What’s the fastest way to make money with affiliate marketing? I’ve been in an affiliate community for a number of years now. During that time I’ve seen people overtake me and achieve success very quickly. What’s their secret, I used to think? The answer? Cash and guts! To have success very quickly with affiliate marketing takes investment. First, you should invest in a high ticket sales funnel. Without a high ticket sales funnel, you’re stuck promoting products which are of low value. When products are cheap, you need to sell in bulk to make the big bucks! But doing so is much more difficult using scalable methods.
Paid advertising is very fast and much more scalable the other marketing tactics such as blogging. But it’s also costly. But if you can spend a small advertising budget and get a profit, you can scale. This just isn’t possible if you’re using slower marketing methods which are free or very cheap. Or, if you’re using low value products, it’s so much harder to run paid marketing and come out on top.
So the answer is to use a product “suite” which offers multiple high ticket products and subscription products. With a product suite you can come out on top much more easily and quickly. Plus, it’s easier to be profitable while running a scalable tactic such as PPC – paid marketing.
Fastest Way To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing – The List
When I first started affiliate marketing I tried to make all my sales directly from a website. It was a big mistake because most people won’t buy at first glance. They need several touch points in order to make a buying decision. How many touch points before a sale is made? It’s more than you think – around 6-7 in fact, but it will also depend on your business. You can’t achieve this on an affiliate website very easily but it can be achieved much more easily from an email list. With an email list you control your traffic. You can build longer term relationships and get more for your advertising dollars.
On a website the typically visitor only hangs around for a few minutes. Then they are gone, often forever. But once you get them to subscribe to your email list, you can build a relationship over the longer term by delivering messages every day. The fastest way to build an affiliate business isn’t through blogging, or building endless content. It’s from building an email list of subscribers and promoting a high value sales funnel to your subscribers.
The fastest affiliates don’t even bother that much with a blog website. They use landing pages to build an email list. Landing pages are much more focused than a website. On a website, a visitor can browse around and look through your content. On a landing page, they only have two options: sign up or leave. This is why it’s more cost effective to build a landing page and learn how to optimise it. Then send paid traffic to the page and collect subscribers – in large numbers.
Paid Marketing
Free marketing is free, but it costs your time and effort. In reality using free traffic is more costly if you value your time over your money. Paid marketing is much better for an affiliate with a large value product range. In the early phase, you’ll be spending money in order to learn. This can be difficult and many affiliates will be put off here.
I was too! But if you stick with it, what you’re looking for is a money making machine which spits out cash when you put cash in! Ultimately, what you’re doing with a paid marketing campaign and a high ticket sales funnel is creating an autopilot money making machine! You put in $100 and out comes $200. Once you achieve this, you can simply put in $1000 and out comes $2000, (if this relationship holds of course).
The fastest way to make money with affiliate marketing is to uncover the power of this “machine”. Learn to use paid marketing and promote a high value product range. Once you can do this, you have a winning ticket! You simply spend money to make money. Once you have a profitable “machine”, you turn up the volume! If you have the cash to learn this strategy, it’s well worth putting the effort in. If you don’t, it’s probably better to look for a cheaper marketing strategy, or a cheaper product to sell.
You can still use high ticket affiliate marketing products and subscription affiliate products which will give you more bang for your buck, whatever you choose to do.
Summary
Of course it takes a large financial commitment to purchase a high ticket funnel and then market it with paid ads. It takes some guts too, especially if you’re new. You can of course start out with a small daily marketing budget, and test and measure your marketing campaigns. Only scale up your affiliate business when you are seeing a consistent profit from a low budget campaign.
This can take some time and effort, and of course cash. Like the old saying goes, it takes money to make money. There are other ways to market products online of course. See my article 22 ways to promote affiliate products. However this article is about the fastest way to promote affiliate products:
- Use a high ticket sales funnel which offers a product “suite”: multiple high value products and subscription products
- Use an email list: build an email list from a landing page or website, or both. A landing page is better though and you should also cross test different landing pages to attain the best performing one in terms of conversions (sign ups/subscribers).
- Use paid marketing: Paid marketing is not only the fastest way to promote affiliate products, but it also gives you the ability to scale, and quickly. Slower marketing methods (such as blogging) aren’t as easily scaled.
