This is impact school. And I'm your host learn Tecna and you're in the right place. If you are somebody who's trying to build a business trying to build your personal brand and trying to make a difference all while enjoying life having fun and just making sure that you are making the most of every single area whether it's your health your Fitness your mindset and just everything in between So today, we're talking all things affiliate marketing because it's a Monday that means I have a Guest for you who is an absolute expert within this space? I have gel on the show from screw the 9 to 5. That's the name of her business. I find it absolutely hilarious because let's be honest. There's a lot of people listening to this right now who are in a 9 to 5, you have a side hustle and who were probably trying to consider doing a bit of affiliate marketing here and then to help them take the first steps to quitting that 9 to 5 job. All you may have been someone who used to do the 9 to 5, and now you're here today. Building your business and love in your life. So if you're new to this, you may not know what affiliate marketing is. So I've just got my trusty Google dictionary out in front of me to make sure that I get the definition perfect cuz I fully understand the concept but when it comes to explain things, sometimes it's easier just to go from the dictionary. So affiliate marketing is apparently it's a noun and it is a marketing Arrangement by which an online retailer Peace Commission to an external website for traffic or sales generated from its referrals, okay? So I actually know that affiliate marketing can be done with an in-person retailer and it doesn't have to be paying commission to an external website. It can be paying to commission just to a person. So I think that this is affiliate marketing definition by Google dictionary is a little bit outdated if I may say so myself because here's the thing. Basically it's when you are becoming someone who refers a product to somebody else and in return for that referral you get paid a salary. Of cash you get a water cash just for telling somebody about something. So that is exactly what affiliate marketing is. And in this episode Gemini really dive deep because I've done a fair share of affiliate marketing in my time. I'd say overall in the past year and a half probably I've on around 25 Grand just for affiliate marketing and it hasn't by any means be my main source of income. It's just been something that I've been doing super casually and obviously like we're going to talk about affiliate. A marketing is something that can be done continually and it can be done really casually and really easily now. Here's the thing we go into a lot of depth. So if you feel a little bit confused at any point and like what we're talking about is way out of your comfort zone just keep listening because it basically we start off pretty easy then very quickly we go really really deep and then at the end we kind of ease off and speak about some easier ways for you to get into affiliate marketing easily. So just listen take notes and just know that In the show notes for this episode. I have links to so many things. Yes. I leave some of my affiliate links just as examples. But I also have links to all the resources that gel mentions and if you're someone who obviously you're obviously listen to this right now, right because you want an extra $500 to a grand per month just from affiliate marketing and if you're somebody who is serious about building a business a service-based online business whether it's coaching Consulting freelancing then I do I do have a workshop for you. So it's it's linked in the show notes, of course, but it's just impact - through - influence actually, you know what it's going to be easier. If you just go to the show notes and get it because the the links a little bit confusing. So just go to the show notes. You'll be able to see it there very clearly as well as everything else that we are referring to. So with that said, let's bring gel onto the show and we can start talking all things affiliate marketing. I hope you enjoy and remember at the end of every episode. I always give my insight on Well God's episode everything that we've spoken about because I just like to reflect upon everything so that you have some implementation steps moving forward. So I'll see you then. And if you haven't subscribed already, please remember to do so and tell one friend about this book Cause, that'd be really cool. Okay, let's get into it Josh and I started our first business together was an affiliate marketing business. So we built our business up to like 30 different affiliate sites. Now at the time that was like a mix of for page websites and big websites, so So sites was like over 300 post that kind of thing and we sold them to go all in on the screw. And so with the screw we had digital courses. We had a membership site. We had coaching Live Events like basically we did all the things until we realized basically it was softer after we had our son and turns out having a baby will cause you to reprioritize your life memory. And so we just started asking ourselves bigger questions. Like is this But we want to keep doing for the future of our business like things feel really heavy right now. It feels like we're time zone restricted. We are limited to the schedule. We have created for ourselves. And so we just started kind of tossing around the idea and it wasn't till Josh said to me like well, you know what business model we've really liked and at the time I was so burnt out and kind of jaded that I was like nothing and he's like no we have we loved affiliate marketing and it was like the whole freaking heavens. Opened up for us and I was like Oh and it just gave us such Clarity because for the screw the screws are very big broad brand right like our whole mission is to become the number one destination for up-and-coming entrepreneurs or two like transform, unsatisfied employees into dangerously successful entrepreneurs so that we don't Niche down to like one specific type of entrepreneur we have digital course graders. Worship site owners coaches Freelancers service providers live event owners membership member Mastermind curators like we run the gamut right? And so it was really