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Funnel for Affiliate Marketing?

by info126
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What do you think, if let us say I build a funnel using Instabuilder to promote other people's product? (Affiliate Marketing)

Second question is... is Instabuilder a suitable funnel for this affiliate marketing, or do you recommend another tool? Thx.
#affiliate #funnel #marketing
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by info126 View Post

    What do you think, if let us say I build a funnel using Instabuilder to promote other people's product?
    It's really not easy to understand what you're asking here.

    Instabuilder is a WordPress plug-in.

    Affiliate Marketing is an entire business model. (In fact, arguably, it's even more than just one.)

    There's no particular reason why anyone should/shouldn't use any particular WordPress plug-in as a component of their website, whether they're an affiliate marketer or not.

    Originally Posted by info126 View Post

    Second question is... is Instabuilder a suitable funnel for this affiliate marketing
    Instabuilder isn't in itself a funnel for anything: it's a WordPress plug-in.

    People who understand how affiliate marketing works and are good affiliate marketers are going to derive income from it, whether they use Instabuilder or not. People who don't understand how affiliate marketing works, or make mistakes in their business plans/execution, aren't - and using Instabuilder isn't going to change that. (It's not something I'd ever use, myself, but I'm not a WordPress user.) Whether you make money from affiliate marketing, though, really isn't about "what plug-ins you choose to use to make your website".

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  • Profile picture of the author alvinhy
    If I understood correctly, you want to send your traffic into your sales funnel that redirects to other peoples product?

    For example TRAFFIC > LANDING PAGE > FUNNEL > OFFER?

    You can do that but what I don't like about affiliate products is that you are sending your traffic to someone else's list.

    Its basically advertising for them. There is no long term benefit for you.

    Instead I would build an authority around your niche and offer your recommended products.
    So people come to you for more.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by alvinhy View Post

      what I don't like about affiliate products is that you are sending your traffic to someone else's list.
      I don't know what sort of affiliate products you're promoting, but that isn't true of anything I promote as an affiliate.

      Originally Posted by alvinhy View Post

      Its basically advertising for them. There is no long term benefit for you.
      What on Earth are you talking about?! Do you even know what Instabuilder is?
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      • Profile picture of the author alvinhy
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        I don't know what sort of affiliate products you're promoting, but that isn't true of anything I promote as an affiliate.

        What on Earth are you talking about?! Do you even know what Instabuilder is?

        Please read what OP posted carefully before you reply.
        I know what Instabuilder is.

        OP wanted to know if it would work if he built a sales funnel with instabuilder and send traffic to the sales funnel to the affiliate product of someone else's..

        That is why I mentioned affiliate products are not the best idea compared to a lot of other ways to make money online.

        Because essentially you are sending traffic to another persons sales system just like sending customers into someone else's store.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by alvinhy View Post

          affiliate products are not the best idea compared to a lot of other ways to make money online.

          Because essentially you are sending traffic to another persons sales system just like sending customers into someone else's store.
          I imagine many thousands or tens of thousands of Warriors have a radically different concept of affiliate marketing from that - but if it's your opinion, it's your opinion. Sorry if I slightly misunderstood you: that isn't a perspective one often finds expressed, in these parts.
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        • Profile picture of the author JensSteyaert
          Originally Posted by alvinhy View Post

          Because essentially you are sending traffic to another persons sales system just like sending customers into someone else's store.
          You probably forget that the store has a lot of stuff to do, and you don't have do any customer support...
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  • Profile picture of the author info126
    Yes, alvinhy ... you understood me correctly. I do plan to send traffic to a funnel that is being built using InstaBuilder.

    Anyway, what I have in mind about using InstaBuilder to do affiliate marketing is that... I am thinking of promoting multiple vendor's information products with OTO, Upsell and so on.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by info126 View Post

      I am thinking of promoting multiple vendor's information products with OTO, Upsell and so on.
      The vendors handle their OTO's, upsells and so on. Affiliate are incentivized deliverers of targeted traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    That is why I mentioned affiliate products are not the best idea compared to a lot of other ways to make money online. Because essentially you are sending traffic to another persons sales system just like sending customers into someone else's store.
    Come on now, I'm getting too old to be laughing this hard, I might blow a gasket!

    Only someone who has no affiliate (or other) marketing experience would make such an ill-informed statement. Any one who has actually made money with affiliate marketing puts people on their list first!

    That's very important so I'll say it again: Put people on your list first!

    This allows you to follow-up, include a OTO (if you choose), promote other similar affiliate products, promote your own products when you have the experience to create them, etc.

    Many vendors offer complete AR follow-up series. What good would they be if you don't have prospects on your own list?
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnnyPlan
      Originally Posted by Brent Stangel View Post

      Any one who has actually made money with affiliate marketing puts people on their list first!

      That's very important so I'll say it again: Put people on your list first!

      This allows you to follow-up, include a OTO (if you choose), promote other similar affiliate products, promote your own products when you have the experience to create them, etc.
      You said it all! This is the basis of any success online, whether affiliate marketing or selling your own product.

      There is no way around building an email list. And, as the list owner you are the good Shepherd who guides the flock towards the things that will benefit them most. That being, products you are offering.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    Originally Posted by info126 View Post

    What do you think, if let us say I build a funnel using Instabuilder to promote other people's product? (Affiliate Marketing)

    Second question is... is Instabuilder a suitable funnel for this affiliate marketing, or do you recommend another tool? Thx.
    Instabuilder is a fantastic WordPress plugin for squeeze pages, therefore you can use it to build your funnel. It's ideal, no need to use another tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author thedanbrown
    Yeah, InstaBuilder is NOT a sales funnel.

