To become a successful affiliate marketer, you're going to need to learn and they are three ways to learning. You learn by yourself, from someone who knows or you do the both. If you're reading my blog then I suggest you do the latter. In fact, you're already doing the first one by reading this blog post so the next thing you need is an platform where you can learn from a group of experienced people.

It is on that note that I'm going to be reviewing Affilorama free membership created by Mark Ling. I've known Mark for a while now because I've joined his email list. He was once a broke college student until his friend introduced him to affiliate marketing. Surprisingly, Mark was really fast with learning that he started making more income than his friend in the first month.

It was from his affiliate marketing success that he decided to create 100s of video lessons and article for aspiring affiliate marketers with a free membership. I've checked it out and I must say that I like it.

Once you join, you'll have access to their lessons and you'll be taught things like
*How to pick profitable products to promote
*How to build and design a website
*How to get SEO traffic
*How to outsource and scale your business.
They are really so many things to learn that the thought of completing it almost scares me. However, if you're serious then it should only take days. One recent lesson that I can still remember is how to identify affiliate websites. For example, when you see someone paying for ads on a blogpost that says something like, "Top 5 cheapest domain providers" then just know that the person is an affiliate marketer.


Because Affilorama has over 100 lessons, there's something for everyone so if you're a beginner, you can start from the basics and if you're an intermediate, mark has lessons on experienced marketers like how to effectively use outsourcing to grow your websites or program.

Another thing I like about Affilorama is their forum. I'm the kind of person that always has questions that cannot be answered by one simple video and blogpost so having somewhere that I can go to ask a one-on-one question is something big for me and the fact that they have something like that for free is mind blowing. You can use the forum to know what other affiliate marketers are up to and copy their best strategies.

However, to become a successful affiliate marketer, you're going to need to go in-depth into the knowledge of Web hosting, SEO, PPC tools and Affilorama doesn't teach all this for free but don't worry, from time-to-time, Affilorama offer $1 trials of their Affilorama Premium subscription, which gives you access to ALL of these things, plus some premium training too. So if you see Affilorama offering a $1 trial of their Premium subscription, I strongly suggest you get it because the service will save you a LOT of money.

I'm not through with the lessons yet but I'm happy to have joined because like any business, you make mistakes at the beginning but learning from mark and his team's mistake will surely save me months of confusion and hopelessness.

My first sale was really nice. It happened so fast that I didn't almost believe it. It was GOD, really.

Anyway, let's go exactly into what I did to make my first sale.

I watched this video:
It was that simple. I always knew Reddit was the life of traffic but I had given up on it because most redditors hate "self-promotion." Even if you post a link to your blog, most sub-Reddit still consider it as spam. In fact I was going to add Reddit to the list in my last blog post but the vibe I was getting from Reddit at that time was bad.

To be specific, I added a secret product that I'll share soon to my Woocommerce store and I used the free + shipping model. This means that I was selling the item for free but you'd have to pay shipping and the shipping price was where I made my profit. Just like the video above.

From the product image, you can see that it's a pit-bull necklace so I'd need to target people who like Pit-bulls. Fortunately, Reddit is grouped into sections called sub Reddits and each subreddit identifies an interest. So I went into a subreddit related to the niche I was targeting and I kept a post like the one from the video.

and bam, I made my first sale.

Now before you go, I must tell you something. About 80% of redditors are rebels and they're so freaking smart. You need to make sure you read the rules of the subreddit before posting and your post should come off as humane as possible. You don't want to sound like a marketer or a salesman on Reddit, trust me.

So that's it, go make your first sale without paying for ads and give me feedback. Last warning: you do not want to sound spammy or sales on Reddit.

What is a digital product?

A digital product can be a book, online course, audio or any other thing related. Most people see creating a digital product as hard work but if you hang on with me, I'll show you how to make it quicker and less stressful. The truth is that you're going to have to invest some work to make money or build an online business and when you invest work, you make $$$. It is something certain.

Tell me one famous online marketer that doesn't own a digital product... I'll wait. Is it Neil Patel, Anik Singhal or Ryan Deiss? These people basically give you free content in exchange for your email, build a relationship (as in get you to know, like and trust them) through email then advertise their digital product to you. You're more likely to buy from a friend than one random guy that sends you to his sales page and bores you by talking about his product.

So...

How do you create a best-selling digital product?

It starts from an idea but when you're about to build a product, it shouldn't only be about what you think. Guessing can be very dangerous, trust me. Why guess what people want when you can actually check to see if that's what people really want.

You can use this process from the Lean Startup by Eric Deiss. Take a day to get out of the building and ask potential customers if they'd like a certain product, their biggest problem with products in that niche and how much they'd pay for a product that solves that problem (if you're an online person, you can do a survey on your website.) Like if I were to build a teaching program, I'd look for the problem with most teaching programs in that niche and make sure mine solves that problem so when I'm advertising, I can tell people that this solves XYZ problem. Like how that commercial with Charmin Ultra-soft says they're against wasteful wadding (which is the biggest problem with toilet paper).

If it's a book, you can write it in a weekend. Pick a voice recorder and record what you'd want to be in your book for each chapter. After recording your voice, transcribe it into words and edit. You can even pay someone on Fiverr five dollars to transcribe and edit for you. Now that I have given you two ways to make the process of creating a digital product faster, the next thing is how to market that digital product.

Actually, I already told you how to market the product. Just do what those famous online marketers do. Create a lead magnet (free content that is impossible to resist), give it to people in exchange for their email address, get them to like and trust you then advertise. You can learn more about the marketing here. Make sure that when you're advertising your product, you're actually talking about what consumers will benefit from the product not the features of the product.

