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Table of Contents

Introduction And What You Will Learn
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Why Affiliate Marketing? The Facts And Figures You Need To Know
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Affiliate Marketing vs Selling a Product
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Affiliate Marketing In Technical Terms
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Affiliate Marketers for Product Creators
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Top Affiliate Networks You Need To Know About
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Finding Products Online
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How To Choose a Product To Promote And What To Look For
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Conversion Rates, EPC, Gravity And Other Stats
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Go With What Works
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The Profit
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What's the Market Like?
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How To Build a Landing Page To Promote Offers as an Affiliate
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Design Tropes of a Landing Page
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Split Testing
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How To Get Started With Content Marketing
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Social Media
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SEO
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E-Mail Marketing
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How To Use Persuasive Writing To Make More Sales
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Use Questions
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Use Headers
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Fears
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Think: AIDA
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Likeability
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Direct Marketing – The Fast Way To Start Making Money as an Affiliate
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More Direct Marketing Techniques
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How To Win Affiliate Contests
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Maintain Good Relationships With Product Owners
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Introduction And What You Will Learn

Using affiliate marketing it's possible to make a small or even big fortune
with zero up-front investment, zero creative process and zero marketable
skills
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Look up affiliate marketing online
and you'll find a whole culture of people who have private jets and yachts,
who travel around the world and who have almost celebrity like status
online
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Affiliate marketing is a process that is highly
repeatable – there's a blueprint for using it and it can reliably earn you big
money every time
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And even when
they do hear of it, they often find it too daunting sounding and too
unbelievable to even try it
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And the other good news? You have this book! And this book will tell you
everything you could possibly need to know in order to start making huge
profits from affiliate marketing
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This
basically means selling products in order to get commission – just as you
might do as a door-to-door salesman for cable TV
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As
a salesman you live and die by your ability to persuade a cynical audience
and you invest huge amounts of time to try and make the sale
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Now you'll be selling
products for commission but you'll be doing it through the web and you'll be
letting your customers come to you
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What's more, you can
learn from the advice and mistakes of others and in some cases even use
templates
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Moreover, you can do this 'on the side' to begin with
and not rely on it for your main income – it makes a wonderful supplement
to your income
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7% of big affiliate marketers starting in 2006 versus 13
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Most
affiliate marketers are between 31-40 according to surveys and target B2C
products (business to consumer) rather than B2B (business to business)
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What's really interesting though is the salary
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3% of marketers)
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Not bad! (Data from Three Ladders
Marketing)
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This was up 15% from 2012, showing more growth still
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There's a lot of money to be made and
the industry is only growing with time
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The percentages
you get for affiliate marketing actually are very good and in some cases you
get more of the profit than the creator – a lot of suggest that creators and
producers give their affiliates 60% of the income as the starting point in
fact
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But then again, this still isn't 100%
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The sorts of things that
sell very well online are quite often digital products – which means e-books,
online courses and software
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Likewise, if
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you're not a programmer, you probably can't make the next must-have
piece of software
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Now you have two options
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You might write and rewrite your ebook for instance, get it proofread and then rewrite it again
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You could learn to code meanwhile, or you could learn how
products are designed and created
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If you can't
write/program/design, then you can find someone who can by going onto a
site like UpWork, Elance or People Per Hour
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The best programmer in
the world can make you an amazing piece of software but they can't read
your mind – so that software may not be precisely how you imagined it
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And here's the thing: you can never know if a product is going to be popular
or not
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Of course this will then leave you at a huge loss and you'll have
to either give up or sink even more money into yet another untested idea
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This
means testing as many ideas and products as you can to begin with to see

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what sticks and not committing yourself financially to any project unless you
have some evidence that it's going to be successful
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And what's even better? You can pick a product that's already selling well
and that's already getting amazing reviews
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When you sell your own product and it's not making the
money you hoped it would, you may find you can't tell whether it's the
product or your sales strategy that is holding you back
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Now there are scenarios where it does make more sense to create your
own product and ultimately this gives you more freedom and flexibility and
more profit
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How Affiliate Marketing Works

