The ONLY Affiliate Marketing Tutorial You Need 2024: Ultimate Step-by-Step for Beginners

in this video I'm going to show you exactly how to start a profitable affiliate marketing business now I've spent years learning everything to know about affiliate marketing making millions of dollars along the way and I'll show you everything you need to know seriously there are tons of other videos out there but this is the only one that you need so what we'll do is we'll cover what the business model is niches that are actually profitable that you can still make money in how the pros actually create content efficiently the best tools to use signing up

for affiliate programs your website and way more forget your useless 1hour classes in school spend the hour here instead with me and you'll leave with the blueprint to become a successful affiliate marketer this is the most up-to-date course on YouTube and I'm so excited to share it with you for free so let's get started okay so let's first cover what affiliate marketing is from a very general standpoint it's basically a way of making money online and I personally know people that are making millions and millions of dollars per year from affiliate marketing so it's very

real there are tons of people making tons of money and luckily I know everything that they are doing all the secrets and so yeah I'm just going to share everything I know with you in this video now affiliate marketing itself here's the basic definition it's basically an arrangement when a merchant pays a commission to an affiliate for sending them customers and sales so let's say I make a piece of content that reviews this particular camera lens I give the audience a good amount of value by going through the pros and cons my opinions all that

stuff and within my content I place an affiliate link so when a customer or viewer or whatever clicks on that link and actually makes a purchase then I as the affiliate will get paid a commission by the merchant now in this case that particular Merchant could be Amazon it could be B&H it could be Sony themselves it's really a win-win for everyone and so you as the affiliate are in charge of creating content getting eyeballs giving value to your audience and sending your traffic to the merchant and if they make an order or buy something

or subscribe to something then you will get paid some type of commission the way that this works is these affiliate links are tracked usually with cookies or some other type of Technology essentially what that means is when that person clicks on that link it's going to be a special link that tells the merchant that it was you that sent them the traffic and then depending on the cooking length let's say 30 days is pretty standard if that person makes any purchase in those first 30 days it's going to be credited to you and you will

get that commission so essentially it's this pretty interesting interplay between Merchants Affiliates and customers and you as the affiliate are doing the marketing and driving traffic to the merchant so now that you know what affiliate marketing is let's now talk about what the benefits are because yes this is a real way of making money it's in my opinion one of the best online businesses that you can start so yeah let's talk about some of the perks the first is that there is no inventory and there's no shipping so you are not stocking all these items

yourself you're essentially just acting as the middleman you don't need to build an actual physical business with a warehouse or a tech company with a really intricate platform whatever what you're focusing on is just sending quality traffic to The Merchant of course this also means you can work from home so you don't need to go to work You Can Be Your Own Boss it can be extremely flexible work hours and locations so yes you can travel while working there's a very very low startup cost essentially $0 and it has scalable income potential so yes you

can make five figures you can make six figures you can make seven figures you can even make eight figures now personally I'm not at that level yet I have not made eight figures with affiliate marketing but I have crossed that seven fig Mark so yeah if someone like me can do this then absolutely you can do it yourself too I don't have anything super special about me or what I do I'm not the smartest person in the world I don't have any extreme talents that give me a huge upper hand and so yeah I think

literally anyone can be successful with affiliate marketing if they do it correctly and yeah I'm going to show you exactly how to do it in this video so now let's talk about picking your Niche and this is extremely important this is basically the foundation of your entire affiliate marketing business and the good but also sort of bad news is that you can create content and do affiliate marketing in any Niche so there are probably thousands or hundreds of thousands of niches out there we can get very specific we can go more broad but the first

step with affiliate marketing is yes you need to choose what your Niche is because this is going to determine what your specific audience is and how we target them now every time someone asks me what should my Niche be for affiliate marketing I answer with it depends and I know that's not the best answer but it is the truth and what we'll do is we'll cover some of the more profitable niches that are still doing extremely well today and what I recommend doing is look through this list and see if anything in there is within

your interest or your skills because the last thing we want to do is create a bunch of content and do affiliate marketing for something that we do not care about this is going to mean that it's way harder to become consistent and with failing marketing consistency is the most important thing most people fail at this business just because they don't do it for long enough they lose interest they don't see super super fast results and yeah so that's why your Niche is so important it has to be something that you yourself are interested in now

