AffiliateMentor, Author at Affiliate Marketing Mentors

Multi Tier Affiliate Program

In a multi tier affiliate program, you can earn commissions from sales made by your referrals. A two tier affiliate program offers another earning strategy for affiliate marketers. When you refer a sale of an affiliate program, and your member makes a sale, if that same program, you get rewarded with a commission.

Most affiliate programs only pay you when you refer a sale. So you only get paid once. But with multi tier affiliate programs, you can benefit from the success of other affiliates, if you refer them. It also has a knock on effect of encouraging you to help your fellow affiliates because your success is linked to theirs.

The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) offers a multi tier commission structure as a DEA Member (Digital Experts Academy). Here’s the basic breakdown:

Multi-Tier Affiliate Program

To access the multi tier affiliate program through the SFM, you’ll need to partner with the company. This means you’ll have to invest in their top tier product in order to qualify for multi tier commission access.

The top level product in the SFM digital business system is their Mastermind Experience product which is valued at $20,000. It gives lifetime access to mentors and coaching from top internet marketers and also the highest commission structure through the sales funnel.

At this level you can earn 40% commissions on the Mastermind Experience product ($8000), plus 35% commissions on other high ticket items. See the full breakdown of the commission structure below:

You’ll also be able to benefit from sales made by your members at 10% (of the DEA product range) and $10 a month from each member they refer.

Access the SFM Digital product range here.

Why Use Multi-Tier Affiliate Programs?

Multi tier affiliate programs are a good idea if you’re wanting to build an online business. Without them, you need to rely on just sales you make. There’s other ways to earn through The SFM Digital Business System too:

Recurring income affiliate products – memberships and software products offer a means to earn ongoing residual income from previous sales
High ticket digital products pay the most of all affiliate products – digital products pay the largest commissions and high ticket products cost the most!
A built in sales team – closing sales on your behalf.
The SFM has a product range – multiple products in a series, not just a single product.
And of course the SFM offers a multi tier program for the partner members

With a number of products in a range, recurring income products, high ticket products and multi tier products, you can earn potentially much more than by using only one product. Physical products too typically pay much less than digital products; usually between 3% and 11% commissions, compared to 30-40% for digital products.

Multi tier affiliate programs can add much in the way of potential commissions for an affiliate marketing business. This is especially true if you’re serious about making an online business your full time income. It’s also another strategy to generate passive income. in addition to memberships and software products, it can help you earn passively from the internet.

Other Benefits

Multiple income streams can be generated from using multi tier programs, high ticket products, up-sells and recurring income products. With a business system like the SFM Digital Business System, you can earn much more than through selling only a single affiliate product.

Most good sales funnels are able to generate $1 per month per subscriber, on average. But a high ticket funnel like this one can generate up to $5 a month per subscriber due to the multiple income stream strategy.

This has a knock on effect which means the more expensive advertising platforms can be more easily used. With low value affiliate products, it’s much more difficult to use paid marketing and still come out with a profit. But with a high ticket sales funnel, it’s much more attainable. As such, it’s easier to use paid for marketing and scale up an online business into the larger income brackets.

Affiliate marketers who sell low value physical products will have to use free and cheap advertising methods which are much harder to scale up. This is a huge benefit of using a multi tier affiliate program.

Build An Online Business Fast

Another huge benefit of multi tier affiliate programs which offer multiple commissions strategies is speed. With low value products which offer smaller commissions, marketing strategies need to be free or very cheap. Organic marketing strategies like blogging and organic video marketing can take months or years to generate traction.

But with paid marketing, you can reach an audience with your products very quickly. An online business can be running and profitable inside a year with paid marketing strategies. But with free strategies it can take much longer, sometimes years.

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Is Affiliate Marketing Legit?

The question “is affiliate marketing legit” comes from a lack of understanding. Of course affiliate marketing is legit! The idea that affiliate marketing is a scam is a myth. Affiliate marketing is a business model which allows affiliates to benefit financially from promoting other people’s goods and services online. While vendors (product owners) benefit from affiliate’s efforts in selling their products.

The idea that affiliate marketing isn’t legit often comes from shady tactics and “snake oil” salesmen who promote their own courses, promising riches through affiliate marketing for little work. In reality it takes consistent effort in order to make a living through being an affiliate marketer, (and the right knowledge).

Affiliate marketing has had a bad rap because of those who sold the idea that it’s a get rich quick scheme; or that it’s easy. It’s not! But it is a legitimate strategy to make money online through product referrals. Not everyone who attempts affiliate marketing succeeds at it. But that does not mean it isn’t legit!

Is Affiliate Marketing Legit?

Affiliate marketing is a performance based advertising method. This means that the more products an affiliate marketer sells, the more they get paid. If they don’t sell any products, they get nothing! Affiliate marketing isn’t a job, where you work for an employer and get paid for your time. You only get paid for sales you refer.

Many people try affiliate marketing and then quit. These are often the people who may be asking “is affiliate marketing is legit?”. But the fact that someone fails at a certain business model isn’t a reflection of its legitimacy. More likely it’s a reflection of someone’s ability to make sales themselves and understand how to do so.

Making sales online can be done in a number of ways. Some affiliate marketers use blogging as their means of marketing. This article, for example, is a marketing strategy. If someone comes to my website and purchases something, I earn a commission based on the sale. Some affiliate marketers use videos, other use blogs or paid marketing and many build email lists of subscribers to promote products to.

Is Affiliate Marketing Legit? Why Not?

Affiliate marketing is like a sales job really where you only earn commissions on things you sell. There’s no regular pay, just for turning up – just a commission bonus. For this reason, many struggle to make money through using affiliate marketing, especially if they are from an employee background. The low barrier to entry for affiliates also makes it appealing to a lot of people.

To become an affiliate marketer, all you need do is join a partner program and promote your own unique affiliate link. See where to promote affiliate links. You can do affiliate marketing from a laptop with an internet connection. This means most people around the world can “have a go”! But it also means that many will drop out and give up too!

Affiliate marketing originally began in 1989 with a man named William J. Tobin. As the founder of PC Flowers & Gifts, Tobin conceptualised the idea of affiliate marketing and launched his program on the Prodigy Network.

Although Amazon is widely credited with offering the first affiliate program, Tobin was the first! In 1996 Amazon launched their affiliate program and their huge product range meant they became the go-to company for affiliates globally. See more affiliate marketing history.

Amazon’s Partner Program

Amazon’s partner program allows pretty much anyone to link directly to their products and make sales. When an affiliate makes a sale through their affiliate link, they earn a commission.

