Here at Create Your Affiliate Program, I talk a lot about, well, creating an affiliate program.
Today’s post is for those who already have an affiliate program created.
So if that’s you, be sure to read the entire post to make sure you aren’t making the #1 mistake I see that could be keeping you from being profitable with affiliates!
What is that mistake, you ask?
The #1 mistake I see people who already have an affiliate program make is that they are just giving their affiliates an affiliate link and hoping they’ll share it with their communities.
Y’all, hope is not a very good affiliate marketing strategy.
Instead of hoping your affiliates share about your offering with their audience, you need to set your affiliates up for success.
Here’s how to set your affiliates up for success:
Create a welcome email sequence for your affiliates!
This welcome sequence is a series of emails you send your affiliates to make sure they have and can find everything they need to share about your offer with their community.
{Remember: The big key to success with affiliates is making it easy-peasy for them!}
Here’s the emails I recommend you include as part of your affiliate welcome sequence:
Affiliate Email 1 – Welcome Email
Welcome them to your affiliate program, re-introduce yourself, give them their unique affiliate link, provide them with ready-to-use marketing materials, and give them your affiliate packet if you have one created.
Affiliate Email 2 – Check In Email
Make sure they have everything they need; reshare their affiliate link and marketing materials.
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Inside this blog post, I’m talking specifically to Kajabi users. If you’re not a Kajabi user, keep reading anyways… I think you’ll still find it valuable!
Okay, now for my Kajabi user friends: If you have your course or membership set up inside of Kajabi, I highly recommend you work with affiliates to sell more of your products if you aren’t already.
As a recap, affiliates can help you sell more of your online courses or products without needing to have a massive email list already.
Working with affiliates is also a great way to grow your email list by having your affiliates promote your freebies to their audience.
The best news?
As a Kajabi user you already have the tech software needed to set up your affiliate program!
Below I’m sharing a few low-cost resources so that you can begin working with affiliates asap to get your digital product or online course in the hands of more of your ideal customers!
Create Your Awesome Sales Page Copy
Before you have your affiliates promote your offer to their community, you want to make sure you have an awesome sales page that tells the customer exactly what they are buying.
I have two resources for you for this:
Sales Page in a Day ($37) – Now you don’t have to with this 6-Figure Sales Page template that will walk you section-by-section through everything you need to include on your sales page so you know exactly what to say and in what order to say it. I use this template for writing all of my sales pages. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Imagine never having to write your sales page from scratch ever again.
Dani Paige’s Sales Page VIP Day– I am a huge, huge fan of Dani’s work {I have her Email Closer templates and cannot love them enough!}. If you are wanting a done-for-you sales page, definitely check out her VIP Day option.
Build Your Awesome Sales Page inside of Kajabi
I’m a big fan of easy when it comes to building a website, which is why I love that you can buy templates for Kajabi that make it easy and quick for you to get a gorgeous sales page up!
Below are links to three of my favorite Kajabi template shops:
Because you are a Kajabi user, you actually have everything you need to set up your tech inside of Kajabi. Kajabi has a simple but really effective affiliate tracking system.
I know a lot of people get totally overwhelmed with trying to set up their affiliate system inside of Kajabi though. If this is you, I want you to know it does NOT have to be difficult or time consuming to set up your affiliate program.
I’ve put together a mini-training here that will give you the tech information you need in order to set up your affiliate program inside of Kajabi (I’ll do a walk-through of it for you!) so you can implement your affiliate program quickly in order to begin selling more of your digital products or online courses through affiliates right away.
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Today I’m jumping straight into the biggest misconception people have about affiliate programs:
“My business isn’t big enough to work with affiliates yet!”
My friend, that’s simply not true!
You don’t have to reach a certain level before you start working with affiliates.
In fact, I believe there’s just two things you need to have in place in order to be successful with affiliate programs:
A Digital product or online course that you know you can sell.
A solid affiliate program set up
Let’s discuss number one first:
A Digital product or online course that you know you can sell.
The reason you need to have sold your own products/courses first is so you can ensure that there is actually a need for it. You don’t want to have affiliates promoting something that isn’t going to sell. This will be a disappointment to you, and a waste of time for your affiliates when all you are hearing is crickets.
Once you know that people are buying your product or online course, you are in a great position to work with affiliates.
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If you are a coach or course creator who is wondering what email marketing platform you should be using in your business, I want you to consider Ontraport.
Below I’m listing out the top 5 reasons you should use Ontraport to automate your coaching business. I hope you’ll check out Ontraport as a serious option to consider starting with or switching too!
Your entire business is all in one centralized place!
With Ontraport, everything from your weekly newsletter to your sales funnels to your landing pages and affiliate stats are right inside of Ontraport and everything is seamlessly connected.
Even if you are just starting out and not making a lot of money as a coach or course creator yet, with Ontraport your account can grow with you as your business grows. (See more about their different account levels here). By starting out with Ontraport from the early stages of your business, you don’t have to worry about moving over to a bigger platform in the future because everything will have been in there from day 1.
What’s also nice about Ontraport is that because everything is in one place, you don’t have to have additional tools (more on that below).
