping which give you the same freedoms associated with a drop shipping business. The appeal of dropshipping is you don’t need your own products, you can work from anywhere and you can send products directly to customers. But there’s downsides too. You can’t control the customer experience and you don’t control inventory. Shipping costs can vary, especially since Covid, and all manner of things can give you problems.

Other online business models can give you the same kind of geographical freedom without as many of the headaches. Here’s a few of them.

Alternatives To Drop Shipping – Etsy

Etsy is a platform which lets individuals sell their own products and services on a global scale. You can also become an affiliate for Etsy and promote the site to earn commissions. If you have a unique flare for creating something, Etsy might be for you.

Alternatives To Drop Shipping – Shopify

Shopify is another platform similar to Etsy. You can use the platform to create a digital online shop and put other people’s (or your own) products in it. Shopify is the better choice for online selling. It’s more scalable, more flexible, and offers better e-commerce tools than Etsy.

Alternatives To Dropshipping – Affiliate Marketing

The affiliate marketing business model is one of the most popular online. It’s similar to drop shipping in that you can work from anywhere and scale up your business. Affiliates use affiliate links to send people to various products and services online. Product delivery and customer service is dealt with by the product “vendor” or owner. So affiliate marketing can be much more hands off than drop shipping.

Affiliates use many kinds of marketing strategy to send people to products and services online. Many of these can be considered alternatives to dropshipping in their own right.

Alternatives To Dropshipping – Blogging

Blogging is a marketing strategy which can be used alongside many monetisations methods such as:

Selling your own business, service or product/s
Affiliate marketing products and services
Using paid advertising to earn commissions based on clicks (e.g. Google’s Adsense program)

Blogging is definitely a long term marketing strategy but many bloggers love their topic and so can build content over the longer term to generate free traffic and build a passive income.

Alternatives To DropShipping – Website Flipping

Website flipping is another alternative to drop shipping. Many website flippers will purchase a domain name and build a website into an asset – through some online business model. Some will monetise through affiliate marketing, or through using Adsense or even through drop shipping. Once built and the value of the site has increased, they sell the site through websites such as Flippa.com or empireflippers.com

You can also purchase domain names you think will appreciate and sell them on at a profit.

Selling Memberships

Another alternative to drop shipping is to sell memberships. You can either create your own membership product or use an existing affiliate membership program. With memberships, you can earn recurring commissions over the longer term. This can mean your business grows exponentially once you start selling consistently and providing you’re offering real value.

See recurring income affiliate programs for some of the best programs to promote.

High Ticket Affiliate Business/Lifestyle Business

Most affiliate marketing products pay only small commissions. Amazon, for example pays between 1% and 11% commissions on sales you can generate using their affiliate program. (See Affiliate marketing commission rates). This leaves very little scope for using paid marketing to generate sales and still come out with a profit.

A high ticket digital product gives you the largest possible commissions from the affiliate marketing business model. With a high ticket product range, you can more quickly tap into marketing methods which are scalable. See high ticket affiliate marketing for more on this topic.

With paid marketing, you can send targeted visitors into a sales funnel and sell a range of digital products. This is one of the fastest legit ways to make money online.

Ebooks – Selling Or Using

Ebooks can be used either to sell online or as a marketing tool to get people to join your email marketing list. What’s great about ebooks is the ability to sell them on complete autopilot. See also affiliate marketing ebook free download and how to sell ebooks on your own website.

Alternatives To Dropshipping – Access Free Videos

So there’s a short list of alternatives to dropshipping. If you can think of any more, please mention them in the comments. If you’d like more information on other online business models, access a free video series by clicking on the image below. You’ll be able to access a 4 video workshop series and a free webinar.

Jobs With Independence And Freedom

I was always looking for jobs with independence and freedom. A few of the jobs I tried over the years included:

Lifeguard
Taxi driver
TV Extra – Background artist
Stuntman
Trampoline coach
Martial arts instructor
Climbing instructor
Modelling/photographic work
HGV driver
and a number of fill in jobs in offices, supermarkets, warehouses, on building sites and the rest (not recommended for freedom and independence!)

I wanted jobs with independence and freedom that would allow me to work when it suited me. Perhaps I was naive and wanted too much from a job. I was always broke and looking for the next “best thing”!

Jobs With Independence And Freedom

The trouble with a job is you are continually selling your time, which is a finite resource. When you stop doing so, you stop earning money. So unless you continually sell your time in a job, the money stops coming in.

I thought being a stuntman was going to be the ultimate of all jobs with independence and freedom – travelling the world and getting paid! However it’s a competitive industry and unless you’re continually scouring for future contracts, you can get left behind!

Even when work was good, I was selling my time. When the work stopped the money stopped too! Over the years I came to realise that the only way to build real freedom and flexibility into your life is to not need a job and to become financially independent so you aren’t anchored to a job at all. JOB = Just Over Broke! In an independent career, you’re self employed and finding work can be as challenging as working for an employer you hate!

Don’t Sell Your Time, Sell Products Instead

I looked for another way to make money without a job or a boss. I looked into eBay and found an ebook which taught me how to find cheap items to sell on the site. You can read about the strategy in my article “how to start a profitable ebay business“.

But the strategy was a slow one and I found myself either tied to my computer or queueing up at the post office to weigh items I was selling. My time was still not free and I was barely making a living! I knew the answer wasn’t “jobs with independence and freedom“. Even with a number of flexible jobs, I didn’t have real freedom. I was still struggling financially. I juggled a martial arts business, HGV driving and stunt work at one point but was still broke most of the time!

