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Final Update! Month 8 Affiliate Marketing Website Feb 18, 2020

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How much does an affiliate marketing website make after 8 months? Find out here PLUS, learn why this is the last update.

As mentioned in the video... If you want all of the cost breakdowns and also access to the screenshots that show the revenue and traffic data, catch the full blog post here:

www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=X4GEtB6m9CB-c49Y_6Gs_yEnHJN8MTU4MjExMjI2MUAxNTgyMDI1ODYx&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.milesbeckler.com%2Fhow-to-make-money-blogging%2F&event=video_description&v=Ywf3RIjkCKY

I do believe that you can make money blogging with affiliate marketing... In fact, the growth curve of the affiliate marketing website case study projects a possibility of generating over $6,000/mo in revenue from the amazon affiliate program!

This is due to the power of compounding starting to work for us.

If you aren't familiar how the power of compounding works and why it is so powerful, watch this video next - www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJHEmrjACVA

With that said, I explain in this video why you may not want to consider Affiliate Marketing and I also share why it is not a 'passive income' opportunity.

I also share my thoughts regarding the affiliate marketing game vs. coaching, selling courses and membership programs if you have expertise people are willing to invest in.

Now, if this affiliate marketing case study is new to you, be sure to check out the past videos where I start from Month 1 documenting the process through to today, here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf3sAd8kafc&list=PL0sOKzn__yK293vkj2OHzm1rlnTT1WCnh

In this video, I've got the month eight update for my affiliate marketing website case study. We're going to go through all of the numbers. Plus you're going to learn why this is most likely going to be my very last update on the affiliate marketing site because a few things have changed and come up in the data. It makes me realize that I'm probably going to have to stop making these videos for you and you're going to learn why at the end. But first, let's jump into the data because we're in the growth curve at this point and things are starting to get really exciting for us. So in the month eight update, what we're looking at is the January data. So that is the eighth month I've been building it. So we're looking at like January versus December data. Really clean data cause both months to have 31 days.

So all traffic on the website combined was up 96% so about a hundred percent growth at about doubled the traffic. But here's the cool part of the traffic. 183% increase in Google organic traffic. What this means is we're ranking better. We're ranking for more keyword phrases and for the keyword phrases that we're already ranking, they're moving up, which means we're getting more clicks and we're getting more traffic. Also on the search engines being is up 72% a duck go is up 316% and Yahoo is up 87% so what this means is the site is now ranking in all of the major search engines. They're all driving us traffic and they're all driving us more traffic. And the trend is continuing because I'm recording this in the middle of February, so I'm kind of, I was able to glance at the current data and this trend is not slowing down.

It's not stopping. This is the idea of compound and growth. And I'm going to say this again and again in this video, and you've probably heard me say this before there's a long lag time of putting in work, putting in energy, creating the content, doing the day to day work before we start to see the results. But then the results begin to compound and that's what we're seeing. Our impressions are up 175% so this means almost a double as many times we're showing up in the search engines, which is great. Our click-through rate is up 20% this means our titles and our descriptions are getting the click and this really comes down. We've had some writer challenges in the beginning. We were using some teams that just weren't very good, they weren't experts in our world and we have changed that over the last few months. So the content we're putting out has better titles, better descriptions is getting clicked on more often and it is growing.

Our average position has moved up 10% as well, so that means Google is liking the site even more. That also means we probably got a higher click-through rate. Those two are correlated there, so those are kind of the leading indicators. The actual data from our search volume. What about money? Right? How much money is this thing making? Well at this point it's $80 and 22 cents in total revenue from last month. Which is an 18 fold increase? That's right. Our revenue has gone up 18 times what it was.

The Secret To Success With Podcaster & Real Estate LEGEND Feb 13, 2020

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The #1 Real Estate Podcast host in the world, Robert Helms shares his secrets to success in this interview with Miles Beckler.

Robert Helms is the host of the Real Estate Guys Radio Podcast - www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=UlJoVCjTjzUyuyRzj8UyrKHfYnZ8MTU4MTY5NDEyNUAxNTgxNjA3NzI1&q=https%3A%2F%2Frealestateguysradio.com%2F&event=video_description&v=SxSM2m8s0J0

You can find his podcast on all of the major podcast apps by just searching for 'Real Estate Guys Radio' and be sure to listen & subscribe to his podcast.

