Affiliate Marketing Mentors – For Your Success Online!
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Here’s my affiliate marketing mentors blog! I’ve been an affiliate marketer since the early 2000’s and I ran into a lot of problems which, perhaps you have too?
I tried all sorts of strategies at first from building niche websites, running Google Adwords ads, blogging and using free blog platforms such as Hubpages and Blogger.com.
The struggle was pretty real but I was determined to make affiliate marketing work for me because life was so difficult in the many jobs I juggled to keep the wolf from the door!
In 2014 I found a community of online marketing mentors. I decided to start agains from scratch and “empty my cup”. It was tough and it’s hard to let go of thinking you know something when you really don’t!
I don’t consider myself an affiliate marketing mentor, although I hope that this website helps people who are learning. No, I’m still, and always will be a student, which means I can keep emptying my cup when it gets too full of the idea that I know something. The online world changes a lot and very quickly. So just when you think you are getting somewhere, everything is different and you’re starting all over again!
Yes; recurring income affiliate programs can payout for much longer than other ones. In some cases you’ll earn an income for life! If you find the right programs and the right customers, you could be earning from your sales for a lifetime. Lifetime commissions are a thing too. There’s not a “lifetime commissions affiliate program” promise though, because people drop out of course. But if you find the right programs which offer continual value to the customer, they won’t drop out.
These can be programs which offer training and mentorship and of course business software. With business software, providing someone’s business is working, they will be more than likely to continue using the software in their business, if they need it. Online business tools are therefore a good bet if you’re looking for recurring income affiliate programs.
Recurring Income Affiliate Programs
Here’s a few of the ones which pay recurring income to affiliates:
Lead pages – Is a business tool which lets you build custom made landing pages. Earn 30% commissions
The Six Figure Mentors – Offers training, tools and software for building online businesses from scratch. Commissions of up to 40% on a high ticket product range and 20% recurring commissions.
SEM Rush – Is an SEO (search engine optimisation) and SEM (search engine marketing) tool for website development and traffic generation. Earn 40% commissions.
Convertkit is an email marketing services, again a business tool. It offers 30% commissions
Elegant Themes – Offers WordPress Themes and Plugins for use with websites. 50% commissions are offered.
ThriveThemes – Again WordPress themes offering 35% commission on sales and 25% recurring commissions.
Social Pilot – Social media scheduling marketing and analytics.
Live Chat – Live chat support offering tools for increasing conversions through websites. 20% commission.
Rose Hosting – Website hosting offers 50% for the first month and then 20% recurring commissions.
Shopify – Online store builder – 20% recurring commissions.
Aweber – Email marketing service offers recurring commissions of 30%
Notice these are mostly tools for on and off-line businesses. There’s many other recurring income affiliate programs available too. Just take a look at CBEngine.com and scroll down the left hand side. You’ll find products available on Clickbank highlighted in the “recurring commissions” section of the site. (See image below).
Recurring Income Affiliate Programs For Newbies
I wish I had found out about recurring income affiliate programs years before I did! I would be earning income from sales I made years ago! But better late than never! Recurring income affiliate programs are the best to use for beginners, in my opinion, because they offer a more sustainable income stream once you start making sales.
The hardest part of becoming an affiliate is going through the phase before you make a sale and maintaining your enthusiasm! It can be like wading through treacle. When you eventually make a sale, it’s a great feeling. But if that sale is a recurring income product, you can earn ongoing income from it, rather than just a single commission.
That’s great when you are a newbie because it can give you both hope and a regular income trickle. As you make more sales, that trickle grows into a monthly recurring commission which can eventually replace your existing income.
Selling Products
Of course you still need to sell your affiliate product before you can profit from it. This takes time and effort especially if you’re starting from scratch. So its well worth getting some training and support on this journey.
Wondering how to increase organic traffic to your blog posts? There’s several ways you can increase your organic traffic; and depending on your particular niche and the relative competition, this can be a little challenging!
In a competitive niche, there are lots of competing websites for your content. But in those areas with less competition, you can do this more easily. Google uses a number of criteria to determine how to judge a particular piece of content. If your content is good, more people will read it and link to it. More backlinks is one of the major ranking criteria for Google. But it all starts with quality content.
Backlinks too can vary. A backlink from a high authority relevant website has more weight with Google than those from a low quality site, or one in a different niche to your own. Other factors determine your rankings too; what you title your articles, keywords within it, how people relate to it and the content length and quality.
Google has many ranking factors and their exact algorithm is always changing. One thing is for sure, you need quality content. Bad quality content will have visitors leaving within seconds and Google “bots” can see this and rank your content (and therefore website) accordingly.
How To Increase Organic Traffic To Your Blog – Search Engines
You therefore should strive to create some quality content on your blog. Traffic can be found from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Duckduckgo and other search engines. Google however has the lion share of traffic. What content should you create? Ideally choose your content topics wisely. If and when your content does attract the attention of the search engines, you’ll want your visitors to be the right kind of visitors. Therefore it’s wise to start out with visitor intent, and knowing your target audience – see how to know your target market.
