Category: Affiliate Marketing Mentor Blog

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!

Welcome to affiliate marketing mentors!

What Do Affiliate Marketers Do?

What do affiliate marketers do? If you’ve heard of affiliate marketing you’ll already know that it’s a way to earn an income by promoting other people’s products on the internet.

Affiliates recommend products and if they make a sale they earn a commission based on that sale. There’s many ways affiliate marketers can actually do this and not every affiliate uses the same strategies. Some will create niche websites, others will use paid marketing strategies. Some affiliates earn a part time income and others earn huge six and even seven figure incomes.

What Do Affiliate Marketers Do?

To make sales, and earn commissions affiliate marketers must put products in front of the the right people. Since people are buying products from the internet all the time, the job of affiliate is to become the person in between the customer and the product.

They can do this in many different way, the mains ones being:

Create written content – many affiliates create content by writing a blog or building website, just like this one. If someone purchases a product from my website, or signs up to my email list and purchases a product, I make a commission.
Create videos – a lot of affiliates don’t blog but create videos and upload them to YouTube. As their subscriber base and following grows they make more money from their recommendations over time.
Run paid marketing campaigns – many affiliates don’t want to spend heaps of time building content and opt for the paid marketing route instead. This can be a much faster way to build an online business.
Find suitable people for customers on Social Media platforms – another strategy affiliates might use is to connect with others through social media channels in order to build relationships and promote their products.
Affiliates build email lists – most successful affiliate marketers have an email list. They can send out useful content to their subscribers to help them with a topic which relates to their products.

What Do Affiliate Marketers Do?

As a beginner affiliate, you’ll be wearing your “student” cap for a while. This stage of the affiliate journey is spent researching affiliate programs and looking for training courses. You can sign up to the website and get a free video series to checkout my recommended mentors.

It’s well worth spending some time in this stage because the deeper your learning is, the better chance that you’ll take the right action steps later on. If you rush into affiliate marketing, as I did, you’ll find lots of problems.

Much like starting a new restaurant business, you wouldn’t buy the nearest building and just cook the food you already have in your kitchen. Your business would be doomed if you went about a new business this way. But many newbie affiliates do exactly this with affiliate marketing. They rush in and have problems because they don’t have the ground work in place.

So, it’s important for new affiliates to get the right training and educate themselves about affiliate marketing business models and strategies for marketing their products. This takes time and many drop out far to easily.

What Affiliate Marketers Do

Initially there’s some set up you’ll need to do in order to build a sales funnel. While some affiliates do everything by themselves, this is a much more difficult route. With the right program, you’ll get a fully stocked out sales funnel which contains products you can sell straight away. The SFM digital business system, you’ll be walked through the set up process in 7 step by step modules.

Once your sales funnel is set up and ready to go, you’ll need to turn your attention to the marketing side of things.

With the right business system, affiliate marketers can focus solely on marketing and allow an automated sales funnel to do the selling and promotion for them.

The Difficult Bit

In the first instance affiliates will set up a sales funnel, an autoresponder and a website and landing pages. This can be done through the SFM back office once you become a member.

Once this is all set up, and this can be done within a few days, you’ll need to learn marketing. Marketing your sales funnel involves targeting an audience and sending them to a landing page or website where they can sign up and enter your sales funnel.

building a website — Setting up your website can be done in a few simple steps..(Click image for video)

This is the stage where many affiliates simply give up! But don’t! Marketing is the key to affiliate marketing. Without a marketing campaign affiliates will never make any sales or earn any money. So even with the best sales funnel in the world, it will just sit there collecting (digital) dust if you don’t send people into it.

Marketing can consist of many things. Any time someone clicks on a link of yours and goes into the sales funnel (by entering their email and name), you can consider it a form of marketing. Or they can also click on an affiliate link and directly purchase a product too.

Marketing at first can be very difficult because the affiliate will be learning what works and what doesn’t work. As a beginner this can be a frustrating time because most of what you do won’t work. Only after a lot of trial and effort can you determine which actions produce the best outcome. Once you get to this point, if you don’t give up before you reach it, you’re in a great position to focus on what works!

Why Affiliates Build Email Lists

From a website you can also directly link to many affiliate products from around the internet. However, the lifespan of a website visitor is much shorter than that of an email subscriber.

Once you get someone to subscribe to your email list, you can keep in touch with them for months or even years. On a website, someone only has a few minutes before they click away and are gone forever.

So with an email list, you have a lot more opportunity for building a relationship with your subscribers and making a sale. Some people will purchase from your email list even years after signing up to it.

Once Your Affiliate Business Shifts Gears

In the initial start up process affiliate marketing seems very difficult. There’s a lot to be done for little in return. But as you start making sales and seeing what works, you can focus on the actions which produce the largest results. This is the 80/20 principle or Pareto’s principle. It states that 80% of the outcome/consequences comes from only 20% of the causes.

Within affiliate marketing this is very important and once you determine which results produce the outcomes you want, you can place your attention there. As a beginner, you won’t know which actions give you the results you’re looking for, so it can seem like a difficult business.

But stick with it long enough and you can see some fantastic results for work you’ve done previously. Affiliate marketing can give you a passive income over time, which is pretty amazing when it happens.

What Do Affiliate Marketers Do – Keyword Research

Whether an affiliate marketer uses organic content to reach their audience or paid marketing, many affiliates will do keyword research. For this article, for example, I looked up this keyword “what do affiliate marketers do” to get an idea of how many people searched this exact phrase every month. As you can see in the image below, there’s only 30 searches per month for this keyword. But since my site is about affiliate marketing, I’ve been on the lookout for related keywords to write content about.

Once I’ve found a keyword which I like, I look on Google with a phrase search to see how likely I am to rank my article for this particular keyword.

The I do a open search too to see the number of results. This phrase comes in at just over 11 million which breaks my rule of less than 10million. However, I wanted to write on this topic for my email campaign to give some more information to my subscribers. So I thought I’d give it a go and see if I could rank! I might not make it onto Google but we shall see!

Affiliate Marketing Goals

It’s worth mentioning why affiliate marketers do all this too. Without that context this seems like an awful lot of work! Ultimately an affiliate business can give you complete time and financial freedom. But many affiliates work very hard to escape their jobs and be financially independent or self employed.

