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Are you thinking about trying out affiliate marketing because you've just seen all of these videos about insane earnings and how easy it is and so on and so forth
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If that sounds like you, then you're going to want to listen up. I'm Ivana Taylor. I'm the publisher of DIY Marketers and the host of the popular Bizapalooza Chat
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And today what I'd like to do is sort of share with you some thoughts about affiliate marketing
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and to help you decide if affiliate marketing is something that is right for you
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Now, when you see all of these videos, the first thing you want to say is put your cynical
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hat on and make sure that you look and check each one of these experts
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Dig in. Do not just take them at their word. There is a lot. You know, one of the most popular questions out there is, is affiliate marketing a scam
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Affiliate marketing is not a scam. However, there are a lot of scammy people pushing affiliate marketing
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But the purpose of today's video is really, I was sitting down
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I've had several people ask me about affiliate marketing. and I decided to sit down and try to explain it to everyone
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And one of the first things that I wanted to do is I started looking for experts
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Now, let me be clear. If you ask for an expert, you're gonna get this list
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You're gonna get this list of all these affiliate marketers. But a lot of these people that are on this list
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are celebrities. expertise these are people that have been doing it for decades and decades yes they've been
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successful yes they're very good at what they do but i'm going to tell you right away they have
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kind of moved on into selling other things and training and maybe going into media and so on and
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so forth right uh the one i'm still often following and i trust the most is uh pat flynn
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He's one of the people I trust quite a bit. There's Miles Beckler
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We'll be covering him. And I'm going to share with you some folks that aren't as well known that I have found
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to be talking about affiliate marketing in truly the most authentic way
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So I'm going to recommend to you some YouTube channels and some experts that I think you
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should be following if you are interested in affiliate marketing. So we talked about Miles Beckler and here he is What you want to do is when you get to his channel you want to scroll down until you find this affiliate marketing
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now there is a very specific video that he did that talks about the five big
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lies I'm gonna have a link to that here so you can watch this again these are
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people that have been doing this a long time and they are absolutely open and honest about what it
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takes to get there, especially if you have nothing. Another person I liked is this woman called Rachel
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S. Lee. She's made a lot of money by promoting ClickFunnels, for example, and she too has a lot
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of content. But there is one video that she did called The Truth About Affiliate Marketing
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and where she lays it out. I mean, just look at this image of her. She is in her office and she
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is just telling you what her life is like and what kind of work it takes to actually make money with
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affiliate marketing. So please listen to all of these people carefully. uh this here is buildapreneur and he again has a whole bunch of contact on all kinds of other
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things but he does have a playlist about affiliate marketing and i want you to notice that all of
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these clickable uh headlines are designed to be exactly that they want to reach people like you
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and they want you to buy their program and that is all okay but there's something that I learned
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and that is you want to find that video there's Miles Beckler again oh I want to find this guy's
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video you want to find the video where they're telling you exactly what's so where are my experts
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Here we are. Here he is. Build a preneur. This is the one you want to watch. And I think I've started to look at this as a qualifier. If I'm going to follow an affiliate expert, I want to know that there is at least one video that they do that lays out the truth
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and this is what it takes you're gonna find out if you watch enough of these
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you gonna see that they all kind of telling you the same thing okay so you want to find and make sure that they have a lot of these clicks I oh I will have this other one too I
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really want to share with you where is he this guy here Alston Godbolt he
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actually just recently did a liar video where he also lays it on the line there's
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One other thing I want to talk about with my friend here, Alston, is that he has this fabulous section called I Tried It
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So this is where he is going through TikTok and Instagram and pulling out very, very specific offers or pitches
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And he's actually trying them out. And one of the things that you need to keep in mind is that, again, this guy has an audience
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This guy has experience and he's going to tell you exactly. And he's even going to break down the numbers so you could learn a lot from him about how
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to qualify an affiliate marketing or another business opportunity, how to go through and
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do the math because he's done all that. So definitely want to look for something like that
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And the last woman I want to cover here is Camille Collazo. I really like her video as well
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She's done one of these. And in this one, she too outlines exactly what it takes
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And she's not just talking about affiliate marketing. She's just talking about passive income, digital products
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all these things that people are telling you are easy money makers
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They are not. everything requires work she goes through this entire process and she explains it to you in just
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wonderful plain English so if there's anything I want you to get from this particular video
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it's that one do your research do not just jump into something that you've seen on TikTok
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talk. Number two, do not buy anything. If you were to just follow these links that I've given you
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what you're going to find is that a lot of these experts that I just pulled out are the first
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people to tell you not to buy anything. Do not buy anything until maybe you feel ready to buy
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something Okay number three when you looking at experts do your due diligence Find that person root them out look at their websites look at all the things Remember there a lot of editing
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going on. There's a lot of misrepresentation going on. There's a lot of omission going on
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So one quick way, my little hack for finding true experts is that if someone is truly an authentic
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expert they're not going to be afraid to do a video like this and not only do they have at least
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one video like this uh you they um are uh they're going to have a lot of other things but they're
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going to be open and oh they're going to have a whole platform right there's going to be hundreds
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of videos they're going to have lots of followers they're going to have a lot of engagement and
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they're going to have at least one video that talks about the truth of the matter. And finally
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do the math. Whatever it is that these people are telling you to do before you spend any money
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before you take any time, please just do the math. I'm going to leave you with this very, very
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simple guideline of thinking about affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing requires two
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things. It requires volume. Volume of content, volume of traffic, and what else did I say here
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Volume of content, volume of traffic, and a lot of people, right? Audience and traffic. So
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you've got to have these two things. And secondly, you have to have credibility
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Right? So what that means is you can't just like sell anything. You need to know who you are. You
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have to have some area of expertise, a hobby, a skill, something that you know a lot about so that
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you can authentically find an audience and build that audience so that you can create a lot of
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content about this. If you don't know a lot about something, it's going to be really difficult for
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you to create content about this thing. And that's another thing that you're going to notice with all
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the truly successful affiliate marketers out there. They are good at something and they are very clear
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about what they're good at. They've built an audience around what they're good at and they
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are promoting the products that they know, like, and trust. And that's how they have built the know
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like and trust in themselves. I hope this really helps you as you go around exploring and checking
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out and doing your due diligence with affiliate marketing