the first tool I'm going to take you through is actually chat GPT if you need help brainstorming this is a fantastic tool to have and so yeah I have chat GP pulled up right here it is completely free so if you don't yet have it I just recommend getting it it's going to help you out with this step it's also going to help you out with some of the other steps that we go through so let's do a prompt like this you're an affiliate marketer expert what are the 10 most profitable niches for affiliate marketing

so now we have our answers and I'm just going to sort of go through these because yes these are correct so one is finance and investing this is a very popular Niche it also pays really well so these are going to be things like credit cards cryptocurrency savings accounts personal loans bank accounts and the reason for this is because there is a lot of money in finance and investing when there's a lot of money and there's a lot of profits then they can actually pay out bigger affiliate commissions to their Affiliates and that's why this

is a great Niche to be in health and wellness is also a fantastic Niche you can promote things like supplements weight loss programs Fitness food skincare these commissions also tend to be quite high tech and gadgets this is also a great one so this could be things like software VPN Services web hosting SAS products even technology like laptops computers lenses cameras stuff like that the reason for this is because these things are usually expensive and even a small percentage of that really high sale can result in a pretty hefty commission there's also online education and

e-learning there's business and marketing tools travel and tourism personal development Beauty and Fashion home and lifestyle and pet care so yeah these are all great high-paying niches they're also quite Evergreen so if you create one piece of content you can actually live on your Channel or website for a long time and still be relevant and that's when you really see the true beauty of marketing because it can be quite passive you make one piece of content that starts to rank and that one piece of content can make you money for years other tools you can

use are things like Google Trends and answer the public these are some great ways to do some market research on more specific niches because with a niche you want to go specific but you don't want to go super broad doing affiliate marketing super broad just is not going to get you the Right audience it's not going to give you any Authority so I definitely don't recommend doing that on the other hand you don't want to go super super super Niche if there's only let's say 5,000 people in the world that care about your Niche then

usually there's not going to be that much money to be made in that Niche you want something that's specific but not too too specific if that makes any sense and although a lot of these niches are competitive I'd say don't shy away from it just because it's competitive if it is a niche and thing that you are really passionate about then you will find a way to make it work so what I encourage you to do is take out a piece of paper if you haven't already if there's anything that we talked about already any

of these niches that resonates with you maybe write that down Circle it do some more brain storing see if there are any sub niches within that Niche that you want to focus on do some market research on Google Trends and answer the public scope out some of your competitions so some other of the top ranking articles or videos or short form media whatever it is see what they are doing and see if it's something that you yourself can do that for me is the best advice on choosing a niche okay so now let's talk about

finding affiliate programs so luckily there are many platforms I encourage you to sign up for as a beginner the first is going to be Amazon Associates this is basically where you can make content about any product that is sold on Amazon and receive a commission if your traffic actually buys the product so it's called Amazon Associates it's very easy to sign up and if you go this route you'll definitely want to make a website with hostinger we'll briefly cover that later on this video the great thing is that hostinger has this Amazon Associates plug-in which

allows you to display your Amazon products on your website really nicely trust me having that type of presentation on your website is going to greatly increase your traffic and conversions so for me that is an absolute must just to show you guys quickly what you can make on some of these products here you can see what the commission rate is on the right so for example let's say you're doing PCS or Electronics things like that that's 2.5% televisions and digital video games that's 2% if you do things like toys or furniture or Home Improvement even

pet stuff that is 3% and this goes all the way up to 20% for Amazon games so essentially what this means is let's say you send traffic to Amazon and they buy a $11,000 PC that means that at 2.5% commission rate you're going to make $25 so you can start of see if you send a lot of people to Amazon to particular products even if a small percentage of them actually buy something you can make a good amount of money and the great thing is that if you send them to Amazon with your affiliate link

and they don't actually buy that exact product but they buy something else you're still going to get that commission for anything that they buy there are also other tons of affiliate platforms I definitely recommend signing up for so these include impact radius share sale partner stack and yeah there are a lot more there's also going to be affiliate programs that are not on these affiliate platforms so maybe some brands or products you really like they might have an affiliate program but if it's not listed on any of these platforms then you can just go to