Link to Robert Helms' podcast on itunes - www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=UlJoVCjTjzUyuyRzj8UyrKHfYnZ8MTU4MTY5NDEyNUAxNTgxNjA3NzI1&q=https%3A%2F%2Fgeo.itunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Freal-estate-guys-radio-show%2Fid194167775%3Fmt%3D2&event=video_description&v=SxSM2m8s0J0

here's a link to the real estate guys radio podcast for Android - www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=UlJoVCjTjzUyuyRzj8UyrKHfYnZ8MTU4MTY5NDEyNUAxNTgxNjA3NzI1&q=http%3A%2F%2Fsubscribeonandroid.com%2Frealestateguysradio.libsyn.com%2Frss&event=video_description&v=SxSM2m8s0J0

With over 20 years experience broadcasting on syndicated radio and an early pioneer in the world of Podcasting, you will get insights about what it takes to grow a brand, a business and an audience through content.

It doesn't matter if you are a blogger, podcaster or YouTuber, the secrets to successful digital marketing are here in this video.

If you are ready to start your own podcast, here's my helpful free guide on how to start a podcast on a budget - www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=UlJoVCjTjzUyuyRzj8UyrKHfYnZ8MTU4MTY5NDEyNUAxNTgxNjA3NzI1&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.milesbeckler.com%2Fbest-podcast-setup-for-less%2F&event=video_description&v=SxSM2m8s0J0

in this video I have a very special guest. Robert Helms is with me. How are you man? Doing well! If you don't know who Robert Helms is, he's a niche celebrity, he's a podcaster and he is pretty well known in the real estate space. And in this video you are going to learn about the path to success online through creating a podcast. So Robert, for my viewers who don't know who you are, would you mind giving us the little snippet on who is Robert Helms and what does Robert Helms do?

So most folks know me as the host of the real estate guys radio program and we're on traditional radio. We have been for 23 years now. We started podcasting when it was pretty new. Our producers said, Hey, we're on a podcast, the show. And I said, what does that mean? Well, we're going to take out a lot of the commercials and we're going to put it out there and we're going to see if people like it. And today we're one of the top downloaded shows. Our show airs once a week in 190 plus countries. And people come from all over the world to our events and it's absolutely crazy. Just a couple of guys with microphones in a suitcase and we talked real estate investment, real estate primarily.

Okay, so investment real estate. Let's go back to the beginning. So you were broadcasting before podcasting was a thing, right? So there's obviously some sort of, a little bit of a radio story there and then real estate happened. So... So can you take us to the early days when you overlapped your passion for real estate or whether it even was a passion in the world of broadcasting? How did that happen?

It was that exact venn diagram that you talk about. So my dad was a real estate agent, but primarily he was a real estate investor and he loved to buy real estate owned real estate. And I got the bug pretty early. He needed some help. And so to help in real estate, you got to have a license. So I studied to get a license and that gave me the ability to earn $10 an hour, which was twice as much as I had been earning in my overnight radio job.

And that was one of my all time favorite parts of my life was learning radio, getting around other people who were learning radio

Meanwhile, my dad's and my ear about real estate, I start to get the idea of passive income. You can own a property, somebody else lives in, it takes care of it and they send you a big chunk of the money. I liked that and we figured out how to sell real estate.

And then a friend of mine said, Hey, I'm a public speaker and he's still a public speaker. And he said you know, you've kind of a radio background.

I was thinking about doing a radio show on real estate. I said, well, you know, when I was at college, I did kind a pilot program for a talk radio program on real estate.

So we kicked around this idea for a little bit and we started this fledgling little show where we would just kind of pontificate about real estate. And then before you know it, people would call in and we'd take callers and it grew.

And then podcasting is what really made the difference because that's where people raise their hand and say yes, they don't just happen to be tuning by. But I was able to take the thing that I was originally in passion by radio and communication and still am and marry that with real estate in a kind of unique way.

So for the quick takeaway here, a few things. Number one is there are two sides to this story, right? There are the media, there's the form of communication and the message.

The media was spoken word into a mic... And the message was all about Real Estate, his passion and professional experience for many years...

5 Things I Hate About Affiliate Marketing Jan 29, 2020

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Affiliate marketing is not as easy as the FAKE GURUS try to sell you... Does affiliate marketing work? Yes! Does it have challenges? Yes!

Learn about the top 5 challenges facing affiliate marketers in this brand new video, here.

