Try to imagine this scenario: You wake up at an ungodly hour, then drive to your office where streets are jammed by other half-asleep commuters. Next, you slog through emails after countless emails until the clock strikes five o’clock.

Does this sound familiar?

Hear me out. What if instead of dealing with this monotonous life just to earn a few dollars, you can make money any time and from anywhere — even while you are sleeping?

This concept is called affiliate marketing.

It is a very popular money making strategy that is beneficial to both the affiliates and the brands. This is a strategy towards less traditional marketing tactics, driving more sales, and generating high online revenue.

What Is Affiliate Marketing And How Does It Work?

Affiliate marketing is the process by which an affiliate can earn commission by selling another person’s or company’s products. The affiliate simply searches for an excellent product or niche, then promotes the same. The affiliate will earn a piece of profit from each sale that they generated. The said sales are tracked via affiliate links from one website to another. Take note that the commissions are distributed at regular intervals. Remember that there are so many Google and Youtube queries over the world. Currently, over 10 billion combined views and queries are present daily, and affiliate marketers should use these to promote products.

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How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

This is how affiliate marketing works. By spreading the responsibilities of product marketing and creating across several parties, it leverages the abilities of a variety of individuals for a more effective and diverse marketing strategy while providing contributors with a share of the profit. To help simplify things, think of it this way. There are three different parties involved in affiliate marketing:

• Seller and product creators.
• The affiliate or advertiser.
• The consumer.

Let us discuss further the synergy among these three parties to help ensure that affiliate marketing is a success. 

1. Seller and product creators.

They are usually solo entrepreneurs or a large enterprise. They are the vendors, merchants and visionaries who creators the product itself. The product can be a physical object, like household goods, or they can also offer services like SEO tutorials, or a digital product like an SEO software.

Also known as the brand, the seller does not need to be so active when it comes to marketing. However, they may also be an advertiser and get profit from the revenue regarding affiliate marketing.

For example, the seller or the brand started a Guitar tutorial business and wants to reach a new audience by paying affiliate sites to promote such products or services. Or the brand could be a company that manages to leverage affiliates to help sell their digital software.

2. The affiliate or publisher.

Also known as a publisher, the affiliate can also be an individual or a company. They market the brand’s product in the most appealing way. This is to help attract potential customers. The affiliate promotes the product or service to persuade potential customers to buy the said product. If the consumer ends up buying the product or availing the services, the affiliate receives a commission of the revenue made.

Affiliates often have a very specific audience to whom they market the brand. They usually follow the niche or audience’s interests. With this they create a personal niche or a defined brand, that help the affiliate attract potential customers who will most likely do something on the promotion that they have done.

3. The consumer.

Whether the consumer knows it or not, they are the core of affiliate marketing. Affiliates share and promote the products with them on social media and websites. If the consumers buy a specific product more, then product developers will produce more of what is being consumed.

When customers buy the product, the seller and the affiliate will share the profits. The affiliate will get the commission from the profit. Sometimes, the affiliate chooses to be upfront with the potential customers and disclose that they are receiving commission from the sales that they will make. Other times, the consumers may be unaware of the affiliate marketing that is happening behind their purchase.

Either way, they will rarely pay more for the product purchased through affiliate marketing. Remember that the affiliate’s commissions and share of the profit is necessary included in the retail price. The customer will complete the purchase process and then receive the product or services as normal, and unaffected by affiliate marketing infrastructure.

How to Make Money As An Affiliate Marketer

A quick and inexpensive method to make money without any hassle of actually selling a product is through affiliate marketing. This method has the most leverage for those looking to increase their income online. So, how does an affiliate marketer get paid after linking the seller’s products to the consumer?

The answer can be complex but it does not need to be THAT complicated.

The consumer does not always need to buy the product for the affiliate marketers to get their commission. It all depends on the program that they have entered into. The affiliate’s contribution to the brand’s sales can be summarized into three:

1. Pay per sale.

This is the standard affiliate marketing infrastructure. In this structure, the brand pays the affiliate a commission of the sale price of the product after customers purchase the product as a result of the affiliate marketer’s effort to promote such brand. The affiliate must actually get the consumer to invest in the product or service before they will get compensated.

2. Pay per lead.

This is more complicated than pay per sale. The pay per lead affiliate system compensates the affiliate marketer on the conversion of leads. The affiliate therefore, should convince the potential consumers to visit the brand’s website and complete the desired action like filling out a contact form or signing up for a trial of the product or service, or downloading files.

3. Pay per click.

This program focuses on incentivizing the affiliate to redirect customers from their platform to the brand’s website. This just means that the affiliate marketer must engage the consumer in such a way that they will move from the affiliate marketer’s website to the seller’s site. Therefore, in this particular instance, the affiliate marketer is paid based on the increase in web traffic of the seller’s website.

Why Be an Affiliate Marketer?

So here are the reasons on why you should become an affiliate marketer.

1. Passive income.

“Regular” jobs that require you to work 8 hours a day will also require you to be at work to make money. On the other hand, affiliate marketing offers you the ability to have income while you are asleep. Invest an initial amount of time into the program and you will see continuous and consistent returns on that time you spent as the customers patronize the products over the following weeks. You will receive money for your work long after you have finished the same. Remember that even if you are not in front of your computer, you will be earning a steady flow of income.

2. No customer support.

An individual or a company offering products or services have to deal with their customers almost 24 hours a day. They ensure that they are satisfied with what they have purchased in order to get a good reputation.

Because of the affiliate marketing infrastructure, you will never have to be concerned with the customer support. The only thing that you will have to do as affiliate marketer is to link such customers to the seller. The seller will then have to deal with the consumer after you have received your commission from the sale.