Google search up That Brand Plus affiliate program and see if they have one that's hosted on their own but these affiliate platforms they are the best place to just be able to find a ton of different brands and products that you can actually start promoting so one of my favorites is for sure impact and let me show you guys what this looks like so I'm on impact right here for one of my accounts and this is going to be your dashboard it's going to show a snapshot of your earning ing of your clicks all that

stuff and so as you can see for this particular account in the last week we had1 129 clicks one action $0 and payouts our conversion rate is 78% and we have an earnings per click of $0 so probably not the best one to show you guys but just to keep things private I wanted to show this account and what you can see is if we come up here to Brands and then go to find Brands you'll be able to see all the different companies that run their affiliate program through impact radius so for example we

have Target right here you can make 1 to 5% per sale you have Walmart 1 to 4% per sale and now if we scroll you can see there's tons and tons of them we can also go to categories right here and sort by different categories you can sort by payout model but for now let's just say I want to look at Target I'll click on this it's going to bring up this page here we can get some more information about what the commission rates are so if I come here to view terms it's going to

pull this up this one's a little bit complicated but for some other brands it's going to be a lot more simple if you want to apply for a particular brand what you're going to do is click on apply they might want some more information maybe fill out a quick form and you'll click apply and they're going to go in and approve you manually so this is one of the brands that I work with ssl.com once you get approved for a particular brand you can click on create link we'll click create right here and it's going

to give you this custom link that is connected to your account so if I copy this and I send it to someone and they actually use that link and buy something I will get a commission when looking for the best affiliate programs to actually make content for one is first you're going to want to promote only things that you yourself have used or have done extensive research on and can actually say hey this is a good product that first and foremost is the most important thing the next thing you probably want to look at is

the commission rate now with commission rates there are different ways that Brands will pay you so there's the percentage way so let's say you make a sale of $100 and they pay a 5% commission so in that case you're going to get $5 percentages also work for recurring Revenue so let's say you send traffic and they spend $30 per month on some type of software let's say the commission rate there is 10% that means you're going to make $3 per month as long as that person is a customer sometimes they don't do it lifetime sometimes

it's limited to maybe 1 year so that's definitely something that you do need to be aware of there's also commission rates that are not percentage based so let's say you make a sale of something and the commission you get is not tied to how much they're spending in this case it could be something like a flat rate so let's say someone buys a software or whatever and let's say the CPS or CPA cost per acquisition cost per sale is a flat rate of let's say $50 in that case you're going to make $50 no matter

how much money they spend and yeah is there a better one not necessarily it's really going to depend on the product the service as well as the pricing the cookie duration is also something that you should consider so some programs have longer cookie durations and some have shorter so the you know shortest I've seen is maybe 7 days but I've also seen cookie durations of up to 90 plus days meaning if they click on your link and they don't make a purchase for 89 days and they finally make a purchase on the 89th day you

are still going to get credit and you will still get that commission so obviously the higher cookie duration the better I want to talk about this first because it's quite interesting but if you're starting out with affiliate marketing don't worry too much about what exact products you're going to you know create content about first that's going to come with time and you'll likely gradually add more and more Brands to your content and so this isn't too necessary to do but at some point you will want to sign up for these affiliate programs and maybe create

a spreadsheet so that you can accurately track all them okay so now let's talk about actually getting eyeballs on your content and how you can do this with basically $0 or very close to it without doubt getting eyeballs on your content is the hardest thing when it comes to affiliate marketing I think it's harder than actually creating the content and what really makes or breaks an affiliate marketing business is being able to get those eyeballs now the great thing is that there are so many different ways to get eyeballs and viewers for your content know

right later on in this video I will show you how to create effective content that actually ranks and does well on all these different platforms yeah I'd say that I quite good at that that is definitely a skill that I have yeah let's talk about the three main ways that you're going to drive traffic to your links and actually making money the first is with a website so every affiliate marketing business is going to need to have some type of website and luckily there are many ways to build a website for me I host all

of my websites on hostinger it is my favorite way to build a WordPress website to build an affiliate marketing website whatever it is and like I mentioned earlier if you want to sell Amazon products they have such a cool Amazon plugin that really makes making these articles with these called actions to your links look super super good now the the way that your website is going to actually have traffic is by ranking on search so this is going to be through search engines like Google or even as a place where you can send traffic from