Now you know why affiliate marketing is so appealing, it's time to look at
how affiliate marketing works, both from a technical perspective and from a
practical one
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Cookies are small files that
you can store on the computer of any online web user
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Cookies are what enable sites like Facebook to keep you
signed in for example and they can also be used by advertising companies
to show you ads relevant to your browsing history
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Affiliate Marketing In Layman’s Terms
So in other words, you have your own address that you use to send people
to the product page
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Then, when they buy a product, this is
logged in your profile and at the end of the week/month/quarter you get
paid your due
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That could be a Facebook ad, it could be an e-mail or it could
even be a physical flier
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Affiliate Marketers for Product Creators
While reading this you might find that your pupils have been replaced with
dollar signs as you consider all the possibilities
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What's in it for the product developer? Understanding this can
help you to better understand how the whole system works and to make
even better use of it
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But at the same time, the first thing to realise is that they also
aren't losing this profit
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They can then market their product as much as they possibly can and earn
100% profit on all that hard work
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They might only get an extra 40% of
those sales, but that's still 40% more than they would have gotten
otherwise and it's on top of what they can otherwise earn
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Thus you may have a situation where you're
getting money from hundreds of people all promoting your product
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This is obviously pretty awesome from the creator of that product and that
is why they're happy to give away some of their profit and some of their
control
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More often than not, this is about control of the

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brand and reputation
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When it goes well though, this is the ultimate 'win/win' situation and a truly
symbiotic relationship
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To do this, there are a few different approaches…

Top Affiliate Networks You Need To Know About
The main method through which to become an affiliate marketer is to start
selling products from an affiliate network
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Affiliate networks give you access to popular products
and they automate the entire process so that you don't have to
communicate directly with the seller
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When it comes to choosing an affiliate network, there are three main
choices
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We'll look at each of
them in a little more detail below
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jvzoo
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This is because it is fast and simple to use
with a highly intuitive interface and because it has a broad range of
products to sell
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This is a great choice for beginners and it's generally a good all-round
choice
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clickbank
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ClickBank has been around longer than
JVZoo and has a huge library of products and community of marketers
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On the downside though, ClickBank is also a lot more complicated and
fiddly to use and is in some ways very dated
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At the same time, ClickBank also has the highest fees
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Of course it all comes down to the products –
and if you can only find the product you really want to sell on ClickBank,
then you'll have to make do with that setup
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warriorforum
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The third option, WSO Pro, is a little different
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Warrior Forum is a forum specifically aimed at internet marketers
and webmasters
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A lot of people sell products on this forum on the section called 'Warrior
Special Offers' and they have the option to open the products up to
affiliates as well
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WSO Pro also has a very active community where you can
share tips and see how other people are making money and it has the
lowest fees of all three options
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All these products are aimed squarely at
internet marketers meaning they'll be e-books on making money online
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Commission Junction was once one of the very
biggest affiliate networks but was renamed to CJ Affiliate by Conservant a
while back
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DigiResults is another interesting choice that is somewhat smaller than the
others we've looked at but has the advantage of paying out immediately
(yes immediately!) into your PayPal account
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Affiliate Networks vs Other Options
One criticism against affiliate networks and affiliate schemes is that they
very often tend to focus on the digital marketing niche more than any other
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That's fine to an extent but it does limit your niche choices somewhat and it
also means that this particular market is one that is very saturated
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Your challenge here is to find a way to stand
out
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Here you have a few:

Finding Products Online
One option is simply to find products online and this will open you up
considerably in terms of the types of products you end up selling
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Now all you need to do is sign up
through their site and again start selling in the exact same way with your
own link
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Gambling sites, stock brokers and
more will often offer you commission on referrals and the best part of this is
that often this commission is for the lifetime of that membership
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This means you can feasibly stop marketing completely
eventually and still be making a huge profit while you sleep… forever!

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The problem with finding affiliate products this way is that you're relying
entirely on the goodwill of the manufacturer with no intervening third party
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If you find
shoes to sell online you probably won't get 30% of every sale – apart from
anything else they have much higher overheads themselves to account for
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In other words, if you find
someone selling an e-book, a piece of software or a product that you really
love, then you can just get in contact with them via e-mail and ask them if
they'd consider letting you sell it for them
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The upshot of this is that you get complete control over what you sell and
you don't have to agree to a deal that won't work for you
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Amazon
has an affiliate system where you can sell their products on your site and
get commission
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If you have a fitness site, now you can sell
dumbbells and running shoes
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Amazon also has lots of great tools to make it easier to sell your products
and to manage your sales
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When selling products on Amazon, expect to get
commission of about 4%
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In short then, you need to carefully
consider which setup is best for you
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There are several considerations here to think about and the best choice
will ultimately depend on your goals and your current situation
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In that case, there's a good chance
you already have a website or blog, a mailing list or generally some form of
direct audience that you can sell to
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In other words, pick something in the niche you're already in, whether that
be fitness, dating, making money or something else entirely
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I will show you what to look for and how to read certain stats before
promoting a product
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JVZoo