I like writing so blogging suits me and I enjoy the benefits of achieving a listing on Google, getting free leads and making sales from my content. Unless you enjoy the process of learning and implementing the skills though, affiliate marketing can be a lot of hard work. So it’s important to go into it with your eyes open.

Blogging isn’t the only way to do affiliate marketing and there’s much faster and easier ways if you have the money. When I became an affiliate, I was time rich and money poor, so I developed a habit for writing a blog.

What Else Do Affiliate Marketers Do – Tracking

Affiliate marketers track all their sales and leads. That way they can focus on the areas which are working for them once they get the data.

Initially though you’ll be doing a lot of things, testing and measuring what works and what doesn’t work. Once you start getting website traffic and leads (email subscribers), you’ll have some data to base your actions on. When you make sales you’ll want to track them back to an action you performed previously. Without doing so means you won’t know which tasks brought in the sale.

Tracking in the basic form simply means knowing where your sales came from. When you understand how you’ve made a sale, you’ll be able to repeat it again and again by focusing on the acton/s which brought it in.

Training & Webinars

If you’re lucky enough to find an online community of affiliates, you’ll be able to join trainings and webinars and mastermind with other business owners.

Ongoing training and development is key to any business venture. Your business can’t outgrow the level of thinking you bring to it. So if you’re stuck in your business in some way, changing your approach is key to breaking through to the next level. Limiting beliefs and underlying attitudes of limitation, lack or poverty can severely hamper your business growth.

So it’s useful to connect with other people who challenge your thinking and behaviour. If you’re going to build an affiliate business it’s well worth joining an online community who can help you do so.

Access an online business mentorship program here.

Is Affiliate Marketing Saturated?

With the millions of affiliates out there, it’s no wonder people are asking “is affiliate marketing saturated?”

Is there any chance for new affiliate marketers who enter such a competitive industry? After all, what chance have they got when there’s millions already out there? Is it worth a shot? Should you “give it a try?”

Is Affiliate Marketing Saturated?

Affiliate marketing is a broad term. An “affiliate” can be anyone who joins an affiliate program in order to promote someone else’s product or service online. Not all affiliates become successful; but there’s many millions of people who fall into the affiliate category. Many give up before they even create any content or even get started. Why is this?

The affiliate marketing industry has for years perpetuated the myth that making money online with affiliate marketing is easy. Anyone can earn an “easy income” with little work, so they have said! Not true!

Is Affiliate Marketing Saturated – Regulations

Affiliate companies nowadays are not allowed to make earnings claims. Tighter regulations in this industry have clamped down on this kind of behaviour. This is most definitely a good thing for affiliate marketing. It has levelled out the playing field and made it a more professional industry. GDPR (general data protection regulation) was made by the European Parliament in May 2018 and affected many affiliates. Affiliates operating within the EU have to declare their use of data they collect from website visitors.

Google too has had a say in the affiliate marketing industry. Back in the early 2000’s you could throw up a website and get it ranked on Google. Small three-page websites could gain massive traffic. Affiliate marketers were making very good money with little work, if they knew what to do. Along came Panda and Penguin. They were Google algorithm changes which disrupted low quality, spammy affiliate websites. People who had been earning massive incomes were suddenly out of the game altogether – going back to their day jobs.

Is Affiliate Marketing Saturated? Barriers To Entry

One of the main problems with affiliate marketing, and one reason why people think it is oversaturated is the low barrier to entry. A traditional bricks and mortar business wouldn’t expect to be in profit immediately on opening. In most cases, businesses will run for 1-3 years at a loss and only recoup their initial investments after this time, gaining profit slowly.

But with affiliate marketing for some reason people assumed they will be profitable straight away. This, in part was due to the marketing surrounding affiliate training products.

Many training courses claimed that you could make easy money without much effort. This, and the low cost to start an affiliate business (e.g. a $100 course), means that almost anyone worldwide can participate. But joining a course doesn’t make someone an affiliate marketer – they just paid for a course! They are a consumer, not an affiliate marketer!

The real competition for new affiliates depends on which route they decide to choose in their affiliate marketing journey.

Is Affiliate Marketing Saturated – Over saturation Or Competition?

An oversaturated market doesn’t allow for new competition coming in. It’s true that ranking a website on Google is much tougher today than it was even 10 years ago. But that doesn’t mean affiliate marketing is saturated. If you’re a newbie and want to rank a website and promote Forex marketing affiliate products on Google, you’re going to be out of luck! You’ll have more chance finding an one armed, unicycling fire juggler!

The “making money online” niche too, is incredibly competitive. To get your content ranking on Google, or even YouTube will be very difficult. But affiliate marketing isn’t limited to these topics and affiliate businesses aren’t limited to ranking content for free either!

There’s many ways in which affiliates get their products in front of potential customers:

Paid marketing – Google Adwords, Bing, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin the list goes on. Can all of these platforms be oversubscribed?!
Organic marketing – content creation is a free method for generating sales online as an affiliate marketer. Blogging, Social media marketing, Video, content creation etc.

Plus there’s millions of topics within affiliate marketing too. In order to get your content ranked on Google for free you need to choose topics which are less competitive. In order to use paid marketing, you need to carefully choose your products accordingly, so you’ll be able to make a profit.

How To Be A Successful Affiliate

In order to have a chance at earning a realistic income from affiliate marketing, you have to do things in a certain way. There’s many ways to fail, as in life. But getting the right knowledge will set you up for success.

One of the problems with affiliate marketing is that people are impatient. They think that they can throw up a website and suddenly earn an income from it. It’s true that an affiliate business can earn an income quite quickly. But so many affiliates, me included, run into it as if it’s going to happen tomorrow. This is why many fail.

With a bricks and mortar business, you wouldn’t grab the nearest building and throw up a restaurant with no clue how or what kind of food you’re going to serve. It’s a recipe (no pun intended) for disaster! But with affiliate marketing so many people do exactly this. They rush in expecting great things to happen immediately and then give up when nothing does! I did it too!

Likewise when building a block of flats you wouldn’t start placing bricks until the foundations were laid. Laying the foundations of affiliate marketing is key. It’s what your affiliate business will be built on.

Different Affiliate Business Models

There’s multiple strategies to generate sales within an affiliate business. Many affiliate marketers join Amazon’s partner program and attempt to find visitors through building a website.

