How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing - Free Course For Beginner Affiliate Marketers | how to start affiliate marketing
all right miles here miles Becker calm and this affiliate marketing training is going to be going on here in just a second we're gonna cover three main questions in this video the first one is what is affiliate marketing the second one is how does affiliate marketing work and the third one the most important one is how do you make money with affiliate marketing now if you can hear me right now and you can see me everything's clear on the stream give me a thumbs up and also leave me a little comment say yep it's working and let me know where you're dialing in from if you're watching after the live broadcast know that we're gonna go through my curriculum first and this I expect to take about 15 to 20 minutes and then we'll transition into question and answer session after that so if you see this videos got a really long playtime don't worry the core curriculum is gonna come out first and then it's just question answer you'll get a lot of value from the question answer but you can get through the content much more quickly so I am getting comments right here and now we got Donna we got Brennan tenza everybody is seeming to get my content here so we got the Netherlands in the house we got Florida we got San Diego cool everybody is able to hear me and see me which means let's just jump in and get started because I've got a lot of ground to cover so if you don't know who I am or about my past I made my first money online as an affiliate in 2003 so I've been making money online as an affiliate for approximately 15 years now it's still a big core of my wife and my main business we have I would assume somewhere between two and three dozen sources of income that kind of support us currently and most of those are affiliate income I've also built an affiliate program for a merchant I built a program from the ground up it was an online retailer that did about 1.5 million dollars per year in revenue in the greeting card world they did print on demand greeting cards I helped them build an affiliate program and we grew it to over a quarter million dollars in revenue in the first year and that program has been running successfully ever since so I have in one side of the equation or the other generated well over a million dollars in revenue as an affiliate I still do well over a hundred probably about three hundred thousand or so per year as an affiliate so we're super affiliates over here so I know what I'm talking about what you're gonna learn here in this kind of video in this course is not the easy money promises that you'll see in a lot of the fake guru sales letter being an affiliate marketer takes a lot of work and for the first few years it probably will take more work than a 40-hour a week job but here's the kicker you can get to a point where you've built up enough momentum in your business that you either keep doing the same amount of work or you can ease off the throttle a bit and you have so much momentum going that your income continues to grow whether you put in more effort or not it also can free you up there's no ceiling to how much you can earn as an affiliate I know affiliates who make millions of dollars per year you can operate an affiliate marketing business from anywhere in the world I've lived in over 20 countries in the last four years everything from Bali New Zealand Hawaii Thailand Costa Rica Barcelona the grand canary islands of Spain off the coast of Africa and you can operate this business from anywhere and it gives you time freedom so you got kids you know spend more time with your kids more time with the grandkids you want to be able to be the soccer coach and make - every game and currently you're stuck in the cubicle affiliate marketing can honestly offer that freedom but it takes a lot of work here's the cool part it's a proven plan what I'm gonna show you is work for me it's worked for many friends it's worked for a lot of people and I got a huge network of entrepreneurs to have been speaking at events I've been meeting and shaking hands with entrepreneurs all around the world this is a proven process so with all that said let's jump right in and I will get to all your questions I'm getting so many kudos and with Australia we got New York we got California but our CEO st. Louis Houston Texas North Carolina what's up everybody I really do honor the fact that you're here with me right now I'm so excited to get into this so let's jump in so the first two questions we're gonna go through quick I want to spend the bulk of the time on how do you make money with affiliate marketing but you gotta understand how it works right you got to understand all the parties involved because that's how you can really get good at the whole game of truly making a long term income with affiliate marketing so what is affiliate marketing there's two perspectives there's the business the merchant the vendor right and then there's you the affiliate so from the merchant side or the vendor side it's a customer acquisition channel so what a vendor or an e retailer and online retailer looks at affiliate marketing as is a way to incentivize a commission only sales team that's their goal they pay on formitz so they can bring in a lot of affiliates and as an affiliate manager when I ran that program I noticed about 2% or 1% of all affiliates brought in about 90% of the revenue but you don't know what that 2% is so an affiliate business is gonna bring in lots of affiliates they're gonna work with them give them the tools and then they're gonna find the ones who are really performing well and those are their kind of best paid salespeople and they make Commission only so the business has the upfront fee to get all the tech in place but after that they're only paying on performance for you as an independent digital marketer it's an opportunity to sell other people's products and earn income based on your marketing efforts without having to deal with shopping carts without having to deal with customer support you don't have to deal with shipping logistics returns all of that is handled by the merchants you simply pre sell the product and deliver an interested audience over to the product sales page and get more in on that pre selling idea in the future because that's the big key that's where most people get it wrong they try to sell the products as an affiliate that's actually the job of the merchant your job is to pre sell it so that's what affiliate marketing is how does it work I won't get too techie I promise but we got a touch on the tech here cuz you got to understand how it works there's a couple of key things you're gonna take away from this so when a company an online retailer wants to begin an affiliate marketing program they install two main pieces of code to their website number one they put a cookie across every single page of their website and then they have an affiliate management area now they can partly partner with an affiliate network that kind of runs all of this for them or they can run it standalone as their own affiliate program but what happens is you as an affiliate when you sign up you get a unique ID this ID is usually appended in the URL on every page of the vendors website there's a cookie that's always looking for an affiliate ID when someone enters the website so if someone clicks through your link and lands on their website you will have a special ID that identifies you as a person who sent that visitor when that visitor shows up with that little special thing in the URL the cookie gets planted on the user's browser and the cookie embeds your affiliate ID as the individual who brought that visitor to the site then there's something called the cookie duration this can be from 24 hours to 6 months or sometimes they have lifetime cookie durations generally you're gonna find a 30 to 60 day cookie duration the cookie will expire at the end of that window if the user completes a transaction before the cookie expires with your affiliate ID in that cookie during the checkout process their shopping cart will pick up who deliver that person and attribute the sale to whoever that affiliate is generally they run in a last click program which means if I sent a visitor let's say there's a visitor Sally and I send Sally over through my affiliate link and then Sally finds your blog post and follows your link over to that same product you would get the attribution when Sally purchases because you were the last click event link and some of the networks run some pretty fancy technology that actually tries to blend and it'll look at like it would split the Commission's between us but for most situations you're gonna find that it's a last click attribution that's all the tech you need to understand the big takeaway here right now is the cookie duration Amazon's affiliate program gives you a 24 hour cookie duration which is one of the shortest in the industry so that means when somebody clicks on your Amazon affiliate link and looks at a product if they purchase within 24 hours you get the commission for that and then every other product they purchase on that order if they don't purchase within 24 hours if that purchase happens and that transaction happens 48 hours in two days because they had to think about it you don't earn the commission and Amazon still makes a sale so when I big kind of plums with the Amazon program but the other side of that is they sell everything so you can literally sell anything in the world through Amazon on that in their small Commission's but we'll talk a little bit more about that stuff in the future so I hope this all makes sense so far really simple you are in commission only salesperson your goal is to pre-sell the content and deliver traffic to a con to a ecommerce store to a merchant or a vendor and then the cookie is planted on the user's browser so if the user clears their cookies if they're running a cookie blocker your cookie won't actually plant so you don't always get a hundred percent of the sales of what you deliver and then as long as they make the purchase to transaction they complete that transaction within the window of the cookie duration you earn a commission oftentimes there's there's a waiting period it's like a refund period so sometimes it'll be 30 days after the sale or like the first of the month after 30 days is when you actually get paid it could be like a two-week rolling window and that's if they have a return window they want to make sure they don't give you a commission on a product that gets refunded because they're not gonna eat that that refund they're gonna take your Commission back as well so that's how it all works and now we are moving right into the meat and potatoes how do you make money with affiliate marketing if you're liking this so far hit the thumbs up button for me it actually helps me get to reach out and that's my whole goal I'm not pitching anything at the end of it at all not not gonna mention anything that could earn me income I'm 100% here committed to helping you and the rest of YouTube learn the right way to do affiliate marketing so hit that thumbs up button for me if you wouldn't mind and onto how to make money with affiliate marketing so I've got two broad formulas that are theoretical and then we're gonna get into like a five-step plan like a really solid like step one step two all the way to five step plan but you gotta understand this theoretical side first because it touches on that pre selling idea that I talked about because your goal is not to sell the product the merchant is there to sell the product and a merchant who runs a quality affiliate program they have sales data they know what their conversion rates are they have a high converting offer Amazon converts like crazy most people go to Amazon end up buying something that's that's how Amazon works so you as an affiliate can trust that Amazon knows how to close the sale that's their job your job is an affiliate is to really kind of build that individual up their interest and their desire so they know that this is the right thing for them to solve their problem or to achieve their goal and then when they click through they're already ready to buy because they're pre-sold on the item and then all of the do I trust this merchant do I have a refund window am I gonna be taken care of all that is done by the actual merchants themselves so how to make money with affiliate marketing the first one it's three letters I'm gonna draw this on the board I kept my whiteboard in here I didn't know if we were gonna use it but we will today so let's jump in so the first one is TT Oh right now TT o stands for traffic trust and offer now this is your job as an affiliate marketer number one you drive traffic number two you build trust number three you make offers a lot of people who get the affiliate marketing game wrong think it's just T oh it's just traffic to offer traffic to offer quick story for you when I first started making money as an affiliate I was direct linking people from MySpace over to an affiliate program this was in 2003 and it started earning me some income I wasn't building trust I was neglecting the middle T in this situation it worked fine for a few months but one change in the myspace algorithm when they got bought out by Fox News my links were no longer able to be published on their platform and my income went to zero overnight it was a day of reckoning for the miles bechler I was out on my own I was living in Santa Monica 20 blocks from the beach very expensive location I thought I had it all figured out I thought I was riding an easy street all the way to the to the hammocks and the mai tais on the beach making money doing nothing and that was my first slap in the face by the world of if I'm not actually adding value and getting people to trust me myles Beckler the intermediary not the third party product not the blog post I'm talking about they actually get to trust me I wasn't building a lifetime asset that I could rely on so that's ultimately your job as an affiliate is to build the trust and how do we do this well it's always through content and generally it's through content via an email list I was not building an email list if I were to go back today and kind of enter that same business model that I had going in 2003 instead of direct linking them from MySpace to the actual affiliate website I would have been sending them to an opt-in page just like my DIY sales funnel video series teaches exactly like that that's why I teach that now that's why I preach that now is because I failed and I had this all collapse down to zero so you don't have to so really here my words when I say you must build a list because that list that is your asset my friend that list you own list and you own the right to market to that list as long as you got that unsubscribe and they actually opted in you can market to them for the lifetime of that list they can unsubscribe when they want but if you give enough value we'll talk about that in a minute that you have gi right hook they will love your emails they will look forward to your emails they will be excited about those things that you offer that's how it works so number one is traffic number two is building trust number three is making offers tto that's the big picture the second big picture you've heard me use this analogy before if you see my videos it's AI da now this is an old school kind of copywriting and direct response formula it stands for attention interest I just totally blanked on it but I've got a written down here so attention interest desire and action that's what it stands for AI da let's get that on the board real quick attention interest desire and action so in this framework you and the merchant are both working together to get someone all the way through AI da attention is on you as the affiliate interest is on you as the affiliate desire is on you as affiliate the action that's ultimately up to the merchant and you'll notice I interchange vendor merchants ecommerce store whatever it's it's the person who's actually closing out the transaction so in this framework here the attention is maybe that's a Pinterest pin maybe that's a social media post the attention starts with that first moment they encounter your message generally you're not talking about the product in this face generally you're talking about the solution they're seeking out in their life the the goal they're trying to achieve right people are always searching for ways to solve their goals they're searching for ways to achieve their goals that's how the whole internet works to be honest that's why you're watching this video right now is because you believe that I can help you achieve your goal or solve your problem affiliate marketing is not work for you you want to build a location and financial independent business cool this video is my content to help you you maybe have seen my content before but this might be the first one so we're