Affiliate Marketing Tutorial For Beginners 2021 (Step by Step)

hey everyone welcome to the channel in this video we're going to be walking you through step by step showing you everything that you need to know in regards to affiliate marketing this is going to be one of my favorite videos it's going to be a little bit longer so i recommend taking out a pen taking out a piece of paper and starting to write down some of these different things that we discuss in this video because this is going to be a to z everything you need to know about affiliate marketing the best practices the strategies the best products to promote the best niches and then some other different tips in there as well uh i hate that i have to say this but i have to make this disclaimer uh we're not selling anything here okay there's no sales pitch you don't have to worry about halfway through we say oh if you want to find the secret sauce then buy our thousand dollar course there's none of that uh we have nothing to sell we don't sell anything and so i just want to make that very clear before we get into this because i feel like i watch so many videos online and i get excited about something i watch tutorial then halfway through there's some big sales pitch you don't need to pay any money to learn how to do this this is totally free i never paid a single penny to learn how to do affiliate marketing uh and i like to think that we've done pretty well with affiliate marketing i mean we make thousands of dollars per month uh with affiliate marketing from some of our different websites and our youtube channels and our other media platforms we'll talk about all of those i'm not saying that to brag it's just to kind of hopefully establish a little bit of credibility maybe you recognize me from one of my other youtube channels which is the natal brian brand which just crossed over a million subscribers last week so a little bit excited about that hopefully that doesn't sound like i'm bragging or something it's just hopefully establish a little bit more credibility here so you know i'm just not some random guy talking about this here uh although i guess i still am kind of random either way okay take out a pen take out a piece of paper and let's get started with it with this talking about affiliate marketing and how you can make money with this okay so this is one of my favorite business opportunities for anyone and you know when people come up to me and they ask me nate what should i do to start a business how should i make my money i always say affiliate marketing and there's a reason for this because with affiliate marketing there does not need to be any startup cost you don't have to worry about business expenses you don't have to worry about profitability or profit margins because with affiliate marketing the way that it functions is you really don't have very many expenses so you can get started with this for zero dollars although i would recommend maybe having a budget of like a hundred dollars because you might want to start a website for your affiliate marketing or maybe you want to buy a camera or maybe you want to buy some different equipment to kind of jump start you a little bit but for the most part you know you can start this for zero dollars or maybe a couple hundred dollars if you really want to put some money into it uh for this this is why i love it there's no startup cost you don't have to pay money and like i said you don't have to pay for any courses i think those are just totally a waste of money in my personal opinion because there's so much free information out there in the world and there's really not anything to lose i mean if you don't have to put money into this and you can start this for totally free then i think this is a great business to start because what's going to happen maybe you put in some time and you don't get that time back because it maybe didn't work out but it's not like you are putting money into starting a hot dog stand down the road and then you lose a lot of money because you had a loan for it and you lost a ton of money with affiliate marketing you can try it and if it doesn't work out maybe you just walk away with not making much money but it's not like you lost a lot that's sort of my philosophy on it and why i think it's a great thing to start with so let's just briefly go over what affiliate marketing is for those of you who don't know what this is or how it functions and then we'll go far more in depth later on in this video okay so affiliate marketing the basics of understanding this uh is that you are not actually the person who owns products but you are just marketing them for a company so i'll give you an example here and hopefully this can really be clarified for most people okay let's say that nike is selling shoes right i think we all know that they sell shoes they sell clothing so what we can do as affiliate marketers is we can go and we can market these nike products on our website or on our youtube channel or on our discord or our facebook group or our tick tock whatever it might be we can market products for other businesses and then we get special links we get custom links from those business that tracks when people click on our link and goes to that business and then if that person buys from that business we then get a commission or a piece of the pie from that company hopefully i explained that properly if i didn't then just stick around for another minute and i think it'll all make sense here but essentially what's happening is we are promoting products for other businesses and in return for promoting those products we are getting some of the commission we are getting some of the revenue uh from the sales of those products so for example uh sometimes i promote vpn services right or i might promote lifelock or some different types of services on my youtube on my youtube channel and every time that somebody clicks on a special link that is designated for me that i've talked to that company and we