Getting your content wrong might attract the wrong audience – who won’t buy whatever you’re selling. So start with customer intent and your product or service. Create content which answers relevant questions your target audience might want to know. You can use Google’s free keyword planner to find longer tail keywords which target your audience and give you more opportunity for being found.
how to increase organic traffic to your blog – Long Tail Keywords
Once you have found a long tail keyword and checked it for competition, you can start creating some content around it, if appropriate. Long tail keywords have less competition in the organic search results than their shorter tail counterparts. So it can be a good idea to create lots of content around long tail keywords within your niche.
Some of them will fail to get traction but others can make their way to the top of the search engines and get you free traffic; particularly if you put some effort in and create some awesome content. Before you do however, you should get a free plugin which will help you with your SEO (search engine optimisation). I use a plugin called Yoast SEO – get it here.
Yoast SEO plugin offers help with your keyword optimisation
An SEO plugin will help you write your content with the keyword you choose in mind. It also helps you to place your keyword in images, alt tags, headings, sub headings, tags and throughout your content. Too much over optimisation, and the search engines will find your content spammy, not enough and they won’t flag it for your chosen keyword/s.
How Much, How Often?
Blogging is definitely a long term strategy for getting traffic to your blog. The more often you blog and the longer you keep it up for, the better! I recently read that once you have over 400 blog posts you should see a jump in your traffic. Before you are established though, Google may put you in what’s called the “sandbox”.
This is a period of time which it will hold back new websites from ranking highly in the search engines. Google hasn’t confirmed the sandbox but many SEO experts believe it exists as a filter for newcomers and spammers, and to maintain a high quality of content in the searches it provides to users.
So as you build your content don’t get caught up in checking with Google every time you post an article. Just keep going and eventually your regular posting will pay off. You may start seeing your content rank in the lesser used search engines such as Bing, Yahoo and Duckduckgo in the meantime.
Marketing Your Content Yourself
But don’t wait for Google to rank your content, as it might never happen. Give it the best chance by marketing it yourself!
Another great plugin I use is called Revive Old Posts. This free plugin lets you automatically post your content through your social media platforms, as you publish them. You can upgrade the plugin for greater functionality, but the free version is a good start.
The plugin also lets you post your older content at times you choose. This is useful if you have a number of articles which are already on your website. You can also use a social share plugin on your website to encourage your visitors to share your content when they see it. This can have a dramatic impact on the number of people who see (and share) your posts. See best social media share plugins for WordPress.
You can also manually share your content via social media and link back to it from other websites and your newer posts. When link to your own posts, you can also use deep linking. Deep linking is where you link to your post from the text keywords you originally intended your article to rank for. It can help Google understand what you intend an article to rank for in terms of keywords.
An example of this is: the power of email marketing, where I’m linking to a long tail keyword article I have already written on this website.
Article Marketing Websites
Another way to generate traffic to your blog posts and website is to write content on other websites. You can reach out to other websites similar to your own and offer to do guest blogging. Some website owners will post your content on their site in exchange for a link back to your own content.
Link building is an important ranking factor with Google and generally the more links you have to your site, the better. You can also build links from article marketing websites such as Ezinearticles.com and Hubpages.com. Writing for Ezine can give you more exposure in a few ways:
You get traffic which comes directly from EzineArticles users.
Links from your article help in your SEO campaign
Other people can share your articles and must credit your link too, (hence more backlinks, more traffic)
YouTube is another platform you can use to both generate traffic and boost your SEO score with Google. You can use a similar approach to YouTube as you do with your organic blog posts on your website. Upload videos and tag them with your main keywords. Link back to your blog posts under your videos in your description using keyword focused links (using your blog titles).
Although in the beginning the effect of this can be difficult to see, over time if you are consistent with all these strategies, you should see a steady rise in your blog traffic.
Blog Commenting / Quora
Two other strategies you can use are blog commenting and Quora.com. See also affiliate marketing on Quora. With Quora, you can find and answer questions which relate to your content. If appropriate, leave links to your relevant content in your answers. Quora has a strict no spam policy. But if you are careful, and answer questions thoroughly, Quora does allow links to relevant content to be left in your answers.
Quora links are however no-follow which means they don’t help with your SEO score. But many Quora users will click on your links and find your website. Plus, if you find questions you are an expert on, which relate to your business, links from your answers will bring relevant traffic to you.
Blog commenting is a another strategy you can use to build backlinks and gain some more exposure of your content at the same time. Don’t spam in your comments though because they are much less likely to be approved. Write detailed responses in your commenting strategy and read the content you’re commenting on before hand. So many blog comments I get are just deleted because they are not genuine. But if you make an effort with blog comments, they can help you build traffic to your content.
