Post 31 – Day 20 Kickstart Coaching for Affiliate Marketing
Day 20 Kickstart Coaching
Dean start with the normal motivation and thanking people for getting things done along with him as it also acts as a great motivator for him.
Going through the philosophy of paid traffic and free traffic strategies………..all great stuff and uplifting directions.
Checking into the information and insights into the content that he had placed on FB so far.
Creating ads to get the audience watching the FB content through the process to the opin page.
Connecting all the links within FB…………cool stuff.
Dean also mentioned that he is on a bit of a learning process as FB is inclined to change the set up of the interface around quite a lot and everything he was familiar with has changed, so we just have to work through it together.
Going through the set up of the free content and ads with distribution of costs for them.
Mind boggeling……….to be continued tomorrow as run out of time,60 minutes as Dean had a prior engagement for a podcast right after todays webinar.
Al
Post 29 – Day 18 Kickstart Coaching for Affiliate Marketing
Day 18 Kickstart Coaching
First of all thanks to “Dean Holland” my mentor for adding a guest post to my blog yesterday.
If you havent already read it take a look.
It tells how a chance meeting with a complete stranger and their conversation changed the course of his business.
Todays coaching session we were shown a list of a few small loose ends we needed to ensure we get all these done to move ahead.
Dean went through each item showing us how to implement them so that later when the recording of the session is posted into our members area we could do these ourselves.
Of course taking our time and stopping and starting the recording at each step along the way.
Make up a new link page in the Page Builder and insert some links to other pages to connect together.
Setting up FB and getting the links to input into our sales system.
PHEW!……….a lot to do guess it will take me some time to get this done, but should be worth it.
Still have to spend time at my work job………..haha.
Al
The Great Affiliate Marketing Hoax
I was sat in Seattle airport sinking my second mojito whilst awaiting my flight back to London.
It was busy in the bar with no free tables free where I was sitting.
Then someone came up to me and said “Hey there, you mind if I take this seat” asked a guy who wanted to sit down on a spare seat at my table.
“Sure thing” I replied.
Little did I know that this chance meeting would lead to the biggest realization I’d ever had about affiliate marketing and go on to change the course of my life forever.
Over the next period of time we got talking, various topics came up, like what we were both doing there, where we were heading next, that type of thing.
Joel was his name, I’d say he was a 40+ year-old guy and as I learned he had a daughter who was back at home.
Before long he asked what I did for work. This is always a topic I tend to avoid as most people just don’t get what I do, but he’d asked and so I had to respond.
Eagerly awaiting that blank stare, I said, “I do affiliate marketing online”
You can guess what happened next, I’m sure…
“what’s that?” he asked.
Haha, I laughed, but spent the next few minutes explaining that I promote products on the internet via online advertising and I was paid a commission for the products I sold.
He seemed to get the concept, but nevertheless I swiftly moved on and asked more about himself.
“I’m a janitor” he explained.
Moments later he shared a big concern about his life with me. What transpired during that part of the conversation would spark a trigger in my mind that would allow me to go on and discover the biggest secret in the affiliate marketing industry today.
“You know what scares me Dean? …For several years my pay hasn’t increased much at all, but pretty much all my bills have gone up.”
“How do you manage” I asked.
“Well, it’s getting tough I won’t lie. If things continue like this I really don’t know what I’ll do, my income barely covers my outgoings now.”
It was there, at that moment without actually standing up and walking away, my mind left that conversation.
Suddenly it hit me. It became clear to me what was so wrong with affiliate marketing today, and why nearly all those that try, fail.
Soon after I said my goodbyes and headed to the gate to board my flight back home. I couldn’t rest for hours on the plane with my mind racing about what I had realized.
14 hours later I walked through the door of my home, went straight to my computer and began to research deeper into my idea.
Could it be that affiliate marketing has reached a ‘tipping point’ and it’s practically impossible to start from scratch and build a successful business for the average person?
My suspicions were confirmed.
I found numerous reports online where research had been carried out into the average cost per click in online advertising.
The figures showed that in the past 10 years, the average cost of getting someone to click an affiliate link through online advertising has multiplied by up to 8X.
One such report published by Hochman Consultants found that in 2005 the average cost per click was just $0.38 but by 2016 that same click costs $2.14!
This was it! This was the big problem no one was talking about.
If we’re paying that much more today to get traffic to affiliate offers, then the profit we can make has been reduced to a point of non-existent.
Just as Joel had said to me in Seattle, his income no longer covers his outgoings. And just like Joel was going to be in trouble if nothing changed, so are we as affiliate marketers.
The money we have to spend to get people to an offer, has reached such a high point that the sales we generate and the commissions we earn no longer covers that cost.
Think about it. If we spend $200 to get 100 visitors to click our affiliate link, and 1 or 2 of those people buy a product and we get paid $20 for each sale, we’ve made $40 but lost $160!
Heck, even if we only paid $100 for those 100 visitors and got paid $40 per sale, we’ve still lost money!
So what is the answer?
Well, I’d love to hop in a time machine and travel back to a point in time 10+ years ago where traffic was pennies a click, but I guess that’s not an option.
The only other option then is we have to make our traffic worth more to us, it must earn us more money so we can produce a profit.
The good news is, I’ve spent years learning how this is done since that day I met Joel.
I’ve shared this on stages around the world, and even at a TED Talk.
But, I want to get the solution into the hands of as many people as possible because you can succeed, but not the way people used too.
So, I’ve just put it all into a new book called “The Affiliate Marketers Playbook and I’m giving away copies for FREE.
Click here and tell me where to ship yours
I truly believe that day I met Joel by sheer luck, I was fortunate enough to stumble on the solution to all the struggling affiliate marketers problem, and if right now you’re not getting the results you desire then I’d like to give you the solution too:
Get your copy of the Affiliate Marketers Playbook here today
Thanks for Reading This, I can’t wait to help you get better results online.
Post 28 – Day 17 Kickstart Coaching for Affiliate Marketing
Day 17 Kickstart Coaching
This is one day later than planned due to bad weather, snow, in the UK and Dean unable to get to his office. In fact todays broadcast is taking place from his home as still unable to get to his office.
This is dedication to his students……what more can be said…..it’s all live no cons here.
Going through what he is going to use as an interest to point people to the free book.
Getting things connected together through the page builder for optin.
A bit of work to do for me to try to keep up………ummmmmmm………but everything is coming together
Al