Here is Days 1-10 of the 30 Day Affiliate Marketing Blueprint to help you manage the various tasks that it takes to become an affiliate marketer.
There are many tasks associated with being a successful affiliate marketer.
From reviewing products to researching solutions for your audience and knowing how to get eyes on your recommendations, it’s an ongoing process that takes both time and dedication.
Many online entrepreneurs try to rush the process and skip important steps.
They think they can slap up a few reviews and their computer will start spitting out cash like an ATM machine.
They may half-heartedly try affiliate marketing for a few days, weeks or maybe even a couple of months and then quit because it didn’t work, even though they didn’t really put in the work.
If you want to truly cultivate a lucrative career as an affiliate marketer, you’ll want to follow this affiliate marketing blueprint of focused tasks for 30 days, so that you build a profitable foundation for your online business.
🗓 Day 1: Pick a Niche Poised for Growth
It’s a given that when you choose a niche, you’re going to want to have a real interest in it and be willing to build an online business in this niche for the long term.
Becoming an affiliate marketer is a long game and you want to be sure it involves a topic that you won’t get bored with or lose interest quickly.
It would be grueling to be chained to an online business where you’re creating content day in, day out about a topic that you don’t really like.
But for profitability purposes, you need to know that others share the same interest as you, which means the niche is growing over time in terms of market sales.
You want the expansion to be a steady upswing, and you can easily search for industry stats to make sure that’s what’s happening.
If the niche is steady, or even falling, rather than growing, it could be cause for concern.
When a niche is blowing up, it needs to be an ongoing event, and not just a short period of time when something is trending in the news about it.
🗓 Day 2: See What the Buzz Is
Keep in mind that market stats on a niche can only tell you so much.
You need to know why a niche is experiencing growth, so that you can capitalize on its strengths and momentum.
To do this, you can keep tabs on the news that’s coming out about your niche.
There are trade and consumer magazines you can subscribe to, industry newsletters for some niches, and of course, news sites and search engine news tabs that can tell you more about what’s being said.
Keep track of the discussions you see unfolding because you’ll be able to use this to your advantage when creating content.
🗓 Day 3: Ensure Adequate Profit Potential
Some niches offer primarily tangible products, while others offer digital information products.
There are also niches that have a nice mix of the two, giving you even more opportunities to earn when you recommend them to your audience.
Take some time to check out various affiliate programs to see what they offer.
Visit sites like Warrior Plus and JVZoo for online marketing niche products.
ClickBank has a mix of many niches that have digital information products and even some physical products.
Amazon, CJ and Share-a-Sale have a myriad of companies who have tangible products to ship to customers where you can earn a commission.
You want to evaluate many different things, such as how many products you feel are viable, what the price point is, and whether or not the commission is enough for you.
Some companies only offer low 5- 10% commissions on sales and this is usually for tangible products.
Other companies will offer 50-70% commissions and this is usually for digital information products.
Be sure that regardless of the commission rates that the products you recommend are good for your audience and can help them.
🗓 Day 4: Grab a Good Dot Com Domain
Don’t even bother getting another extension when it comes time to pick a domain.
Most people automatically type in .com, not .net or .info, so if someone has the .com extension of a domain you brainstormed, keep thinking until you find something that is available.
Ideally, your domain will be something that tells people what it’s about before they even click through on it.
You can achieve this by using keywords, like diet tips for keto dot com or make money online tips dot com, for example.
This not only helps people, but it gives search engine bots something to go by when scanning your site, so they can categorize it for proper relevancy and present it to their users whenever the opportunity arises.
You can use keyword tools (free or paid) to brainstorm some of these keyword phrases and then try to secure a domain for it.
This is one small element that can help you begin rising in the search engine results pages.
Check out Resource #1 on my Recommended Resources page because that platform already offers tools to help you select and grab a domain.
🗓 Day 5: Buy and Set Up Your Hosting
Hosting accounts range from tiny basic ones to major reseller accounts or dedicated servers.
All you need is the very smallest account for now.
There’s no need to spend more money than you have to right up front.
As an affiliate marketer, you’ll be installing WordPress and posting content, building a list and not much else.