    It's a tool to create marketing pages. If you get InstaBuilder, you will also need an autoresponder like Aweber to build your list.

    Once people opt-in to your list, you can promote products as an affiliate (or your own). But you don't want to just send people straight through your affiliate link because then you are wasting most of your traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author master reseller
    Originally Posted by JohnnyPlan View Post

    You said it all! This is the basis of any success online, whether affiliate marketing or selling your own product.

    There is no way around building an email list. And, as the list owner you are the good Shepherd who guides the flock towards the things that will benefit them most. That being, products you are offering.
    The person reading your emails will trust what you have to say, if you are looking out for their benefit and satisfying the "What's in it for me?" motive. And, these people on the list will listen to you so long as you have something useful to say.Maybe that last part is where most people in marketing get tripped up, as they are either all informational and no sales sizzle or all spam and no help.
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  • Profile picture of the author svetod
    I have no experience with Instabuilder, but affiliate marketing is my full time job for years and you can achieve a fantastic lifestyle from it.
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  • Profile picture of the author tristatemedia
    funnel factories is another good one....it does everything for you. i am learning how to build by hand now. there is a learning curve involved. but funnels are the only way to go.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nightengale
    Alexa is right. And info126 and alvinhy CLEARLY have no idea what a funnel is. Or at least, they're seriously mixing up their terminology.

    Originally Posted by alvinhy View Post

    If I understood correctly, you want to send your traffic into your sales funnel that redirects to other peoples product?

    For example TRAFFIC > LANDING PAGE > FUNNEL > OFFER?
    This is a HORRIBLE explanation of a funnel. Or at least, badly mangled terminology.

    Originally Posted by alvinhy View Post

    TRAFFIC > LANDING PAGE > OFFER
    IS the funnel.

    Instabuilder is NOT a funnel. It's a tool you use IN your funnel. If you don't understand what a funnel is:

    A funnel is simply the PROCESS where you collect leads onto your list and then move them from a low-priced offer to a higher-priced offer.

    So a basic marketing funnel looks like this:

    Traffic > Opt-in page > Autoresponder series (or e-zine) > Sales page This is the correct expression of alvinhy's statement above.

    And the progression from free to paid looks like this:

    Free > Low-priced product/service > Mid-priced product/service > High-priced product/service

    If you're a health coach, for example, your funnel might look like this:

    1. "Clean Up Your Diet Getting Started Guide" -- Free
    2. Recipe book -- $47
    3. "A More Healthy You" Total Makeover program (an info product) -- $197
    4. 1-on-1 health coaching -- $497

    The actual prices are irrelevant. A funnel is simply a logical progression from free (a non-customer) to a high-value customer (someone buying your highest-priced products/services). While not hard to create, each product/service in the funnel needs to have a logical relationship with all other products/services in the funnel (AND point them to the next-highest product/service in the funnel).

    Different businesses in different industries will have completely different price points. B2B will typically have higher price points than B2C. A B2B might start out with $97 or $197 as their low price and go up from there.

    I'm B2B. In fact, my own funnel looks like this:

    1. Report/Audio CD/Whatever -- Free
    2. Annual membership -- $197
    3. Information product (self-study) -- $497 - $997
    4. Coaching -- $1997 - $2997

    Why structure your business in a funnel? Simple: 95% of people won't immediately buy from you or buy your highest-priced product/service. You need a logical structure for getting them onto your list and then to buy your high-ticket items.

    So you do it by offering something for free to build trust and a relationship. Then make a low or mid-priced offer. THEN offer them your high-ticket item. Since you've been building a relationship with them, you've built trust with them. They've gotten to know/like you and now they're much more receptive to your high-ticket offer than if they were just cold traffic.

    I hope that helps!

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    • Profile picture of the author oWEN tEBB
      Wow this is a fun topic. It has me in stitches. Guys we are blowing this up out of all proportion. Lets look at this objectivly.. The original poster has made a mistake on using the incorrect terminalogy or doesn't fully understand, thats okay....

      However I would recommend that we all appreciate and value everyone person opinion. At the end of the day we are all entitled to our own opinion and personally any advice that Alexa Smith, Nightengale and Brent Stangel gladly shares is generally good advice.

      Now that I have said my piece, lets see if I can share some of my wisdom....

      Okay so if I understood you correctly you want to sell other people product and act as an affiliate. Okay the best way to do this is to... 1) Make sure the service or product that your promoting is of quality and works as it exactly as it claims. Promoting bad products or services that don't work can damage your reputation and reputation is everything in this industry.

      Once you found that product then you can promote it in many ways... Promote on various forums but be careful your not spamming... Promote by creating a 3 page website with a enticing landing page. My recommendation would be to use epicsqueeze for that. Or you can do it by PPC or PPA on google or facebook. You need to find what works best for you. The most important thing you need to do is to drive traffic to your promotion. This can be difficult if you don't invest the time properly.

      Your job as a affiliate is to sell the service or product as a MUST HAVE for a fixed commission agreed by the vendor or owner. Its also important to understand how the commission works for example do get the commision straight away or do you need to hit a mininum target before getting paid. You see its all the little things you need to consider before entering into somekind of agreement of sorts. Remember its your reputation on the line as well as the vendors.

      Personally whenever I work as a affilate I tend to use multiple methods to help promote. I use EpicSqueeze for creating landing pages, I use my Facebook Fan Page to post a small review and I use autoposter. THIS WORKS FOR ME!!! It may not work for you but the reason i'm telling you this is because I wanted you to know that you have to be adapatble in your approach.

      I apoligise if i'm coming across as a bit patronizing or stating the obvious but I feel its always best to break it down so its easy for all to understand.

      I wish you all the best and I look forward to hearing how you get on...

      Good Luck

      Owen
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