What Neil & Eric Think About Affiliate Marketing | Ep. #466

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #466, Eric and Neil discuss what they think about affiliate marketing. Tune in to learn the pros and cons of affiliate marketing and why both Eric and Neil LOVE it. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: What Neil & Eric Think About Affiliate Marketing 00:35 – In general, Eric thinks that you are at a disadvantage if you start with affiliate marketing early 00:40 – You’re collecting a percentage of the sales, so you need to perform up to 5x times better than the advertisers 00:53 – Having a service or building a product is better/easier 01:11 – Neil loves affiliate marketing 01:28 – Neil would love affiliate people to work for him 01:38 – They figure out ways to make things happen 01:45 – Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to learn about the market 02:12 – Eric loves affiliate marketers, but thinks of the long-term 02:25 – Check out affiliate marketer conferences and network 02:36 – There’s the Affiliate Summit and Affiliate World to name a few 02:53 – Going to black hat SEO sites will let you know what people are up to 03:20 – Marketing School is giving away 90-day FREE trial to Crazy Egg which is a visual analytics tool 03:32 – Go to SingleGrain.com/giveaway to get your FREE copy 03:38 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Getting into affiliate marketing will push you to perform better than the advertisers. Affiliate marketers figure out ways to make things happen and are always learning. Learning black hat SEO and doing it the white hat way can make you a better affiliate marketer. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 dial 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.
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0:55.0	Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we are going to talk about what Neil and I think about affiliate marketing.
1:01.0	So I was actually just telling Neil about this a little earlier, but I do think that if you're in
1:04.8	affiliate marketing it's a great place to start but in general you are
1:08.3	disadvantaged because think about it this way with the affiliate marketing you're
1:11.4	collecting a percentage of sales right so that might mean you need to perform two three four five X times better as an advertiser to make good money doing it.
1:21.0	So in my opinion you're probably better off having a service
1:23.7	building a product and going from there right because your margins are going to
1:27.3	be higher and it's going to be easier for you too. And with affiliate marketing
1:30.5	you're competing with all these other affiliate marketers they might be doing dirty stuff sometimes
1:33.8	they have to resort to shady stuff to to get ahead I just don't think it's fun I just don't
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