Summary
To succeed in affiliate marketing, decide first if you want to focus on text (writing) or video (YouTube/TikTok). Choose what you enjoy; this will keep you motivated and consistent.
If you prefer text-based strategies, consider PPC advertising. It involves paying for clicks on ads and can be effective if you negotiate higher commission rates with affiliate managers.
Start with small budgets in PPC to test the waters. Aim to break even first and then optimize for higher returns through tweaks in ads and landing pages.
Blogging is another text-based option that relies on SEO and organic traffic. Write about product comparisons and reviews, using keywords like "best" and other product terms to get traffic intending to buy.
For effective blogging, use 2-4 affiliate links per product in your content. You can also add affiliate links to informational content where relevant.
Starting a blog is affordable; you can use services like Bluehost to get a domain and hosting for as low as $1.99/month.
If you're inclined towards video, YouTube is a great option. It offers quicker visibility than blog posts and is less competitive for many niches.
A successful YouTube affiliate marketing strategy doesn't require fancy production; simple, informative videos can work well. Mention affiliate links early in your videos and include them in the description.
TikTok Shop is another avenue for video-based affiliate marketing. It involves creating short product review videos and linking them to TikTok Shop for commissions.
For TikTok, engaging, short videos with lots of cuts and visual interest are key. Consider using trending products or themes for greater visibility.
Success in video platforms comes from building and scaling your audience. Focus on creating engaging content with good thumbnails, titles, and consistent publishing.
Regardless of the method, effective affiliate marketing requires scaling your audience first. Concentrate on creating valuable content and growing your platform.
Remember, affiliate marketing is a math game: the more views and clicks you generate, the more potential sales you make. Always focus on building and optimizing your content to drive traffic.
Think long-term and big-picture; aim for $10,000 a month goals instead of small, immediate earnings. Stay committed, be patient, and continuously improve and pivot your strategy as needed.
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How To Take Action
I would suggest starting by choosing whether you want to work with text or video for affiliate marketing. This keeps you excited and consistent. If you like writing or prefer staying behind the scenes, text-based methods are your go-to. You can create a blog or use PPC advertising with small budgets to test and optimize. In blogging, focus on writing product comparisons and use popular keywords like "best" to attract potential buyers organically. Use about 2-4 affiliate links for each product within your posts.
For blogging, you can set up your site affordably using services like Bluehost. It's important to be patient and keep tweaking for better results.
If you are video-inclined, YouTube or TikTok are excellent platforms to start with. YouTube can provide quicker visibility. Simple, informative videos work well and you can add affiliate links in video descriptions. Mention these links early in your videos to encourage clicks. TikTok, on the other hand, suits those who can create engaging, short videos with dynamic cuts and visual appeal. Trending products or themes might boost visibility.
Remember, whatever method you choose, building an audience is crucial. Continuously create useful content to attract more clicks and potential sales. Always keep a long-term perspective, aiming for bigger goals and improving your strategies.
