Do I Have The Right Attitude For Affiliate Marketing Success?

  • Am I willing to learn?
  • Am I curious?
  • Do I commit to NOT giving up until I have learned what I need to learn?
  • Am I ready to view setbacks as fun challenges?
  • Am I ready to measure my initial success in terms of what I learned?

Picking The Right Niche

  • List out all my interests (test: would I talk about these even if I’m not getting paid?)
  • Is there enough commercial interest in this niche?
  • Is there enough consumer demand for this niche?
  • Is the competition level for this niche manageable?
  • Is this trend’s demand trending UP or is STABLE?
  • Are there dedicated open areas on social media for this niche
  • Can I produce content easily and CHEAPLY for this niche?
Find And Sign Up For Niche Specific Affiliate Programs The Right Way
  • Use Offer Vault to find all affiliate programs in your target niche
  • Filter programs in terms of …ease of conversion (per sale vs per email collected vs per click)…payout (EPC)
  • Flexibility of promo materials
  • Existence of promo materials
Find And Reverse Engineer Your Competitors
  • Use Google to find all your niche competitors
  • Enter all relevant niche keywords to find all competitors
  • Reverse engineer the ‘industry standard’ from your competitors’ sites and content….how they convert traffic (platform aka blog? Search platform? Directory? Direct link?)…. layout content (hot topics and themes shared by most of your competitors
Create Content That Has A Compelling Selling Proposition
  • Get a competitive edge by making sure of the following (in comparison to your competitors’ content)….up to date….longer….better explained…. easier to read….multimedia bells and whistles more comprehensive
Generating Traffic For Your Conversion Platform
  • Generate responsive social media traffic by reverse engineering your competitor on social media
  • Find your competitors on all social media platforms
  • Focus only on the social media platforms where MOST of your competitors are found Figure out their influencer base
  • Figure out their social media distribution areas  List out all their hashtags
The Smart Way To Build Credibility On Social Media
  • Sandwich your BEST content with topnotch 3rd party content
  • Get a massive list of topnotch 3rd party content (verified by social signals)
Pump Traffic From As Many FREE Sources As Possible
  • Quora
  • Reddit
  • Social media
  • YouTube
  • Blog outreach (i.e. they published a link to content similar to yours – reach out to get included  in their lists
Optimize Your Traffic Conversion
  • Stop low performing traffic sources
  • Focus on the top 3 or top 5 that work
  • Optimize these
Optimization Checklist
  • Element by element approach
  • Make variations
  • Test
  • Pick winning variation
  • Vary the variation
  • Test
  • Pick winner
  • Repeat until no further improvement in conversion
  • Pick another element and repeat the process
  • Go through all elements