your social media or other types of content luckily you can build a great affiliate marketing website super fast for just a few doar per month so I'll show you how to do that later on there's also going to be social media okay so social media means YouTube Instagram Tik Tok Pinterest there are tons of other different platforms out there but these are going to be the main ones these are all free platforms that you can sign up for doesn't cost any money it's going to be a fantastic place to actually post your content by content

this could be videos it could be reviews it could be care cells it could be pictures it could be pretty much anything and third is going to be email marketing I think not that many people talk about email marketing since it is boring and you can use tools like omnisend and yeah later on I'll show you exactly why building an email list super early is very very crucial and you're going to want to do that in conjunction with your affiliate marketing website and really with the website with social media and with email marketing our whole

goal is to get the right types of eyeballs right yes you can get millions and millions of eyeballs on very generic content but that is not going to result in actual sales or conversions this is something that took me quite a bit of time to figure out and that is just that the quality of your views can fluctuate so much I would rather get a th000 very targeted views for people with a lot of intent than 100,000 or even maybe 500,000 views that are super generic with no intent because those are not going to result

in conversions and so yeah it's really not about the volume it's just about the right types of eyeballs and there is a lot we can do to optimize the amount of money we can make per view and there are thousands of optimizations you can always do with funnels with the types of content you're making with your SEO and things like that we'll talk about that later on this video but I just want to let you guys know get the right types of eyeballs because that is going to be such a big game Cher for your

business so now that we have that out of the way way I want you to actually set up some of your platforms besides your social media platforms like Instagram Tik Tok you likely already have those but if you're focusing on a specific Niche you'll probably want to create your own business account oh and by the way I have tons of other tutorials on this channel that dive into more specific types of affiliate marketing so for example if you want to do Pinterest affiliate marketing that's 100% possible and I'll have a link to a list of

videos I've made down belows for you guys to reference but for now I just say continue watching this video get a good grasp on affiliate marketing as a full and if you really want to focus on you know Pinterest or Tik Tok or whatever that's when you can watch a more specific video yeah the thing I want you guys to do right now is to actually just set up your website because this is such an important part of affiliate marketing it's going to allow you to do the email marketing component and it's going to allow

you to actually create blogs and very valuable content that can rank on Google for a lot of people this is how they get the most high intent audience and that in turn drives the most Revenue so I have a special link for hosting her down below that's going to get you the absolute best deal on website hosting that you'll find anywhere and also if you use code Charlie Chang at checkout it's going to take an even bigger discount just follow along with me right now it's super super fast you'll get to a landing page that

looks like this and you'll click Start now what you're going to do is pick one of these plans so for affiliate marketing I do recommend going with the business plan it's $4 a month you know super super affordable and with this one plan you can actually create up to 100 different websites so even if your first website doesn't work out too well you can do another one keep doing this and yeah all my entrepreneur friends most of us have tons and tons of websites you also get a free domain free email bunch of free templates

that make your website look super professional and yes you can build a website using hostinger in just maybe 5 10 minutes they also have a ton of AI tools that allow you to create and write content and that's going to save you hours and hours of time yeah either of these should be okay I'm going to go with business you're going to select your period so 1 month 12 months 24 months or 48 months definitely do not choose one month it's super super expensive definitely do at least 12 months but just know that the longer

you do it's going to lock in this super low rate for now just select 12 months what we're going to do is go to have a coupon code this is extremely important write down Charlie chain click apply that's going to give you a bigger discount click continue and then you're actually going to create your account and enter in your payment information from there you're going to choose WordPress as your website builder and for affiliate marketing I do recommend going with WordPress yes there is a hosting or website builder that is even easier to use but

for affiliate marketing you know SEO is extremely important and there are so many different plugins you can get within WordPress that help you with SEO and so yeah that's why I recommend choosing the WordPress option from there on select your templates for example Astra maybe choose Elementor to be your site Builder and yeah I have tons and tons of videos about this if you want to dive further but spend maybe one to two hours actually creating the homepage of your websites populating with some images your logo whatever it is and then you're going to actually

have to start writing some content to actually give value to your audience now the whole point of our website is not going to be just to have a website it's going to be to actually write articles that give our audience a ton of valuable information that saves them time because affiliate marketing only really works if you are giving your viewer some type of value in return what they're going to do is use your link they'll be happy to and that's when you can actually start monetizing and making money with affiliate marketing like I said with

