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- Yo, what's up guys?

Pat here, and today we're gonna be talking about

affiliate marketing!

And again, thank you so much for joining me today.

We're gonna talk about some good stuff like

how I was able to make over 300,000 dollars

by promoting one product.

Now this has been something that's happened over three years

and no I'm not talking about a hosting company.

A lot of you know I make

quite a bit from promoting a particular hosting company.

It's not that.

So make sure you stick around.

If you're watching live,

stick around because this is gonna be awesome.

I'm gonna teach you a lot of the strategies

and show you my accounts

to show you that this actually true,

that I'm making this much money from a single product.

I will reveal this product in just a second

and tell you exactly why this product is so great.

It's actually not a very expensive product either.

I know a lot of people assume that

you have to promote a thousand dollar product

and get 50% commission just to do really well,

well this is not that.

Additionally, I'm gonna show you exactly where

and how I promote this product,

and I would love for you to just choose one of these things.

So as you're going through this,

you know, it's gonna be a lot,

but all you need is one to start out with.

'Cause like I said, I built this sort of database

and arsenal of strategies over time,

and then I was able to sort of

start to see the income start to grow.

So yes you can make money short term

by doing these strategies,

but as you build these up

it becomes a really part of your portfolio.

So, what's up, guys?

So,

let's see.

Can you guys see me?

I just wanna make sure this is okay.

I see somebody, hotsauce says is this just audio.

I won your last livestream,

I didn't catch your contact email says sensationallife.

[email protected].

My assistant will look out for it.

I see you,

and I'm guessing you guys can hear me too

or else you wouldn't have answered that question.

So let's get started, guys.

Affiliate marketing, we don't need this anymore.

And so we're gonna dive into it.

And I'm gonna show you actually the backend

of the affiliate account program that I'm using

to talk about this product.

Actually, before we get to that,

big shoutout and thank you to Adam Richardson,

who last week on the replay

won the Will It Fly? book and the Ask Pat T-shirt.

For those of you watching the replay right now,

you can also win by answering a question

that I'm gonna ask you at the end of this stream

and I'll announce the winner next week,

'cause we go live every Friday now,

which is really cool.

So, awesome, let's talk about this.

So, what is this product?

Well, let me describe this product for you really quick.

It's a 29 dollar product,

but it's 29 dollars a month to use it.

Now a lot of people talk about the

holy grail of passive income,

and that's recurring passive income.

Now when people hear that,

they often think of membership websites.

Right, creating your own membership website.

Being an affiliate for a product

that has a recurring revenue, that pays out monthly,

as long as people stay on,

I feel is the holy grail.

Because, guess what?

A membership site is not easy to create.

It's not easy to manage,

it's not easy to get new members

and it's not easy to keep new members on.

When you have a product that you promote as an affiliate

that has a recurring revenue and they pay monthly,

well then guess what?

Even though it might cost 29 dollars

and you get 30 percent,

which is essentially 10 dollars a month per person,

that adds up.

Because if you get 10 people one month,

well you add another 10 people the next month,

now you're at multiples of that income.

So that's great.

So any guesses?

We have some people guessing what this product is already

for those of you who were on the stream earlier,

you know this.

And I'm so glad you can see me now.

That's why we're doing an encore today

because I had a random camera angle.

I had this camera angle before.

Although it was only showing a light and that's it

for five minutes,

so we're kind of redoing this right now.

And I will take you into the computer this time as well

and show you.

This product is also great

because it's one of those products

that when you see,

it almost sells itself.

When you're doing any sort of affiliate marketing,

if you can demonstrate the product,

and if a person sees that demonstration,

can envision and see themselves

just getting so many great results from that product quickly

then it's gonna be a big win for you.

Now this is the challenge when it comes to

selling digital products like an online course

or even an ebook, right?

What is a demonstration of an online course look like?

What does a demonstration of an ebook look like?

How can a person imagine themselves

getting a result with that right away?

This is why physical products are

actually really great for affiliate marketing.

