It’s 2022 and Internet Profits started its new coaching program 🙂

I’m only a few days in, but can already tell this is going to help tremendously! To say I’m excited is an understatement.

It’s going to be tough for me too, at times.  I’m going to be held accountable and I’m going to have to face uncomfortable stuff some days.

The way it works is like this: in the back office, we can submit any questions we have.  As long as the question is submitted before midnight, it will be answered on the next coaching call.  We then have the call and the coaches answer the questions in great detail. 

I’ve attended two coaching calls so far, and they both went well over an hour!  I didn’t need to listen to the whole lot, by the way, but I learned a ton, so I did!

There are replays available, for those who are at work or otherwise occupied and can’t make the calls live.

The first question I asked was about my traffic strategy… as this blog is an honest record of my journey, I’ll just share this here in all transparency.  My biggest challenge is NOT TO DO TOO MUCH.  I see potential in absolutely every traffic source, and I end up having my fingers in too many pies. 

So I asked the team for honest feedback about my traffic strategy, and one of the things that came up was my lack of a paid source of traffic.

My main traffic source is YouTube, and YouTube is relatively slow.  There’s nothing wrong with that – it brings me commissions and it’s something I’m building for the long term.  However, the fact that it’s slow also means I tend to go to other places to get eyeballs on my content – and the risk with this is that I spread myself too thin.

Anyway, one of the coaches mentioned Facebook lead generation ads, and that sounds like an epic idea.  So I’ll look into that as a paid traffic strategy.

That means I’ll have YouTube as my organic strategy and Facebook lead ads as my paid one – sounds good.

Now I have to be honest here: I am also present on other platforms, always with the aim of pushing traffic towards my YouTube channel.  Clubhouse is a big one for me: I do a daily morning room on the topic of affiliate marketing.  I also answer questions on Quora, and I repurpose my YouTube shorts on TikTok.  In addition, I still have my free Facebook group… but that’s my next question for Monday’s coaching call: do I keep it or do I ditch it? 

This blog post is a little all over the place, isn’t it?  I just wanted to share the kind of stuff we can ask and talk about in these coaching sessions.  I’m going to make the very most of them; it’s going to help me move forward and be accountable.  It’s going to help me stay focused.  I can only wish that everyone starting an online business has this level of support – if I’d had this from the start, I’d be in a different place already, I’m sure.

Want to catch the video version of this?  I don’t have much of a voice, you’ll see ? but the video is short!  Here it is ?

 

Let’s start the year with a few affiliate marketing essentials, shall we 🙂 ?

So… what’s a lead magnet and how do you create one?  And, maybe even more importantly, how do you use it to grow your business and make money?

Let’s start with the first question…

What’s a lead magnet?

Some people call it an “ethical bribe”, lol!  It’s basically something you give away for free, in exchange for an email address. 

I have several lead magnets – one of them is here: my free guide to get started with affiliate marketing. 

I created this because one of the most common questions I get asked about affiliate marketing is “how do I start?”. So I know that a guide on how to start is valuable to my audience – valuable enough for them to be willing to give me their email address to get the information from me!

That’s what a lead magnet is: something valuable and helpful that your audience needs.  You give it away for free, and in exchange, you get the person’s email address.

A lead magnet can be just about anything.  Examples include:

• an e-book
• audio tracks
• training videos
• a sample of a product
• a chapter of a book
• a free 15 minute discovery call
• cheat sheets
• resource guides
• free templates
• …

The list is endless!  As long as it’s useful and relevant to your potential customers, it can be a lead magnet!

Now how does a lead magnet help you grow your business… and make more money?

Well, let’s take my free guide to get started with affiliate marketing as an example.

Let’s say you want it and so you click this link to get it.  Here’s what will happen: you’ll land on a page where you’ll have to give me your name and email address.  As soon as you enter your details, two things will happen: 1. you’ll get the guide and 2. your name and email address will be added to my email auto-responder. 

Once you’re on my email list, you will start receiving emails from me.  Some will be automatic emails I’ve organised in an email sequence.  My auto-responder does the work for me, sending them at regular intervals that I’ve set up.  Some other emails will be what are called “broadcast emails”.  These are like letters I write – usually once a week (when I’m organised) – to give you value and keep you updated.

The purpose of these emails is to build a relationship with you and to make you offers that are relevant.  So obviously, if you ask for my guide to get started with affiliate marketing, my emails are going to give you some information about that.  I’ll tell you a little more about myself, how I struggled, how I started getting results, etc.  That’s so you know more about me and are reassured I know from experience what the journey is like.

Then I’ll share my tips and tricks, the things I found – and still find – helpful… because I reckon that if they helped me, they’ll help you too. 

And finally, I’ll put a link to a course that will teach much more in depth how to do affiliate marketing.  If you click and buy, you’ll get access to a great course and I’ll make a commission – we both win. 

And that’s how a lead magnet helps build a business and make money.

Once you have your potential customers’ email addresses, you can build a relationship and make offers to them.  If you do your job well, a certain percentage of them will, at some point, click your links and buy from you.

Your email list doesn’t only get you sales, it also allows you to stay in touch with your audience.  You can email them to wish them Merry Christmas, to inform them of a new project you’re working on, to share some personal news at times, to ask them for feedback, etc.  It’s extremely valuable! 

It’s also the only traffic that you truly own.  Any audience you have built on social media can be lost at any time.  I’ve known very successful marketers who lost their big Facebook groups overnight – had they not had their members’ email addresses, they would have lost everything!  I know others who lost their YouTube channels or whose blogs were hacked.  Without email addresses, you have virtually no way of telling people what happened and where to contact you.