There’s a big problem with this strategy, especially for new affiliates. There really is huge competition on Google for certain keywords and topics. Added to this, you’ve also got Google recommending products right at the top of the search engines. Here’s the view I got when searching for “buy spotlight”, for example.

As you can see Google dominates the results at the top of the page for this search. As an affiliate for Amazon, unless you have a fairly obscure product, you’ll likely be facing this kind of competition moving forwards.

Then there’s all the paid advertiser listings appearing in front of yours. And of course let’s not forget Amazon’s website itself; which will likely rank at or near the top of the organic listings.

So if you’re attempting this strategy you need to position yourself so that you’ll get traffic. Otherwise you’re out of luck. It’s not therefore other affiliates who are positioning you out of business; it’s Google and paid marketers who are doing it – with this strategy at least!

Review Sites

Review websites used to be a good method for affiliate marketers to use too. My first affiliate sale came from a review article I wrote on a website building software back in the early 2000’s. But many large companies now have reviews on their own websites – including Amazon.

There’s still room for review websites but you’ll need to pick your topic carefully. If you choose the less competitive topics you’ll have more luck getting your content noticed. See my Six Figure Mentor’s review.

Paid Marketing

Affiliates can also use paid marketing strategies although this requires you to have a good business model. It’s very difficult promoting low value products from the likes of Amazon and using paid marketing. Amazon’s commissions are pretty low (3%-11% commissions). Ideally choose digital products which offer recurring commissions instead. With digital products you can earn 40%+ commissions.

Using A Digital Product Range

A digital product range can give you the best chance of success as an affiliate marketer. With low value products and trying to get content found in a competitive niche is tough. Instead, invest in a digital product range which gives you multiple earning strategies. By doing so this means you have more opportunities for marketing.

With low value items, you’re stuck using only free or cheap marketing methods which are competitive and difficult. It can still be done of course but you’ll have your work cut out.

Building content and keeping going is very difficult, especially when you don’t see anything for your efforts for a long time. Most will quit given this situation.

Ideally use all these strategies to give yourself the best chance as an affiliate:

Subscription products – offer recurring commissions on items you sell
A range of products – lets you earn commissions from existing customers when they purchase another product in a range
Multi-tier sales – allow you to earn commissions based on sales made by your referrals
Use digital products not physical products – digital products cost less to deliver and manufacture. Savings are passed to affiliates who can earn 40%+ commissions
Use high value digital products – high ticket items give you more income potential and help you to offset marketing costs.

See SFM digital business system for more on this.

Why Affiliate Marketing Isn’t Oversaturated

Hopefully you can see that there’s many ways to skin a cat within the affiliate marketing business. Not all affiliates are successful and most quit before they even reach 1000 subscribers on their email list. This means that even though there are millions who “give it a go”, most don’t actually follow through and become full time affiliates. Affiliate success today is built on effort and attitude, not price. Arguably this is a higher entry barrier than cost alone, keeping affiliate numbers down.

Google is constantly improving improving their algorithm’s to give the end user the best possible experience with their search queries. This means that unless the affiliate has the same end in mind, they’ll fall by the wayside. And many do!

Quality is therefore very important for affiliates if they are going to succeed online in today’s marketplace. Those who “dip their toe in” because they think it’s easy will be disappointed. They will quit.

For the serious person who wants to make a full or even part time living from affiliate marketing there’s plenty of room! So long as you don’t think it will be easy and are prepared to roll up your sleeves and work at it, there are great rewards.

Access an online webinar to learn more about earning a full or part time income online. Click on the image below to access a webinar with one of my personal mentors Stuart.

Best Digital Marketing Mentors

The best digital marketing mentors are the ones who are a good fit for you and your business. Not all businesses are alike. Not all business owners are alike. So, the best digital marketing mentors are those which you can trust and and are a good fit for you.

I found a group of digital marketing mentors who helped me with both my martial arts business and to build an online business. Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek created an online digital marketing mentorship program called The SFM Mentors.

They might be a good fit for you if you:

either own an existing business or
are looking to build an online business. (Even if you have nothing to sell.)

The SFM also offers an all in one business system which anyone can use to earn an income from the internet.

Best Digital Marketing Mentors

I met Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek during a Momentum training day in 2014 in London. They taught me a number of marketing strategies which I used to both build an online business and to build my existing kung fu business. See online marketing mentor for more on this.

For me, Stuart and Jay’s community offered the best digital marketing mentors because they offered training on multiple marketing strategies and platforms. When I started out I was solely focused on blogging as a marketing strategy. I soon realised that I could easily use and afford other strategies which would bring far faster and better results than blogging alone.

Prior to finding an online marketing mentor I was worried about incurring large costs and wasting money with online advertising. But it’s easy to limit your daily budget with many online advertising platforms to a level you’re happy with while you learn.

Best Digital Marketing Mentors – Adwords

Different businesses require a different approach to marketing. For many, Google Adwords offers one of the best platforms to advertise with. They offer a search targeted marketing platform. To use Adwords you specify which specific keywords are suitable for your own particular business. Your adverts will only show when someone types those keywords (or keywords containing them) into the search engine (Google).

This is a super targeted way to advertise your business online. Plus you can limit your daily budget to a very low amount according to your budget.

Digital Marketing Using Facebook

Facebook is another platform which is fantastic for businesses. With Facebook I was able to target my martial arts school using a 10 mile radius. You’re also able to target people people by age, sex, interests and a number of other demographics.

This is fantastic for businesses because it means they can get very targeted with their advertising. By focusing on the specific people who are most likely to purchase their product, or use their services, business owners can save money on wastage and target their most likely potential customers.

Getting clear on who it is that you serve as a business is key. When you know precisely who your perfect customer is and what they look like, you’ll have a clearer understanding of how to find them with online marketing.

Why Use Mentors?

It’s worth getting access to digital marketing mentors for a number of reasons:

You’ll get access to webinars and seminars to help grow your online business
1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching can help you overcome limiting beliefs and move past old thinking patterns which hold you back
A mentor can help you learn technical strategies to build your own marketing campaigns
You’ll be able to access masterminds and work with other business owners who are going through similar problems to you
You’ll be able to connect with other business owners who will hold you accountable and help you grow personally and professionally.