have gotten a designated link just for me when somebody clicks on that and then they buy something through that link that that they have clicked on i then will get a commission for sending them over there now hopefully that makes sense there but let me actually show you a little bit more in detail here let's take a look at my youtube channel and i'll show you what i mean by this okay so here we have my youtube channel and for any video that you might see here let's go down and let's look at uh perhaps let's say that we want to look at this video about my investment portfolio right so if we go down into the description here we'll see a couple of different what we call affiliate links and these affiliate links is how i make money with affiliate marketing okay so the first one here is robinhood which i don't really promote them anymore ever since they had that big problem back in january 2021 here but robin hood here for example when somebody clicks on my link it says get a free stock when you open an account with robinhood if somebody clicks on this right here it then takes them to the robinhood landing page and at this point if they sign up for robinhood i will then get money from robin hood for bringing them a new customer so this is how affiliate marketing works it can go a little bit more in-depth it can get a little bit more complicated you can see some other ones here as well like for example uh i have one for life insurance on my channel and so if people click on this one right here which is natobrine.comladder i'll show you how to get these custom links as well you'll probably want to know how to do that it takes you to ladders website and then if somebody fills this out then i get money from ladder for sending over a potential customer uh to that company so that's how affiliate marketing works and what's great about this is that you don't have to use a youtube channel you don't have to use a blog there's a lot of different ways to basically get link clicks and get conversions through your special link that you get from a company now you might be asking how do you get this link from a company i'll show you how to do that there's different ways to do that but what we call these are affiliate networks hopefully you're writing this down as well so that you can really gain something out of this video here today one more great benefit to affiliate marketing is that we don't have to deal with some of the things that most businesses have to uh allocate time for like for example dealing with customers who maybe are unhappy with a product or maybe your product breaks and then the customer is not happy they want a refund or they want a new product as an affiliate marketer our goal here is to just market the product for the business send the customer over there and once the customer is at the company that's the company's thing to deal with so trust me i've run physical product companies in the past i've run other companies in the past as well and i can tell you that affiliate marketing is probably the most hands-off out of any of these because we just have to worry about getting the customer to the front door and once they're in the door then it's not really our problem anymore i don't know if i should wear it as problem because i want to bring up another clear point here which is that as an affiliate marketer it's very important to take your integrity very seriously uh i think this is something that's sort of a problem here where affiliate marketing sort of gets a bad rap because there's a lot of just scammy scummy people uh in this industry who will promote bad products uh and they know that they're not good products but they'll promote them anyway just so that they can make some money don't be this person i don't do this uh for example if there's a product that you know is just it's not good you should not be promoting it because that's first of all it's not morally correct but also what's going to happen is your viewers or your readers or wherever else people are seeing your information and finding your link they're not going to trust you very much if they see you promoting products that turn out to not be very good products they're not going to be repeat listeners repeat watchers repeat readers and so you can end up losing those people who are viewing your content or or reading your content and it's just going to be a bad situation overall so make sure out of all of this that if you ever promote products with affiliate marketing that you actually use those products yourself or you like those products or you've at least done your due diligence to read other reviews and see what other people are saying about the product and have a good understanding of whether this is actually something that you want to attach your name to or if it's just a crap product because trust me there's a lot of crap products out there that i would never touch and i would never promote just because they are not very good okay so we've talked about why affiliate marketing can be a great opportunity and we've also identified what affiliate marketing is but now let's talk about how to find products how do you find niches what types of products can we promote and also how much can we actually expect to make with affiliate marketing um so let's start off with understanding the different types of products that we can promote and the big easy answer here is that most companies most products will have an affiliate program it probably already exists and i would say that probably 80 of companies out there that do b2c which is basically just for consumers uh they are going to have some type of affiliate program the best way to find this is just do a quick google search right so you can just google nike affiliate program or adidas affiliate program and see if a product that maybe you want to promote uh already has that program available you might be able to find it that way but if you aren't finding it that way there are going to be three different affiliate