How To Start Affiliate Marketing For Beginners

 - I'm John Crestani

and I make over half a million dollars a month

with affiliate marketing

but I'm gonna show you how to get started

if you're a complete beginner

and I'll be going over

on my computer right here a step by step way

for you to go

from zero to hero.

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Hey, so if you're looking to start affiliate marketing

and you are a complete beginner, first of all I recommend

you do check out my introduction series

to affiliate marketing

but in this video I'm gonna be showing you exactly

how to get started.

We're gonna be doing a couple things here.

We're going to be, one, the first part

of affiliate marketing is joining an affiliate network

and this is where you find products you can sell

or link to and make commissions from.

First step.

Second step, is you wanna find a product.

A specific product that you can sell on the internet

that you resonate with and that you can make money with

so that's going to be our second thing.

The third thing that we're going to do, is we're going

to actually go out there and sell it.

Now, if you are a serious action-taker,

I recommend go through all these steps in this video

and actually you can start earning

your first commissions right now

if you just take these steps.

So let's get on my computer

and I'll show you everything step by step

so you know what you're getting into.

So here i am and if we Google just affiliate networks,

for instance, we'll find a bunch of results,

we'll find a ton.

And we'll see

if we just look up the top 10 affiliate networks

that aren't Amazon, we'll see a ton of affiliate networks,

we see ClickBank, JVZoo, GiddyUp, ShareASale, Avangate,

how do you decide what to join?

Now, first off, two great affiliate networks

to join are Amazon and my other favorite is ClickBank.

So Amazon is very easy to join

and let me show you how to join Amazon's affiliate network.

Now, if you're on Amazon right here.

As you see I'm on amazon.com okay?

We'll scroll down to the bottom of the page.

And what we see is in the footer

it says, Make Money with Us.

Okay?

Right there.

And you'll see there's a lot of ways

you can make money with Amazon.

Selling, private label brands, business, et cetera

but what we're interested is Become an Affiliate.

Now, that's what we're gonna start with right there.

So when we click on this

we'll see, profit from our experience.

Earn up to 10% advertising fees

with a trusted e-commerce leader.

Join now for free.

Okay?

So very easy to join and start selling stuff on Amazon.

See it says, Join, Advertise, Earn

and basically you'll just wanna join

and one of the things it will ask you for is

it will ask you to put in a website.

Now, do you have a Facebook profile?

My guess is yes.

Or if you don't, you can create a Facebook profile for free.

That's your website, okay?

Very easy.

Also you know, I've heard of some people

just putting in random websites that have a lot of visitors

in their niche and I guess Amazon doesn't check

but keep in mind, your YouTube channel,

you can set up a YouTube channel for free.

Your Facebook profile is free

and you can set these things up

and use them as your website.

Okay, very easy.

Now, Amazon, you don't make a lot of money.

For purposes of demonstration,

I could you know, say I'm selling this book "Anathem"

which is about $20 book.

If you earn 10% of that what are you making?

Two bucks.

You're not gonna become a millionaire, selling,

recommending books to people

unless you're making more than 10%.

So the affiliate network

that I really like is called ClickBank

and you can see ClickBank right here.

There's a lot of affiliate networks

but ClickBank is the most trustworthy

and the oldest affiliate network around.

It's been around for 21 years, it's based in Boise, Idaho

and this is the network that I made my first commissions on,

many people have made their first commissions on

and it's also been the affiliate network

that I currently make most of my money with.

Now, if we click here, Affiliate Market place, right there,

we'll see all of the products

that you can sell on a commission-only basis.

So let's click this search icon, right here

and see how many products we can find.

Okay, now you'll see there's over 4,500 products

in the Marketplace.

Let's zoom in.

So this gives you a lot of options

of what do you wanna sell.

Okay, what do you wanna sell to make a lot of money with?

Okay and you'll see they tell you how much money you'll make

if somebody buys what you're selling as an affiliate.

You see, $37 if you sell this.

$56 if you sell this.

$41 if you sell this.

There's a lot of money to be made selling

these different products.

Now, to find something you resonate with,

you kind of wanna choose, what I recommend,

I personally sell business-opportunity-type products

but what I recommend you do is, let's just get started

on Amazon, okay?

As I said the way you make big money is

with another affiliate network outside of Amazon

but let's just get started with Amazon for the time being

for demonstration purposes.

Is that okay?

Is that okay?

Okay, cool.

Sorry, I didn't hear you there for a second.

So back to Amazon.