Conclusion

In real life, all this is not as easy as it sounds. You're actually going to need a guide and my mentor, Eben Pagan, is giving a free video series that you can always watch while creating your product. Don't worry he's not going to tell you to buy his product after watching his videos. You can join if you're interested and also save this post so you can come back to it anytime while creating your product.

The best way to make money online is to invest with money but if you can't invest money because you just want just want to try this online stuff that everybody has been talking about or for some other reason, these are the best methods you can use to send free traffic to your affiliate offers.

If you can't invest money in your business then, find a way to invest time in replace of that money. If you can't invest money or time then it's not a business. I brought these methods from my thought and I've actually used some of them and it works. The best thing about it is that it doesn't require too much time so get ready.

All these methods are for affiliate marketers. If you don't know what affiliate marketing is, read Neil Patel's post and come back. You can become affiliates with companies like Clickbank and Amazon associates. Clickbank gives you products to promote and Amazon just gives you amazon products to advertise.

If you've joined those two, get a product to promote later but for now, let's start. The first method is...

Traffup
Traffup looks like this

With Traffup, you earn points when you visit someone's website or like someone's Facebook, Tweet, Instagram or YouTube and you use your points to get other people to get people to visit your link too.
People use Traffup a lot but the mistake that they make is that they put their affiliate link (a link that directs to the sales page of the product they're promoting) and expect people to buy the product. Who does that? The focus should never be on getting traffic directly to your link. It should be getting interested people to take action and the way to do that is to get them to know you. You don't just ask a girl out on a date, you buy her roses and tell her she looks nice first, right? So... why would you just shove a sales page in my face when I'm trying to get points and expect me to convert.
This is what you should do.
1. Go to your Twitter and post an ad-like tweet.
Your tweet must contain a video and your text must sound convincing enough.
See mine for example:

Copy the exact strategies Eben Pagan used to build 10 different businesses to the million dollar mark 😉 (https://t.co/ffnlf6SYEf) pic.twitter.com/BvWmizbywJ

— Samuel Alake (@samuelalakejr) May 18, 2017

Feel free to re-tweet it and use it as a guide.
2. Go to Traffup and add your tweet. Make the action for point re-tweet so people get points when they re-tweet your tweet. I get points by viewing websites, and use those points to get people to re-tweet. Join Traffup and you'll understand what I'm saying better.

The thing about using tweets instead of shoving your sales page in people's face is that it stays on social media and plenty people get to see it.

The second is...

Facebook.
I was reading a book on how to sell anything to anyone and the book talked about the rule of 250. The rule of 250 states that everybody knows 250 people. Now, only like minded people flock together so we can use the rule of 250 with Facebook to our advantage, The truth is, I've never really liked Facebook because it's not private. If I like something or comment, Facebook tells all my friends so everybody knows what it is that I'm up to. Let me cut to the chase.

• Get people interested in the niche of the product you are promoting to like your Facebook post so that all their like-minded friends see it. 

You don't necessarily have to use your Facebook to create the post, you can create a page instead. Make sure to use a video too. Good videos are engaging.
Don't use Traffup to create traffic for the post because if you do, the strategy won't be so effective and you won't get like minded people.
This is my post:

To get "like-minded likes" join a Facebook group and ask people to like your post. As you can see, I haven't done that on this post for now. However, if you've read up to this point then you must be in the niche that I'm targeting so like this post as your way of saying 'thank you for showing me your secret tips.'

The third one is...

Quora
This one is for all my Quorans who are Amazon associates, lol. So, Quora is a platform where people ask questions, add details to their questions and get targeted answers. It is no surprise that Google can't answer all our questions and a lot of people still need answers to certain things. This makes Quora good because marketing should be about connecting people with problems to solutions that can help them solve that problem. Quora is so smart that it sends you targeted questions. For example, If you answer questions on book recommendations, Quora knows you are good at stuff like that and it sends you more questions concerning book recommendations. Book recommendations is what I do with my Quora. When people ask for books they should read, I give them answers and add my Amazon affiliate link to the book I'm recommending. This makes them more likely to purchase the book. To be honest, I haven't gotten sales from this but It is a good thing to do because the internet is evergreen and whenever someone goes on google to ask for an answer to that question, Quora shows up on the first page. So, If you use Quora a lot, It might be a good thing to start integrating Amazon affiliate links to your blog.

Actually, I think I have a fourth one that is going to be my most effective yet but you can't get it till you subscribe to my list first plus I haven't really tested it.


P.S: Quora does not allow Clickbank links but if you plan to use them, make sure you create an opt-in page that will last for years first.

If you liked the post, share it with someone "like-minded." I'll leave you now by telling you to implement these methods and think of other ones. If you find more, don't forget to contact me.

1. Swagbucks: With Swagbucks, you earn cashback when you shop at popular online stores like Kohl, Nike, Walmart, Payless and so on. They pay you in form of SB which you can redeem for cash. 500SB = $5 and you can choose from hundreds of gift cards. They pay good points per survey and their referral program is on point. They also pay you when you surf the web with their search engine. The interesting thing about using their search engine is that whenever you search for an online store that partners with them, they alert you that you can earn cash back instantly.
2. Inbox Dollars: This one gives you $5 bonus when you sign up you can get paid to read emails, sign up for corporate offers, watch videos, play games and generally surf the web. I’m not a big fan of inbox dollars but you can join to take surveys during leisure and mostly for the referral program.
3. Vindale Research: Vindale Research is one of the oldest companies that exist when it comes to taking paid online surveys. If you join and get paid, take a picture and send it to them, they'll pay you $5 when you do. Refer people and take surveys.
4. Survey Savvy: This one is easy. They can pay you for taking surveys but the best way to earn is to download the application to your phone and they pay you $5 per month.

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