Amazon’s affiliates can earn from 3% to 11% commission on a sale they refer. Not every affiliate product pays the same in terms of commission and some products and companies pay far more. But Amazon’s appeal is still strong because of the range of products they offer. See affiliate marketing commission rates for more on this topic.

Amazon has also build a huge customer base and has good consumer confidence. Less well known brands can have a harder time building trust with customers online.

Online Recommendations & Earnings Exaggerations

A good analogy about affiliate marketing is that it’s like recommending a restaurant to a friend. Only, when your friend visits the restaurant and buys a meal, you earn a commission based on your recommendation. Of course not every affiliate has good intentions. Affiliates can recommend things they haven’t purchased themselves. If an affiliate’s only incentive is their commission, this can be problematic.

Affiliates who push their own products can also exaggerate their usefulness. Many affiliate programs I took over 10+ years of learning affiliate marketing, offered themselves up as “get rich quick schemes”. They were often sold on the basis of being able to make me rich, rather than to help me legitimately earn an income online. These kinds of sales tactics have given affiliate marketing a bad name unfortunately and spoiled things for the legitimate businesses.

You can read about the various courses I took in my article digital product course review. I did learn something from many of the courses I took, and continue to learn about affiliate marketing. But I can see why people would think of these courses as scams; especially if they didn’t fulfil on exaggerated promises. Any legitimate training or education course is required to have a full earnings disclaimer now.

Become An Affiliate Marketer?

Despite the shady parts of affiliate marketing, this doesn’t change the fact that affiliate marketing is a legitimate business model. Anyone can learn affiliate marketing strategies and benefit from making sales over the internet.

However, it’s not an easy thing to learn and so it’s worth taking some time looking at what’s available in terms of training. Around 6 years ago I found an online mentorship program and started learning from scratch again, despite having already done affiliate marketing before.

Learn more and get started by clicking on the image below.

Best Affiliate Commissions

The best affiliate commissions cannot be found on sites such as Amazon and eBay. In fact, those two popular partner programs offer the least competitive commissions. Amazon and eBay will pay you between 3% and 11% commissions on sales you generate on the sites. That’s pretty low by industry standards. Although Amazon and eBay are trusted sites with customers, that’s not enough of a reason to promote their products as an affiliate.

You’re far better off promoting digital products which offer higher commissions. Digital products, by comparison with physical products offer much higher rates. Typically digital products will pay out 30%-60% commissions to their affiliates. The best affiliate commissions are to be found by using digital products which pay out large commissions on a range of products.

Best Affiliate Commissions – Product Ranges

Most affiliates will promote a single product to their email list or from a website. Or, they will have one or two products to sell to their subscribers.

With a product range, you can benefit from multiple products which are up-sold automatically. So you really only need to sell the initial product, and the sales funnel does the rest. A good product range which offers the best affiliate commissions will have all of these benefits:

Digital products not physical products – best rates of commission and ease of delivery globally
High ticket digital products offer larger commissions on more valuable products. Typically products valued over $1000 with a 40%+ commission
Recurring commission affiliate programs keep paying for your previous referrals. They are products like software products or membership products.
Multi-tier commissions – can be made with certain programs. With a multi-tier program, you can earn from sales made by your referrals.
A good product range has a built in sales team closing sales on your behalf as well as automated up-selling done through the sales funnel

See SFM Digital Business System for more on this system/product range or get started here.

Best Affiliate Commissions – High Ticket Physical Products

High ticket physical products can also offer good rates of commission. Hammacher Schlemmer is a company which offers many products you can promote as an affiliate. Many products are valued at well over $10,000. So even though their affiliate commissions are lower compared to digital products, their high price tag makes up for the lower levels of commission.

Here’s their flying hovercraft priced at $190,000! Even an 8% commission would give you $15,200 on a referral!

The golf cart hovercraft is priced at $58,000 which would give you an affiliate commission of $4,640 if you made a sale of one. Not bad eh?

See also highest paying affiliate programs list for more on this.

Recurring Income Products

The best affiliate commissions can also be found in recurring income products. With recurring income products, you make a sale and keep making commissions; potentially for years to come. The best kinds of products to promote which offer recurring commissions are those used by online businesses. Software products such as autoresponders, SEO tools, website building and analytics tools etc.

These are great for affiliates because they are vital tools which are needed by business owners. Once someone purchases a product which they later come to rely on, they will maintain their memberships for years or even a lifetime.

Here’s a few recurring income affiliate programs:

The Six Figure Mentors – Digital Online Business Mentorship Program.
Aweber – For email marketing
Leadpages- For custom landing pages
Get Response – Email marketing
Elegant Themes – WordPress website themes
Social Pilot – Social Media Tool
SEM Rush – SEO tool
Snip.ly – Conversion/opt-in tool
HostGator – Hosting provider
Shopify – Online Store Builder

Recurring income affiliate products may not pay as much as a high ticket digital product, but the income is recurring. Even a recurring income of £10 a month soon adds up with a number of sales under your belt. 100 sales means you’ll be making a monthly income of $1000 passively, once you’ve got some solid members.

With many affiliate products and strategies, it can be difficult to get traction. Results are often sporadic and many affiliates drop out because of this. With a recurring commission, it’s easier to build a solid income as an affiliate.

Summary

The best affiliate commissions can be found using digital products or high value physical products. Don’t waste time on low value physical products unless you have a solid strategy. Ideally focus on digital products because they pay out much more in terms of commissions. Physical products tend to pay between 3% and 11% commissions, so you’ll need to sell a lot of products to make it work. But with high ticket products (and/or digital products) you can make more per sale.

Ideally use both digital and high ticket for the best of both worlds. Recurring income products too are a great way to build a solid income online. The SFM digital business system offers the best affiliate commissions overall:

Digital product range with a built in sales team
High ticket products within a range (with automated up-sells)
Recurring commission products built in
Multi-tier commission available at the partner level (earn from sales made by your referrals).

For more information on The SFM digital business system you can click on the image below and access a free video series.

It’s also worth a note to say that whatever affiliate products you decide to promote, you’ll need to work for some time on your marketing strategy. You can sell a book from Amazon, or a $1000 commission training course, and with the same amount of effort and work. Which one would you rather pursue?

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Online Business Mindset

To have an online business mindset is to be the visionary and not just the technician. Many who transition to online businesses make the mistake of bringing their old employee mindset with them. In Michael Gerber’s The E-myth Revisited, he points out the difference between the mindset of an employee and that of an entrepreneur who owns an online business.

The employee is told what to do in order to play a “part” in the running of a business or company. So often, an employee decides to jump ship because they imagine how nice it would be to not be told what to do, to make more money and run the show. When things go wrong they don’t see themselves as the problem. They’ve been “programmed” to think that working as a technician gives them the result. When in fact as a business owner, a different mindset is required.

