Affiliate Marketing Blueprint: Days 11-20

Here is Days 11-20 of the 30 Day Affiliate Marketing Blueprint to help you manage the various tasks that it takes to become an affiliate marketer.

These tasks will help you build a successful and profitable online affiliate marketing business.

🗓 Day 11: Start Accepting Sign Ups

You can’t finalize the list building process until you have the technical ability to accept sign ups. 

Choose an email autoresponder and set up your list there. 

Spend a day getting familiar with how to use their system.

Most autoresponders have helpful tutorials walking you through how to use their system, so you can hit the ground running. 

Check out Resource #3 on my Recommended Resources page because that platform already includes an email marketing system that includes an autoresponder.

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🗓 Day 12: Set Up Your Follow Up Email

When someone signs up to your email list, they will be sent their welcome email, which is in your follow up system. 

This is something every new subscriber gets, and you want to include the link to your free gift in this email.

But from this point on, you can either drip out more follow up emails that every new subscriber gets (perfect for an evergreen niche)

You can also just email out broadcast emails on an on-going basis to the people that are already on your list. 

It all depends on how you want the communication to unfold.

If you want a hands off approach, then set-up an automatic email series via the autoresponder.

Or if you want to be actively involved and on top of the latest trends and fads in your niche, then send your list daily or weekly broadcast emails. 

Check out Resource #3 on my Recommended Resources page because that platform already includes an email marketing system that includes an autoresponder and a broadcast feature.

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🗓 Day 13: Get Your Forms Installed

You might have more than one form you want to use on your website to get people to opt-in to your email list.

You can have an opt-in form for your lead magnet page.

You can have another one for your blogs sidebar.

You can also have one for the space directly below your blog posts or in the footer area of your website.. 

Go through the form creation process and get everything installed where it needs to be before testing each one out to ensure it works.

Check out Resource #3 on my Recommended Resources page because that platform already includes an email marketing system that includes opt-in forms.

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🗓 Day 14: Brainstorm Obstacles for Your Niche

You need to figure out what issues people in your audience are struggling with and need a solution for or more information.

Some people struggle with something, but aren’t really sure where they’re going wrong. 

For instance, if you’re in the weight loss niche or fitness niche…they already know they aren’t losing weight, but they may not know it’s because they’re calculating their macros improperly.

You are already aware that people in your audience are emotional about certain issues and have expressed a need for a solution.

You can also look at other areas where you know there may be a problem for people in your niche.. 

For example, not having the right tools or time or money, or seeing people being misguided by other niche leaders. 

There can be all kinds of issues and it’s a good idea to make note of them.

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🗓 Day 15: Create Solution Ideas

You now have lists of emotional and technical problems your readers might come up against. 

What you need to do now is figure out how you’re going to guide people to a solution that will work best for them. 

It’s good to come up with several ideas in one sitting, so that you have plenty of idea to work with.

You can list a problem, such as not having time to fix healthy meals, and then match it with solutions you can present as product reviews, such as meal prep containers, courses on quick and easy cooking, and so on. 

Figure out what your audience could use to help solve their problems.

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🗓 Day 16: Start Putting Up Content for Affiliate Approval

Before you apply to various affiliate programs, you want to begin putting up content that shows you are an active contributor to your niche. 

This content will be informative and educational, inspiring and motivating. 

It can be articles on your website, blog posts, social media posts, videos, podcasts, etc.

The goal is to let vendors and companies see your worth and value when they’re deciding whether or not to give their approval. 

Many companies will decline applicants who have little to no content online, or content that’s low quality. 

You have a few ways to publish content. 

You can write it yourself, hire a ghostwriter to do it for you, or purchase private label rights, which is pre-written content that multiple buyers can use as their own.

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🗓 Day 17: Start Applying for Affiliate Links

Once your website or blog and even your social media or your video channel is filled with good content, begin the application process so that you can get approved as an affiliate and post product reviews with your links. 

The approval process can vary from instant approval to several days, so be prepared to wait in some cases.

Once you get approved, make sure you abide by all of the vendor or company’s rules for promoting their products. 

For example, some digital vendors have rules in place about not using negative language to get clicks on your links, or misleading promotions, etc. 

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🗓 Day 18: Study Different Ways to Create Reviews

Writing your product reviews can get boring after a while, unless you know how to approach it in different ways. 

You don’t always have to write a post about just one product.

There are many ways to slant it, such as a top 10 list, pros and cons, unboxing videos, case studies, and even just putting two products up against each other and comparing the two. 

Go to other product review sites just to get a feel for the different ways they can unfold for your audience. 

You never want to outright copy someone else’s style, but educate yourself about the process of sharing information and recommending products and services.

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🗓 Day 19: Make a Product Review Template

You don’t have to create a template, but this is something that will help you quickly create your product reviews.

A template also helps your loyal readers know what to expect each time they read a new review from you.

You might do something where you present the problem first, then give a product summary, followed by intricate product details and features, then a list of usage tips, and ending with any drawbacks and fixes for them. 

After a while, you won’t even need to refer to your template because you will be so used to presenting your reviews a certain way and you will also get faster at creating content.

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🗓 Day 20: Create a Product Review

Pick a method or slant that you want to use and choose a product (or products) to review. 

You want to do your best job at this so that your reviews will be trusted by your audience.

Set the bar for what you expect from yourself and what your audience expects from you.

Be thorough, interesting, and transparent in your reviews.

Treat it the same way you’d want someone else to be if you were using their review as a purchasing guide for yourself. 

If you need to, you can outsource the review to a ghostwriter, but be specific about how you want the review to unfold.

This concludes Days 11-20 in the 30 Day Affiliate Marketing Blueprint.

📲 Also See Related Posts:

👉 Affiliate Marketing Blueprint: Days 1-10

👉 Affiliate Marketing Blueprint: Days 21-30

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