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How to Get Started Building an Affiliate Marketing Business for Free At Home

If you’re looking to build an online business but just don’t know where to start, affiliate marketing is for you! I’ve been excited to share with you this simple framework to begin generating monthly recurring commissions without:

  • Creating a product
  • Launching paid advertising campaigns
  • Dealing with customer support
  • Hiring employees
  • Working with more clients

With affiliate marketing you remove all of the typical moving parts of owning a business and focus on one thing only… marketing.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is promoting other people’s products for a commission (that’s it!)

Affiliate marketers partner with companies who sell a product, program, or service and putting it in front of an audience who needs it but just doesn’t know about it yet. Once someone you refer makes a purchase you’ll be paid a commission.

Your whole job is to market the product to an audience who you believe will benefit from using it. It’s a win-win because your audience benefits from using the product and you benefit from making a commission.

What Are the Best Affiliate Marketing Niches?

The top three categories for affiliate marketing are health, wealth, and relationships. However, this doesn’t mean you can’t make money as an affiliate promoting products in other niches. If you can find an affiliate marketing program that pays large recurring monthly commissions in a niche that your passionate about go for it!

For example, I love fishing. Did you know you can become an affiliate for Bass Pro Shops? It’s true, check out their affiliate program here.

In fact, most companies have affiliate marketing programs and you can typically find them by scrolling down to the bottom of their websites to search for them. Most companies happily take on new affiliates while others are more picky about who they select.

How to Find Good Affiliate Marketing Programs?

The easiest way to find affiliate marketing programs is to search for your chosen niche + “affiliate marketing programs” on Google. You’ll easily find dozens of programs readily enrolling new affiliates.

However the key is finding the good ones that are worth promoting because it takes the same amount of work to promote a good program that pays out large commissions as it does a bad one that pays out pennies on the dollar.

Clickbank is a digital product marketplace that unites product creators with affiliates. Clickbank processes the transactions and pays you commissions straight to your bank account. It’s one of the best platforms to find good products to promote as many pay out commissions worth hundreds of dollars.

Amazon is the largest e-commerce retailer and became a pioneer of affiliate marketing selling everything. It’s pretty easy to promote big name brands on Amazon to quickly make some commissions. The issue though is they don’t pay out large amounts, typically 5-15% of the sales price. So if you promote a product worth $40 you may only get a $2 commission… in my opinion it’s not worth your time.

Promoting Software As A Service (SAAS) is a massive portion of spending with many affiliate options. Some examples of high quality services to promote that pay out large recurring commissions are Clickfunnels, Shopify, Bluehost, and Aweber. I highly suggest promoting software as they are always in high demand and are underutilized by many business owners.

Picking a Product to Promote

Ok, so you chose the health niche and decided to use Clickbank to search for a product to promote. How do we go about finding the best products on Clickbank to promote in the health niche?

It’s actually quite simple. Start by selecting the Health & Fitness category from the dropdown menu on the left hand side of the screen. Then filter the products by gravity. This will allow to quickly find the hottest selling best offers available on Clickbank right now. In this case, the Resurge is the top selling product in the Health & Fitness niche paying out on average $115 per sale. Notice once you get someone to sign up, they also payout a recurring monthly commission of $9.28.

Next we’re going to need to grab our affiliate links so we can get credit when we make sales for this product in three easy steps:

  1. Click on the promote button
  2. Enter your unique account name
  3. Click generate hoplinks

Now that we have our affiliate links we can begin to focus on how to best create a sales funnel to make commissions promoting this product.

How to Build a Simple 2 Step Affiliate Marketing Funnel That Will Change Your Life Forever

The headline says it all. This simple 2 step funnel is responsible for turning thousands of entrepreneurs into millionaires.

Here’s the breakdown:

Page 1: The lead generation page that you use to stir curiosity and capture leads via email. The key here is crafting a headline and sub headline that captures your audience’s attention and almost forces them to give you their email and move onto the next page. You will need to connect your email marketing software to this page to collect these email addresses (sign up for a free GetResponse trial).

Page 2: The bridge page is used to introduce the affiliate offer to your audience. The key here is to create a short 30 to 60 second video where you explain how the product or service you’re promoting can help your audience. And the best way to do this is by story telling. At the end of the video have a call to action that points your audience to click the button on the page to go to the affiliate offer (you’re affiliate link will be in the button on your bridge page).

If you would like to copy my high ticket affiliate marketing funnel click here.

Now you’ve captured their email, properly introduced the affiliate offer to your audience, and began building their trust so they’ll be more likely make a purchase.

Follow Up With Your Audience via Email Marketing

Email marketing allows you to take your commissions to the next level. The key to growing your online business is to build your email list!

Why?

Because the majority of people won’t make a purchase the first time you introduce them to the offer. Email marketing gives you the opportunity to provide your audience value and build your relationship with them. It also gives you the opportunity to be seen as a value leader in your space.

The key here is to provide them with as much value as possible to the point where they begin thinking “well shit, if this is the type of value I get for free I can’t imagine how much more value and success I’d see if I bought this course he keeps talking about.”

I highly recommend GetResponse for better open rates and personalization. You can get started with a completely free 30 day trial now to begin building your email list.

How to Drive Free Traffic As a Complete Beginner

The answer might surprise you…

TikTok.

Yep, the fastest and easiest way to build a following and drive affiliate commissions is by taking advantage of the TikTok algorithm to get your content in front of thousand of people. The key here is to create informative content and post 2-3 times daily while adding 3-4 hashtags in your niche. When you target hashtags with a new account you should only go for the ones that have less than 100k views. As you begin to grow your page you can begin targeting and ranking for some of the larger hashtags.

While creating the content you don’t need to show your face if you really are camera shy, but it helps to grow your brand and build a stronger relationship with your audience when you talk to them in front of the camera.

Need content ideas for creating TikTok videos?

Checkout 15 Second Free Leads by the team at Legendary Marketer.

The Big Picture of Building an Affiliate Marketing Business for Free

So let’s take a minute to look at the big picture of everything you need to start an affiliate marketing business for free heading into 2021:

  • Pick a niche and choose an affiliate program that offers recurring commissions of 30-40%
  • Build a simple 2 step funnel to capture leads and introduce the offer to your audience
  • Build your email list and stay in contact with your audience using GetResponse
  • Drive free traffic to your funnel by creating content on TikTok

If you’re more of a visual person like I am, checkout the image below that takes you through the full process of growing your affiliate marketing business:

affiliate marketing for fee

Again, it starts with driving free traffic from TikTok to your opt-in page where your capture your audience’s email address. They then visit your bridge page where you introduce them to the affiliate product by creating a short 30 to 60 second video. You then send them to the offer using your affiliate link and get paid a commission when they make a purchase.

Let me tell you there’s no better feeling than waking up to affiliate commissions. Once you build the framework for the business and have a constant flow of leads coming in around the clock you’ll see your profit explode!

Checkout the Full Affiliate Marketing Video on My YouTube Channel

I just released a 13 minute video on my YouTube channel that covers the strategies covered in this article and I give you a few bonuses if you stick around to the end of the video. To learn how to build an affiliate marketing business for free at home watch the video here:

After you’re done watching feel free to reach out and let me know if you have any questions! I always love hearing from the Ecom Kong community and respond as quickly as I can.

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