So using things like Amazon Associates,

but especially software,

and that's what this product is.

Some of you have already guessed what this product is,

and that's Converkit.

So I'm gonna take you to the backend of my computer here

and so this is my account for Converkit,

which runs through an affiliate program

called Get Ambassador.

So very much like Converkit itself,

Converkit you can actually go to barometrics.com

and see the earnings that Converkit's making.

Well, I'm doing the same thing here.

So this is Converkit.

I've earned, actually it's closer to 400,000 dollars.

Again, this didn't happen overnight.

This is not easy to do,

but if you do it right,

things can add up over time

and you can see that I've been paid 350k over time

for this product.

Now why Converkit?

Why is this like a great thing to promote?

Well, here is the big strategy here.

It is yes, something that is a great tool.

It's something that when you see,

you're like, wow, I can imagine myself using that.

The big strategy is

I don't teach email marketing.

I teach building online businesses,

entrepreneurship, and it just so happens that

part of that process of building a business.

And getting online is email marketing.

So when your affiliate product becomes

a smaller piece to a larger whole,

you can even teach that whole thing for free.

I have tutorials and other things on email marketing

which I'll show you in just a second,

so stick around.

But when you teach the whole thing,

you give so much value

and it just so happens that step three

is the tool that you use.

Whether a person uses that tool or not,

you're giving them value.

But because you demonstrate

and show how you use that tool in an overall process,

it just makes sense, right?

Because then you don't even have to really sell it.

It's just a part of the process.

You were teaching people how to go from to A to Z,

and it just so happens that letter J is

something that you can make a little bit faster

and be done more efficiently with a tool.

So a lot of people are like Converkit,

yep, thought so.

Again, I'm glad you guys are here.

Okay, so let's talk about this even more.

So affiliate marketing,

what's the number one thing

besides having a great product, right?

What's one thing that you can do

to really knock it out of the park when you promote this?

Well, I'm gonna show you.

Let's go back in and share the screen

and I'm gonna show you,

and I'm gonna take you to Converkit's demo on YouTube.

This is a demo that I created

and this is something that you can easily do yourself.

Create a video demonstration of you

using that product.

So this is a Convertkit demo,

it's been viewed 25,000 times.

And again, this was published in 2015.

So nearly three years ago,

and you can see it's,

you know, actually if you go to YouTube

and you type in Convertkit,

it's actually the first thing that shows up.

Now that didn't happen right away,

but when you provide value,

you are going to be found.

Now let me go back to the camera here

and talk about this with you.

So a demo.

How does this work?

Why does it make sense?

It makes sense because when people wanna buy something

they want to see what it's like first

before they buy it.

People want to buy what they know, right?

Why would people buy stuff that they don't know?

So why not do something like a video demonstration

to give them all the insights

and the insides and how that thing works

so that they can be more comfortable with that purchase.

Some other things here in this demonstration

I'm yes, talking about the product,

but I'm not doing necessarily a review on it.

There's a lot of reviews on things,

and yes you can use a video to do a review as well,

but a demo, a demo shows people how to use it.

So it's not just a review, right?

I'm showing people how to use it.

So this 20-somewhat minute video

walks people through.

So what is my goal?

What is your goal when you're doing a demo?

To show a person how easy it is to use.

So think of even unboxing videos.

There's lots of YouTube channels here

like Unbox Therapy,

other ones with millions of subscribers.

What do those people do?

They literally get a package

and film themselves opening that thing.

And then people are like, oh, I want that,

because they can imagine themselves using it,

and the person demonstrates

how easy it is to use.

And they're like, oh, that's it?

That's all I gotta do?

Well of course.

And then when you provide value and teach at the same time

and you let people know what you do have to

for FTC regulations, you have to let people know that

yes, you do get an affiliate commission

if you go through this link, for example,

which I do in that video and in the description

you need to do that.

Well then people are gonna want to go to that link

because you've helped them out.

You were the one to show them that thing

and that's your job as a person doing affiliate marketing.

