AffiliateMentor, Author at Affiliate Marketing Mentors

The SFM digital business system offers an all in one online education and training community for anyone who wants to:

Build their own internet business from scratch – using variety of different strategies
Market an existing business using their training and education resources and community

What Is The SFM Digital Business System?

The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) offers a variety of online digital business software; and an online training and education portfolio. Their back-office offers a digital business set-up which allows a member to set up their own digital business ‘store’. This offers some of the SFM’s own products and services. This is one of the simplest strategies to build an income from the internet. Depending on the products you choose to put in your ‘e-store’, you can have:

A ready made affiliate website – with your affiliate i.d already installed. This is easily set up within a few minutes.
A sales funnel containing a range of digital products for you to earn commissions from.
A modular step-by-step set up process allowing you to set up automated systems and strategies for building an email list and sales funnel.
Through your funnel you can sell: digital products including subscription products, up-sells, benefit from a built in sales team, earn from multi-tier sales, sell high commission affiliate products.

You can also use the online community and a range of training and education tools to build a pre-existing business which you own. When I joined the SFM I was struggling with building a martial arts school. I used the online marketing strategies to build my school. See my website on this Martial Arts Marketing.

Training And Education – The SFM Digital Business System

The SFM Digital Business System offers a strategy which anyone can use to earn money from the internet by selling other people’s products (affiliate marketing). The system itself lets you create an online ‘digital store’ with a range of products and services within it. Depending on which products you purchase yourself, you can earn commissions based on the products you ‘place’ in your digital ‘shop’.

Products range from $29.95 for the SFM ‘App’, which is a ‘taster’ product which lets you access module 1 and a consultant. This lets you see if The SFM is a good fit for you. If you decide to join as a member, you’ll need to upgrade your membership. See more about membership fees here: Six Figure Mentors Cost.

High Ticket Commissions

Each product in the system offers a larger value in terms of access to the training and education community. You can also make larger commissions on the products themselves as an affiliate for the SFM. Ideally, join at least as an Elite member, if you go this route, since this gives you access to the high ticket affiliate commissions.

The top tier product is the SFM ‘partner program’ which gives you personal one-to-one access to top leaders in the community. You can also access a retreat run by the SFM founder members Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek; and the ability to earn the largest level commissions on top tier products. You can also earn multi-tier commissions which are commissions based on sales made by your team.

Products at this level are priced at $20,000+. They offer the ability to sell these products yourself and earn 40% commissions on a single sale. That’s $8000 on a single sale (*please check current prices). The personal tuition and mentorship available at this level is also very personal. You can connect with six figure earners personally and book regular appointments. There’s also a community of people to network and connect with who run regular webinars and training sessions.

Online Training Community

By far one of the best things about The SFM digital business system is its online community. The SFM has recently partnered also with Microsoft Lynda and DigitalMarketer to offer some of the best training and education resources available online:

Microsoft Lynda (Under the Linkedin umbrella of companies) recently partnered with SFM as a way to offer their own 6,500 training courses as part of the SFM curriculum.

DigitalMarketer (The world’s longest standing and most highly respected B2B and B2C marketing training company) also partnered with SFM and now offer their own training as part of the SFM curriculum.

The personal tuition and one to one support I have personally received from the community has been a huge help in my online business. Without this direct help, it can be incredibly frustrating and difficult to know whether you are taking the right actions and steps to move your online business forwards.

Building an online can be incredibly frustrating, especially at first. When you have access to people who are in the same boat, it’s a huge help in terms of mindset, technical hurdles and emotional support. Especially when they are much further ahead of you in terms of results.

Learn More

You can join this online community and learn more by accessing the free video workshops. These are available by signing up on this website. Enter your name and email on the opt-in form. You will receive a daily video from one of my personal affiliate marketing mentors Stuart Ross.

Affiliate Marketing Coach – My ‘Why?’

An affiliate marketing coach can help you find your path and start making faster progress because they have already made the mistakes you are likely to make! There’s a huge learning curve in affiliate marketing. If you haven’t got a clear path, it’s easy to get distracted by the many ‘shiny objects’ and all the different strategies. Before you know it, you could be working for months and even years, without making any real progress.

See 23 affiliate mistakes newbie affiliates should avoid.

Knowing your ‘why?’ in affiliate marketing keeps you going when times are tough. If you don’t have a strong enough ‘why’, you could easily lose momentum and are more likely to give up. See Why I Do Affiliate Marketing And Why You Should Too!

Avoiding Affiliate Mistakes – Find An Affiliate Marketing Coach

A coach will hold you accountable and give you information which will help you. Here’s a few things which I’ve learned which have made a dramatic difference to my affiliate marketing business:

Your ‘state’ of mind effects your productivity. Unless you control it, it controls you. If you continually find yourself depressed, anxious and annoyed with the way things are going in your affiliate business, this can effect your productivity.
Subscription affiliate programs can give you a massive advantage – yes subscription affiliate programs offer ongoing commissions for previous sales. Choosing products to promote which offer a lifetime value to the customer is therefore worth the extra effort. The same sale (and effort) could make you $40 or $40 a month for life!
High ticket programs allow you to scale up, offset advertising costs and use more easily scalable marketing strategies. Small value items are harder to sell as a newbie because you have so much competition when using only content marketing strategies. High value items give you many advantages.

Affiliate Marketing Isn’t Easy!

Affiliate marketing sounds like it should be easy, but it really isn’t! You can spend time and money on affiliate marketing and still fail! Knowing what to expect from it is a useful thing. It takes time and effort and you should learn your trade if you’re going to do well. Affiliate marketing has some huge advantages over other business models too:

Offers a way to earn from the internet using a laptop and internet connection
Can be worked from anywhere globally
Work around other commitments and build your business around existing work
Uses scalable systems and strategies which can offer products globally
Uses automation and systems which can run, selling products 24 hours a day

Me with Jay Kubassek - affiliate marketing coach — With with co-founder 0f The SFM Jay Kubassek

So, in theory, affiliate marketing is an amazing business model which anyone can do. But there are some downsides too. It’s not always going to be easy:

It’s a performance based business which works both ways – unlimited earnings are possible but so is no earnings, and that’s more likely too for most people!
You need to fail a lot to learn what works and what doesn’t work
Content marketing is a slow strategy and although free, takes a lot of time and effort.
Paid marketing isn’t guaranteed either and although it’s fast, it doesn’t guarantee sales! You need to test and measure and learn from your failures before you can automate a profitable business.

But It’s Not All Doom and Gloom!

If your’e serious about earning money from the internet, you should get an affiliate marketing coach. Join an online community of entrepreneurs and marketers who have already failed more times than you’ve tried! You can’t fail to learn from them if you take part in regular interactive webinars. Sign up on this website for more information and to join.