The episode where we dive head first in to the deep waters of Affiliate Marketing. In fact, between Tim’s and some listener questions, we leave no stone (or should that be coral!) unturned.
- What is affiliate marketing?
- How do you know which products to choose?
- How do you tell if a product is a good affiliate seller before you start to promote it?
- How do you become an affiliate marketer without a list?
- Should you be selling affiliate products relevant to your existing business?
And if that’s not enough, Tim has some additional (and unrelated) questions that include:
- In WordPress, what’s the difference between a category and tag?
- Should every Internet marketer have a blog?
- What are the different ways one can approach the selling of a set of video tutorials?
Quote of the show – “If you’re finding it hard to talk about it, then we’ll just stop!” – Tim to James.
Links & Resources mentioned in Freedom Ocean 8:
Traffic Grab – Systematic traffic grabbing strategies (James’s newest release).
Marketing Swipe – Your little helper in creating engaging content.
Fast Web Formula 3 - A live event in October 2011.
All Freedom Ocean products to help you become a better Internet Marketer can be found here.
(Duration 69 minutes – 63 MB)
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Hi James and Tim, finding you guys has been great timing as I am a shoulder physiotherapist aka The Shoulder Guy and am about to finish treating clients 1 on 1 and move part of my business online.
There are a couple of business strategies I was hoping that you could take more about in the future.
1. How best to set up a membership site i.e. do I use Thesis and just use amember plug in and all my problems will be solved re taking membership payments, adding static and dynamic content, webinars etc?
2. James you briefly mentioned something about using for example my The Shoulder Guy website as a portal to bring in clients and then have more localised branded pages for your physio contractors. So in fact all that I am is the marketing arm of the business and contractors (identified physio service providers) pay to be a member of The Shoulder Guy lead generating service and I help them to deliver the service to the end user. Sorry about long winded story but how could this be set up from an online strategy perspective?
Again thanks for all your great information. It is really getting me thinking and taking action
Cheers
Luke Van Every
Great questions Luke – keen to answer them!
Hi Luke … We’ll be tackling these questions in an upcoming episode. Thanks so much for taking the effort to ask them.
Hi James and Tim:
Hello from the USA! Thank you for your podcasts and the knowledge you share. You are so right that there is a lot of noise out there. Listening to your podcasts is helping me filter some of it out!
I do have a question regarding affiliate marketing. I really like the “bonus” concept and I have started working on a bonus in an area I have expertise with. Unfortunately the affiliate product I would like to promote wants to see traffic to a website before they’ll let me be an affiliate. So, how does one go about becoming an affiliate when your site isn’t even built?
Thanks!
Tracy
build your site. Get traffic. If they do not approve you promote another product and then re-apply. Once you sell stuff well you will usually be able to get approved for anything.
Thanks Tim and James, look forward to hearing your answers to my questions.
The big one for me really is…how did James go about getting together or sourcing his team of Ninjas? How is that done? Keep it local or hit the Philippines? I need a team of deadly ninjas too.
Cheers and thanks again
Luke
The Shoulder Guy
If I wanted sell through affiliates, how do I track where the leads come from?
Cheers
Simon set up affiliate software it will track sales for you and your affiliates. I use Nanacast (also a cart).