What I Wish I Knew Before Starting Affiliate Marketing #Best Education Page #Online Earning

hey what's up life masters this is

Stefan James from project life mastery

to day I'm gonna share with you what I

wish that I knew when I first started my

affiliate marketing business now I've

been doing affiliate marketing for over

ten years now

I've had a lot of success with affiliate

marketing it's one of my favorite ways

of making money online is a core part of

my business with project life mastery

and I've done many different things

online I sell courses online I do events

and masterminds I sell physical products

on Amazon I publish books on Amazon I

have a software there's many things that

I've done online but a Philly marketing

is one of my favorite ways of making

money because I don't have to create a

product I don't really have to be the

expert I don't have to deliver the

product I don't have to focus on the

sales page and delivering the product

and customer support and have a team to

do it I can just focus on just sending

traffic to someone else send traffic

just someone else through the affiliate

link that they give me and I can earn a

commission from it so it's a very simple

business model and it's great for a lot

of people that are just getting started

but over the last 10 years there's a lot

that I've learned that I can shed some

light on for you if you're just getting

started things that I wish that I knew

when I started that after being at this

for over ten years now there's a few

things I'd love to share with you so the

first thing that I wish that I knew when

I first started affiliate marketing is

that it's a lot harder okay it's a lot

harder and takes longer than I

originally thought

okay now I'm not sure if you can relate

to this you know most people I think

when they start a business they start

really anything new not just an

affiliate marketing business but most

often we underestimate really what its

gonna take okay we don't know the

process it we're kind of naive getting

into something right because we don't

know the process we don't have any

experience doing it we've never done it

before so our only references really

that we have is we're like an outsider

looking in looking at these other people

that have done it and we just gonna look

at them and you think well if they can

do it I can do it and that's true you

know I believe that anyone that anyone

else can do that we can do it as well we

can model and learn from them so they

paved the way for us but we often don't

realize really what it took for that

person to be successful we don't realize

the hard work that they put in behind

the scenes that we don't see or not you

know acknowledging in any way we're just

kind of seeing the outside success and

results that they're having so one of my

favorite sayings is that we get rewarded

in public for what we

in private so we're not seeing the

private work and the sacrifice and the

hours and the time and the learning and

the mistakes and the failures that these

other people are making that have got

them to that point where we all look up

to that person and they're a success

story and an inspiration you know I know

with what I do

it might seem like it's easy but you

know there's a lot of things behind the

scenes in my life in business failures

and challenges that I've gone through

that helped me get to where I'm at today

so you know the realization of its you

know kind of going into something

realizing it is gonna be hard I mean

especially if you're a brand new to it I

mean if you're brand you've never done

it before then there's new things we're

gonna learn and you're gonna make

mistakes you're gonna have to go through

that learning curve and most often it's

gonna take you longer than you

originally thought you know I know for

me with most schools that I set for

myself I always think okay I'm gonna get

this done in a month or three months and

I'm gonna launch this product or I'm

gonna create this funnel on the launch a

new website it's gonna take this this

amount of time and then sure enough it

always ends up taking longer so I've

learned I've learned that now with

myself just you know how much longer

most often it takes because really when

you set a goal when you get into it

you're just speculating you're guessing

you're projecting how long it's gonna

take but you don't really know really

what's involved and how long that goal

is gonna take for you to achieve because

again you've never done it before but as

you've been through it and you gain

experience then you're able to project

things and plan things it kind of know

more about what to expect so really

understanding that I think is a key

thing and by the way it's just not for

affiliate marketing it's really anything

in life I mean I remember when I first

wanted to learn Spanish I thought you

know how hard could it be right I mean

there's millions billions of people that

speak Spanish you know I can learn that

too I can do it of course and that's

true that I could learn Spanish but most

often I thought it wouldn't take that

long wouldn't take that much work pretty

easy I was gonna get this app that's

gonna teach me how to speak Spanish and

then sure enough you come to the rude

awakening that it's a lot harder than

you thought it's gonna take more of your

time if you really want to learn Spanish

to be fluent you got to practice it

every day you've got to have

conversations with people you might have

to hire a tutor to learn you're gonna

have to try to talk to people in Spanish

and you're gonna sound like an idiot to

them and you know mispronounce things

and everything I have to go through that

learning curve same thing I remember

learning salsa dancing and I thought I'd

how hard could it be

and then sure enough you realize you got

to practice it a lot right you got a you

know most often you're the person in the

salsa dance class and you feel like an

idiot right you're looking yourself in

the mirror and you can't keep up with

everyone else so it's really the same

thing with anything and most people I

think they struggle because they have a

certain expectation and it's not met

early on and they get discouraged and

they give up instead of realizing no

it's gonna it's gonna be tough it's

gonna be hard it's a process I've got to

commit and go through it okay that's the

first thing I think the second thing is

changing the mindset from short-term

gratification to long-term gratification

because you can't go into a business

thinking it's a get-rich-quick it does

