Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

In late 2009 I had a breakthrough. I had spent much of that year traveling around Mexico on a road trip sabbatical with my wife and dog. Life was exciting, and I’d found new direction.

The trip made me realize exactly the life I wanted. I wanted to work online doing something I love, be completely self-employed and have the flexibility to live and work from anywhere in the world.

The only trouble was, I wasn’t entirely sure how to get there.

I knew I wanted to create some of my own online products eventually, but I wasn’t ready. I needed to find a way to earn a living that didn’t require a big audience (my blog was growing, but still small at the time), and that I could learn quickly.

Affiliate marketing was something that immediately came to mind (I had heard about it several times), but there were lots of doubts and questions in my mind. Affiliate marketing for some reason sounded sort of vaguely scammy, or like something that was possible back in the “good old days” when you could game the search engines.

But I gave it a serious look anyway.

I suspended disbelief long enough to really give affiliate marketing a shot. And I’m so happy I did. Affiliate marketing is now a major income source for my growing business, even now as I’m also releasing my own products and freelancing.

And now I’m sharing everything I’ve learned with you in this complete course on affiliate marketing for beginners.

What the course is:

A complete introduction to affiliate marketing for beginners, including detailed tutorials on how to build a new affiliate marketing site from the ground-up.

Who should buy this:

Anyone who wants to start earning a living online, people who have heard of affiliate marketing but aren’t familiar with it, and people who have dabbled in internet marketing, but haven’t been successful yet.

Who should not buy this:

Advanced internet marketers who already earn a living online, anyone looking for a get-rich-quick opportunity and anyone who can’t put in the effort required to learn and build something worthwhile.

It All Starts With a Commitment to Yourself

Ever since I walked out on my cushy corporate job with big benefits and salary four years ago, I’ve been on an incredible journey. I think my friends and family might have thought I was a little crazy for leaving that life behind. I questioned the decision myself on many occasions.

But now, with complete freedom and after having spent the past two winters on the sunny beaches of Mexico, there’s no question that I made the right choice. I’m building a life that makes me happier than anything.

That’s the allure of working for yourself: being able to shape your life in a way that makes you really happy and fulfilled. It’s just something that’s much harder to get when you work for someone else.

The benefits of working for yourself are clear, but how to get there isn’t so easy. There are almost too many options, and getting from just starting out to fully supporting yourself can seem like only a fantasy.

That’s where this course comes in. Affiliate marketing has been an incredible catalyst for me, and it could be for you too.

Side note: I know this might sound a little cheesy, but I have to tell you. Earlier this year, I had a real breakthrough experience. I had my first $1000 day from affiliate marketing. It was amazing.

The best part? I was literally at the beach in Hawaii when it happened. Seriously. I spent 30 minutes writing a blog post about an affiliate product I thought my readers would love. Then I went to the beach with my wife and her family. We spent all day sunning and swimming. When we came back, I had made hundreds in commissions and ended the day at over $1,000.

What did it take to become successful with affiliate marketing?

First, I had to suspend my disbelief long enough to really look at things. Cynicism isn’t a useful mindset. It actually keeps us from exploring and finding out for ourselves.

Second, I had to work really hard at first to learn the ropes. I spent months searching the web for bits and pieces of free information. I pieced that info together and eventually developed a strategy that worked for me.

The strategy I developed led to this course. What I spent months piecing together doesn’t have to be so difficult or painful for you. You can learn from my journey to make yours faster.

This course will teach you in a matter of weeks exactly the techniques I use to develop affiliate marketing sites (that took me 9 months to learn from trial-and-error).

What the Course Will Teach You

This course is aimed at beginners. It’s meant for people who either have no idea how to use affiliate marketing to earn money online, or people who have dabbled in affiliate marketing but haven’t made any consistent income.

My goal for the course is simple. I want to give you an honest overview and solid foundation that you can build upon. In the course, I will lead you through the entire process of building a website from the ground-up that sells affiliate products on a specific topic of your choosing.

The course includes two complete example sites that you can follow along with, seeing exactly how I do all of the things the course covers.

Keep in mind that this course isn’t a quick fix or magic bullet. I actually don’t believe in those at all. To achieve worthwhile results, you have to put in the effort to learn and apply what is taught in the course.

Some of the things we cover in the course will probably be completely new to you. Some of the requirements will be uncomfortable because you’ll have to learn new things. That takes time and effort, there’s no way around that. It does get considerably easier as you practice, but you’ll have to roll up your sleeves the first time through building a site with this course.