hard for us to focus down on one quick thing that we could be quote quote unquote known for and so we realized that affiliate marketing works perfectly for us because it allows us and this is what I love about affiliate marketing. It allows us to connect our audience to the different people products programs and services. Or tools that we use like we use love or believe in and so that's what I love about affiliate marketing and just as we were chatting before we started recording what I love the most about it is not just the fact that there's no fulfillment or no customers are no products that you have to create. It's that it can be layered into any existing business or brand like if you have an audience you can use affiliate marketing to layer in a whole other income stream in a way that feels wildly helpful for people. For engaging really inclusive and not pushy salesy desperate or anything like that. So that's why I love it amazing. And that's exactly what you are going to be sharing with the listeners of impact school today because I know that we're going to be talking all about how to earn an extra 500 pounds or dollars to like a grand or so per month with affiliate marketing but there are a few reasons why you said you love it now. I just I know that, you know, the audience already knows what affiliate marketing is I Ready explain that to them in the intro of this podcast, but I would love it. If you could kind of just I suppose give us a few more reasons. Why you think it's great and why you think that anyone can do it? Because I know there's probably some objections right now. Like I don't have a big enough audience or I don't really know any good products to become an affiliate for why is it so good and why can anybody do it? Yes, we so the way I think about affiliate marketing as you are simply connecting your audience to the tools products. Graham's Services people that you use like or believe in so guaranteed no matter what you do for your business in your day-to-day life or in your business, you use products that have affiliate programs. No doubt about it, like people often say to me but I don't really have anything that I could be an affiliate for I'm like, yeah you do absolutely especially like well anything I'll tell a story about this dude Bryce, but just in a quick sec even like health coaches, right? Like there's a lot of health coaches or health professionals out there think about all the different products. You use blenders workout apparel workout equipment apps programs coaches. I know that you are always like stop selling protein powder but like even that kind of stuff or supplements or you know, certain juices or meal delivery services. Like there are so many things that you already use in your day-to-day life that guaranteed have an affiliate program. So All you have to do if you want to figure out where to find those things is search the product you love and in quotes put affiliate. So say I love Vitamix or Blendtec or something like that, right? I would search I would open up a Google Search and I would put Vitamix quotes affiliate or quotes referral or quote partner anything like that that allows Google to drum up a bunch of results that will connect me with the Vitamix or whatever insert product here. Affiliate program that you can apply to and become an affiliate and then you just simply get a link it's tracked and if you if someone in your audience clicks that link goes through and makes a purchase you get a commission. So you're connecting people who are already in your world with stuff you use and even if I always hear this as well like similar to you what you just said, like I don't have a big audience, but you don't need a big audience. I like people are To get sick of me saying this but I truly believe micro influencers are thing that's coming up real fast. Like it's not about huge vanity numbers. It's about resonance and engagement. That's it. Right like they're looking for people who have a crew of people who listen who pay attention who read watch listen to what they're saying click and buy whatever they put out there. That's power not just like big sexy numbers like I I'd much rather have a hundred people who listened and watched and put out what earn shared whatever I put out there or clicked My Links or bought whatever I'm talking about. Then I would 10,000 people who don't really give a damn right? Like we're looking for people who resonate with our message who want to learn more about what we're doing and how they can get the same results and because of that they will typically listen when you're talking about a product program service or person that's what I love about it and look, No, another thing that I don't that I love about affiliate marketing obviously like we talked about is there's no fulfillment on your end. Like there really is no product creation. There's no customer support unless someone just has some questions like there's nothing for you to create launch or promote over and over and over again, you're simply shining a light on the things you love exactly. Yeah, and I guess let's say you were becoming an affiliate for somebody's course and you want to do better than everybody else use an affiliate for the course. You could go ahead and create bonuses and stuff if you wanted to but I'll Riff on that. Like that's my favorite thing. So my gosh, that's amazing. That's amazing Jill. So I still have one quick question upon everything that you said because I know that for sure something that I've mentioned to my audience before is if you let's say your your niches dating, right? And so you have people following you for relationship advice and all that stuff. So let's say you then took to Google and you typed in dating course affiliate now, I'm interested to know why Put affiliate in the quotation marks because I've never actually heard about that before well because that will tell Google that you only want to see results from site or pages that are related to dating and have the words affiliate somewhere on that page typically using that exists in the form of a link which will take you to their affiliate program application page or Lisa an explanation page so that you can figure out like what is their commissions? How do I apply? Who gets approved