Access An All In One Online Business & Mentorship Program

The SFM offers an all in one digital business system and mentorship program. It’s suitable for anyone who wants to start up online but has no previous experience. It’s also suitable for anyone with an existing business who wants to learn how to develop marketing skills.

There’s a number of trainings and groups available to members where you’ll be able to develop your marketing skills to either market your own business, or use the in-house business system.

Trainings include multiple marketing platforms:

Blogging
Instagram marketing
Facebook & YouTube marketing
Pinterest
and many other social media platforms
PPC – Direct response marketing
Adwords and Bing – Search marketing platforms

Access a free video series to learn more by clicking on the image below.

Online Marketing Mentor

An online marketing mentor can help you build your own existing business, or even build an online business from scratch. Before I found an online marketing mentor I bought several courses promising to teach me how to make money online.

Unfortunately most of them failed in this promise, or at least, I failed to make money from their advice. But, I did learn a number of strategies which proved useful. However, it wasn’t until 2014 when I found an online affiliate marketing mentorship program that things really turned around for me. At the time I was running a failing Kung Fu school and I used the education to learn about how to market my school.

Online Marketing Mentor – Struggling Business

I used Facebook targeting, Google Places for business and a few other strategies to advertise my school. Within a year I had more than doubled my class! An online marketing mentor is not only there to show you the strategies to advertise a business, but they will also remind you how your thinking affects your business.

Most businesses will fall short because a business can never outgrow the thinking of the owner. So, unless you’re growing personally and changing the way you think into your business, chances are it could be massively improved. I had some serious limited thinking which I brought to my Kung Fu school.

Firstly I was expecting people to come to my class without even advertising it. Word of mouth advertising is all well and good if it works. But unfortunately you can’t control it apart from being good at what you do and offering a great service. But if no one knows about your service they won’t come running just because you think you’re awesome!

Secondly I was running my business how I used to train while learning. I was great at being the technician in the martial art and training very hard. I was less good at imparting the knowledge to my students and organising this knowledge into an encouraging learning format.

In The E Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber he talks about this same problem for many employees transitioning into building their own businesses. Many get stuck in the mindset of working their business just how they used to work as an employee! But it doesn’t work. As a business owner, you’re no longer employed to do what you’re good at (and perhaps like doing). Your job is to make the business work – to make it profitable.

Online Marketing Mentor – Changing Your Thinking

It’s all well and good learning some marketing tactics; but if your thinking is still limited your business growth will be limited too. Many who transition from employee to entrepreneur see their own business as an escape from the chains of employment.

But without changing their mindset, they could quite easily find themselves running old mental programs and doing the very things which used to work for them as an employee. However, that doesn’t necessarily translate into helping them build a profitable business. That’s a different set of skills.

This is why a good online marketing mentor will help you both with your technical problems and with your mindset issues which you may not be able to see for yourself. In reality, the technical difficulties are far easier to overcome!

marketing mastermind — An Online Marketing Mastermind session with The SFM

Online Marketing Mentor – Types Of Marketing

Every business is different so you’ll need to choose a marketing strategy (and business) which suits your needs. An online business mentor can help you decide which strategy is best for you. However, ultimately you’ll need to choose based on your advertising budget and type of business. A physical business will be advertised differently than an online business too.

Free Marketing Strategy

One of the best marketing strategies for a physical business is Google Places for business, or Google My Business. This is a free listing that any business can set up as long as they can verify a physical business address. Of course online businesses can use this service too if they are running from a specific physical location. However it doesn’t offer the same advantage for internet based businesses because the search will only show up locally.

Blogging

Blogging is another tool a business can use in its marketing “box”. This is a slow but cheap way to get your business found on the search results and bring new customers in.

Email Marketing

If you also encourage your website visitors to sign up to some “freebie” on your site, you’ll be able to get them onto your email list.

From there you can keep in touch with them and potentially build a relationship to sell to them down the road. With an email list, you can massively improve your sales rate over time because you can maintain contact with people who would have only visited your website for 10 minutes – potentially never to return.

Facebook Marketing

I used Facebook marketing to help build up my Kung Fu school. Many marketing platforms allow the business owner to target very specifically the kind of person who would be best suited to their business. With a local business you can target people by age and location as well as interests and preferences. For my school I targeted only people within a 10 mile radius of the school location. With laser focused targeting your keep your marketing costs down and acquire customers for very little once you understand your customer “avatar”.

See why is target market important.

Customer Avatar

Your customer “avatar” is what your perfect customer looks like down to their every detail:

Age
Sex
Interests
Location
Job
Family
Interests
Pains
Problems
Relationship status

With marketing platforms gathering so much data on their users, marketers can now target people with extreme precision. This is great for marketers because they can aim their marketing at the people who are most likely to value and purchase their particular products. You can even use Google or Facebook’s artificial intelligence to help you find these people in a number of ways:

Cross matching user data with other similar people
Retargeting people who have interacted with your advertising or website
Optimising your adverts for the lowest cost
Letting algorithms decide who to show your adverts to based on previous data.

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Online Business Mentor

Are you looking for an online business mentor? An online business mentor can help you build a long term, sustainable business from the internet. Ultimately though it comes down to you doing the work. A mentor can help you by giving you the tools and direction, and helping you uncover your own mental and psychological blocks to success.

In this article, I’m going to share some of my own journey to building an online business; and the insights I learned through finding an online business mentor of my own!

Online Business Mentor – Finding A Path

It took me a long time to find a path for a legitimate online business. I started out looking at Forex marketing and spent 2 years studying it.

Eventually I abandoned this and found an eBay business strategy which involved finding low cost items and selling them for profit. After a while of this I realised that it wasn’t going anywhere. I was spending a lot of time stuck to the computer and I decided there must be a better solution for an online business.

I turned back to the eBay business idea which I had found through purchasing an eBook from eBay. After writing a couple of my own ebooks I learned how to list an ebook on my own website but struggled selling any. So I looked for a marketing course and found affiliate marketing.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a business model which lets anyone earn commissions selling other people’s products online. I jumped from course to course with affiliate marketing looking for the easiest path. What I didn’t realise was that affiliate marketing isn’t easy! I needed an online business mentor, but instead got sucked into the frenzy there was over easy online cash back in the early 2000’s.

I spent a lot of time finding a path because there were so many. So many courses promised the world and didn’t deliver. But I was so busy jumping from one course to another, there was never any consistency in my actions.