somewhere between attention and interest right I've captured your attention maybe with the help of the YouTube search engine because I'm live so I get that little bubble popping up and it's getting the attention of more people than my normal subscribers that's part of why I'm doing this live and that's part of why I built out such a long description and a such a keyword focused title before even launching this out there so the interest is really being built through me telling the stories and me sharing what's going on the desire is what's really happening through all of this the action now if I was trying to sell you something I would end this in a webinar format where I sold you a course but I don't want to do that I'm gonna give you everything completely I'm just trying to show you how I'm using this framework here today now it let's say let's use an example of let's say Diane and Diane is a 53 year old not let list Diane's 42 okay Diane is she's got three kids and her kids are super busy she's a soccer mom she's all over the place she works from home but she never feels like she has any downtime and she eats a lot of fast food because it's quick and easy and Diane's feeling a little overweight and she's not really she's not really loving what's going on right now in her life she was at a friend's house recently and her friend made her a green smoothie so chia seed smoothie had all kinds of fruit in it and instead of going to McDonald's for the Big Mac midday she had the smoothie and she felt great she had solid energy she was like wow and her kids they actually missed that kind of midday crash because they all had this movie too so now this lady she's sold on the idea of smoothies and she wants to mix in smoothies into her world right so the idea was built by actually a friend so what is she gonna do she's probably gonna turn to Google and she's gonna search Google what is the best blender for a large family under $100 now this is her search phrase and what comes up in the search results of Google on page one are capturing her attention in this moment that she's decided she's ready to add on this new thing she's already interested at this point so that box is kind of ticked but when she clicks on she wants to make sure that you're not just talking about the blender you're talking about lifestyle benefits the psychological wins the the losing weight the more sustained energy that the saving money compared to eating out at fast food the easy to clean up because you're a busy mom and you can actually throw this one inside of the dishwasher then the desire gets built through her reading all the benefits all the psychological benefits not the benefits of the blender itself the benefits of using that in her life in a way they're getting her kids to be happier and so her kids don't throw mid-day tantrums because they're they're hungry or they're eating processed foods all the time it's gonna help her lose weight that's another huge benefit that she wants it's gonna have helped her have more energy and it's all quick and easy to do and quick and easy to sell she is ready at that point and if you've really spoken to her as a busy mom with lots of kids who who wants those specific benefits the desire is there and when you make a recommendation the right way on this kind of page of content that recommendation would be for the number one blender you recommend for that specific busy mom with a big family who needs a fast cleanup and it's under a hundred bucks she's probably gonna click that and if it's an Amazon link charity trust Amazon she's probably a prime number already she's gonna put on her credit card so fast cuz that thing will be there in two days and that was an easier transaction than going down to the local Walmart or the local Bed Bath and Beyond etc etc and in that moment my friend you just earned commissions now I went pretty deep into some of the psychological stuff and you have to understand that's the difference that's the make or break it's not about the blender right it's not about the golf widget that's going to help them improve their golf game it's about the bragging rights they're gonna get in a clubhouse after the golf game because they finally started beating their buddies because they got more birdies and their buddies did because they finally eagled some hole when everybody else had to par the whole type situation so psychological things and that's really powerful for you to get going and to understand so the main point here in that story I want you to take away with is you're not actually selling the blender you're pre-selling the blender you're helping her understand what that specific blender is going to do for her and then it meets her criteria of fast cleanup and under $100 etc etc when she gets to Amazon she can look at the reviews she trusts that site a lot of merchants that aren't Amazon there's there's that trust moment of like can I put my credit card in on this website but we're all programmed to put our money and credit cards in on Amazon already so the trust is already there and that's how the program works that's how it works when it when it actually works is in that method you build you capture their attention you create interest or you help them stoke the interest you build desire with them to have that specific one and then you just get them over to where they can complete the checkout with someone who actually is a solid vendor and deliver on the promise because if they buy and that lender doesn't show up for ten weeks because it's being shipped from Aliexpress you look like the bad guy because you recommended that product and they had a ten week lead time they didn't know right so you got to keep that in mind who you promote reflects among reflects back on you as a brand which is why I'm not promoting any affiliate marketing courses I don't trust any of them they're mostly scams out there to get your money or to get you to promote the same thing and they're almost like multi-level marketing and since I don't trust any of them and I think they're all a little scammy right now I'm not recommending one to you and I'm just gonna teach you everything instead this will be a value-add from me to you and it'll put that kind of value proposition a little farther down the line when I do have something I think is really gonna work for you like my DIY sales funnel series that has three affiliate links in it I know that'll work for you you're more likely to go through that process and trust me because I gave you all this content on the front end let's keep moving so now we're at the five steps to make money as an affiliate so I've got a free course it takes a little different path to this point because I talk about memberships and selling your own products selling info products so if you don't have my free course yet you can get it at miles bechler com forward slash free - course it's the 7 step kind of process and my wife and I use to build our business that we're running now there's massive overlap in what you're about to learn in the five-step process I go a little farther on that one in how to create your own membership program and how to create your own products but I also talk about affiliate marketing a lot in there too so so this is contained in that that just goes a little bit deeper and you'll also get my daily emails after that which have been on fire I've been getting some really cool results and responses from out all right five steps you ready taking notes on this I hope so you guys having fun hit the thumbs up if you are so step number one know yourself this is so key and I had this wrong back in the day for years you need to know what method of communication you are most comfortable with right so if you are someone who the thought of doing a live like I'm doing right now scares the hell out of you don't do video if you're someone who loves to write and you're just you you loved English class you just love writing you love reading and you love writing and you see me doing this YouTube thing like obviously that's the path I got to do the don't you don't have to do YouTube you can just write if you like talking but you don't love the idea of having to get all dressed up not what I'm like dressed up or any I did shave this morning I showered and shaved but like for I think sometimes for ladies it's you know it's an hour process sometimes for my wife to get ready to do her videos if that thought bothers you but you love talking maybe a podcast is the right medium for you maybe the spoken word is the right medium for you or if you're a good interview or maybe the podcast so so the first step is to know yourself because you have to become a content creator and you're trying to create content in a way that's not in alignment with your DNA it's gonna be extremely challenging and you're probably not going to publish enough content that's what I did with the miles Beckler blog miles Becker com4 literally six and a half years roughly from 2010 through 2016 I'd seen my wife who built a massive massive brand through blogging my wife's website today gets over 8 million visits per year now I saw that whole process through her using the written word so what did I think well I need to go right that's I need to be a writer but I didn't really like writing at all and I just never published it was difficult for me and I wandered and and I wasn't focused enough and I just didn't have the boobs more almost a belief that I was a writer but I tried to force myself to write for years wasn't until August of 2016 that I was like you know what I'm gonna try this YouTube thing and I turned on the camera and it's fun and I love this this moment I get to share with you I actually do enjoy this process like I've been fired up like I it was difficult for me to sleep last night I woke up at 5:30 this morning stoked to do this video with you right that's how I know that I found the right medium for me to communicate through now that I've been doing videos I mean the results speak for themselves right you can see my data I'm pretty much at 60 thousand subscribers not even two years at this point because I'm having fun it's enjoyable and it's exciting which means I'm consistent with it and you have to be consistent with your content marketing or else nothing's gonna work right the reason my wife's blog gets 8 million visits per year right now is because she's been blogging every year every month every week since 2009 that's why it's the cumulative results it's the combined results of all of that past effort that she's getting residual kind of traffic from all of those blog posts she created in the past which is exactly what my youtube channel is doing right now my early videos are still bringing in new people to learn about maybe attention level and these new videos are bringing in more new people those compound I'm reaching more people every day and every day I put out a video it's more people the reason why this is working to get back to what we're talking about here is because I found my content kind of creation method that's in alignment with who I am it's fun it's easy so I get it done I've done three videos a week at least for about two years now and there ain't no stopping this train because I love what we've got going on so you have to find that for yourself so if your writer right if your talk or do a podcast if you like the song and dance do YouTube welcome to the party personally I would say there's a small notch up for writing the reason is WordPress is an open source platform it's the only platform you should be writing on you can control the user experience more on WordPress than you can on YouTube or on a podcast you can have pop-ups that offer your free thing which we'll talk about in a minute you can have a sidebar you can have ads actual ad space in there that can be affiliate products it can be adsense we do both generally we'll put an affiliate offer that's hyper relevant before we'll put an advertisement in a blog post but you have more control you put a ribbon up top you put fly-ins you do all kinds of stuff if you own the platform what you do in the written word also Google gets more searches than anything in the world and Google picks up written word WordPress sites best so if you are a writer good on you like pat yourself on the back that is actually probably the most powerful way to move forward as a content creator but if you're not a writer don't worry about it you can kind of take my approach which has been now that I'm creating content in this manner I'm having my content transcribed you can use auto-pay I like like the critter like ot te rai and that's free for like 600 minutes per month um it'll transcribe your stuff or you can use Trent TR int com it's like 25 cents a minute and and you can essentially create transcribe versions of your spoken content and then you could turn it into blog posts and this is what I call my three pillar content marketing strategy your ultimate goal is to get to where your contents out on all three pillars you got your videos firing you got your audio firing and you got your text firing if you write it first great then record an audio track of it great add on an image for a video put it on YouTube put on the podcast you hit all three pillars so the goal is three pillars and just keep in mind I didn't get my second pillar going for about a year so I did only videos for the first year just to flex that muscle over and over to get really good at being a content creator then I added on the the the written word that took about six months to get dialed in I've got a team working that for me and then I added on the the the podcast version which I have people kind of running for me so now that all three of those are firing I'm emailing my list every day so I spend time with one thing and I go all in on one thing long enough to get flexing muscle enough to where it becomes easy then add the next then add the next don't try to start all three at once get mastery of your main content creation process first give it three months six months I love a 90 day challenge 90 posts and 90 days 90 videos in 90 days let's move on to the next one so step two who can you help most people think what can I promote and that's the backwards way to affiliate marketing and most people who approach it this way don't make much money there are a few people who in this world are connecting through paid ads this is essentially running paid ads for products and they're getting the clicks enough clicks and they're they're doing CPA or they're selling enough things that they're making money and they're able to apply scale there's also people in a world who have won the lottery I don't put money into the lottery and I don't bet on things that don't have a proven track record for hundreds of thousands of people so building the list building the content it's such a proven path to this that you really need to think about not what product can I promote but what can I offer what value can I bring to the world who can I best help so how do you figure out who you can best help that's a really good question and you need to kind of look in a little bit to yourself what comes easy and naturally to you is one thing and that that's often hidden it's hidden in plain sight for us so what would your friends say comes easily or what are your friends or family members what do they call you for like hey I need help with boom you get the phone calls all the time hey I need help with into you it's like man this is so easy right so what comes easy and naturally to you comes easy you don't notice that you think it comes easy to everyone but it doesn't and this is one of those opportunities because if it's easy and natural to you and it's difficult for other people perfect you have an opportunity to help this audience of people solve a problem or achieve a goal look back into your education and your professional experience if you have any look back into your hobbies if you don't have any the world of gaming is turning into an absolutely insane multi multi multi-billion dollar industry and it has been a billion dollar industry right the video game industry has been but at this point we have live streaming there's competitive gaming professional competitive gamers are making millions and millions of dollars a year the eSports craze that's going on right now is absolutely insane there is so it's such a large audience of people wanting to get better at games there's a huge market there if you're a gamer but then again everything from RC cars RC planes drones horseback riding golfing all kinds of hobbies right even down to like fine scotches fine whiskeys fine wines those kinds of things cigars there's a million different niches what captures your interest already what are you already interested in the big idea that if I could help you walk away understanding one big idea from this whole video is for you to shift your mindset from how can I get money from the internet to how can I give value to this world of the Internet what do