You’ll now be able to search and browse products:

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Factors to look for:
Number of copies sold
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Conversion rate
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EPC
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Commission rate
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Refund rate
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A low refund percentage
will likely mean more commissions kept in your pocket
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com, click on the Marketplace link
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Here’s what to look for:

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For the ClickBank Marketplace, the main measurement you want to look for
is the Gravity
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For more information about ClickBank Gravity, go here:
http://www
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com/articles/clickbank-gravity
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You’ll find the following the language, whether it’s one-time billing or
recurring, whether the vendor provides affiliate promotional tools and many
more
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With this
knowledge, you should be able to confidently determine whether a product
is worth promoting or not on any affiliate network
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This is a good idea because you'll find it's much easier to
sell something that you genuinely believe is an amazing product
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Go With What Works
That said, you also want to avoid being too obscure or taking too much of a
gamble
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Is it exciting, original or daring? No – but it's proven to work and it's
straightforward
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That doesn't mean that you can't still pick something in your
niche that you really like though – just find the best selling examples in that
bracket and then try selling them yourself
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Or more simply still: would you buy it?
We'll get onto selling later and how to go about making someone really
want your product… But briefly one of the most important tips is to focus on
the emotional hook and the 'value proposition'
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What you should be looking for is things that appear to
offer 'the answer'
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I explained in detail on stats and
numbers to look out for earlier
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For a single product meanwhile, you might want to compare which ones
you can sell for more and which ones offer you 40% versus 60%
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Free Materials
Some affiliate products you find online will be so desperate to encourage
sales that they're willing to give away extra materials to help you sell
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Some sites will even package their affiliate offers as being get
rich quick schemes and products in themselves
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And the best types of free materials that those that can help you to provide
more value to your customers
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What's the Market Like?
We've already looked at target demographics and markets in the context of
subject and niche but there are other considerations to take here too
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So if you're selling an e-book on making money online, you will largely be
selling to: entrepreneurs and middle managers who want out of their
current jobs
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You also have the added benefit here
of selling something that they'll profit from, meaning they can earn back the
money that they spent
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That is to say, there are some very clear ways you can reach them –
through forums, at conferences and via certain websites
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We've all seen countless
sales pages selling e-books about making money online and thus we've
become rather cynical
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Now you might be targeting creative students, housewives and the
elderly
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You can do a lot of guess work when it comes to choosing which market is
best for your product
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That means taking a look at the existing products
on the market, checking out some websites in that niche, signing up for
some e-mail newsletters in that niche and reading the statistics
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So that's quite a lot to consider and it might seem quite daunting
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How To Get Your Referral/Affiliate Link For a Product
By now, you should already have a list of potential products you would like
to promote
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In ClickBank, you can simply click on the Promote button, enter your
ClickBank Account Nickname and optionally a Tracking ID (if you want to
track where the sale came from) and you will be given your affiliate link
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At the same time,
you should also have some ideas regarding how you're going to find your
product and how you're going to choose the right one
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Now though, you need to take the next step which is actually selling the
product
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One of the most common and most popular methods though is to build a
landing page and then use this as your main 'tool' for landing sales
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Their role is essentially to offer you a single point from where you
can convert your visitors into buyers
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Rather, it's a page of text or images that all promote one single product
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This will
be interspersed with 'Buy Now' buttons, which will contain your referral link
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Eventually,
what you'll be left with is a single destination that gives you the best shot at
turning visitors into buyers
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The idea of using a landing page is to “pre-sell” your customers or in other
words warm up your visitors so that by the time they land on the actual
product being promote, they already know what to expect
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Chrome refers to things like borders and menus that break immersion but
provide the user with more control over their experience
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Thus, there are no menus, no adverts and no links – all there is the text
and the images
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They can leave the site by clicking back or closing
the tab of course but even that will often result in a pop-up window asking if
they're sure they want to leave!