the hosting or business plan it does come with a ton of different AI tools that help you write content so what you can do is combine that with chat gbt create articles that you of course go in and change make it your own don't just copy the article word for word because that's not going to work definitely add your own spin on it and make it more custom and I guarantee you your audience is going to really appreciate that so yeah down just get your website set up again that's the foundation of your whole affiliate

marketing business and my link to hostinger will be down below so I really encourage you to use that all right so now let's talk about actually making the content all the secrets for making content that works that gets you in front of the right people now I myself am not that great at making super viral content but that's totally okay because for my business type I do not need to get millions and millions of views I just need to get maybe a few 100 views from the right people when you're making content you also want

to think what questions are my audience going to have if they want to buy this thing probably going to be the pros the cons the pricing it's going to be your own personal experience using the product or service you can talk about different Alternatives you could talk about use cases you can talk about your advice and tips for actually using the product or service really yeah you can get extremely creative with what you talk about in your content but the main thing is that you are there to serve your audience you're there to give them

valuable information and as a result they will likely use your link now how do we actually Drive traffic to our content well the great thing with searchable content is that it is free if you rank on search for particular keywords or phrases then these search engines like YouTube Google Pinterest Tik Tok they're going to send traffic to your content for free that's why I'm a huge fan of creating these types of content for your affiliate marketing business if you get really good at this then there's going to be tons and tons of people coming to

your websites or to your content because trust me there are so many people in the world it is so vast there's so many people trying to buy things all the time there's so many people trying to look for reviews look for more information about different things look for top X things to buy for this even if you capture a small percentage of that traffic you can build an incredible business of course there are some things that we can optimize to get more traffic that being SEO search engine optimization this allows you to get more organic

traffic by ranking better on these search engines I'm not going to go into too much detail on SEO but there are different plugins you can get for your website you can hire an SEO agency to help you rank for different things they'll help you with strategy things like that or you can also just learn this yourself in terms of social media strategies let's talk about short form media first I am a huge fan of short form media because it's a lot easier to make and you can repost this video on Instagram real Tik Tok even

Pinterest even YouTube shorts so by making one piece of content you're able to post it in essentially four different locations and that my friends is working smarter not harder with short form the most important part of the video is going to be one the title that's for the search but also the hook so that's going to be the first 2 or 3 seconds of the video if you're making your video and you watch the first 2 or 3 seconds and you're not like I want to watch the rest of it and that's not a good

hook any video without a good hook is not going to perform well I guarantee it especially with the amount of short form media that is being posted every single day you're basically competing for attention and that hook is how you compete for that attention so say something to reel them in and then for the rest of the video you want to have Fast Cuts you want to provide good information and you want that video to be sharable this is a huge thing because if you can get a video to be more sharable then the algorithm

is going to be like oh this is actually a good piece of content it's going to push it out more yes with short form media the intent of your audience is definitely not going to be as high quality as your website or even YouTube but it still is traffic and what you can do is you know give them a piece of information tell them hey if you want more information check out my website or watch this full YouTube video this can be a great way to get your other content discovered and that's because these short

from videos they can reach a lot of people and that can be a great way to initially build your audience with YouTube it's pretty similar right the hook is not as important even though it is important the thumbnail in this case is going to be more important as well as the value of the information that you are giving in the video so I've probably made thousands of videos by now for long form YouTube you sort of get used to talking on camera sort of like I'm doing right now but this is definitely a little bit

harder not that many people are going to want to get out of their comfort zone by camera by lighting microphone all that stuff but I will say your videos they don't need to be that advanced they don't need to look that professional as long as the information you're giving is good and valuable that is the most important thing so yes I see videos all the time that are you know not professionally made they're filmed with an iPhone but the value of the info is super super strong and that's why they rank that's why I think

everyone should try making YouTube videos at some point I know it is hard but it can definitely pay off so let's talk about some of the tools that you can use within your affiliate marketing business first is going to be chat GPT this is a great way to you know strategize to get information to create initial drafts of your content yeah there's so much stuff you can do with chat GPT it's also extremely cheap and there's also a free plan so I think everyone should have it your website hosting is also another thing you need