Online Business Mindset – Limiting Beliefs

All sorts of factors are at play when someone shifts from employee to entrepreneur. But as an employee, you get paid whether a company is profitable or losing money. So as you become accustomed to working in a certain way, you imagine that’s also how to run a business. This can work against you, especially if you’ve been working a certain way for some time. As a business owner, you need to lift your vision and see how you can acquire more customers and drive your business forwards. A technician’s role is much smaller.

A technician’s job might be a smaller part of the business as a whole. If you’re in the habit of working for a pay cheque, you’re all the more likely to fall into this trap. Working on the business, and in the business is the role of the entrepreneur. The technician only works in the business.

Online Business Mindset – Job Vs. Business

When someone transitions from a job to a business of their own, all sorts of problems can surface. Many of these are old thinking patterns and limiting beliefs.

In a job, you get used to a pattern of behaviour which serves you. In a business, this doesn’t serve you! How you think of yourself, and your role in your business can be very limiting. If you don’t become aware of your limiting thinking, this can ruin your personal and business growth.

An online business, for example, is global. Most people are not used to thinking in global terms. We think locally; especially if we have previously worked for a local business or even owned one.

If you’ve owned a small local business, you will likely be in the train of thinking about using advertising on a small scale. An online business is globally scalable, and so such thinking will dramatically limit the growth of your business.

The Upper Limit Problem

In “The Big Leap” Gay Hendricks talks about the upper limit problem as a self sabotaging mechanism which stops us attaining our largest goals. “When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure”.

This can be a big problem for online business owners. Their very beliefs will often sabotage their own success. If they are doubtful that they deserve success, or uncomfortable with some element of building an online business, they will use it as a reason to quit or limit their business growth.

Unconscious beliefs can act as invisible barriers to success. Just when things seen to go well, something happens which halts your progress.

Unfortunately our beliefs are often hardwired into us as small children, without our conscious control. Elements from our childhood are embedded deep within our unconscious minds and they still control us, even decades later.

An example of an upper limit problem is feeling guilt over success. If you carry any limiting beliefs over having too much money, or feeling too good, you’ll self sabotage when guilt raises it’s head and stops you from feeling good for wanting more abundance.

Online Business Mindset For Success

The entrepreneurs who succeed online don’t do much that is different from those who fail! Those who fail online just give up before those who succeed. A successful online entrepreneur has failed many times. The difference being is that they look upon their “failures” as feedback and part of the entrepreneur’s journey. See also affiliate psychology for more on this.

An online affiliate business takes time and effort before it produces the flowers of your efforts. Many quit before they see even a bud!

A good analogy for an online business is the Chinese Bamboo Tree. In a six-week period the Chinese bamboo tree grows to a staggering ninety feet tall. However, the tree takes apparently 5 years to emerge from the ground, and only if it’s well nurtured.

Most people who know nothing of the Chinese Bamboo would do the same as those online business owners who quit after 6 months. They would give up on the tree, if they didn’t know it’s gestation period.

Start With Why

In Simon Sinek’s book “Start With Why”, he points out that the greatest business owners and entrepreneurs created amazing businesses because of their “why”.

If you look at top companies such as Apple and Microsoft, you’ll see they will have a mission statement. Apple’s is “to bring the best personal computing products and support to students, educators, designers, scientists, engineers, businesspersons and consumers in over 140 countries around the world.”

Microsoft is a technology company whose mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. We strive to create local opportunity, growth, and impact in every country around the world.

Starting with “why?” is powerful because it’s a big enough reason to keep going despite whatever amount of success you can achieve in monetary terms. In Start With Why, Simon uses various examples of why companies overshadow their rivals.

In all cases, a clear and concise mission and purpose was the driving factor which propelled businesses and individuals to overcome the odds. Without a mission, bigger than your own self interest, it’s much more difficult to sustain an online business, or any purpose driven idea to fulfilment.

Summary

Having the mindset for an online business is pretty important if you want it to succeed. All manner of things will get in your way: well meaning friends and relatives, your own unconscious bias and habits and underlying beliefs which stop your from progressing.

Having a clear and meaningful objective, mission statement and vision is clearly something which matters. Top businesses and companies have them. Without a clearly defined goal it’s impossible to hit it! But it’s also important to have a “why” which is greater than your own self interest.

Most online business owners who succeed have worked for some time and overcome many of these obstacles. See also super affiliate mindset for more on this topic.

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Is Affiliate Marketing Hard?

Is affiliate marketing hard? Affiliate marketing can be hard yes, but it can also be easy. Affiliate marketing only gets easier though after a long period of learning, and gaining experience. Once you have experience, know what you’re doing and can draw upon data to know what works and what doesn’t, you’re far better prepared to promote products online and earn commissions.

However, as a beginner affiliate marketer, it can be very challenging. This is for a number of reasons:

Thinking it’s easy! If you think affiliate marketing is easy, you’ll have a harder time than if you’re better prepared for the tough times, of which they will be many!
There’s a low barrier to entry. The low cost and global accessibility of affiliate marketing means anyone can “give it a go”. Many drop out when things don’t start happening immediately. “Giving it a go” doesn’t make you an affiliate marketer however.
Not having any experience or knowing a definite path. When you’re unexperienced at anything, you’ll tend to struggle. Without experience everything you do is based on what you know. This is why your education is so important.
Conflicting messages and multiple “gurus”. There’s many ways to do affiliate marketing and lots of conflicting advice online. So it’s easy to get lost in overwhelm and information overload.

Is Affiliate Marketing Hard – My Journey

I would say for a beginner the answer is an emphatic “Yes”! Affiliate marketing is hard. I started learning affiliate marketing over 10 years ago and spent a lot of time struggling. I jumped from one course to the next, and all of them promised something which I couldn’t attain for several years.

There’s problems which go unseen too and you can easily waste a lot of time in the early stages of being an affiliate. You need to focus on the money producing activities as an affiliate marketing, since you can spend heaps of time on less important tasks. Being a “busy fool” is the term which is often used.

If you’re expecting easy results for not much work, you might be tempted by the sensationalist courses which promote themselves by saying how “easy” affiliate marketing is! It can be easy, of course. But it gets easier the more you do it because you gain experience and learn what to focus your efforts on.

In the early stages you’ll spend time on things which don’t work. Over time, as you gain experience, you’ll learn which activities are the best ones to spend time on. If you stick at it, you can build a residual income online which keeps coming in whatever you do.

