Can Affiliate Marketing Make You Rich? 5 Steps To Make Money

How Long Does It Take To Make Money, Earn A Full-Time Income With Affiliate Marketing & Become Rich?

The number one thing you need to understand before we get into the details of how long it takes to earn a full-time income with affiliate marketing is that it takes a consistent effort over the course of years.

The affiliate marketers that become successful are referred to as super affiliates.  Super affiliates are people who earn more than 99% of other affiliates for a specific affiliate program. 

Now, the question becomes: What is the 1% doing differently that has allowed them to succeed?

Well, if you ask me I’d say it all comes down to only focusing on a handful of affiliate programs (typically 1-5) and dedicating years of hard work to becoming the best and providing value to your audience.

One great example and statistic that I find interesting is the ClickFunnels affiliate program.

Take a look at the image below for what it says on the landing page when you’re signing up for the ClickFunnels Affiliate Bootcamp.

That’s right.  Out of the thousands of ClickFunnels affiliates promoting the affiliate program, 81% of active ClickFunnels affiliate make less than $200 per month.

If you’re curious about what the top ClickFunnels affiliates are doing, then you can join the ClickFunnels Affiliate Bootcamp for free here.  I highly recommend it. 😉😃

The course that I recommend every aspiring affiliate marketer take alongside the ClickFunnels Affiliate Bootcamp is called Project 24.

Project 24 shows you from start to finish over the course of 24 months how to earn a full-time income with affiliate marketing and become rich while building up your online business.   You’ll learn inside the course exactly how to start a blog, do SEO, start a Youtube Channel, and ultimately build a brand that’s recognizable and grows over time.

5 Steps To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing & Succeed Online To Become Rich

Here are the five key steps you need to do to make money with affiliate marketing.

1. Find An Affiliate Program To Promote

The first key step you need to do is hone in on the affiliate program(s) you want to promote that coincide with your niche.

The best affiliate programs typically have the following three attributes:

1. Evergreen products
2. Recurring products either monthly or yearly
3. High-ticket products (upwards of $1,000)

2. Start A Blog Or YouTube Channel 

Now, you need to determine how you want to drive traffic and eyeballs to your affiliate offers.

There are numerous ways to drive traffic but the best way I’ve found is to either start a blog or a YouTube channel. 

The reason why is that both of these are search engines.  In fact, Google is the number one search engine and YouTube is the number two search engine. 

By focusing on building content around searchable topics, you’ll be getting targeted traffic to your offers.  This means you can only go after specific search queries that are more buyer-intent or where someone is close to purchasing a product.   

3. Create Epic Content That Solves A Problem

Once you’ve chosen the platform, it’s time to create content on it.

The best way to create content is by coming up with specific problems that people are facing that cause them to type certain search phrases in Google related to your niche or affiliate product.

This helps to directly capture a targeted audience that’s interested in what you have to offer and you can more easily make the sale.

4. Test & Optimize

Over time, you will have built up a large volume of content on your blog or YouTube channel that’s hopefully driving you a considerable amount of traffic.

It’s now time to start optimizing the content that’s getting a considerable amount of traffic and see how you can improve the conversion rate to sales.

5. Scale Your Affiliate Marketing Online Business

After you’re starting to generate traffic and sales, you start to realize that the only thing stopping you from earning a full-time income with affiliate marketing and beyond is simply producing more content.

If you have a blog, you can then start to reinvest profits into outsourcing the writing.

If you have a YouTube channel, you can start to outsource the editing aspect.

I also recommend creating a publishing schedule and create deadlines that will push you to consistently create content for the long-term.  If you can do that, you’ll be well on your way to making a substantial income with affiliate marketing and becoming rich as the next super affiliate.