Category: Affiliate Marketing Mentor Blog

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Internet Marketing Mentor

But, if you already have an existing business, an internet marketing mentor can help you overcome mental and technical barriers to building your business through online marketing too.

There’s many ways to use the internet to market a service, product or even someone else’s product. With affiliate marketing, affiliates promote and sell other people’s products for a share of the profits. An internet marketing mentor can make a huge difference to your business.

Growing Your Business

Which marketing is suitable for your business and how would you like to market it? Depending on your business model, you can use a variety of different techniques. Some businesses use free marketing and others use paid platforms.

Paid marketing is the best way to market a business because you can quickly find customers and build your business by scaling up your marketing budget over time. But there’s also other marketing strategies which are cheaper such as blogging and using the various social media marketing platforms.

It’s important to stick with a particular strategy for long enough to make it work for you. Once you’ve mastered a particular strategy you can move on to another and then another. Ideally, your marketing strategies will keep bringing new customers into your business and can be compounded on over time.

Marketing Strategies – Blogging

Blogging is a cheap strategies which many marketers use to build an organic presence on the internet. Over time, a good blogging strategy can help you acquire customers for free. However, blogging is definitely a longer term strategy than paid marketing. With blogging, you won’t see a huge impact immediately. It can take months and years to start seeing business growth from a blog.

But if you keep at it, blogging can be a great way to generate a market reach and build your business.

Marketing Strategies – PPC

Pay per click marketing is a form of direct response marketing which many businesses use to great effect. With a PPC marketing campaign, you run adverts and only pay when someone clicks on your advert. Over time, and by measuring the response of your campaigns, you can determine which adverts work best. Many businesses give up too early with PPC because they see only the cost involved. But if you measure your advertising and record how it affects your ability to acquire new customers, you can focus in on what works and make it more affordable.

Over time you’ll be able to automate the process and spend less than you make. Once an advertising campaign is profitable, it can be scaled up. You can also leave a profitable campaign running and move on to your next marketing strategy.

Internet Marketing Mentor – Social Media

There’s many social media platforms available for business owners too. Social media platforms offer both free and paid marketing options for marketers. Here’s a few platforms which business owners can use to build their businesses:

• Pinterest
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Linkedin
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Tumblr

There’s literally hundreds of social media sites which can be used for marketing. Here’s some free traffic strategies you can use for your business.

Why A Marketing Mentor Is A Good Idea

A marketing mentor can help you navigate the many strategies to find new customers for your business – or even to start your own online business from scratch. Some people are way too busy with their business to learn how to do all the marketing. They would benefit from hiring the services of a marketing agency. But if you want to learn yourself, a mentor can help you with the various platforms.

Access a marketing mentors group here to learn the various marketing strategies.

Usually the “secret affiliate marketing hacks” are behind a sales page, and you have to pay to get the “inside info”! I’ve bought a tonne of those kind of courses. Fortunately I stuck around for long enough to learn something valuable.

If you’re Googling “secret affiliate marketing hacks” perhaps you’re looking for a get rich quick scheme. Let me tell you that’s your first mistake. You’ll be disappointed if you think it’s going to be easy. Those courses which promise the Earth don’t deliver. You need to stick at it and get educated, if you’re going to succeed online.

Secret Affiliate Marketing Hacks

Firstly a “hack” suggests something easy. I apologise for this because an online business isn’t easy. So if working hard and building a genuine business is not for you, this article isn’t either. However, that being said there are certainly easier methods to earn online than some. I tried many strategies over the years which didn’t work. And I found one strategy which did and is working; not just for me, but for many online entrepreneurs.

The key is scale. With an internet business you can reach the whole planet! That’s plenty of people for many people to succeed. No there isn’t going to be a tipping point where it’s saturated. How many people want to escape their current jobs/careers and lives. The internet is a solution for the billions of people in such a position. Many haven’t yet woken up to the possibility of a full time income online though yet. But over the next 20 years many will!

What’s the catch? The catch is that reaching a scalable audience online which is well targeted to your affiliate products costs money. Of courses there’s free strategies such as blogging. If you’re reading this article, this particular “hack” has worked! Checkout my ebook (above) for more on this strategy.

Secret Affiliate Marketing Hacks – A Scalable Business

For years I worked away at the free strategies, hoping Google or YouTube would eventually reward me or that my content would go viral. But it didn’t. Even with a “lucky” article and some viral traffic, this strategy is not something which is easily repeatable. If you’re interested in creating viral content here’s a good book on the subject.

But a lot of work goes into articles which go viral and often it comes after many other failed articles. A repeatable scalable business is much more possible if you use paid marketing and a good business model.