It was nearly 5 years later when I actually found an online business mentor who gave me 1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching.

Different Routes For Affiliate Marketing/Online Business

There’s many paths for online business. You can build a Shopify store, become an affiliate for Amazon or a million other affiliate programs. There’s plenty of ways to promote affiliate products too. You can become a blogger, create videos for YouTube or become a social media “influencer”.

Each course I bought into taught a different strategy and this was part of the problem.

Eventually I found a company called SFM mentors which is a company founded by affiliate marketers Jay Kubassek and Stuart Ross. Their company was different because I could actually meet the founders Stuart and Jay and met many of their members too. Previous companies and courses I took were not so accessible.

Digital Business System

The SFM Mentors offers a different business model than what most online business courses offer. The SFM digital business system has multiple earning strategies for their members:

Subscription commissions – continue to earn from ongoing subscriptions from each of your referrals
A range of products not just one – Having a number of products in a range and a built in sales team means you’ll be able to earn from the lifetime value of your referrals – both recurring membership commissions and “up-sells” – later purchases made by your existing referrals/customers.
High value commissions – with digital products within the SFM digital product range you can benefit from high levels of commissions – up to 101% commission on the All-In-One at the time of writing.
High ticket digital products – high value products give you multiple advantages over low value items.
Multi-tier sales – allow you to earn commissions based on sales made by your referrals.

Online Business Mentor – Why You Need One

Despite having access to the digital business system listed above, I still had doubts and fears which held back my growth and that of my online business. Ultimately you are the vision and driver for your online business. Once you get stuck, it can be hard to overcome your own mental, emotional and psychological barriers to success. What psychological factors limit the growth of your business? And more importantly how can you overcome them?

A business can never outgrow the level of thinking a business owner brings to it. therefore if you have limiting beliefs about yourself or your business, it will undoubtably surface in some form within your business growth, or lack of it; or even in your personal life.

An online business mentor can help you become more aware of your limiting beliefs and psychological makeup which prevents you from moving forwards.

Here’s a few of my limiting ideas around this online business which stopped me from growing and growing my business:

What if it’s a scam – I would be promoting a scam?
Do I really want more money? – more money brings more problems
I’m comfortable being broke, maybe wealth isn’t for me?
I don’t want to put myself out there and be vulnerable for criticism
What if my work colleagues see me/my video?
What if the business folds after all my hard work?
Maybe I should focus on something else instead..
An on an on…

Once you can identify your limiting ideas, a good question to ask yourself is whether they are helping you build a profitable business or not. If the answer is no, you can be pretty sure that they are the main reason you’re not taking the right actions to move your business forward and become profitable. As you become more aware of your self talk, you’re in a better position to choose more empowering beliefs and thoughts and cast aside those which aren’t serving you or are sabotaging your success.

What A Mentor Can Help With

An online business mentor can help you see your own limitations and push you to grow both personally and professionally. one of the main problems with an online business is that it can be incredibly lonely. You’re mostly working alone and many well meaning friends and relatives would rather see you “safely” in a job which tortures your soul!

Your risk makes them feel uncomfortable and so they’ll try and bring you back into their safe version of the world. An online mentor knows what you’re striving for and why. They’ve already been through what you need to go through in order to grow and succeed.

Learn more about this online business system and mentorship program by meeting the founders. Click on the image below:

Stuart Ross Affiliate Marketing

If you’re looking for Stuart Ross affiliate marketing, I met Stuart Ross back in 2014 after joining his affiliate program. Back then I was a struggling affiliate marketer and found Stuart’s video while scrolling on Facebook. Here’s Stuart on the island of Mauritius shooting a video.

Stuart and co-founder Jay Kubassek created an affiliate marketing mentorship program known as The SFM or Six Figure Mentors. The program offers an all in one business system and training community. Anyone can access The SFM to learn more about affiliate marketing and earning an income online.

What is unique about The SFM is its community. Before joining the SFM I had gone through a number of other training programs to learn affiliate marketing. What was missing in them all was the community which the Stuart Ross affiliate marketing program (SFM) has developed over a number of years.

Stuart Ross’s Affiliate Marketing Community

stuart ross affiliate marketing — At an SFM meeting in Chester, UK

In the early 2000’s when I became interested in learning about affiliate marketing, there was little in the way of help available. After joining the SFM back in 2014 I was able to join a number of get together’s and meetings in the UK. I met another affiliate marketers for the very first time in the flesh! This gave me much more confidence in affiliate marketing and of course in the SFM business too. It made it more socially acceptable and real for me.

The SFM Business System

The SFM digital business system contains a number of earning strategies which any affiliate who joins the program can benefit from. The affiliate business model can be used in a number of ways and contains:

Membership products from which affiliates can earn residual (recurring) commissions
High ticket items which pay out upwards of $1000 per sale
A built in sales team – closing sales on the affiliate’s behalf
Multi-tier sales – commissions based on the sales made by your referrals are available at the top tier of the business structure
A product range also means you can benefit from purchases made later on in your own personal customers journey. As long as you referred a customer once, you can benefit from a lifetime of commissions based on their purchases.

Before I understood the power of this business strategy, I was struggling selling low value items from Amazon and eBay as an affiliate. As an example, Amazon typically pays affiliate’s 3-11% commissions based on their product sales. Digital products on the other hand pay much more: up to 101% in some cases.

Stuart Ross’s affiliate marketing company the SFM currently pays affiliate’s 101% commission on the entry level product of the Mentors All In product.

This is only possible to do because of the business system and range of digital products within the sales funnel offer through The SFM Mentors.

As an affiliate with The SFM you can also earn commissions on sales ranging up to $20,000. An essential member can earn the following levels of commissions having purchased the Mentors All In Package.

commission structure for essential membership — Commission structure for an essential membership

Regular Webinars & Seminars

Throughout my journey with The SFM over several years now I’ve had some ups and downs! It’s no easy feat building an online business – especially if you’re starting from scratch. But what The SFM gives you is the training, tools and community of support to help you should you choose this path. You’ll need to bring some stubborn determination and hard work to the table to make it work for you.

What’s most helpful about Stuart Ross’s community is the community which has built up to include many online webinars and seminars, and multiple Facebook groups which help members in all sorts of ways.

Should you decide to go “all in” as I have done, you’ll also be able to access personal mentors who offer 1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching. This coaching has helped me most to see my own inner limitations and beliefs which have held me back on this journey.