that kind of stuff? So it's essentially like just like when you're looking for guest post right? Like that's how you would find guest posts and that's how you become contributors. It's the exact same thing for Affiliates as well. And I would love well if you want to go back to this later, but I would love to talk about anything around promoting other people's programs because there is so much you can do to really drum up some serious commissions for that. But before I go down that rabbit hole, can I just quick touch on one more thing? We were talking about please do yeah, okay. So I didn't even think of this at the time when I was like rambling on and on but certification programs are so huge study courses. So that dude I was telling you about our buddy Bryce Bryce. He wasn't be rice. He was an accountant when we first before we met him. He was the first dude we ever met when we travel to South southeast Asia and so he had just quit his accounting job his CPA job, and he had started a website teaching people how to pass the CPA exam. Yeah, and he was an affiliate for courses that taught people how to pass the CPA exam. So all of his free content led to these study courses now that was we met him in 2013. So that was six years ago. He was just starting out and now he does 250,000 dollars a month off Google traffic through affiliate through affiliate link. So he's a three million dollar business teaching want to be CPAs how to pass the exam which Supposedly really hard and he's never even built his own course. No, like he created his own study guide wants but then he was like, I don't want to sell my own. I just like selling other people's and shut it down. So that's the like it doesn't just have to be you know blenders or something if you've gone through a certification or if there's a course or a study program or books or audios anything like that. There are so many opportunities. I mean, you could look through things like ClickBank or shareasale or Market. Health or of course Amazon Amazon has Amazon Associates. That's their affiliate program. It's lower commission's only 4% But if you're working with volume that stuff adds up and Amazon is the most trusted Marketplace online hands down. I think I was reading her Josh told me like for every dollar that's spent online Amazon gets 50 cents a bit. Like what wow mental so unbelievable. So people trust it right there not like whoa. What is this site? So if you do have stuff that you can't find exact affiliate promotions or excuse me affiliate programs for and they have those products on Amazon. You can be an affiliate for Amazon instead. Yeah, exactly. So finding affiliate programs really is a case of doing your research. Yes. Yeah for sure as you start to build a bigger and audience if you're someone who is trying to build their personal brand if you start gaining followers, you may have some Brands come to you and ask you if you want to be an affair. Earlier for them. That's how I actually first got started. But then my mind was open up to the whole world of the other side of affiliate marketing right which is why people have blogs and email list and their Affiliates for all these different things and you can be proactive put yourself out there and go find these programs yourself rather than just wishing and waiting that they come to you right up solutely and you can do it in a way that sorry. I'll just I'll let you live. No, please go ahead. You tell me you're sharing the wisdom without yesterday. So I was just going to say I was just going to say that there's so many ways. You can do it in a way. That doesn't feel like you're pushing affiliate links on people. Right? So like we can jam on this. I don't know if you want me to go down the rabbit hole, but do it. Okay. So obviously social media is a huge one, right like Instagram stories. I love it for all things affiliate marketing because all you're doing is simply even if you were to walk people through a day in your life and you're saying like swiper. Up to save 10% on this use this code for to save 10% or swipe up. If you want to check out my favorite blender swipe up if you you know want to check out these supplements I use or you know, there's so many now if you don't have swipe UPS, the best thing you could do is send people to the Lincoln bio or send them to a resources page on your website. This is such an easy thing to set up and people will always check it out. I think our resources Pages like one of our third most popular site pages. On our site like that's crazy. And so what I love about that is we create it once and then it just sits there and cranks commission's right. So when people say like passive income isn't a thing, I'm like that's because you ain't know how to do it. So they vilify passive income. But if you do know how to do it, it can be passive like sure you may want to update things but you don't constantly have to work for it. And that's another reason. I love affiliate marketing because a lot of these tools like if you You use any software say you're a coach right? Say you are a business coach or you're a coach for people who want to be health coaches or you're a coach for people who want to be a business coach or a relationship coach or anything. You can give people like starter kits here are some of the things I think you're going to need to get started. Here's the things I use that it make my life easier. So say you are a person who helps business coaches. Maybe there's something like legal templates or contracts or you know website hosting or Email list email service providers and Jill. I mean I'm a great example of this actually, so obviously I'm helping people build an online business and I sell a lot of online courses. So I have people come to me who may also want to create their own online course. There's I simply tell them about the software that I recommend which is teachable and I have a link to that. I'll leave it linked in the show. How meta I just affiliate. I just got all Affiliated up in here. So yeah, those things like teachable there's an email service provider that I use what are other things just trying to think right now but o some posting yeah hosting, you know, but also like people come to me for creating content. So I have people they want to know how do