Paid Marketing & ROI

Most affiliate strategies won’t work with paid marketing because they don’t recoup the money spent on advertising. That’s why you need a business model which offers:

• Recurring income affiliate products – Recurring income products pay you over and over again for each sale you make
• High ticket products which offers large commissions – digital products offer the highest levels of commissions compared to physical products which tend to offer much lower payouts.
• Multi-tier sales – earn money from sales made by your referrals
• A built in sales team – close larger value sales on your behalf (you only refer the initial products within a range of products)
• A number of products within a range of products – gives you the opportunity to earn from regular customers

See the SFM digital business system for more on this strategy.

Without such a business model like this, you’ll need to rely on cheap or free marketing strategies. These take a long time and a lot of effort. And there’s no guarantees either that your content will generate sales; even with a lot of hard work! Of course there’s no guarantees in entrepreneurship anyway.

But if you’re going to become an affiliate, do you want to be a struggling one, making tiny commissions here and there, or a successful one making huge scalable commissions? How do you see yourself and your affiliate business?

Secrets Of Super Affiliates

Super affiliates see the larger picture. You need to become like a super affiliate too if you’re going to succeed in affiliate marketing. Of course you can create a website, create content and hope people come to see it. But this isn’t how the super affiliates see things. They think bigger! To think globally and build a global business you need a marketing engine driving customers to your products. This takes time and effort with free marketing strategies but can be very fast with paid marketing.

But paid marketing is expensive and you’ll need a range of expensive products in your sales funnel to make it viable. Without high ticket items in your funnel, you’ll need to use free marketing strategies which are time consuming and unreliable.

It all starts with your mindset. Do you want a full time business or a small extra income. Think about it because you can spend the same amount (and effort) building either. Your affiliate psychology has a huge amount to do with your online business. Think small and you’ll have a small affiliate business. Think big and you can have a massive 6 figure business if you want. See also super affiliate secrets.

Secret Affiliate Marketing Hacks – Summary

So there’s a few hacks I’ve shared in this article. One is to target long tail keywords in your article titles and aim for ranking your content on Google. You can read about this strategy in my ebook Niche Blogging For Profit. This is a slow and definitely long-term strategy. But if you’re on a budget, it’s probably one of the more viable ones.

The better strategy (if you can afford it), is to use a high value sales funnel and paid marketing. Once your funnel is up and running, turn your attention to the marketing “engine” which will drive targeted visitors into your funnel. Access a online business and community to learn this strategy here.

You can of course mix your strategies. Using a combination of free and paid marketing is a good idea according to your budget. But ultimately affiliate marketing isn’t as easy as many make out. Ideally join an online business community which offers help and support, not just a range of videos!

If I had only found affiliate mentors years ago I would have saved a bunch of time and effort. But when I started out online there were no real mentors. There were courses though which taught tactics for earning online. But none of them offered personal 1 to 1 affiliate marketing coaching – or at least none that I found anyway.

At best they offered a number of videos which you could access through a members area. There was no community and no support. Thankfully things have changed since then. You can have a look at the many courses I found online in my digital profit course review. Eventually though I did find affiliate mentors who helped me through the many technical and mental challenges you’ll deal with as an affiliate marketer.

Affiliate Mentors – My Journey

Back in 1995 eBay opened its doors and I opened an account. It wasn’t until years later that I used the platform to make money. After purchasing an ebook on eBay which taught me a business strategy (read about it here), I started buying and selling items for profit. After a while of buying and selling I realised there must be a better way to use the internet to generate an income. I was spending all my time shifting products physically and tied to my computer. What if there was another way?

There was. I bought an ebook which taught me the eBay strategy and realised that this was an automated sale – no dealing with customers or queueing at a post office. I wrote a couple of my own books and tried to sell them but had no luck. A marketing course put me on another trajectory – affiliate marketing. I realised affiliate marketing was a better way to earn than selling my own ebooks, so I started learning. After a lot of struggle and making many mistakes with affiliate marketing, I almost quit completely. Luckily for me I didn’t and I found a community of affiliate mentors who would help me turn my laptop into a veritable cash machine!

Affiliate Mentors – Finding A Mentor Online

I found a video of a guy on a pedalo called Stuart Ross. At the time I was struggling with my affiliate business and thought I needed to take another chance. So I joined his course and found an online community. This was very different to the other courses I had purchased in the past. I was able to meet up with the person who brought me in – a guy called Oliver. He arranged a number of meetings locally in the UK and I also went and met the founders of this community Stuart Ross and Jay Jubassek.