Quotes by Author
"Affiliate marketing is selling other people's products"
"No matter what you do, you have to actually enjoy the process"
"You don't need to just have a tiny Niche site"
"You can't golf without clubs"
"Think in terms of how am I going to make $10,000 a month or more"
Full Transcript
in this video I'm covering how to make money with affiliate marketing ways that actually work today so things like Tik Tok Shop YouTube blogging and paid ads and a lot more so no matter your personality no matter your experience level you'll understand the best path for you to get your first $110,000 a month in 2025 so look a lot of people get discouraged right you don't get approved into affiliate programs at all or you just can't get traffic at all that's very common now as someone who's made over $3 million from affiliate marketing and before that being an affiliate manager for a large tech company I know a lot about this topic and a lot has changed with AI content Tik Tok paid ad strategies and so much more so if you're looking to get started in 2025 once and for all make money once and for all this video is for you let's get into it so we all know affiliate marketing is selling other people's products people click on your affiliate links they get to a product they buy it you get a commission on that sale you don't need your own product to sell it you just link to others and get commissions it's great because you don't need a huge audience yet it dictates your initial content strategy whether you're creating videos or text based posts you just need ongoing and consistent clicks on your affiliate links it's a big math game right we don't want to get 100 clicks on our affiliate links one month make a few bucks and then the next month there's nothing so we need consistency we need an approach so the big question first how do I get consistent and ongoing clicks on my affiliate links to make money every single month well there's four ways we're going to cover in this video but first we have to make a key decision because there are multiple ways to make money with affiliate marketing we have to think do we want to do it in one of two ways this is the first decision am I going to go the text route or the video route am I going to be text which is like behind the scenes I don't want to show my face I just want to do this with writing and typing stuff or do you want to go the video route I want to do this on YouTube I want to do this on Tik Tok I want to get people to actually see and review products so really like are you more comfortable typing things are you good at writing or you just hate it are you better on camera are you better at making videos which one should you do because no matter what you do you have to actually enjoy the process you don't want to be miserable doing something that you hate so we're going to cover the pros and cons of each option know that if you want to make money faster some of the ways to do that would be through video because like YouTube adding links in a YouTube description is going to be inherently faster than waiting for a blog post to rank on Google right or paid ads is immediate but you're risking and spending a little bit of your own money or Tik Tok videos and things like that could get views right away but you just have to know kind of how to do them and be comfortable making those types of videos consistently first we're going to cover the behind the-scenes text based ways to make money with affiliate marketing in 2025 first one I'm going to cover is PPC pay-per-click advertising this is an Arbitrage game bidding for keywords being placed on Google and hoping you make more money in affiliate commissions than you spend on the actual clicks so if you literally type any major product category you're going to see a bunch of ads so I put in like smart home security and besides like these Google local ads these are what I'm talking about here these sponsored is really the only thing that shows that it's an ad we have Allied Home Security Backstreet surveillance and all of these things PC mag is the first organic result but as you see like one of the ads you click here and it's homecity systems.net so this is the PPC strategy for affiliate rank for product categories create a comparison chart type of page where you don't need an entire SEO optimized blog post you can pretty much just have a landing page that's optimized for affiliate link clicks that is what this one is here homecity systems.net typically companies will just create a bunch of these individual small mini websites and landing pages to pay for the traffic get clicks on the affiliate links and make more money on the back end and you'll notice this once you start Googling stuff another one is like RV Insurance so you can see consumer advocate here number one for RV Insurance going to a page again a comparison chart they're going to look a little different but it's pretty much the same format meal delivery services is another one and we see this is Forbes number one so even Forbes CNN USA Today they're all running paid ads for PPC affiliate marketing literally so you'll see they're all it's the same format comparison chart get clicks for as cheap as possible highly effective ones that will convert and then get them to click on these this right here to then make money for affiliate marketing so it's an Arbitrage game it's a game of spend money to immediately get clicks to immediately get traffic so what happens though is it's a totally different business model than blogging or YouTube or Tik Tok or anything like that the math typically breaks unless you negotiate much higher commission rates so for example if a meal delivery service is only paying me say $100 when somebody signs up like for home Chef well what if I you know it's going to you know only like 2% of people typically convert on stuff so I'd have to have 50 clicks on my affiliate link