So what exactly will automated affiliate marketing software do for you? When I started learning about affiliate marketing, I didn’t know what step to take for maximum effect. I spent a lot of time doing the wrong kinds of activities. Much of the things I learned are now redundant skills, such as building websites. You can get it done very quickly and easily with the right software. Click on image below to watch a short video on using the software.

What Automated Affiliate Marketing Software Does Do

Automated affiliate marketing software can help you build a legitimate online business much more quickly and easily. With a ready made sales funnel, a range of products and software like you see in the video, you can have a ready made business up and running very quickly.

Software you’ll need for an online business includes:

• Website building software
• Email marketing software – to automate the collection and delivery of email and marketing messages.
• Digital products which are ready to use with your affiliate links already embedded
• Design software you can use to help create content – ebook covers, for example.
• Opt-in software such as drop down email capture plugins you’ll use with your website
• Training and support worldwide both with regular Q and A webinars and face to face meetings around the world.

What Automated Affiliate Marketing Software Doesn’t Do

Despite automated affiliate marketing software saving you a tonne of leg work as an affiliate, you’ll still need to market your sales funnel once it’s up and running. The automated software helps you create an up-and-running online business model which delivers high value digital products around the world. What it doesn’t do for you is promote your sales funnel. The marketing side of an affiliate marketers job is up to you! This means you’ll need to learn about online marketing if you haven’t already, and create an effective marketing campaign to start selling your products.

The online business platform offered here on this website (sign up for the video series), offers everything you’ll need to build your own working online business. Training in all aspects of online marketing is available through the business system.

What Training Is Provided?

Depending on the level of help you want to access, you can join the various online groups or even get personal one-to-one mentorship in building a scalable online business from scratch.

The SFM has recently partnered with these companies in a way to offer more training and value:

Microsoft Lynda (Under the Linkedin umbrella of companies) recently partnered with SFM as a way to offer their own 6,500 training courses as part of the SFM curriculum. 

DigitalMarketer (The world’s longest standing and most highly respected B2B and B2C marketing training company) also partnered with SFM and now offer their own training as part of the SFM curriculum. 

You’ll be able to access webinars, seminars and live discussions where you’ll be able to overcome issues relating to mindset or technical issues relating to your business.

How Can I Get Started?

You can get started by signing up for the video series on this website. You’ll get access to a free series of videos straight to your inbox. From there you’ll be able to become member by purchasing the application and upgrading your account.

Once inside you’ll be able to access a digital business platform and set up your business system. Once set up you’ll need to choose a marketing strategy to promote it. Depending on your preference you can choose between paid and free marketing strategies; or use a combination of the two.

Marketing Your Business – Advertising

There’s several ways you can market your sales funnel once your business system is set up and working properly. You can advertise through the various marketing platforms such as:

• YouTube
• Facebook
• Adwords
• Bing
• Etc.

To use paid marketing you’ll need some higher value products in your sales funnel. You’ll be able to choose a variety of high value items to include in your own personal “digital store”. The more items you purchase for your store, the greater the commissions you’ll be able to access. If you want to use paid marketing to advertise, you’ll need at least one high ticket item in your inventory.

Without high ticket items it’s going to be more difficult to turn a profit using paid marketing. However, you can still learn how to use free marketing strategies to generate sales through your funnel. You can also use the knowledge you’ll gain through the training resources to build a business of your own too. Many digital marketers have built their own companies after spending time studying online marketing strategies with the SFM.

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Of course your digital products will need to offer value to customers. Would you buy a product which didn’t offer value? Ideally, you should have a number of high value products within your sales funnel. Why high value? Because you can charge a higher price and your customers will stay with you, giving you an income for life.

Building An Automated Affiliate Marketing Machine – Recurring Income Products

When I first started out as an affiliate there was a lot I didn’t understand. One of the best things I’ve learned is to choose recurring commission affiliate programs to promote. This is because you can earn an income from each sale rather than just a single commission. Even if you only earn $20 a month (from a subscription or membership product), with only 10 members you’ll earn $200 a month. With 100 members, you’ll earn $2000 a month.

Recurring income products are definitely the way to go with affiliate marketing.

Ideally also use digital products too. Most subscription products are digital. Digital products usually offer a higher level of commission than physical products you might find on a site such as Amazon. Amazon pays somewhere between 3% and 11% to it’s affiliates for a sale. With digital products you can earn up to 40 and even 50% commission.

Automated Affiliate Marketing – Promotion

The hardest part about building an automated affiliate marketing machine has to be marketing. Once you have a sales funnel in place with a range of digital products (see free video series), you’ll need to promote your sales funnel with some kind of marketing strategy.

To completely automate and scale an online business will take a considerable amount of testing and measuring of a paid marketing strategy. Paying for marketing is expensive too so you’ll need a good high ticket sales funnel with a number of high value products to promote. Otherwise you simply won’t make the money back you’ll be spending on marketing.

With a lower value product range, or fewer high ticket products to sell, you can promote your sales funnel with cheaper or free marketing. However, free marketing strategies take much longer than those you pay for. Plus they are less scalable.

A Six Figure Sales Funnel

A six figure funnel looks something like this. There’s a product range not just a single product. Most affiliates will promote a single product and only make a single commission. That means they don’t get recurring commissions from each sale like you would with a membership product. With a high ticket funnel like the one above you have multiple income streams from :

• Subscription products – memberships and software products
• Up-sells – products to offer to existing customers which the affiliate can earn from
• Entry level product – a low value product at the start of the funnel
• Multi-tier sales – earn from sales made by your team of affiliates
• High ticket items – products which offer more value also offer higher commissions

Marketing Engine – PPC

Pay per click marketing, or direct response is the favoured marketing strategy of the six figure affiliate earner. Some affiliates do create content of course but this is more difficult and does take longer. With direct response marketing, you pay each time someone interacts with your advert. This makes it easy to measure.

By testing and measuring advertising, affiliates can determine which adverts work the best. They can then make decisions to cut poor performing ones and scale up the profitable ones.

This still takes time, effort and of course marketing budget. But once you’ve discovered a profitable advert, you can simply leave it running and go on to create many more.

Affiliates start out with a small manageable budget and can increase it to many thousands of dollars/pounds per month. As they see profit coming in, they know it is a safe bet to increase their daily budget and increase the number of visitors and subscribers they are getting into their sales funnel.

The Customer Journey

The customer journey is the path of your customers through your advertising and into your sales funnel. One of the major problems affiliate marketers face is losing the attention of people as they view their content or advert/s.

With the online world, there’s huge competition for attention. If you pay to get someone to your website, you’ll want them to subscribe to your sales funnel because they’re more likely to purchase something if they do.

So you want to target the right audience and make their journey congruent with your main marketing message. Otherwise you could spend a lot of money and not get any subscribers or customers.

Success With An Automated Online Business

After a lot of testing and measuring, you hopefully will arrive at a profitable advertising campaign. Consistently making a profit on your advertising spend is the goal for many online business owner. Once you have done this congratulations! You’ve now built an automated affiliate marketing machine. You can now repeat this success with other adverts and scale up your existing campaign to let more people flow into your sales funnel.

You’ll also want to work on areas of your business which you want to improve too. By studying your data and looking at your sales, you should be able to identify where your business is working well and where it needs improvement. You can cross test adverts to improve your opt in rates and marketing budget. You can also test and measure different marketing strategies and change your email follow ups accordingly.

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