networks that i want to share with you in this video that i use on a daily basis to find new products to promote and those three different affiliate networks are amazon associates it's gonna be a fun one we have impact and we have cj.com each one of these is a great way to find products to promote and also get a better understanding of the whole landscape that we're looking at and and looking at the different prices uh and the different amounts of money that we can make with affiliate marketing so let's first start with amazon associates i really think this is sort of like a rite of passage for any affiliate marketer uh this is the first affiliate program that i joined and this is promoting products that are already on amazon and we're getting a commission for this so i can pull up the fee schedule here let me do that right now so we can sign up for amazon associates uh and what we're going to have here is if we get a special link which can be to any amazon product at all you know you find a product on amazon that you like you can get a link directly to that product through your amazon associates dashboard and then when people click on it you can end up making money if they buy anything on amazon within the next 24 hours because they clicked on your link and it's tracked via cookies or there's some other ways to track but here is the fee schedule this is what we can make with amazon associates and it does vary on the type of product and the category that it is in right so if somebody buys a physical book through our specific amazon link we can get four and a half percent commission from the sale of that book so four and a half percent of maybe a 20 book would be about what about um 80 cents of a commission that we would get from selling that book now that doesn't seem like a lot of money but if we can get thousands of people to buy this book then it starts to add up to thousands of dollars and you can see this is simply just a numbers game right but let's go through here and let's look at the different products and see what we can actually make from amazon associates if we're selling beauty products luxury beauty products we can end up getting a 10 commission from getting people to those products so if we sell a thousand dollars worth of luxury beauty products uh because somebody clicked on our link and they bought a thousand dollars worth of luxury beauty products on amazon we could get a 10 commission on that which would be 100 in our pocket i know actually my brother mike does this a lot with different types of tech reviews he does tech reviews for some of his blogs but also for some of his youtube channels and he can end up selling cameras that cost two thousand dollars on amazon and he's getting a commission from that for anywhere between it looks like two and a half percent if he's if he's promoting computers uh up to some higher numbers as well right about four percent for other items so you know if he's selling a two thousand dollar camera and he's getting a four percent commission on that he might be making eighty dollars uh when every time that somebody clicks on his link and then buys a camera through his link so you can see how this can really end up making you a lot of money i highly suggest signing up for amazon associates because it's probably going to be the best and easiest way to get your feet wet with affiliate marketing so you can just google amazon associates or i will leave a link to it down below as well if you want to sign up for amazon associates and just kind of explore some of the different products because let's go over here let's click on product links and we can actually just go through and you know let's say that we want to promote this book called the intelligent you know what how about we want to promote a canon eos r which is the camera that i use right now so let's say that you wanted to pick up this camera and start filming videos well uh i can promote it right here and here's one with 8k video for 3899. can get the link right here and i can shorten it and i can highlight it and boom just like that i now have this link and if you click on this link i will then get credit for any purchase that you make through amazon in the next 24 hours it's pretty cool i don't think you're going to want to miss out on something like this and it's free to sign up for amazon associates there's no cost to that so once again you know you don't have to worry about spending money on anything now besides amazon associates there are two other ones that i really like finding products on and these two other platforms these two other affiliate networks they have thousands of different products on them and from what i found they actually end up paying a lot more money because amazon the fee schedule it's still pretty low i mean you know you're only making between one and ten percent for every item that you are selling or that you are getting people to buy through your affiliate link uh let me just show you though actually what we've made on amazon in the past uh month or so you know in the past 30 days we've made 350 uh through amazon so it this might be a lot of money to some people but overall when you're looking at the broad scale of things for the amount of clicks that we are getting driven to amazon this actually isn't very good um and i say this because you know if you're making 350 but you are getting thousands of clicks right from 5 000 clicks we've made 350 that's not very good um there are better ones that if you're getting 5 000 clicks you can make thousands of dollars okay so just about perspective i don't want to make it sound like 350 is not a lot of money because i know you know that's still pretty good i mean you can probably pay some of your rent with that so it's still pretty nice to have but let's go over and let's look at impact impact radius is what it's called this is just impact.com this is another affiliate platform that you can find different companies on so let's go over and let's take