The community was called the SFM – Six Figure Mentors. Of course this sounded too good to be true and a little spammy to me at the time. But the SFM Mentors helped me build a business online and start earning fairly quickly. I was able to make a couple of high value sales within my first few months. Of course this isn’t typical and everyone’s journey is different. Here’s a picture of me with Jay Kubassek at my first Momentum meeting in London in 2014.

What Can They Do For You?

Affiliate mentors are pretty important with building an affiliate business. I tried for years on my own and faced a huge number of challenges. It’s just not worth trying to do it all alone.

Through the community I was able to see real people face to face and it’s amazing how much this can change things. It can give you confidence in what you’re doing. When I first started learning about affiliate marketing, nobody knew anything about it. Most people were sceptical. And this is a major problem if you are surrounded by scepticism.

Your “tribe” can help you or hinder you and if the people around you aren’t on the same path or mission as you it can be a major thorn in your side. So having access to a community of people who are in the same boat is massively beneficial to building an online business. Not to mention that those people can also help you directly with your business – both in terms of mindset, technical difficulties or simply as a shoulder to cry on when things aren’t going so great!

Affiliate Mentors – Right Business Model

Are you stuck with a bad business model and marketing strategy? I was for years and this was the crux of my issues. An affiliate mentor can help by giving you a business model which works and helping you decide on a marketing strategy which is right for you.

Some products such as physical products only pay 1-11% commissions to affiliates. If you choose this path you could be struggling for years before earning enough to quit your job.

Marketing Strategy

Likewise, some marketing strategies are very long term. I got stuck blogging for years with hardly any results. I thought that eventually it would pay off. Meanwhile I saw others overtaking me and this forced me to switch gears. But it was only because I could attend meetings and see for myself what was working that I was able to do this.

Affiliate Mentors – Mindset

Mindset is such an important issue that it deserves an article all to itself. An entrepreneurial mind frame is very different to an employee mind frame. There’s a mindset shift from employee to entrepreneur which is necessary for success. As an employee, you turn up, do the work and go home. The boss or company has the responsibility to make the business profitable. You just work on a small part of it and get paid for your time.

As an entrepreneur in an affiliate business, it all comes down to you. If you don’t make your business profitable, you can’t survive in it. Affiliate marketing is different to being an employee and you don’t get paid for your time. You get paid for your results.

So if you think your affiliate business is there for you to enjoy yourself and do what you love, you’re only half right. Yes it can give you a lifestyle which a job can’t. But you’ll need to make it work and this sometimes can mean taking stock of how you see yourself and the limiting beliefs you’re bringing to your business. Affiliate mentors can help you see these limitations. Without them, you can get stuck in your own thinking patterns which aren’t serving you.

Join The Community

You can join the community of affiliate mentors and access an all-in-one business system here.

Yes I’m a Six Figure Mentors affiliate. I will earn commissions should you purchase something from my website. I started learning about affiliate marketing before stumbling across the SFM, though.

My main reason to learn how to earn from the internet was that my financial life was a complete mess! I was struggling building a career as a stunt performer and had to juggle a number of jobs around the work; which was very sporadic.

So I had multiple jobs including HGV driving, office work and several other low paid jobs. In my late 30’s I was still doing crummy jobs which paid next to nothing and often didn’t get stunt work for sometimes years at a time. I realised something had to change or I’d be stuck in this situation for the next ten years. That was unbearable to me so I looked online for courses about making money.

Six Figure Mentors Affiliate

I tried all kinds of strategies to earn online including Forex marketing, building an eBay business and even writing my own ebooks to sell. But I faced one problem after another. Jumping from course to course trying to learn how to sell my ebooks, I realised there was a better business model than selling my ebooks. It was called affiliate marketing. Here was a strategy which required no products of my own and I didn’t even need to directly speak to customers or handle products.

So I ploughed hours, weeks and months into learning affiliate marketing and trying to make money from it. I was still juggling HGV work and the stunt work at this time, so it was full tilt ahead.

After a lot of failure and some small successes I found a video of a guy on a pedalo. He claimed to have the knowledge I was searching for and despite having spent money already on a number of other such claims I knew I had to keep going. Otherwise I’d be right where I was and things would never change.

Six Figure Mentors Affiliate

I took the plunge and became a Six Figure Mentors affiliate in 2014. I was sceptical for sure and had already put loads of time and energy into affiliate marketing – with little in the way of results. But Stuart seemed genuine to me and I needed to make an online income work.

I was able to attend a local meet up at first in the North of England near where I lived. At the time, meeting anyone who made money from the internet was pretty impossible. The owners of the courses I had done previously were phantoms!