As time goes on, if you notice any extra needs for bandwidth or other features, you can upgrade at that time, but stick with what’s a good match for now.
Check out Resource #1 on my Recommended Resources page because that platform already includes hosting.
🗓 Day 6: Install Your Blog
WordPress has a very simple installation process that’s based out of your cPanel.
Once you log in, you just make a few clicks and entries on the WordPress QuickInstall option, and it will present you with a basic blog, ready to customize for your affiliate needs.
Check out Resource #1 on my Recommended Resources page because that platform already includes WordPress set up in a few easy clicks and cPanel is not needed.
🗓 Day 7: Customize Your Blog
The customization of your blog is an easy process.
Just go through the sidebar options one at a time and select your preferences.
From colors and fonts to graphics like your header image, you’ll be able to pick and choose what represents your niche the best.
Make sure you set up an affiliate statement page, such as the one Amazon requires.
Other platforms or sellers may require certain statements declaring you have the ability to earn from your recommendations.
You can also create a contact page, in case your readers need to communicate with you or a vendor wants to ship you a free sample.
Some affiliates also create an About page, which tells readers a bit about you.
Sometimes, this page has some sway, such as if you have a parenting blog and you disclose that you’re the parent of 5 children or you mention that you have 4 rescue dogs, and you’re running a dog site.
Check out Resource #1 on my Recommended Resources page because that platform already includes step-by-step Getting Started training that will walk you through getting all of this set-up.
🗓 Day 8: Enter Your Tags and Categories
There’s an option for you to help people (and search engines) navigate your website better, and that’s through the use of proper tags and categories.
You may want to set up the categories ahead of time so that you can simply choose one every time you get ready to publish a new product review.
For example, if you’re in the pet niche, you might have categories for pet toys, pet health, pet food, etc.
Or, if you’re in a niche like weight loss, and you’re covering different diets, your categories might be keto, low calorie, Mediterranean, and so on.
You can also set up a list of tags ahead of time, or simply tag each product review as you go.
Tags are like keywords that help people and search engines find the content they need.
Check out Resource #1 on my Recommended Resources page because that platform already includes step-by-step Getting Started training that will walk you through getting all of this set-up.
🗓 Day 9: Put Your Finger on the Pulse of Your Audience
Your site is built, and you’re getting ready to build a list.
In order to do that, and to even create the best product reviews that will convert, you need to know what problems your audience is facing that they feel are insurmountable or they need help with.
Do some research today in forums, comment sections, and on social media to see what problems people are discussing, asking for help with, and expressing frustration over.
Make a list you can refer to over time whenever you want to create your list building lead magnet or a new product review.
You can also check out bestselling books to see what consumers are buying.
If you’re in the diet niche, focused on individual diets, and you see a bestselling book addressing diet mindset, that might be a clue to help your readers work out their mental issues regarding weight loss instead of the technical nutrition aspects.
🗓 Day 10: Develop a Lead Magnet Worthy of Signing Up For
Once you know the pain points of the audience in your niche, you’ll be able to create a lead magnet that’s a no-brainer for them.
A lead magnet is basically an opt-in offer.
You are offering your audience something for free in exchange for them signing up to be on your email list.
This works well…especially when it’s free because the exchange of contact information for a topic they really want to know more about can be irresistible.
You can create a text-based report, a full eBook or guide, a video series, a private podcast episode, or whatever media format you feel works best for you and your level of skills.
This concludes Days 1-10 in the 30 Day Affiliate Marketing Blueprint.
📲 Also See Related Posts:
👉 Affiliate Marketing Blueprint: Days 11-20
👉 Affiliate Marketing Blueprint: Days 21-30
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day 🙂
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Nicole Lynn
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My Online Journey
You don’t know me.
I’m not some flashy internet marketing “guru” with my name and face all over the internet.
I’m just an ordinary person that had to figure out a way to make money online when I lost my job in 2008, due to health issues.
In the offline world, I gained several years experience in Customer Service, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and various other clerical type positions.
Much of it was drudgery, especially working in call centers.