If you are new to this world and want to learn more about affiliate marketing for beginners, go here: www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=ZcMDGRcDv7Y&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.milesbeckler.com%2Faffiliate-marketing-for-beginners%2F&redir_token=BGswSVrjchnzPrsldPwyseDYHxp8MTU4MDM4ODg1M0AxNTgwMzAyNDUz

here are my other videos on affiliate marketing for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD97-K5TeE&list=PL0sOKzn__yK1N9QS91pLZA-OCIc8d56xZ

In this video you're going to learn the five things that I hate about affiliate marketing. Now I've been affiliate marketing since 2003 and I currently earn hundreds of thousands of dollars per year as an affiliate. So I've got some love for affiliate marketing, but it sure isn't without its challenges. And you're going to learn the five biggest challenges here in this video. And in the end you're going to learn the right way to do affiliate marketing so you can kind of overcome and bypass and side skirt a lot of these challenges you won't have to experience. Let me just deal with them because I've already been through it. So number one is getting stiffed on payouts. Now you as an affiliate marketer, by definition don't have all that much control. When you're working with an affiliate vendor through an affiliate network, you do have a third party in between, right?

So if you're on ClickBank or you're using something on share a sale, you have that kind of third party company in between you and the vendor. But what's been going on recently is a lot of companies are running in house programs, whether they are on Infusionsoft or SamCart or Thrivecart or whatever it might be. Even some word press based ones on MemberMouse and these individuals are within full control and they can choose not to pay you. If they so deem they can disappear, they can fall off the face of the earth. I have one vendor who has withheld $8,000 in payments from me and I'll be honest with you, that sucks. I sent $16,000 worth of sales and I didn't get my $8,000 in commission jokes on me. Lesson learned, and this is one of the challenges, big challenges of kind of relinquishing control of being an affiliate marketer and again, stay to the end and give me a thumbs up if you like this content because I'm going to teach you how to bypass these kinds of challenges at the end.

Number two is vendors changing your links on you. This is such a big problem. It's crazy. It even happens all the way up to the Amazon affiliate program.

This has happened on a bunch of different networks. It's happened on some individual programs and yet again, you're not in control and oftentimes they won't let you know that they made a change to their URL structure.

Number three is they stopped supporting products. Now this one really irks me because I look at especially any sort of affiliate product or any sort of product that has a monthly or annual recurring bill. I kind of look at that recurring bill as a contract, right? So when I buy something and the company says, Hey, it costs $100 or $200 a year to keep updated, I think that's them saying that they're going to actually update the product.

And what happens is sometimes they abandon their products, they make their millions, they go on to do other things. They want to be cool kid digital nomads. I don't know what that is. There's some that I'm extremely frustrated right now that I may be going public with soon. But they've literally abandoned their projects. And here's what happened. So when they launched years ago, it was a great product. It was one of the best on the markets. So I not only used it, I taught how to use it, I integrated it into my business. And I recommended others did as well. Now they really aren't updating it. They're not holding, they being the vendor aren't upholding their end of the bargain, which means it kind of looks poorly on me because I now have all this evergreen content that I built and now that it's going to this tool that's getting a little bit sluggish and it's not really upholding its original promise like it wants did, looks bad on me and it's outside of my control.

So that was number three. Number four is scammy affiliate course creators selling dead methods. This is the cesspool of affiliate marketing.

Number five is the culture of individuals who give it a half attempt, who dabbles in the world of affiliate marketing and they go on to say, this stuff doesn't work, or affiliate marketing is a scam, and that's completely untrue, right? I've built a very successful career leveraging affiliate marketing as one of the monetization channels that I use. It's just harder than most people realize. It just takes a lot more work than most people realize. It absolutely does work when we get the game right

Passive Income Scam Shut Down By The Government Jan 09, 2020

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The SEC has stepped in and seized control of yet another "Passive Income Scam". Learn What happened & how to PROTECT yourself from these internet scams.

I've talked at length about the problem or plague in our industry that is lead by the fake gurus... From the affiliate marketing scams - www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHY3teLOShY

To the passive income lie - www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.milesbeckler.com%2Fpassive-income-lie%2F&event=video_description&v=tBYxM6irKxU&redir_token=4WBzjYnbmROF5K-UMPO9VrFsfWp8MTU3ODY1NTE4NkAxNTc4NTY4Nzg2

And here's another one...

