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Who are The SFM Mentors? The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) are an online digital training and education community. Their purpose is to help people transition into the digital economy by building a business from the internet, or learn digital skills which can be used to build an existing business.

A Number Of SFM Mentors On An Online Live Webinar

SFM Mentors – Founders

The Six Figure Mentors was founded by Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek, two successful online entrepreneurs who have created a support network for people who wanted to escape their jobs and live more fulfilling lives.

Here’s Stuart Ross explaining some of the software used to set up an online website which can be used to generate an income from the internet. Click on the image to watch the video.

Here’s a picture of me with jay Kubassek at a London training event:

What The SFM Mentors Can Do For You?

The SFM Mentors have built an online training and education facility and community. They run events globally to help their members learn and develop their online businesses. If you are interested in starting an online business with The SFM, you can sign up to the free workshop series of videos on this website.

SFM Mentors - Transitioning from traditional employment to the digital age

From anywhere in the world, anyone can now learn how to use their laptop and internet connection to earn an ongoing income. This can eventually replace their full time job. This isn’t an easy thing to do; but the SFM Mentors offer the means to achieve this; if they are committed enough.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

The business model used within the SFM is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a kind of referral marketing in which anyone can sell someone else’s product over the internet; and earn a commission on the sale. This model, combined with online marketing strategies, can be used to build an ongoing and scalable income from anywhere.

Who Is The SFM For?

The SFM Marketing training offered within Stuart and Jay’s program can also be used to market any business. When I joined the SFM, I used the program’s training to market my martial arts school. So, you can use the training offered with an existing business, or you can use the products and services which are built into the SFM Digital Business System, and learn online marketing strategies to build an income even without an existing business.

The SFM is an ‘all in one’ business system and training and education tool. It offers a means to connect with many other people who are also building online business. The online community is incredibly valuable too, because you can network and connect with other like minded people through the community.

How Difficult Is It To Build An Online Business With The SFM?

It’s definitely not an easy thing to build an online business from scratch with no experience. You need a strong work ethic and it will take at least 12 months before you can experience any results. There’s a few things standing in the way for most people:

Hard work – This isn’t some magic ‘pill’ system. It’s a genuine business and so it takes time and effort to make it work
Mindset – most people have been programmed to follow the herd and this means usually work a 9 to 5 job. Although the time period is arbitrary, this also trains you to do a nominal amount of work and get paid for it. Affiliate marketing is different because it’s based on performance related pay.
Old habits – so you’ll need to learn new mindsets and habits to become an effective affiliate marketer. Time spent doesn’t automatically translate to income, like in a job. You need to focus on money producing activities.

What’s The Point In Doing Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing offers a means to an end. Most affiliate marketers choose this path because it leads to more choices. If you can make an affiliate business work, it means you can choose your own hours, work from anywhere, and write your own paycheque.

For many it means:

Escaping a job of boss which is no longer tolerable
Never having to do the 9 to 5 commute and sit in traffic hours on end each side of the day
Choose how to spend their time and work around existing priorities

Affiliate marketing can also be used as a side business which can be built up around existing work in order to provide an ‘escape route’ from a job, career, limited income or boss.

Over time, if you take the right action steps, you can use affiliate marketing to build a good stable income which can replace your current income. This means the same money or more, but no longer needing to have to go to work in a job.

Many of the systems and strategies used in affiliate marketing can be automated and scaled up too. This means once you start earning, you can repeat the same actions and automate sales globally. Over time, and with the right products, you can earn an ongoing income from sales you made previously: subscription affiliate programs.

Getting an affiliate marketing coach could be the best thing you can do for your online business. After getting a coach, I started taking a different view of affiliate marketing. Before I found a coach, things were pretty bleak. I tried many different strategies within affiliate marketing but couldn’t get any traction.

A coach gave me a different view of the actions and activities I should be focused on, to move my online business forwards. Everyone has different circumstances to work with, so the same answer isn’t appropriate for everyone though. Some affiliates will want to build slowly over time using only content marketing; other will want faster results with paid marketing.

According to your own personal situation, circumstances and ultimately your reasons for doing affiliate marketing, your ‘why?’, you will need to choose a path which is suitable for you.

Affiliate Marketing Coach – My ‘Why?’

An affiliate marketing coach can help you find your path and start making faster progress because they have already made the mistakes you are likely to make! There’s a huge learning curve in affiliate marketing. If you haven’t got a clear path, it’s easy to get distracted by the many ‘shiny objects’ and all the different strategies. Before you know it, you could be working for months and even years, without making any real progress.

See 23 affiliate mistakes newbie affiliates should avoid.

Knowing your ‘why?’ in affiliate marketing keeps you going when times are tough. If you don’t have a strong enough ‘why’, you could easily lose momentum and are more likely to give up. See Why I Do Affiliate Marketing And Why You Should Too!

Avoiding Affiliate Mistakes – Find An Affiliate Marketing Coach

A coach will hold you accountable and give you information which will help you. Here’s a few things which I’ve learned which have made a dramatic difference to my affiliate marketing business:

Your ‘state’ of mind effects your productivity. Unless you control it, it controls you. If you continually find yourself depressed, anxious and annoyed with the way things are going in your affiliate business, this can effect your productivity.
Subscription affiliate programs can give you a massive advantage – yes subscription affiliate programs offer ongoing commissions for previous sales. Choosing products to promote which offer a lifetime value to the customer is therefore worth the extra effort. The same sale (and effort) could make you $40 or $40 a month for life!
High ticket programs allow you to scale up, offset advertising costs and use more easily scalable marketing strategies. Small value items are harder to sell as a newbie because you have so much competition when using only content marketing strategies. High value items give you many advantages.

Affiliate Marketing Isn’t Easy!

Affiliate marketing sounds like it should be easy, but it really isn’t! You can spend time and money on affiliate marketing and still fail! Knowing what to expect from it is a useful thing. It takes time and effort and you should learn your trade if you’re going to do well. Affiliate marketing has some huge advantages over other business models too:

Offers a way to earn from the internet using a laptop and internet connection
Can be worked from anywhere globally
Work around other commitments and build your business around existing work
Uses scalable systems and strategies which can offer products globally
Uses automation and systems which can run, selling products 24 hours a day

Me with Jay Kubassek - affiliate marketing coach — With with co-founder 0f The SFM Jay Kubassek

So, in theory, affiliate marketing is an amazing business model which anyone can do. But there are some downsides too. It’s not always going to be easy:

It’s a performance based business which works both ways – unlimited earnings are possible but so is no earnings, and that’s more likely too for most people!
You need to fail a lot to learn what works and what doesn’t work
Content marketing is a slow strategy and although free, takes a lot of time and effort.
Paid marketing isn’t guaranteed either and although it’s fast, it doesn’t guarantee sales! You need to test and measure and learn from your failures before you can automate a profitable business.

But It’s Not All Doom and Gloom!

If your’e serious about earning money from the internet, you should get an affiliate marketing coach. Join an online community of entrepreneurs and marketers who have already failed more times than you’ve tried! You can’t fail to learn from them if you take part in regular interactive webinars. Sign up on this website for more information and to join.