you know what do you have inside of you that you've done that you can share that will be helpful to an audience of people most people have it backwards and they're like how can I get what can I promote to get money from this internet when you're like hey how can I give value to this world that's when things start to work out for you so think of my story real quick been making money online since 2003 started building my first websites in around 1999 when I was in high school when I finished up high school 1999-2000 is when I built my first websites so I spent three or four years trying to figure the game out before I made any money then from 2003 to 2007 it took me that or excuse me to 2010 it took seven years for me to go full-time online and now from 2010 full-time online through 2016 100% dedicated focus on my wife and my business and also doing client work then in 2016 right after 15 plus years of experience with digital marketing building websites etc I began to teach online why because I just spent 15 plus years of my life dedicating 60 to 80 hours a week figuring out this game of internet marketing affiliate marketing website building and all of it and not only that I produce the results right I've created a over a million dollars in value if you look at my client work I mean I've created millions of dollars in value for all my clients and my family included I'm talking about revenue right I'm talking money in the bank style profit right this is not like intangible this is very tangible and then I started so so my goal here is to help you look back into your past what have you been doing for 10 years what have you been doing for 15 years these are the keys to really finding out that which is the easiest for you to help people with so we're looking for the easy method of communication and then what problem can you help other people solve that comes easy to you easy and easy because when it's easy you do it when it's hard you're not gonna do it so find those easy things for you right the if you can't find something easy what would be fun I'm a really good friend of mine fitness instructor she worked in gyms she worked one-on-one with people she had a little online gym thing she was building all in the fitness world she loves horseback riding she loves dressage riding specifically which is like horse dancing most people don't know what it is it's actually an Olympic sport she created a fitness product what she's good at mixed it with dressage riding what she loves and she by far has the number one fitness for dressage riding program in the world they have part one part two they're crushing it they are doing so well for themselves there's nobody being of service that audience she loves it her passion comes through her horses are in the background right she lives on her property she has her horses there so it's that kind of an idea what do you do so if you need to figure that out like if money wasn't a question what would you do with your day right or when you're sitting on the couch at home and you're looking on your phone on reddit or just browsing or watching YouTube videos that aren't make money online related what do you what are you what are you interested in this world go down that path you'll find the process of making creating content fun and easy makes it doable when it's doable you'll be consistent when it's consistent that's how you grow an audience when you grow an audience that's how you can build the trust in order for people to click through your links and take your recommendations all right so what comes easily to you that other people seem to struggle with what problems have you solved in your life that you would love that other people would love to solve have you overcome physical ailments have you done some sort of rehab or therapy or have you have you quit something that was dragging you down what have you actually overcome in your life and how can you help others with that what have you been helping people or businesses with professionally for years already um what problems do you have in your life right now that you're committed to fixing a really good example of this is this is where you get into that document don't create idea that that Gary Vaynerchuk talks about a lot if I was like 240 right now 240 pounds I currently weigh about 170 so if I was 70 pounds heavier than I am and I got really truly committed and like I'm gonna lose this 70 pounds I would document the process I would document what I'm doing from meal prep I would document how I'm exercising what I'm do I would I would make vlogs I would be very real and I would document the process and people could go back and watch that process and they could see me at 242 38 to 35 222 all the way down and that that documenting of that story of me solving my current problem in the moment can be super powerful for people because there's an emotional connection to stories storytelling is so powerful in that um then what are your hobbies what are your passions what what can you envision researching and fiddling with and thinking about and building and and rebuilding four or five years straight this game is a three to five year plan so that is step two in the five-step process now we're moving to step three so step three is give value through content you have your core attention content that's going to be your blog your YouTube your podcast or it could be paid advertisements a real quick note if you're moving forward into affiliate marketing and you're like Chevy you paid ads or should I do content marketing for free traffic which is actually earned traffic so it's not free it takes your time and energy do you have more time than money or do you have more money than time I think it would take most people between ten and twenty five thousand dollars in paid ads unless you bring massive copywriting skills or digital marketing skills to the table but if you're completely new to this world you have to learn number one copywriting you have to learn number two funnels and digital marketing and the actual nuts and bolts of it all then you have to learn how to run the ads on the ad platform and then you have to learn human psychology and what it takes to get people to take action that whole process is probably gonna cost tens of thousands of dollars in paid advertisement unless you already dominate at one of those things it's not easy to get a human being off of Facebook to pull out their credit card and to buy something after a click it's actually not easy to get someone off of Facebook to enter their email address for that thing you're trying to give them before offering that thing they buy the whole game is really difficult so so if you've got a lot of money and a lot of free time it still takes a lot of time to dial all that in the paid approach works if you don't have a lot of money sitting around and you've got nothing but time go the free version that's what I'm doing here I've never paid a penny in advertising for the miles Beckler brand I've generated 60,000 ish subscribers at this point on this channel my wife we only started paying for advertising I think it's 2014 when I really started to get into paid ads so we ran for what two thousand nine two four five years without ever running a paid ad billing nothing but organic traffic and to this day if I stopped paying on my ads on that main brand that traffic goes to zero instantly if I stop paying I'm not paying for my SEO right we get 8 million his deer no matter what we do we go hang out do nothing we'll still get those millions of visits per year because it's based on content so content the main the core attention content is your blog post if you're a writer your podcast if you're a talker your YouTube video if you are a performer right so that's the core then you have your indirect content this is what links back to those pieces this can be your Pinterest pin your Instagram posts your Facebook your Quora answers if you want your Yahoo Answers your LinkedIn posts if you do LinkedIn post your snapchat if you're in a snapchat musically if you're you know going towards that younger demographic and musically my goal in separating social in your core is that your core is more important social arc or my wife and I built organically 915 thousand or so fans to our Facebook fan page we get very little traffic from all that effort and that took so much effort to build that organically back in the day well we've also built out our organic traffic over the years and we get 8 million visits per year residual traffic from all the efforts we put in so the shelf life of your blog your YouTube and your podcast is huge the shelf life of a Facebook post or an Instagram post is tiny don't rely on social media as your core traffic let that supplement your core traffic model which is your core content creation method cool so then we want to move on to and again the 3 filler content marketing strategy so yes you're putting out your blog but you want to ultimately get it on all three then you get all your social pointing to all three you create your little web of activity in the world search engines will all pick it up Google knows when you get a lot of social shares etc so it all helps and works together but your core content is that which is kind of your blog post or your podcast or your video then you need interest content right so that's attention then your interest content this is generally an opt-in for a free report so I already plugged my free report it's how we went from side hustle to seven-figure business right side hustle to making a million dollars profit online it's my seven step process so that is at miles vector column forward slash free course and I've created that because that was my fourth attempt at a a lead magnet and that I found is the most burning desire in most of my audience most of my audience wants to fire their boss and generate enough money to where they can feel like they can live the lifestyle of their dreams well I've done that so that's what I'm teaching and that million dollar business idea is something that's a really big idea for people so that's my attention that's my interest level content is my free giveaway right then there's the desire so we're just we're just working our way through this so attention is your social media posts and also your core content your interest is your free item that you're giving away via email then the desire comes from the emails themselves the daily emails your follow up sequence that's how you build the stories around the affiliate products that you promote now I've had a couple of very successful affiliate promotions recently last it was last year it was February I did a promotion on a copywriting course and system and tool I generate about thirty thousand dollars in revenue as an affiliate in approximately three days with one video and two or three emails and that generated thirty thousand dollars in revenue for me now I'm profit for me now with well there was taxes okay so whatever anyways do the math anyways so it generates thirty thousand dollars into my business bank account from those efforts but it's not the emails it's everything I did for the years before those emails and giving content and building the relationship and it's all the emails those kind of those emails that I gave that told a story and I knew the date that that launch was gonna start I knew the date that launch was gonna end I started my story about a week and a half two weeks out in my emails and started painting the story of how copywriting helped my wife and I go from zero to hero in our business like that's the one skill that really turned it around and my wife and I had already purchased that product we had not only purchased that product we had used it we had built a video sales letter with it we were crushing it with our video sales letter for it so I told this big story that led up to the point of finding that solution then doing the work and the results we were getting with that and people who were at that moment of like they've been building things they realized copywriting is a challenge they realized conversions their biggest challenge they were like oh I need that and the sales exploded it blew my mind same with the authority hacker and the other programs that I've promoted in the past I've had multiple five figure launches through a couple of emails here and there and this miles better brand at this point and that's because they're all story based I tell these stories that weave in the need and the reason why this thing is core to your long-term success and it is because I only promote things I buy I only promote things that I've personally been using that have created positive results for me in my business so I can tell these stories and that builds the desire when I tell you a story of how my wife and I we weren't able to get this product to convert we weren't able to sell this thing we have this great product we built and it just wasn't selling and then we tried this new video sales letter formula and all of a sudden our conversion rates tripled and we started making weekly sales of this thing and daily sales for staying for a period of time afar even like like that story is what builds the desire in the reader and that is what gets them to click through and take action and he was retiring the product so it had like a very hard deadline and and that was really what kind of called them to action he did all that on his end but I did the attention potentially years before with my videos right so people who bought were probably on my list for at least a year some of them at least then the interest through all the different videos and pieces I talked about about how to build the game I keep coming back to copy writing because copywriting is a key you heard me mention it to the person who has the 20 grand they're ready to put into affiliate marketing copywriting is that core skill they're gonna need then to build the desire for that product I told the specific story over a series of emails I led the conversation in the direction of I had this really really big problem in my life we found this tool it got us over that problem and boom we really took it to the next level and that with a well-timed link at what place link generated a lot of income but it wasn't that one link that mattered it's everything we did I did four years before that actually mattered and that's that's the big thing I'm trying to help you understand here cool so the interest contact grow your list again going back to my first internet kind of success when I was making money in 2003 had I been growing a list had I focused on growing a list with my income stopped I would have actually been able to keep earning income I could have kept mailing that list I could have mailed them different offers so that was a huge mistake I made that's why I'm such a proponent now of building the email list and you just heard a very clear story of how that exploded for me with the email list um so now we're on number four step number four of the process is finding offers your audience already wants to buy the key here is that your are your audience already wants to buy these products they might not know they want to buy these products but they do so people who bought that copywriting product they probably didn't know it existed they didn't know they wanted it or needed it but they knew they had a problem they knew they had to challenge that conversions and copywriting were a big challenge for them so when I laid that story out and gave them that offer as the solution that I chose for my business that I'm having really good results with it clicked and it meant that moment they're like I gotta have this thing they actually already wanted it they just didn't know that they wanted I helped them see that this was the thing to get them over the hump get them to the next level um and it is because it is actually a great product I continue to use it to this day so how do you find the offers right what do you what have you bought that they would get value from look back in your past purchases my wife and I just bought a course two or three days ago we're revamping a how can I say this without giving it away so we revamping a traffic channel in our business that's done really well for us and and it continues to perform so well we're like let's let's invest more and really take it to the next level so I bought this course is about a torn $50 course and like we've sort of gone through and is like oh my gosh this is this is really powerful so I'm already like where's the affiliate link right I'm reading this we're already implementing things like within two or three days we're seeing our traffic come up we're seeing our lead numbers come up it's like this is huh finally we found it right so now I want to go I'm like where can we sign up as an affiliate they don't have an affiliate link at the bottom so I'm emailing the course provider right like can we promote this as an affiliate we have an audience who would be really interested in this and