There's a product out there that exists in the market.

People are probably buying it already,

but maybe they don't even know it exists,

and there's this audience here

who needs some help or wants that thing or whatever,

your job is to marry the two

and then magic can happen, right?

So that's kind of how this works.

So Amber says I have trouble envisioning

how this would work in the parenting niche.

Think of tools that you might use

or games that you might play with your kids.

You can show people and demonstrate

how you actually play those games.

Every other blogger just promotes a mass of products.

Yes, this is the other thing.

Like, you want to be very selective with the products

that you promote as well.

So that's a demo.

And what do you do with this demo?

Well, first of all, you put it on YouTube.

Definitely put a video on YouTube.

People, they often go to YouTube first

just to look for things, right?

So that's number one.

Number two, every time you mention this product now

on your website,

Mention the demo as well linked to it,

that's gonna create back links back to that video,

which yes, it's gonna be a no follow link

for those in the SEO world,

but it does play a role in everything

and how people find things.

And plus, right, like if you mention this product,

people are gonna be like oh, Convertkit,

I don't know.

Well there's a demo.

I'll actually go see what it looks like.

So now I have this demo, which is very high value,

plus it's my voice,

you don't even need to put your face on the video,

and people are hearing me

and they're hearing how I teach

and they're seeing how easy it is to use.

While I'm also building a relationship

with them at the same time.

And so that can be helpful for people

who are on your website.

Whenever I mention it on a podcast,

hey guys, by the way,

there's a Convertkit demo.

I'll link to it in the show notes for you

so you can see exactly how easy this is to use.

So see, I put the benefit in there as well.

So that's the video demo.

So keep that in mind.

That's the strategy number one.

So let's go back into the computer here

and look at the next strategy.

This is a very simple thing you can do.

This is most profitable page on Smart Passive Income

and it has been every single year in existence,

and that is the resource page.

This is a page on your website

that has a list of resources

that have been tools that you've used that you recommend.

So you can see it's actually broken down

into different sections.

If I scroll down to the

Start Email Marketing and List Building section,

boom, there's Convertkit.

There's a little bit of a paragraph there behind there.

I actually should link to the demo here as well.

I don't know why it's not doing that, but it should.

And then you can click on this link

to be an affiliate.

Now of course the affiliate disclosure is

at the top of this page,

but a resource page is a very, very good

thing to have on your website

because, guess what?

It's a very passive strategy.

People will often go to the resource page

because it's a list of resources.

People love tools and resources

to help them fast-forward their results.

And so also, it's something that you can just

mention in passing anywhere.

On your podcast,

hey guys, if you want to check out the list of

all the amazing resources that I'm using right now

to help me with X, Y and Z.

Check out my resource page.

It's at smartpassiveincome.com/resources.

You talk about a particular tool on a blog post,

even though it might not be that tool,

you can say and by the way,

we have a list of other tools

that you can find that I vetted,

that I have experience with,

that I have demonstrations on

on my resource page at smartpassiveincome.com/resources.

So let's see here.

Where's the best place to find out

what companies pay out to an affiliate?

Well, I would actually start with

what products you use

and then check to see if they have an affiliate program.

Sometimes they do.

Often times they do.

Sometimes they don't.

If they don't, it might not just be public.

So you can actually reach out to them and say hey,

I have this audience,

I'd love to promote your product.

Do you have an affiliate program?

Often also known as a partner program

or a referral program, just so you know.

So, some companies don't know what affiliate means,

but you can use the words referral program

or partner program too.

Alright, let's keep going here.

We got some more stuff to show you.

So going into the computer.

So here is another video.

And you can see here it says

How to Start An Email List Tutorial Video 1.

But there's also tutorial video two.

Tutorial video three.

Tutorial video four.

Somebody unsubscribe just to see if

this number went down, you're funny.

I love you guys.

Team Flynn for the win.

So there's six videos here in the series,

and remember I said earlier,

you can teach a whole process

and it just so happens that

as a part of that process you mention this tool.