I ditched the eBay business and decided to create my own ebooks and sell them online. Struggling to make any sales, I put myself on a marketing course and discovered a clever business model known as affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is a business model which lets you sell other people’s products and services online for profit. What was better was that I could sell a $100 product and earn $40 – 40% of the profit! This was far better than trying to sell my own ebooks at $10 a time! So I dropped my ebooks and started learning about affiliate marketing.

Affiliate Marketing = Freedom

Affiliate marketing lets anyone sell other people’s products and services online for a share of the profit. Although affiliate marketing does take time to learn and get going, ultimately it can give you a passive income source.

You can use systems and technology to make sales around the world while you sleep! No job can offer this because you always have to keep turning up to keep making money. Only a job you absolutely love is going to have a lifetime of appeal! At some point you’ll want to stop working. But usually when this point arrives, you’re trapped with mortgage and family obligations to meet.

Affiliate marketing can give you both financial and time freedom because you’re using automation to sell products, and you’re not trading your time.

Jobs With Independence And Freedom

If you’ve been looking for jobs with independence and freedom, you might be interested in learning about affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing can give you time and financial freedom because you can eventually automate sales which happen online. It takes time and effort to learn affiliate marketing, but over the longer term, this is an investment which can ultimately pay off in passive income.

No job can offer this! To learn more about affiliate marketing and the different online business models available, access a free video series by clicking on the image below.

Scalable Startup Entrepreneurship: An Online Business From Scratch

A scalable startup entrepreneurship venture is possible with an online business system mentorship program. Many would-be entrepreneurs think they need a unique product or service they must provide themselves. But a clever business model known as affiliate marketing lets anyone build a scalable startup from scratch; even with no experience.

Affiliate marketing is a business model where “affiliates” promote and sell other people’s products and services. With the right business model, you can use online marketing methods which are scalable, to promote existing products.

There’s many affiliate marketing business models. But the best ones for scale are those which offer a business system which supports paid marketing strategies.

Scalable Startup Entrepreneurship

The SFM Digital Business System offers a number of products and services which can be sold through a digital sales funnel. A sales funnel is a system of selling online which includes a landing page, a sign up form and an email marketing system. As people enter a sales funnel, they are offered products and services through a series of email messages.

The whole system is automated and there’s no limit to the number of subscribers entering it. Traffic is driven towards the landing page to drive leads and sales.

A built in sales team, automated selling system and a powerful marketing “engine” lets you scale sales to a global audience.

Scalable Startup Entrepreneurship – Business System

Anyone can use the affiliate marketing model to promote and sell other people’s products online. But the difficult part of affiliate marketing is knowing how to promote products and make sales. This is what most newbie affiliate marketers struggle with.

To overcome this barrier, you can use an existing business model which offers a number of advantages over the most common affiliate programs:

High ticket digital products – most programs only pay tiny commissions. Amazon for example pays 1-11% commission on affiliate products. Compare this to digital products which typically pay 40%. High ticket products let you earn larger amounts per sale. This also gives more opportunity for using paid, (scalable) marketing.
Recurring commissions from software products and memberships. Recurring commissions are a game changer for affiliates and they can give you much needed consistency in income when you’re starting out.
Built in sales team – most affiliate programs don’t offer a team of sales people who close sales on your behalf. Just refer the front end products and larger value items are still credited to you if your customer makes another purchase.
Multi-tier commissions – means you can earn commissions from sales generated from your team; adding another valuable income stream to your business system.

Training & Mentorship

Most affiliates will quit before they have built their email list to just 1000 subscribers. See affiliate marketing failure rate. That’s because in the early days of being an affiliate, there can be very little to show for the work you’ve done. When you’re on your own, it can be very difficult to maintain the necessary work required to generate sales. When your friends and family are trying to talk you out of it, it compounds the issue!

Having a community of people who are doing the same as you is a game changer. With support, you can reach out when things aren’t going well! Without it, it’s much more difficult.

The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) offers training and mentoring programs for people looking to build a scalable startup entrepreneurship venture of their own. They offer a ready-built sales system and products you can use to sell through a digital sales funnel.

The step by step training will guide you through business system setup and you can access over 10,000 Linkedin learning courses through the Mentors All In program. Access by clicking on the image below.

Marketing A Scalable Business

There’s several products you can purchase through The SFM Digital Business System. To earn the maximum levels of commission requires more investment. With the basic Mentors All In Program this is the commission structure you can benefit from:

Investing in the higher level products also gives you larger commissions on those products, when you sell them. This is useful if you want to use marketing strategies which can be scaled up quickly.

Once your business system is set up, you’ll have a landing page from which you collect subscribers. Here’s an example of a sales funnel landing page.

To drive traffic to those landing pages, and send people into your sales funnel, requires marketing. This can be done in several different ways. But the most easily scalable method is through using paid marketing. Here’s a few of the most popular paid marketing platforms you can use to scale a digital business:

YouTube
Adwords
Facebook
Bing

With marketing you need to target people who are interested in what you have to offer. Before you start a marketing campaign it’s therefore necessary to define who your target market is, see how to know your target market.

Scalable Startup Entrepreneurship – Summary

Many entrepreneurs think they need a unique idea, product or invention of their own in order to start a scalable startup venture. But this isn’t true. Affiliate marketing business models allow anyone to use existing businesses and products to build a globally scalable venture.

The SFM Digital Business System allows anyone to use a proven business model to start out online and build their own global business. This is done through following the step by step training laid out in the Mentors All In program. Then learn a marketing strategy through the trainings and online groups.

To learn more, access a free video series by clicking on the image below. You’ll learn about the various online business models you can use.