How to Get Started with Affiliate Marketing | Ep. #180

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #180, Eric and Neil discuss how you can get started with affiliate marketing. What is affiliate marketing and how can this benefit your brand and company? Tune in to find out how to be successful in affiliate marketing and the essential guidelines for setting it up. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: How to Get Started with Affiliate Marketing 00:35 – Affiliate marketing is performance marketing 01:10 – The commission will depend on the industry and products 01:39 – Affiliate marketing is getting other marketers to push your product 01:47 – Affiliate Marketing One Hour a Day by Evgenii Prussakov 02:06 – It’s about the traffic you can get and what you can promote that is relevant to the offer 02:52 – You can also do paid advertising 03:05 – Cheap traffic sources are Facebook and Pinterest 03:26 – LeadDyno and Getambassador are great tools 04:07 – Have specific guidelines set up so your brand won’t get destroyed by the affiliate 04:25 – Go to any popular affiliate network and see what offers convert the best 04:52 – If your conversions are not done right, you’re not going to have any revenue 05:24 – In Clickbanks,their metrics helps you guide your conversion 05:48 – Credit Karma tells you the credit score 06:00 – TPG or The Points Guy is doing affiliate marketing really well 06:27 – Make sure that whatever you do in affiliate marketing, it’s for the long term 06:34 – Look for long-term legitimate companies and not shady ones 06:56 – Use Pretty Link which is a Wordpress plugin to cloak your links 07:20 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Affiliate marketing is performance marketing. Look for companies you can work with for the long term—don’t fall for shady affiliates that can possibly ruin your brand. Get your conversions right—do the work to understand everything you can about affiliate marketing. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school
0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
0:19.4	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:27.0	If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your page speed time.
0:31.5	The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With
0:34.4	Google's core vital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your
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0:44.5	host so just go to dream host or Google it find it check it out and it's a great way
0:49.7	to improve your low time. Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Eridsu, and I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we're going to talk about how you can get started with affiliate marketing.
1:01.0	So first and foremost, I think it makes sense to talk about what affiliate marketing is
1:05.0	is, well, let's rephrase it.
1:09.7	Let's rephrase it. Let's call it performance marketing.
1:11.6	So let's say Neil has a Hello Bar, for example. call it to drive more traffic. Well, you know what he can do is he can say, well, I will pay 10%
1:25.2	commission recurring for the lifetime of the customer for whatever new customers that you bring
1:29.9	in through, you know, whatever channels you have and you have an affiliate link is what they call
1:33.9	it to track the commissions that you're bringing through.
1:36.8	One of the sites that I own, you know, mainly we're monetizing off of affiliate commissions
1:41.2	right now and you know, that's it's doing great well
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