here in order to maybe generate one sale so maybe that 50 clicks it costs me like $200 in ads to get those clicks and I only make 100 so now I'm losing money every single time what happens though if they'll pay you $300 every time you make a sale now all of a sudden it's costing You2 200 maybe 250 to get a sale and you're making $3 to $400 right now the math actually works so with PPC what typically happens is a company does this strategically they have a kind of a sales type of person that will go into new product categories talk to companies in the niche say they're going to bring them a ton of traffic because I'm going to start this ad strategy can you give me a higher commission rate and they negotiate and it's a game of negotiation over the course of months and then years to make sure that this thing is working now what's nice about PPC is once it's set up it's highly passive once that thing's set up and running and it's optimized it just keeps running at a certain Roi it usually from my experience doing this it takes about a month to optimize a PPC campaign night then after that if you can get it working then it's just little tweaks over the course of time to optimize the conversion rate and make it work and all of that stuff so the key is to find things that aren't too competitive things that are newer because much like SEO gets more competitive over time PPC can too because the longer products have been around and PPC companies are bidding on it the higher the bids go the more every cost every click costs you the lower your Roi so it's kind of this game and you'll notice different companies will find new categories so they'll you'll see if you look at like HRS has PPC data or spyfu is another PPC data tool you can kind of see like what are the keywords that like I put in top 10.com which is a big PPC affiliate like what are the keywords that they're doing well they you can see they like they did free dating sites was one but then they might have removed it ring security system was removed but Identity Theft Protection is when they added so maybe you know this isn't always accurate you can kind of get Clues from this though of hey maybe this one car warranty stuff's working better they remove dating sites and Senior dating sites but like any product category hearing aids internet television POS systems is a new one they're doing so you can see like what are new things like meal meal delivery services that's not new enough but maybe something around AI or something that is completely a new product Cate like VR or Sim racing or things like that maybe that's newer and you can find much cheaper keywords that aren't as competitive really the goal is you break even so the initial goal is you start bidding on keywords and let's say you spend $100 well you want to make $100 back you don't want to go negative on this thing and the good thing is you can test with small budgets so you can spend two three 400 bucks on like a test and be like is this even close to converting is this working at all and if it's not it's really then you can just stop or you know maybe you spent $150 but you got $100 you're a little bit negative but you keep going if you can break even and you spend 100 you make a 100 now all of a sudden now you're just it's you're optimizing now maybe you're tweaking the landing page to get more people to click on your affiliate links you're tweaking you're adding negative keywords into your AdWords account so that you're not getting irrelevant clicks you're changing the location the date and time the the little PPC strategies changing the ads and now you start to see okay now I'm uh spending $100 on clicks I'm making 150 this has happened to me in multiple categories where I break even and then like after a month or two it's like okay actually this went from a 1.2 Roi row as return on ad spend to a 1.7 row as now all of a sudden I'm like okay I know if I spend 10,000 I'll make 177,000 that's pretty good let's keep working on that let's get it to two to one let's get let's spend 10 to make 20 and over the course of time you optimize you find new categories and you do it now this is a completely different business model than the other ones I'm talking about because it requires negotiation it requires talking to these affiliate managers and at least initially asking for a higher commission rate but it's not like you have to go meet with them at a meeting like that's not the level we have to get to yet it's really just sending an email out and saying hey I'm about to do PPC can you increase the commission rate what's your typical commission rate for PPC Affiliates because it is usually higher than your standard SEO Affiliates so we're going to get into organic SEO not just ads but like getting free traffic and trying it that way as well either way either way you're doing AFF marketing through text based stuff you're doing it through Google primarily cuz that's where people actually make purchase decisions so either way you need a website and if you click the Blu host Link in my description below you'll get actually 75% off and you can start a website for just $1.99 a month which is pretty crazy like you can start a full business have your own website have a theme have a design everything for two bucks a month which is pretty cool if you click the link you'll see this best web hosting you click get started now choose the basic plan which is $1.99 you can then put in a website domain or you can just add that later so you can put in like your name I always recommend personal branding for this cuz you can infinitely pivot your strategy you don't need to just have a tiny Niche site but either way you can choose domain later as well that'll take you to the checkout page and you'll see you can check out for a full year for 23 bucks so that's a free domain too you get a free domain name which is normally like 10 bucks you get all that