a look at that now okay so now we are on impact.com we have created an account uh this is for one of my other brands here um but you can just see how many different categories we have for products that we can promote i would recommend just going through and finding different products and seeing you know is this something that i think my audience would like or is this something that i think i could find a way to promote this via maybe paid ads even videos about paid ads and how to make money with that or maybe you want to have organic traffic but what i would suggest doing is going through and finding a couple of different products or industries one of my favorites actually is education i think education is a great one but also you know perhaps maybe you know you're looking through this and you think that organic and eco-friendly would just be right up your alley maybe you have some type of publication or you have a website where you talk about uh you know being uh sustainable right and and and making sure that you are staying healthy so let's go through here and see if we recognize any of these brands what's this right here look we have burt's bees right here and they're offering a 10 commission for every uh purchase that gets purchased through bert's bees now let's look at the details here and we can see actually something really cool and this is that uh it says 30 days right here now 30 days what this means is that if somebody clicks on your link and they maybe don't buy something right away but they clicked on your link on uh mid-february right but they don't actually buy anything for 29 days but on day number 29 they decide to buy something through your link well because this is a 30-day cookie period if they buy something on day number 29 like a month after they clicked on your link you can still end up getting the credit for that sale and still getting money for that sale because it was within this 30 day window that burt's bees allows so it does depend on the company we call this cookie length sometimes the cookie length for companies is only 24 hours like your amazon affiliate links will only have a 24-hour cookie length versus some of these other companies that might have a 30-day cookie length or a 90-day cookie length which is going to determine you know how long after somebody clicks on your link are you still eligible to to get a a um basically credit for getting that sale so even if they click on your link and then they don't buy anything for 29 days but on day number 29 they buy something you can end up getting the money for it so it's pretty cool to see something like that but i would suggest going through and you know just kind of looking at the different amounts of money that are are being offered for some of these different products and see if something really just lines up for your industry or for your niche here's one that i actually like a lot five star nutrition let's say that you have a fitness youtube channel or you have a fitness website or you have a fitness facebook group so five star nutrition is a great one for people who maybe are in that fitness industry if we look at the different rates that they're offering it's between 10 and 20 percent commission for sales that you get through them with a 30-day cookie window now with impact we can also see the average 30-day earnings per click for the affiliates who are already working with this company five-star nutrition and then we can see that the average earnings per click or epc is two dollars and two cents that's actually really good um and so this means that if the average affiliate with five star nutrition let's say that they're getting a hundred clicks for a hundred clicks they might end up getting 202 dollars uh in total because they've driven 100 clicks it obviously varies depending on the type of traffic that you are getting to right if you are um promoting this company to 12 year olds who don't have any money you're probably not going to get a lot of conversions with that versus if you're promoting this to highly targeted uh weight lifters who are already uh looking for different types of uh supplements and different types of vitamins um so you know you want to think about who you're promoting products to as well making sure that you're targeting the correct audience so that you can get a proper high earnings per click um so you know go through and search through impact find some different brands that you think are pretty cool that maybe perhaps you could promote and then if you find them you just click apply and you go through you apply and then you either get accepted or rejected for that affiliate program uh there is an important part here though that uh determines whether you actually get accepted into these affiliate programs um and what determines that is they look at your website or they look at your youtube channel they see the type of traffic that you are bringing right um and so this is why i think it's really important to build the website i'll leave a link to one that we use down below which is this hostinger you can create a website with their uh on there with wordpress for like a couple of dollars per month it's pretty inexpensive uh and we're partnered with them it's actually an affiliate link to be honest so if you find value in this video we would appreciate if you built the website using that link but you know don't don't feel the pressure too you don't have to it would just uh help us out a little bit and help keep this video free um so this is one of the different affiliate networks the third one that i want to show you is called cj so this used to be called the commission junction they just call it cj now so it's cj.com and this affiliate network also is very similar to impact they have a number of reputable brands that you probably already recognize who basically run their affiliate program through this network so they have thousands of different companies on here so let's just kind of look at some of the different