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!