These one to one sessions are also run by experts who have succeeded with their own 6 and even 7 figure businesses online. You’re learning from people who have already succeeded online. Jay and Stuart also show up for their members personally and have done for the last several years.

See also Six Figure Mentors Affiliate Program for more on this.

E Commerce Mentorship

E Commerce mentorship was something I needed back in early 2000’s, although I didn’t know it. I knew I wanted to be able to earn from the internet and be self employed; I just didn’t know how to go about it. After a couple of years learning Forex marketing and then running an eBay business for a while, I decided there had to be a better way.

I had bought an eBay business idea in an ebook format from eBay and thought back to this purchase. It was so simple: an automated downloadable product and checkout process. So I decided to create my own ebooks and sell them over the internet. After spending a lot of time creating my own ebooks I later realised I knew nothing about selling them online! D’oh!

E Commerce Mentorship

So I put myself on a few courses, an “e commerce mentorship” if you will! I jumped from one course to another looking for the “magic bullet” of internet success and wasted a huge amount of time. You can read about the various courses I took in my digital profit course review.

Most of the courses I took are now redundant and no longer operational. Some of them taught how to sell e commerce products and other taught other monetisation methods. Over a couple of years I had tried many different online earning strategies. The one which shone out the most was a business model called affiliate marketing.

E Commerce Mentorship – Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is an online business model which lets anyone sell other people’s products for a share of the profit. In my early days of learning affiliate marketing, I didn’t know which products to sell or how to sell them.

So I tried many different strategies and failed many times before something actually worked. Then I did more of what worked and abandoned the other activities which produced less of a desirable outcome.

The point of an e commerce mentorship is to shorten this learning curve so that you can get up and running with a profitable online business in a much shorter time. There’s many things which can go wrong with an affiliate business. I made a huge amount of mistakes and learned the hard way.

But most people don’t have years to waste learning the ropes with an online business. They want results fast so they can leave corporate careers, spend more time with their families or go travelling.

Affiliate Marketing Mentorship

By the time I found an affiliate marketing mentorship program, I was well into my affiliate journey. But the results were a long time in coming. I was still juggling multiple jobs and struggling with my affiliate business.

Despite my initial scepticism I decided I had no choice but to move forwards and take action on joining yet another program! If I didn’t, I knew I wasn’t going to change my life and the next 10 years would be the same as the last.

So I took the plunge and decided to start again from the beginning. Besides, what I thought I knew wasn’t getting me anywhere and I was still broke and desperate for success online. I started again with a company called SFM/ Mentors.

I was able to hook up with local groups near where I lived in the UK and they had a global community.

At an SFM meet up in Chester, UK (I’m in the red jacket)

E Commerce Mentorship

There’s a few reasons why it’s worth investing in an e commerce mentorship. Firstly it’s a tough business to crack on your own. As I learned it’s way too difficult without help. Secondly, there’s many routes to the outcome of having a profitable online business. The route you take will be specific to your own specific situation and circumstance. So there’s simply not a “one rule fits all” situation.

A mentor can help you decide which route is the best one for you. For example, if you’re a burned out executive, you’ll want to create an income as fast as possible to escape your corporate job. You won’t have time to invest but you will have a steady income from your corporate job. This situation is far different from someone who is stuck at home furloughed and looking for another stream of income, for example. Or someone who is working part time and wanting to build a low cost income from home.

Every situation is different and so you’ll need a different strategy according to your own needs. Investing $20k in a business just isn’t viable for everyone. But for some this can give them the best solution to their problems.

Business Models

Not all affiliate business models are alike. Some offer to pay you 3% commission and others will pay you 50% commissions. Certain products offer to pay recurring commissions for the lifetime of your customer. So you can see that choosing the right business model will have a huge impact on how successful you can become as an e commerce business owner.

In addition to this there’s also many ways to market an online business. Some affiliate marketers build content (like this article) and others run paid advertising. According to your individual circumstance you’ll need to choose a marketing strategy which is suitable for you.

The SFM business model offers multiple earning strategies for their affiliates:

Recurring income commissions from membership commissions
High ticket affiliate products paying 40%+ commissions on sales you make
A range of products with a built in sales team – closing sales on your behalf.
Multi-tier commissions let you earn commissions based on sales made by your referrals.
Training and mentorship including 1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching (according to your level of investment)

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To learn more access a free video series by clicking on the image below.

Stuart Lichtman Cybernetic Transposition

I first found the Stuart Lichtman cybernetic transposition technique after joining a group of affiliate marketing mentors. Stuart’s book was called How To Get Lots Of Money For Anything Fast! As a cynical Northerner (based in the UK) this seemed a little cheesy but it was a course requirement so I bought it.

I soon realised that this was the real deal! Stuart Lichtman had spent over 25 years developing a strategy to help people achieve the seemingly impossible. He had studied at MIT in engineering, psychology, and artificial intelligence, masters work in applied psychology, and doctoral work in organisation development and cross cultural business.

After developing what Stuart Lichtman called his cybernetic transposition technique, he tested in on a group of 50,000 people. 81% achieved a seeming impossible goal on their first attempt. A bold claim?

Stuart Lichtman Cybernetic Transposition

So how does the Stuart Lichtman cybernetic transposition technique work then? Through his book you will encounter a number of exercises which Stuart calls the three step process. Firstly, you will focus in on what you really, really want to achieve. One of the main problems with goal setting is that you seldom know exactly what you really want. As time moves on, other goals take a more important role. Or competing parts of your mind get in the way of your achieving it; or unconscious habits.

Or perhaps you didn’t really want your goal badly enough to overcome all the things you’ll have to do to achieve it? This is often why people fail with goal setting. Either they don’t want something badly enough, or they don’t believe they can achieve something. Therefore they set a goal which is more easily achievable, but less desirable. So they don’t follow through because the goal isn’t that important to them anyway.

Stuart Lichtman’s three step process allows you to investigate what you really want and it does this by getting you to repeat your goal over and over. As you sound out and write out your goal, you’ll “tweak” it so that it’s more aligned with your inner values. It also needs to be a goal which is a 10/10 on desirability and a 10/10 on believability. If you don’t believe you can achieve something, you won’t fully commit to the process. Similarly, if you don’t really want it, you won’t follow through either.