um you know things that we've made this one is actually i believe for my personal brand the one that i'm logged into here but looking at you know last month i made about hundred dollars uh in affiliate commissions in profit in my pocket um and i i don't wanna like show this to to brag that's not the point here i just wanted to show you like it's very possible to make money with affiliate marketing uh and this is just one of the programs that i'm in right so this is cj.com and we can go through and look at different advertisers so let's click up here and let's look at different advertisers and perhaps find one that we think could be a great fit for our brand so let's go through here and let's just scroll through and see what we can find here you're probably going to recognize some of these right 23andme maybe you recognize 23andme it's that dna test to see sort of where your ancestors are from or what heritage you might have and so we can apply to the program right here we can get a link for it pretty easily pretty quickly and so you know we're still on a here we're looking at aaa we're still scrolling and so you can just see how many companies there really are on here and i can nearly guarantee that you're going to find some companies on cj.com or on impact.com or on amazon associates that you can decide to start promoting but let's say that you've found these right maybe you found a product you say this lines up perfectly i'm gonna promote adidas or i'm going to promote this vpn or i'm going to promote 23andme or five-star nutrition once you find the things that you want to promote you need to think about how you're actually getting people to click on your special link on your affiliate link how are you going to do this and this leads us into how to get traffic and how to get link clicks which is the next section of this video okay this is one of my favorites i love marketing i spend all day every day just thinking about this so hopefully i don't nerd out too much on you here but once again i hope you're writing some of this down okay so when thinking about how to get people to click on our link there's two primary strategies here there's free traffic and there's paid traffic sometimes people also refer to free traffic as organic traffic versus paid traffic now what is the best way to do this well we've done both we have created blogs we have created youtube channels and different media outlets that are totally free we don't pay any money for that right we just have them totally free and then the paid traffic is running ads so you can actually run ads with your affiliate link and make money basically sort of kind of uh with certain profit margins that are not as great but still it's possible let's you know use an example if you google best bank accounts you'll probably notice a bunch of different ads that'll pop up before you actually get to the actual things that you search for right some of those ads can be affiliate links they can be affiliate websites but overall we like to use free traffic i do have a couple of ad tutorials i have some facebook ad tutorials instagram ad tutorials and google ad tutorials on this youtube channel so if you want to check those out feel free to go and look at those if you want to run paid ads with your affiliate links you can do it sometimes you just have to make sure you read the terms of service for those different affiliate programs because a lot of companies don't want you running ads with your affiliate link on that company's name it gets kind of complicated but it is still something that you know sometimes people do decide to run ads for their affiliate links and just kind of force traffic there the problem here is that it costs you money right and especially in the beginning if you are running ads to your website or you're running ads to something that maybe contains affiliate links um this costs you money and you're gonna do a lot of split testing a lot of a b testing to figure out the best types of ads so overall i would not recommend starting with it we run some paid ads but it's only because we're profitable because of our free traffic and now we can afford to run some paid ads for some of our different affiliate products that we promote so for this video we're really going to focus on free traffic how to get free traffic to your links um and traditionally you know sometimes when i watch these affiliate marketing videos because i've done my research um and i've watched these affiliate marketing videos for years i will see people say that the best way to do this is to put your links on forums like go on to quora or like go on to other facebook groups and just like put your link everywhere and just paste your link everywhere you can get people to click on it i would not recommend doing this you don't want to spam people with your affiliate link don't be that person nobody likes that person and so you want to do this selectively and you know sort of going in and getting people to click on your link without be doing it in a deceptive manner you want this to be very natural you want this to be organic so a great way to do that for example um is to get some type of organic traffic or free traffic from building on different types of social media or ranking for search so the easiest way to do this is with a blog i'm actually going to show you how to build a website and how to set up a blog because i think regardless of where you're getting your traffic from you need a website to funnel people back to where you can then paste your affiliate links on that website on that landing page right so let's look at natobrian.com here and you can see that for my personal brand you know when i talk about things on my youtube channel i actually send people over to my resources page on my website which then has different types of investing apps right this is an affiliate link this is also an affiliate link this banking one is an affiliate rank this insurance one is in affiliate link as well so i