Summary
- Don't create a faceless Instagram account with AI content for quick affiliate marketing if you want consistent revenue—it doesn't work.
- Understand that Instagram marketing requires substantial effort and authenticity to be effective.
- People buy through affiliate marketing in two main ways: either through search intent on platforms like Google or YouTube or because they know, like, and trust you as a creator.
- To make money on Instagram, your posts need to go viral due to the numbers game—think millions of views.
- To be successful, you need to publish a lot of content consistently and build a real audience.
- Avoid posting only affiliate content; mix it with helpful and informational content that adds value to your followers.
- Instagram's search feature is not as effective as Google's or YouTube’s, making it harder to drive affiliate revenue through search intent.
- When placing affiliate links, minimize the number of clicks needed to get to the product to reduce friction.
- Consider having multiple revenue streams for stability, not relying solely on affiliate marketing.
- Start with affiliate marketing if you don’t have your product to sell but plan to eventually create and sell your own product for 100% revenue.
- Create a niche-focused mini course or video course to sell as you build your brand.
- Use link management tools like Link Genie to keep your affiliate links organized and straightforward.
- Provide a clear call to action and promote discounts to increase the likelihood of clicks on your affiliate links.
- Convert followers to an email list by offering a valuable freebie in exchange for their contact info to maintain direct communication control.
- Understand the importance of adding value and building a true personal brand to stand out and generate long-term revenue.
- Use tools like ManyChat to automate responses and build your email list via Instagram.
- Focus on building trust and being transparent; only promote products you've used and genuinely recommend.
- Mix revenue streams such as ad revenue, sponsorships, and selling your own product to create a diversified income model.
- Build a comprehensive content strategy that includes multiple platforms like a website or YouTube channel to complement your Instagram efforts.
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How To Take Action
How to Implement Effective Instagram Marketing and Affiliate Strategies
I would suggest implementing Instagram strategies that focus on authenticity and building a personal brand. Here's how you can do it:
Create Authentic Content:
- Post regularly and ensure your content adds value to your audience. This could include tips, tutorials, or personal stories related to your niche. For example, if you’re into homesteading, share recipes, bread-making tips, or food preservation techniques.
Mix Up Your Posts:
- Don’t just post affiliate links. Mix in helpful and informative posts that your audience will find useful. Aim for a ratio like 9 out of 10 posts being helpful, with the remaining one focused on products.
Optimize Your Affiliate Links:
- Minimize the number of clicks needed to get to your product. Use a link management tool like Link Genie to keep your affiliate links organized and easy to navigate.
Build Multiple Revenue Streams:
- Don’t rely solely on affiliate marketing. Consider creating a product or an online course related to your niche. You could teach woodworking, knitting, or sales techniques. This way, you can earn 100% of the revenue from your own products.
Use Tools for Efficiency:
- Utilize tools like ManyChat to automate responses and help build your email list. This ensures you maintain direct communication with your audience, bypassing the unpredictable algorithms of social media platforms.
Engage with Your Audience:
- Build trust by being consistent and transparent. Only promote products you have used and believe in. Engage with your followers through comments and direct messages to create a personal connection.
- Convert Followers into Subscribers:
- Offer a valuable freebie in exchange for email addresses. This could be a checklist, a mini-guide, or any other useful resource related to your niche. This way, you can keep in touch with your audience even if social media algorithms change.
By following these steps, you can build a robust and sustainable Instagram marketing strategy that is both effective and genuine.
