After I signed up for Breakout University, I started going through all of the material. I learned an entirely new model for affiliate marketing. It is called faceless affiliate marketing because you never have to show your face.
The easiest way to do this is by using solo ads to build an email list. When you have an email list, you can market to it as much as you want. However, that doesn’t mean you can just send a bunch of marketing emails to them without providing substance.
Early Mistakes
There is a saying that I have been hearing a lot over multiple trainings: everybody likes to buy, but nobody likes to be sold to. Early on, I made the mistake of sending constant marketing emails to my list without providing any substance to them.
Luckily, it was so early that I probably only alienated a few hundred people. Since it does cost somewhere between 70 cents and a dollar to get somebody on your email list who will stay there and open your emails once in a while, that does represent a few hundred dollars wasted, but the lesson was more valuable than what I spent on it.
Anyway, I kept going. I started building a decent email list. But I had a big problem. It seemed like almost nobody wanted to buy. The initial reaction for most people is to whine about the quality of the leads or say that their list sucks. I decided to go the other way and just take responsibility for my own results.
Epiphany Time
I decided I was going to do a better job of treating the people on my list like human beings instead of treating them like numbers. Part of marketing will always be, as people have said probably since the first day of marketing. a numbers game. But there is an element that too many marketers overlook; they are communicating with fellow human beings.
In my case, I realized the people on my list are just like me in one important way: we all want to make money online. There are people from numerous backgrounds: old, young, male, female, all different races and religions, different countries. But deep down we are all the same: we just want to make money online.
So I dedicated myself to providing value in my emails whenever I can. Occasionally, there will be a short marketing message. For example, the ends of launches when there are only a few hours left are a great time for an exceedingly short message reminding people that time is growing short for whatever part of the offer is going to disappear at midnight.
Going All In
So, back to the title of this piece, one morning I woke up and started hammering all of the work I had to do online that day. I had a few extra things to do and ended up putting in about three hours with marketing, email writing, and funnels-making before I did any online recreation whatsoever.
No personal facebook. No emails. No checking the internet for my favorite sports teams. Just hard work. Or at least as hard as sitting at a computer can be.
That was how I realized that I had finally gone all in on faceless affiliate marketing. It had finally become my number one priority when I sit down at the computer in the morning. None of the other distractions I spend my time on for recreation were as important to me as checking my stats and doing my online work for the day.
It is still like that for me today. It has become my new normal.
And though I haven’t broken the bank yet, I am making enough money to see light at the end of the tunnel. And it just makes me wish that I had gotten serious about this around 2008 when I first learned that people were making serious money on the internet. Of course, that’s back when you could get clicks for about a penny.
However, I don’t allow myself to have regrets because they are counterproductive. Basically, if you want to make money online, you have to be serious about it. and you are either going to spend time, effort, or both.
It’s Easy on the Surface
Affiliate marketing, especially faceless affiliate marketing, is a great model that anyone can pick up and use. When you are selling someone else’s products, they do most of the work for you. They host the product. They collect the money. and then they give you your share after the refund. is over.
The base process is simple. You create a small information product to give away as a lead magnet. Then you purchase a solo ad and offer it to people in exchange for their email address on what is called a landing page. Then you send them to an offer.
Then you send a follow-up sequence for that offer to your people once they get on your list. This will usually be from 5 to 7 days. Then you send offers for other products.
You send people to the products by means of an affiliate link in your email.
But you do have to work at it
Once you get into this, there are a lot more moving parts, especially if you want to do something like this blog or if you want to have an Instagram account or a YouTube channel or any of many other organic methods of getting traffic.
I am simplifying this description for the purposes of fitting it into one blog post, but in essence it really is that simple. Anybody reading this blog post can find something to give away for free, buy a solo ad, get people on their email list and send them to an offer.
It is a little more complicated than that and you will probably want to have marketing funnels. but none of this is any more complicated than you want to make it.
However, you do have to get approved for offers. And you do have to know where to find the products to sell. We will talk about that in another post.
If you want to learn more about faceless internet marketing, check out my mentor’s program here.
To Your Success,
Steve T