Super high value,

super shareable,

super Googleable,

meaning it will be something that's high in resource

that can be found in search,

or YouTubeable if you will.

So this is video one.

And this is where I mention okay,

this is why email,

building an email list is important,

and here's the tool that I recommend.

Video two,

Convertkit's not mentioned in here at all.

It's part of a process right?

How to get more email subscribers.

Video three, strategies to get more email subscribers.

Number four, how to setup an auto-responder series,

number five, how to setup a broadcast email.

So even though I don't specifically mention Convertkit

in those emails for example,

I do use Convertkit as the demoing software.

But I always say, it doesn't matter what software you use.

This will be helpful for you,

but of course people see me using Convertkit,

they want to follow the same thing,

they're gonna use the same tools too.

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Okay, so let's keep going here.

So, a part of a series that can be very shareable.

Now of course you would want to also,

what do you do with that series?

Well,

put that on your blog.

Why wouldn't you, right?

It's a tutorial, high-end, it's a video.

So make a tutorial on your blog as well.

And guess what?

You link to these videos in these tutorials.

So basically, you can repurpose this content

in many different ways

and get more bang for your buck.

More results from the efforts that you have.

So here is a tutorial.

How to Start an Email List in 2018.

I literally just update this every year

and change the date.

So I do update it,

but you know, this makes it so that

it seems more relevant to right now, which it is.

So that's just a little side strategy for you.

As you can see it was updated and published

in February of 2018,

even though this was a post

that was originally written in 2009.

I've since changed email service providers,

so that has changed,

and it just makes a person feel comfortable

that this is something that is up-to-date.

So, a lot of information here, right?

Very high-end tutorial.

Longer posts get often shared more.

Adds more watch time and session time on your website,

but here we are!

Here are the videos!

The same exact videos that were on YouTube

and guess what?

Here is the Convertkit check,

and by the way, Amber says,

I just watched that series and it was amazing.

Thank you, Amber, I appreciate that.

So again, having a series of videos

which helps on YouTube specifically right,

especially if they're on a playlist

and slight tip for those of you who do YouTube,

if you have a series of videos that teaches something,

share the link to that playlist

whenever you mention it.

Not just the single first video.

Because, if it's in a playlist,

it looks like a playlist

and a person will automatically go

from number one to number two.

It will automatically suggest that.

They're all there.

It keeps people in there

which keeps people on YouTube longer,

which keeps people watching your videos longer,

which just helps you in the algorithm.

So that's what I wanted to share with that.

Alright let's keep going here, guys.

You guys are great, thank you so much.

Just checking, and actually let's take a quick

where are you from break,

'cause I like to break up that,

do pattern interrupts,

so just tell me really quick in the chat

where you're from,

are we out some places in just a minute

as I keep going here.

So where are you from?

Awesome, let's keep going.

So we are now into this video.

Excuse the screenshot,

although I did purposefully put this in here

'cause I look really weird and funny,

but here we go.

The Top Five Email Marketing Third Party Tools.

Gosh, we got people watching from Calgary,

Portugal, London, are there any US people in here?

Oh, okay, cool.

A lot of them, actually.

Texas, San Diego, thanks guys.

Appreciate you being here and participating

and being a part of Team Flynn.

Okay, so let's keep going with this.

The top five email marketing third party tools.

Well, let me just,

I wanted to just show you this video really quick.

Now I'm gonna come back to me.

So a list of resources.

People love lists of resources,

so what is in that video?

So I talk about OptinMonster

which is a tool,

I talk about Leadpages,

I talk about Hello Bar

and a few other tools in and around email marketing, right?

So yes, those provide often

affiliate marketing opportunities too,

but they don't have to.

One of those tools is Convertkit.

So even if a person already has an email service provider,

right, they don't need the Convertkit tip,

but they got the four other ones

that are high value that they might not know about

or might not have gotten access to yet.

But, it becomes a shareable post

that even if people use Active Campaign or Aweber,

they might even still share that post with their audience.