Quotes by Author
"Now we all know that this is bull"
"If anyone can do it in 5 minutes there's no way you're going to stand out"
"You have to build a true audience of people that know like and trust you"
"They just added some type of AI thing to it but it is nowhere near as good as Google"
"You have to elevate yourself above all the noise and the crap and AI hacks"
Full Transcript
so I watched all of the videos on Instagram affiliate marketing here on YouTube and they all go something like this create a new faceless account in something like manifestation use an AI tool to create a bunch of AI images or videos go to ClickBank and find a random affiliate offer add that link into your bio make a few hundred bucks and that's about it now we all know that this is bull once again if anyone can do it in 5 minutes there's no way you're going to stand out or actually generate consistent Revenue so what do you actually do well if you have an Instagram or you want to make money on Instagram or make money with affiliate marketing this is the legit video you need to know on how this business actually works so you can make money once in for all and if you want to join me in learning how we're building profitable online businesses in 2024 click the link in the description below give you access to everything you need to get started once and for all so let's take a look at how Instagram marketing is supposed to work so you're scrolling through you find this post on freeze dryers right you're now that's interesting a freeze dryer you put food in it freezes you save it for later it's like the homesteading niche so you have to you see this she has a link to an actual article here but in this case you know clickable link in BIO so then we have to go to the bio we find the bio we go to the clickable link we click that link it brings up more stuff and then we have to click another link then it takes us to the website and then we click another link and then that's the affiliate link so there were a total of 1 2 3 4 maybe five four to five clicks before we actually got to a product page and then we have to click a bunch more times to buy something well let's say you're scrolling through Instagram and you see this gaming PC so like we see this gaming one the most powerful laptop on the market interesting link is in the bio let's click that one so we see this is uh his profile here then we click the link in the bio and it pulls this up and then there's his latest YouTube videos and other links and then if we wanted something you know these are all affiliate links so if I wanted that I would click this link here and then it takes me to uh it should be an affiliate link to Best Buy to buy the product so that's pretty much how it works you get people to see your reels or your images you have a clickable link in your bio and then from your bio you click out to the actual products now with Instagram there's a couple of key problems with this when it comes to affiliate marketing things they don't tell you in all those fancy get-rich quick scheme videos and that is people buy things through affiliate marketing in two ways either they're searching for something that they actually want so there's search intent behind it so they search on Google or YouTube for that specific product that they want and then watch something or read something and buy it that's where most affiliate Revenue comes from or they have to know like and trust you as an actual Creator on Instagram to buy something from you through your affiliate link it's very rare based on the numbers game here that somebody is going to find that random article just decide to choose to click the link in your bio then decide to choose to click that affiliate link and then purchase something right then so on Instagram it is possible there's just some problems with the strategy so first you kind of have to go viral to make money because of the numbers game the posts have to get a ton of views and visib ability to get a random scroller a passive scroller ready to click something click your buyo buy so we're talking like millions of views on an image or real in order to make decent money second you have to publish a lot of content so you have to get ones to go viral you have to build a true audience of people that know like and trust you and post stuff pretty much every day on Instagram for this to work you also have to post other types of stuff you can't just only post affiliate content over and over and over again like they might recommend in the other videos you need to create helpful informational content post it consistently and then add in some product based ones and we know we don't really have full control over this meta Instagram algorithm and what actually will be served there third problem is Instagram is horrible for searching their search feature just sucks they just added some type of AI thing to it but it is nowhere near as good as Google or YouTube as a search engine which is how most affiliate revenue is made and again there's too much friction so five plus clicks just to get to that product page but it's kind of a sad State of Affairs when you're looking at the actual strategy here on YouTube if I YouTube search Instagram affiliate marketing it's $27,000 a month using chat GPT $1,000 a month with Instagram $10,000 a month with affiliate marketing 1,700 a day the first 100 exact method uh the only Instagram video for beginners $32,000 so you know it's one of those things that it's easy to promise like oh create a bunch of Instagram reels with chat GPT and a bunch of fake little baby angel videos about motivation add a and it's like a lot of work when you think about some of these things it's like publish every single day uh create AI avatars and create AI images and then do voiceovers to it and splice this together in a timeline it's like it might just be easier just to film yourself talking or something so a lot of the strategies here again much like most things when you search for affiliate marketing on YouTube is going to be the promise the overnight success the get-rich quick schemes which unfortunately people click on the algorithm rewards it because a bunch of young people click on that stuff but it just doesn't work so if you want to go down the road of affiliate marketing on Instagram it's pretty simple you would have an Instagram account publish a lot of Lifestyle helpful content for people how to engageing stuff so for example that freeze dryer one on homesteading you could have a lot of Lifestyle content around like bread making and preserving food and recipes and things that you do in your home and all of those things in that Niche and then drop in some of those more affiliate focused Instagram posts you know you can do it one out of 10 times do a product based Roundup thing uh put affiliate links in your bio like they did like that girl I'm not knocking her she's doing really well she has 12 4,000 followers but she's doing it right right she has a ton of interesting posts about homesteading and then she's linking to her bio and doing it that way now you can add up to like three affiliate links I don't say you add like 10 in there but like keep it simple if you're in homesteading you can do