Finding Other Blogs In Your Niche For Commenting
To find blogs in your niche which are available for comments you can look for those with a plugin called Commentluv. Commentluv is a plugin you can also use to attract more people who do the same. It’s a plugin which lets you leave a link to your website along with your comment.
If you are looking for customer attraction strategies for your business, here are a few ideas. You can also download the text format of this article in pdf format here: marketing strategies to attract customers pdf.
There are many ways to attract customers to your business. Traditional advertising methods using banners, newspapers and flyers in shop windows shouldn’t be forgotten about. But there’s many online advertising forms which you should definitely use as well. Make sure you have a website up and running which showcases your business. From a website, there’s many other marketing strategies you can use to build traffic.
You should also offer something on your website which encourages visitors to opt in to your mailing list. From a list, you can build relationships and keep your subscribers reminded of your business. Most businesses now use email marketing for their business. So if you haven’t yet got an autoresponder, you should get one and put a sign up form on your website.
This is usually accompanied by some form of giveaway. Many businesses use discount codes to encourage people to sign up and become subscribers. If I give you my discount code, will you give me your email address?!
Customer Attraction Strategies – Target Audience
Depending on your budget you might want to set up a marketing campaign to drive targeted traffic (visitors) to your website. Who your target audience is should be determined before doing any marketing. How to know your target market?
First you should look at the type of people who you serve already. From this information, you should have an idea about who you are serving. Knowing your target audience is important because it will be easier to find them online with your marketing when you have a clear idea of who they are and where they hang out.
Google Adwords, Bing, Yahoo
Google Adwords is where many businesses start out. You can sign up for a Google Adwords account and start a marketing campaign for a small daily budget. Some businesses get outside help with their marketing campaigns, but you can easily learn this yourself.
Once you have a campaign set up in Adwords, you should aim your adverts to show only for the keywords you choose. So if you have a business selling gin in Birmingham, you could target people searching for keywords containing “gin” in your area. This could be “gin stores Birmingham” for example.
These platforms serve advertising for businesses which target keywords. When someone types a particular keyword into a search engine, your advert pops up when a relevant search term is typed relating to your business. This works well for businesses because you only pay when someone actually clicks on your advert. If you’re careful with your advertising placement and keywords you use, you’ll only pay for hungry buyers!
Customer Attraction Strategies – Google My Business
Google My Business offers a free marketing space for locally based businesses. If you have a business which is located somewhere physically, it is well worth creating a free listing. Google My Business (formally Google Places) gives you a free listing which will often pop up in the search results right at the top of the page before the other results.
It only takes a short time to set up your account (less than an hour), and you can have free traffic to your website for a long time from a listing. You will need to prove you are at the address you state and a PIN code will usually be sent out to you for confirmation. Bing and Yahoo offer similar services.
Customer Attraction Strategies – Blogging
Blogging is another way many businesses build an online presence to attract their ideal customers. Businesses use blogging by writing content on a regular basis which will show up in the search engines and attract people to the business website.
Often a blog will be attached to the main business website. Blogging is a cheap way of attracting people to your website and is a long term strategy. Bloggers use different methods but generally you want to write about something which will attract the right audience to your business. This usually will be content which relates to the service you offer in some way.
A good way to start out if you lack ideas is to use Google’s free keyword planner to get ideas. Type your main keyword (of your business) into the search tool and look for the keywords which come up. Many of these keywords will make good topics for discussion on your blog. You can also answer questions with your blogging which your target audience regularly ask.
The Landing Page
The landing page is a specific page which you can build, with the goal of getting potential customers to sign up to your email list. On a website, a visitor can browse around and have a good look around.
But on a landing page, there are only two options: sign up or leave. This is useful when paying for traffic because generally people don’t buy from a website on their first visit. They like to get to know what the offer is and what kind of person/business is behind the site.
An example of a landing page – promoting an ebook
When you can collect your visitors email address, you can follow up with an email marketing campaign designed to offer value and build trust with your potential customers.
An email list can allow you to connect with your subscribers on a number of occasions and over a longer time scale than a website can achieve.
Customer Attraction Strategies – Email Marketing
Once on your email list, you can follow up with your subscribers over months, years and even decades. On a website, you only have a few minutes for your visitors to take some action. After that they are gone – potentially forever. So building an email list and offering some useful and valuable giveaway on your site is pretty important. See the power of email marketing.
To get started with email marketing you should purchase an autoresponder software. I use one called Aweber is is perfect for anyone starting out and usually has a free offer going for new starters.
Once inside you will be able to follow the prompts and set up a form on your site to help you collect emails. You will also need to create some offer you can use in exchange for your subscribers information. This should be a valuable offer which incentivises people to sign up to your email list. Once they do, you can send them a series of automated emails to keep in touch and offer value to them.
Facebook & YouTube Advertising
Facebook and YouTube have become two of the top advertising platforms you can use to build your business. With both, you can use video to create a message to target (very specifically) people who are suitable for your business. You can target people by their interests, location, connections, age, sex, incomes and a whole host of other demographics. With YouTube, you can target people who are looking at certain videos and this can be hugely useful to business owners.