we're essentially building the relationship with the lady who sells the product to get the ability to promote her product so look back into what you're already using the hosting I actually use the theme miles bechler comm is built on is thrive themes that's why I promote thrive themes because it's what I use right like it's that it really is that simple when you're building a brand based on a problem that you've solved through yourself in the past what solutions do your audience not know about let's go back to our green smoothie person right there's a an affiliate product through Clickbank called organifi it's a green powder they have to have a green one a red one and a yellow one it's a morning and afternoon and an evening supplement series and it's like part detoxing part weight-loss but it's like a smoothie thing so you get the mum who's really interested in the blender and you help her realize which blender it is she might not even know about these green powders which are the shortcut so you don't have to keep cutting and washing kale and cucumbers and all the the vegetables that you put into your green smoothie now you could just put two scoops of this and it's even faster so that's that thing that she maybe didn't know about that you could promote to her and help her understand works a lot easier when she's on an email list versus link over to the affiliate program to the actual product page but you could always use a retargeting pixel and and hitter with an advertisement if you wanted to so what solutions do they not know about what are the highest reviewed items for people with their problems or goals this just takes deep research right you can go to let's say you're in the audio/video space let's say you do do microphones you can go to Amazon you can look at the highest reviewed microphones go to B&H photo video look at what their highest reviewed products are so you can literally crowdsource through all the reviews in the world what do people love the most and those are the ones you start reviewing first that's one of the ways into it and then you can go into the different affiliate networks the different affiliate programs and the merchants really googles your friends like like you sometimes you just have to go to google and type in golf membership , affiliate program and then all sudden it's like whoa revolution golf at $99 a month membership program has a really cool affiliate program it doesn't say affiliate on their page it's Ryan by a third-party system but that shows up being H photo video if you go to B&H Photo Video com they don't have at the bottom of the page an affiliate program but if you go to Google and you type B&H photo video affiliate program you'll see it runs on a third party you'll see the page pull up on a third party system you click apply and then you can promote everything that B&H photo video has then you can do comparisons between the products on Amazon and the product on B&H photo video and you can talk about how great B&H photo videos support is and how amazon's gonna leave you hanging and yeah being HS maybe thirty dollars more but you'll get better support or maybe being h is cheaper than amazon and you help point that out to your readers that can be a way and then their Clickbank is one that everybody knows about and most people know about Clickbank I have a really unique way of analysing clickbank's data Clickbank is really weird like their marketplace their search engine within clickbank's pretty bad and there's so many products on Clickbank that absolutely suck they're terrible they'll never convert they're just they're horrible so there's a way to weed through the Clickbank and I'm gonna do a separate video on that probably Monday that video is gonna come out it's gonna be how to analyze Clickbank offers to find good offers but again it's not a goal to find a good offer it's a goal to think about your audience that you're being of service to what do they need what problems are they trying to solve what goals are they try to achieve and then what things information and physical products will help them get there and that's how I use Clickbank right so I use Clickbank to find those things that my audience already wants and desires I don't go look broadly on Clickbank be like oh what what offers are converting I'm like what would my audience want that's proven to convert so I just want to make sure that's really important there and then step 5 so the last step in this is to optimize your key conversion points now your key conversion points are everything from the click on the search engine page right so the the headline on this video you notice I got the little eyeballs on this one it's pretty full like like what you add as excuse me what you add as the title is probably the biggest thing that's gonna either get the click or get somebody to skip over you and click on your competitors link that click-through rate from the search engine page has a huge determination on how high up you rank in the search engines if you get more clicks by having a kick-butt title you're going to rank higher and you'll get more attention tada and if you get more attention you have the opportunity to get more of everything else then your thumbnail video is one of the things if you're here on YouTube so optimizing all those conversion points and I'm talking all the way from the the little things on the front end to your opt-in offer to the headline on your opt-in page the layout of your opt-in page the the words you have on your pop-up the offer you're giving away via your pop-up you gotta test those things so on the miles bechler brand I tested a three abundance meditation at one point there was a facebook case study so I've tried several things before I came to that free course that was the the seven step process from site hustle to million dollar business that converted the best boom now with all the traffic I'm already getting and my attention level the number of people making it on my list the interest level has gone up because the page that bridges that gap my opt-in page converts at a higher percentage same amount of traffic here now I'm getting more people here because I got a better conversion which also means that in my email sequence here I'm getting more people because I got more from here to here more from here to here so I get more people reading my emails which means more people can take action right so off the little weeks and you don't need to start there you need to start by ninety a challenge to getting the content out getting going and then just getting your first lead magnet out getting your first giveaway out your first funnel built then doing some email you can go back and tweak things over time the best thing I ever did was started publishing for the miles back to brand on YouTube and stuck with it like if there's no big thing I've done it's it's all these micro things none of my videos have gone viral none of my videos have had massive success by any means but I put out a lot of videos that have each done pretty well and I build enough trust with how I deliver content that a lot of people reach in my email list because my offer is pretty good they're people like my daily emails because I'm uplifting I'm giving a ton of value to my email list so everything's working because I'm putting in so much effort and so much energy nothing big it's a lot of little stuff um also look at your emails as ways to test things every subject line that you have is actually a headline and it's a headline test and I test little short one word in toward headlines or email subject lines that that are very curiosity inducing and then I do some very direct like you will learn how to boom in this one and I go back and I look at the numbers like like and then I try to analyze why did that work why didn't that work who split test your follow-up emails you can look back at your follow-up emails as well that is page two of the curriculum and at this point wow I want to congratulate you guys so so little round of applause if you're still here and you haven't hit the thumbs up hit the thumbs up good on you would that take so that's it longer than than expected to get through the actual curriculum we got questions everywhere I got a sheet of them if you were on if you're on my email list you know that I asked you for your questions yesterday so if you're not on my email list one of the benefits is when I do these lives I will get your questions first before getting the questions from the chat right there's a lot of questions in chat I don't know if we're going to get through those because my email subscribers get priority so now I've pulled up on my computer which is right here so I'm not not paying attention to you I'm just on my computer I've got a list of questions and we're gonna rapid-fire through these but I need a little bit of water and I definitely need a little coffee to keep this energy up then I'm so stoked to have you guys here that's pretty awesome I feel like we've got a great group of people here interesting thank you guys very much for being here so I'm gonna jump right in to these questions and then all I'll see if we've got time I can't go over to ours YouTube does not allow my full video to upload if it's over two hours so I gotta stop it like an hour fifty nine or else it cuts the front off and it's just really confusing in the future so if you've got questions about the tactics the nuts and bolts the things that I talked about the three pillars content marketing strategy how to do SEO I just saw a question on how do you SEO Rafi look in the description of this video in the description one of the first links is going to be a new blog post to prepare for this live stream I wrote the most epic blog post I've ever personally written 100% written by myself I'm super proud of it all my emails that I've been writing every day have helped me kind of become a better writer i'ma talk about that in the future and this is being recorded so you can watch it um but the first link is miles becker comm forward slash make money with affiliate marketing click on that link it'll load a version of what we just covered and at the bottom and throughout there's all kinds of links to how to do SEO how do you keyword research how to run a Facebook ad how to build your funnel it's those links are also in the description of this video you'll notice so if you click those links they should all be set to open in a new tab you shouldn't lose me but if you want to wait just do that there just know it's there my SEO videos crushing it I'm sitting on top of YouTube for learn SEO for SEO course and SEO training those are huge keyword phrase I'm out link I'm out ranking people who charge a lot of money for courses which is why I don't recommend you use courses because I'm better than most of them and I teach it all for free so just share my stuff and help me get the word out on this so people stop wasting their money on those overpriced ass courses sorry for the bomb but those the fake gurus and even the real gurus it just kills me man the two thousand hour course things just so annoying little rapid-fire these questions a lot of them we've covered I pulled out the ones I knew we would cover I'm gonna rapid-fire these then I'm gonna get to you guys in the comments I see the chat just flowin and I love it so thank you guys everyone in there on the comments like Cheers on you Saturday morning whatever may be its center night wherever you're at good on you so here we go there's a lot of courses and digital products in my niche should I review them on my blog even though the search volume is often low yes because that means the competitions also gonna be low and you need to put out a piece of content every day for the next three years so get to it start reviewing everything the best way to do it is to review the things that you have right I put out a lot of content that doesn't review affiliate things I put out a lot of content like this that gives a ton of value so when I do make the review and I'm like yo check out the review because this thing was hot you're like well I believe Myles like like he's real deal so don't just do reviews mix in the value also but yeah review everything go forth especially things you bought and used start there that's the key what's the best way to ask for a trial of a product to get an honest review without having to buy ask them you're probably not going to get it you're probably gonna have to buy a lot of things it's tax deductible that's kind of the cost of doing business can you learn enough about a product through research and through reading reviews to write a good review on it of course you can but it's gonna work best when you actually get your hands on it do a video with it do podcasts about it do pictures of it with you on it it just becomes that much more believable and that's what the top affiliates are definitely doing I'm new to affiliate marketing but I've been successful running Facebook and Google ad traffic for years so I'm not new to driving traffic awesome is it smarter to promote a CPA which is cost-per-acquisition with a low again stream ads or should I go with a higher EPC clickbank offer but it of that all right so you know the answer to this already you gotta test it mate there's no way to know you actually just do both see which one's gives you a better ROI and do more of that that's how the whole pay-per-click game works and you know that as a pay-per-click advertiser so do the work test both build funnels out for both both see what converts better what gives you a better ROI hey maybe they're both giving you positive ROI and you could scale both of them boom you don't listen to me tell you to do one when both could work right test it let the data guide you what kind of affiliate marketing campaigns convert the best I mean if you compare for example an email core blog post and a YouTube video which one is the most effective the most effective is the one that's most fun for you to create right for me my videos do really well but my emails also do really well it's about I want you to think of a filly at campaign as a multimedia experience so when I did that launch on that the the copywriting course like it's no I did one thing it was like okay I'm gonna put that one piece up no I did everything I wrote a blog post about it I did write a blog post I didn't mention that earlier so I wrote a blog post about it I did a video about it I did a couple of emails my emails one of them at least one maybe two direct link it linked but I think one or two one link back to the video and then one link back to the blog post so do everything do all of the things is the key at what point in my new website should I start adding affiliate links is there a traffic number doesn't even matter it really doesn't matter I would just make sure you have a bunch of core content that your website looks like a real website right you've got about page you've got a lot of good content I would say five six eight posts minimum so when they go to your blog roll because an affiliate manager when you ask to get approved to their program they're gonna go look at your site they're gonna go make sure you're real and they want to know that you're a real person they wanna they want to make sure you're not going to kind of butcher their brand because when you like let's say I'm let's say I have a product and I'm like you can go permit the miles Becker product and you go to Google and you're like is miles better or a scam right and that's how you try to get people into my product like you're killing my brand dog like I'm never gonna let you do that so so they want to make sure you're not one of those affiliates so build out a lot of good content but you can start day one if it really works I'm just wondering how long do you need to build an audience is it just a 90 day challenge it doesn't matter right like like what if it takes you five years to build an audience that generates twenty three thousand dollars per month and you can live on that for the rest of your life you're not gonna do the work says five years of work what else you need to work at a normal job for 40 years at a desk in a court of God like it takes as long as it takes so the sooner you get started and the more passion and more momentum you can build quickly the the faster you will get there but it just who cares how long it takes like this lifestyle like it took me I'm like eighteen year I'm almost twenty years in the internet marketing game you think I'm like sad because it took me 20 years to get to this point my career Hale no it took me 10 years to go full-time online you think I'm sad no I got friends stuck in cubicles still they make good money I got friends maybe two three four hundred dollars an hour but like they are stuck in a cubicle they're stuck in courtrooms they're doing their legal that like I got the lifestyle freedom if I want to go to Bali next week I'm gonna go to Bali next week I'm bring my business with me I'll bring you I'll write a