Can you really make autopilot cash through the internet? One of the closest strategies I’ve found to make “autopilot cash” is through a business model known as affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing you send customers directly to products on the internet. You’re effectively a middleman for the selling of online products and services. You don’t need to handle products or deal with customers and you can automate this process to effectively make “autopilot cash”!
But how does this work and what’s the chances of actually making it a reality? Affiliate marketing has a 95% drop out rate, so you can pretty much assume it’s not easy. But top affiliates can make millions of dollars without even owning a product themselves or speaking to a customer!
Autopilot Cash: Affiliate Marketing
Through the use of systems and technology, affiliates send targeted visitors to online products and services. When they make a sale through their unique affiliate link, they are rewarded with a commission based on the sale. By automating the process of selling online through various online tools, affiliates can sell products in their tends of thousands – all on autopilot (once they have set up their systems).
These systems comprise of:
- Websites – which attract visitors from around the world
- Email autoresponders – collect email addresses and deliver email messages automatically
- Marketing platforms – drive traffic through ads
- Landing pages – collect email addresses and add subscribers to email lists
- Affiliate products – allow affiliates to monetise the traffic they generate
(See also autopilot affiliate marketing software).
One of the best tools of an affiliate marketer is the “sales funnel”. A sales funnel comprises of an email marketing tool and several affiliate products to sell. With the right kinds of products you can earn multiple times from each customer. These are products which offer ongoing value to customers. With certain kinds of products you can earn recurring commissions and high ticket commissions from sales you generate.
Autopilot Cash: Timescale
To build such a business system does take some time and effort. But ultimately it can run automatically 24 hours a day 7 days a week – selling products and services around the world!
Websites can attract international visitors and digital products can be bought from anywhere in the world from a laptop. Depending on your marketing method, building an automated online business like this can take between several months and several years.
For example, if you’re using blogging as your marketing strategy (to attract website traffic), it will take much longer. If you’re running paid advertising to build an email list, you can start generating sales quite quickly. With subscription products each sale can generate an ongoing income – essentially this is “autopilot cash”!
The Fastest Method
The fastest way to generate an income from this kind of system is through sending (paid) targeted traffic to a landing page and collecting email subscribers. Once on your email list, subscribers will receive a series of automated marketing messages, helping them with a specific problem. Through this list you can promote and sell a high ticket product “suite” – a series of connected products which you can sell to your subscribers.
A product range is much better than a single affiliate product. With a single affiliate product you can only make a single commission from the sale. But with a product range, you can earn continuously from subscriptions and your customers can also upgrade their initial purchase and buy more valuable products from the range, at a later date.
Reinvest your earnings back into your marketing budget, and scale up globally. This is only possible through using the most profitable digital products, which will require investment.
You can of course sell any affiliate product, however, most of them don’t pay recurring or high ticket commissions which work best for scaling.
A Slower Strategy
A slower (and cheaper) strategy is through creating content online and selling affiliate products through that content. Again, email marketing is recommended but you can also sell directly from a website. The main hurdle in creating an autopilot income from a website is getting the volume of traffic needed to make consistent sales. Subscription affiliate products and high ticket products can make the world of difference here too.
Bloggers create content on a regular basis and over time they generate website traffic completely free! If you’re patient enough and choose a topic which you’re interested in, this could be a strategy which works for you! See blogging for profit for more on this.