A video advertising campaign I ran for my online business.
So if you have a business selling BMW’s for example, you can target an audience who is looking at BMW’s and is located near to your (physical) business. You can also remove audiences who are less likely to make a purchase from you, saving you money on advertising.
Summary
So there’s a few ideas you can implement in your business to attract more customers. It’s a good idea to focus on one strategy first until you have mastered it, otherwise you can easily spread yourself too thin and get less done!
Paid marketing is much faster to implement than the cheaper strategies such as blogging and organic marketing. See also get traffic to your website free for more ideas.
With paid marketing, once you understand your numbers and see your campaigns working, you can leave them running and even increase your budget and keywords if you learn what is profitable. Some adverts will work better than others and it can take some time to understand how marketing will affect your business.
An “autopilot money making system” sounds like a sleazy sales pitch for the lazy. But of course such a system does exist. However, don’t expect one of those “set it and forget it” systems to work for you. There’s plenty of work to be done if you want to take such a system seriously.
An autopilot money making system does imply profit without doing any work. But any system for generating sales isn’t the same as one which actuallygenerates sales. Most of these kinds of “get rich quick” schemes are actually selling you a course and nothing more. A sales “system” is one which sells automatically on autopilot. One of the best ways to create such a system is to use digital affiliate products.
Why digital affiliate products? If you’re aware of the business model of affiliate marketing you’ll know you can join any affiliate “partner” program and promote other people’s products online. By doing so successfully, you’ll earn commissions based on the sales you generate. Digital products work well because there’s no product handling and delivery charges, like with physical products. As such, profits can be more generously shared with those promoting them.
Digital affiliate products pay far more than physical affiliate products. Typically a digital affiliate product will pay referrers 40% and above, compared to physical ones which pay between 1% and 11% to affiliates. See affiliate marketing commission rates.
Autopilot Money Making System
Greater profits on sales can open affiliates up to more easily use paid marketing as a realistic option for driving traffic. Traffic is usually the downfall of an autopilot money making system using the affiliate model. Most affiliates will drop out and the affiliate marketing failure rate is high. So the option of using paid traffic means there’s more possibility to grow an online business more quickly. Other traffic generation methods can be slow and require a lot of work. Blogging, for example can take months or years before you see any traction with affiliate sales. (See also 22 ways to promote affiliate products). Paid marketing is fast and of course much more scalable than cheaper and slower strategies such as blogging or organic traffic methods.
So lets dive into the affiliate business model where you can most easily generate an income through driving traffic to products and services online.
Many affiliates will create content and post it on social media. But with millions of people doing this, it can be hard to gain the exposure needed to drive sales. To drive sales in numbers and scale up quickly you can use paid marketing. But in order to be able to afford this, you need to choose the right kinds or affiliate products.
Physical products offer lower commissions than digital ones. Typically physical products offer 1-11% commissions compared to 40% and above for many digital products. See affiliate marketing business models. With a high ticket product range, and through using subscription affiliate programs, you’re in a much better position to automate your business through using paid marketing strategies.
Autopilot Money Making System – The Six Figure Sales Funnel
Using the right business model, anyone can learn how to send targeted visitors to a website landing page and collect subscribers. Once in your sales funnel, your subscribers are offered digital products appropriate to their needs. When the decide to purchase a product, they are automatically offered other similar products which they might find useful.
The automation of this system starts with a “driving engine” which is a marketing platform. Facebook, YouTube and Adwords are all marketing platforms which affiliates use to find customers for their businesses and products.
With the affiliate marketing business model, you only need to learn the “front end” marketing side of the business. Product delivery and customer retention/services is already provided by a third party business which delivers products and deals with customers.
Getting The Business Working
In the first instance, setting up such a system does take some work. The actual business setup is only a small part of what you need to do to be successful with a business model like this.
Once you have set up your sales funnel, landing pages and website, you’ll need to drive traffic. This is the crux of what makes an “autopilot money making system” actually work. Without products which people want, which actually provide value, no one will buy anything and the system won’t work. You also need to identify the right kind of people to send to your automated offers. So if someone is interested in golf, you send them to a suitable landing page where you offer golf related information.
Once on your email list, you promote golf related products and services – if that’s your product.
To get an automated sales system working, you need to establish who you are going to be serving. Then you have to communicate your message congruently throughout your sales funnel. This begins with your advertising; you lead people to your landing page and follow up with an email marketing campaign promoting your affiliate products.
With paid marketing you can scale up once your sales funnel is profitable. Using content marketing means you’ll likely take longer to do this.
The best performing sales funnels lead people into an email marketing campaign from an advert and through a landing page. On a landing page, the marketer offers some kind of benefit driven offer.
When the visitor subscribes to your email list, they get some kind of free information. Once on an email list the potential customer will be given a number of follow up emails promoting some kind of product or service. With good targeting in your advertising, your email leads will have a strong interest in your offer.