story around it I'll make even more money through that story this way so just do what it takes I'm is the affiliate marketing model still a viable business model I think we've proven absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt we've got to build it the right way gotta build an audience you have to be of service to an audience at scale that that's the key I'm just wondering we're here now should I sell products around my market or niche or can I venture out I believe this was Jacqueline to the beauty health and what kind of posts relevance is absolutely key if you've built a website on writing for example and you start talking about hair care products people are gonna be like really like there's gonna be no relevance so yes relevant relevant relevant that's part of why I made my main site miles vector com because at some point if I want to get into like building hot rods and drift cars that's me that's what I'm doing I can document that I could build a little silo that's totally out of this space and I could document and I could I could actually build around that and that's because it's me and it's person that's why I chose the miles vector comm name is it gave me the most flexibility moving forward but yeah once you're once you're in a very specific vertical maintain relevance because everything works better with relevance which is better for long-term Commission's Amazon affiliate networks I Clickbank Commission Junction etc it doesn't matter the network it matters the products that your audience wants but they already want what they are what will actually help them get the desire what what company they have chosen to manage their affiliate program is insignificant right where that affiliate program lies it doesn't matter it's about the product and it's about the relevance of that product to the actual results that they desire so it's not about that how do I use Amazon on my Christian blog or should I so when you're asking me if you should this clearly means that you somehow feel like there's like like affiliate marketing is kind of scammy and if you understand that you're being of service to an audience at scale and that's your job and that's your goal and that's what you're doing you're truly moving forward being of service to them of course you should like these people everyone around you your network though the whole world is spending like there is a multi trillion dollar per day economy flowing around is transacting all around you in the millions and billions and trillions of dollars every day all you're doing is connecting people who want something - people who sell that thing they don't know about them they want you to help them find them Bing and you connect them how you connect them through you through your content through giving value through building a list through email etc that's how it works so of course you should and I don't know you should promote like what do like to me when you say Christian bloggers I don't even know what that means right like Christian people make smoothies Christian people play golf right like like go deeper don't don't think there's this thing that's like you know like it's not you versus the world here in any way shape or form like what do Christian people that are on your blog like what do they do or they want what kind of goals do they have like they'll find those things and like it's crosses for the wall great if it's like jewelry with crucifix on awesome I don't know like you need to know your audience though um but it's it's just just make sure it's of being of service to them next I noticed that many bloggers who live off of filip marketing offer inferior products I won't say the one you gave an example of but you're right that is a very inferior product because they bur ring high mention the same token almost all affiliate offers I find on Clickbank catalogs seem questionable at the least I've got one that I've been running for several years it's actually a really good item so there are some good ones hidden in there you just got to learn how to sort through which is why I'm gonna do that Clickbank video Monday so here's my question would you say it's possible to find enough high value good quality of affiliate info products to make a living absolutely absolutely hundred percent so what what catalogs and marketplaces do you recommend finding them again you go find the audience you can be of service to figure out what their needs are through giving content answering the comments engaging with them and then go find the products that will help them solve their problems and achieve their goals it's not the network it's about the people you're helping you have to go be a problem solver at scale all that should have made it in the curriculum part somebody missed that that's the quote you as an affiliate marketer your job is to be a problem solver at scale that's what you're doing you're helping hundreds of thousands or millions of people solve problems could be small problems could be big problems you could have a small amount of people solve a really big problem and make a ton of money you could help a big amount of people solve a really small problem and make a ton of money but your job is to really help them solve their problems so that's that's the key for the autoresponder sequence before the daily emails how should they structured and how long test it really doesn't matter I do one email after my here's your thing that you asked for my wife does nine emails that now wanders them through a little bit of a segment just test it it's if it's ever if your autoresponder will always evolve they'll the best thing you can come up with today get right back to your main core content go revisit it in three months look at what work look at what got good open rates look what got good click rates look at what got that open rates and what got bad click rates and adjust on the fly man we've gone back to look at ours after not looking it for six months to be like oh god our email series was horrible like some of the things we said like do we really say that like I deleted one and like one promised something on the next email that didn't actually show up and we resist but we still like their business in class like we just got to keep taking imperfect action like that's really the key to it all and good on you so you you've been building your list it's up to 50 people now that's awesome just keep going watch monitor your open rates and on your broadcast to monitor your open rates look at the percentages of opens and when you see something at a high percentage of open don't just go stuff that in your autoresponder take a moment to think why first you always got to think why what's the psychological reason that that actually happened because it's the psychological reasons see emotional reasons that that trigger people to action affiliate marketing viable business yes it is is this something newbies with no marketing experience can get into with hard work and succeed absolutely might take you three five ten years but you hundred percent you could actually absolutely do it well advice would you give a complete beginner who's working full-time and looking to supplement their income so I kept this question and I feel like I answered it in very clear detail so if you're working full time niche out like wake up earlier right if you work like nine to five and you're currently working waking up at seven wake up at five o'clock everyday before the kids wake up before the wife wakes up before anybody else wakes up and put it to works two hours of work every morning before you leave it'll be the most productive time get up hit the coffee pot slam a big ol mug of coffee I prefer one this size gigantic mug of coffee and then put in two hours of solid work creating content then when everybody goes to bed on the other end put in two more hours there and see if you can sneak out a half hour on your lunch break from work if you do that you're putting in four and a half hours a day multiply that by five that's over 20 hours a week if you can do that on the weekends also you're doing about hours a week boom you're on the path so just niche out the time schedule the time to create the content and do what it effing takes it's a lot of work but think about your reason why think about your family think about those reasons why you're doing it because you gotta have a big reason why you're gonna push through because it's hard alarm goes off at five o'clock in the morning who the hell wants to get up at 5:00 in morning somebody who's ready to put in the work to create the lifestyle freedom that they desire somebody who's like I'm gonna be able to go build my business in Europe in in Australia in New Zealand in Hawaii if you want like cheap beaches expensive beaches I've seen them all around the world I kind of like the more expensive ones so guess what I do the work so I can go to the expensive ones I like New Zealand beaches which are a lot more expensive than Bali beaches so I do the work I like Costa Rica more than I like Nicaragua it's way more expensive so what I do I do the work so I can go to the ones I want to go to but that's my why I don't know what your why is so you've got to have that why you gotta get some leverage on yourself dawna just said has like choke on coffee Don just said so many people put in 60 to 80 hours at a job so why not for yourself and that's the key and if you already have 40 plus 1050 with commute to the job like like you have to niche them out for yourself it's there's like this common the the richest man in Babylon right save 10 percent of everything you earn put it away for yourself pay yourself first right do that with your energy also don't just do that with the money that comes in from you jail be do that with your energy also and you'll be amazed at what you can create because saving money's great investing is great I love it I do it but the time and energy I've invested in my internet business and in these three brands and my wife and I run has paid off like better than any freaking like oh I put $100 in cryptocurrency he's like not even close how many affiliate offer how many affiliate offers whoo all right Wow we're back how many affiliate marketing offers should one have in order to be successful well it's at least one and it's probably gonna be more than one so keep going until you find that magic number for you there's no set number how many affiliate links should be on one page or post I don't know how many does it take is it a specific post about one thing or is it a review of the top 10 blender so this is a review the top ten blenders I would have 10 affiliate links if it's one blender I would probably have the link in there twice is it best to make a page or a post about each affiliate offer or just from a the opt-in page through a video or Facebook ad so if you're doing a Facebook guy go to the opt-in page but also put in the time to create the content to attract people from the search engines so do both right I use posts on my wordpress blog for all of my content is it how do we get affiliate offers when your brand newbies create a great site build lots of content go apply for the affiliate program and you're in how do we get good affiliate offers when you don't have a lot of traffic okay I just answer that literally that same one I'm started a funnel you getting opt-ins but your emails are going to the spam folder how do you avoid this make sure it's an at your domain email address make sure that you are using like a link redirect like pretty links and I'll put out a video to really make sure we talk about how to get your e mails in the inbox because if your emails aren't getting to the primary inbox you're not getting noticed and your you're missing out on the interest and the desire because getting no attention how am i dealing with changes in the EU like GD P R what changes have been made so if you go to my website go to Mom's backer column just notice up top affiliate disclosure first thing I put a huge bar up top it has all my legal documents at the very top is impossible for someone to say I went to Myles his website and I couldn't see his disclosures bull the right up top there the biggest boldest brightest thing on my website so that's what I did and I bought the documents the GD P our documents I've got them reviewed on my website somewhere I know you prefer to build and nurture your list before presenting them with an offer but what is the best strategy to approach a Cole market in your industry well you build a list through the cold market you turn cold people into warm people and then warm people into sales and that is your list so don't think I'm saying like there's never gonna be a point where like oh yeah okay you can send cold traffic there no no build a list build a relationship add value to their lives offer them things they already want to buy when promoting a product is our price point high low does it matter what step in the value ladder it doesn't it based on the niche the problem it's a big problem for people and they're ready to solve it though they're willing to spend lots of money for that our large brands such as Apple interested in affiliate marketing not directly but you could sell Apple products through the Amazon program as an affiliate and I think Apple likes every sale that they get is Clickbank good for beginners no network is good for a beginner what's good for a beginner is realizing that you have to give value to an audience I'm what niche would you look at as a beginner something you love something that your heart is in do I recommend starting out with promoting physical or digital products buh try both see what works what's the best way to get accepted by affiliate networks put out a lot of great content first and then reach out you don't want to depend just on Amazon and put all your eggs in one basket are there any other big enough sites with affiliate programs that you can compete audio recording equipment is your niche so absolutely like B&H photo video is one go Google the products right so let's say you want a Google audio technica whatever these headphones are there's like 300 our headphones or something right so go Google them look who comes up on Google Shopping go to every single merchants website and then look at the bottom see if they have an affiliate link in the footer then go search their domain name in Google with comma affiliates see if they have an affiliate program you'll be amazed like everyone in the world has affiliate programs on a hunch I think augment link might actually have some good programs commission junction probably some good programs but yeah just go do hit the Google and see what the Google says how do you sign up for affiliate marketing with a website host or manufacturer is it a formal agreement between both parties something automatically picked up from online SEO software so you you have to register that's some way you have to go to click a button on their website and you fill out an application they're gonna want your tax information so if you don't have a business then you would use your social security number if you're here in the United States view a business you probably an EIN which is an employee identification number which is so you can give them that instead of your social and that's so they can report for taxes right and generally they won't pay you over 600 hours until you file a w-9 but they'll ask for that usually it's what's your name what's your address what's your phone number what's your tax information what's your website and any special notes you fill that out it'll either auto approve you or they'll put you in a queue the affiliate manager will review and then they'll send you access you to log in dashboard you log in you can go get your links they'll use the up banner ads and other things for you to do I have a content funnel to drive conversion from information to warm leads and even sales so it's it's the pop-up it's getting them on my list and then sending them through the list how do you research a topic in your niche that you can provide good value to your list as long as you can promote a relevant product so go to the library I get a library card go to library read five books on the topic and you will probably know more than most people in the world on set topic right the best blog post in the world your future self will thank you it takes a ton of work I get it yeah it's a lot of work but you will have created the best post in the world Google likes finding the best post world now go do that 400 times and tada you will have an absolute behemoth of a website if it sounds like a lot of work it is that's why I said it beginning it's a lot of work do you have to use nofollow links everywhere and disclose everywhere nofollow links I do all my affiliate links are nofollow links which means the search engines don't give my SEO value through that link I have one big disclosure on the top of my website to cover everything three more questions here then we're going in the