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Thin, Narrow Design
Another common design trope of landing pages is to be long, thin and
narrow
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The reasoning for this type of design is that it is more effective at
immersing your visitors in your text and getting them committed to buying
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The theory then goes, that they'll ultimately want to click 'buy' at
the end because otherwise they'll feel as though they've wasted their time!
Narrow text is also eminently readable as it breaks it up and prevents it
from being too dense
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Finally, the narrow design of a website also means that your audience gets
taken further and further away from the top of the page – which on a mobile
will make it harder for them to leave depending on the browser they're
using!

Colour Scheme
Colours can make a difference
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The reason for this is that this
colour has been shown to make us more impulsive
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On the other
hand, blue can symbolize trust and honesty
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This is what's known as the 'terminal point' because it's the last point that
your eyes will reach when you're reading through the page
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If you take a look at landing pages online, then you should find plenty of
examples and if you mimic that style, you'll be good to go
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We're not
going to discuss that here though, as persuasive writing is a general skill
that applies to a number of different aspects of your affiliate marketing
strategy
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The good news is that the nature of landing
pages makes them easy to create
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The fastest and easiest way to create a landing page is to use LeadPages
(http://leadpages
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With LeadPages, you can create a landing page in a snap
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To create this in HTML and CSS then is actually very simple and it doesn't
really require an expert designer
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If you have a WordPress site, then you can do this fairly easily through a
number of plugins aimed specifically at digital marketers
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Another great option is to use OptimizePress (http://optimizepress
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This is a tool for quickly and easily creating landing pages
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Split Testing
The idea of a landing page is that everything geared up to helping you
make the maximum possible sales
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Unfortunately, you're unlikely to get this right first go
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Fortunately, there's a perfect way to do this which is with a
process called 'split testing'
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From there, you can
then see which performs the best and which generates most sales
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This is effectively natural
selection and it allows you to evolve your site to the point where it's 100%
optimized for selling your product to your audience
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You can automate this with a number of WordPress plugins, one of the
best is Optimizely (https://www
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com/) and Visual Website
Optimizer (https://vwo
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How To Use Content Marketing To Generate
Long-Term Traffic

Another powerful tool in affiliate marketing is content marketing
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The great thing about content marketing is that it works so well in tandem
with numerous other sales techniques
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Content marketing's broader objective though is to make you into a trusted
expert in your niche
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This way, when you then recommend a product,

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people will be more likely to listen to you and to buy the product you
suggest
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At the same time, you
can then combine this with a strong social media presence, heavy branding
and maybe even a YouTube channel, such that your audience can get to
know you
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Don't try and sell right away but instead spend your
time building up trust and respect in your niche
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This might all sound like a lot of work and you might find the idea of
becoming a thought leader to be nerve wracking
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The main reason for this, is that when you are an authority in your
niche, you will not only be able to sell the one product – but really any
product that you subsequently want to
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This is the strategy that most affiliate marketers will use to become truly
wealthy but it does take a little longer
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If you promote a very substandard product too
forcefully you will lose the respect of your buyers and ultimately they'll; be
less likely to consider your future recommendations
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This is not a case of 'build it and they will come'
– but rather something you need to work hard at if you're going to be
successful
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So how do you get the word out?

Social Media

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One option is to use social media and social bookmarking sites
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In the short term though, to get those initial viewers it makes a lot of sense
to use social bookmarking sites
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You can also try posting to
Google+ communities
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Thus, you can gain a massive amount of shares and reads almost
immediately as long as the title of your blog post is enticing enough
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com/r/fitness) and post an article on
'How to Get Great Abs' and you'll get 'downvoted' to a bad extent
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If you've then
incorporate your social media into your page, this can in turn help you to
build a large amount Twitter followers, Facebook 'likes', YouTube
subscribers etc
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Essentially, this type of marketing
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where you're reaching a much larger audience and influencing them all the
more
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Influencer marketing means finding
someone in your niche who already has a lot of influence (an influencer)
and then contacting them and requesting that they broadcast a message
on your behalf
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This technique
can be immensely powerful when used correctly
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SEO stands for 'Search Engine
Optimization' and it essentially means managing your content, your website
and your marketing in such a way that it will enhance your site's visibility on
Google
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Over time though, Google has evolved and has become much smarter
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Now
Google is sensitive to anything that looks like obvious SEO and instead the
only way to climb the ranks of the search engine reliably is to update your

