affiliate marketing is a great way to create a passive income for yourself in today's video i'm going to explain all of the basics of affiliate marketing now if you do stick to the end of the video i will give you a valuable tip that not a lot of people tell you so if you want to know exactly how to get started with affiliate marketing then that's what we're going to talk about today so go ahead and hit that like button and let's continue if you're new here hi welcome my name is delania and i used to be a bartender at a nice fancy hotel in 2019 i quit my job that i had for 13 years and now i work full-time with affiliate marketing and youtube if you like learning about that sort of thing and making money online then make sure you are subscribed to the channel so that you don't miss out on any of that content so without any further ado let's go ahead and explain affiliate marketing so affiliate marketing is basically a referral program so you as an affiliate would be recommending a certain product and when someone purchases that product through your unique affiliate referral link then you also will earn a percentage from that purchase just for referring the product so basically it is a referral program now many companies have affiliate programs target best buy walmart amazon so don't worry because there are no shortages of affiliate programs that you can actually apply to now this is a great business model because you don't have to purchase products and buy inventory you don't have to deal with customer service returns and all that good stuff all that mess that comes with actually having your own product so this is definitely a great way to sell products and services without actually having to create any of the products or services now before anything let's talk about being ethical because there are a lot of people in this business that are very very crooked and i feel like in a lot of businesses we have people like that there are people who are just out there trying to make a quick buck and they don't actually care about the customer they don't care if it's helping them or anything and they're also spamming links they spam links in my comment section for example or they spam links everywhere and that is not the way you want to do this that is all i have to say about that make sure you do believe in the products that you are promoting and that you either use the products yourself or know that it's definitely going to help your audience okay another thing is that you also have to let people know that you are making money through those affiliate links so for example if i have affiliate links in my descriptions of my video i will disclose that down below in the description i can also say it in the video hey this is an affiliate link so i will earn a commission and same thing if you have a website you actually have to disclose you are making commissions when anyone purchases through those links and it is mandatory to do this if you live in the us however i advise everyone do this just because it's part of doing good business you want to be honest and you want to be trustworthy so first you're going to want to choose a niche a platform and a product to promote and you can find affiliate programs for absolutely anything anything at all or at least almost anything so for example if you're talking about knitting and you have a knitting website and you want to recommend some sort of yarn some sort of needle you can always get affiliate links from amazon and things like that where they can actually purchase those products i know nothing about knitting you can also review courses that you've been through that you absolutely learned a lot from also have an affiliate program you can review books that you have read you can review appliances around your home really you can review anything okay so let's say i have this heater this is like a electric heater so if you have stuff like this laying around your house you can review it this is the brand if i wanted to i could review this item so i could review this on a website i could do uh youtube i could do whatever it is that i want and i can review this item and i could also recommend the item because i use it all the time now i went ahead and searched for it on amazon it's 52 on amazon now if anyone purchases this through my link because i recommended it i would receive a commission for that now the downside about amazon is that the commissions are very very low however when someone purchases through your affiliate link on amazon if they go ahead and pick up something else you earn a commission from whatever they actually buy that day i believe it's a 24-hour cookie that is attached to your link so whatever they purchased that day on amazon you receive a commission for so that is pretty cool you can also check affiliate networks like clickbank.com digistore24.com cj affiliate ebay partners and of course we already talked about it but amazon associate so a lot of people actually get stuck in the choosing a niche part a niche to get into and a niche is basically a topic or a subject that you want to get into so for example i'm in the make money online niche and the affiliate marketing niche so this is what i talk about on my channel i talk about different ways to make money online i talk about affiliate marketing working from home because that's what i do so you want to do something that you're already interested in or something that you really want to learn about and this is because you're going to have to talk about it or write about it or create a lot of content around it all the time so you don't want to choose something that you really have zero interest in now if you want to earn better commissions then you want to go with programs that have high ticket offers and or tools and software that pay you a recurring commission every single month that's what i like to do that's what i like to stick to i like to promote courses or software's that i use myself and courses that i have been through and also learned from things that got me to where i am now so this is the stuff that i like to promote every single thing that you see in my in my descriptions of my video are things that i actually went through that i learned from and actually got me here but definitely love to promote things that i believe in and also products that are going to earn me a recurring commission every month or a high ticket commission so for example i use an all-in-one digital marketing tool and platform called builderall it has a built-in autoresponder it has landing pages it has a website builder it has everything already that my business needs and this is why i promote it because i use it myself and it's gotten me results and i'm earning affiliate commissions every single month from recommending this product to other people i also promote a course learning platform that i am also in and that i also went through all of their products most of their products actually and i earned 40 commission from that product as well now how do you choose a platform to actually create content for this is all up