think building a website and ranking on google for some of your blog articles is a great strategy we do have various videos showing you how to build websites on this channel so you can check those out i will also leave that link to hostinger which is a wordpress host that you can build a website with for a couple of dollars per month it is an affiliate link so i do get a little bit of money for it just because we're talking about affiliate marketing okay but you don't have to click on it it does help support the channel it does help keep these videos free so i certainly would appreciate it but you don't have to click on the link if you don't want to but it'd just be centralmedia.comhostinger if you wanted to sign up for that website and so you can start building your website with that um but let's say that you don't want to write a blog you you don't want to start with the blog in 2021 maybe you just feel weird about it because it just sounds strange starting a blog in 2021 by the way i'm telling you it's not you can start a blog now and you can still make a lot of money with it we've done it we started one in 2019 we started on 2018 they're making us money okay um but you can also decide to start a youtube channel to get traffic this is my favorite one uh obviously you know my personal brand has a million subscribers i do a lot of affiliate marketing on there i've made thousands and thousands of dollars with affiliate marketing from my personal brand by promoting those products um not everybody likes to speak to a camera you don't have to be speaking to a camera we have youtube channels where i don't touch it um i i don't make the videos somebody else makes the videos i basically just run it and i say hey you know i think we should make these videos uh for next month and they say okay sounds good they go and they make the videos i pay them and then i make money off of the whole thing because i end up making more money in affiliate commissions from the videos that somebody else makes for me so you can run it like a business and not even have to be the person who makes the actual videos i honestly like making the videos um but also one thing to note as well if you're worried about going the youtube route uh i wouldn't worry too much because a lot of people think you know it feels weird talking to a camera or they don't think that they're a natural speaker i am the least natural speaker out of anyone um and and that sounds ridiculous maybe for some people because they think that maybe i'm able to somewhat articulate somewhat uh because you know we don't script these videos for example i'm just talking to a camera here um but i can promise you my videos when i first started were absolutely horrendous they were terrible i had to remove them and delete them because they were just so bad and maybe if i'm up to it i'll show you a video right here of one of my first youtube videos it was just really embarrassing thousands and thousands of dollars into marketing campaigns without even taking advantage of some key marketing techniques that every business should be utilized yeah hopefully that makes you feel a little bit better about starting a youtube channel because uh you got to start somewhere and it i honestly i just cringe when i think about it but how to throw it out there because uh it just you know over time you improve with your speaking capabilities and your sk your speaking skills and sometimes you know if you mess up like i just kind of stuttered on my own words there but you just keep going or you edit it out it's not a big deal um so starting a youtube channel having a blog those are great ways to get traffic but there's other things you can do as well one of them is an instagram page i have friends who've built instagram meme pages specifically that they get tons of affiliate commissions from their swipe up features on their stories on instagram the problem here is that you need to have 10 000 followers to be able to get those swipe up features on instagram so if you don't have that or if you think it's going to take you a really long time for that then that might be somewhat problematic you could also put a link in your bio as an affiliate link for instagram pages if you want to do that besides those another one that i really like that i think is great for getting free traffic is facebook groups or discords but the key here is that you have to own this facebook group or you have to own this discord or maybe this is like reddit or something else the key here is that you really want to be the owner of this of this group that you're in so that you can regulate and make sure that your link you know doesn't get deleted or flagged by other people because you know like if you go into some random facebook group and you start just blasting your affiliate links to everybody you're gonna get banned nobody likes that like what's the sketchy link right it just looks weird but if you own the facebook group i have a friend who has a facebook group about credit cards and it has tens of thousands of people in that facebook group and every now and again he will go into that facebook group maybe once a week or uh every couple of weeks and he will say hey how's everybody doing just found this new credit card uh they just have this new offer i'll leave a link to it right here and he places his link and then he pins that at the top of the facebook group and because it's his group his followers like him they know him they trust him and so they honestly might go and click on that link and then sign up for that credit card uh because of that so if you do decide to go that group route uh just make sure that you own those groups and also once again going back to the basics of what we talked about keeping a high level of integrity is also very important for something like that uh besides that you know anywhere else you can get media or anywhere else you can get followers or eyes on you uh or on your product or on your business is going to be