so click that blue host Link in the description below that's my special link you'll get 75% off and start a website for $1.99 a month so let's look at some organic websites ranking and getting free traffic and then making affiliate commissions so I did some different searches here and I'm going to show you so the first search here is home defense shotgun so best home defense shotgun you can see outdoor life is ranking for that the best one's tactical and all of that so the Quick List the Mossberg 590 A1 Remington 870 and you can see that if you click this it's an affiliate link to the actual product itself right easy if I bought one of these you get a commission on that sale so you can see an organic result they're going to look very different it's not just a comparison chart now it's SEO strategies which I have tons of videos on my channel on you actually need the target keyword in the URL in the title in the intro you need to format it a certain way that Google likes so you have different you know the different companies down the list all the information make it as helpful as possible all of these things but you're going to see the layout is always different and that's just based on the website some could have table of contents some could have charts some could just be tax it's really simple it doesn't really matter you just have to know like affiliate marketing on Google is based on search intent so for example if somebody is searching best home defense shotgun then they are searching for a product category they're interested in getting comparisons and information in order to make that buying decision for example a keyword or strategy that would not really make that much affiliate Revenue that I've noticed is like business ideas so somebody searches for business ideas you don't know what kind of business they want to start maybe it's a lawn care company maybe it's a Blog maybe it's a babysitting person right like you just don't know so I have an article on uh the small business ideas it's mainly making ad Revenue because people aren't when they're searching something broad like that on Google people aren't ready to buy something right away so think of the end user that's searching and ready to buy you want somebody who's searching for a product product category that's typically best plus the product term so I have like business ideas is ranking but there's tons of business IDE like start a blog number one and I have this in here and guess what no one's really clicking those affiliate links to start a blog because they searched business ideas they're just looking for ideas so again most you can have other types of keywords too you could have all kinds like you could have like if we go back to home defense shotguns you could have like Mossberg versus Remington all these different or just Mossberg 590 review all of those but the bulk of affiliate revenue is made through these best plus the keywords best home defense shotgun best website builder best web hosting best laptop best credit card those that's where the bulk of affiliate revenue is made let's roll through some more examples so like best snowmobile helmets that's like barely any competition it's quite interesting when you see it like there's not many blogs here it's like reddits in here there's another Forum there's then there's like sites that are actually selling the helmets but there isn't really like there's this guy Dennis Kirk has one uh this is a snowmobile helmet guide not much competition here honestly with these smaller some of these smaller Dr sites like 3230 ranking for that um you can see his Arctic Insider has a review like you'll see uh different articles you can kind of see some of these sites look a little bit older cuz the competition isn't is high best snowmobile helmets all different kinds or you know then you just have people click the affiliate links and purchase best Sim racing pedals competition zero so that's something like this so you want to play a VR racing game you need s and you want to do it legitly you can get the full cockpit the steering wheel and the pedals so they there's there's tons of different pedals so if you click on this this is like the Sim Racing guide from simracing setups tocom so that's a niche site doing well in that Niche and you can see yes they have a comparison chart but these are links you click on this this they get commissions on that or something like best snowboards gearlab outdoorgearlab.com 10 best snowboards of 2025 they have some top picks at the top they have some content here and then a rating system so again a lot of this looks very complicated it's really just into uh in different themes like templates and different post types and layouts that are really easy to create and you don't even need them a lot of the time it's just text some images and most affiliate purchases are made through just clicking buttons on things text based affiliate links so when you're adding affiliate links add like two to four per per product so if you have best snowmobile uh snowboards do you know the first product you have the Burton so and so link to it a few times in there then you just go down the list with the exact same format every single time for each product and then if you're adding affiliate links into informational content you can do that too so I have articles on like how to start a podcast how to start a blog how to start a YouTube channel as part of the steps in the process you add affiliate links in so for example if you want to start a blog you will need web hosting it's pretty simple you would add links in that way or I even have like a start here page which is also linked in the YouTube description below too but it's like you can just check that out I've start here so some of my top recommended articles how to start a blog with AI how to make money blogging high paying affiliate programs YouTube how to start a