3. Work from home.

If you are someone who just hates going to the office and work there for 8 hours a day, affiliate marketing is the perfect solution for you. You will be able to launch campaigns and receive a lot of revenue from the products. This is possible while you are working from the comfort of your own home. You can even have this job without ever getting out of your pajamas.

4. Cost-effective.

Most “regular” businesses will require you to have startup fees as well as a cash flow to finance the products that are being sold. In affiliate marketing, however, it can be done at a very low cost. This only means that you can start immediately without any hassle. There will be no affiliate program fees or any hidden fees to worry about. Affiliate marketing is as straightforward as it goes.

5. Convenient and flexible.

When you do affiliate marketing, you are basically a freelancer. With this, you can get the ultimate independence in setting your own goals, and directing your own path. You can even determine your own working hours. This simply means that you can diversify your portfolio and focus on straightforward campaigns. You will be free from company restrictions as well as ill-performing teams.

6. Performance-Based rewards.

Contrasted to other jobs where you could work a 40 to 60 hour work week, you can still earn the same salary with affiliate marketing or even more. Affiliate marketing is solely based on your performance. Always make sure to hone your reviewing skills and write engaging campaigns that will translate direct improvements in your own revenue.

7. Do Not Underestimate the Power of SEO.

The power of SEO should not be underestimated, especially if you do it properly. The days where people can cheat Google by using black hat methods are gone… so today is about making your website better. Make your website an authority of information about products. Learn the basics of on-page SEO and off-page SEO. Also, learn about keyword research and link building. Be the best “product review” in Google’s first page.

Tutorial on Making Money As An Affiliate Online

As I have said above, you can earn money without having to own a product. By promoting other people’s products such as in Amazon, you can get commission to help you earn passive income. It can be a physical or a digital product. You can get 5% to 100% commission on these products. For physical products, you can earn 5% commission, and for digital products, you can earn up to 100% commission. 

Finding products with FREE TRIAL OFFER or $1 OFFERS.

This is the first step in earning a passive income. You can start your venture by going to clickbank.com.

After logging into clickbank.com, go to advanced search. In the advanced search, you can set up the Gravity to greater than 20 and the Initial Conversion. At this instance, click on the search products and these products will be show.

Click on any of the offers. I decided to click for the 3rd product, and this is what is shown.

As you can see, there is a $1 trial offer. This is how you find products with a free trial offer or $1 trial offer. Easy, right?

You can also find products with such offers via Google Search. 

Just type these:

On the first page of Google, you will see Freshbooks Affiliate Program. Click on that and you will see this.

Click on Try it Free. 

Create a tutorial video for the free trial product.

In creating a tutorial video for a product, it is ideal to have enough knowledge to make sure that you can explain to your audience what the product is all about. In our example about Freshbooks, it is ideal to login into their dashboard and create a video tutorial about the services and products that they are offering.

Always make sure that you include the salient features of the services and products. Additionally, always include the selling point of the product. Finding the selling point of the products means that it is important to find the solution to the problems of the audience, and by purchasing the product or service, the said problem will be solved.

Do Youtube SEO to get higher ranking.

After finding the right product to promote, and the creation of the Video Tutorial, it is time to promote the video. How do you do this? You have to utilize Youtube. In this section I revealed youtube SEO tips by using youtube keyword extractor, youtube keyword planner, youtube keyword tool.

In this example, we can see the different keywords that the potential customers have searched for on Youtube.

In this example, to make your life easier, you can install a Tubebuddy Google Chrome Plug in. This plugin will give you the stats of the keywords that are paramount in your Youtube SEO.

To start off, click on “Click here for weighted.” You will be redirected to this window. Now you can search the keywords, and the stats of such keywords will be shown.

Find something that has an excellent score.

Now that you have found the keyword that has good stats (an excellent score), it’s time to proceed to the next step.

The keywords that you have found will be placed strategically in the Youtube video that you made.

Top 10 Steps to Get Ranking in Youtube to Pursue Traffic

Youtube ranking videos always get good traffic. Below are the steps on how to do your Youtube Video SEO correctly.

1. Rename your video file.

2. Rename Thumbnail image file.

3. Form a Title with Your Target Keyword at least two times.

4. Description should have a target keywords at least two to three times.

5. Description should have at least 500 words.

6. All your targeted keywords should be present in the tags.

7. Your video should have an END card.

8. Your video should have at least one card.

9. Your video should include any of your public playlist.

10. Last thing, install a Tubebuddy plugin Google Chrome. This is a sample of the Videolytics of one of my videos on Youtube. As you can see, I’ve followed the Framework and I got score of 100.

To promote your Youtube video further, you can use SEO Clerks or Social Signals.

You can also promote the same via Youtube Views from Video Stream Ads.

In order to do this, just click to your Google Ads Account.

Click on New Campaign.

Proceed with the necessary steps.

Place your keywords in here.

Next step is to actually place your Youtube video in here and click on “Skippable in stream ad.”

Then you are done!

These are the basic principles in affiliate marketing.

Conclusion

I hope you gained a lot of insight about affiliate marketing, how easy it can be, and profitable if done correctly.  From picking a product to driving a targeted audience to making consistent money from a sideline gig.  These insights I’ve shared with you took me years to learn, but they remain true today and work day in and day out.  You can have full confidence that if you simply follow the guidelines, that you will have positive cash flow from all such affiliate activities.

I have created a special video course which describes this more in detail with my own $385 case study. In this video, I revealed everything that I used to earn $385+ recurring income from the exact affiliate offer I used, tools and resources I used. This will give you even more insights on affiliate marketing and bring you more opportunity toward your success.  If you are one of those individuals who want to accelerate their learning and success, check out the video course here.