you get copyright free music on your YouTube videos on Instagram. So I tell them hey I use this here's the link and yeah, it's amazing. It's awesome. So I obviously then The refer the recurring the recurring revenue from that because these are things that they have to subscribe to. Yeah, so I've been pretty I've been pretty careful with the affiliate programs that I choose and I want to choose things personally that give me the recurring income. But obviously if I was to be selling I know we also go out the protein shakes if I wasn't able to sell them high volume on a recurring basis, then that would be awesome. Yeah, and like the reason yeah, the reason I love to This is because that Revenue Stacks right? So like say you send you know, five people one month and your commission is $20 a person, right? So there's a hundred bucks but next next month you send six. Well now we're at math 220, right and then next month you send another four and so now we're at 300 a month, you know, it builds upon each other. It's no balls and that's what I love about these tool based at least. Affiliate programs because a lot of software creators take the retention really freaking seriously. So that means a lot of people stay customers of theirs and you keep getting those commissions this it is amazing, but obviously unfortunately not in every Niche. Is that going to be possible we have like I already mentioned as a few Fitness coaches health coaches listening to this today. They may not necessarily have access to products like that back when I was a fitness coach. I was starting my Online Career. I was searching for these type of things and it just isn't necessarily possible. Unless you're becoming an affiliate for a nap but those apps are typically going to take the business away from you because they do the coaching for you. Yeah, there's not necessarily gonna work. That's why I am a big kind of I'm a big advocate for you really focusing in on your business and then using affiliate income to support your business and have some extra side cash. So shall we give The listeners a bit more info on how they can actually build that income and how they can go about doing this whole thing. Even if right now they're starting from Total scratch or they've been burned in the past by five percent commission from certain protein company that we shall not mention do it. Okay. So do you mean like how to start building up your like we're to promote your affiliate links or where to build how to build an audience or both so firstly like the gonna find the products they need to go out there and Find those product themselves. Like how do they actually transfer it to the how do they tell people about the affiliate programs obviously about the links and everything. So we see they have social media. They can give us that Lincoln buyer. They can do the swept up in that story if they do have swipe up and I'm just gonna add a quick sneaky little hack. It's like let's say you make a pole on your Instagram story. Now obviously Instagram is Instagram is changing all the time, right? So this may change in a few years to come but right now as of 2019 this works so go Hadn't I use it but what you can do is like you can also map all hey. Are you looking for some new protein bar that if they click? Yes, you can literally just damn them the link like it's easy, right? That's an easy strategy that you can use. You can just be like, hey, I found this one give them a bit of value because obviously if you're just telling them use this that you know, they might not even know why they want to know why they should be trusting you and why they should be using it. So there's a tip there. But yeah other ways for them to actually start making this money through these he's affiliate programs. So one of my other favorite ways using social media at least is Facebook groups. So when we had we've had a few Facebook groups in the past, so we had our first one was like 45,000 shut that down start a new one built that up to 14 before we shut that one down as well. But on both of those people know just so people know that's 45,000 members the and 14,000 members in your private Facebook group. Yes. It's a yes, so I just didn't want to have full-time groups anymore. I do pop up groups. Anyways, but in there I had resources Pages because a lot of people if you've ever been inside a business Related Group come in and they ask like, what should I use for this or who here has used clickfunnels or who here? Like what's better Bluehost or go to you know what? I mean? Like there's so many questions like that. So I created a resources page using one of the files and then I pinned it or I assigned a topic to it when topics came out and the reason I love doing it inside files. Is because you can format and you can do internal links so you can contextual links so you can create links out of your like out of the text, right? So and you can format bold italicize all the things so that's why I love doing it in the file section versus just in a post and then you can pin it you can mark it as an announcement. So it always stays there you can assign a topic but that way when anyone comes into that group and is asking like what do you guys use for this? You can be like, oh, I have a hole right up over. Here on this page. So that's a great way. You don't just want to make it like a slew of links obviously, like I had a description beside each one and like how we use it why we use it if there was an episode or a piece of content. I had around that particular topic. I would also link to that. That way people can make a really good judgment call for themselves because people don't want to feel like they're just getting blasted with links like that sucks. Right? So like you were saying give them value. The reason I love Philly marketing is because it should all be front loaded. With free content which means it's really easy to do. All you have to do is create really rad free content. So this could be blog posts podcasts videos. You just did it when you said like I'm going to mention my teachable link in the show notes. That is how you start building up a lot of affiliate Revenue as well as using your free content, but doing it in a conversational way. So we have an episode coming out in a few months