not exist guys does not exist I don't

care what anyone says does not exist

there's maybe some people out there that

have made money fast and get amazing

results fast but most often you don't

realize there's a lot of factors

involved in that that person that you

might see that's an incredible success

story and whatever 30 days they

transform their body or they build their

affiliate marketing business but maybe

before that they already had a lot of

experience maybe before that or maybe

they had a mentor maybe they had money

that they could invest or maybe they've

you know maybe they're just an anomaly

right there's some people that's luck

out sometimes and they just make

everything goes perfectly for them and

it leads to success but most people it's

not that way right we're gonna make

mistakes we're gonna learn all of that

sort of stuff so you have to embrace the

short-term gratification okay if you're

just doing this to get rich quick what's

gonna happen is you're gonna go at it

for a month to three months you're not

gonna make the money you're gonna get

discouraged give up and you're gonna

move on to the next thing and you're

gonna suffer from the shiny object

syndrome that so many people do when you

jump from one thing to the next to the

next to the next and you never master

anything you never get success whereas

if you had just stuck with that one

first thing from the beginning you'd

have success by now okay if you just

stuck with it long enough so you got to

make sure you don't fall into that trap

you can't go at this thinking I'm just

gonna you know this is gonna solve all

my problems all my financial problems

it's not okay if you're struggling

financially get a job get something

where you can trade your time for money

because an online business you're not

trading your time for money you're

giving time time time time time effort

energy with no money no financial return

in the short term only the potential for

return financially long term

okay so you've got to delay the

gratification you got to be willing to

maybe create content and YouTube or a

blog or social media put it out there

and go through the the point of not

getting any results nobody watching you

or consuming it but you learning and

just trying to get better and then the

results follow from that those that are

willing to stick with it so it's almost

like you're planting seeds in the soil

you come back a week later you think

where's my plant I'm not seeing any

results no that's not how it works you

plant the seeds you come back you water

it consistently you keep planting more

seeds some of those seeds will sprout

and blossom and turn into results

they'll make you money others won't okay

so you have to have the patience and

understand the process of building a

successful business which takes time or

money all of that to actually get to

where you want to go other thing that I

wish that I knew is that it's too hard

to do it on my own okay and I remember

when I first got into building a

business I thought I was gonna figure

this out on my own and I spent a few

years trying to figure it out on my own

with no results maybe you can relate I

it's almost like I was too stubborn in a

way to ask for help or to get help and

never I always refused to pay for

something I'm not gonna pay for a course

the information is pretty out there why

would I pay for it realizing that you

know I'm so scattered and I was

scattered and lost with all the free

information out there I didn't all of

it's conflicting with each other I never

knew how to piece together step by step

what to actually do and I didn't even

know who was learning from if there give

me the right advice the right help if

it's gonna be relevant to my situation

and beyond that even when it's free I

wasn't even taking action with it

because I didn't value it enough and I

realized when you actually paid for

something or you're accelerating the

process you're learning from other

people that I've already achieved what

you want and it's just so much easier

and faster and it's so obvious but yet I

know for me and I struggled with that I

just was living more in an egocentric

place I think I didn't have the humility

I didn't humble myself enough to realize

you know what even though it might cost

money to buy a course or to get a mentor

to get help the money is actually saving

me time and money long-term right versus

if I try to go about this up myself the

failures the disappointments the lost

money and time

I can never get that back but instead if

I could be smart enough to invest a

little bit into the right resources and

help I can succeed so much faster so I

wish I knew that when I started today

and you know really to get to where I'm

at when I had that breakthrough I

invested a lot into myself man I invest

in all the courses and programs that I

can I get mentors I go to seminars

several seminars a year and events I'm a

part of mastermind groups all of that

because I understand the value of that

that's how you really compress decades

in the days right you're really paying

for speed you're paying for a shortened

learning curve because why go through

the experience on your own when someone

else has already done it and you know if

it took me for example years to figure

it out and I could package together the

best of what I've learned and give that

to you and that could save you years

then doesn't that make sense to do that

rather than go through the years that I

went through I mean if you want to go

through the years that I went through or

someone else went through be my guest

but it's not necessary it's not

necessary to do that when things are

getting easier and faster today effort

than ever before because people are

sharing their experiences and they're

providing guidance and help for those

that are looking for it and that are

willing to invest in it so always learn

from other people it was one of the most

valuable things that I wish that I knew

that I know now and I don't around

with it all the next thing that I wish

that I knew was how important it is to

build a relationship with people and

value is really the key you know when I

first started a business it's all about

myself I was like I got into it and all

my goals were about me me me me me me

I'm gonna make this amount of money I'm

gonna have this lifestyle going to get

this car this house having traveled the

world did it up but it wasn't about

anyone else and I realized that that was

keeping me stuck because my shift in my