YouTube channel all of those and then I have some links with Blu host and things like that now if you're interested in doing this organic just creating articles to make affiliate Revenue I recommend you click the link in the description below the main one and the pinned comment as well and I'll send you 10 of my favorite AI prompts that'll really help brainstorm this and then even create the content so there's ones that like literally write the Articles create paragraphs brainstorm ideas find your niche in like 5 minutes so here's one right here this is like an affiliate marketing planner so I copy this you put it into something like Claude or chat GPT I like Claude for some of these more brainstorming type of things that can get creative but you just say what Niche do you want to talk about and I'll give you 20 affiliate ideas so I'm going to do like what about like VR Gaming try something like that seems like a new kind of thing somewhat but it'll just give you ideas and what you'll notice with affiliate marketing when it comes to blogging is like the number of keywords is insane so you think okay VR maybe there's like games there's headsets there's controllers there's some stuff but like when you think of all the different keywords there are there's usually thousands of different product categories when you think there's like 10 there's like thousand different keywords you can write so like VR Gaming laptops Wireless VR headsets headsets for Oculus Quest compact systems you know budget systems headsets for gaming laptops you can think of sim racing you can think of like a million different things the treadmills technology hanging it from the ceiling um all kinds of different games things so every Niche has goes deep so you want to have deep topical expertise on a topic when you're doing affiliate marketing because whether you're doing YouTube videos and reviewing stuff you're doing blog posts all of it people are looking for in-depth knowledge the benefit though of text based affiliate marketing like I covered in PPC and in blogging is that you don't need some crazy in-depth guide with a video where you're showing the product as you saw for most of these blog posts that are ranking it's just images so gear laab is not like creating tons of videos with the snowboards and doing all kinds of stuff and actually buying 10 snowboards and showing them all the good thing about blogging is you don't have to buy every product and that's just the reality of the internet today is most vast majority of blogs ranking for products and reviewing stuff aren't actually made they never they probably never bought the product and they're just talking out of their ass a little bit and sometimes you know some people do recommend and review actually review the pods a lot of times they don't the benefit though is you don't have to like do things on video with that with text the things are it's just you're either doing PPC which can be risky take some of your money you have to negotiate with an affiliate manager and actually talk to somebody before hand or blogging which it just takes time to rank on Google okay now let's get into the video based ways to make money with affiliate marketing so let's say like blogging PPC it's not for you you don't want to spend your money you don't want to write a bunch of Articles totally fair well if you want to make money with affiliate marketing then we make it through video cont content that is going to be YouTube and that's going to be Tik Tok shop first let's cover YouTube so YouTube right now is my favorite number one way I would recommend if you're just a beginner to get started with affiliate marketing because you're not waiting like you are on Google the competition isn't as high like you'd never rank on Google for best credit cards or best travel credit cards or things that are just too competitive that has been solidified by a lot of big media sites with YouTube though you could create a video on the best travel credit cards and get views almost instantly I might not get a ton of views you have to have a strategy to build the channel but a ton of affiliate revenue is made through YouTube in all kinds of niches so let's look at just a couple of examples so I searched for best snowboards and I found a number of different snowboarding channels there's this guy like board archive who has a ton of different snowboarding information there's this one search of snowboarding who recommends and reviews a bunch of snowboards really simple videos too it's not like every snowboarding video has to be somebody outside snowboarding with crazy GoPros and stuff like he's just reviewing in his house and that's what you want with affiliate marketing on YouTube you want a strategy that doesn't require a ton of your time and effort and have thousands of Clips per video you want a strategy kind of like I have where I'm not really focused on only affiliate marketing on YouTube I want to teach but I just sit in a studio I turn the camera on and I start talking I don't have to go outside and shoot things on my GoPro and try to compile all the footage so you can see even this snowboarding Channel a lot of the videos are just him inside his house talking about snowboarding s another channel here is like snowboardprocamp.com and you can see there's a mixture of like you don't want to you don't want to be just an affiliate sometimes right like if you're just only reviewing snowboards helmets gloves and all that that's one thing that you can do that but it is better to have a well-rounded Channel where you're actually Al teaching other stuff so like for example tips to master your snowboard turn Basics like bindings how bindings work all kinds of different topics that you would create on a channel and the best backpack for snowboarding so if I click this video you can see there's an affiliate link right here so this is the one this is the