But before you get to this stage, you’ll have to overcome a lot of hurdles. This biggest one is overcoming your own scepticism and doubt. Once you start making sales online, you’ve overcome a major hurdle: doubt. Before this happens you can spend months working with no results at all. When you’ve nothing to show for months of work, it can be so much more difficult to accept that you’re on track for success online. See also how difficult is affiliate marketing.

Is Affiliate Marketing Hard – Your Mindset

There’s a reason affiliate coaches and trainers talk a lot about mindset. I never used to think mindset was a big deal, but perhaps that explains why I struggled for so long with it.

Your mindset as an affiliate marketer is probably the most important part of your success or “failure” online. Successful affiliates don’t do things much differently than unsuccessful ones except they persevere when things don’t go well and use their “failures” to learn, rather than as a reason to quit. Affiliate psychology is pretty important if you want to succeed as an affiliate marketer.

As a beginner, it’s particularly important to learn resilience and turn “failures” into lessons. When you are unsure, and doubtful about affiliate marketing, thinking it’s all a scam, it massively lessens your ability to be productive and passionate. If you think affiliate marketing is a scam, you’ll be more likely to quit when things get tough. If you fill your mind with positivity towards it, and surround yourself with other affiliates (who are succeeding), you’ll be much more likely to persevere through the setbacks.

With sceptical friends and relatives persuading you to quit, a small set back can be enough for you to join them and believe it’s all a scam! With others helping and supporting you to grow your affiliate business and get your mindset right, you’re in with a much higher chance of success.

Practical Actions

It’s worth getting help and support with your affiliate marketing goals both on a personal mindset level, and with the right tools and software. That’s why if you’re committed to success online, it’s worth joining an online community which gives you everything you need. You can join a community through this link. You’ll be able to get started with all the tools and support you’ll need.

Without help and support, and the right direction, affiliate marketing can be considerably more difficult to attain success with. When I started out online, I tried many different strategies. Most of them didn’t work. I wasted a huge amount of time because I didn’t have the support I needed.

There’s also a number of different strategies affiliates can use to sell other people’s products:

Blogging or organic video creating offers a cheap solution for affiliates but is time consuming and a long term marketing strategy.
Paid marketing is expensive and risky if you don’t have the money, but much faster if you have the right products.
Social media platforms also offer a number of strategies to get people to products and services

Depending on your strategy, your marketing budget (if any) and your products, you could find affiliate marketing more or less difficult. Getting the right knowledge upfront will considerably lessen the hardship of becoming successful as an affiliate.

Making Affiliate Marketing Easier

There’s a few ways you can make affiliate marketing easier. Join a community, use a high ticket program, promote products which offer recurring commissions, use paid marketing rather than free strategies. But even affiliates who do all the above can still struggle with their affiliate marketing business.

If you’re financially well off, but time poor, you’ll need a different strategy than someone who is time rich but has little in the way of spare money.

However, if you’re going to struggle anyway, why not make it worth your while! Would you rather make 3% commission on your products when you actually make a sale, or 40%? Would you rather sell a product for $10 and make $0.30cents, or sell a $2500 product and make $1000?

is affiliate marketing hard - your knowledge

Learning your “craft” takes time as an affiliate. But when you finally break through and start making sales online, it’s a fantastic feeling. For what often amounts to the same amount of work, you could be selling low value items for tiny commissions, or earning large commissions from more valuable products.

Knowing about high ticket products was something which totally changed things for me as an affiliate. Switching to digital products too, after selling physical products was another game changer. See affiliate marketing commission rates.

Get this knowledge before you start, and you’ll shave years off your journey and arrive richer when you do finally break through and start earning online. A journey of a spaceship to the moon starts from the trajectory. Even a few degrees off course will send it thousands of miles off course. The same is true of affiliate marketing. Start out with the wrong marketing strategy, or products, and your struggles can be considerably greater, and your income considerably less.

Get Started

If you’re still reading, you might be able to make a success from affiliate marketing. You made it all this way after all!

Is affiliate marketing hard? Yes it can be tough. Like any business it requires consistent hard work and effort. But unlike a job, where you trade time for money, affiliate marketing can eventually give you a passive income, without you having to do much.

This is why it is so attractive to so many people. Affiliate marketing is hard, in the beginning. But it’s a business you can work hard on initially, and reap the rewards later on. You can get paid for work you’ve done already – which makes it much better than a job where you need to keep working for decades if you still want to get paid.

If you’re serious about building a passive income online through affiliate marketing, get help and support through this online business platform and community.

Super Affiliate Mindset

Just what is the super affiliate mindset? How do super affiliates become super affiliates and what sets them apart from the underachieving masses? For starters super affiliates think differently to low achieving affiliates. Most affiliates will rush in with a “get rich quick” mentality, hoping for an easy win. When things don’t go according to plan, (which most likely they won’t), many just quit. But super affiliates look at failure differently. They look at failure as an opportunity to learn and get better.

Super Affiliate Mindset – What Super Affiliates Do Differently

Super affiliates have figured out how to make sales in huge numbers. They can do this in various ways but do nothing much differently to normal affiliates. Super Affiliates simply think bigger and take it more seriously than most affiliates. They have the same struggles and problems which other affiliates have. The difference is in they approach their affiliate business with a different mindset. They have an attitude of “whatever it takes”, rather than one of “I’ll see how it goes”.

Many come into affiliate marketing with the approach: “I’ll give it 6 months, or a year – If I’m not profitable by then, I’ll quit”.

But the super affiliate mindset doesn’t entertain such thoughts. Instead, they have already succeeded (in their mind) and seen the outcome. So their sole driving purpose is to overcome the barriers and problems inherent in their affiliate journey, no matter what. Failure isn’t an option for a super affiliate. But they start exactly where every affiliate starts. The main difference being the super affiliate mindset.

Super Affiliate Mindset – Get Support

Super affiliates don’t succeed in a vacuum. They get help and support from others who are far ahead of them. They surround themselves with people who have already achieved what they are setting out to achieve, and with others on. the same path.

I’ve met several super affiliates who at one time or another were doubtful and frustrated. But through support and help were able to push through beyond their mental hurdles.

Without this, it can be easy to get drawn back into doubt and hesitancy. Without belief, it’s easy to stop or hesitate due to self doubt. Get help and support of an online business community. Access a free video series to learn more.

Super Affiliate Mindset – Scalable Strategies

There’s many ways to do affiliate marketing. You can use paid and free marketing strategies. Super affiliates follow those who are achieving, and do what they do! They model success.