comments I'm still with you I promise in my videos and posts I don't recommend the make money online affiliate offers because it's so competitive so do I think they're asking if I think they should focus on health and fitness relationships Beauty etc instead what are good alternatives to make money online what do you love to do like like go deeper than that if you want to do to make money online like that's so difficult like to me it's about like you you would need a subset low so how single moms can make money online is one of those things right but the whole mom blog world is so crowded already like it's so difficult so then it's like well could you digital marketing for real estate agents could you do digital marketing for plumbers that's a way to kind of blend some of this stuff with that that would be a little easier because it gonna be less people teaching digital marketing for plumbers and there are people like me teaching keyword research I mean if you want to go in the ring after keyword research and like look at the keywords I have in the title here like if you want to go for it like give it a shot like I'm not trying to discourage you but like know that you're gonna be going up against some of the best in the world and me and I'm not the best in the world I'm trying to be the most helpful in the world but I am NOT ranking some pretty good people for some pretty big SEO keyword phrases at this point so that's one of the big challenges here so ultimately I just think it works best when you find a really subset like my friend who combined Fitness for dressage riding like I can't even explain how much they're crushing it like their numbers are so big in such a short period of time because no one was being of service to that audience that's the real trick they found an underserved audience and they've created killer content and she absolutely loves it you could see it in her eyes when she's with her heart like her horses like you could just see every aspect of her life is dedicated to that horse and horse people are crazy just like crazy in a good way just like golf people are crazy in a good way just like gun people are crazy in a good way like there's all there's so many of these ear passionately passionate is actually the better term right there they're irrationally passionate which is a good thing because when they start to find you and you got tons of content they're like I love this so so find when you find and under serve the audience life gets a lot easier and I think it's worth digging into you deeper to find what you love and where that overlaps with an underserved audience because your future self will thank you because you'll get to the money you'll get to the successful business much more quickly with a lot less failures do you have to have a huge email subscriber list to get it accepted in affiliate marketing firms no you don't have to have a list at all they can't see your list size they don't care often can you still make six figures income in the fitness niche selling Clickbank products the last one the answer is yes of course you can takes a lot of work it's not easy but you can do it whoo all right so there we go um we got this going here so I'm gonna find this Dave guys so it sounds like Dave's causing a little bit of a ruckus here so put him in timeout no he's done from the channel forever so there we go if anybody else is um causing a ruckus in here like be sure to mark them as spam or something like I'll swing that banhammer fast and they'll never be able to comment on my channel again and that's that's just fun and easy for me so I am now with you in the comments I'm going back to the top on the scroll down and we're gonna hit these I'm gonna wrap this dude I got coffee I got some water I got an extra backup water I don't drink the Lacroix like this bubbly water peach pear oh my god was my hit right there that's mine does my job um it's Malaysia India Nashville Italia Biloxi yeah there we go Denver I'm just kind of reading through the comments so at this point I've gone through my email list subscriber comments we've gone through the curriculum you know that the links in the description are designed to give you all the nuts and bolts things because I can't show you step-by-step right now I've got hundreds of videos that show you all the nuts and bolts of how to build a funnel all the how to set up your email campaigns all that's out there so you got to dig in deeper so if you want maybe you can copy those links YouTube doesn't let you copy the description really well but the first link is a miles Becker com forward slash make money with affiliate marketing I think dashes in between it's the newest blog post if you go to Myles Becker comm scroll down below my headshot on the home page and the first blog post is not post all those links are in that post and at the bottom so that's all the how-to stuff and I'm going to go into the comments I want to answer questions I'm like I got 40 minutes more and like might as well just do everything I can to give absolutely as much value as I can again no pitches no wrapping this up no fake scarcity no need for that stuff like I'm trying to be a leader in the sense that I want you to watch what I'm doing and I hope you're having a little bit of a ha moment of like wow this guy miles is doing things a little bit different than most the other people who rank for how to affiliate marketing right cuz they're all like oh yeah look at me bro life's cool my Porsche and my Ferrari my Lambo bought cash for yeah man Bali like none I don't care about any of that right like what I care about is making sure you get the result that you want and when you feel that and you know that bingo there's a new level of trust there and when I don't end it with almost teaching you everything and then like okay now just now just opt in for the real answer right then I throw you in a funnel and when I avoid doing all of that with you the trust factors goes up so I mentioned this because I want you to do this for your audience because there's a lot of rubbish marketers trying to be of service to your audience but they're really actually just trying to sell people and when you come out as a person who's actually being helpful and actually being like an advocate for them and a trusted advisor for them you stand out it doesn't it's not a big thing my channel has never done that at all and it won't i won't have things go viral because of this approach but what happens is people find me they watch a video they're who this guy wow that was cool they watch another video many people go on a little binge watch and then they're hook they are they're like miles becker fans and then what's really cool is you start to share my videos you share it socially you share in facebook groups when someone's like hey anybody know about instagram marketing i boom check out miles this video and you send a link for me and that is really my ultimate long-term goal and that's how i'm thrilled in this freight train of emotion or of momentum freight trains don't get going quick but when they're going you are not gonna stop a freight train and that's what i'm building and it takes a long time so i mean 90 days I did 120 videos and 120 days and I didn't even have 500 subscribers at the end of a hundred and twenty videos in 120 days that's an average of like four subscribers per video most people would have quit at that point but I knew where I was going I knew where I'd be in this moment now I just chugga-chugga-chugga you know this locomotive keeps going and just the momentum is growing and growing and growing getting more reach every day from YouTube I'm getting more engagement every day which gets me more reach again I'm putting out more new videos which reach more people it's just this this big kind of upwelling of awesomeness and I want you to do that for your people too if you notice my channel very few of my videos are promoting something I had no ads it's sometimes difficult for people to find how to help me obtain money right like I almost hide my affiliate stuff my affiliate links and that's on purpose because I my goal is to be the most helpful internet marketer in the world and the most helpful internet marketer in the world won't just spam links to you they will give you knowledge bomb after knowledge bomb whoo all right off the soapbox let's switch up here we're gonna keep this party going I love all the thumbs ups and the muscles and the emojis it's awesome how do I build a list to use WordPress as the destination by my DIY sales funnel video series just search DIY sales funnel and I literally show you step by step in the course of the first video show you how to make an affiliate funnel but I've got like a nine video funnel that will show you everything that you need to know all the way to building a membership program or whatever cool we got a lot of people answering other people's questions I love it beginner businessman what if the thing I've been doing the past years is learning and reading about marketing consumer behavior you find yourself trapped in the make money group and you can't find how to stand out yeah yeah and so totally like so a who can you apply that to this being underserved right but be that I mean that's that's the ultimate trap right you go down the rabbit hole and make money online you spend three four five six years there then you got people like me who've been down that rabbit hole for like twenty years that's the challenge in that space so take a couple steps back what did you do before you went down that make money online trap like if you had a hundred grand a year coming in as eight thousand dollars per month eight thousand three hundred thirty three dollars and 33 cents every single month right that's about $2,100 per week every single week in your bank account if that was your life what would you do what would you want to do who would you be of service to what would you play with would you build drones or their games you like like really truly get introspective and like what would you do with your free time if you had a lifestyle that afforded you more free time without having spent all your free time looking at how to make money and it's challenging to break out of that mind bubble but once you do you'll see I mean I used to love BMX bikes right like I got a pump track bought my house I'm about to get a nice uh like probably a dirt jumper bike or like an adult sized BMX bike so rode BMX bikes all growing up as a kid like what is that thing were you a skater like like I don't know find that thing you love and that you're willing to do and play and document and create and apply everything that you're learning to that you can just speed up the process so much so Kelly Walker off topic what am I using now the board booster shut down we're moving over to tailwind I will put my affiliate link if you're interested I'm getting started on tailwind that's for Pinterest Kile why there you go so yeah we're migrating over to tailwind right now and I'm I have to like learn do teach right so I'm learning how to operate this new software we're implementing it as we speak and then I'm gonna be able to teach you so I'm gonna teach it at some point but I can't just like put up a video day one like we're over here now without actually giving value of how to build it and how we're doing it so that that's kind of where I'm at at this point cool I'm loving all the the capella thinking as I'm scrolling through the comments just looking for it I dig it you play the long game Mike I totally do there's huge learning curve but once you get through it's amazing absolutely all right I'm gonna do kind of a bigger scroll here the copywriting course I was talking about was called the vs elevator accelerator it's closed now at this point do I recommend project bla bla bla by bla bla bla no definitely not I don't recommend many things at all if you want to see what I recommend go to Myles Becker comm up top there's recommended tools and recommended resources those are really the only things I use and recommend hey miles how do you show up on Google for YouTube videos I mean just follow the basic SEO if you go search on youtube for learn SEO not logged in I think my video shows up on the first page of Google which gets a ton of traffic so yeah just you just gotta apply good SEO I've got several how to learn SEO it's actually a playlist on my channel this will be recorded so we can rewatch it good I'm glad you like the SEO video how long does organic content take these days to build an audience it takes as long as it takes it depends on the competition of the niche it depends on your how eloquent you are of a writer how good you are at keyword research and SEO and do you have an authority side that you're relying on so my wife can publish a blog post for a medium challenging keyword phrase and it'll hit the first page of Google within a day but she's been doing it for nine years so like just it takes as long as it takes it's worth it in a long time so yeah somebody's like seriously $5,000 later and I've learned more through miles as videos than others so cheers it does it takes a bit of time my my videos aren't super well organized and if I was to take time to build everything out in slideshows and really organize them I'd be charging $400,000 for access and I don't want to do that so I just let people kind of get access to to get to the content so so those who are willing to dig in and hustle and go down the rabbit hole I just want to make sure that it's there for them my cuerto says breathe Myles breathe I'm I'll breathe later got time for that Jimmy Choo oh welcome to party man glad to see you here website that takes automated aggregated video so this guy's saying there's a website that takes automated aggregated videos and embeds it on their own website no words that they show up on first place that do those scamming things are gonna get booted from the search engine at some point they're not on WordPress does that matter WordPress was all it matters to me personally what do I think about passing vendor and sales page straight to the checkout cart Andrae style so what they're asking is so generally on the vendor website they're gonna have like a sales page and a checkout page and they're asking like can you do the pre selling and the selling and link them directly to the checkout page and set it to the sales page I don't know test it right use a separate tracking ID which you should be able to add in if you're thinking of an advanced strategy like this you know how to add a tracking ID to it set your tracking setup a campaign run it see which one converts better do what the data says works better what tax structure do I recommend for affiliates so start off as a sole proprietor just start right I only built a corporation which is an s-corporation eight years seven years and a bit now yes six years into building our business when we realized that if we wanted to buy a house we would need to pay ourselves that was really kind of one of the triggers and self-employment tax was really starting to become a very large number for us so you don't need to set up a structure at first to run an affiliate business you can operate as a sole proprietor based off of your social security number that's how my wife and I operate it for many years so the goal is to move forward and start making money and prove that you can do it and you're gonna be in it for the long term not spending three grand on building an LLC on something you haven't even proven like have you created 120 pieces of content yet like that's more important than building a structure Marcus Carvalho you've been in a lot of multi-level scam trainings and actually for watching these videos you've decided to learn by yourself good man following all videos cheers man if I could break people free from those scam circles and there's some very honorable ones too but man there's too many too many scams here's the kicker they have not made their own videos they just repost videos yeah I get it I know there's people scraping I'm starting to Rafi a Matthias there's people scraping my videos and publishing them on their blogs and I report them to their hosts and I get them shut down all the time as a DMCA which is a digital marketing Copyright Act so if you're reposted like if you're opposing my stuff you put content around it you add a link to miles bechler and you give me kudos and shouts out good on you if you're scraping my content and rhe publishing it without permission I'm gonna go to your house and I'm gonna get you banned so just know that that's there and I think I think you should do that too how do you create a sales funnel on Shopify I don't I would add a wordpress and I would create it on WordPress I don't use Shopify I don't like Shopify I don't think Shopify makes sense Kevin Jones I like that man if you don't do something nothing happens like it is that simple so go do lots of things and lots of things happen what's my opinion on resources pages they can work