Hey folks It’s been a while. It’s been an eventful summer. I hit a dry spell with commissions. We moved to a different part of asheville. Then we had a thousand year flood and we had to evacuate. Faceless Affiliate Marketing had to temporarily take a back seat.
I feel blessed that we didn’t really lose anything more than a bunch of food would have spoiled have we not given it away to our neighbors. I also feel blessed that we had a place to go for a couple of weeks and get out of the way while the rebuilding process starts.
So now I am back. I’ve had to keep working and keep trying different things and keep plugging along at what I am doing and have faith in the system that it will work.
I have just started a YouTube channel associated with this blog. I am going to post a lot of videos in Hope of getting traffic that I don’t have to pay for. Although really, I know you are either paying for traffic with time or money. I just want to be able to do this on a full-time basis and help as many people as possible do the same.
My new YouTube channel is called Faceless Affiliate Journey, like this blog. I’m going to post a series of short videos explaining various aspects of affiliate marketing. I am also going to explain the benefits of my favorite products and review a bunch of different products.
I have had varying degrees of success with this so far, and the biggest takeaway is that you have to find what works for you. All the really popular systems work for some people, but none of them work for everybody.
There is so much involved: your talent level, your audience, your work ethic, and just plain luck all play a part in how well someone succeeds.
My first video is called Faceless Affiliate Marketing. It was done with the help of AI. My plan is to use some help from AI and do some of it myself. The generic educational explainer pieces will be AI produced.
So Why use AI for a YouTube channel?
First of all, I don’t advocate doing a 100% AI YouTube channel. I feel that detracts from the potential of a person’s personality and what they have to offer an audience.
However, for some of the generic information posts, AI just seems to do a lot better job. It says the same stuff I would say but it writes it a lot faster. I never do an AI script without changing it a little. That is where your own point of view in your own personality come in.
So basically, I will use AI for basic information, but I will use my own writing and my own voice for my own reviews of products. I am going to be straight up and straightforward in my reviews. I am always going to tell the truth and I am never going to lie.
However, I know I’m not perfect and I may interpret something the wrong way or I may be misinformed once in awhile. But I am never going to purposely lead anyone astray, including myself.
Anyway, I invite you to check out my channel and subscribe. Here is a link: youtube.com/channel/UCE8Mg06jCPEcrWbd_OW1gIQ.
YouTube vs other forms of traffic.
Any form of traffic that you don’t buy is a crapshoot. You are subject to the whims of the algorithm of whatever platform you are using. Are you capable of informing or entertaining people? If so, what are you best at?
For some people, it is videos. For some people, it is blogging. For some people, it is podcasting. For some people, it is doing paid traffic and paid ads. We all have to find out what works for us.
What I like about YouTube is that you can get started fairly quickly. I know it takes awhile to grow a channel, but you can boost your videos for a reasonable price and if you are using the right tags, YouTube will show them to the right people.
You can also repurpose Snippets of your YouTube videos for Instagram and TikTok. TikTok seems to have the most potential for virality, but a lot of people are doing well in the faceless affiliate marketing field on Instagram, too.
I will tell more about why I like the idea of doing YouTube over TikTok and Instagram a little bit further down this post.
Facebook is another possibility, but Facebook ads have become incredibly expensive and Facebook has made it almost impossible for you to generate any organic or unpaid traffic. I love the idea of facebook, but I don’t want to subject my personal friends to my professional output when they aren’t interested in it.
My Faceless Affiliate Marketing Plans
I like doing paid solo ads and will continue to do them, but I want some diversity in my traffic. you never know what kind of traffic is going to work the best for your style of communication. You never know which way is the best way to attract buyers until you actually try a few different ways.
I tried a podcast in another vertical. it was called 7 minutes to happiness. I thought I did a really great job on it, but I never made a penny doing it. It became a labor of love more than anything else and I had about 50 followers. Unfortunately, none of them thought my program was worth buying into.
I may revisit the human potential vertical someday, but for right now, I’m going to keep going in the side hustle/make money online vertical for a while. But I digress…
The most impressive thing I’ve seen on YouTube so far is a total newbie starting from scratch and making around $15,000 in his first 7 months. He did this in one of the programs I am currently using. He has told us all to imitate his model, but all that will do is saturate it.
I’m going to use his model as an inspiration, but I am definitely going to put my own twist on it. so my current thought is to start with a bunch of basic educational videos that give simple explanations for beginners in the affiliate marketing field.
I will also be doing product reviews and I will be documenting my progress in faceless affiliate marketing, just as I am here.In fact, I will probably turn a lot of these blog posts into videos.
So that’s where I’m at today. I hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer. we are back in business and it’s time to roll. I hope to have good news soon.
If you are already in the business, keep plugging away. If you’re sitting on the fence, now is as good a time as any to get started. I’ll give you a link to my free 5 Day Faceless Affiliate Marketing Crash Course so you can get an idea of whether you want to do this or not.