backpack this is how easy affiliate marketing is these it just looks like maybe an Amazon link I don't know let me let me click on it no it's evo.com so it's just an affiliate link for this backpack so that's here and then he has other gear too so he's got goggles save with the promo code bindings cargo pants shell jacket aeronaut and that's always a good strategy too on YouTube like main product here if someone's searching a transactional thing then they're probably looking for that so you do that you can also back it up with other stuff another example on YouTube is a totally different search that's not transaction like best snowboard or best laptop or something like that but one that is how to build a patio so totally informational how to do something well how can you make affiliate Revenue through that well there's different strategies I clicked on this guy Stanley the dirt monkey it's kind of funny is this the dirt monkey himself wow that's awesome so this is really cool and look this is affiliate links here so he's got the concrete saw but then look if you are building a patio and somebody searched YouTube or was recommended a video on building the patio we do not know who what products that viewer has in an informational search like that they might already have a concrete saw but they maybe they don't have this cutting blade maybe they need an air compressor maybe they need this this this so he has all kinds of links here like snowblower he goes way out there for socket set snowblowers chainsaws all of that what I would do for a how-to video on a patio you just any if there's 10 things you need put all 10 in tape measure even just put everything in there as Amazon affiliate links that you would need so there's different strategies but really the YouTube it's simple you create a video and the YouTube description is the monetization Zone where you can put anything in there you can have multiple affiliate links you can link to your own products you can link to social media accounts of yours you can pretty much link to anything your own products affiliate links sponsored links and it really doesn't interfere with each other so there's usually a template that you would have where you just if you're in inde Theo and DIY then maybe he's just copying and pasting this into every video just to kind of cover your basis but sometimes informational howto videos only require one affiliate link you just got to use your head think about it so for example here's one from Jillian Perkins how to create a website for your business the only affiliate link needed here is Squarespace right you need one if you want to start a website for your business use Squarespace or use Wix so you're giving one affiliate link for a how-to guide so it just depends on the products that are needed so when you're teaching in a niche teaching any topic there's going to be products that are needed you can't golf without clubs you can't build a patio without tools you can't start a website without a website builder so that is the kind of the collaboration between transactional videos and informational videos where you're benefit you're just going and any of these strategies I'm talking about today you're really looking just to help an audience teach things and provide the best products they need to get started whether it's a hobby or a business now the keys to YouTube is nothing to do with affiliate marketing okay affiliate marketing on YouTube is easy you join the programs you make sure to mention the links in the video within the first probably few minutes which is a little bit better and then at the and hey make sure to click the link in the description you want to have affiliate disclosures right that stuff's pretty simple the hard part is like scaling the YouTube channel it's in any in anything right building the audience is always the difficult part so if it's YouTube It's scaling the channel if it's blogging it's getting traffic so those are the really the strategies we need to focus on for blogging like I covered I have multiple hourong videos on SEO strategies and all that stuff for YouTube I have the same thing but really we have to talk about the keys to success on YouTube are not just you know adding affiliate links is easy it's more getting the views so it's really good thumbnails it's really good titles it's good video retention strategies so people watch it till the end doesn't have to be an overly complicated video right talking head videos are easy because you just say stay stuff and you shoot it and it's in one room and you just turn the camera on right or there's faceless videos which require more editing because if it's a 5 minute video with just voice over and no no footage then we need to fill that entire amount of footage with b-roll and stuff but if you think about the math of affiliate marketing on YouTube typically from what I've seen 1 to 2% of viewers will click on an affiliate link then from there about 2% of those people will convert into a sale so 5,000 views equals 100 affiliate link clicks which could equal two sales so if you have a video on Wix and building a website that got get a million views you could be making you know hundreds of sales and multiply that by they I think WI pays like $300 a sale so you could be making tens of thousands if not $100,000 from that video which is pretty crazy to think about it's a really big numbers game but really the views comes down to the strategy the topics the thumbnails the titles the length of the videos the entire you know we have full YouTube strategy videos on the channel but again most people quit before they see success it's about creating a consistent content uh strategy and schedule that you don't waver from so like for me some days are better than others when it comes to making videos I've been doing this now for about three years you would think that like after three years it would