Advanced Affiliate Marketing
With Connie Ragen Green
How to Build a 7 Figure Business
With Affiliate Marketing- Connie Ragen Green
- Classroom teacher - 5th and 6th grade
- Real Estate Broker
- Residential Appraisal
- Health Issues
- On the job injury
- Had to do something else
- People doing business online
- Resigned in 2005
- Dream
- Maximum Profit
- Charity
- Time
- With Family
- Travel
- $ To Attend More Training Workshops
- More money - specific number
- Prototype
- Strategy 1 - Getting started
- Teaching someone else's program
- NAMS is perfect opportunity
- Focus on relationship
- NAMS Incubator Group
- Administrator Teaching Groups
- Teach NAMS 100 for 6 Weeks
- Teach NAMS 200 for 6 weeks
- Teach NAMS 300 for 6 weeks
- Teach NAMS 400 for 6 weeks
- Reach out to instructors
- To promote into the teaching
- Affiliates for instructor
- Promote instructor
- Monetization
- Affiliate Commissions from NAMS
- Affiliate Commission from Product Sales
- Instructor - promote instructor
- Affiliate Commissions
- Coaching / mentoring away from NAMS
- Fees from that
- Book - People in 6 week training for compilation book
- Sales
- Credibility
- Affiliate promotions
- Back to your site
- Relationships
- Meetups
- 1-Day Events
- Own business
- JV with students / instructors
- Create products
- Study Groups
- Publishing
- Coaching
- Strategy 2 - Something to offer
- Create a unique bonus
- What works best for Connie is to offer time
- Follow up - continuing to poke at me
- Review a product / critique / review
- Can be done by video
- Audio
- What special skills or insights do I have
that would be useful and helpful to
those purchasing this product or service?- Install software you're selling
- Offer your content to others
- Experience
- Confidence up
- Work, life, family
- Each of us with lots of expertise
- What can you learn and offer to others
- Everything in business is a learnable skill - Brian Tracy
- Strategy 3 - Advanced
- Joint Venture with other Affiliates
- Make the proposal
- Reach out
- Become an affiliate
- Access to the leaderboard
- Look for people on the leaderboard
- Folder
- Snapshots Of Leaderboards
- Share commissions
- Test
- Niche Sites
- Is my audience interested
- If we can make it more general, make it sell
- Horsemanship
- Food with cigars
- Wine with cigars
- Lifestyle
- Membership Site
- Recurring income
Building income requires ability to
add on to what you've already started- Not starting over
- Build monthly
- Product Test
- People are proven
- Trustworthy
- Creators
- Caretakers
- Wait and see during first promotion
- Make sure it's not a flash
- Evaluate response
- See what's next
- Look and feel professional
- Higher value
- Higher ticket
- Selective about promotions
- Use your evaluation criteria to evaluate
- Say No when they don't meet the standard
- Protect your audience
- Using persuasiveness responsibly
- Don't promote stuff you wouldn't use
- To people you won't hang out with
- Support response
- Create a support ticket under different name
- What's the response to the average Person
- How they care about the people buying
- Technical
- Not important to Connie - relationships are
- Pays no attention to Open Rates
- Know split testing
- Know clicks with pretty link
- Know sales
- Know unsubscribes
- Execute
- Position as expert
- Making sales positions you well as an expert to the Promoter
- Publish and participate
- Engage in MEANINGFUL conversations
- Reach out to people
- Get on the radar
- Plan to meet and ADD Value
- Stay connected
- Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
- Written Plan
- Spend Time at the end of the day and first thing in the morning
- Don't be rigid
- Look for next promotion
- People that are consistent
- Creating products and courses
- Be a creator
- Connie did a 30-Day Productivity Challenge
- Course correction
- Was a blog challenged
- Focus on monetization
- Gets noticed
- Content
- Profitable
- 50 Podcasts Commitment
- Course correction
- Not hour long
- Capped at 30 minutes
- Every podcast becomes a blog post introducing with PodPress plug-in
- Linking to something - book, product, or something
- Everything is about monetization in some way
- Making money is the focus
- Fun is great, not first
- Money is the tool
- Start Where You Are
- Slow but steady
- Doesn't have to be overnight
- Next logical step
- Evaluate success and failures
- Course correcting
- Set goals and be willing to the work
- Always write it down
- If you meet the goal - revise up
- If not hitting it, what will
- What else will help you reach the goal?