The best marketers test their marketing structures to give the customer a congruent customer journey. From an advert, to a landing page to your emails and offer, the customer should have a strong idea about what you’re selling.
Emails should be congruent with your advert to connect the dots for your customers. Should a landing page be out of alignment somehow with your marketing message, many potential customers will use it as a reason not to opt in to a mailing list. See the power of email marketing.
Summary
To create an autopilot money making system is not as difficult as it used to be. Before new platforms and software allowed, building websites and landing pages used to require a good deal of technical skill. But nowadays anyone can benefit from software and automation which makes the whole process of setting up a digital sales funnel, complete with multiple digital products, quite straight forward.
Access business system here which leads you through the process of set up and marketing an online business which can be fully automated and scaled up to a global audience.
I always liked the idea of an automated income generator. Something which could work for me, like a robot, generating cash on autopilot. I looked at vending machines and online systems and eventually found a clever business model known as affiliate marketing.
With affiliate marketing you can promote and sell other people’s products online. When you make a sale, you earn a commission based on that sale. You simply refer customers to businesses and products and earn for the referrals. You don’t need to store products or even deal directly with customers.
PPS Affiliate marketing means you get paid per sale you make (pay per sale). But with certain products you can make lifetime commissions for making a sale. These kinds of products are typically software products and memberships. When someone signs up to a product with a recurring fee, part of this monthly payment can be paid to those referring the sale (affiliates). Not all affiliate products offer this. But subscription affiliate programs offer some of the best ways to create an “automated income generator”.
Automated Income Generator
But first you need to sign up to an affiliate program that offers these kinds of products. Then you need to learn how to sell them. Selling affiliate products can be done in all kinds of ways. Here’s a few of the strategies affiliates use to generate sales of affiliate products:
Email marketing – the power of email marketing grows as your email list grows. With a large enough list, affiliates can completely replace their income from affiliate sales.
Blogging and content creation – bloggers write content and v’loggers create videos. By posting content and building up a volume of content over time affiliates can sell products through their content and generate sales organically.
Social media marketing – some affiliates use social media to find their customers. You can either pay to use a platform or find an organic route.
Paid marketing is the fastest way to generate an income through affiliate marketing. But you may need to use subscription affiliate products and high ticket products in many cases to become profitable, depending on your strategy.
Automated Income Generator – The Six Figure Digital Business Model
The fastest way to build a digital business which is largely automated is through using paid marketing and a high ticket product suite. See also fastest legit way to make money online.
One of the main problems with using affiliate products which are physical is that they only pay very little in terms of commissions. Amazon typically pays affiliates between 1% and 11% commissions. That leaves very little for advertising costs, so many affiliates are forced to come up with other methods of generating traffic. See 22 ways to promote affiliate products.
Some methods take months or years to get any traction so product like these aren’t great if you want to build a income fast. But paid marketing and a high ticket sales funnel offers one of the best alternatives.
Use Digital Products Not Physical
With digital products you can earn more like 40% commissions on a sale. Add subscription affiliate products and high ticket affiliate products to the mix and you can get a lot more for a sale. This gives you more room to use paid marketing which can be used to get up and running more quickly with an online business. Paid marketing is also a lot more scalable than methods like blogging and organic traffic generation.
Once you have a profitable paid marketing campaign running, you can simply increase your budget to reach more customers and generate more sales. Once this system is working, simply leave it running.
Your marketing campaign drives targeted traffic towards your sales funnel and subscribers purchase items as they enter. With a product range you can benefit from later purchases, recurring subscriptions, high ticket sales and even multi-tier commissions. See SFM Digital Business System for more details or click on image below for details.
How A Sales Funnel Works
A digital sales funnel is basically an “automated income generator” once it’s working. It uses a number of digital products within a range of products. Products are sold through a marketing system using software and automation:
A marketing platform: advertising platforms such as Facebook, Adwords or YouTube can be used to drive targeted visitors to a landing page where they are offered some free information. See how to know your target market.
A landing page collects their email and name and they are sent a number of email messages with the information they requested. See the power of email marketing.
Emails also contain relevant products and services which may be of use to them.
Product purchases are followed up automatically with other related products which the customer might find useful
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The Stuart Lichtman PDF “How To Get Lots Of Money For Anything Fast” is one of the best resources I’ve found online. Whether you have a business, are learning affiliate marketing, or are trying to achieve anything, this book is for you! In it, Stuart shares what he calls the cybernetic transposition technique which he personally developed. Cybernetic transposition is a technique for transferring a success in one area of your life to another. So if you can remember a success you’ve had, you can transpose it to another area of your life.
“Cybernetic Transposition is the proprietary technique I developed and perfected, and which companies paid me $25,000 a day to teach their employees.” – Stuart Lichtman
Cybernetics is the science of how electronic machines and human brains work, (and developing machines that do things or think like people). Transposition means to transpose, or move one part to another; or an interchange of two parts.