Not all super affiliates use the same strategies, but in order to sell a high number of products, you need to have a strategy which works and which is scalable. It helps too to have a business model which offers a scalable and recurring income. Using the right kind of products helps massively too. With low value products, it’s more difficult to scale up with paid marketing, for example. But with high ticket affiliate products and recurring commission affiliate products, it’s easier to use paid marketing and come out with a profit.

On a $1000 commission item, for example, you can spend up to $1000 just learning marketing strategies to sell your product, before losing money. With a $40 commission through, this can be much more difficult. See affiliate marketing commission rates. With $1000 marketing budget, you can test a number of adverts to see what works best. Once you are in a positive return position, you can scale up very quickly.

With a good business model, scalable paid strategies are much more within the reach of an affiliate. With low value product which pay low commission rates, it can be more difficult.

Super Affiliate Mindset – Analytical

Super affiliates are able to analyse their own strategies and behaviour and look at data to determine the best campaign they are running. Those with a get rich quick mentality will throw up a single advert and hope for the best. Super affiliates run multiple adverts, and test and measure. They know they are likely to fail many times before they get it right. But they are full of belief and certainty of their outcome.

Many affiliates, (including myself), can come up against a problem and let it destroy their belief. They get demoralised and disillusioned by their perceived failure of not making a sale, and/or of losing money through running advertising. But super affiliates see the bigger picture and always pick themselves up again. They realise that when they get a winning advert, their journey won’t matter, so long as they get there eventually. The money they spend on advertising won’t matter either, because they will win eventually when they get an advert which gives them a good profit consistently.

Super affiliates don’t get lucky and rest on their laurels! They test and measure advertising; they cross test different messaging and follow ups. Super affiliates commit to the learning involved in their skill set.

This stage of affiliate marketing can be particularly difficult. If you’re uncertain, or doubtful already, and you run a number of campaigns only to lose money, it’s difficult to keep going. With a super affiliate mindset, your belief outweighs these difficulties and you keep going. If you’re doubtful and hesitant, small set backs can destroy your belief and faith in what you’re doing.

What’s Your “Why”?

Many affiliates go into affiliate marketing with the wrong attitude. They’re looking for a “get rich quick” scheme, and don’t really want to put in the effort required to make a long term viable business from affiliate marketing. I was the same when I started. I was broke and looking for a way to escape the rat race and work from home for myself.

But my fear drove me rather than my passion for building something of value. As such, I was always looking for the quick route. Because of this, I jumped from course to course, always on the lookout for something faster and easier. You can read about the courses I took in my article digital profit course review.

Super affiliates align themselves with products they truly believe in. It’s so much more difficult to sell products you don’t know about or care about. But when you are aligned with a product or service you promote online, you go the extra mile in terms of what value you can add as an affiliate.

Super affiliates go the extra mile. They don’t look only to the sale. They foster an attitude of trust because they truly believe in what they are promoting. Have you ever noticed how when someone doesn’t really believe in what they are telling you, you don’t believe it either! This is a huge problem for new affiliates who are trying to promote things they don’t know or care about.

The Glass Ceiling Of An Affiliate

There’s an unconscious “glass ceiling” which stands in the way of many achievements. It is no different with affiliate marketing. The super affiliate understands that it’s their mindset which is their biggest asset or liability. If they don’t believe they can achieve something, they won’t even try. If they doubt it, they’ll waver.

As you come up against challenges your mindset will be tested. If you default back to doubt when under pressure, you’re more likely to quit. Or, you can simply lose your drive and become more jaded. The super affiliate mindset continuously stokes the fire of their belief and desire through self development and improvement. They surround themselves with other people on a similar wavelength so as not to become demoralised.

The glass ceiling of a business owner can also appear through their self image. If you doubt yourself, or hold certain self-denigrating thoughts, this can massively hamper your potential. It may not be obvious how you are sabotaging yourself, but it’s the subtle workings of the mind, and your poor self image, which can slowly but surely undermine your efforts on the “outside”, while your mind works against you on the “inside”.

Super Affiliate Mindset – Summary

There’s many things which set super affiliates apart from most affiliate marketers. One of the main ones to consider is the way they think about their online business. They treat their affiliate business as a career and do what’s required. They have a long term plan and not a get rich quick mentality. Super affiliates have a “whatever it takes” mentality, rather than a “I’ll give it a try” mentality!

If you’re serious about taking your affiliate business to the next level, or starting from scratch with other mentors and super affiliates to support you, sign up for a free video series and join an online community for help and support.

Mastering Affiliate Marketing

Mastering affiliate marketing is no easy feat. Most affiliates will quit within their first year without having made any money at all. So despite the claims made around affiliate marketing, it isn’t at all easy. Which is why mastering affiliate marketing is the equivalent of mastering a martial art! It can take decades to master affiliate marketing and even then, there’s always more to learn.

The reasons so many affiliates quit is because they begin with no knowledge. As you persevere past your own doubts and scepticism, you’ll achieve your first sale online. This is a magical thing when it happens. Once you’ve made your first sale online, you’ll have a “formula” to make many more. The strategy you use to make your first sale, will have a say in your journey and the strategy you decide to use.

Mastering Affiliate Marketing

It’s far easier to master affiliate marketing with a lot of money! You can use that cash to run paid adverts until your get a sale. Once you do, use your tracking and data to determine the best way to make more sales by spending less than you earn. When you have consistent sales from a paid advert, you can potentially scale up or repeat the same advertising technique.

But for some affiliates this happens after they’ve spent a huge amount of money on advertising. If you have a high ticket sales funnel, and stacks of cash to burn through, you can collect data very quickly. But if you’re not so fortunate to be in this position, it can take much longer.

Slower marketing strategies, such as blogging or organic video marketing, take considerably longer in order to generate success online. With paid marketing and a high ticket product range, you can be up and running fairly quickly. But whichever strategy you implement, mastering affiliate marketing will take some time and effort.

Mastering Affiliate Marketing – My Journey

My affiliate journey began back in the early 2000’s and after failing to make consistent money doing Forex marketing I looked at eBay. I bought a couple of ebooks from eBay which taught me various strategies to use the site to make money. One of them I share in my article how to start a profitable ebay business. I became frustrated with this strategy and although I did make consistent, but small, profits with it, I knew there had to be a better way. There was! After looking for a marketing course to sell my own ebooks, I discovered affiliate marketing.

the master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried

My first online sale came from an article review I wrote on a free blogging platform (Hubpages.com). I had bought a software for building websites called XSitepro and decided to review it. I made something like $40 through a sale through my article. Despite numerous other attempts at this same strategy, I failed miserably at it for quite some time. My account at Hubpages.com got shut down too, because their rules around affiliate links were fairly strict.

