How to Make Money Online Combining the Power of Affiliate Marketing and YouTube
You don't have to have your own products in order to successfully use YouTube and video marketing. In this article I'm going to talk about how to make money online by combining YouTube and affiliate marketing. This is really a powerful combination that anyone can have success with by driving traffic to an affiliate product.
I would suggest that you create a video series that documents your experience with the product. Take each step at a time...remember your videos don't have to be long...in fact, they can't be any more than 10 minutes...shorter is better!
If the product you are promoting is a physical one then have your first video be of you opening the package! Or maybe it is even your second video...the first one can be about how excited you are that you ordered this product and you can't wait to get it and you are looking forward to documenting your progress and sharing the results. That's cool. Then you can make a video where you open the box and reveal the contents...maybe it is a series of DVDs or workbooks...or maybe it is exercise equipment, whatever it is, let the viewer know what they can expect when they order the product. Hold up each component, if there is more than one, and describe what it is and anything special or unique about the appearance.
Let's translate that concept to if you promote a digital product. You can show going to the website...is the product a download that you are going to save to your computer? Are there streaming videos? Is it interactive? Are the graphics good? Is it easy to look at and follow? So even though you won't be holding up a DVD or a special exercise jump rope, you can explain how great it looks and if there are many different pages within a website, how many pages the ebook is, etc.
You can use this concept for pretty much any kind of product. Select a product in your niche...one that you believe in (or maybe you are just trying out for the first time and demonstrating) and one that converts well for your market.
Then every week you can add a video to the series. As you learn the system or utilize the product, document your progress...your successes and challenges...make progress reports and share them with the YouTube audience. If you are promoting a diet product did you lose weight or inches? Did it help with cravings? If you are in the craft niche, are you learning new skills or being given great tools or ideas? Have you been able to easily follow the instructions?
No matter what type of product you are promoting, you are going to be driving traffic to a website so they, too, can have the success or fun that you are having...so within your video you will have your affiliate link. That way when people are watching the video see you demonstrating the product, like how easy it is to use, the results you are getting, whatever, they check out your affiliate link and then you get a commission on the sale. That is how to make money online by blending affiliate and video marketing in one shot!
- By Tellman Knudson
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