Stuart Lichtman PDF
Stuart Lichtman – Author of How To Make Lots Of Money For Anything Fast
If you have read any of the classic books on the Law Of Attraction, you’ll understand that thoughts become things. See motivational books pdf free download and working with the law pdf. But Stuart Lichtman has taken this concept to another level in his book.
Here’s an extract: “Cybernetic Transposition may be the single and most powerful technique ever developed for personal achievement. What Cybernetic Transposition does is empower the mind to use one success – any success – that you have experienced, and “transpose” (or transform) that first success into the solid foundation for a success in another area.” – Stuart Lichtman
But just exactly how does this work and how does Stuart do it?
Cybernetic Transposition
To achieve anything takes focus. But what most of us do is get distracted and take our attention off the outcome we desire. Habits can be detrimental to our success if we allow the bad ones to grow and don’t encourage the good ones.
Here’s a quick summary of what’s involved in the technique:
Firstly create a targetor a goal which you know you clearly want to create in your life. It needs to be understood by all major aspects of your unconscious mind. This means getting very clear on exactly how you would like your target to look when it comes about.
Prioritise your target so that your unconscious mind will focus on it, even when while you are not thinking about it.
Resolve any unconscious habit patterns which would normally prevent you from achieving your target.
In Stuarts book you’ll need to work through this creating an outcome which is truly desirable to you. An important distinction with goal setting is that many people create goals which they either don’t believe in, or are not truly aligned with.
By resolving the conflicts which will undoubtably arise in your unconscious mind, you can get clear on your objective. If your goal doesn’t give you a 10 out of 10 for both desirability and belief, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Something in your subconscious mind will sabotage your efforts, and you’ll find a way to fail.
Stuart Lichtman Cybernetic Transposition – The Meta Story
There are some exercises in the book which you’ll need to work through. Be prepared for some hard work here! Stuart will make you write out your goal many times, correcting it accordingly to resolve any conflicts which come up. For example, your goal might be to lose weight. But you might also like eating and hate working out. By resolving these issues, you will come up with an appropriate goal which aligns with all parts of your mind.
Once you have got very clear on what you want, both in terms of desirability and belief, you can build what Stuart calls a Meta story.
A meta story is the end goal narrative in which you have created the outcome you desire perfectly. It’s the story which you are going to communicate with your subconscious mind in order to create a powerful objective. If your meta story is littered with objections and doubt, your subconscious mind won’t flag it as a priority; and it won’t have the same power.
Therefore getting clear on an objective is essential to this process of creation.
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Since Covid, many are looking for a business in a box for sale; something they can use to generate income from anywhere. Several years ago I was struggling and looked for something too. After trying Forex marketing, eBay (buying and selling) and even selling my own ebooks, I discovered a clever business model known as affiliate marketing.
After buying an ebook on eBay, I noticed the simplicity of selling a downloadable product. With a downloadable product there was no need for holding products, posting them out or even dealing with customers. I tried (in vein) to sell my own ebooks and eventually discovered that I could sell other people’s products through linking to them with my affiliate link.
Affiliate marketers don’t hold products or deal with customers. Instead they refer customers to products online, and earn commissions from the recommendations they make. Affiliate marketing is the perfect “business in a box”. You don’t need your own products and you can learn everything else.
Business In A Box For Sale – Products
One of the first affiliate programs I joined was Amazon. Amazon has thousands of products you can promote as an affiliate. Later on I learned to sell digital products and then eventually sold subscription affiliate products and high ticket affiliate products. You can join affiliate programs for free and promote them in several ways:
Blogging – this article is an example of one of my blog posts.
Email marketing – affiliates build large lists of emails to promote affiliate products
Paid marketing – there’s multiple paid marketing platforms you can use as an affiliate
Video creation – videos can be uploaded to YouTube and used to generate traffic to your affiliate products
Social media platforms – many affiliates use social media platforms to promote their affiliate offers.
Business In A Box For Sale
The “business in a box for sale” I eventually found was an “all in one” affiliate training resource and product range. This “business in a box” gives you everything you’ll need to build an online business starting from scratch:
A step by step setup process to build your website, landing pages, email marketing campaign and digital product setup (sales funnel)
Training and resources to help you learn how to market your sales funnel
Access to a community of online entrepreneurs and business owners
Over 10,000 training courses to choose from
Regular live webinars and training seminars available on demand
You’ll get access to all the tools, technology and training you need to build a “from scratch” online business.
One of the best things about the SFM Digital Business System is it’s product range and step by step tutorials. Whatever your technical experience, you can use the step by step training to set up your very own digital business and learn how to promote it online. Some of the main advantages of the SFM system is its use of:
A built in sales team – helping you close sales so you don’t have to do any “selling” – (the system does the selling)
A sales funnel you can use to send customers into, and a ready made email follow up series, done for you.