I eventually found an affiliate marketing mentorship program which helped me stay the course with affiliate marketing, but this was some time later, after I had started. Before getting to this point, I had joined many online courses and made many mistakes online.

Mastering Affiliate Marketing – Finding Your Ikigai

I was introduced to the concept of Ikigai by the SFM Mentors to help me find my online path. Ikigai is a Japanese term meaning “reason for being”.

Having met several affiliates through The SFM Mentors, it’s obvious that not everyone works in the same way. Nor should they. Some affiliates like to write content and others run adverts. Some like video as their creative outlet and others like writing, or creating images. And although it’s useful to break through your barriers to success by trying new things and not getting stuck in comfort zones, you’ll also naturally gravitate towards the things you like and enjoy.

For me, that’s writing. But perhaps this is because it’s also now become a habit for me to write. The flip side to this coin is of course being the “busy fool” – working on things which don’t produce income online. I’ve definitely fallen into this trap too and spent days working on nice designs and images or logos on websites which get zero traffic.

Finding your ikigai is an important part of mastering affiliate marketing. Why would anyone want a business which they hated to work on? They wouldn’t! And it wouldn’t be sustainable for very long if they built such a business either!

Work Your Passion and Let Your Passion Be Your Work

For years I worked jobs and careers which made me miserable! I thought I’d never find something which suited me. But eventually I was able to make affiliate marketing pay, and doing something I enjoyed – writing/creating! Before this happened though I struggled with numerous avenues, got accounts shut down, built hundreds of websites and wrote thousands of articles.

But ultimately what worked for me was the thing I enjoyed the most, simply because I did it for longer and sustained the work long enough to make it pay.

One example of working on something I didn’t love is worth a mention here. I was desperate to earn from the internet so I looked at a strategy which involved building niche websites and getting ranked on the search engines for free traffic.

One topic I found was around the harvesting of mushrooms! I knew nothing of this topic, but at the time I was passionate about creating a niche website which ranked at the top of Google.

I blogged on this site for several months, creating a resource information site around the domain name: whentoharvestgarlic.com. It did rank top of Google for this keyword but ultimately the site failed. I couldn’t monetise it very well and I was burned out within 6 months of writing about a topic which didn’t interest me! So I let the site fall from the top and eventually I ditched the domain altogether.

Lessons Learned

If you’re wanting to become an affiliate marketer, and you want to be successful, choose a path you have a passion for and interest in. Otherwise you’ll find yourself in a business you hate. Money can never recompense you for the lost time in your life, doing something you don’t enjoy!

My garlic harvesting website, although a monetary failure, taught me a valuable lesson. I had no interest in garlic, and no knowledge about it either! So for each article I wrote, I had to thoroughly research the topic. Each one took a huge amount of time and effort to do. But when you find a topic you love, your interest and passion will never become exhausted, and this means you’ll stick to it for much longer than you would a topic which you had no interest in.

Inevitable Downturns

With affiliate marketing, as with any business, there will be the inevitable times when you lose interest and momentum. One of the major benefits to affiliate marketing though is that in these times, your business can still generate sales. With a job, in which you lose passion, if you stop working, you don’t get paid! But once you’ve stuck to affiliate marketing for long enough (and do it right), you’ll see continued income from sales you made earlier (with subscription products) and ongoing traffic from marketing activities you already set up.

When you lose momentum it’s a good idea to remind yourself why you set out to become an affiliate in the first place. Write a list of things to look at when you’re facing the hard times. Here’s some of my reasons to be an affiliate marketer:

Autonomy – I can work remotely for myself without a boss or a job
I don’t have to travel to work (very useful in 2020!)
Flexible working hours means I can build my business around my life, rather than the reverse as in a job or other career.
I’m self motivated with an online business – I work better when rewards are based on efforts rather than just turning up in a job for the same income whatever you accomplish. (Affiliate earnings are effort related)
Uncapped earnings and huge potential – I’m long term focussed and would rather struggle for what an online business gives me long term, than work a job potentially for years for a regular and limited income.

Summary

Not everyone is cut out for affiliate marketing. It takes a lot of work and effort to get the wheels turning from a standstill. However, once they are turning, it takes less and less effort to keep them going! In a job, you need to consistently turn up month after month, year after year. For some, this is fine. But for others this takes its toll on them, their relationships and their personal happiness levels.

Affiliate marketing is a great alternative for anyone who might feel more motivated for long term freedom than short term comfort. Mastering affiliate marketing is something which happens by sticking to it for years. Most new affiliates will quit. But if you know you’re right for it, commit for the long term and keep the beginners mind. The beginners mind keeps you learning and developing in your online business. It’s the surest way to mastery in any endeavour. When you think you know everything, you stop learning, and plateau.

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How To Earn Commissions Online

Want to know how to earn commissions online? Anyone can earn commissions online by selling other people’s products. Your unique affiliate link is tracked and you receive payment based on what you sell.

Affiliate marketing is the business model which lets anyone promote other people’s products over the internet. You get paid based on the sales you refer.

How To Earn Commissions Online – Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is basically referral marketing. When you successfully refer a customer to a product, you receive a commission based on that sale. It’s a little like recommending a friend to a nice restaurant. Except when your referrals go to the restaurant and buy a meal, you get paid!

You’ll find affiliate marketers all around the internet. They recommend products and services which you might have already purchased through their affiliate links.

Not all affiliates earn the same amount of commissions though and, depending on how you go about an affiliate marketing business, you can have varying levels of success. Affiliates choose products to promote and then promote them through various means and strategies:

Blogging – writing content on a website or blog
Paid marketing – Using the various paid platforms available
Email marketing (list building)
Video marketing (YouTube)
Using various social media platforms
Offline marketing – using traditional marketing strategies such as newspaper advertising, leafleting etc.

How To Earn Commissions Online – Automatic Selling Systems

The best way to advertise online is to use automation in your marketing strategy and automated online selling systems to sell. With an automatic marketing method, you can run adverts 24 hours a day on complete autopilot. By selling other people’s products online using automation, you can earn a scalable income and all without trading your time for money.

first learn, then earn — First learn, then earn..

In most jobs, people trade their time for money and are paid by the hour. Since your time is finite, and there’s only so many hours in the day, there’s always a cap to what you can earn; even on a great income. But with products and the internet, which offers a global reach, automation and selling can replace your income and create an uncapped income potential.

Affiliate products work well for this too because you don’t personally have to handle products or deal with customers. Affiliates just create pathways to send customers to products. Postage and customer service is handled by the company with the products, so your only concern is referring customers.

How To Earn Commissions Online – Types Of Affiliate Products & Rates

There’s many types of affiliate products on the internet. Choosing the right products and services can be a bit of a mine field. One way to discern which products are the best to promote is by looking at the affiliate marketing commission rates.

