Okay, first the basics!

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Affiliate marketing is where you promote other people's products online and earn a commission for every sale or lead that you generate. 

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It's a performance-based marketing model, which means that you only get paid when you successfully promote and sell a product.

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According to a report by Astute Analytica, the global affiliate marketing industry is expected to grow to over $39 Million by 2031, so its been steadily increasing - which means lots of opportunity!

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How it works: 

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• You sign up as an affiliate for a product or service.
• You get a unique affiliate link that tracks all the sales or leads you generate.
• You promote the product or service using your affiliate link through various marketing channels.
• When someone clicks on your affiliate link and makes a purchase or signs up for a service, you earn a commission. 

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Affiliate marketers build a loyal audience by creating valuable content through platforms such as blogs, websites, social media, podcasts, YouTube channels, or email marketing lists. 

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You want to focus on providing high-quality information, solving problems, and building trust with your audience. With your affiliate links in hand, you can strategically incorporate them into your content. 

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Being transparent with your audience about the affiliate nature of your promotions maintains trust. Personally, I only ever recommend products I have used and love myself. I think it's important to keep that integrity, so you are sure if someone purchases something you recommend - they will get value from it too. 

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Commission rates vary from company to company, but you can expect somewhere between 30%-50% for digital products and 5-10% for physical products.

2. What are You Getting Yourself Into? The Pros (AND the Cons!)

I don't know about you - but I like to know the whole story before I make a decision on something - the good, the bad, and the ugly!

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Let's be positive and start with the Pros...

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Passive Income Potential

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One of the biggest advantages of affiliate marketing, and one of the things that drew me towards this business model the most, is the potential to earn nearly passive income. 

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Once you have got yourself set up, created the content, and established a loyal audience - if you use strategies like Authority Marketing (which is highly recommended) your affiliate business can be set up on nearly auto-pilot to continue generating income even while you’re sleeping, or on vacation, (or folding you're laundry). 

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No Requirement for Previous Experience or Special Skills 

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In comparison to traditional businesses, affiliate marketing doesn't require a lot of previous experience or special skills, especially if you start with a good training program or mentor. I was worried in the beginning I had to be some sort of tech wizard or really good with websites to build an online business - but rest assured! I did all this with none of these skills. 

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If you have the right training and resources you can start learning and building it all up with as little as a few hours a week - so its perfect for busy professionals that don't have a lot of time and don't want to risk quitting their job before starting their own business. 

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You may be surprised to learn too, that with the right strategies you don't need to have a large social media following or be posting on those platforms constantly to do well in Affiliate Marketing (you don't even have to be on camera if you don't want to!). Personally, I didn't have any prior social media following, and I didn't want to have be on there posting all day either! 

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Flexibility and Freedom

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Affiliate marketing offers unparalleled flexibility and freedom. You can work from anywhere, set your own schedule, and choose the products/services you want to promote based on your personal interests. 

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It's an ideal option for those who are seeking out a way to earn income that gives them time freedom, financial freedom, and uncapped income potential.

So what about the Cons then...

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Competition 

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Affiliate marketing is a popular online business model, meaning you'll face competition from other affiliates. It requires innovation, staying up to date with industry trends, and finding unique ways to differentiate yourself from the competition. 

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Learning and using proven strategies like Authority Marketing (discussed later in this article) will show you how to effectively sell online, this makes it much easier to overcome this hurdle. 

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Initial Effort and Financial Investment

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While affiliate marketing can have a relatively low barrier to entry, it still requires a bit of hard work and dedication in the beginning to get everything up and running. Those that end up being successful are usually the go-getter types that understand they will need to put in the effort when they start, to then reap all the benefits later on. 

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There is a learning curve involved at first, especially when it comes to finding a niche, content creation, and effective marketing techniques. There is also a TON of information online about affiliate marketing (not sure if you’ve been down that rabbit hole yet??). When I started, I thought I could read heaps of books and articles and figure it all out on my own. 