And now new people are coming

who are going to see my recommendation for Convertkit.

And so if they get value

and they might dive into my demo,

it just becomes a way to not directly,

but still allow for a Convertkit link

and promotion to be put in there.

So you can see how it kind of like

indirectly in and around these other products

and don't just pick four random products.

You still want them to obviously be helpful,

and it doesn't have to be five either.

It could be top three,

top ten, top nine, seven,

whatever, odd numbers tend to do very well,

at least on YouTube and on blogs.

One of those can be your main focus product

because these kinds of posts

get shared very often.

So I have seen a lot of conversions on this video

and then also a corresponding blog post

that is exactly the same thing.

So again, a nice way to kind of

insert that link again

in a way that's not just like

hey guys, Convertkit again, here it is!

But no, yeah, it is a recommended tool,

but there are other tools in there as well.

Awesome, let's keep going here.

That is the recommended tool.

This is converted very well.

This is a podcast interview with Nathan Barry in episode 244

and as you can see,

it's Bootstrapping a Startup with Nathan Barry

from Convertkit.

So, what is this, what is this?

Affiliate marketing is difficult

because you are telling people

to go buy from somebody else

or a company that's not you, right?

Now I do recommend you approach affiliate marketing

by recommending products as if they were your own,

but the honest truth is they are not your own product.

That's the benefit,

you don't have to spend time to create them.

The customer service is already taken care of,

mostly, after a person buys, right?

Because that's the company's responsibility.

So, again, very important that you pick companies

that you know are gonna take care of your people, right?

Because if you recommend something just for the money

and that product is terrible,

you're never gonna have that person

take a recommendation from you ever again.

So anyway, kind of getting off a tangent here.

Now the hard thing is,

you're telling people to go buy from somebody else,

so what's the best way to get a person to trust

that other company or trust that other person?

To hear their voice.

To get to know them.

So whether it's a blog interview,

but I prefer a video or podcasting especially

'cause it's very intimate.

There's a lot more motion there.

You can tell stories.

This is how I get people to fall in love,

not just with Convertkit,

but for the person who is behind Convertkit.

So when a person is asking themselves,

well, yeah, I don't know about this company,

but they hear,

so if a person is like,

oh, I don't know about this company,

but I like this person,

then they're gonna be more likely to follow through.

Now also, Nathan does a good job of

let's see, I'm just making sure we're all good.

Germany in the house, nice, awesome.

Seven blessings in the house.

I always see you on these streams,

I love it, thank you.

Been consuming your content for years, Pat,

says welcometocrypto.

Well welcometo, you're awesome, thank you.

I appreciate that.

So when it comes to these stories,

that's where it's at.

So if you can invite somebody on your podcast

who happens to be the founder

or somebody who works at the product that you promote,

even though that episode is not a

hey guys, go buy Convertkit now kind of thing,

it's not hard at all.

You're telling a story,

and Nathan's story is great.

He bootstrap this company.

He almost gave up on it.

He was just at 2,000 dollars a month for years

until he finally went all in with it

and he talks about how a person in the startup world

told him to give up,

like all these things

and now we fall in love with Nathan,

therefor we now trust that product recommendation.

Make sense?

Make sense?

Give me a random emoji if that makes sense to you.

It is seriously an incredibly powerful

under-utilized strategy to invite a person on in some way

and introduce their story

and it just so happens that

it just is the person that matches that product.

So, give me an emoji.

I'd love to see a random emoji from you.

Thanks, guys.

Okay, so let's keep going here.

We are rocking through.

And so

alright.

What else?

Well, a webinar.

I'm not gonna go too long into this,

because this does require a lot of coordination

and timing and it's definitely not passive,

that's for sure.

But coordinating a webinar

with another person who's promoting something

is a great way to achieve the same thing

that I just talked about with a podcast

but in a live setting,

answering questions a person

can get to know the person behind the product or you

and there's some training involved.

Kind of it combines all the things

we just talked about into one.