I want to be absolutely clear about that. Don’t expect miracles. I’ve worked to make the course as dead-simple to follow as possible, but you will only get what you put into it. You don’t need any prior experience, just a willingness to follow along and build your own site.

Still with me? Great. Let’s talk about what is in the course.

Here’s what the basic course contains:

• A web-based format that allows you to ask questions along the way for a more interactive learning experience
• Two real functional example sites that you can follow along with and see how I would do things (none of that “I can’t show you my sites for competitive reasons” stuff)
• 5 modules (complete intro to affiliate marketing, finding opportunities, site building, getting traffic (and sales) and advanced)
• 21 lessons, including keyword research, topic selection, site building with WordPress, search marketing, content development and sales optimization
• Advanced topics on how to scale up or apply affiliate marketing to an existing business
• The complete 100% money back guarantee (see below)
• A $50 discount offer on hosting, if you don’t have a web host already

For the Most Committed Students: The Deluxe Package

For our most committed students, those who want every resource and extra piece of information to succeed, we’ve put together a spectacular deluxe package for you. From interviews to special audio lessons to group coaching calls, the Deluxe Package will give you the extra help you need to really make it as an affiliate marketer.

Below is a list of everything that’s included in the deluxe package. As we add additional resources to the package, you’ll also get access to those as a deluxe member.

Interviews

Karol Gajda of Ridiculously Extraordinary on Building an Entire Biz Around Affiliate Marketing

Karol has made the majority of his income from affiliate marketing for the past 8 years. In this interview, Karol and I discuss what it takes to make affiliate marketing the backbone of your business, and how to seamlessly grow from simple mini-sites to bigger authority sites.

If you’re serious about building a business that relies heavily on affiliate marketing for revenue, you won’t want to miss this one!

Trever, an Affiliate Marketing for Beginners Success Story, on Getting Started

Trever has an awesome story to share. Just six weeks ago he signed up for the AMfB course. He had no website building experience and knew nothing about affiliate marketing. Just last week he made his first affiliate marketing sale and has made three total since!

Find out how Trever went from complete newbie to making his first three sales in such a short period of time. His story is really inspiring.

Adam Baker of Man vs. Debt on What Makes a Product Successful with Affiliates

Adam Baker built his business online while traveling the world with his wife and 1-year-old daughter. He recently released his first premium guide, and has a second one coming out shortly. Around 30% of sales for those guides come from affiliates, so I wanted to find out from Baker what makes a product so successful for affiliates.

If you want to know why publishers often offer 50% of higher commissions to affiliates, don’t miss this interview with Baker.

Everett Bogue of Far Beyond the Stars on Finding and Selling Affiliate Products You Love

Everett Bogue built a location independent minimalist business in just six months. He started with affiliate marketing and eventually created his own products. Affiliate marketing remains a big part of Everett’s business, both as a publisher and as an affiliate.

Find out how Everett built his business using affiliate marketing and why he likes to call affiliate marketing “paying your fans to support you.”

Group Coaching Sessions

Deluxe package members get access to special monthly group coaching calls. If you have specific questions you’d like to ask live, on the phone, these sessions are for you.

You also get access to every recorded session. Check out the recordings below.

Group Coaching Session #1

In this Q&A session we discuss:

1. Finding affiliate products that sell well outside of ClickBank
2. How to scale your affiliate marketing business beyond the first sale
3. How to avoid the dreaded “Google slap”
4. Which directories to submit your sites to for SEO

The “Successful Affiliate” Tips Series

Failure Is Not an Option

It really bums me out when I see people start to learn affiliate marketing but give up before they see any results. There are some things you can do to prepare yourself mentally to do what it takes to succeed. In this lesson, I share the mindset of a successful beginner in affiliate marketing.

$1000 per Hour

In this lesson, I share two different experiences I’ve had with affiliate marketing where it paid me back $1000 per hour I put in. It’s a pretty cool experience to make that kind of money, so listen in to get the juicy details.

The Secret “Sweet Spot” of Success

There’s a magic confluence of three things that make the difference between “gettin’ by” and “killin’ it.” It’s a secret that successful people know and that you should learn before starting your next business venture. Find out what it is in this lesson.

Get a 5x Return For No Extra Work

How to get paid $250 for a $47 product while making everyone involved happier in the process. (Or, how to earn 5 times more money for the same amount of work.)

My Top Affiliate Programs

If you’re not making sales from your affiliate efforts, it may be that you’re doing everything right, but that the affiliate products or niches you’re working with aren’t doing their job. Find out which affiliate programs I’ve made the most money from and which niches are the best to get into.