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What I found out is, yes - you can definitely figure out the basics and how it works this way. You can even sign up to be an affiliate with a bunch of different companies with just a few Google searches. But, while technically you can become an affiliate with minimal upfront cost or training (for example, it would be quite easy for those influencers who already have massive social media followings), I personally wanted to build a profitable online business to replace a full-time income. I didn’t have a social media following, and I wanted to get it set up where it could operate mostly on autopilot, so I could work from anywhere on my laptop. 

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So for me - that meant investing in an educational program to give me step-by-step guidance and training, so I didn’t waste time and money setting it all up to fail.    

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Dependence on Affiliate Programs 

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As an affiliate marketer, your success is tied to the company’s success and the affiliate program's policies. Changes in their business could directly impact your affiliate earnings. 

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The good news is there are millions of companies with affiliate programs online to promote so you can partner with multiple companies in your target market/niche to reduce this risk and have multiple streams of income coming in.  

Affiliate marketing provides an excellent opportunity to start earning income online without the need for previous experience or special skills.

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If you’re anything like I was - waking up day after day with that knot in your stomach dreading the pressure and workload of the day ahead. If you’re fed up with your situation and in need of a way to start over and re-create yourself - then this could be the perfect opportunity. An opportunity to build your way out of the stress hamster wheel and get to a place where you have the time freedom AND the financial freedom to live a life you love and enjoy. 

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So what’s the easiest and most effective way to get started in Affiliate Marketing successfully? Having the right training, resources, and mentoring.

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Like I said at the start, my hope in writing this was to save you all the time and headaches reading, researching, and questioning the different paths (like I did!). 

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So, I would love to share with you (for free) the same video workshop series that I finally got started with. Full transparency - these free video trainings are an intro only. I doubt anyone will learn the complete process of building a profitable online income stream from scratch from a free training series – but what the free videos will do is give you a chance to see how affiliate marketing and the other online business models can work, and make sure it all lines up with your goals and aspirations BEFORE putting any financial investment or time investment into a paid program. That’s what I loved about it. 

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The starter program on offer in the free video series will give you an even more complete introduction to the online business models like Affiliate Marketing, and how the Authority Marketing strategy works. It will also introduce you to a world-class education program that walks you through step by step from having NO IDEA what to do, No digital skills, and No experience - to the opportunity to build a 6 or even 7 figure online businesses like so many of our members have done (myself now included!).​

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For me, this life-changing venture all started with a FREE video workshop training - and it can do the same for you too. Just click below to sign up. 

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When you get the free series you'll get my contact details too, so if you have any questions after watching the workshops – feel free to get in touch! 

There are thousands of different companies that offer affiliate marketing programs. You may have heard about Amazon, Target, Adiddas, or Walmart affiliate programs? (The list goes on...) 

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Sure, they're awesome being large corporations with lots of product options to fit all kinds of different niches – but what I found, is for the most part they deal in small ticket affiliate commissions. When you’re dealing in small commissions it can take lots of time, sales, and effort to earn enough to replace an income. 

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By finding and partnering with companies that offer reputable High Ticket Affiliate marketing programs, it's no more pocket change – we're talking about commissions ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars per sale. 

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Also, by focusing on high-ticket products, you're targeting a specific audience where you can become a trusted authority creating long-term relationships - making them more likely to convert. 

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It's all about quality over quantity.

5. Authority Marketing – The Essential Skillset to Learn if you Want to be a Successful Affiliate Marketer

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What I learned very fast is the difference between success and failure in affiliate marketing is learning the skills to effectively generate sales on the internet. 

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Authority Marketing is a cutting-edge strategy enabling you to make more money in less time, by working smarter not harder. 

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It’s about embracing today's digital world by leveraging the power of online marketing systems to automate selling any product or service to any target audience anywhere in the world.

Authority Marketing is a Shortcut

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Most affiliate marketers use the same outdated and saturated money-making strategies everyone else is attempting to use. But this makes you blend in with the rest of the noise online. If you use Authority Marketing, you can build multiple income streams from scratch in record time. 

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That's because Authority Marketing enables you to generate leads and sales online, 24/7, 365 days a year, without ever having to chase or convince anyone - or spend your time posting all day on social media. It works even when you’re not. 

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Here's What it Does For You…

Everybody knows the internet is where people prefer to research and buy products and services. 

