Part #4: Deconstructing How These Affiliate Titans Grew 6-Figure Businesses from Scratch
What does affiliate marketing look like? If you’ve visited my website, you may have come across my Tools page.
This page contains a list of recommended resources—products, services, apps, and more—to help my audience build their own online businesses.
Many of the links on this page are affiliate links, meaning I receive a commission if someone clicks on the link and purchases the product or service it links to.
Here’s what someone sees if they click on my affiliate link for Buiderall, the web hosting company I use and recommend:
And here’s what they’ll see when they click on my affiliate link for Getresponse, the email service provider I’m happy to recommend:
As we’ll further discuss below, you can also earn affiliate commissions by signing up with an affiliate network.
You can easily find tons of other examples of affiliate marketing “in the wild.”
For example, Create a Pro Website is an affiliate marketing website and YouTube channel that creates tutorials on anything and everything related to “how to create a website.”
They do a good job of offering value through demoing products (which we’ll see in the case study below is a great affiliate marketing strategy), while working in their affiliate links where it makes sense.
Freelancing.school is a particularly good example of focusing on building relationships with an audience first by offering extras like a community of like-minded individuals and a free course to help people find success with their freelancing careers.
These days, even well-established news outlets like the New York Times are becoming affiliate marketing websites!
The example here is NYT’s Wirecutter section, which reviews products and offers tutorials on everything from How to Clean a Toilet the Right Way to Everything You Need to Make Hot Pot at Home.
Affiliate marketing is essentially about sharing your affiliate links, so however you choose to share those links—whether on your website, on social media like Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube, or via emails to your list—well, that’s affiliate marketing in action!
That's it for today, please read the next part!
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