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4 years ago, each morning when I woke up and realized I had another 8-hour day at work ahead of me with the same repetitive, boring tasks, I could feel my soul screaming “YOU NEED TO STOP THIS! I CAN’T DO THIS ANYMORE!!!”.

I literally felt like a prisoner in my own life because I had no choice but to waste my time doing things I didn’t enjoy doing, just to be able to pay the bills… It just didn’t make sense to me that this is what life is supposed to be like. I was desperate to become free!

Long story short; probably hundreds of Google searches later I stumbled across Affiliate Marketing and in the last 2,5 years, I’ve made a full-time income as an affiliate. I haven’t spent half as much time working as I did as an employee, PLUS, it hasn’t even felt like working because I work on things I’m passionate about.

In this comprehensive guide, I will walk you through How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing, and what to do to kick-start your journey and become a Super Affiliate!

In my opinion, affiliate marketing is really The Ultimate Business Model when it comes to getting started online as a beginner, but also to setting yourself up for a life with the maximum amount of freedom and flexibility.

Table of contents:

• What is Affiliate Marketing?
• How Does Affiliate Marketing Make You Money?
• Pros and Cons
• Conclusion
• How To Get Started

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What is Affiliate Marketing?

Very simply put, this is where you get paid commissions for helping other businesses and brands promote and sell more of their products and services.

One of the reasons affiliate marketing is so powerful in today’s world is that almost every major brands, businesses, and websites have affiliate programs to sign up for. This means you can easily work with products, services, or businesses that you are truly aligned with.

As an example, you can be an affiliate for Amazon.com and you can recommend or endorse any product that you can imagine on this platform. It could be a camera, makeup, something in the health and fitness niche, clothing – whatever products you have an interest in and love yourself. This is just one website with millions of products that you can earn commission by endorsing.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Make You Money?

To be able to earn commissions as an affiliate marketer you sign up for an affiliate program.

When you sign up, you get a unique advertising link that you can share on for example a website, a blog, social media platforms, etc. For anybody who goes through that link to the company’s website and makes a purchase, you earn a percentage of commission for the referrals of those products.

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1. You show an ad or share your link, for example on your blog, website, or social media platform.
2. Someone clicks your unique affiliate link.
3. The person purchases on that company’s website.
4. You get paid a commission.

How much commission you earn on each sale varies depending on the company and the offer. Average commissions for digital products is 30-40% and for physical products, it’s 5-10%. For some digital products, you can see even up to 50% commissions.

Some affiliate programs will pay you long after you make the sale on any subscription income they gain, and any upsells they make as well. This means one referral can be worth literally THOUSANDS!

As you build your affiliate business, you can scale up by partnering with multiple companies and promoting a range of products and services. If you use strategies like Authority Marketing in your business, you can automate large parts of your work. This means that, over time, you can have multiple streams of income coming in on autopilot.

You’re probably familiar with the expression “making money while you sleep”. You might be skeptical but it’s really just about learning to leverage online tools and systems that automate the selling process for you.

To receive more in-depth training on Affiliate Marketing and how to start an Affiliate Business from scratch:

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Pros And Cons Of Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is definitely worth your time, especially considering its rising popularity. The global affiliate marketing industry is worth over $17 billion and is expected to grow to a market size of $27.78B by 2027.

One of the best parts of this business venture is that it can be very low-cost, allowing you to potentially reap significant profits. However, it’s important to weigh the pros and cons of entering the affiliate marketing world before diving in headfirst.

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Pros

Freedom & flexibility: You can work wherever you want, whenever you want, anywhere in the world – all you need is a laptop and an internet connection. Additionally, with the tools and systems available online today, you no longer need to trade all your time for money. Once you have the system set up, you can have your business run pretty much on autopilot.

No limit to how much you can earn: There are no limits to how much you can earn. In other words, you can write your own paycheck. There are affiliate marketers that make millions of millions a year doing affiliate marketing – it’s all up to you how much you want to earn.

Fun and meaningful work: It gives you the ability to build an income around your hobbies, interests, or an actual deep-life passion. When you align yourself with products, services, and brands that you are truly aligned with, things that you are excited to work on, this results in work becoming fun and meaningful.

No fulfillment on your part: You don’t have to ship or store anything. You don’t have to provide any customer service, and you don’t have to set up any of the technical stuff like merchant accounts, taking payments, etc.

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Cons

Competition: There’s a lot of competition in the affiliate marketing space which can make it hard to stand out and make sales if you don’t know how to market and sell effectively online. But if you learn to use proven strategies like Authority Marketing, you will never struggle to get customers and make sales.

Commission rates can be low: Some affiliate programs offer low commission rates, which means you will need to sell a lot of products to earn a decent income. However, high-ticket items with larger profit margins make it a lot easier to earn a substantial income with fewer sales, even though these products may have lower conversion rates.

It’s also worth exploring affiliate programs with recurring commissions, where you earn commission every time a customer you referred makes a purchase, not just the first time. Some affiliate programs even offer “lifetime commissions”, meaning if a person buys a product through your unique affiliate link once, you will get paid for every purchase this person makes “for a lifetime”.

Requires time and effort: Affiliate marketing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It takes time, effort, and dedication to learn and to build your business if you want something that is going to serve you for a very long time. However – If you put in the work once with setting everything up and getting it up and running, you will have a business that’s working for you 24/7, whether you’re working or not.

Relies on the success of the company: When you promote a company’s products or services as an affiliate, your success is tied to the success of that company. If the company’s products or services are not in demand or the company goes out of business, your income as an affiliate may be impacted.

The solution to this is to partner with multiple companies and promote a range of products and services. This means that over time, you can have multiple streams of income coming in and reduce your reliance on a single company, product, or service.

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Conclusion

In my opinion, Affiliate Marketing is really The Ultimate Lifestyle Business Model if you want to set yourself up for a life with the maximum amount of freedom and flexibility. This is one of the most popular solutions for people who are sick and tired of trading their time for money.

If you wish to build an income online that enables you to spend more time doing what you love with the people who matter most to you, this is the perfect solution.

It’s also great for people who have no previous experience or special skills, and it’s one of the fastest ways to start earning a legitimate and long-lasting income online. Even if you are a complete newbie.

For many people, this all sounds too good to be true but remember: This is NOT some kind of “push this button and watch the money rolling in” type of thing. This is a real legitimate business model.

If you take advantage of modern tools, technology, and strategies, you can automate a lot of the heavy lifting and thus have a lot more freedom in your life.

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What it comes down to if you want to become a highly successful affiliate business (or really any type of online business) is having the proper online marketing skills.

Having the right foundation and the right skills is really what will make or break the success of your business.

My advice, if you decide that this is something you want to do, is that you learn under a concept.

Make sure you have coaches and mentors, and that you have all the tools and resources in one place so that you can make it as easy as possible to set up, launch, and grow your business. 

How To Get Started:

To receive more in-depth training on Affiliate Marketing and how to start an Affiliate Business from scratch:

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This will give you access to a 45-minute Affiliate Marketing Workshop, and a complete introduction to the strategy of Authority Marketing (the strategy that will make you stand out and make you a highly successful affiliate marketer).

If you have any questions, just send me an email to anna@anna-jansson.com and I’ll be more than happy to help you!

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