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site regularly with high quality content and to use natural language
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As such, content marketing and SEO are largely inseparable these days
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At the same time, if you do this well, it will
encourage people to share your content and link to it of their own free will
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Guest Posting
One more strategy that still works well for SEO – as long as you don't
overdo it – is guest posting
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As a result, they get more content for their site and this
helps them to provide their visitors with more value
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This way, they get free content
and you get a link from a well-known blog and an authority
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Of course the whole idea behind email marketing is to create a mailing list of people who have shared their
email with you because they want to hear about your products, services
and deals
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The links will work the exact
same way directly through e-mails (and JVZoo is even optimized for this)
and the process either way is a very personal and direct way to influence
your audience
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Interestingly, you can do this in the very same ways you might get sales for
an affiliate product (and in that way it might appear to be somewhat a step
removed from this more direct form of marketing)
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Likewise, you can add sign-up forms,
also called 'opt-in forms' right into your blog posts, on your home page or in
your right hand column as a widget
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In other words: how are you offering value
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You can do this for instance by giving away a free e-book, or a free
discount for your product
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This is where an 'autoresponder' comes in, which is essentially a tool
designed specifically for this purpose
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As with affiliate networks, there are
three big choices that people tend to pick from when they select
autoresponders and these are: MailChimp (http://mailchimp
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aweber
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htm) and GetResponse
(http://www
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com)
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Working out which of these options is the most cost effective isn't as simple
as comparing a flat rate as the amount you pay will depend on how many
subscribers you have
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E-Mailing
Again, we're going to get into persuasive writing in a bit but just note that
when using e-mail marketing to sell an affiliate product it pays to take a
more gradual approach
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Instead, use a 'sequence' where
you start by providing value and generating trust (to get them to open future
e-mails), then move on to talking about your 'upcoming amazing deal' and
then eventually provide the link
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How To Use Persuasive Writing To Make
More Sales

Now onto the best bit: persuasive writing
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Here we will go over some of the tenants of good persuasive writing
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This is actually a
big challenge these days on the web, seeing as everyone is in such a hurry
and is so used to being over stimulated by adverts, sales scripts, movies
and more
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This is why a good way to start you sales script is with a short statement,
ideally something bold or maybe a question to the audience
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Another strategy is to
leverage the curiosity of the audience – start your script with something
unusual so people are surprised and keen to read on to see where you're
going with it
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Think: 'BAM
I'm here!' and then let the rest follow
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When we read a rhetorical question, it doesn't
only feel as though someone is talking directly to us but it also forces us to
stop and reflect on what's being said
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Use Short Statements and Paragraphs
Just as you want to start with a short, abrupt statement, you should also
aim to do this throughout the rest of your text
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Why?
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Because it adds to the drama of what you're saying
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Bear in mind that most of us don't read
thoroughly anymore – we tend instead to simply 'skim read' and you need
to organize your text in such a way that this can work well
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Headers are
important because they let us jump to particular sections in the text
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Have a Narrative
Another way to engage your audience and to ensure they don't leave
before they've reached the end of the page is to use a narrative thread
throughout
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So if you're trying to sell a book on making money online, you might start
with the sentence:
'Only a few months ago I was really struggling with money'

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Or maybe:
'Want to know how I just made $1,000 overnight?'
This works for a number of reasons
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At the
same time, this strategy also makes it very hard to stop reading
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Even if they're not
interested in what you have to say, they might want to know how the story
ends!

Fears
Using the narrative first person allows your readers to step into your shoes
and makes you relatable
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One thing you then want to
do with that, is to voice their concerns and allay any fears they might have
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You can put these concerns to rest with the
first person narrative by saying:
'Of course I was worried this was just another scam like all the rest –
maybe even dangerous – but nope, this time things were different!'

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Think of the Value Proposition
Most important of all though is to think of your 'value proposition'
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The old saying goes that you sell 'warm heads' rather than hats
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And when you outline this, you want to really go for the feels
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If it's a
product that will make them money, then get them to imagine all the
trappings of that lifestyle: travel, boys toys, big houses, yachts, private
planes… you name it!