For an in-depth analysis of this exact situation, be sure to check out Emelia Gardner's channel here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3oCIxRqJk&list=PLIQHg5Gp8_mCVGMwqm4Jf8VWY2yOpOCJc

Hat tip to Jon Gillham who brought this story to my attention! His post here: www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fauthoritywebsiteincome.com%2Fincome-store-ripoff%2F&event=video_description&v=tBYxM6irKxU&redir_token=4WBzjYnbmROF5K-UMPO9VrFsfWp8MTU3ODY1NTE4NkAxNTc4NTY4Nzg2

Has a TON of links to more info on this situation. I also want to give a shout out to Coffeezilla who is calling out the fake gurus in our industry : www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQMnBA3CS502aghlcr0_aw

And to Mike Winnet - www.youtube.com/channel/UComkllJTMHNZr4UNxCThdcw

Who is also calling out the gurus and the scams, one after another.

In this video you're going to learn about the newest passive income scam that has been seized and shutdown by the U S government. Yes, it's happened again, not the first time since I started this channel that I've covered these kinds of topics and we're going to look at it from three specific angles. Number one, the specific scenario, the company, I've got a little inside information about it because of an event I went to last year, so I'll share that. Number two, we're going to go big picture so you can make sure you're avoiding these kinds of potential issues because they're really common. It happens all the time, so I don't want to talk about just this one case. I want you to understand how this works so you can prepare yourself in the future because there will be more. And then number three, I'm going to give a shout out and I'm going to mention some some channels and some individuals who brought this to my attention who have done great deep dive digging on this and they're calling out other scams and fake gurus by names.

I'll share where you can find those individuals to get more so you can protect yourself because I'll be perfectly honest, there are absolutely scam artists out there trying to prey on you. This has been going on since the turn of the century in the 18 hundreds to the 19 hundreds this is not new snake oil salesmen are real and you need to understand what's going on. So in this specific scenario, the company's name is, today's growth consultant is doing business as the income store and their whole bit was that you essentially buy websites through them. So they're already running, already operating, already profiting websites. They often purchase them from F E international or from empire flippers, and then their internal team manages the website and runs the website and you get 50% of the upside potential. So all in all, it started out as a very honest and good working business model, I think.

But as you apply scale and as our rhythms begin to change as the world and the game begins to change, that's when things get a little bit shaky. So they had a specific claim on their website that said you get a guaranteed 15% return. And now I'm obviously no lawyer, I don't play one on YouTube or TV. But when, when you start talking about guaranteed returns and the returns start slipping and the money from the new investors comes in to pay for those guaranteed returns for the old investors, it starts to look and smell a lot like a Ponzi scheme.

We can see the filing itself, but we don't know what's actually in it yet.

Now, let me tell about my backstory here. So I went to a really high end mastermind with a bunch of seven figure business owner million dollars a year to 10 15 plus million dollars a year. I think some of them were in the $20 million per year range. Now, that was in April of last year and these were some of the highest sponsors. This actual company bought their way in as a sponsor. They spent an incredible amount of money as a sponsor and it makes me wonder they were pitching generally it was $100,000 buy him for a website and they were pitching that. Now they're really kind of only doing $250,000 and more buy-ins. And I'm now wondering if that moment in time, if they were just literally getting access to a group of successful individuals, trying to get a little more money coming in to pay all of their last investors.

I have no idea if that's true or not. I don't know what they knew about their companies scenario in that time and a place, but they seemed honest.

The WRONG Type Of Goals Are Keeping You From Success & The RIGHT Way Revealed Jan 02, 2020

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Most people have goal setting backwards and don't achieve what they desire. After watching this video, you'll have the secret of the 1% at your finger tips.

As mentioned in the video, here s the deep dive on the 3 systems - www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1f3P2_hfKM

I also mentioned the law of attraction and have a deep dive on those topics in these videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP9SqusSJQM&list=PL0sOKzn__yK3zcqkGKyS2ws7TNRWoVxpz

And my post that explains exactly how to leverage the law of attraction the right way to achieve your goals - www.youtube.com/redirect?v=KblhJpIJ63g&event=video_description&redir_token=dKM7itydYrukAKa5GHLMHszcat18MTU3ODA1MDQyNEAxNTc3OTY0MDI0&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.milesbeckler.com%2Flaw-of-attraction%2F

Other relevant videos to goal setting and personal development How to stay motivated and inspired to achieve your goals - www.youtube.com/watch?v=k003AZC67X0

Previous videos on goal setting - www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQKA2Um9Okw

and www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlWU6Ik-LLE

In this video you are going to learn how and why the wrong types of goals and setting goals in the wrong way is actually keeping you from achieving the success that you desire. But then we're going to transition and you'll learn the right way to set goals, the types of goals that are actually going to align you with the lifestyle you truly desire so you can really get on that path.