and see if it ranks give it a shot in other words don't enter the arena with a lottery mentality 100% Tanisha like hundred percent we're not escaping putting the work that's not the goal the goal is to go be of service to an audience and to align with the right audience and the right niche to where you wake up every day stoked like lit a welcome like 5:30 or 6:00 this morning just all like being like birds chirping I'm like yeah I get to do my live today I knowledge bonds because my goal right now in this moment is like literally I want to make the most comprehensive learn how to do affiliate marketing video that YouTube has ever seen because when I do that right I get a thumbs up from you because you hit the thumbs up right so hit the thumbs up then YouTube will be like damn this is by far the best video it's longer it's got more optimized text it's got a better title it's getting more engagement in a shorter period of time boom we're gonna show this to everyone in the future her searches learn SEO or excuse me learn how to do affiliate marketing forget what video I'm making then I now reach hundreds of thousands if not millions of people over the next couple of years with a video I did today on this day right so that's my goal and I'm excited to put that out cuz I hate to be a value to you and these random people I've never met the future they don't even know who I am they're finding all the fake gurus right now they're about to find the miles back there at some point be like whoa this dude's real deal and it's just fun I love it Mike's junk zero zero I recommend Aweber to be honest for beginners um I'm gonna send you the affiliate link if you're open to that and I got a video on how to set it up how to set up so you can have a follow up sequence that then migrates people over to a broadcast list that's in the DIY sales funnel video series I Tuesday Weber as my recommendation because it's easy to set up it's one of the most functional and it inboxes better than anyone I'm on active campaign also got to move myself off I got I got trapped on active campaign and you'll find this when you move grow your business at some point you you can make a decision to align with a software you get trapped and it's actually extremely difficult to untrap yourself and go to something simpler but my the miles Becker list will absolutely be moving over to Aweber again because of its simplicity I tested it I got over 6% increase in open rates and that so that would mean if I'm get a 30 percent open rate that means I probably got an 18 percent increase in deliverability rates from Aweber to active campaign Aweber is the og there's a special if you follow my link that will get you access to it what is your why you are giving your heart and soul my why's me them Alex my why is to be the most helpful internet marketer in the world I'm leaving a legacy on this planet I'm leaving a legacy on YouTube and if and when I'm not if when I'm gone so we all go at some point right who knows when that is like I just want to make sure that this information is out there no one was willing to take the time to teach 18 year old miles 22 year old miles 26 year old miles how to build a business online I had to figure that out myself it was tough and I went down the wrong path too many times and I just kept buying these products that were just rubbish man I hated it like and I was like it was his weird cycle I was in debt I had $50,000 a lot student loan debt I had a credit card I was buying courses on credit card thinking and that was the secret and I'd do what they said and then like the the loophole would closed up and I make no money and I go buy another course and I was in the cycle for years like literally for years and I it was such a depressing and challenging point for me that I had a point that I've had this voice of like you got to teach what you know you got to teach what you know and it's my wife's like you're you're teaching because for your 18 year old 19 20 year old self like on that's why I'm putting this out because of people like you might be getting trapped in that that loop of psychological necessity for these fake gurus that's all a big bunch of baloney and they actually keep you from doing the things that are important so my mission is to help solve that problem for you and I put that under the banner of being the most helpful internet marketing world I am NOT gonna be the wealthiest internet marketer in the world I'm not gonna show big ol income reports from monthly not none of that I don't even care those that's a vanity metric that means nothing to me I will be the most helpful internet market in the world for sure that's that's why I do this on a Saturday morning versus hiking when I live in a very beautiful place I could be three four six miles deep in a canyon hanging out with cliff dwellings right now but I chose to spend the time here with you because that's what the most helpful internet marketer in the world would do that's what keeps my going how people are like breathe nah hell no time for breathing later this is exciting this is my mouth sweet spot right here y'all so I just scrolled down and it just jumped all over the questions so I'm gonna go to a new section here let's see oh cool all right found it what's your why I'm so I'm going through we got about 30 minutes left so if you got questions you can get there and God can we retarget Instagram account audience with a thousand followers I don't know maybe it doesn't matter like that doesn't just build an audience give them what they want like miles you're such great inspiration Cheers Lee and I appreciate that Rock the affiliate promotion for your product Leeanne you product what's your product are you thrive themes huh well I'm glad I I'm glad I rocked the affiliate promotion for your product I don't know what product is so and pop that in there Liane if you're around I'm sure cash any comment on why a to s hosting downtime constantly I haven't had any downtime I still run a site on a to I haven't had any downtime I would ask them to migrate you to another server if that's something that you need but um I haven't noticed anything on my end you gotta remember that that when you work with a shared hosting company like you're on one of 1,000 2,000 3,000 machines so what happens on one machine probably doesn't happen all the other machines and if you're driving a lot of traffic says what happens on a shared server so if you bought the cheapest hosting that they offer that means they're putting you on with the most amount of people to get the right value for the real estate there that they can and their numbers they run really well the EIG they stack like ten times the amount of people on the server if you need the next level look at what's called a virtual private server it will cost you more you're in control a lot more control in that situation cost for 30 to 50 bucks a month at that point but there's you and there's maybe six people on the server instead of a hundred or so but I haven't noticed any downtime personally so I'm not really sure what to say on that cool I'm just reading through the comments shirt cache okay I see you're too busy to answer any real questions I'll talk to you later you don't time to waste so man that's it's so interesting when people get frustrated when I'm putting my time out but they're actually never gonna be able to comment again haha goats on the road you shared my name channel's site with many thank you I appreciate that that's really what I'm after emotional momentum that's the trick Derek question what do I think of buzzsumo for influence or research so you know buzzsumo i've tried it it doesn't work for our niche because our niche is such like the angel meditation space like we are the dominant force in here so anything my search for like our keywords it just shows us but I think it's you know potentially a useful tool I think just searching the hashtags right like just go look find the people who are creating content they're easy to find they're on they show up really well on Facebook you can find them through a Google search result who dominates in the world of organic SEO you can find them on YouTube by just searching for the right keyword phrase on YouTube and looking at the hashtags on Instagram influencer marketing is weird a lot of people paying for influence I have a friend who sells fake likes and fake engagement and fake followers he makes 150 thousand dollars a month and he has people who buy likes they bought well they buy follows then they put up a post and they buy likes to the post and they buy comments to the post and they resell that for seven hundred to a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars and they pay 150 in all that engagement and they make a thousand dollars and there's no real engagement it looks like engagement and there's there's nothing there I think it's I think it's a terrible business I don't know sleeps at night but a lot of people are doing that tarik Richardson thanks for turning me on a keyword finder yeah totally I like them in some ways as much as a trust so it ought to be honest Derek like a trust is the only other tool I would consider using it's just too much I get lost in there I get confused it's literally too much and the in at this point my business I realized and I think this is really powerful for you watching is simplicity is actually the key when you really boil this down this business down simply of I create content that's helpful for an audience I give them something super awesome that's even more helpful via email I follow up with even more super awesome stuff and everyone said I promote something it's it like there's no ninja there like I called the Viking approach right and if you've watched like the Viking is show with like Ragnar which is badass up to season 5 season 5 sucked anyways like at one point they were like they needed to get to an ocean that was like over the mountain they have these big boats and they're like we'll carry them over the mountain and like that's literally my approach like sometimes you have to pick a boat up and carry it over a mountain and like the Vikings weren't afraid of doing the work like oftentimes my keyword research is me hammering on my keyboard for three hours straight to handwrite a list of variables and I'll do some copy paste and this that the other to plug that in and I might get 6 keywords out of it that I've never had or never seen before to me it's worth it most people will only use a tool is gonna scrape they're trying to shortcut because because automation and blah blah blah but the automation doesn't find all that thing you can find with brute force effort it really is small brute force effort things overtime resources pages can work I don't really know what you mean about what is my opinion on them if you have a lot of resources or somebody put a resource page but I don't think it's gonna rank very well Michael Lindvall once you get going when do you start using business banking accounts and your own accounts that's a good question it's really important to like this is basic bookkeeping I guess I would start running a separate account from day one so if you're running on your social security number I would set up a separate account that only receives money from your affiliate stuff and only spends money for your web hosting your email and all of that I would try to itemize it you might need to put five thousand dollars in there to get it started probably could start with like five hundred dollars in there to get it seated for the first six months that way your books are just easy to do at the end of the year because you do need a report this expense was for business this income was for business this was from my day job and and if you know if it's all commingled there's a pain in the ass at the end of the year so immediately as my answer there alright people asking the same question twice cool I really appreciate all the kudos you guys I'm kind of skipping those but I really do appreciate it's like it's amazing what humans will do for appreciation of others so I really do thank you for that making its mind I'm presently using Facebook to share content should I switch to creating a blog on my website and learn SEO the James to the aim is to generate more traffic I sure would so depends on what kind of content right what are you sharing on Facebook and like can you create long-form pieces of content that that Facebook content could also link back to because if everything you're doing is on the Facebook ecosystem you are at the whim of sucks and sucks does not care about you the moment he sees you in between one of his random ass goals that he has which are that's creating cryptocurrency or what that dudes doing you will get turned off I see an ad accounts band I've seen entire fan pages deleted for no apparent reason I've seen I've seen some deleted for apparent reasons right like they flat-out broke a term of service but I've also seen it to where they get literally eliminated for no apparent reason so I think you need to own the racecourse oh I got a video about owning the racehorse you can search that if you want but I think you do need a digital home that you own and a WordPress site is something that you own you also get that long-term try right if we were so at one point in Facebook we were generating over 300,000 visits per month from our facebook strategy from our fan page of nine hundred and some thousand people right so there was a period of time when we were all in it was a part-time job to keep Facebook full of content and it made a ton of money and a ton of traffic and a ton of subscribers but then they changed the game they changed the algorithm and that all stopped right our facebook traffic is now down to twenty or thirty thousand visits per month roughly just off the top of the head our Google traffic is still like you know four hundred thousand visits per month so the potential for long-term residual traffic is key and that's what I like let's see here so Ed Mosley any chance you could answer my question we were talking about yesterday about niching down and fitness on here you're struggling to commit to a niche and believe you could be heard so you got to find that subset right like my friends with the fitness for dressage riding you know fitness for veterans fitness for go kart racers fitness for jockeys right like I you just you got to find that next thing but it also needs to be in alignment with you right so like fitness for American Ninja Warrior athletes fitness for marathon runners fitness for like I don't know what that thing is for you but you have to dig in and find something to add on to fitness so you can stand out because right now you're not able to stand out because the whole fitness space is absolutely overwhelmingly saturated but fitness for marathon runners might be wide open or there might be three people or five people dominating that space and you might be able to fitness for ultra marathon runners fitness for swimmer's fitness for long-distance swimmers but you have to love that right you have to do that if you don't run marathons don't think you're gonna step out and start teaching people fitness for marathon right like homegirl who's doing the the fitness for dressage riding like she competes in dressage riding like she's literally like on a path to the Olympics maybe maybe not like that's a that's a huge that's a very tall order to be honest but she's on a path to becoming one of New Zealand's top to sauce riders for sure like undoubtedly she's been placing in local tournaments recently so that's the kind of content that goes on her social media that reinforces the story of she really is the expert in dressage and fitness she's fit bird for sure like it just fits so what's that thing for you right it has to be authentic Olean you're on Jon Benson's team yeah awesome cool that was a great I was wondering if that was you guys that's cool um Jon Benson's awesome so Lee Anne if you're still around he mentioned because my list at the time that we did that launch was like 3,500 subscribers and I think I was like right up there with Todd Brown and a couple other people who promoted you have like hundred K lists and he was like dude I need an interview so if John wants to interview me at any point hop on I'm gonna be in my home studio for another three weeks I got a real estate deal of North actually I'm gonna be kind of close to him I'm gonna be up in Washington area so yeah I don't know we could reach out I'd love to hop on do like a piece of content with him he's he's pretty gangster so Solaris you're very welcome Cheers Jack's tip yeah when miles never only has 65 viewers on a livestream video wow this is the only only the star for this guy crazy so I did a video I want to tell you like if you guys are still with me here's some really deep inside him site on SEO stuff that we're doing right now cheers lien I appreciate that that'd be really fun so I did a video called learn SEO and I did three