Think: AIDA
As for your basic structure, your first objective is to ensure that your
audience knows what it is you're selling
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'AIDA'
stands for 'Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action' and is a good outline for the
flow of your sales pitch
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For instance, tell your audience that your
product is backed by science (don't lie – find a study!), find a trust worthy
testimonial and get testimony from previous customers
...
Countless
studies show us that the more likeable we are, the more able to persuade
we are
...
But in order to seal the deal you need them to put their
money where their mouth is and this is the hardest part
...
Most of the purchase we make are done on
impulse and based on emotion rather than logic
...
It's now or never, so you need to
get them to act fast
...
Time pressure
means saying they have only X amount of time to buy your product and
that is super effective because it simultaneously introduces scarcity –
meaning there are fewer versions of your product out there in the world
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Direct Marketing – The Fast Way To Start
Making Money as an Affiliate

All the strategies we've looked at so far focus on long-term plans to build
trust and momentum and to eventually turn that into sales
...
Remember as well that you can
combine any of the techniques in this book
...

Direct marketing basically means using your link and showing it directly to
your audience
...
The best option here will be to use a form of PPC advertising,
which means 'Pay Per Click'
...
This amount is predefined by
'bidding' on advertising space and by setting an advertising budget
...
This then means that if you're getting $30 per
sale on your affiliate product, you'll be able to make a lot of 'mistakes'
before you stop breaking even
...
5%
success rate and still make a profit
...

With Facebook Ads for instance, you can target your audience based on
their age, sex, location, marital status, job description and even hobbies
...

Likewise, you can ensure that it's managers who see your advert for an
SEO e-book aimed at small business
...
So for example, you
can use AdWords to target the search term 'e-book on making money
online'
...
This way people won't click unless they're at least
theoretically willing to spend some money on whatever it is you're selling
...

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One example is to sponsor a big blogger or social media influencer to use
your link
...
This is another form of
influencer marketing
...
You can create a YouTube video and get a surprising number of
views without having to do any marketing or legwork and you can even
hand out fliers and leaflets in person containing your affiliate link or landing
page
...
If your e-book provides real
genuine value to your audience but is filled with affiliate links, then this can
be a great strategy
...

And if it highly recommended a product, then some people would click on
the link
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Advanced Affiliate Marketing Techniques
And Lessons

How To Win Affiliate Contests
Sometimes product creators will want to encourage a little extra effort in
their affiliates to get them to push their products even harder
...
They then offer cash prizes for the affiliates that
bring in the most money, offering yet more incentive to this particular form
of incentive advertising
...
This means that no
minimum sales are required to qualify for the cash prizes
...
A
minimum is used as a safety guard in case their launch does not reach the
amount of sales expected
...
That means you need to find a way to offer
something extra on top of what everyone else is offering
...
For instance, if you are promoting a product related to
burning belly fat, you could offer bonuses such as eBooks on how to get six
pack abs
...

Here’s a real-life example of just one bonus offered when customers
purchase a course called ‘Healthy Business, Healthy Life’:

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As you can see, this bonus eBook is highly related to the main product
being promote – Healthy Business, Healthy Life
...


Building your audience will also help you to get a head start on the
competition this way
...

Look for these contests and opportunities as they can provide a good
opportunity to make money and the buzz and competition will only push
you to try harder and do better
...

For instance, you can find an affiliate product you like the looks of, start
making money from it with whatever marketing approach best suits you and
then tweak this until it's optimized
...


Maintain Good Relationships With Product Owners
One of the best ways to make sure you get the best treatment as an
affiliate is to build relationships with vendors and products owners
...
The keyword here is partner
...
In essence, there’s
always room for negotiation for extra benefits by building good relationships
with vendors
...
You want to be the first to take
action on it
...

 Request for promotional tools that are unique to you and you only
...
Vendors are usually more
than happy to provide something more unique for you and your
audience
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Conclusion And Plan of Action

So there you have it: a ton of different methods you can use to start making
money from affiliate products
...

 Think as well about the product that will offer you the most profit in
the short and long term
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 Otherwise, set up a way to start making direct and immediate profit:
most likely this will be through Google or Facebook ads
...

 Now use a combination of social media marketing, content marketing,
video marketing, influencer marketing and more to build trust and
authority in your niche
...

 Eventually you can start selling directly by recommending the
products you've selected to your audience
...

And there you have it! That's really all there is to it – you just need to know
how to really persuade your audience and you need to stick at the process
so that you fine-tune your approach
...
You’ll also find a Resource Cheat Sheet
with valuable sites, posts and articles that I recommend you go through

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