to you and your personality if you like connecting with people and you think you can run a facebook group that is a great way to get started and remember you will be the leader of that group so you can actually promote whatever you want in that group as long as you're also giving value if you like writing you can create your own blog and you can get started that way on social media you can actually do this for free but um it's not going to cost you a lot of money to actually run a blog now if you want to start writing but you don't want to write your own blog then you can go ahead on medium.com just make sure you do follow their affiliate rules and everything because i just don't think they allow you to put too many affiliate links within your article but you would have to double check on that but that is another option for you if you do like writing you can also answer questions on a website like quora there are so many people making really good money answering questions on quora it just takes a little bit of dedication to go ahead and look through questions and be helpful deliver value and then send people over to maybe a youtube video or some other content that you have it is all up to you now if you're brand new and you absolutely don't care you just want to get somewhere the fastest way possible then you want to get on tick-tock and the time is now for tick-tock actually because virality is crazy you can go viral on that platform very easily as a beginner we haven't seen that in a very very long time so if you're here right now in 2021 i would start creating three to four tick tocks every single day they're 15 to 30 second videos and go to other people who are in your niche and see what they're doing start doing what is already working you don't have to reinvent the wheel over there you can recreate some similar tick tocks so really the time for tick tock is right now and you actually don't have to get up and dance there are so many affiliate marketers that are on there that are killing it there is a lady on there that is doing a great job and she's doing amazon associates as well so she's recommending all sorts of amazon products and also tick tock can be fun now my favorite way to do it is with youtube and youtube videos the reason i love youtube so much is because video content is super powerful youtube is not only a social media platform but it is also a search engine it is the second largest search engine in the world next to google which is the same company so you can actually show up in search results and you can optimize your videos with the proper text titles with the thumbnails after searching they can come to your content they can learn from you get value from you so that's why youtube is my number one and it is my favorite way to actually do affiliate marketing pinterest is also a great way to do affiliate marketing but you have to create pins every single day and be very consistent this is how their algorithm works so you have to be very consistent with posting now you can also do this on instagram still with a niche instagram account for example a lot of people give this example but it's a good one for example woodworking you can create a page all around woodworking if you're interested in that and there are actual products on clickbank also that are woodworking product now there is a wrong way and a right way to do affiliate marketing the improper type of way is basically sending them straight to your affiliate link which means that they can either purchase a product or not purchase the product and then that's it they're out of there but most of the time you want to collect emails and actually create your own email list when you're doing affiliate marketing you want to create a one-page website that is going to lead people into your email autoresponder and this will collect emails for you automatically now if you are confused about that you don't know anything about that whatever don't worry because i do have another video i will put a card right up here so that you can check it out also if you want to go straight to a free and absolutely free email marketing course then go ahead down below there will be one down there for you that you can go ahead and get started with so if you want to get started with email marketing as well then go ahead and check that one out i will put a link below for a free email marketing course so the bottom line is that this is absolutely possible and it is not very difficult the thing is that a lot of people have given it a bad name because they spam links everywhere they a lot of things are labeled a scam when they are scam or when they aren't a scam and that's why i stick to things that i like to use things that have helped me the reality is that some people will earn lots of money and do really great the other reality is that some people will not earn any money and do really bad and not make any sales okay so that these are the two realities okay or you could be right in the middle you could be working it part-time and doing really great part-time and making a few thousand dollars a month and being comfortable with that so basically no one can guarantee you any success a lot of people like to see proof and screenshots that they make the sale and screenshots that they make that sell now a lot of things can be faked and a lot of things are real it really doesn't matter if it's fake or real it only matters the work that you do you can only bet on yourself just because someone made ten thousand dollars in a month from one product doesn't mean i'm gonna make ten thousand dollars from that one product i could make more than them i could make less than them i could make nothing what i'm getting at it's really up to you you have to believe in yourself you have to do the work and you have to believe that you can do this affiliate marketing is awesome because this can turn into a passive income once you have built up your audience you have a platform to go to or several different platforms i don't recommend that you spread yourself too thin so stick to one at first really the possibilities are endless and just remember it's all up to you and what you can accomplish and something that a lot of people don't tell you is that you have to have the right mindset you cannot have the mindset of wanting to earn a quick buck you actually have to have the mindset of wanting to help other people what is in it for you and what is in it for them as well you have to create win-win situations i believe in you and i know you can believe in yourself come on so work towards it have a good time and try to go out there and help people now if you want the complete framework on how to get started in affiliate marketing then go ahead and check out the first link down below and i will tell you all about that if you really enjoyed this one then you are going to enjoy this video right here because i'm telling you i'm showing you exactly how to get free traffic for affiliate marketing so go ahead and check that one out thank you so much for watching and i'll see you on the next one bye