psychology is that you got to realize

the only way that you receive and you

get for yourself and you make money is

by first providing value to someone else

right it's not the other way around it's

not like you give me money and then I

give you value no it's I gotta give you

value I've got to put out good out there

on the internet I've got to serve I

gotta meet needs of other people I gotta

solve problems create valuable content

out there that I've got to be willing to

sacrifice my own needs in a way at least

in the short term to serve other people

and so the mindset is I what I wish I

knew it's not about me

that if I focus on serving other people

and helping them get what they want then

I too can have what I want right that if

I make my focus my obsess about just how

can I add value how can I create content

just give it out for free and if I do

that enough times I'm sure people are

gonna come and click on my affiliate

link and buy for me or they're gonna

check out my Prada they're gonna reach

out for help right but I think a lot of

people they're so focused just on what

they're not getting that they don't

realize that if you're not getting if

you're not receiving it's because you're

not giving enough you're not serving

enough and you might think that you're

giving you might think that you know no

no Stefan I'm putting out videos I'm

putting out vlogs and then that' but are

people consuming it are people

benefiting from it are people thanking

you for it are people reaching out to

you afterwards to say thank you so much

that video that content the blog post

really helped me in my life and thank

you you know like actually sincerely are

they thanking you for it

because they are going your audience and

the people that you attract are going to

judge and tell you determine whether or

not you have any value that you're

providing and if you're not getting that

you got to go back to the drawing board

it might mean you got to improve

yourself you got to improve your content

you got to deliver it better you got to

serve more right and when you do that

like I built my business just being a

service to other people and just you

know not even worrying about myself that

much it's trusting and having faith if I

helped enough and put out a lot of good

there it will flow back to me you know

that will just naturally occur people

have reciprocity built in and the

relationship from that long-term is the

most valuable thing

affiliate marketing successfully an or

in any business is all about long term

the long term lifetime value of a

follower of a customer right I'm not at

it for the short term so you've got to

realize you know for me I might just on

YouTube alone I've been over seven and a

half years now and I put out over a

thousand plus videos and I'm just giving

try to give so much value to other

people that when I do promote something

or share something I built so much great

goodwill you know people can sincerely

tell and feel in my heart that I'm

trying to help and serve and when I do

share something it's great it's quality

it's something that I believe in that

can truly help people and people get

that for me they know that and and

because I have that long-term

relationship I have people that bought

from me again and again and again and

again you know I'm not looking for the

one-time trans

I'm looking for a raving fan follower a

customer someone that that I can

continuously meet their needs and help

them get to where they want to go and I

can lead by my example and Who I am to

inspire and help and they can follow me

because really as an entrepreneur you're

a leader you're a leader from other

people and you got to go first right

especially when you share and promote

something as an affiliate is you got to

share what your experience with that

product was and that you believe in it

and that you can really help someone and

as a business owner as an affiliate

marketer I believe that really meeting

people's needs and we're sharing with

them products and services that can

truly benefit them and that's really

what our job is our job is really just

selling transformation your your the

products and services that you promote

as an affiliate marketer are a vehicle

of transforming this person from a less

desirable state to a happy state of what

they want and we really got to know and

care about the people that were

interacting with online if you have an

email list if you're running ads if

you're you know building content these

are other human beings that you're

communicating with and you're reaching

and for me my caring is my power because

I care about people and I know that when

you care about them you're gonna be

curious and interested to find out what

their challenges are what their goals

are and that gives you the ability to

find products or content or things that

can really help and support them based

on what they want so getting again

outside of yourself business is a

spiritual game that's the beautiful

thing about it it forces you to grow and

it forces you to give that's the only

way you ever get rewarded in business as

an affiliate marketer if it's all about

you and you making money you might make

some money doing that but it's not gonna

last

the ones that get rewarded the most are

the ones that focus on growing and

giving I know the more that I grow the

more that I give then the more money

flows to me that's how it works

I wish I knew that when I started

hopefully that's a light bulb moment for

you guys right there watching this the

other thing you know so again the

relationship is so key adding value is

so key another thing that I wish that I

knew is that to focus more on high

ticket products than low ticket products

you know you're obviously gonna make

more money as an affiliate marketer when

you promote things that are higher

ticket if you promote a product that is

a $500 product or course or a thousand

dollars or more then you're gonna get a

higher

affiliate commission from that and

finding great companies and products

that you can support that you believe in

that you benefited from that can serve

people they've got great customer

support it's you know when you believe

in something you feel it's your moral

and ethical obligation to share it you

know and for me there's a lot of things

I'm always investing in myself that I

buy and they've got affiliate programs

and I benefit I got to share it you know

I feel like I'm doing people a

disservice by not doing so but obviously

if higher ticket products can make you