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When you learn how to use Authority Marketing, you will gain a skill set to tap into this multi-billion dollar opportunity and know precisely how to get in front of targeted buyers and convert them into customers - on complete autopilot.

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As a result of the above, you’ll bring money into your bank account every day, like clockwork. 

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You can do this with your own existing products or services. Or tap into newbie-friendly business models like Affiliate Marketing to earn generous commissions. 

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All this can be done from scratch and starting today!

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To Learn How, Sign Up Below: 

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Table Of Contents 

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•  Who Am I Anyway? (About the Author)
•  1. The Basics: What Exactly is Affiliate Marketing and How Does it work? 
• 2. Know What You’re Getting Yourself Into: The Pros (AND the Cons) 
• 3. High-Ticket Affiliate Marketing – and why it’s FAR more lucrative
• 4. The Easiest and Most Effective Way to Get Started 
• 5. The #1 Shortcut to Success: The Strategy of Authority Marketing

About The Author 

(Why I Walked Away From a Six-Figure Income to Change My Life and Start Affiliate Marketing)

Hi there! I'm Mel Robinson and this is my husband Bernie (and our wild wee dog Lucky!). 

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We didn’t venture out to start an online business to make millions. I was actually already earning a good living as a mortgage broker, and had even went out with a business partner to start our own mortgage and insurance business. When we started the business, it was just the two of us with one admin staff - but by the time I exited seven years later, the business was doing 7 figures and we had about 5 staff working for us. 

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The business was doing well, and I had a great relationship with my business partner and my staff. I loved helping my clients reach their property ownership goals, and I was really proud of what we had built and achieved. Sounds pretty good, right? 

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The cost of all this unfortunately, was my health and well-being.  

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Word got around that we were doing a great job, so our business grew really fast. I was working long hours and weekends, taking on responsibilities as a business owner and a boss that were very much outside my wheelhouse of previous knowledge as an employee lender - while also trying to be available to my clients at all hours. I ended up severely stressed and burnt out. I just kept going and going trying to ignore it until I found myself not sleeping at night and feeling so anxious that I was nearly having panic attacks in everyday client meetings that I had done thousands of times before. 

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Needless to say, it was an intense time - and eventually I realized the path that I was working and building towards wasn’t leading to a future that I actually wanted. It wasn't an easy decision, but something had to change. It's true what they say, money and success unfortunately can’t buy you health or time - and without your health or the time to enjoy it, money is actually pretty useless. 

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On top of all that, we also live overseas from our families. I'm originally from Minnesota and my husband is from Brazil (and we live in Australia!). So as our parents continued to age and fall ill, and our nieces and nephews got older - we always felt we were missing out on spending that real quality time with them. There were many times too when I was home visiting that I didn't feel like I was actually 'present'. I was too busy thinking and worrying about something back at work. 

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So during a covid lockdown I was sitting at home on the couch and had some time to really reflect on my life. I had this dream to create a life AND a business that I could actually enjoy, but I didn’t have any idea at that stage how I would achieve it. All we knew is we wanted to spend more time with the people we love, and do more of the things we enjoy - for us that's surfing, traveling, and beach walks with our dog Lucky. 

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After going through all the ‘what’s next?’ options like, should we look to start or purchase a simple easy to run business (like vending machines or laundromats), purchase a franchise, or go back to university to learn a new skill – we quickly realized that not one of these options would allow us the time freedom, location freedom, and financial freedom of an online business. Not to mention the upfront cost of the other options would be far more. 

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We did have initial concerns, that we would need to have lots of technical skills, or be on social media all day posting, or have a big following (none of which we had, nor wanted to be doing!) - but then we were introduced to a program for complete beginners that showed us that we didn't need any of this to get started from scratch. 

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The program was perfect for busy professionals too, allowing the learning to be done at our own pace, right alongside jobs and other commitments. 

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So we went for it! We put in the effort to learn the skills to build a successful online business and change our lives. And, you know what? It ended up being the best decision we ever made. 

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The only real regret we have now looking back, is that we didn't start sooner....

1. So What is Affiliate Marketing Anyway?

3. High Ticket Affiliate Marketing – and Why It’s FAR More Lucrative

4.The Easiest and Most Effective Way to Get Started