I was good at my various jobs, but I did not enjoy being hostage to a cubicle and headset..lol 🙂
But, you do what soul sucking jobs you have to do, in order to make money to pay the bills.
As a free spirit, I always had the deep desire to break free from the cubicle-zombie-robot rat race world and have full control over my time, income and life, without having to have permission from a boss.
I was tired of being just another “number” that was expendable, no matter how dependable I was or how hard I worked (just to help build someone else’s wealth and make their dreams come true).
I wanted to create MY freedom…not just build it for someone else.
Unexpectedly in 2008, severe neck issues forced me out of the 9 to 5 corporate world rat race (before I was actually ready financially, which really sucked a lot and was pretty scary).
My neck issues got worse after years of being trapped at a computer, with little to no permission to get up and move around and stretch.
This is not good when you are suffering from old car accident injuries.
This was especially the case in call center jobs with low cubicle walls. They didn’t want you standing up, due to the noise while on calls.
And although losing my job and the paycheck was a less than pleasant experience, my goal was to be an online entrepreneur anyway.
But, I was forced to make it happen at that point…which was not ideal.
Wasted Time Dabbling
It’s better to have a 2nd income already coming in regularly before losing your main source of income, but I had no control over what happened.
I had already been “dabbling” in internet marketing, on the side, since 2004…basically wasting time.
I treated it as a hobby, instead of an online business.
I actually made a little bit of money with affiliate commissions and some advertising revenue, but it was nothing to write home about because I did not build it up.
If I had realized that my health was going to go sideways so badly in 2008, then I would’ve taken my online business “side gig” much more seriously.
I would’ve hustled, even while still working a full-time job, because 4 years would’ve been more than enough time to have built that online business into a full-time income.
Just an extra 1 hour per day consistently over that 4 year period…would have made all the difference.
So, after I lost my job in 2008, I was in a real bind for more than one reason.
I needed to get serious and stop dabbling and start hustling to make money online, but it takes time to build an online business that brings in consistent income.
I was out of time. My household went from two incomes to one and I needed to get moving.
The problem was my severe neck issues and the accompanying dizziness from nerve damage in my C1 Vertebrae, the Atlas.
So, this meant that I couldn’t exactly hustle like I needed to because being on a computer for hours each day at home is no different than doing it at a job.
I was no longer able to do this, if I wanted to not end up completely disabled or bed-ridden.
The years 2008-2011 were extremely tough in trying to heal, but with proper therapy, the worst of it got better, but it’s not 100%.
Even now in 2022, I still can only be on a computer so much each day, without causing flare-ups.
So again, if I had taken it all more seriously, then I wouldn’t have ended up with so many financial worries, when I lost my job.
I would’ve had something more substantial to fall back on during times that were difficult money-wise and health-wise.
Then, add in beating my head against the wall, jumping from one “program” to another and basically flushing more time and money down the toilet.
Losing my job made me act in desperation because I wanted to make something happen right now.
So, I ended up doing what a lot of people do, which is looking for a shortcut and something “quick” or “push button”…which is not realistic because it doesn’t really exist.
Then in 2012, I joined Wealthy Affiliate because it had the tools and resources I needed all in one place, to help me build an online business.
Fast forward to 2020, I joined The Home Business Academy to add even more great tools and resources to my online business arsenal.
I now use both of these resources to build my online business.
I talk more about this over on my Recommended Resources page listed under Resources #1 and #2.
I enjoy making money online because I can work from anywhere and on my own schedule, while still being able to take care of my health.
You Can Do It Too
So, why do I tell you all of this?
I share all of this with you, so you’ll know it’s possible to make money online and have total freedom from the 9-5 grind.
It takes time to build an online business, but it’s worth it to build either a side-income to supplement your full-time job or replace your job.
If you have found yourself in a similar situation to me or you simply want to get ahead of things and plan for the future, your goal going forward should be to not waste any more time.
Whether you love your job or hate your job, it’s always a good idea to have a Plan B to supplement your income or replace your income.
You never know what can happen with your job or even with your health.
Don’t waste time, like I did.
Just get started and keep going.
Do not dabble.
Take action now.
And most importantly, believe in yourself.
You can do it!
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