called three tools. We use to make 30 grand. That's all affiliate links. All I'm doing is we're walking people through our top three tools. We use why we use them how they've benefited our business and how they've actually turned into cash and then we say like if you want to grab a free trial to this go to screw the 95.com forward slash blah blah blah, you know what I mean? You can bake that into your content even in your videos. You could do product review videos. You can do unboxing videos. There's so many ways. You can layer this into the free content you're Already creating or should be creating for your brand because here's one thing I know for sure is that attention AKA audience is money and the way you build that is through free content online. There is no other I mean you could pay for it if you wanted to but if not free content is absolutely being number one way people build audience of audiences of Believers. So whether that's livestreams videos podcast blog post, whatever that is for you. Going all-in and creating really high-impact free content will help fuel your affiliate Revenue in such a quick and easy way. Yeah, so true. I mean, that's how I've managed to build mine up to where it is today. And the cool thing is once you do actually have customers who are paying you as well. It actually becomes a lot easier to refer them to the different things that you use so I know that a bunch of people who are enrolled in my courses, they then by the recommendations that I give them because I give them a reason and they already He trusts me, right like they've already spent money with me. They've already seen the what I'm giving them is really really good information. So that then increases the trust which means that they're more like to them by again and if it means that like I'm essentially selling them without selling like that's the cool thing about affiliate products. I find one thing that you mentioned just then which I think was genius and there may be some people listening right now who don't yet have their own domain. They don't yet have their own website. That's people that do you mentioned that you make and like screw the Dot-com / I know Lauren Tecna, let's just pretend so you have that which means that whenever anyone types that in it takes the customer directly to the landing page your affiliate promo. Let's say you are an affiliate for impact through influence and then you they were to then go to like scrutinize five.com / Lauren Tecna, then they would have liked the affiliate deal that you guys are running for one of my program. Yes just pretend so that is called a pretty that's genius. It's got a pretty link. Yeah and that That is a WordPress plugin. Okay, so it's it's free. You can easily set it up. It's so easy to create them. All you do is you grab your affiliate link you put it in the destination URL or Target URL or whatever it's called and then it'll already populate like screw the nine-to-five.com forward slash and then you just I would put like impact or something like that, right? So then my affiliate link would would it look like Lauren, you know impact school.com for / re f Three to five six, you know a whole bullshit amount of numbers and letters and characters. It would just instead be a really easy link for people to remember. Oh that's amazing. I did not know that so I'm gonna I use my breath. Oh I use WordPress. So if you want to download workers, I'll leave a link to no, but seriously why I'm saying is like I do use WordPress. So I'm going to start using that but in the past I never knew about that. I was actually creating my own Pages. Oh my God. No, No, no, no. No, I'm like I was in Bedding everything. I genuinely have no idea. So thank you. I really really appreciate that. You just saved yourself so much time now, it's so much. Yeah, that's so handy. And I mean, I definitely not a web developer by any means I've been doing this for a while now, I've been learning but it's still very very boring and I don't find one. So that's definitely very very useful. So anyone who has your website. Yeah you Do that that's amazing. And so then that simplifies the whole process. If you have a podcast or YouTube video YouTube channel story, then it makes it so much easier because you can literally just tell people hey go to this URL and it's simple like they don't have to memorize something weird or go click some link because it's easy for people to like, for example, if I say and what during my podcast go click this link in the description notes and then the show notes story for this podcast episode. A lot of people will end up forgetting to do that. But if you say the URL then it's moreover that actually going to go ahead and do it. Right? Yeah, absolutely and and you can bake the stuff into like ebooks your lead magnets like there's so many ways to do it and we haven't even started talking about like product reviews. Like there's so many ways people are looking for can I go down this Rabbit Hole real quick. Just do what you gonna do. Okay. Alright. So a lot of people search for information online obviously, right? Especially when looking to make a purchasing decision, and the reason we create To review so for example, I'll just share one of ours not to like get commissions, but because it is a fantastic example of how to create a really sick product review. So it's screw the 95.com forward slash clickfunnels - review and what that is is the reason we use that URL is because we know and doing through keyword research. We know people are looking for reviews on clickfunnels before deciding to purchase clickfunnels deciding to join it. Right and the Reason we use that kind of URL versus just like clickfunnels is because that that captures buyers intent that really targets the people who are ready to make a purchase but are kind of on the fence and are just looking for a little bit more information. So instead of us just trying to Target the keyword of clickfunnels in general which brings up a whole bunch of other stuff and not really targeting the people who are looking to make a purchase. It allows us to show up higher on the search engines because there's less Petition and it allows us to capture that that interested buyer and give them the information they're looking for and