Millions of businesses are hungry for new customers. Many of those businesses are willing to pay you a commission for referring new customers to them. You just have to match up people’s needs and desires with products or services that can meet those needs.
Affiliate marketing is one of the main money-making weapons in most bloggers’ arsenals. There are guys out there who pull in a six-figure income each year through affiliate marketing alone.
If you’re new to affiliate marketing, what it is is you’re essentially recommending someone else’s product or service, you provide your audience a referral link to the affiliate product, and if someone buys the product through your link, you earn a commission.
It sounds simple, and once you figure out what you’re doing it can obviously earn you a pretty decent location-independent income. But a lot of people who try their had at it have one bad failure and swear it off for good, or they keep trying but can’t get over the dip to make it as successful as they want to be.
This is where Corbett Barr’s Affiliate Marketing for Beginners course comes in!
Corbett is a blogger buddy of mine who’s been self-employed for 14 years now and earns about $30,000 per year through affiliate marketing (teamed up with consulting & his own product sales for over $120K, not bad). He runs two blogs, Free Pursuits and Think Traffic, as well as several passive-income minisites, which allows him to spend his time freely living between the U.S. and Mexico. With about 30% of his income coming in from affiliate marketing, Corbett has a tremendous amount of experience to share.
Who is it for? And what do you get?
Affiliate Marketing for Beginners is a self-study online course that covers the full range of topics to get started earning income through affiliate marketing. Corbett leads you through how to select profitable niches to get involved in, how to choose the right products to promote, how to create your own affiliate minisites, push traffic to your sites, and set up new income streams one at a time.
There’s a lot of information about affiliate marketing out there, and a lot of internet marketers are stereotypically sleazy, but Corbett is one of the most genuinely helpful guys out there, and what makes his course unique is that he’ll take you by the hand and show you how to earn a decent living in an ethical way, while you help people find solutions and products they really can use.
If you’ve never made a dollar online, this course is for you, and will teach you exactly how to make your first sale! It will walk you through all the basics step by step:
- A web-based format that allows you to ask questions along the way for a more interactive learning experience
- Two real functional example sites that you can follow along with and see how Corbett did things (none of that “I can’t show you my sites for competitive reasons” stuff)
- 5 modules (complete intro to affiliate marketing, finding opportunities, site building, getting traffic (and sales) and advanced)
- 21 lessons, including keyword research, topic selection, site building with WordPress, search marketing, content development and sales optimization
- Advanced topics on how to scale up or apply affiliate marketing to an existing business
- The complete 100% money back guarantee
- A $50 discount offer on hosting, if you don’t have a web host already
And the structure of the course is great, because it allows you to interact with the author when you have questions, and with other members for help and support.
If you spring for the Deluxe package, you’ll also get
- Interview with Karol Gajda from Ridiculously Extraordinary on Building an Entire Biz around Affiliate Marketing
- Interview with Adam Baker of Man vs. Debt on What Makes a Product Successful for Affiliates
- Interview with Everett Bogue of Far Beyond the Stars on Finding and Selling Affiliate Products you Love
- Interview with Trever Clark, an Affiliate Marketing for Beginners classmate and success story, on Getting Started
- Access to special monthly group coaching sessions, where you can ask Corbett your questions live on the phone, and access to every recorded group session.
- The 5-part “Successful Affiliate” Tips Series, a special set of advanced techniques and strategies. Find out how to get a 5x return for no additional work, how Corbett earned over $1000 an hour from affiliate marketing on more than one occasion, and what his top recommended affiliate programs and niches are.
Once you’ve committed to participating in the course, it’s very worthwhile to invest the additional $20 for the full package, which I’d say makes the entire course a much better value. The coaching calls are a great way to ask questions, and the recorded past coaching sessions are a great source of additional information, since you get to hear from others who may be struggling on the same problems you are.
Why you should participate in the course:
The Affiliate Marketing for Beginners course does exactly what it sets out to do, and that is to teach you how to make money through affiliate marketing. It’s not in ebook format, so for anyone who hasn’t done an online course in blog format, it might take a day or two to get used to, but the course is geared for beginners, so if you feel out of your league in affiliate marketing, you’ll fit right in here. The course is laid out to detail every step, and does a good job of taking you by the hand through the entire process.
Once you understand the basics and create your own first affiliate site or two, the vlue of the Deluxe Package really begins to become apparent. The group coaching sessions and interviews will inspire you and give you a lot further insight into some extremely successful case studies to drive you to make your own online business a success!