What People Are Saying About the Course

I launched the course briefly two months ago to a limited audience to get feedback and make sure the course was ready for prime time. I had a lot of fun with that initial group, and have been really impressed with what some of them have been able to achieve already.

Check out what some of them have said about the course:

“Dude, this was probably the best information product that I’ve ever purchased. It was so specific and detailed. I’m pretty technically savvy, but I had never built a website in my life, and the course completely walked you through building out the site, the SEO, the writing, everything. I’ve built out 3 of these mini-sites now, and one of them just hit page one of Google this afternoon.” -Trever Clark

“The Affiliate Marketing for Beginners course taught me, a complete newbie to affiliate marketing, what I needed to know to get a mini-site going. The step-by-step instructions were clear and easy to understand, and if you ever had a question, Corbett was there with the answer. This is no get rich quick scheme. But if you are willing to work at it and want to learn how to be an affiliate in a way that makes you feel good at the end of the day, this is the course for you! With what I learned, my first site got to #1 on page 1 of Google search results in a matter of weeks!” -Martina Iring

“It was VERY actionable. I LOVE that because it kind of makes it easier to really get going. Also, it’s very well written and designed. That’s worth a LOT, because it’s not only about the info but also the art of presentation.” -Fabian Kruse

“You did an excellent job at balancing the technical vs. not too technical in your explanations. And the fact that you are available to respond to comments also helped clarifying so more complex elements.” -Michel Gagnon

“Unlike other info products in the Lifestyle Design niche that offer a lot of broad ideas with some specific instructions here and there, this course focused in one way to make a living from anywhere, didn’t waste time talking a lot of theory, and went into enough depth to get started immediately.” -Trever Clark

“I’ve learned so much from Corbett’s course that now I feel I can leave behind the corporate world sooner than I thought. I can keep developing [my blog] and enjoy its natural speed of growth. I don’t have to force myself to monetize it too soon. Instead, I can use a few hours every week to apply what I learned from Affiliate Marketing for Beginners and create mini niche sites that will bring people with problems together with good products that solve their problems.” -C. A. Kobu

Oh, and I’m really happy to share this one I also received from Trever just last week:

“I wanted to drop you a line and let you know that I made my first sale today from one of the affiliate sites that I built out with your course. I’m pretty excited to see some confirmation that this actually does work, and I’m thinking that this is going to give me the motivation to do a lot more work on this site and on building out some other ones. With one sale, I’ve just about covered the money that I’ve invested in this project. Just wanted to say thanks for putting the course together, because I never would have thought to do something like this otherwise. The course was amazing.” -Trever Clark

The Complete If-It-Doesn’t-Work-For-You Guarantee

I sincerely want this course to work for you, but if it doesn’t I also don’t want to keep your money. If you purchase the course and apply what it teaches and don’t achieve results, I will refund your money, no questions asked.

Specifically, I want to help you create a site using this guide that earns monthly profits from affiliate marketing. How much money depends on your topic and the effort you put into it.

The example site in the course made $325 in commissions last month for zero additional effort, and it only took 6 hours to build in the first place. The course also teaches you how to scale things up from there.

This guarantee is good for a full year. Just write me anytime after you’ve used the guide (at least 30 days after purchase), and let me know if it didn’t help you for some reason. I’ll cancel your account and send you a refund.

Final Thoughts and Pricing

If you’ve looked at other courses on affiliate marketing online, you’ll know that the most popular products start at $197 or $97 per month. This course isn’t a monthly subscription, it’s just a one-time fee.

I’m actually a fan of some of the other courses available online, but I think my course is the best option for beginners, for a few reasons.

First, this course is an incredible value.

Second, this course is much more focused on helping you do one thing and do that one thing well. Those other courses have become a giant a la carte menu of Internet marketing techniques, which can lead you astray when you’re just starting out.

Third, this course teaches you ethical affiliate marketing practices, and doesn’t expect you to use pushy sales techniques or promote things in a way you can’t be proud of. You can genuinely care about your customers and help them out and still make a killing with affiliate marketing. I’ll show you how.

As the course is upgraded, you’ll be automatically upgraded to the new version, free of charge. That’s a great way to get in now at a low price and reap the benefits of revisions to come.

Is The Course Right For You?

That’s a question you’ll have to answer yourself now. If it doesn’t sound right for you right now, I completely understand. Thanks for the support!

-Corbett Barr
San Francisco, CA