more money you know I still promote low

ticket products as well because for me

it's always secondary to make money

number one is to serve so if there's a

product that's affordable that's cheaper

that's better that can meet their needs

I'll share that first and foremost

regardless of whether it's high ticket

or low ticket but if you're promoting

for example if you're just trying to

make money which you obviously do in a

business if you're gonna sustain the

business and hire people and you know be

able to grow the business you need to

make money of course too so some low

ticket products like I promote sometimes

ebooks and low ticket stuff but they're

not gonna make money from them and so

that's not that primary core parts of my

business you know you Amazon has an

affiliate program you can make some

commissions from that but most products

are gonna pay you less than 5%

Commission and they have a lot of

overhead and they're you know they're

not gonna you know gotta sell so many of

those to make a lot of money from it so

higher ticket products what I actually

find is like I like courses and training

programs and resources that are higher

ticket would actually find though is yes

you make a higher commission from that

but also it actually allows you as

affiliate marketer to create an

irresistible offer because you're

getting paid a higher Commission you can

actually support the person provide

bonuses to them when they purchase the

product through you that further helps

them it makes it even more irresistible

for them so I love finding great

products that benefited me they're

higher ticket they pay me more but then

I can provide more you know services or

products with them that can bundle

together that they also get for free by

buying that product from me so it leaves

a lot more room there also I've actually

found when people invest more into

something they value it more and they're

more likely to do something with it you

know I've promoted all different types

of products and whatnot and most often

when something's free or inexpensive

people don't value it they don't have

any skin in the game they're not

invested

other ones that notice you attract a

totally different customer and person

that actually gets results from it when

they actually pay more money for

something because now they've got

something on the line they've got skin

in the game they're more likely to take

action with it and apply it and get

results so all right I love higher

higher ticket products that I like to

find and I like to attract people and

try to reach people that you know are

the ones that are more serious and

willing to invest in that those are the

people that most often are gonna be

higher quality people to work with

versus some and I hate to say it I don't

like to judge anyone but you know

sometimes you get people that you know

they're just kind of lazy they don't do

anything with it when you know they're

buying something they're not committed

enough to it is really what it is

so that's another thing that I really

wish that I learned with this and I

think the other thing that I wish that I

learned was just you know there are so

many tools and software's and things

that can also help

I mentioned paying for help and getting

guidance and mentors and coaches and of

course is all that's really valuable but

also there's a lot of tools and software

and you know for example like I use my

affiliate marketing business click

funnels for my funnels which i think is

a must is so valuable allows me to

create a bunch of funnels to build my

email list but also use Aweber and

active campaign to build my list new

email marketing and there's a whole host

of other tools that I have and those are

things they cost a bit of money yes but

they're actually gonna make it easier

and faster for you and so one thing that

I wish that I knew was that yes there

are ways you can do this very

inexpensively and you can you know try

to cut corners and try to do these

things for free but I think that's

actually gonna hurt you more long-term

because the quality of everything is

gonna be diminished and it's gonna be

very hard to build your business and

actually what I wish I knew is that

sometimes it's better just to make sure

you're financially you're stable to

start your business like get for example

like a job like for me when I was

building my business I did like

construction work on the weekends you

know like 20 25 bucks an hour type work

I did demolitions at renovations we go

to a house I'd be there like 10 12 hour

shifts and everything and I'd get make

it you know a good amount of money in a

day or two but I was willing to do that

rather than spend that time just on my

business because I knew that money that

extra money that I was making I could

take and freaking buy click funnels and

put some that money to make me be

running

or or just kind of get further ahead in

my business rather than like if I just

spent the time the money is valuable the

money is a tool a resource that can help

you get there faster so that's one thing

that I wish that I knew is that there's

value in having a job and working some

extra hours here and there if you need

to because that money if you really

manage it correctly and you put it into

your business will help you grow your

business to get there faster so as a

business owner we got we got to

understand we got to invest into our

business time and money time isn't

enough like you got to maybe sometimes

if you have too much time I'd much

rather see a lot of people and do this

for myself where I like if I had 40

hours a week to work on my online

business I'd rather instead take 10 of

those hours and work 30 hours a week and

then put 10 hours into like maybe a

construction job or some other type of

job out there I don't care what it is

just to make some extra money so at

least I have some money to put in my

business that would be a much more

productive and effective way of building

a business than just spending all your

time on it like having the money is

useful the money can actually help you

get there faster and speed up the

process a lot more than the time that

you spend into it so that's a lot of the

things that I've learned that I wish

that I knew and hopefully I can pass

that on to you and help you and building

your affiliate marketing business and

going for a lot further with it if

you're interested in learning more about

affiliate marketing and learning from me

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