Now, I'm gonna go to amazon.com

and once again, let's say I wanna start off

with advertising this book, "Anathem" which is a book

I'm reading right now, it's a really good book

and we're gonna search this on Amazon

and look it up.

So we'll see, okay, well, it's $9.

Okay, $9 right here.

So I'm gonna click on the book and what you'll see is

when you're in, accepted for an affiliate network,

you see this little bar?

It says, Amazon Associates SiteStripe, right here.

This is where I'll get my affiliate link.

So what I'll do is I'll click Get Link Text.

Right there.

And you'll see it says, Text Link created below.

Now, this is my affiliate link

which I will use to sell this book.

This is the link people need to click on this link

and buy the book and I make money.

Okay, does that make sense?

People click on this link, they buy the book

and I make money.

So we can look at the full link here.

I'm not gonna go into what the full link is

but this carries, basically the link carries information

that tells, the way affiliate marketing works is

the link contains information that tells Amazon

that's the person clicked on my link versus

they searched for it online or what not.

And that link is in right here, the tag.

So that this stuff tells them

but we're just gonna grab the short link, copy it.

Now, I have my link.

I joined an affiliate network, I selected a product

and we're going to move on to posting

about how we can actually, you know, get in some people

to come to my website.

Okay, so now there are a few ways to get people

to come to your link.

Okay, you will already have access to them

now, do you communicate with anybody digitally?

My guess is yes,

you do.

You probably use text messages.

That's a way you can get your link out to people.

You use email,

that's a way you can get your link out to people.

You use Instagram,

that's a way you can get your link out to people.

Do you ever post comments on YouTube?

That's a way you can get your link out to people.

Facebook, that's a way you can get your link out to people.

All of these methods are ways

you can get your link out to people.

Now, most of the time

you're probably having very like,

just you know, you're talking

about random, social male, female, social dynamics

in your life.

That's cool but we're talking about making money here

so that's what we'll need to be talking to people about

in our emails.

Now, let's say I'm recommending this book.

The first place I could start is through email.

I want people to click on my link.

I could send an email

to a couple of my close friends, let's say,

you know, or just people I know.

I could send one to my friend Carlos,

I'm not actually gonna type in my friends' emails here

just so you don't email all my friends

but I could type in my friends

and I could write something like, book recommendation.

And I could say, you know, I remember you asked me

for a sci-fi book recommendation

and I'm reading a really good one

right now.

I absolutely love it.

Check it out.

And I put my link there, see?

There's my link.

So I wrote a little short personal email

in the way I normally communicate

and then I just put my initials.

So that's a way to get your link out to people.

You could send an email to people that,

whose emails you have and in this case

I'm sending an email to Carlos

who I know is interested in science fiction books.

That would be a good way to start affiliate marketing.

Another way to start affiliate marketing is

I could go on my Facebook and I have, a lot of the people

I'm friends with on Facebook are, you know, like the future

and science fiction and all this stuff.

I'm not going on my Facebook page.

I'm going on my personal Facebook

because I wanna communicate with people personally.

Do you buy things from ads?

Probably not.

Do you ever buy things or see movies

or listen to music based

on other friends of yours personal recommendations?

My guess is yeah.

Again, if we want people to buy from our link,

it needs to be somewhat of a personal recommendation.

That's why I'm posting on my personal profile.

Now, if you don't wanna sell anything, that's cool, okay?

But again, the other methods

of getting your link out there are expensive,

they cost money.

So we're doing this for free.

Now if you are interested

in going deeper into affiliate marketing

and paid advertising and the art of copywriting,

I suggest, I'm gonna have my assistant put up a link

to my playlist called The Art of Copywriting here

which will go over how you can use paid advertising

to actually make money with marketing.

Okay, so here we go, create a post.

I'll just say,

really good sci-fi book

I'm reading.

Mindgasms

every day so far.

Check it out.

Neal Stephenson is a genius.

Now, I'm not spelling correctly

because I'm doing personal communication.

That's what sells.

Again, if you look, if you're writing something

that looks like an ad, nobody is gonna buy, ever.

Ever.

Nobody wants to buy from ads.

Nobody wants to get raped

and that's what buying from an ad feels like,

it feels like your wallet is being raped.

You wanna have, you wanna feel like you're in love

and a personal recommendation feels like you're in love.

So here it is, here's my post.

Very simple post.

So then, I just share it and that's how it works.

Okay?

Then, I'll just post it right here.

Now, that is how to start affiliate marketing in a nutshell.

I hope this video was helpful.

You can check out my playlists

on the basics of getting started with affiliate marketing

on my channel homepage or there should be a link

somewhere around here.

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Thank you so much for watching

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