Anyway, that’s probably another blog post I’ll have to write, isn’t it?

But to come back to our lead magnet…

how do you create it?

I made a video that shows you a simple way to create one with Canva.

Canva is free to join, and it gives you literally hundreds of templates you can use to make beautiful lead magnets easily.  It will help you with any digital lead magnets such as e-books, infographics, lesson plans, recipe cards, resource guides, videos, etc.

Once you’ve create your lead magnet, you’ll need to create a landing page or a form in your auto-responder, so as to collect the email addresses and send the lead magnet to your customers.

I show you how to do that with the auto-responder I use, Convertkit.

There are, of course, many other options out there.  I’ve personally tried GetResponse and Clickfunnels.  Aweber is another one that is popular.  Whatever works for you!

It’s not complicated to set up a form, but you do need to follow the steps thoroughly.  So I highly suggest you watch the video and take action as you go along. 

If you have any questions, just message me!  Or comment on the video 🙂 I’m always happy to help!

Anyway – does this post help you understand what a lead magnet it, and how it helps you grow your business and make more money?  I hope so!  Let me know if it doesn’t – I’ll try and explain it all better 🙂

Have a wonderful day, dear reader!

 

Hey it’s the LAST day of 2021 already!  Oh my goodness… where has the time gone?  

Quick post today from me regarding Internet Profits again 🙂

As I mentioned in previous posts, Dean Holland is bringing great changes to the product in the new year – it’s going to be pretty awesome. 

Now with these changes also comes a price increase. Which means that if you’ve been on the fence about joining, NOW is the time to take action.

Yesterday, I went live on YouTube as usual, and just gave a quick recap about who Internet Profits is for – in my humble opinion of course:

• if you’re a complete beginner, and you want to learn how to build a profitable internet business
• if you’ve heard of affiliate marketing and you want to learn how to do it and make money from it
• if you’re already doing affiliate marketing but you’re not getting results
• if you need a clear plan to follow
• if you do well when you are held accountable
• if you need a community to support you
• if you need regular feedback on your work and results

Internet Profits, in 2022, is going to give its partners even more of what they need to succeed.  It won’t only have a course to follow – it will also have daily coaching calls, where we’ll be able to ask questions and be held accountable.

AND it will have monthly sessions to review our results and give us feedback on how to tweak things to get better.

I have to confess that I’m excited about all this and can’t wait to see what the new year brings.

Anyway, if you want to jump in before the year ends, just click here 🙂

And there you go… that’s going to be it from me for 2021.

I’ll be back for more adventures next year.

Oh and hold on, just before I go, real quick: I had a goal of making $50 a day in December… well I reached it 🙂 As I write this, in the early hours of the last day of December, I have made an average of $55.63 per day in December.

Affiliate marketing works – you just need the right action plan and implement it 🙂

Want to watch the week 20 live on YouTube?  Here it is ?

 

Last week when I went live about Internet Profits, I shared information about The Quick Start Challenge.

From what I’ve understood, Internet Profits has had a quick start challenge for quite a few years… but this is a brand new version of it – and it comes with 6 weeks of coaching now!

Before I go into the details of what The Quick Start Challenge teaches, let me say that it’s ideal for anyone who wants to learn how to build an affiliate marketing business from scratch and doesn’t have a huge amount of money to invest.

You’ll learn how to set everything up, how to find products to promote, how to drive traffic to your offers… AND you’ll get 6 weeks of coaching to help you take action and not stay stuck if you hit any roadblocks.

In my live video, I shared my back office, and here’s what you’ll find in The Quick Start Challenge:

Once you’ve signed up, you get six days of training, each composed of several videos.  Each day unlocks after 24 hours.

• Day 1 teaches you how to lay the foundations of your business – essential so that you get off to a good start!
• Day 2 teaches you how to build your list – you might have heard that “the money’s in the list”… well, it’s true 😉
• Day 3 teaches you the foundations of email marketing – once you start building your list, you need to know what to write to them, so as to build a good relationship with your customers.
• Day 4 shows you how to get products that will make you money – once you have set things up and started building your list, you want to be making them offers that will help them… and make you money!
• Day 5 is all about traffic – you need as many eyeballs on your offers as you can… if no one knows about you, no one will buy, right? 
• Day 6 goes into how to scale your income – once you start making money, you want to know how to make more!

There are two more bonus videos – an extra 3 hours of training – after that.  I haven’t watched them yet, but they are all about how to grow your business and increase your income.

As I said, once you’ve gone through the 6 days of training, you have an additional 6 weeks of group coaching, where you can ask any questions you may have.  This, in my mind, is the most valuable bit of the quick start challenge.  It’s relatively “easy” to find the information you need to set your business up… but the real challenge is to then go and implement it, and go past the inevitable roadblocks that come up.  Having a coach to turn to is going to ensure that you don’t stay stuck, keep moving forward and get results.

As usual, Dean Holland gives his all in this training.  The videos are clear and not too long; the training is broken up in nice bite-sized chunks that make it easy to take action as you go along.  This training will teach you how to do affiliate marketing in any niche.  Really ideal if you’re a beginner and don’t know how to get started – or if you’ve started but got “lost” along the way.

=> this is the link to click if you want to find out more about The Quick Start Challenge.

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Before I go… quick income update from me… I made another big sale and have now made a total of $2382.45 with Internet Profits 🙂

Want to watch it all live on YouTube? Here’s the video ?