target keywords for that phrase learn SEO SEO course forget what it was I wrote it in the corner of my whiteboard and it was a whiteboard video like this and I did it live and now I'm out ranking Neil Patel I'm out ranking the backlinko guy on outrank ranking like the biggest names in SEO on youtube for this really three all three of those really big keyword phrases I'm even showing up on the first page of Google so I looked at that and I was like what did i do there I wrote a really good title which I've got here I wrote a really long detailed description which I've got here the tags I got that here I did it live and I noticed when I was looking at the search engine results page on YouTube that video I was like because I go back and analyze when I see something that sticks I go and I'll just scare it like what did I do different here and it said recorded live or something versus uploaded three weeks ago or uploaded nine months ago right like there's just that little indicator I was like aha so now this video you're watching is actually a test from of instead of just doing this video pre-recorded and uploaded do I actually trigger the YouTube algorithm extra bonus benefit for doing this live with you so if this video jumps to the top for the there's three keyword phrases in the title I got all three of them in or maybe yeah there's three main keyword phrases you can figure out what those are in the title so if I hit the number one spot for all those and it's not alive guess what you're gonna see me do a lot more of live classes because there might be that little edge I can get on my competition by doing it live not just recording and uploading if that isn't so I don't know if that's true yet I have one data point that shows like wow I'm out ranking some serious SEO weight in this world so I'm now like kind of in this more like like test it again right test observe what happened test it again so that's kind of why I'm doing this live and it's funny I didn't even do a full promotion of the live stream I email my list of course but I didn't put it on Facebook or anything cuz because really I'm doing this for the SEO value and a long-term value and I hope this actually connects I know this video will connect with thousands and thousands and thousands of people over the next several weeks and if I hit that number one spot for all three of those keywords it could it could jump to you know a hundred thousand two hundred thousand views in the course of the next year or two which would potentially be up there with my top videos so that's that's really what's going on here I'm really kind of interested it's a test in one senses cool quick comment on IG TV oh yeah Instagram TV don't know damn thing about it my phone battery died and I'm just not on Instagram I don't love Instagram yet like I don't feel like we get some traffic and I've connected with people for sure on it I feel like it's a waste of time I'm these things are so much more powerful than Instagram TV I will never stop doing a YouTube thing for an Instagram thing okay I just said never and that's a quick way to shove a foot in my mouth in like nine years or something so with the way the world is today I don't see myself spending any time that I would spend with YouTube over on Instagram for any logical reason because this is a search engine that's a timeline that disappears and the moment is gone from Instagram TV and their algorithm bumps you down to the next to the next to the next of the shelf life today or to the shelf life of those videos a year or ten so this is this is key a right sweet if you have not done this study can you tell the noobs just like creating a blog site what resources are needed so yeah like Solaris 575 in the description of this video I have a link that is to my DIY sales funnel video series if you go to the miles becker channel here on youtube you can click on playlists and go find the DIY sales funnel video series if you go to google and search DIY sales funnel video if you go to youtube search engine and search DIY sales funnel video all roads will lead you to my DIY sales funnel video series that's where i show you i literally i'm like i show you not only which ones to choose but how to set them all up how to tie them all together so you get your WordPress installed on the host you get your theme installed so your WordPress looks good you get your autoresponder set up and tied into your theme so you can do all of the opt-in stuff from your WordPress site so the information is out there you just got to go find that series specifically and then dive down probably the best resource would be on miles becker comm i think it's four slash clickfunnels - alternative is actually the URL but search DIY sales funnel on my site and it'll show up because i've actually laid out all the videos on one post so it just i kind of consolidate everything and you won't have the distraction of youtube with all the stuff around there ivenn go small niche and try to dominate or get a piece of a big niche with a strong pain point so i'm all about small niche but you can get in a really small subset and work your way up so my home girl who's in the fitness for dressage riding she could get into fitness for horseback riders which is a larger audience there's more people who like horseback riding than dressage but she might not need to she's absolutely crushing it and she's being of service to the small niche so I always think niching down makes really really good sense my wife's main brand is in the channeled angel meditation space the reason this is working for me on a Myles Beckler brand which is very broad which is countered to a lot of what I teach is what I'm bringing 20 years of experience to the table and a willingness to share everything free where everyone else in this space is trying to charge for the same information I give away for free I'm in a position to be able to do this because I don't need the money because I have a very successful business most people aren't in that position so what I'm doing is like Gary Vaynerchuk gets it right like I'm just being patient as eff that is literally what I'm doing here I know I'll get mine when I write a book and I hit the New York Times bestseller and also feel like Miles Beckler who's this dude all right I come out of the woodwork for many takes a long time to create an overnight success so that's literally what I'm building up to and I might have to do YouTube videos for 10 years before I hit that New York Times bestseller so here we are almost almost a year to just chugalug and that's my thought and you're very welcome Otto posting the latest news along with 100% original content is bad for SEO for your website all right so Raffy auto posting is bad is that clear like I don't think I'd be more clear than that if your auto posting anything that's a recipe for disaster could it work temporarily yes but could it be doing something else in the code so could there eventually be an algorithm change to Google that gets your entire website D index and all that work you put in for however many months it worked for or years gets totally collapsed and destroyed yes and that is why I say auto posting anything is not a good idea I can't be more clear than that like no scraping no reposting no Autobots or Auto Blog BOTS none of that stuff that stuff will kill you
eventually might work it's a very short-sighted move and I'm trying to help you think long term how do I know I live through 2012 right through the hummingbird update the Panda update the penguin update my website is still around kick in generating millions of visits per year when I was alive before those days - and I saw friends who were making 20 30 40 grand a month their websites went to zero because they got hit by the Google band hammer I've seen what that can do to a business and I've seen what I did to their emotions people committed suicide over that I got heavy and I'm serious right now like they played on a very gray area and it bit them in the ass right so don't play in the gray area play in the in the very clear create great content now can you manually curate content and add to it and build a great brand inside around it yes but to be honest with you you got to do it manually it takes the work don't try to avoid putting in the work so Alex saw my number one rankings not surprise tears glad to hear that so new key especially with Facebook Instagram auto posting I get what you mean by Auto posting Rafi I think you I think we're clear here Kevin I'm glad you caught onto this one looking forward to watch the whole thing later cool it'll be up soon Rafi I got you chill everybody chill like I'm going through this one at a time ninja Pinard of interest I don't I won't use ninja Fenner personally great explanation of YouTube's long-term value versus Instagram cool glad to hear that so Mike I'm Tinelli your company provides local news to a population of a hundred thousand people so even if they have even if you have a hundred percent of your demographic following us that's a pretty limited audience any advice yeah be the absolute only source that they go to and make your content so good that they share it with everyone they know because if you think that's all you have then you're you're thinking way too micro and you're not realizing that all those people are probably connected to 150 to 200 separate people so let's multiply a hundred thousand by two hundred what's that number it's a big number right so that's how you grow it you just have to write that epic of content that's not good enough for them to read right that's probably what you're doing now is like okay and we're getting the readership how do you make it so good that they actually share it like who broke the news for the Panama papers right and this is I'm not being super literal I don't really know enough about it but like journalists break right like small journalists at small like Erin Brockovich there you go like that I don't know there was an old movie about that like she was just some small-town lawyer right like like like people in small areas can do big things right don't think you're limited just because you have that audience right now you can't do something big and global and write these opinion pieces that get picked up by Drudge Report or Zero Hedge or if you're the other side of the the platform like The Economist could mention you in something like I don't know what those are for you I don't know your niche but like remember that you're not actually limited that is a false belief that you have right there so write epic content and then sell more stuff to the same people right how do you J bruh ham there's only three ways to grow a business on some more things make more per sale some more things that new people make more money for every sale sell more to the people you already sold stuff to that's it's the figure out which one of those levers that or needles or knobs or dials or switches is easiest for you to trigger and go do that but um I really think creating excellent shareable content could get you well beyond that number that you think is your current ceiling how can you find give free content that you can use to bait searches men like Raffi's stop baiting people like don't bait people don't try to get PLR like do the work if you can't write great content that gets people interested hire writers to do it if you're not money to hire writers go get a job locally make money locally and invest that into your internet business through great content there is no shortcut you're looking for the shortcuts man like you're not to get blocked on the channel if you don't change that mindset you can go back to the spammer websites Pranay how long do you think it will take to get successful three or four hours of good work a day you know that that depends man like I've heard a thousand days at three or four hours a day is the way to get there that'd be four thousand hours there's the 10,000 hour rule that we what six years or something like that I don't know what skills you bring the table like who cares like my my question to you Pranay instead of like how long will it take is like is it worth whatever it takes to get your desired result because your doesn't sound like you're there yet right like if it's not worth it to you in the end to create a total lifestyle freeing business keep waking up your alarm clock and doing your commute and doing your normal job it's okay to do that our world needs employees right like when I go to Whole Foods I want people at Whole Foods to check me out like our world needs those two I like people who clean houses so I can hire somebody come clean my house and the lady loves cleaning houses like it's awesome she does what she loves she's stoked that pay her I do what I love which is with here with you stoke I don't do that thing I don't love which is cleaning perfect like our world needs all people you don't have to be an entrepreneur I'm not here to convince you to be an entrepreneur it's okay for you to work a traditional job but if you are interested like isn't it worth doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes to create the lifestyle that you truly desire like that that's really the the point in my personal opinion Rafi I'm glad I'm glad you got I'm glad that's clear I'm glad we got that here man um Google banhammer was that about plagiarized content so the banhammer was swung for people doing link wheels link pyramids it was a lot of like backlinking strategies that got people banned it was some plagiarized comment the the auto blogging software got hit really hard there like so panda penguin hummingbird all focused on different things and here's something important to keep in mind about Google's algorithm right now so of the thousands of people who work on Google's algorithm that code base it is Google algorithms of the thousands of engineers software jurors who work on it zero were there when it was written so nobody actually knows how this thing works it's now this behemoth a hodgepodge this duct-taped together and and so they'll be like ok we're tired of seeing these scraped content showing up on the first page of Google how do we get rid of it and some engineers gonna go look at it me like I don't know what do we got taken out that part like I think so I'm gonna ask another engineer and they'll come they'll do their meetings and so just yank one piece out and that creates all kinds of collateral damage and if you're on a gray area somewhere over here they're trying to fix this over here they change the code they think fixes that but you just got hit that's how it works today so that's why I'm like squeaky clean at this point all right 10:57 if you made it to the end hashtag bad ass throw in the comments real quick hashtag bad ass to you so hit the thumbs up if you haven't yet already I couldn't believe you made at the end didn't hit the thumbs up but hit that helped me get the word out on this I hope you liked this if you know of anybody who could get value from this know that it'll pop up live here on my youtube channel or it'll pop up like forever on my youtube channel here in about 30 minutes or so and wow we did it yay to get it does it make sense like that's affiliate marketing get value get valued be nice be helpful get value no shortcuts do the work do the work do the work do the work find a way that the work is fun so I do youtube videos because I get charged up not to walk out of here my wife I'm gonna be like yeah you know I'm stoked I don't go flop on a couch after this like I'm ready to take on the day at this point so find the medium that gets you charged and then find the audience that you're just like so passionate to be of service to right and like I'm so passionate to be a service to you somebody who's looking to do the work you want to find the right way and you just don't want to keep throwing money at these fake-ass gurus because they are just they're just trying to pay for their Lambos out your pocket and then the more people I can help realize that to stop funding these Lambos and that BS and all that fake vlog lifestyle look how cool I am and Photoshop income reports and show you that doing the work is the key man that's my life goal right there so so find that that mission that that Drive of being of service that audience and that medium of creating content and everything else we'll figure it out grow a list help people get that which they want to get them the results they desire achieve the goals they desire everything's gonna work from there it's really cool so thank you all very much just so many like chats coming in comments coming in I really appreciate you guys I'm gonna do another live probably next week I might do like a fun review or something but until then I don't know share it do what you do I appreciate you I'm gonna go say hey to the wifey and just go explode an excitement for how fun this was so thanks for sharing it with me I really do appreciate it.......
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