PPSAffiliate marketing refers to Pay Per Sale. This means the affiliate gets paid when someone buys something through the affiliate’s unique link. Affiliate marketing is a performance based referral marketing business model. Affiliates recommend products and services online and earn commissions based on what they sell. The most common commission structure for affiliates is PPS affiliate marketing (pay per sale). See also affiliate marketing business models.
There are other methods of affiliate marketing too such as recurring commission affiliate marketing and high ticket affiliate marketing. But most affiliate programs will only pay when the affiliate actually refers a sale. Recurring commissions happen with programs which offer memberships and ongoing payments. An affiliate can sell a membership program, for example, and earn ongoing commissions potentially for a lifetime. See lifetime commissions affiliate program.
PPS Affiliate Marketing – Make The Sale
With PPS affiliate marketing you only get paid when you make a sale. This often means in order to make your affiliate business work, you’ll need to make sales continually. If you use a high ticket products however, you can earn much larger commissions than the standard affiliate program will offer.
Amazon offers a popular affiliate program and pays commissions of 1%-11% to its affiliates. This is on a PPS basis (pay per sale). However, Amazon also offers its affiliates the benefit of earning from other items a customer purchases at the time of buying. So if you refer someone to a product from Amazon, and they checkout your product with a number of others, you receive the commissions based on their checkout total.
Pay per sale affiliate marketing can work well if you can get the traffic to your offers. But a good way to build an affiliate business is to use multiple strategies together: PPC, High ticket and subscription products can give you much more bang for your buck as an affiliate.
Using the three side by side can mean the work you do gives you a larger pay day. Subscription products too can help you to earn more consistently in the early days of becoming an affiliate marketer.
Multiple Earning Strategies
Often the hardest part of being an affiliate is getting consistent results in the early days. Using only PPS affiliate marketing means that you must consistently make sales in order to consistently make money. If your goal is to replace your current income with affiliate marketing, this can be a challenge with using only PPS.
By using high ticket, PPS and subscription products, you give yourself a much greater chance of success when things start turning in your favour.
You can also use a product “suite” instead of a stand alone product. A product suite is a range of products you can offer existing customers.
When you refer a customer to a product on Amazon, Amazon “wins” the customer. You get paid once, but Amazon gets a customer for life. But with a product range you can promote a product from a product range. When your customer purchases something later on, you get the credit for that sale too, and earn a commission. For more on a product range see SFM Digital Business System.
SOIaffiliate marketing means Single Opt In. DOI means Double Opt In. Double Opt-In means that the user needs to verify their e-mail after they have signed up. Single Opt-In means that the user only needs to enter their e-mail (or fill in a form) and that’s it – no verification required. Assuming two offers are identical, the SOI version will always convert better (in terms of numbers of opt ins) since there’s less to do for the user.
Getting people to enter their name and email (or fill in a form) isn’t always easy. But getting them to opt in and then confirm what they have done is even more difficult!
SOI Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketers build email lists of subscribers (see the power of email marketing) to send their offers to. In their emails they place their affiliate links and that’s how they earn money. With SOI Affiliate marketing you (the affiliate) deliberately switch off the double opt in setting within your autoresponder software. I use Aweber, and often affiliates will have to contact them directly in order to get them to turn off the double opt in function.
The double opt in is a safe guard which autoresponders usually recommend using. The problem is, many of your subscribers will opt in, and then forget to confirm once they receive the confirmation message. Or, this message can be lost in their spam folders and never seen. When this happens, they don’t get your follow up email messages.
If you’re paying for traffic to a landing page, and have double opt in turned on, you’re likely to spend a lot more money for less subscribers; since a number of them won’t confirm. This is why many affiliates use SOI (Single Opt In) rather than opt for the confirmation message being sent out.
However, some believe that the double opt in will ensure a better quality lead. Some single opt in’s may even be fake emails, used to access more information without giving up the users actual email address. With a double opt in, you make sure that the email is genuine.
SOI Affiliate Marketing – Paying For Traffic
Some affiliates will drive traffic (leads) to a landing page where they take the details of the user from a form. Here’s an example of a landing page form:
To access the information using SOI, you only have to enter your details and click on the submit button. The information will be sent to the email address you have entered into the form. With a double opt in, you have to click a link in your email message to confirm you are the user of that email address.
If an affiliate is paying to drive traffic to their landing page, and collecting data, they will spend more money with a double opt in. Since a percentage of subscribers will never confirm, and those subscribers will be lost.
Quality Versus Quantity
Depending on the type of lead you are trying to attract, and your particular niche within the affiliate business, you can choose between the two types of opt in. If you’re spending money and attracting a large quantity of leads, you’ll want to turn off the double opt in feature in your autoresponder.
However, if you’re more concerned with a quality lead, it can be worth leaving it on. With your double opt in switched on, only genuine leads will get your messages. Your open rate can be much higher too with double opt in; since leads are actively confirming their interest.
It’s more difficult to get your messages with a double opt in (for the lead). So those who are only vaguely interested, or want a quick fix, are less likely to seek out your confirmation message and click on it.