They were nowhere to be seen and I never actually met any of them in “real life”. But at one of the first meetings I attended in London with the SFM I was pleasantly surprised to find both the co-founders there together with a lot of other members – many of whom had made the SFM their sole source of income.

Six Figure Mentors Affiliate – A Genuine Business

So I figured by this point the business was genuine. However I was still sceptical and anyone I spoke to about the online business at the time was extremely scathing of it; despite them knowing less than me!

My sponsor ( the person who brought me in through their affiliate link) was running an advertising pool. This meant he ran advertising campaign on behalf of his members. We paid in to a cooperative and Oliver ran adverts on Facebook. Of course this took a massive amount of trust on my part.

But I didn’t know how to advertise myself, so trusted him with some advertising budget. He came through and I made my first high ticket sale; earning $1000 in commissions. It was a massive first for me to make this kind of money from the internet.

Fear & Uncertainty

The money I made went straight towards my debt, as was my usual habit. My fear and uncertainty kept me where I was for some time and I nearly dropped out too. My advertising strategy was just free (blogging) from here on for some time. I made a couple more high ticket sales from my articles and then ran some paid marketing to them; making a couple more.

There were some problems I encountered with Google’s Adwords at this time and I lost faith in what I was doing. I hadn’t realised but I had become pretty depressed at this time; having lost a long term relationship. Everything had become about money and work and I hadn’t got a life! Small negative emails or doubt from friends affected me greatly too – so I’d shut myself away as a protection strategy.

I looked at my outgoings for the online business fees and panic set in! Had I really spent all that money, I thought? I reached out to the customer service team and asked about closing my account. Luckily I was put in touch with the support of Frank and Jill who met me regularly in several online meetings one to one. Without their help and support I would likely have dropped out at this point. They gave me some resources to work through and set me back on track – putting me in touch with a mentor and I became a member of his group.

Bouncing Back – SFM Affiliate Marketing

I had been focused on blogging for much of this time in efforts to gaining free traffic from Google and the other search engines. However, this was a flawed strategy because it took so long and was incredibly difficult. Although I was getting some traffic, there were only a few leads and sales coming in; and sales were very sporadic.

But what I didn’t realise was it was my mindset which was all wrong! I was scared to spend money because my income was so sporadic. Other people in the groups and leaderboard were gaining traction with far less time within the business. That was because they used paid marketing! I was still juggling stunt work and I had also built a kung fu school up – a long term passion I decided to turn into a business. I used the marketing strategies I had learned through the SFM to market my school and this was giving me more of an income over time.

Scarcity Mindset

Despite having done a huge amount of work on my blog, I was still carrying a scarcity mindset. I didn’t want to pay for marketing because I was afraid of losing money I didn’t have. My income was still low so I didn’t have much to put into paid marketing. However, the people who were succeeding were mostly using paid marketing – so I changed gear.

I upgraded to the top level of the business which took some courage! I had to get a loan to do this but it put me at a higher earning potential. (see below).

Once I recovered from the stress and shock of having made such a decision, I went to work modelling success. The most successful people in the business were all on the leaderboard in the back office. This showed who was making the most sales, had the most members and so on. I could find those people and model what they were doing.

It’s worth mentioning at this point that there’s many ways to succeed online using the SFM training. You don’t have to use the SFM to sell the SFM’s product range. Some Six Figure Mentors affiliate’s build their own digital marketing agencies. Others use just organic marketing and some decide to sell physical products and learn through their “Import Exports” training resource. I used the training to help me build my kung fu school.

After my school got shut down due to Covid-19 in March 2020, I had more time (and space) to concentrate on promoting and selling the SFM digital business system.

A Final Push

It’s worth sticking at some things and The SFM most definitely falls into this category. It’s not been as easy as I thought when I joined in 2014 – although I did made some fairly easy sales. But now looking back, I’m so glad I joined and became a Six Figure Mentor affiliate and stuck with it.

After spending many weeks plugged in to the recommended groups, I started doing video. I wasn’t keen and really wanted to hide behind my blog posts. But I realised that I was trying to work within my comfort zones and that this was holding back the growth of my business (and myself).

I did some soul searching and deep digging into the route causes of my thinking, with the help of the many mentors who I was able to reach for personal 1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching. Many of these thinking patterns were rooted in fear and of old scars which didn’t serve me any more. Once I became more aware of my limiting beliefs, I was able to take bolder steps and I made my first DEA sale in June 2020. This has been a complete game changer! I’m super grateful for all the mentors who have worked with me and for this amazing community. Thanks Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek for building this awesome resource.

When I began this business in 2014, I would never have believed I could earn this kind of money in one month! Stick at it, ignore the naysayers, do the work and you can too. Access The SFM here to get started.