to have so we already covered this I just recommend hostinger that's essentially how you build and host your website so that other people can come and you know see your content if you're making videos you're also going to need some type of camera it can be your phone you might want lighting or a microphone or a tripod and there's tons and tons of tools out there like descript submic Opus there are tons of these AI tools I can actually help you make and edit your content so that's going to save you a ton of time

so I definitely recommend find these tools and actually utilize them I love using frame.io this is where I have all of my video collaboration I'll upload my videos there my editors will go in you know download the media we can make revision comments directly on the video and yeah that's a great great tool to have especially if you're making videos I also recommend using things like notion and clickup for your task management this is where you can have all the different projects you're working on the different articles you're putting out the different videos I personally

use clickup although I do think notion is just as good for most people if you're doing YouTube using tools like tubebuddy or vid IQ is extremely important these save me hundreds of hours per year and give me tons and tons of good information that help me rank there's also other AI tools like perplexity that do help with content creation yeah I think that should be a good starting list for the tools that will help you with your affiliate marketing business okay so now let's talk about common mistakes that most people make I see these mistakes

over and over again so let's talk about them the first is just promoting too many products all at once in different niches essentially this is like starting tons and tons of businesses all at the same time if you do that there's no chance that you are going to be successful because your time and ttention is spread out way too thin so what I recommend for beginners is to just focus on maybe one to three products at first build really good content around that you know make articles make videos do whatever else you want to get

more views and once you do that you'll get better at it and you'll be able to Branch off work with other companies or Brands and that's sort of like the timeline that I reckon with another big mistake that people make is they don't build enough trust with their audience so if you yourself cannot build a good personal brand or trust then think about it why would they actually listen to what you have to say and of course why would they use your link that's where the Personal Touch really comes in by relating to your Audience

by actually giving them good information by actually helping them that's when you build that trust right yes it is hard for strangers to know fully trust you but if you help them out I guarantee you they're going to have that trust they're going to be like okay I got something from this person I should give them something as well I'll use their link another mistake I see is people that use chat gbt they just generate an article and copy and paste it to their website because yeah that does not work these days without your own

personal touch it's likely going to be subpar it might sound kind of weird and again guys it's about trust so you need to put your own personal touch onto your content another huge mistake is just lack of consistency so yes this is an exciting business model it is a cool way of making online money but you need to do it consistently and most people they'll do it maybe for a few days and they'll get bored of it stop what I will tell you is that there is zero chance that you will have a successful business

of any kind if you are not consistent so in this case it means consistently putting out content consistently writing articles consistently finding new brands to work with and just consistently making your content better okay right so obviously we covered a ton of information in this video and honestly I could probably talk about this topic for at least a few more hours but I want to make this video more concise for you I want you to actually take action on the content I don't want to bombard you with a ton of information that's just going to

overwhelm you and guys likely you'll learn a ton of this as you actually build your business everything that you learn in this video is going to give you a perfect Foundation but I guarantee you there's going to be a lot more to learn and you're only going to be able to learn that as you do it so go out there literally take action on the steps that we talked about today you watching this video gives you like let's say a 500% boost in success rate versus someone that does not have this type of information but

even then you still need that consistency you still need that drive and you still really just need that action taking it's been really fun making this video hopefully you guys learned some things things that you didn't know before I pretty much just covered every single thing that I wish I knew when I started affiliate marketing it 100% would have made me a lot more successful a lot faster so hopefully everyone watching this video you can take action you can see some success with affiliate marketing because I really want you to all succeed in building your

own business again if you go to the description of this video I'll have links to more resources for you guys and I'll have links to some of the tools we talked about in the video guys I cannot stress this enough affiliate marketing is such a great online business it's something that everyone can start with just a laptop and seriously everything you need to know to get started is in this video that you're watching right now I credit affiliate marketing for why I'm able to live the life I live being able to work from home or

while traveling and if this is the type of lifestyle that you want to have you definitely just need to take that first step so please please try it you'll thank yourself later and hopefully this video was the main driving point to get you started on your affiliate marketing business Journey if you got some value from the video I really appreciate it if you gave this video a like if you share it with a friend if you subscribe I do a ton of videos like this on my channel and we cover things like building your own

online business investing in personal finance thank you so much for sticking with me for this long and I'll see you in the next video peace [Music]