helpful as well i have some tick tock friends uh who've blown up on tick tock and they're able to convert their tick tocks into link clicks because in their tick tock at the end they'll say click link in my bio or go and click on the links in my page on tick tock and then people do it right and so you can get affiliate commissions through there and you can start to see that pretty much anywhere you can start to make money as long as you have eyeballs and people looking at you or at your brand it doesn't have to be you specifically and i think if you're not really looking to be on camera then i i would probably suggest starting a blog or outsourcing this work and having other people make videos for you if you don't want to be on camera but honestly guys it's it's honestly kind of fun talking to a camera and making making youtube videos so one of my favorite sources of traffic is email marketing uh and so you can collect email accounts from any of your followers whether this is on your blog or on your youtube channel or anywhere else where you're getting traffic from you collect their emails and you can own this email list and you can send these emails out whenever you want with affiliate links in those emails that you send out right i know that morningbrew for example this is a company that i believe was valued at 30 million dollars last year and all they do is affiliate marketing they basically just write emails they have an email newsletter that comes out monday through saturday they actually sponsor me on my main youtube channel um but they embed this email newsletter which is packed with value they embed it with different types of affiliate links for different products and they make money with affiliate marketing they make millions of dollars with affiliate marketing from an email newsletter that's now worth over 30 million dollars because of affiliate marketing so consider making an email newsletter and just getting people to sign up for that newsletter uh through different types of platforms or through making a couple of tick tocks making a couple of youtube videos and getting them onto the the email that you can then hit them with the different types of affiliate links right so you can see how this is endless opportunities we have so many other videos on how to gain traffic organically how to grow youtube channels how to grow instagram pages i think we have a lot of videos on those topics so you can go search through our channel um if you want to check some of those out all right so as i was mentioning earlier it's really crucial to have a blog or to have a website that you can get people to come back to so if they're finding you on youtube or they're finding you on tick tock or anywhere else you want to funnel people back to your website to your blog which might also rank for google search but also you can use to write articles and to have resource pages like what i do with natobrian.com looking at the resource page there and this is a great way to embed affiliate links and make these nice buttons that people think can then click on so let me show you super quickly how to make a really good website in about 15 minutes here okay so what we use here is hostinger you can go to centralmedia.com hostinger we got you guys a special discount here this is an affiliate link which would just make sense because we're making a video about it so you don't have to use it but it would help support this channel if you found some value in this video we would really appreciate it but like i said don't feel pressured to we're using hostinger here to build a wordpress website and this is really inexpensive so right now their plans that they have available is for 99 cents per month which is really inexpensive you're not going to find anything lower than that i don't know if this price is going to go up right now it's pretty low but if you're seeing it right now if you click on the link for centralmedia.com hostinger if it looks like a different price it's probably just because it went up a little bit but it's still going to be probably one of the best options out there so we can go ahead and click on this and we can sign up for it and it will take us through the process of building our website so we're going to go with this one right here for 48 months for 99 cents or you know maybe we want to go for something like one month just try it out but for this this is still pretty inexpensive right here at this option okay so let's go ahead and let's go through with purchasing this plan all right so i'm submitting my info here this cost me 47 to have a website for two years like i said it's going to be the cheapest thing you're possibly going to find for building a website it took us a long time to find this company if you don't like hostinger we have another one called siteground that we use for some of our websites and this one's also great as well it's just a little bit more expensive but also i find to be a little bit more premium of a service if you're trying to build a website like super fast loading speeds for example um so here we are with hostinger it's now going to have us create a password for the account that we are now creating so let's go do that right now okay so we've created our password and now we're going through the process of setting up our website so let's click start now and they make this really easy to do to build our blog or to build our website now we might want to have to go and buy a domain because we don't own a domain it's just like the little thing that says dot com on it so let's try to buy a domain here let's say uh let's call this one super nutrition super nutrition guy and let's see if we have a uh domain available for this and it looks like we do okay i just made this up on the spot so it might not be a great domain but overall going for com domains we find do perform better than things like net or dot biz or some of these other different uh domains that you might see available so try to go for that.com if