– Hey, Mark Harbert from markharbertcom here, and in this video, we're gonna talk about how to be successful with affiliate marketing and the three things that you need to consider if you wanna be successful building a business online

So stick around (upbeat rock music) All right, well, welcome here to my channel If this is the first time you've been here, please make sure that you subscribe and hit that little notification bell I make videos all about affiliate marketing, network marketing, making money online and online business, driving traffic, leads, and sales to your offers, and I don't want you to miss any of my content, all right? So let's dig in Let's talk about affiliate marketing and how to be successful with it

So let's talk about point number one (distorted electronic music) All right, point number one is you've gotta have targeted traffic to a targeted offer So the first thing to understand is a targeted traffic to a targeted offer So how do you drive traffic? Well, obviously, there's a myriad of ways on how to do that You can use Facebook

You can use YouTube, Google AdWords, article marketing You've got solo ads There is all kinds of things that you can do to market products and services I am a huge proponent of building an email list If you're not building an email list, you absolutely should be

It's one of the number-one things that you need to do if you're building a business online But targeted traffic to a targeted offer Now, here's where a lot of people make a big mistake when it comes to understanding how to make money online They a lot of times will go to these vendors, and they'll sell you, you know, 10,000 clicks for $20, and believe me, when I first started online 10 years ago, I used to do that as well I'd spend money

I'd have people, you know, create or send traffic to something, and I got no results So I'd get a whole bunch of clicks, and nothing would happen It's because what that is is junk traffic There isn't people that are actually searching for that There's people that haven't taken an action on possibly an ad that you put up on Facebook

You see, when people take an action, when they're interested in something, that is what we mean by targeted traffic You know, random traffic, just people hitting a website, is not targeted, because it all comes down to user intent It comes down to the person and what is their intent when they come to that website If a person comes to a website and that have no intent on buying or no intent on looking at what you're offering, they are not going to take action It's just as simple as that

So once we figure out how to get targeted traffic via user intent and understanding the user intent, they get to the page, they see something that strikes their interest based upon their intent And the way I do this typically with user intent is I always like to put my mind, my head in the mind of my prospect That is my number-one thing I wanna get my head into theirs What are they doing? When they go on Facebook, what are they doing? They're scrolling their news feed

I know that I can target people on Facebook based upon interest, and if they have an interest, then I've gotta do something that grabs their attention and gets them to, you know, take a look at what it is that I'm offering That means I'm grabbing them I've created a user intent on Facebook They go their to take a look at what I have That is targeted traffic to a targeted offer

So, very, very important Just traffic alone is not going to do it You've gotta really drill down, get into the mind of your prospect, figure out what it is that they want, what do they desire, and put it in front of them I've seen people where they've actually sent 10,000 hits to a link, and they get maybe five or six email opt-ins But, I've seen people send 500 hits to a website, and they get 200 or 300 opt-ins to their list, or they are, you know, the reason they're getting that is because they understand user intent

They understand targeted traffic to a targeted offer, and it makes all of the difference in the world So, this is the very first point that you wanna understand when it comes to how to be successful with affiliate marketing (distorted electronic music) All right, so let's talk about point number two Point number two is you've gotta understand, this is gonna take work You know, earlier, I talked about how I saw this comment on a YouTube video, and this person was really kind of upset, in a way

They were upset that they actually had to put some effort into it, and it was pretty obvious, just by the way that the comment was phrased But here's the thing Nothing in life is free, period, end of story If you want something, you've gotta work for it Creating content, putting value out into the marketplace, is something you're gonna have to do if you want to create a successful business

I don't care if you're in network marketing, affiliate marketing, direct sales, top tier You know, whatever it is that you're doing, you've gotta put effort and work into it, okay? So if you wanna be successful with affiliate marketing, you've gotta understand, this takes work You may not make money the first six months you're in business Does that mean it's a scam? Absolutely not, okay? So you've gotta be in the right mindset, understand that this is gonna take work to do, and put a plan in place to go out and actually achieve it So, this is a very, very important point to understand if you wanna be successful with affiliate marketing

(distorted electronic music) All right, so point number three, and it kind of ties into point number two, but understand, there is no magic pill when it comes to affiliate marketing There's no magic pill You see, one of the things that we get sucked into, and believe me, I've been sucked into many of these offers before, is understanding that there's this magic ingredient that helps people to be successful I'll tell you, it takes hard work, dedication, and a desire to go out there and achieve something great, and so you have to understand that there's no magic pill when it comes to being successful with affiliate marketing There is no magic pill

So my suggestion is to build a list That's the one thing that you really, really need to do, (mouse clicks) because if you build in a list of interested people on a particular niche or topic, any time you have offers, you can re-email them If you're doing Facebook marketing, you can use Facebook Messenger to do that through Messenger bot marketing There's all different kinds of ways to do it, but the truth and the reality of it is is that if you truly wanna succeed, if you truly wanna be successful with affiliate marketing, then you've gotta understand, there's no magic pill It takes investing in you, and it takes investing in your skills to learn it

I've been doing this for 10 years now, and about six of it have been full-time So I understand what it takes to be successful with affiliate marketing, and I know that you wanna be as well, no matter what your business model is, all right? So, I hope you got some value out of this If you did, don't forget to like this video Don't forget to subscribe Don't forget to hit that notification bell, because every time I put out a new video, you're gonna get access to that

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