Most physical affiliate products pay between 3% and 10% commissions. This means you’ll earn $10 for a sale of a $100 item at the most, or $3 at the least. But with digital products you can earn a lot more. Digital products can pay out between 40% and even up to 100% commission in some cases.

A 100% commission product is often part of a product range. So companies can afford to pay this much because the lifetime value of a customer will recoup this loss. Digital products don’t need to be physically posted. This saves a lot of money. Manufacturing costs are low also with digital products.

Once a product is created, it can be sold and re-sold again and again without incurring any more costs. With a physical products, manufacturing costs are much higher because you need to create every product you sell.

Savings made can be passed on to the affiliate marketers who promote the products. Hence why digital products are often better payers than physical ones.

How To Sell Products Online

Earning commissions online happens when you successfully sell other people’s products. To do this does take some time and effort. But once you’ve done it once, you can do it again and again using automation.

a landing page example — A landing page collects subscribers information, and gives them something useful in return – like this ebook.

This can be done through a sales funnel. A sales funnel is used to collect subscribers information through a landing page. When someone enters their details on a landing page, they enter the funnel.

From here they receive a number of email messages which contain affiliate links. When someone purchases a product from an affiliate link, the affiliate earns a commission based on the sale. See affiliate marketing funnels and done for you affiliate funnel.

The lead magnet which is offered on a landing page should be aligned with the product range within the sales funnel. For example, my ebook lead magnet is “affiliate marketing for beginners“.

The products in my sales funnel are products which help people learn how to earn online such as software and training products.

Step 1 – Set Up Your Sales Funnel

You can set up a done for you affiliate funnel using the SFM digital product range. The SFM program will give you landing pages, products and all the software you’ll need to get started earning online. Once setup, you’ll need to promote your sales funnel.

You can do this via various strategies according to the products you place in your “digital storefront”. With more expensive products you’ll be able to use more expensive marketing strategies. Click the image below to set up your account.

the sales funnel set up — Access The SFM Dashboard by signing up for a free account. (You can access module 1 only with a free account). Full access requires a membership.

Paid marketing platforms can be very expensive, so you’ll need a high ticket product range in order to use the more expensive platforms which offer more reach and the ability to scale up quickly. Paid marketing is the fastest way to grown an online business. But it’s not the only way. You can also use cheaper and free marketing strategies such as blogging or video marketing. These types of strategies are typically much slower and more time consuming though, but free!

Step 2 – Choose Your Products

Within the SFM back office you’ll be able to choose a product range you can sell through your sales funnel. The more expensive products give you more personal training, and they also give you larger value commissions you can access through sales you make.

As an SFM Essential member you get the following commission structure in your sales funnel product range:

the SFM product range — (With the Essential membership you can also earn 100% commissions on sales of the All In Package)

If you purchase other products within the range (see the chart above), you can access higher levels of commission. More info on the SFM Commission Structures.

Step 3 – Marketing Your Funnel

Once you’ve set up your sales system, you need to send qualified leads to your landing page/s. This is done through marketing and you can choose from a number of marketing strategies.

One of my marketing strategies is blogging. This article is an example of blogging. By creating lots of content around your products and services, and leading your readers into your sales funnel, you can attract customers for your products.

You can also use paid marketing strategies too, video marketing, social media marketing and so on. In the SFM training area you’ll find lots of training and support with all aspects of marketing online. You can even access 1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching and training through some of the courses.

Get Started

You can access Module 1 of the SFM back office here for a free trial, or dive straight in with Mentors All In which gives you full access and you can set up your sales funnel straight away.

If you want to learn more about The SFM, you can sign up for a free video series here.

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Best wishes,

Tim

Things To Resell Online

There’s a number of things to resell online, from physical products to online digital products. You don’t need to own the things to resell online if you use affiliate products. With affiliate marketing you can resell other people’s products for a share of the profit.

Before I found affiliate marketing though, I resold products I would find on eBay. One little strategy lets you find gold nuggets on eBay for far less than they’re worth. Then, resell them on and get a better price for them! Here’s how it works.

Things To Resell Online – eBay Products

This was a clever idea I picked up from an ebook I bought from eBay – the online auction site. Most people have heard of eBay but don’t know this little hack. The general idea is to find cheap items on eBay which don’t get found. This happens when someone lists an item badly, or misspells the title. The title of an item is what gets them found usually when people are searching for the keyword of the item they want to buy.

So when someone misspells an item, it gets far fewer bids than it otherwise would. You can take advantage of this goldmine by using a misspell search tool. Bargainchecker.com, typobay.com, fatfingers.com and goofbid.com are all misspell tools which let you find these kinds of item.

Here’s an example. I just typed iphone 6 into bargainchecker.com and found these results. Often people misspell things like “Iphone”, “Apple”, “Panasonic”, and other brand names. You can even look for things like diamond, jewellery, briefcase or anything you can think of. The larger an item’s value, the more you can potentially save on the price. Use auctions rather than “buy it nows” to find the best deals – (although you can also find bargains using “Buy it now” listings).

Things To Resell Online – eBay Products

Once you’ve found an item, don’t bid on it straight away, since this can alert other bidders to your presence and push up the price. You can put in the initial bid if there’s no other bids on it. At this point the seller is obliged to wait out the auction, rather than correct, or re-list their item.

Then, wait until the end. Don’t get into a bidding war because you want it at a well discounted price. Wait until the end and use a bid sniper tool. Here’s one I use called auctionsniper.com.

This tool lets you pre-set your maximum bid and the tool will bid incrementally up to your maximum in the last few seconds of the auction. This is the best way to get the price you want. If other bidders push the price beyond where you can profit from an item’s sale, leave it alone and avoid the item.

buy and resell online - ebay advanced search — Use the advanced search option in eBay to find an item’s value.

You can even use the advanced search on eBay to see what other items like yours have sold for. Click on the sold listing box and you’ll get an idea what something is worth before going after it.

things to resell online - advanced listings search — Use the “sold listings” tab to search for items like yours to find the going rate.

Re-listing Your Items

Once you have received your item, or collected it, re-list it with a better title, more pictures and of course no spelling mistakes. I successfully used this little strategy for a few months and made a profit on nearly every item I bought. The only one I didn’t profit on I broke even. That was only because the item arrived and looked more tatty than it had in the images. I re-listed with an honest description, whereas the seller I bought from wasn’t so honest!

Ideally, re-list with a low starting bid too, as this draws more people in to bid against each other. But this will also depend on how popular your product is, and how many buyers it might attract.