- Consistency
- Always thinking about the business
- Making notes
- Talk about it
- Focus on your love
- Always looking at the numbers
- Only improve what you measure
- In the beginning $330 a day
- Then $1000 a day
- Evaluate every day
- Feedback
- In the numbers
- Sales conversion
- how much do you invest in promotion
- Backend conversions
- Sales - dollars
- Against daily goal
- Make a decision
- How's the relationship
- No fun to promote
- Don't do it
Make sure relationship is
what you want for your group- Listen to your customer's feedback
- Search on Google
- What's the reputation
- What comes up? Is this someone you want to work with
- Are you getting paid
- Commissions paid on time
- Or communication comes frequently about payment
- YOUR money
- Improve
- Make decisions based on feedback
- Decide to do more or do less
- Add more promotions or focus promotions
- Test new promotions based on results
- If yes for more promotions, invest wholeheartedly
- Understand numbers game
- SCALE
- More traffic
- More bonuses
- More sales
- Challenge Schedule
- Week 1 - What's your dream?
- Set Affiliate Income Goals
- Evaluate successes and failures
- What works
- What doesn't work
- Set your course
- Build your dream
- $250/ year
- $684.93 / day
- $7 = $3.50
- 195 sales a day
- $97 = $48.50
- 14 sales a day
- $297 = $148.50
- 4.6 sales a day
- Recurring
- $13.50 x 8 = $108
- Daily Goal
- Work backwards from your daily goal
- Set up the numbers
- Check those numbers every day
- Spread sheet
- Where are you now?
- How much Affiliate Income do you make now?
- Base Income - How much
- Expenses
- Variable
- Fixed
- Income
- Source
- How to hit the numbers
- Affiliates
- Webinars
- Promotions
- Mailing
- Exact numbers
- XXX expense
- XXX income
- XXX profit
- What portion of it can affiliate income
- Brainstorm your expertise
- Identify markets easy to play in
- You'll create bonuses with this
- Volunteer time
- Teach others
- Build relationships in those areas
- What are you good at?
- Log Home Building
- Photography
- Traveling
- Writing
- Relationship
- Motorcycles - Harleys
- How do I want money?
- Teaching
- Coaching
- Event Planning
- Publishing
- Week 2 - Teach a course
- Find a course that you can buy and teach
- Should be multiple modules
- 6-12
- Longer the course, longer the affiliate commissions
- Go through the course yourself
- Build Curriculum
- Set up a schedule that you'll teach
- Build a sales page to promote YOUR BONUS
- Focus on relationships that you can leverage in the arena
- Add names from your niche that you'd like to invite
- People you create affiliate relationships with
- Partnership is important to you
- Let the owner of the course know what you want to do
- Ask permission to do it.
- Ask for support - direct line to ask questions
- You're not competing or stealing from them
- Teaching their course
- People the course and it's your bonus
- Curriculum in place
- Show the curriculum to the owner
- Get help from him / her on how to build it out
- Can he come on and add more value
- Supplement with PLR course on same topic
- Create a private group
- Your bonus
- Facebook or G+ Circle
- Forum
- Webinar and e-mail
- Separate gmail address
- Use that only for this list
- Teach the course for free
Use hangouts and YouTube to build traffic
for your affiliate link with the teaching- Starting date in the future
- After the promotion date
- Build long-term revenue
- PIE Test
- Lifetime Database Referrals
- Lots of products
- High quality products
- Great Sales Funnels
- Analytics
- Additional product and sales opps
- Week 3 - Create your unique bonus
- Look at your expertise
- Report
- Course
- Audio series
- Time
- Software
- Coaching
- Consulting
- Add value
- Use PLR as a bonus
- Customize those items
- Make sure they come from you
- The quality is good
- Rewriting with your voice
- Bonus LDR
- Not so much
- If LDR promotion
- You're selling for other and other are selling for you
- Make sure the bonus you give refers back to you and your site
- Week 4 - Joint Venture with Affiliates
- In your niche
- Affiliates selling similar products
- Create a contact spreadsheet for potential affiliates
- Follow and retweet, repost their stuff and also comment on blog
- Starting a dialog
- Leaderboards
- Clickbank
- Products
- People
- Opportunities
- Proposal
- Share commissions
- Added bonus
- Use affiliate's link
- Affiliate promotes to their list using your link if you're the bigger promoter