just be easy for me to come in here turn the camera on and start saying stuff saying cool words but or riffing on random topics but what I realized is like there's some days I'm just not good at this and like sometimes I'm just not motivated at all to do it or I can't even put thoughts together easily some days are easy some days are not so so you know you just have to stick to that schedule you can't like be discouraged by a week and then just not post a video or not post a blog post if that's what we're talking about so when it comes to affiliate marketing it's like you have to build the audience to build the audience you need to create the content for the algorithm the Google algorithm or the YouTube algorithm you just have to get better at it and better at and keep doing it and don't quit because you look back at most YouTube channels they didn't really find success real success until they were doing it for a couple years usually all right and another way to make money with affiliate marketing is Tik Tok so Tik Tok shop so that's short form videos on Tik Tok are now monetized through Tik Tock shop so it's basically making a short video linking to Tik Tock shop and getting a commission on those sales so there's certain ways to make these video reviews we can look at something like Kow data which has it's a Tik Tock Analytics tool and it tells you you know the different products that are popular I used to have an account I'm not going to buy a new account just to show you this but you can see like she neck massager uh it gives you like there's tons of different categories so you can choose like anything from pet supplies toys like luggage bags home supplies it's a good way to brainstorm your Niche idea too but Home Improvement like all right lights and lighting indoor lighting so you can see all the different products the number of items sold for the this product and then the most viewed videos so you can see what are the top videos that are driving these sales now what's interesting is like there's some brand some people are doing this specifically on Tik Tok itself only so they don't have a YouTube channel they don't have a website like here's one Tik Tok popular affiliate marketing you know person is Justice Buys so he has 1.3 million followers on Tik Tok it's all Amazon finds and things and cool videos but if we see for example let me just scroll down and find a random one so he has individual tons and tons of videos right I don't know how many videos there are but there's a lot but he has top 15 products I'm going to mute so I can talk over it divided cereal bowl but it's like think of look at how many Clips this is how many Cuts there are one two three four five six you know like you need a lot of footage in order to keep people's short attention span engaged in order that them to be interested enough in affiliate marketing so you can see this is the Tik Tok account Justice buys number three is my favorite that's kind of a little thing saying I'll watch it till I'd be like number eight is my favorite watch it till number oh yeah number three watch it longer that's the whole point but you'll see he's not linking to like it's not like a YouTube video where you just link to the product right here in the caption or description you have to actually go to his page to then click this link so once you click that link it goes to his little mini website here where he has all the products and these are all affiliate links so this is one way to do it you'll notice a little bit more friction on when you're externally linking from Tik Tok so YouTube is a lot better for creators they pay way more from ad Revenue standpoint and they allow you to link out and do random stuff whereas Tik Tok they just try to control you and keep you on Tik Tok they don't want people clicking external links they can ban accounts they do a lot of things so I'm always wary to build an entire business on just Tik Tok and Tik Tock shop alone because it's like uh it's a little risky sounds a little risky to me so the same thing is true of just one thing right one strategy is always somewhat risky you're putting all your eggs in one basket we want to grow over the course of time so I've done a lot of research on Klo data Tik Tok What Works what types of videos number one again you just have to be comfortable shooting a bunch of videos on your phone every day because the only channels that do this really well are publishing multiple videos every single day if you really want to make money with affiliate marketing on Tik Tok you need to be posting multiple videos a day and you need to be showing the products on the videos it's really that simple you need to have lots of cuts in it keep it interesting and sometimes you'll see I see a lot of accounts do things like they'll add text over the screen and it's always like trying to Peak Curiosity on the product so it's like everyone's been asking me about this new product right or I keep getting questions about this when I'm out at the store it's like no you're really not you're just trying to sell things through your affiliate links but what tends to work is you either go on Tik Tac shop you either do the Justice buys method where you're just strictly a product reviewer and that's all you're doing and you're just reviewing product after product after product and building a video following or you try to build an actual Tik Tok account you have like more of a well-rounded Tik Tok I would say kind of like a well-rounded YouTube channel would have not just affiliate videos for products but it would have how to do things informational videos personal videos and that kind of stuff on Tik Tok you would do that too so a lot of it's like Lifestyle influencers on Tik Tok who maybe they are an interior designer or something like that and eight out of 10 videos are just lifestyle updates and things around the house and then two out