For more on this strategy, read my full article on it “how to start a profitable ebay business“. It was a few years ago when I first used this strategy, so it is perhaps more competitive now. But it’s still possible to find items and profit from them using eBay. It also gives you a huge choice of things to resell online.

Things To Resell Online – Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is what I found after using the eBay strategy for some time. I knew there had to be a better way to use the internet and automation to make a living online. I was right, but it took me years before I found the best affiliate products to sell online.

If you’ve not heard of affiliate marketing before, it’s basically a strategy which lets you sell other people’s products over the internet by referring people through your own unique affiliate link. (See where to promote affiliate links). Once you join an affiliate program, you can sell any number of affiliate products and earn from between 3% and 100% commissions on sales you generate. See affiliate marketing commission rates.

items to resell online — Re-sell digital products from a range of products (click image to access a range of products which you can resell online).

The best products to resell online are:

Digital products – because they pay the most, (much more than physical products)
High ticket affiliate commissions – commissions of over $1000 per sale!
Recurring commissions – if you sell digital membership and software products you can earn ongoing commissions for each sale you make!
Products which offer multi-tier commissions – reselling high ticket products within a multi tier commission structure means you can earn from sales made by your referrals. See best two tier affiliate programs with recurring commissions.

But with affiliate marketing you can resell pretty much any product you can find online. So long as it has an affiliate program (or partner program) attached to it, you can resell any product that company offers. Amazon and eBay both offer partner programs and allow their affiliates to earn commissions when they refer sales on the sites.

Reselling Products Online

Of course with eBay you simply list your item to resell products online. But with affiliate marketing, it can be a little more involved. Most affiliates resell their products through building an email list of subscribers and then promote their products to their list. They can also attract customers through building websites, writing articles, publishing videos to YouTube and using social media websites to find their target audience.

The goal of an affiliate is to create ongoing sales which happen even when they are not working. It can take some time to achieve this, and the speed with which you can become successful as an affiliate marketing will depend on a few things:

Your choice of products you decide to promote
How you market those products
The time you can spend on your business every day
Your own work ethic and rate of learning

Things To Resell Online – Summary

There’s many things to resell online and you can pretty much resell any item you find online either through buying it cheap yourself, or referring customers to it through the affiliate marketing business model.

Before you go, download both these ebooks by clicking on them!:

start a profitable ebay business — Download this pdf and use my **eBay reselling strategy**!

affiliate marketing cheat sheet — Here’s the best tips I’m sharing in my **Affiliate Marketing Cheat-sheet** – (reselling other people’s products online)

If you’ve got something out of this article, please share it! I’d be supremely grateful!

Best wishes,

Tim

Online Business Webinar

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This is a webinar for those who are serious about building a genuine online business from scratch. If that’s you, click here to register for the webinar. You’ll need to block out 90 minutes, use a desktop computer. Don’t use a smartphone, and bring a notepad. If you have an attention span of a gerbil, this isn’t for you!

Online Business Webinar – Generate Income Online

Even with no products or technical skills, anyone can learn how to generate an income online. This is a business model known as affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is selling other people’s products over the internet, for a percentage of the cost.

In this online business webinar, Stuart Ross explains how anyone can earn through the internet.

In 2008 Stuart Ross found an internet mentor called Brad Wyman . He turned his life around within a year, using what he had learned. Since then, he has founded his own company with co-founder Jay Kubassek called The SFM. The SFM offers a number of products, tools and resources to help others earn an income from the internet.

In the webinar, Stuart shares his biggest breakthroughs and takeaways from initially struggling online. Stuart committed to changing his life. Within about 18 months, he was earning more from his online business than from his previous job as a mortgage broker.

Online Business Webinar – Don’t Trade Time For Money

One of the benefits from an online business is the ability to earn money without trading your time for it. With a job, you need to keep turning up trading your time, which is a finite resource. If you stop turning up for a job, you stop getting paid.

With an online business you can trade products instead of your time. With internet based products, you can automate sales and earn money without having to turn up. You don’t even need products of your own to do this either.

The trouble is, we are hardwired from birth to focus on trading time for money. Our very personalities are embedded in this mentality, so it can be difficult to escape it. The digital economy brings with it new opportunities,. However, we can’t take advantage of them if our thinking doesn’t accept it.

Old industrial age thinking ties us to jobs which have a shelf life. Then, when that job is no longer needed, or automation replaces it, our skills become redundant.

Online Business Webinar – Success Leaves Clues

Success leave clues! So it’s a good idea to find the people who are succeeding online and copy what they are doing. Without help and support, you can spend a lot of time online struggling.

This online business webinar will show you how to generate income online, even without any experience or technical skills.

However, you do need to take responsibility and accountability for your own success online. No one can guarantee your success online, no matter what they say.

Two Emails

Two emails Stuart sent on 2008 earned him the money to pay for a business class holiday to Dubai and the Maldives.

Using this same strategy as a principle, he was able to repeat this success over and over. He learned this skillset in the beginning of 2008 after deciding to change his life. By repeating this skill over and over, he was able to build 6 and 7 figure businesses.

You can do the same if you commit to make a change to your life.

Rich Dad Poor Dad

JOB = Just Over Broke.

Trading time for money = capped income.

Trading time for money in any form is never going to set you up for financial freedom. Don’t sell your time, which is a finite resource, sell products. With products you can automate sales and infinitely scale up, especially with global reach and technology.

To set yourself up for time and financial freedom, you need to sell products not time.

Mindsets – Not Possible vs. Open Minded

There’s two main mindsets around today. Many come from the industrial revolution – trading time for money. We are hardwired to work trading time for money. To set yourself up for time and financial freedom, you must escape the thinking that is caught up with trading time for money.

Hard selling doesn’t work anymore! We are now conditioned to do our own research online, because we can.

Traditional selling is less and less effective in the digital age. Getting products in front of people who already are looking for it, is the best way to sell products online.

Instead of selling in the traditional way, use automation and online selling systems to do the heavy lifting.

Choosing The Right Niche Online

Positioning yourself in a trending market is another important decision to make when selling products online. With an emerging market, you’re in the best place to take advantage of a popular industry.

An exploding market is already upwardly trending. Used in combination with products not time, and online automating selling systems, this is the best way to earn online.

Others In The Sector

Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek have created an online business community with thousands of members from around the world.

What their members learn is what products to use online and how to use marketing to promote those products automatically to create more time and financial freedom.

To watch Stuart’s online business webinar, book a place here. Or, are you ready to get started and get the tools and support to build an online business from scratch? If so, you can access Mentors All In to learn more about how to build an online business from scratch. Click the image below to get started today.