Once you’ve a super affiliate, and you’ve achieved a lot of your initial goals, such as quiting your job, not having to worry about money, having a better lifestyle etc, then you may start thinking about where you want to take your affiliate business in the long term.
This is something I’ve put a lot of thought into this in the last 12 months.
I mean do you really want to launch one short lived affiliate campaign after another for the rest of your life?
Here’s some ideas on how you can take your super affiliate efforts to the next level and develop a long term solid business model:
- Once you’ve launch a successful campaign in a solid niche that you know will be around for a long time, build an authority site around this niche using your ppc profits to fund its development. Overtime your authority site can have as much natural search engine traffic as ppc traffic. If your site has compelling content, it can develop a following with people coming back over and over again.
- If you really enjoy the PPC side of the business, you may consider starting an agency. Kris Jones started out as a super affiliate and went on to launch Pepperjam, one of the most successful internet marketing agencies in the world!
- If you’re very successfully promoting a particular product as an affiliate, you may consider making your own version of that product and selling it yourself. Not only will you get 100% of the commissions, you can now recruit your own affiliates and make 10X more money. You’ll also have a customer base now that you can sell to over and over again. This strategy works best for digital products.
- If you like to teach you may consider jumping into the world of info marketing. You can sell ebooks and courses that teach others how to succeed at affiliate marketing. This is not only a lucrative strategy, it’s also very personally rewarding – it’s a great feeling to help other achieve the same success you have.
- My last suggest is to build a system to crank out profitable affiliate campaigns based on unique techniques and methods that you’ve developed. This system can be comprised of a combination of automated software and outsourcers assigned to do specific tasks. This may seem a little far fetched, but I personally know several super affiliates who use this type of strategy to make millions, one of these affiliates make over $10 million a year in revenues.
I’m actually now employing several of the strategies above in my business model.
So what’s your long term affiliate business strategy?
Hi Amit,
The thing that is more interesting for me is to know what are your goals for you PPC campaigns. Until now I tried to make as much as I can from my PPC campaigns, however on the last few weeks it has been changed. Now my goal is 100% ROI, and I don’t care about the revenue.
What is your goal on your single landing pages/minisites campaigns? It will be interesting if you’ll share this knowledge.
Anyway,
Take care.
I couldn’t agree more Amit.
I mean “Run Car on H2o” is only going to work for so long!
I do think in terms of real niches and ten years down the road.
PPC is for day money and content spending is for the long term.
I like this type of thinking.
I’ve thought of most of this, except for the last one you mentioned. More importantly, I think to be able to do all of this networking is very important because it is easy to get stuck in tunnel vision when you’re used to doing things and thinking in the same ways you’ve been doing for years.
Insight from other super affiliates help you think outside the box, and may give the necessary missing pieces to get you going.
Nice thought provoking post Amit.
I do think that it is dangerous to not have a long term strategy in this business. Things change so quickly. You need to be able to see the changes coming, adapt and most importantly diversify both your revenue sources and your own affiliate marketing skills.
Hi Amit,
I have been around searching for a ‘what next’ strategy. Truly the information from your end helps me to visualise and align my goals towards my objectives.
I wish all the best.
Regards
Amit
Great post amit. Something I going to have to do to spread my wings in this business.
Excellent Post Amit!
Actually I know a lot of people that are using the Affiliate Industry to test out markets and than start building the products for their own.
Great advice Amit,
I have built several businesses around the core skill of affiliate marketing. Once you learn how to make profit you can leverage those skills into other areas.
You can provide services, teach others, create and market your own products. You can also assist other sffiliates to market your own products.
Having all your eggs in one G**gle basket is commercial suicide.
James
What sort of automated software is there out there that can help with building a system?