then if they do choose to make a purchase then they we have our links on that page as well. But you can do this with damn near every product right? There's a tool we use called a ahrefs a href s and it'll show you different keywords. People are using to search for products that they're interested plus it'll show you the intent of it and like who's looking for a By product name or product name versus product name or product name review like all of these keywords demonstrate that a person is looking to make a purchase but is just looking for a bit more information before you know, clicking the buy now button. So that allows you to capture even more affiliate Revenue by showing up on Google and really ranking for these keywords. Okay, that's amazing. So this is feeling a bit complicated right now. Okay. I was to go ahead and do this for myself. I probably wouldn't. I just thought of so, do you have a simple strategy that you can let less Let's Do It Let's Pretend We're going to make one for me. So let's pretend we're going to use my website Lauren Tecna.com, which is currently under construction right now. So let's just pretend this launch and let's pretend I'm being good with my SEO and I do have a Blog so I took all about online business. Now, I already mentioned teachable. So let's just ride with that. So let's say we are I want to start ranking for people to start using my affiliate link for teachable. So what would we do? Okay, so there's like you would want to lay out like what is teachable? Okay, who was it for? What do you need it what you want? Pardon? Well, who and why? Yeah, like what is it who needs it? Why do you need it? Teachable versus think if o'clock how to use it how to get started with it. Maybe there's a pricing breakdown. Maybe there's Product demonstrations on there like if you were to go to the clickfunnels review that I mentioned that's such a great example because it really breaks it all down and it shows like everything. I'm just going to link everything up. Okay, you can sign me when you want an extra 10 gram per month, which is revenue. I'll send you a cut. But I'm Gonna Fill it. Oh my gosh on that page, you'll see that we're comparing clickfunnels to leadpages. We're walking through the product. We're breaking down what we We don't like about it because there's quite a few things or breaking down what we do like about it. We're including reviews from other customers. There is pricing tables why you should use it who it's for fa Q's like you essentially if you were talking to a friend and they were like, what do you think about clickfunnels and you wanted to like really serve them and give them some helpful information put that into a blog post. Okay, you know what? I mean? So like who what where why Who what where why and then like comparison policies that dead how to use it these yo you that's amazing. Okay cool. And so obviously then you just post that as a blog post. Is there any specific like WordPress plugin that you use to make these blocks? Mmm? Okay. So Josh, this is very much a Josh question, but I know he uses Elementor, which is our page. Builder and our website theme so I'm a butcher that I don't deal with any of that. I'll leave everything Linked In the show notes because like then I can link your article and everything just so that people can understand but if they're already blogging I'm sure they'll already knows that already know. What is that they need to use just creating a blog post and having some smart formatting. So it makes it skimmable for people right like allowed them to go to the sections that they are really For information around and again, like don't get too overwhelmed with this you do not need to make everything perfect in the beginning just get something up there just start looking for the products that you already use and seeing if they have affiliate programs start there first right before we get too in-depth or two down the rabbit hole or two overwhelmed. There are very easy ways that you can baby step your way to this like just because you put up a page does not mean you are. Eating an immediate flood of millions of people coming to your website, right? Like they're well until you promote it or until you drive links to it. Very few. People are going to know about it. So use that time to improve as you go. Yes. Yeah amazing. I think honestly if I was to go ahead and do this right now, the first place that I would start is to actually create that resources page that you already mentioned and then my next step after that would we would be to like think about a no Main tool that I use in my business or just like let's say I wasn't teaching people business. Let's say I was teaching them Fitness. Like what is the main thing that I actually used a today and then I'm gonna go ahead and like create a YouTube video which was a review of that thing or a demo. So I know that you wanted to talk about this. So shall we now dive into how people can create the best video reviews or demos and all that? Okay, so Excuse me. I just got all excited. All right, so I just want to make sure that I'm not overwhelming people. So like you said, I think the biggest thing here is to just baby step it right like we're looking to play the long ball game. Right? Like we're not looking for like get-rich-quick stuff. So yeah, if you're feeling a little overwhelmed because we've covered a lot already look right if you're feeling overwhelmed like Lauren said, please just Start with identifying things you already use love or believe in make a list of them see if they have affiliate programs and then create a tools. I love her products. I love or resources or whatever page on your website and write little blurbs about why you love those programs products Services people whatever it is tools and start there right start there and then incorporate that page into your other free content. Aunt or podcast episodes or whatever you mentioned on your social media. Like I get asked a lot. What do I what I use for this? So I broke it all down on this page. You'll also see a lot of other things that I love, you know, there's so many ways that you can just use that one page. You could put it in your emails in your inbox in yours the magazine. So basically I use this ring and it monitors my