like the freeze dryer a solar power bank a bread maker some of like the top recommended products that are just easy to click on for your audience once they know and trust you and at one point in the past I used like link Genie for this pretty simply you can edit what the links are like you see I don't have any affiliate links here cuz I know it doesn't work that well I was selling my own product through this uh and then just linking to the YouTube channel but you can add you can optimize the text on these buttons right so you can have images you can have buttons you can say hey get 30% off add your affiliate link discounts into the text so that they know through your affiliate link you're getting a commission you want to just close it too right so if it is an affiliate link you should say it but you should also promote the discount so that people know they're getting a deal and the strategy with affiliate marketing is the same as doing it on Google or YouTube or Instagram or Tik Tok you have to join affiliate programs and get the links it's really simple you sign up you get your link you add it in you see then in your dashboard how many sales and commissions you generated it's a really simple process the hard part again is just getting consistent views on your content in enough you know high volume in order to generate consistent Revenue every month now if we're going to elevate the conversation a little bit to go above what a lot of other people are talking about we have to think about well what is the best way to make money with Instagram with social media with short videos with Tik Tok with YouTube all of that stuff well like any business nowadays it needs multiple revenue streams not just one because that brings divers I ification and stability uh so the revenue streams are first affiliate marketing we don't have a product to sell yet it makes sense to have that link tree Link in there when we're just starting out selling your own product will come down the line especially if you're in a niche and you're teaching right so we want to create an account on Instagram where we can actually teach in a certain Niche or at least do things and learn and teach and then eventually sell your own product so it's really about creating a mini course in your Niche and using that as the main link eventually on Instagram because that is more money to you right you're not getting a 10 10% Commission on a product you're getting 100% Commission on your own product so you can create a mini course a video course if you're already creating a real content you can just create a simple course in any Niche right it doesn't matter if you play the piano or the keyboard or you do woodworking or crocheting or you teach people how to do sales people will pay for information from an expert specifically from you so really your Instagram content is amazing your YouTube content is amazing you give away everything so the course is the community the accountability and then the implementation so all the content is great on your Instagram you let them consume it all the YouTube videos but your actual product that you sell is going to be the implementation and community that people will pay for so you can start with your affiliate links in the bio swap them out to your own stuff when eventually you're selling your own product and then really it's about getting traffic from all sources so from Instagram every post has Linkin bio type of text in it to make sure that they understand what you're selling and then you want to send all of your traffic to a single opt-in page so that link in your Instagram and your YouTube description and Tik Tok bio on your website everywhere can go to a single opt-in page into a lead magnet into an email list right so you're providing something for free like get my free instead of just saying hey buy my course immediately and putting that in uh the the link in BIO you just say get my free pdf checklist for this or that right so they enter their email address email one you send them that actual offer so a simple PDF a checklist something that's helpful in your Niche all right I ran for a while with just a simple PDF uh WordPress blog launch checklist I got something so I'm going to do it on Fiverr really simple I added text in and it was easy and I ran with that until I built my email list to like 40,000 subscribers I didn't sell anything I was just kind of priming people and giving away as much information as I could for free so on the optin page you have a headline like a transformational statement about what they get a few bullet points about what they get they get into your email list so now you've gone from algorithm from the Instagram or YouTube algorithm into ownership now you have their email address and you can message them right so we've gone from the algorithm something we don't control to something that now we do control so I also have full videos on this like how to actually get them from email list to buying your own product I'm not going to cover everything in this one video but it's a good strategy here you can also do on Instagram like some people do comment with a word so they post an image comment with the word something and I'll send you my guide and then they use a tool like many chat to that will Auto DM everybody that comments that word on any of the posts so they're getting autod DMD a link to that same opt-in page so it's another way to build more opt-ins and sell your own product on Instagram so this comes down to a consistent content strategy helping people in a niche doing it a lot over the course of time building a true personal brand right maybe not just doing Instagram you have to do multiple things maybe you have a website with the Instagram or a YouTube channel for longer form content you have to elevate yourself above all the noise and the crap and AI hacks and all of that stuff if you actually want to build a real business takes longer but that's the truth and I guarantee this video won't go as viral as the ones that say make $27,000 overnight but you need to build trust to get people to buy things or or click your affiliate links you shouldn't promote products you've never used on ClickBank right it just doesn't make sense better option is to teach in a niche add some affiliate links in create a YouTube channel get ads ad Revenue sponsorship Revenue affiliate Revenue sell your own product actually help people this is how we've made 4 million in profit last year and continuing to do so into the future you want to expand you want to do it the right way so if you're interested in learning more there's a lot more nuanced information right than one YouTube video will share make sure to click the link in the description below uh we'll send you all the resources so you can get started once and for all I hope you found this video interesting um you know I have like 100,000 and some odd followers on Instagram we don't use it a ton um most of my affiliate Revenue was through Google some through YouTube places where people actually search for stuff so let me know if you have any questions though on Instagram affiliate marketing check out other videos on my Channel please like it subscribe and I'll see you in the next video
