“What are the most profitable programs I can join to make money?”
Hey all! It’s Lisa. This video is more or less, a response to the last video that I did about ClickBank and making money with ClickBank. Often times when I do videos like that and I talk about specific programs that I make money from, I get comments from people – people who are not doing well, “Can you tell me what are the programs that make you the most money? Can you recommend the most profitable programs out there?” By the way when I get that question, I get that people are somewhat misdirected or misguided on how this process works. If you want to make a full-time living or even just make a decent amount of money online as an Affiliate, like I am, and that means building a site on topics that interest me and making money by referring people to related products. You have to understand it is not so much about what products make the most money. It is about finding products that fit the theme of your site and whoever your audience is. So, unless your site is about website creation like mine or flat stomach exercises, then the specific products that I promote and make the most money from them may be irrelevant to most of you. It is not about hopping from program to program and being an affiliate grasshopper, as I would like to call them. It is about understanding that this is marketing. The first thing you’ll have to have is a product, and when I say product, I don’t necessarily mean a tangible product. I mean your content could be your product. So if you got to write about how to play golf, then your product is ‘How to Play Golf’. So once you have your product and you start attracting visitors to your site, whoever that audience is – whether they are people who want to know how to play golf, whether they are stay-at-home moms, whether they are cancer patients – once you have that traffic and know a little bit about your traffic, then you go out and find relevant affiliate program.
So, stop looking to other sites and trying to figure out how much this person makes from what program, because it is going to vary for you depending on the type of site you have. A prime example is Darren Rose, a Pro-Blogger Director. He has a blog on photography that makes him 6-figures every year. Now, I would not go to Darren’s photography blog and ask him, “Wow! You make 6-figures from your blog. Can you tell me what programs work for you well?” Guess what! It is probable that he will show me all of the photography-related affiliate programs that he promotes, but that is of no good to me, because my site is not about photography. So my point is, you can make a lot of money with a ton of different programs out here if you learn how to drive targeted traffic to your website. That’s what it is all about. It is about marketing – it is not about looking around and seeing what is the most profitable program, because that’s going to vary. You might have someone who can make $5,000 a month from a program because they are good at marketing and it relates to their site, versus someone else who tries that same program and makes nothing, because maybe they don’t know how to generate traffic and they don’t have enough traffic. So you have to be careful about that. That’s one thing I like about site building. Many of you guys know I promote site building all over my site, and one of the lessons that they teach is, don’t monetize your site until you have the traffic. In fact, I think they don’t allow you to access certain areas of the monetization section of site building until you have a certain amount of pages. Because they understand that so many people get caught up in “I just want to make money.”
So they sign up a blogger, throw up a quick blog, they go to any web host, throw up a quick website, and they join ads in to the ‘Join these’ programs, slap up some affiliate links and they are wondering, “Okay! Why am I not making any money? These programs must not work. I need to find some programs that work.” But it’s not the programs, it’s the fact that you haven’t learned to generate enough traffic to your site. And then once you have that traffic, it is about knowing, “Okay! This is my audience. This is what they are interested in. Let me go find products and affiliate programs that relate to my audience.” And then, go about it that way, rather than just jumping from program to program and saying, “Oh! This doesn’t work, this doesn’t work, I saw a comment on our message board the other day from someone saying “AdSense is a scam!””, and someone replied to them and said, “Well, how much traffic do you have to your site?”, and the person replied and said, “I have like, maybe, 5-10 visitors per day, but I am not making anything from AdSense.” Well, if you only have 5 or 10 visits per day, don’t call AdSense a scam. It’s not AdSense that’s the problem, it is the fact that you don’t have the traffic. This is not a ‘Get Rick Quick’ scheme, where you just join the programs and you make money. You really have to understand that this is about driving targeted traffic to your site. You got to have an audience, and if you don’t have an audience, you’re going to have trouble making money with any program, no matter what it is. So I definitely wanted to make that point after making the last video and seeing some of the comments like that. It’s not about the program, I mean. Yes, there are some programs that are better than others. But in the grand scheme of things, if you have a lot of traffic and you know who your visitor is, you could make money on virtually anything if it relates to your audience. So make sure you remember that.
I will see you later, and take care. Bye bye!
