Newbies: Affiliate Marketing Is Simply A Math Problem

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Hello All...

I see so many of the "I want to earn $XX amount per day in affiliate marketing". When the reality is that affiliate marketing is nothing more than a math problem.

Now the trick is knowing all the variables. Now you can either find out these variables through experience, or through estimation by what others say their variables are.

So let's say your goal is $50 a day.

How do you get there?

Well, first let's say that the affiliate product you are choosing to promote pays out a $25 commission on each sale. Great, now you have two variables in the equation (ie. your daily goal and your commission payout).

So to make your goal of $50 a day, you have to make 2 affiliate sales. Simple enough so far, right?

Now, through doing some research, you estimate that this specific affiliate salespage has a conversion ratio of 1% (meaning that for every 100 people that visit it, one person will buy the product).

This means that in order to hit your goal of $50 a day, you are going to need 200 people a day to get to your affiliate link/salespage.

How you manage to get 200 people to the affiliate salespage can happen in a variety of ways. But the point is that you have your basic variables.

And by knowing your basic variables of your affiliate marketing equation, you have a better idea of how to proceed.

For instance, you could choose a different affiliate product to promote. Assuming that it had the same conversion ratio but an affiliate commission payout of $50, then you would only need half as much traffic to the affiliate salespage to meet your daily goal.

Or likewise, if you found a different affiliate product that paid out $25 per sale but had a conversion ratio of 4% instead of 1%, then you would only need 50 people a day to get to the affiliate salespage in order to reach your daily goal.


Too many newbies over-think the process of making money online, especially when it comes to affiliate marketing.

Just knowing the variables will give you a better idea of how to proceed to meet the income goals you have set out for yourself.

Best wishes,

JoeMack
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  • Profile picture of the author Rocelo
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    • Profile picture of the author Charlesbass
      That's a great systematic approach. I'll look into finding out what the conversion ratios of my future products are.

      Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author JoeMack
      Originally Posted by Rocelo View Post

      Hi,

      Just want to ask if Just Been Paid is also a kind of affiliate marketing?
      Please don"t spam my thread with your promotion. Not very "internet savvy" of you.

      JoeMack
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    I totally agree. I and several other people have posted similar things on this forum.

    This in fact is how I have done every business, not just IM.

    Figure out what you want to make divide it by your price point to get how many sales then find a way to get enough prospects to make that many sales and do it in a cost effective way so that you make a profit.

    It is called "The Financial Freedom Formula".
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  • Profile picture of the author MONEYCHILLS
    I wouldn't say a math problem but a link problem
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  • Profile picture of the author Big Al
    It's funny... when you boil pretty much every MMO kinda system down to the bare-essentials they call come back to the same thing.

    Getting traffic and conversions... then, as you say, it's a maths thing.

    And timeless stuff that won't change.

    I still have a thread from a few years back by you JoeMack I printed out, I found it in my office here the other week when I was tidying up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Big Al
    It's funny... when you boil pretty much every MMO kinda system down to the bare-essentials they call come back to the same thing.

    Getting traffic and conversions... then, as you say, it's a maths thing.

    And timeless stuff that won't change.

    I still have a thread from a few years back by you JoeMack I printed out, I found it in my office here the other week when I was tidying up.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesrich1
    I agree with the scientific approach but it will vary with exact conversion percentage. For some people they might convert 1 in 50 and then have problems converting for the next 300 visitors.

    I think that it comes down to learning the secrets inside of conversion and then amplifying that. The secrets to conversions is copywriting. Once people have that skill they go nuts on creating products and building deep funnels that can pay them up to 5 figures a person.
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  • Profile picture of the author fenixpro
    Great post and spot on. My most successful campaigns and I believe the most successful businesses both online and off are those that have efficient, tried and true systems in place. They've been planned, implemented, tested, tweaked, and scaled.
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