Why do you need an affiliate marketing consultant? Can’t you do affiliate marketing by yourself?

It’s worth getting an affiliate marketing consultant for a number of reasons. Firstly, there’s a huge drop out rate with affiliate marketing. In part, that’s because the barriers to entry are stupidly low. Anyone with a laptop and internet connection can become an affiliate. There’s very little cost involved and no physical premises needed. Plus, you don’t need your own products or services to start selling, as an affiliate.

So it’s an attractive proposition to earn money through selling other people’s products online. But there’s some major drawbacks to this ease of entry. Most affiliates who start have no clue what they’re doing. I was the same when I started back in the early 2000’s. I made a tonne of mistakes as a beginner and started off down many routes which led me nowhere!

An affiliate marketing consultant can point you in the right direction from the start and potentially save you years of struggle!

Affiliate Marketing Consultant

You can access an affiliate marketing consultant through The SFM Digital Business system by creating a free account here, and working through Module 1 in the back office.

Once you’ve finished Module 1, you can access a consultant through your back office dashboard which will look like this:

Your affiliate marketing consultant will be able to advise you on the most suitable path to take with your affiliate marketing business. Everyone is different and usually coming from different backgrounds and circumstances in life, when they start looking at affiliate marketing.

Some will want to focus on selling digital products. Others might have the intention of promoting physical products, or even their own products through online marketing strategies.

Building the foundations to your affiliate marketing business is as important as the foundations in a building. Without them, you won’t have a strong understanding of what you’re doing and where you’re going. You can’t build a skyscraper on the foundations of a cottage! So whatever you want from affiliate marketing, it pays to get your foundational “blueprint” in place. It will save you a lot of struggle and wasted effort if you get this right.

Affiliate Marketing Consultant – Not A Get Rich Quick Scheme!

Many newbie affiliates drop out because they see affiliate marketing in the wrong light. They think it’s a get rich quick scheme and assume it will be easy. It’s not! Affiliate marketing can be a fantastic way to earn an income, but like anything worthwhile, it takes time and effort to reap the rewards.

If you enter into affiliate marketing with the wrong attitude, you’ll probably struggle and quit. But take it seriously, like you would any serious business, and you’ll get a different result.

With any skill, there’s a period of training and study. A pilot wouldn’t attempt to fly a passenger jet without years of experience flying. Nor would a surgeon attempt surgery without many hours of practice and study. But for some reason, people flock to affiliate marketing thinking it’s going to make them rich overnight!

Part of the reason for this is because it’s so easy and cheap to get into it. But the one main thing you should invest in with affiliate marketing is your education. It will serve you for years if you get that right in the first instance, not rush in without any study or experience.

More Training And Support

The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) offers a number of training and educational tools for affiliate marketers through their programs.

The SFM recently partnered with Microsoft Lynda and DigitalMarketer and you can access 6,500 training courses as part of the SFM curriculum through Microsoft Lynda. DigitalMarketer now offer their own training as part of the SFM curriculum too.

Through the SFM you can access an affiliate marketing mentor, personal 1 on 1 affiliate marketing coaching, join multiple training groups, access a database of hundreds of archive videos and live video Q & A webinars with successful affiliates.

You can dip your toe in for free by accessing the back office with free access to Module 1 and an affiliate marketing consultant. Find their number on the right hand side in the back office. Click on the image below to get started by filling out the form.