So, webinars I've done with Convertkit

have done very well.

But I also want to show you this.

Email marketing checklist.

Okay, okay.

So isn't this for people who already have email marketing?

Yes.

But this is converted really well.

So I want you to think about this.

Let me come back on screen here.

So email marketing checklist.

Ten things you can see

if you're actually doing

that you should be doing with email marketing.

Okay.

Point number one, are you doing this?

Point number two, are you making it personal?

Point number three, four, five.

Well, how do I promote Convertkit with a checklist

if Convertkit is for people

who don't even have email marketing?

Well, points eight and nine

are about things that only Convertkit can do.

So by offering an audit to your audience,

you're providing a lot of value.

You're allowing them to not just read a post,

but walk through it to see yeah, I did that,

I did that.

What does a person wanna do?

They wanna nail all 10 things, right?

So you give them an audit to go through.

You're being helpful because

what if they didn't get point number one and two?

Well you're helping them,

you're providing value.

But points eight and nine

are like, you know, the segmentation

and tagging portions of your email.

Are you segmenting your audience based on interest

and warmth, like are they hot, are they cold.

They're just finding you for the first time

or are they somebody on your list who

has engaged with you in some waay.

So I get to points eight and nine,

and I don't specifically mention that,

hey guys, you should get Convertkit because guess what?

That's the tool that's gonna make this happen,

but it's implied because I'm showing you examples

on Converkit and I do mention

by the way, I use Convertkit to achieve these things.

And that's it.

So by offering, guys, this is been,

like as I was doing research for this livestream

or for the replay for those of you watching the replay,

I didn't even realize how powerful

this particular post was.

So a checklist or an audit

to have people go through one by one.

It's very engaging, right?

They're on there, they're checking things,

can be done in a video as well.

But then points eight and nine are like

the things that that tool

or that program or that course

or that you know game or that product

can only do.

Cool?

So that makes it really interesting,

because people then see wow,

I don't have the ability to do that,

so this has been one that has converted people

from MailChimp, it's converted people from Aweber.

And again, am I being snarky about it?

Am I being like a snake oil salesman?

No, I'm providing value at the same time,

but just kind of in a ninja-like fashion

showing people well here's why Convertkit

might be a smart move for you at this point,

and that's done very well for me.

Yeah, and this is the second live,

because the first one I had a lot of

technical glitches and I couldn't show you

the screenshots and things here in my system.

Okay and then finally,

this is the last one,

and then I have a couple questions to ask you

and then I'm gonna award a winner

to those of you watching live

and that's a Ask Pat T-shirt

and a signed copy of Will It Fly?

And also for you replay viewers,

I'll ask you a question as well.

So we're gonna go into the computer one more time.

And I wanna show you this.

This is a landing page for a challenge.

Challenges are great because that gets people to move.

You get a lot more email subscribers

in a short period of time.

People like challenges,

because they're like okay,

I don't have to do this forever.

It'll just take me, you know,

this one is a 72-hour or three day challenge

to help a person go from zero emails to 100 emails.

Now in this particular challenge,

I show people some manual ways to do this.

Very much inspired by Bryan Harris from Videofruit,

to build their email list.

They don't even, I don't even talk about Convertkit.

The first portion of this,

so what happens in this challenge

is people subscribe to the challenge

then they get emails every single day for three days

that walk them through how to slowly

and then hopefully build momentum

to build their email list to 100

by the end of three days.

So what happens at the end of three days?

They have this email list of 100

that they literally have in a spreadsheet or something,

they need somewhere to put it.

So I say, hey guys,

by the way, if you are ready to move to the next steps

to get into an email service provider

to help you manage this,

send emails out to everybody, et cetera,

here's the one I recommend.

Here's a demo for it.

Here's some more information about it,

and here is a 30-day free trial

so that you can test it out and try it out.

And that's been working really well.

Now initially, this challenge was done live,

meaning I wrote the emails in a broadcast

as people were going through it, right?

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