Stuart Lichtman Cybernetic Transposition

Cybernetic – the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.

Transposition – transferring one thing to another

The Stuart Lichtman Cybernetic Transposition technique refers to transferring an old memory or achievement to one which is the desirable outcome. Old memories are hard wired into the brain and the unconscious mind. As you think of an old memory or something you have achieved, you can remind yourself of the sounds, sights, smells, emotions and feelings which accompanied all of those memories.

These are useful because they are the communications of the unconscious mind. Think about a dream you had. Dreams are usually in pictures, feelings, sounds and emotions. They aren’t in words! So using words as a means to communicate something important to the subconscious mind won’t be very powerful. You need to use feelings, smells, emotions and sounds to communicate an idea to the subconscious mind and for it to focus on that idea.

The Problem With Old Memories

Old memories aren’t always things you want to remember! So with the cybernetic transposition technique, Stuart Lichtman gets you to re-write your old memories so that they are more desirable.

Memories aren’t always 100% perfect and we often remember things how we want to rather than how they actually were. If you ask a number of people to describe a particular time or event, you’ll likely get a number of different and even conflicting responses.

So with the transposition technique you get to rewrite your history in a way which is much more desirable. Then, you use these already implanted images, emotions and sounds etc. into your new meta story.

What’s A Meta-Story

Your meta story then becomes your future goal or desirable outcome. By rewriting and rewriting over and over, you’ll get clearer on an outcome which is a 10/10 in desirability and a 10/10 in believability also. You’ll then use your old memory to implant the emotions which went along with your past achievement or event.

This, when repeated over and over, will tell your subconscious mind what to focus on. As your subconscious mind focuses on the outcome you want to achieve, it will come up with ways to do so which you may never have thought of.

For most people, me included, we are hardwired with negative repetitions from our childhoods. We tell ourselves old stories over and over which limit our lives. “I’m not good enough”, “Life’s a struggle”, “Money doesn’t grow on trees” and so on.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could interrupt these old, negative stories of limitations and replace them instead with stories which hardwired us for abundance. Well we can! Stuart Lichtman’s Cybernetic Transposition does exactly that. You just need to do the work.

Creating A “Red Flag” For The Unconscious Mind

Have you noticed that when you buy a particular brand of car, you start seeing them everywhere. But before, you never even noticed them. This is an example of your mind focusing in on a particular thing. The same can be done with your unconscious mind through repetition of a meta story.

A meta story, as mentioned, is a rewritten scenario from your past, which is edited to be more aligned with the outcome you want – your goal. By re-rehearsing your meta story again and again, you are effectively creating a very specific target for your mind to focus on. So even when you’re not thinking about it (consciously), your subconscious mind is.

Most people will write their goals out and few times and then forget about them. This doesn’t work because your unconscious behaviours override your desire for your perfect outcome (the goal). With a meta story, you clearly communicate the desired outcome to the subconscious mind in pictures, smells, feelings and emotions.

When you do this enough, and continue to do it, the goal becomes your overriding target which sits in the background slowly but surely attracting you to it. It’s far more powerful than what most of us do with our goals: planning, struggling, working and doing things only on the outside of the equation. While you also need to do these things to achieve a particularly difficult goal or achievement, using the meta story and doing the invisible work in your mind is paramount to a successful outcome that you really want.

Access Stuart Lichtman’s book here.

Six Figure Mentors Affiliate Program

I’m a member of the Six Figure Mentors affiliate program and joined the SFM in 2015. The SFM offer an all-in-one business system and training program for people who are serious about building an online business from scratch.

Before finding the Six Figure Mentors affiliate program I was already an affiliate marketer. However, I was struggling making a living online and came across a video of Stuart Ross while on Facebook. He seemed genuine to me so I clicked through and joined the community.

I was of course very sceptical of anything online. I had already purchased a number of online courses which taught me various strategies. See digital profit course review for the highlights. Despite this I still struggled online and was juggling a number of jobs to keep the money coming in.

Six Figure Mentors Affiliate Program

Within a few months I had already made my first high ticket sale and this was largely due to my sponsor (the person who introduced me), creating an advertising co-op and helping me with the marketing.

I was also able to meet Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek at a meeting in London too. This had been impossible in all the courses I previously purchased. There just wasn’t the kind of help available back when I first started out. I realised that The SFM was something real as I’d never actually met company founders from the many courses I’d purchased previously.

I was also able to attend various local events and meet other members of the community. These events are held all over the world but for me, I was able to meet up with people near the north of England in Chester, Birmingham and also in London.

six figure mentors affilaite program — six figure mentors affiliate program – on a trip to Chester with the local community

Six Figure Mentors Affiliate Program

The Six Figure Mentors affiliate program offers a number of business systems which you can use to promote to generate an online income. Depending on your financial commitment, you can choose to use a range of products which pay out commissions from 40% to even 100% commission.

At the top tier of the program you can even benefit from 40% commission on products valued at $20,000. However, you’ll need to invest heavily in order to qualify for the largest levels of commission.

The product range offers a number of earning possibilities:

Subscription products – earn recurring income on membership products. Membership products are a game changer when earning online because you can earn residual commissions from each sale you make. This makes your efforts more sustainable.
A number of products in a range – having a product range gives you the potential to earn from your referrals even years after you introduce them. A built in sales team and system closes sales on your behalf, you only need to refer the original sale and you can benefit from lifetime commissions from your referrals, including any products they subsequently purchase at a later date.
Multi-tier sales – although this is only offered at partner level it means you’ll be able to earn from sales generated by your members.
High value digital products. Before finding the Mentors I was promoting small value products and hence why I struggled to earn online. With high value digital products you can earn 40% commission on products valued at $1000 to $20,000. This gives you much more scope for using various marketing strategies which are out of reach for cheaper, physical products.

The Community

What sets The Six Figure Mentors affiliate program apart from others is its community of members and carefully thought out mentorship program. After a bit of a struggle maintaining my sales through the SFM business, I became a little dismayed. I lost trust in the program and became sceptical of it. Negative comments about it being a scam from my email list knocked my confidence and because I hadn’t found my feet by then, it made me doubt the company.

This of course had a knock on effect in my actions and resulted in lack of sales. I almost quit and reached out to the community. I was put in touch with two community members who met up with me through online calls. They restored my faith and direction and I was pointed to Facebook group calls which I joined each week.