you can so supernutritionguy.com or maybe we'll promote some five-star nutrition supplements on this website then we can click continue and then we can decide do we want to build a new website or migrate your site you're probably going to be building a new site so click that and then have we built a website before you can say no i'm going to say yes because i have and we can skip over some of the different tutorials there of what they're going to try to take us through and then we can go and click on wordpress website so we're going to do that now i'm going through this relatively quickly just so that you can get the idea here and hopefully get your site started as well so let's create a password here for our new wordpress account that we are creating and click continue and now we can choose a different theme right so we have themes on here that we can choose for our affiliate website let's say that we really like this one select this and then we can finish setting this up right here so we can click finish setting up now it's going to take a couple of minutes to set up but once it does our website is is almost complete i mean it is probably going to be 40 complete here um and so this is going to take it says about three minutes to fully set up so we can skip ahead here uh once this does this so it did take us a little while to get our domain verified but we've waited about five to ten minutes for that and now i'm going to click on hosting and then i'm going to click on manage and then i'm going to click on dashboard because we're going to our wordpress dashboard so that we can actually start building out our website so let me click on this and then we're gonna go down and click on edit website okay so now that we've clicked on edit website it's now opening up it's redirecting to our wordpress dashboard um which might look a little bit confusing at first but this is how you're gonna build your website uh and this is how you're gonna operate everything okay so we see supernutritionguy.com we can actually go and visit the site right here this is a live website our site is up and running uh this is remember the theme that we just picked earlier uh in in this tutorial um so it doesn't look right i mean it's obviously not what we want it to be but the theme the layout maybe is is how we wanted it to look right and so now what we can do with this wordpress website is we can change these words we can change uh these different things here and we basically already have something to go off of because i'm assuming you're probably not a web developer uh you probably might not know how to like inject lines of code and i'm certainly not very well versed in that either and so it's easier to just use a template like this so this is what our site looks like right now we can change it up by just going back and clicking on this w right here takes us back to our wordpress dashboard and now we can start to add pages we can manage these pages right maybe we want to delete this service page we can just trash that we wanted to create a new page here maybe we want to create this and make it something different right so we can just um add new and we can say that you know maybe this page we want to be about supplements right we can have a whole page about um right we have a supplements page we can publish that and that will automatically go on to our website if we have elementor already as well we can edit with elementor and this is how we can start to modify our site quite a bit now elementor is just a plugin for wordpress you can just add this we we have tutorials on how to use elementor hopefully we're not confusing you here but you know let's say that we want to make a um uh an article about best supplements right or on our resource pages right so this could be our resource pages right here and we can add something else here and you can see how this drag and drop feature allows us to uh start to add things on just like that pretty easily we can add some text right here and talk about you know our best things that we like right so text editor and we can start to just write things out just like that and uh this is basically how you can create a website really easily uh through wordpress and make it live very quickly for the cheapest amount of money i mean this is coming out to about 99 cents per month which is ridiculously inexpensive so hopefully you found this to be useful i just wanted to show you the basics of setting this up we have much longer tutorials showing you how to build websites i would suggest checking those out i will leave links to those down below as well so you can follow along and build a website that looks very professional if a lot of this wordpress stuff confused you you can also just go to centralmedia.com squarespace and you can find some good things on there as well so you go to centralmedia.com squarespace and you can build a website uh through that and if you use the code central media you're gonna get 10 off when you use squarespace as well and you can build a site here probably a little bit easier than what you would do with hostinger but it might also cost you a little bit more money as well but this is how you can set up your blog your website your landing pages by building a website with one of these we also have a tutorial on squarespace if you're interested in checking that out yeah thanks for watching the video i really hope you found some value in next week's video i'm gonna be making a full tutorial on amazon associates and how to make money with that and then the week following that we're gonna be releasing a video talking about exactly how to build an affiliate marketing website so be sure to check out both of those videos subscribe to the channel so you don't miss more videos like this and good luck to everyone i'll see you in next week's video

Channel: Santrel Media

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Length: 42min 55sec (2575 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 11 2021