sleep and I always I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. I always post it on my Instagram story like ice. Sort of how I slept the night before and I have a relatively large audience who watched my Instagram stories a few thousand people. And so I know that every single time that I post that I'm gonna get someone replied to my story saying Lauren what happens this? Yeah, even though I have literally said time and time again that it's a ring and not a nap. I still got people saying that's me, which is fine. Like I understand that not everybody watches stories every single time, but I was getting annoyed who I was Really getting frustrated by this question over and over again. So I use them. I made the most of one of Instagrams features and I made a quick reply so you can create these literally these messages were if you type so it's called an orange again. I'll leave it links in the show notes It's amazing And like I just started I love the ring so much that I decided to message them and say hey guys, do you have an affiliate program because you have to like it's invite-only I think so they invited me to it and they gave me a discount code. Well, so now that like when people use my link in my code, then they're going to get $50 off. So what I did was when they reply to my story saying what happens this I have a quick reply that when I type the word. Oh, you are a Hora and then like the three little dots above all I just press the three little dots and it pre-populates the whole text and it's like this massive massive long paragraph, which says hey, it's not actually an app. It's a ring and I absolutely love it. Here are three reasons why I love it. And by the way, if you Be interested in getting one for yourself. You've given me a $50 off of code. And the code is Lauren and here's the link and then that's basically it. So now I I've literally made like dozens and dozens of sales just from that message and that was just from people asking me a question many times and had to say that because it's yeah it works and that's so smart because you're just paying attention to what your audience is saying that's it to the questions. They're asking and it can be as easy as that, right. I know we've talked about like these in-depth strategies like product reviews and all these kind of things. You can keep it really simple right like everything is in your control right like so you can get as as you can keep it as simple or you can go as complicated as you want now obviously Josh and I it's our entire Revenue model. So we do a bunch of different things. But if you're just looking to layer in a little bit of extra income in your business, this is a great way like just sharing Ducks you use through your social media or through your emails or through any one new voice diems you anything like that. There's so many ways to incorporate this. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Well, you see all the time like with referrals games just from Brands and people I know they have like an Uber referral code and they share it with their PALS. Like you can do that and share it on your group chat on WhatsApp or it's a simple as that like you can make cash just from sharing it with friends if you just want a little bit of side cash, but if you want to start Scaling it up then doing some more of the advanced things that you mention absolutely genius. And so I know that you know, obviously the YouTube video reviews like how so it's pretty much the same format. I'm gonna guess it's like, yeah the what the who the why the comparison the how to use it. Well and it I would probably do like tutorials. Yeah, like how to set up a funnel with clickfunnels in three minutes. Yeah, something like that. You know what I mean? Like I would I would definitely do the clickfunnels review because also you YouTube's the search engine let's remember that right. So we're targeting keywords there, but then I would also do tutorials like how to set up a landing page with clickfunnels how to create a funnel with clickfunnels how to do whatever, you know, like I would create a lot of how-to stuff or I would do unboxing if you're not working with softwares and you're doing actual products like maybe Electronics or cameras or you know, any kind of health related stuff. There's so many ways to do this just start looking at what other people in your Bass are doing on YouTube for products and just make it your own. There's some like you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You don't have to have a crazy strategy. A lot of people are just doing what works and putting their own spin on it. I encourage you to do the exact same thing. It's not copying if you make it your own you're just taking inspiration from what's already working. Exactly. Yeah for sure if it was something like food or ingredient you could stop making recipes if it was yeah, there's so many many things you can do is insane. I think it's just a case of like you said seeing what other people are doing thinking outside the box a little bit and just not being afraid to actually make the offer and like to tell people why you love it. Like if you don't talk about it, then you're not going to start making any sales and I think this is something that people struggle with they don't speak about the things that they use they don't actively go and try and become an affiliate of a products because they just think oh, I'll never make any money from this anyway, but if you don't try you'll never know. It's cliche, but it's true. And if you do it in a really helpful engaging way, like what do you have to lose? Yeah, and I also think like, you know, these people are wondering these questions anyway for so long. I was wondering should I use active campaign or should I use drip or should I use clickfunnels or should I use MailChimp? All these questions and so it's like if I had someone to tell me about their know just use this one and stick with it. I would have saved so much time having transferred from one to the other from from Flippin Mill Jim's convertkit. Oh my gosh, it was draining well and think about even fashion bloggers right? Think about how many people want to know what they're wearing because they then want to wear the same thing, you know, like people want