Traffic & Intent (Target Audience)
With a good offer, many people will want to opt in, if you target the right audience. But if you’re spending money on that audience, you also want those people to convert into paying customers. Conserving marketing budget and minimising waste is therefore pretty important, especially if you’re only testing a particular marketing campaign.
Getting to know your perfect target audience therefore is pretty important for an affiliate. Without a deep understanding of your target market, you can easily spend money on leads which don’t convert into customers. See why target market is important.
An affiliate marketing ebook pdf free download is where many affiliates begin. I began my journey to earning with affiliate marketing through purchasing a downloadable ebook. It wasn’t an affiliate marketing book, but taught a strategy to use eBay to buy and sell. Needless to say, I went on to learn affiliate marketing instead! I even created a number of my own affiliate marketing ebook pdf free downloads which I offer here in this article. Scroll to the bottom to see them all together.
Affiliate Marketing Ebook PDF Free Download
But first I’ll share the ebook I put together before I jumped ship on eBay and starting earning through affiliate marketing.
Although this book isn’t about affiliate marketing, it’s a clever strategy I used to generate an income from buying and selling using only eBay itself. In short, you find cheap eBay items using a miss spell eBay search tool. Then you re-list the item for a profit. It works too and I bought and sold many items for a profit. The trouble was, this strategy wasn’t scalable like affiliate marketing. And I had to spend a huge amount of time and effort looking for items, re-listing them and queuing at the post office weighing items!
Affiliate Marketing Ebook PDF Free Download
But I know you’re not here for a pdf download on eBay! So I’ll share my first ebook I wrote on the subject of affiliate marketing – Niche Blogging For Profit! In niche blogging I share one of the main strategies I’ve used to generate traffic and sales for free!
Niche blogging is a clever strategy I have used for years. It’s based on information I got from a course I bought several years ago. Basically it involves finding long tail keywords and writing content around those keywords. Some of this content will get indexed by Google (and other search engines) and I’ll get free traffic! This article, “Affiliate Marketing Ebook PDF Free Download”, is an example of this strategy.
Affiliate Marketing PDF Download – $9.97
The next ebook I put together is called affiliate marketing for beginners. In this ebook I share some of the most important concepts around affiliate marketing which took me to learn. I just thought I could jump in and earn money quickly with affiliate marketing. That’s what many courses which I purchased taught me. Sadly that’s not always the case and it took me years to learn that some affiliate programs are far better than others. Affiliate commissions vary from 1% to 100% in some cases so it’s important to choose the ones which will pay well if you’re looking to replace your existing income using the affiliate model.
In this book I explain which types of products will save you time and money and how to avoid many affiliate pitfalls. This book is for sale on this site for $9.97: Click the image below to access:
In affiliate marketing cheat sheet, I explain how certain programs will pay far more than others. Subscription affiliate products will pay you a recurring commission. High ticket programs will pay you very large commissions. Why choose to promote low value physical products when the same amount of work promoting high ticket subscription products will make you much more money? It makes no sense but many affiliates start off without this knowledge. I did too and wasted so much time selling low value items for tiny commissions. This is the book I wish I had read several years ago, when I started affiliate marketing!
Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing
In affiliate marketing secrets I share some of the “secrets” which top six, seven and eight figure affiliate marketers use to generate such high incomes. Having a large value sales funnel is key here. You can’t generate a high income with affiliate marketing with a bad marketing strategy. The best marketing strategy is one which is scalable. With a scalable strategy you can quickly increase your reach when you known your numbers are working. Once an advert is profitable, you can increase your budget. This is harder or impossible to do with some other marketing strategies such as content marketing.
Affiliate Marketing Blueprint PDF
Once you get started creating ebooks it can become a habit! Here’s another one I put together called affiliate marketing blueprint. It has been created as a step by step strategy which anyone can follow showing the secrets and strategies of super affiliates.
Super affiliates make massive amounts of sales. They are the top achievers in a program. Not all super affiliates have the same marketing strategies either. Some use paid marketing and others use content marketing. But they all think big and generate traffic and sales in large amounts.
Ebooks and pdf downloads are a great tool for affiliates. They have been a useful list building strategy for me and I’ve had thousands of people joining my email list through downloading my ebooks! If you have downloaded an ebook of mine, do let me know what you think and reply to any of my emails! I’m a real person not a robot!
The Ultimate Guide To Online Marketing
The Ultimate Guide To Online Marketing covers a number of paid and some free marketing strategies. If you have a local business too, this book covers some free strategies you should be using for bringing in free customers on complete autopilot. Paid marketing though is the main topic for this ebook and I share a number of tactics and mindsets you can use to build any business with online tools and resources.
Affiliate Marketing Ebook PDF Free Download
I hope you’ve found something useful here on this article “Affiliate marketing ebook pdf free download”.
Here’s the books again. Just click on the images to access any of them:
