did you know the average affiliate marketer earns about $20,000 annually according to a recent study done by affiliate WP 81% of affiliate marketers earn around that much just by dedicating some side hustle hours to their business however there's a big misconception around affiliate marketing most people think they need a lot of money to be able to get started but that's not the case at all in fact about 65% of Affiliates use some sort of organic traffic to earn money and we're going to show you how I'm key social media manager here at ClickBank and very
Nano influencer on social media I've been creating organic content since 2016 when I started my own travel blog from there as social media took off I did the same creating organic social media content about a year ago I wanted to be able to start monetizing my audience and I looked into the best ways how I found affiliate marketing and slowly began learning how to be an affiliate I've gotten my start with affiliate marketing with absolutely no money and pure sheer luck working with Organic social media I've been able to promote products as an affiliate and
an ambassador without having to spend a dime and I'm here to tell you how to do the same before we get into the thick of things let me break down what affiliate marketing is and how it works at its core affiliate marketing is all about earning money online as an affiliate your job is to find products to promote online and well promote them with affiliate marketing there's three key players in the game you've got the product owner and brand a business looking for more people to promote their products online online you've got the consumer the
person who's going to buy those products and then you've got the affiliate or you if you so choose the affiliate promotes the Brand's products and the consumer buys those products you the affiliate get a percentage of each sale on the product which is how you earn money and the business gets more people to keep purchasing their products the money you earn as an affiliate all comes from the commissions earned by promoting products Brands choose their commission rates based on a bunch of calculations and factors that we don't really have to worry about because our whole
whole goal here is to just start promoting products now that we've got the what let's look at the how how do you earn money as an affiliate with no money the very first thing we're going to do is choose a niche if you're new to the world of affiliate marketing content creation or even influencer marketing you might have heard the term finding a niche a lot and thought what the heck does that even mean I know when I first started in the world of affiliate marketing I was so confused on what it meant to pick
a niche but it's actually really simple and it's probably one of the overall best guidelines to use when it comes to being successful as an online marketer once you've really chosen your Niche it's super important to be able to dial into your Niche and really get into the nitty-gritty of it using research data and information we just made a video about how to dial into your Niche which you can check out here in the card or in the description below picking a niche simply means deciding on who you want to talk to as an affiliate
and what types of products you want to promote so how do you do this for me the best and easiest way to pick a niche was to sit down and look at the kind of marketing I wanted to do what kind of audience I wanted to Target and what kind of products I wanted to promote I started by taking a look at my personal life I know a lot about the outdoors being active women's fitness and health and wellness my hobbies and my lifestyle matched this knowledge as well with that in mind I wanted to
talk to an audience that had similar interests so I determined the broad Niche I would look into was the health and fitness Niche from there I wanted to narrow it down a bit more into a sub Niche I decided since I have the most knowledge as a woman in Fitness I can talk to other women in the health and fitness Niche I picked a few products that fit within this Niche and I was Off to the Races promoting products and earning money online picking a niche is really that simple determine how you want your content
to go out like whether you're doing paid or organic promotion decide on the audience you want to talk to and the types of products that that audience will connect with once you've narrowed down your Niche you're going to want to choose your marketing channels there's typically two different Avenues people will choose from when it comes to deciding on marketing channels the First Avenue is paid media you can pay for reach using paid ads on places like Facebook or Google there's a lot of benefits to paid media and it's often a lot faster to gain traffic
and get conversions on paid media however it does obviously cost money so the Second Avenue and the one we'll be discussing today is organic channels where the only requirement is putting in effort to create good and consistent content when it comes to organic media there's a few different channels we can engage in it's up to you really to choose the organic channel that works best for you whether that be blogging creating video content on YouTube having an online community like Discord or Facebook having a podcast using social media or even having an email list that
you've accumulated organically there's a few options and you get to decide what was going to work best for you your Niche and the audience you're trying to reach when I was choosing channels I wanted to utilize I took a look at the type of content I wanted to create I mostly wanted to share pictures videos and stories of my adventures and fitness journey with that in mind I decided that social media namely Instagram and Tik Tok would be the best organic channels for me for you you may have a knack for writing and you want
to run your own organic blog or you may really love creating long form videos so having a YouTube channel is going to be your best bet there's no one size fits-all here it's simply about being able to decide what works best for you once you've decided on your Niche and your Channel or channels of choice it's time to choose an affiliate Network that's perfect for you to find products to promote there's a lot of different affiliate networks out there so it's really important for you to do your research and find programs that work for you
and your goals specifically for me I look at what products the Network's Marketplace offers what their typical commission rates are and what the conversion rates are on the products I might like to promote make sure you do your due diligence as you find the right affiliate Network for you speaking of research our next step once we've decided on our Niche our channels of promotion and the affiliate network will be choosing is the biggest step which is doing your research I always suggest to people just starting out with affiliate marketing that the more research you can
do the better it is free and easy to conduct keyword research on Hot Topics within your Niche and do lots of research across the internet to discover how other experts within your Niche are talking to their audience find keywords topics points of conversation and other inspiration as you do your research the more information you can have on your Niche the better at the the end of the day affiliate marketing comes down to selling the problem you solve not the product you have so when you can provide valuable knowledge in your Niche you can find a
great deal of consumers willing to spend money on your products that you're promoting we're now at the point in our journey that we have to actually start creating content on the platform of your choice if you're blogging writing a backlog of blogs to get you started is great you'll also obviously need to create your blog and have plenty of different topics to discuss if you're vlog Ving take some time to create some videos that you can start sprinkling out every couple of days for email writing up a newsletter or two to have ready to send
out every week is also perfect if you're creating content on social media you can start by recording yourself doing generic things even just taking a walk making lunch or getting ready for the day you can start creating content that applies to your Niche take long videos short videos or videos you can replay on a loop creating a backlog of content to use when you're running low is also super helpful from there you can start posting your videos using trending sounds and text to find your audience and deliver the right message play around with the captions
hashtags and tagging locations until you find the messaging that sticks with your audience another helpful tool is to find and save trending sounds and videos the more you use sounds or create videos that are similar to those that are trending the more you'll be able to reach a larger audience you can also use Duets and stitches to reach more people and even connect with like-minded creators don't be afraid to experiment here social media is sort of like the wild west for Content creation and the more you're willing to try new trends the more likely you
are to reach your people once you've begun posting on your platform of choice make sure to engage engage engage with your community comment on other people's videos have conversations and reply to comments on your content as well another thing to note here is how important it is to be present across multiple channels for instance if you're posting long form videos on YouTube it's good to also be posting shorter videos and having a presence on social media too it helps you to be able to have multiple touch points for consumers to be a part of your
brand and have you and your products at the top of their mind there's a huge future in affiliate marketing and it's totally possible to earn money online without having to spend money in the first place it takes a lot of time and effort but the rewards are so worth it in fact like I mentioned according to affiliate WP the average affiliate marketer earns about $220,000 annually ually that may be high for us in the organic space but it's not impossible and it's totally doable with a lot of hard work now that you're ready to get
started as an affiliate marketer with 0 you might want to check out some great products to start promoting you can find our top offer videos here or in the description and if you want a full breakdown of how to create short form videos for Tik Tok Instagram and YouTube shorts you can check those out here or in the description as always if you liked this video and you want to see more educational content from us or any content you can subscribe to us right here on my face see you next time