to use or where or incorporate the same things you're using especially if you have a really engaged audience, like if people care about you and what you're doing. They typically want to know what you're using. Using or what you're doing to get the certain results or look the certain way or do the certain thing right? So you can just share those products so many people do it. Like that's why I keep trying to D vilify affiliate marketing because it can be really helpful and really impactful for people and it's just like it's like telling a friend about a cool dress you found or it's like telling a friend about the sick restaurant you ate at, you know, it's the exact same thing. We love talking about things that we Love or have great experiences with all you're doing is spread in love. That's it. So don't again. I just don't want people to get to in their heads around it because I know it's really easy, especially when something is new and seems really sexy. You're like, okay, how can I get started with her right away? Okay. Oh my God, I have so much stuff to do. I'm not going to do it and then they they just spiral, you know, but you can make this so easy and effortless and incorporate it into your social media strategy your content strategy email marketing. Energy in such an enjoyable engaging inclusive way. Boom. That's it. That was amazing. So do you have anything else that you would like to share with the listeners regarding affiliate marketing? Well, I have a whole guide on it like a free guy. I call it a free guide guys. It's a blog post, but it's like The Ultimate Guide to affiliate marketing and in a just and easy free guide that will walk you through how to get started with With it. That's also if you want I can show shoot that over to you can put that in the show notes. I think it would be really helpful. Especially if we were just like fire hosing you with all the information today. Yeah. I feel sorry for the listeners right now. I like wow. I came to this podcast to get value and I go way too much not my brain. But exactly this this blog post will help you real it all in and we'll give you a plan to start putting it into action. Oh, that's perfect. Thank you so much. Yeah, I'll definitely share that. In the show notes and for any of the listeners, let's just take this slow and let's realize that I've really a marketing can be an awesome bit of extra side cash and eventually as time goes on it can become a very very big recurring income for you, but just start small and don't burn yourself out. That's what I'm going to say. Yes. I love that smart amazing and thank you for coming on today. So remind the listeners of where they can follow you. I did already tell them at the beginning of the episode, but if you can just tell Oh them again, then they can go take action on it. Yeah, I would love that. Come hang out with me on Instagram over at screw the nine-to-five all spelt out no numbers or if you want to go to the website again screw the nine-to-five.com all spelled out. No numbers amazing. Thank you so much girl. Thank you so much for having me on it was so fun. And I love jamming with you and I hope that this was a med value to your peeps. It's so we don't have in deep that to affiliate marketing, but I hope it is inspired you to actually take some action. The first step is literally for you to head over to Google and to find some affiliate but I was because you can start becoming an affiliate for things immediately. Now, here's the thing. I'm a True Believer in the fact that you should absolutely innale your core first. And then once you've nailed your core offer, you can actually start becoming an affiliate to the people who have already bought from you and obviously your audience as well. You know, it's things that are going to help them out. But I think that lets say you're a coach I think now you're coaching offer before trying. To become an affiliate because this is the thing. If you have a bunch of different offers that you're trying to shove down people's throats all the time and you're just constantly selling selling selling selling selling then the problem is people are just going to start seeing you as someone who is just wanting to grab money fast. So instead is better to focus on one thing then move on to the next thing. So, please promise me that you're going to do that. Honestly, it will be really beneficial for you in the long term because you don't want people to think negatively of you. It's much easier to build back up your wealth Is your reputation because your reputation can get damage within seconds? And yeah, I mean, it's a very very hard to build it back up. Once it has been tarnished. Whereas well, if you lose money you can make money again, especially if you're frequently listening to this podcast because I'm going to be giving you a lot of tips on how to do all that especially moving forward. So, please make sure that you have hit subscribe. If you can just tell one friend about this, that would be awesome. You can find me on Instagram at Lauren Tecna Lau re NT IC. Ke And er you can share this on your story, of course, but my main thing that I'd love it for you to do is let you just tell one friend about this podcast episode. So with that said, thank you so much for tuning in today. I'm going to be leaving you here now and just listen to a coma episodes while you're at it. Have a lovely day. Goodbye.
In today's episode, our host Lauren Tickner is joined by online entrepreneur Jill Stanton, who alongside her husband Josh, has built a successful and location-independent lifestyle business that has allowed them to "Screw The Nine To Five". In this episode you'll find out... - What exactly affiliate marketing is - Where you can find affiliate programs - How to integrate affiliate links in to your content  Resources mentioned: Jill's affiliate marketing guide:  https://www.screwtheninetofive.com/affiliate-marketing  Aura ring: https://ouraring.com/partners/laurentickner/  FREE Instagram Ebook: http://bit.ly/InstagramChecklistAndTips  The Impact School Podcast is a show by Lauren Tickner (www.laurentickner.com) designed to impact your life through giving you actionable steps and strategies to build your brand, increase your income, and become the best version of yourself. 