of 10 of those Tik Tok videos are more product focused to sell them so to do that you really want to showcase the product but you don't want to make it seem salesy you don't want to say like go buy this now like it's more like hey I really enjoyed using this product lots of good shots of the product why you like it give real information you know the more real and authentic you are the better that's a good way to make money through Tik Tock shop is just being authentic doing mostly like lifestyle content with some stuff in there so again what do you see yourself doing when it comes to affiliate marketing the math on this on affiliate marketing is totally different based on the product if you make a 10% Commission on a $1,000 product you're making a $100 every sale you can scale that out like for example I've had PPC affiliate stuff where I'm making $300 a sale and it's costing me $150 to $200 to get that sale I'm going to scale that up if it's a 10% Commission on a pair of socks that are $10 now you're making a dollar per sale how do you scale that up you can't so we have to kind of know Marketing in general to know that conversion rates are around 2% if somebody lands on a product page generally speaking 2% of people will buy that product meaning 98% of people won't so that means that you need a lot of clicks on your affiliate links which means you need a lot of views and traffic on your content which means the strategy shouldn't be defined by affiliate marketing it should be defined by the platform itself it should be defined by creating a really good YouTube channel and ignoring affiliate marketing at first it should be creating a really good blog with really good helpful articles and ignoring affiliate marketing for a while until you build that following and get traction so what came first like the Chicken and the Egg scenario understanding affiliate marketing creating the content around affiliate marketing or making money or understanding how it works it all kind of goes together just know that the revenue ceiling of affiliate marketing is only as high as your willingness to learn the skills it takes to get there so if you only want to shoot a couple little videos for Instagram you're not going to make a ton of money with affiliate marketing if you are willing to say I'm going to create a YouTube channel and I'm going to publish a video or two videos every single week for 3 years and I'm going to teach and I'm going to learn and I'm going to become better and I'm going to you know add affiliate links and then that's part of the process most videos on YouTube will just promise you that you're going to make money with affiliate marketing in 24 hours by doing a certain thing hacking your way to success and I just want you to elevate yourself and think differently don't think in terms of how am I going to make $100 think in terms of how am I going to make 10,000 a month or more and really right now blogging with affiliate marketing it's a great way to get started and make like 2 three 4 $5,000 a month if you want to make $100,000 a month you need to build a true brand do it on YouTube and do affiliate marketing plus selling your own community and course plus having sponsors Plus ad Revenue going multiplatform and doing these things so the ceiling on your revenue is only based on your patience your timeline your willingness to learn your willingness to Pivot so if you're interested in learning more you want to get started you want to use AI you want to find like a way to start a business make sure to click the link in the description below and I will send you my 10 favorite AI prompts to one pick your Niche it'll help you choose your Niche and your content strategy it'll create content and outlines for you it'll generate paragraphs it'll do all kinds of stuff for free and my AI Master Class you'll get that too and it'll show you ways you can work with me as well so hope you found this useful you know affiliate marketing is it's a really simple technology people click a link they get a cookie stored on their computer if they buy something you get credit the hard part is scaling the actual views and traffic to get that enough traffic to make life-changing money where you're not just getting $20 for some beer money you're actually making a sustainable thing that makes you money every single month that you can funnel money into retirement or Vacations or paying down a mortgage or whatever it is right we want to actually make big moves here so I want you to think a little bit bigger not how can I make 500 bucks how can I make 10,000 10x thinking and you start to do things differently you start to expand your timeline a little bit to where hey I don't need to make that money this week I'm not going to just try to join ACH of affiliate programs cram links down people's throats on social media I'm going to spend my time learning YouTube getting really good at it getting really good at article creation getting good at something where I know maybe 6 months from now I can start adding affiliate links in and making a lot of money but let's get the foundations covered first so I hope you found that useful I know it's not as exciting to say it that way and not promise you're going to make money tomorrow but I want to be as realistic as possible for you and give you the real business advice not from somebody who hasn't actually done before and his promising over promising stuff so I hope you found that useful I hope this gave you a framework for the four different ways to make money with affiliate marketing today the four best ways and you know like the video if it was helpful to you ask any questions about affiliate marketing below please subscribe to the channel if you haven't yet I really do appreciate that been doing this thing for three years and here's two three five 10 more so I hope you like the video and I will see you in the next video
