This is why your last affiliate marketing campaign failed

Hi, my name is Jan.

I've started playing with online marketing (particularly with affiliate marketing) back in 2006.

Everything was a lot easier back in the day.

All you had to do was pick a good offer, build a very simple web page on Joomla (Joomla anyone?) and start playing around with traffic.

Pay per click was cheap, so you could drive boatloads of traffic for pennies on the dollar and people would buy from your affiliate links without realising it's an affiliate link in the first place.

I used to depend a lot on ezines back then, with ezinearticles being my favourite source of traffic. It was easy to publish your articles and the traffic you got from there was quick and highly converting.

But what about affiliate marketing in 2021?

How do you actually succeed with affiliate marketing with all the noise, whistles and bells out there?

If you're like most people I've met online, you have probably invested hundreds if not thousands of dollars in courses, ebooks, memberships and even coaching programs and yet here you are, still scratching your head why you're not making passive residual income with affiliate marketing.

I believe that most new marketers and even people who have been in this space for a while have a lack of focus.

It's very difficult to succeed in one area of internet marketing if you're trying to do everything all at once.

So for now, forget about how great ecommerce is or how approaching offline businesses is the next best thing to make high ticket sales and just focus on affiliate marketing.

I believe anyone can succeed wildly with affiliate marketing if they follow a proven strategy that has worked for other super affiliates.

So I would like to share with you exactly how my business is structured and how you can absolutely crush it with affiliate marketing in this very thread you're reading now as a way to pay back this wonderful community of the Warrior Forum.

If I basically had to start all over again, from scratch and with a minimal budget, I would follow the below outlined formula to earn my first commissions online as an affiliate.

First and foremost, forget about the affiliate network, commissions structure and even the classical list building theories you might have seen before.

You don't want to be just another "affiliate marketer". So don't put your focus on the product and which product has the better pay rate. Focus on yourself and your hub.

Create an online presence for yourself starting with a free website builder such as Wordpress, Wix or Squarespace.

I've listed these because they easily allow you to create members pages where people have to create an account to access the material inside your website.

Buy a domain name. And connect it with your website.

Get yourself a business email address. you@yourbusiness.com

Create a landing page and shoot a quick video explaining to people exactly why you are doing what you are doing and how they will benefit if they join your hub (i.e. members area)

If I was to teach people how they can become successful with affiliate marketing, I would start with a headline like:

"Stop buying more courses, start having real results."

And shoot a quick video presenting myself and demonstrating to people how I can help them achieve XYZ. This can be done by showcasing some of your results, testimonials of your previous clients if you have any and by giving them some bonuses as an incentive for them signing up.

This is all "free" remember, so people wouldn't have a hard time joining your website if the offer is compelling and there are incentives they wouldn't want to miss out on.

After they create their free account, you now have them in your hub. You can post informative videos that you believe will help them achieve what they are looking to achieve.

Remember, this doesn't have to be a "make money online" type of website, it can be anything. Training your dog, learning how to swim, play the guitar, etc. You get the idea.

Whatever you have promised on your "hook" that got them to create an account and sign up, you should deliver.

I suggest that you give your best training in this members area, and don't ever ask from them to buy anything.

They will be surprised and will usually want to learn more.

You can then create an automatic email sequence to your new members asking for feedback.

This can help you understand their pain points and have a clear understanding of the type of product they need and what will solve the problem for them.

After you got people's attention, trust and know what they need, you may suggest an affiliate product (I say suggest, because that's basically your goal as an affiliate) to presell a product without selling the product directly and let them decide if they want to have it or not.

On top of everything, you can always add more content on your website and send an email to your members whenever you post something new and valuable.

I'm obviously trying to keep this as short as possible here because I don't want to get people overwhelmed with too much information, but you get the point.

Don't be just another affiliate, trying to get traffic to an affiliate offer directly. Or to a landing page that has no value at all.

Be different, be unique. Create your own brand and by doing so, you will be able to promote different types of products to the same audience because they love your content and love to see what you have to recommend.

Now I understand that some people will want to know how to get traffic to their website. But believe me, if you do this right and create everything as I've outlined, traffic will become easy.

There are hundreds of sources where you can get quality traffic to your website.

That's for another post.

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I'm hoping you've been able to find some value in this post. I hope you take action and create something for yourself because you truly deserve success and you can be successful with affiliate marketing when you apply the right things that get results.

Have a prosperous weekend,

Jan Ijäs