I’m sure I would have quit if it wasn’t for the community. Building an online business is tough. It’s not for the faint hearted and certainly not what I used to believe an online business was.

My view of an online business when I began online was that it was be an easy path to riches! I thought I could throw up a website and sit back while the money came in. But this definitely isn’t the case. Don’t join The Six Figure Mentors affiliate program on a whim. It takes some serious commitment if you’re going to make it work for you. But you can achieve some amazing results if you’re prepared to work hard and keep at it.

Recurring Income & High Ticket Sales

What many miss about an online business is the financial freedom it can offer you. I always had my eye on this prize! I just didn’t know what I needed to do until I joined the community and learned from the other members. There’s a lot of encouragement from members who have already achieved this result. This is what is needed for someone who is starting out.

It took me a long time to get traction with The Six Figure Mentors affiliate program but that was because of the actions I was (and wasn’t) taking. In the early days I was struggling because I was using only free marketing strategies. Many others were taking off much more quickly because they were using paid marketing and following community leaders. I had a few too many ideas of my own and this held me back.

Once I learned to let go of what I thought I knew and do the things I needed to do, things began to change for me. I started earning sales and residual commissions which came in every month. In 2020 I made a DEA sale and this gave me a huge boost in belief. Up to then I was still carrying scepticism and the smallest negative email would knock me back in terms of belief.

But this was a long path for me. I was determined to do things “my” way for a long time. But also my circumstances didn’t allow huge investment at first, so I stuck to organic marketing, which is much slower than paid strategies.

Who Is The SFM For?

The SFM offers a range of digital products anyone can use to build a recurring income online which can, over time, replace any existing income. But it’s not easy to build a business online. There’s lots of competition and it takes some hard work and determination to make it happen.

If you have a big enough “why”, you can make it work for you with persistence, if you stick at it and decide to never quit. But if you expect it to be an easy ride, don’t bother, it’s probably not for you!

If you’re interested in finding out more about The Six Figure Mentors affiliate program, you can access a free video series and meet my personal mentors Stuart and Jay by clicking the image below. Let me know if you sign up and I’ll be there to point you in the right direction!

Legit Online Business That Pays

I looked for a long time for a legit online business that pays out. After several years of jumping from one course to another, I eventually found an online community of entrepreneurs who helped me make a living online. Before that happened I tried many online strategies including an eBay business, Forex marketing, and even created my own ebooks to sell online.

But I didn’t have the money to trade with using Forex, the eBay business wasn’t going anywhere and I couldn’t sell my ebooks! I put myself on a marketing course which led me to another business model known as affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing you get paid for recommending and selling other people’s products over the internet. Despite affiliate marketing being a legit online business that pays, for me it didn’t work at first. I tried all kinds of strategies but had problem after problem.

Legit Online Business That Pays

Affiliate marketing is the best business model I found. But there’s different ways of using affiliate marketing and many ways to do it. Amazon for example is an online shop which many are comfortable buying from. Did you know anyone can join Amazon’s affiliate program and recommend products from the site for a share of the profit?

Many affiliates start out by promoting products from the likes of Amazon – as I did. Unfortunately Amazon products aren’t the best for affiliates. Amazon pays its affiliates between 1% an 11% commission depending on the product sold. In comparison, many digital products like you’d find on Clickbank pay much more – between 40% and 60% commissions.

So obviously it’s better to promote the higher commission products. For what can amount to the same amount of work, you’ll get up to 60% commission on certain products compared to 1-11% on others. Why work hard making only smaller commissions? The answer is often a lack of knowledge. I spent years working away online promoting low value items and making very little. I could have spent that same time promoting larger value products which offered bigger commissions.

This is why knowledge is valuable in affiliate marketing.

Legit Online Business That Pays – Other Kinds Of Products

There’s other considerations too. With digital products you earn larger commissions because there’s less costs involved in manufacture and delivery. Digital products can be accessed over the internet with zero postage or handling costs. This makes them the perfect products for affiliate marketers.

Recurring income affiliate products are another game changer for affiliates. It took me a long time before I learned this valuable insight. Before I started promoting recurring income affiliate programs I would only get paid once for a sale. A recurring income program is something which offers a membership or some kind of software. Software products work well for affiliates if they make a single sale and keep earning for a lifetime from each customer they refer to a product.

Of course advertising is a consideration for affiliates. Many beginner affiliates quit because they don’t get any results in their affiliate businesses. They work at the wrong activities and don’t manage to make any sales. They assume that affiliate marketing does not work and so quit before they make any sales.

Marketing Your Affiliate Business

Marketing is one of the biggest obstacles for affiliate marketers. Affiliate marketing is a performance based business. Unless you make sales, you don’t get paid at all! So marketing is an important skill which every affiliate will need to learn. There’s a couple of main ways to advertise your affiliate products and they can be divided into two main categories:

Running paid advertising – PPC pay per click/direct response marketing
Content marketing – like this article which is a “free” source of advertising, but takes time and effort to create.

For low cost items like a book on Amazon, for example, you can make a few cents/pence profit. This means that paid marketing is out. You can’t run a paid advertising campaign to a $10 product, make $0.10 in commissions and turn a profit. However, if you have a business model which gives you 40% commissions on products valued at over $1000, there’s much more scope for using paid advertising. With products which pay out $8000+ commission in your digital “shop”, you can even afford to make some mistakes while you’re learning! See SFM digital business system.

The SFM – Six Figure Mentors

I eventually found an online business system and community which helped me to build an income from the internet. In 2015 I saw a video on Facebook and signed up for a free video series. This led me to join the community which is known as SFM – The Six Figure Mentors, or “Mentors”.

The Mentors is an online training program and community which helps people from all walks of life learn the skills to build online businesses from scratch.

With affiliate marketing there is a lot to learn and it’s not an easy “get rich quick scheme”. It takes time to learn the skills to promote products over the internet. But with the right training and software, anyone can learn.

If you’re committed to the path of building an online business and don’t quit, getting the right help and advice, and the right product range can mean the difference between success and failure.

Here’s a picture of one of the online mentorship webinars I’ve attended during my SFM journey.

And here’s a picture of me with co-founder Jay Kubassek at a London event shortly after joining this community.

Learn more by accessing a free video series here.