My life has blossomed because I embraced this one thing and I see so many people stuck because they've got this wrong. So first the the wrong versus right way to do goals. Okay, so event goals versus process or system driven goals. That's the first key idea for you. We've got several of them in this video, but I want to go deep into this first. Most people set a goal that is based around an event. When this happens, I will have achieved my goal. It could be 10 grand a month, it could be paying off a specific amount of debt.

It could be it's a specific event. Now that's the incorrect way to go about it for several reasons. Number one, when you set a goal that's externally driven, that is something that you don't actually have yet. That's an event. You are constantly in a state of being of lack. You technically don't have that yet and that is what your ego mind and that is what your body, your biometric energy being is going to reinforce over and over and over. My goal is $10,000 a month. Boy, I'm a long way off from that. My goal is $10,000 a month. The ego mind just messes with you. The opposite of this is a process driven goal and it's to it. It can get you to the same location you truly want to go and we'll probably stick with this $10,000 per month goal throughout the whole thing, but when you think of it in the S in the idea of processes or systems, everything changes because then what you start to do is you unpack that entire idea around what are the processes and systems that lead someone to 10 grand per month and that's my goal.

I want to have those systems in place that by a byproduct of those systems operating normally I get the income that I desire. So you are fully in control of your ability to go learn about build, implement, test, and work on the systems today so you can instantaneously be in alignment with that which you truly desire. If you desire to have the business systems, the online business systems that are going to generate you $10,000 per month versus the 10 grand per month at all costs goal. It's a very, very subtle and nuanced shift, but that's how the subconscious works and it allows you to move forward daily working on those systems. Now if you're interested in the world of digital marketing and online entrepreneurship, I have a video that goes deep into the three systems you need to grow a successful business. I'll cover them briefly here, but if you want the deep dive, be sure you check out my ATM video cause the three systems that you need are an audience growth system, a trust growth system, and a monetization system.

Audience growth is what I'm doing here on YouTube, right? I've put up almost 600 videos. I've got 120,000 subscribers. That's the audience growth. The trust growth is my email list, K of that about 12,500 people have subscribed to my email list and I'm in contact with them multiple times per week, usually sending helpful content, giving more value because that builds trust. Then there's the monetization system and I monetize through affiliate marketing, recommending specific products and tools that I use that have helped me grow my business and I have a small inner circle coaching program where I work with people who are really ready to commit to get to that next level and all three of these systems work together. The audience growth system has over 10 X larger than my trust growth system, right? I'm connected with way more than 10 X. The people on my blog on YouTube here then are on my list and there's literally about, I dunno, 5% to 3% of people on my list are actually paying longterm members.

5 Ways To Get More Sales For Your Digital Marketing Agency Dec 11, 2019

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Without sales, you will FAIL. Sales are the lifeblood of your marketing agency. Tim Conley, the #1 marketing agency consultant shares the 5 best ways to get more sales and grow your profits, fast.

If you want more content from Tim, subscribe to his channel here: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9dk_Gpjekbus6P0r9gAgHw

Previous videos with Tim Conley are filled with gold for marketing consultants, freelancers and agency owners...

How to start a digital marketing agency - www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKCQdp5sq38&list=PL0sOKzn__yK3IyPK2y7-Hxnh4VbIkBG4c

How to make money with a digital marketing agency - www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsSJNiN4lq4

And a full live Q&A interview with Tim Conley - www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXiNH0NrFXM

it is important to keep the number one most important funnel step in mind for your marketing agency which I share in this video- www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGWpjIlJMwA

in this video you are about to learn the five ways to get more sales for your digital marketing agency. And to help with this, I got my friend Tim Conley here. Tim, thanks for being here man. It's always amazing to be here. Great to have you on. So I've had Tim on for many videos. Tim is one of the foremost experts in the world of building, growing and specifically scaling digital agencies. He speaks on stages around the world and I'm grateful to have you here. If you haven't seen our other videos, there'll be in the comments below. They'll be all over, they'll be in the end screen. Watch all of this if you're building a digital agency because really so one of the fastest ways to generate cashflow online for someone who has some skills. Would you agree with that?

Yes. And it's a longterm business model. This is something you can get started quick, but ultimately you can build a multimillion dollar business that has systems and you can literally build a business and not just a hustle. Right? Let's talk about money now versus building a longterm asset because these fall into different categories and I think we need to give the viewer a little framework so there's getting more sales and what's the difference between a short term and a long term sale and when do you need which types in the business? Okay, when you're first getting started, the only thing that matters is getting a customer. You've got to get money or you're not in business. That's easy definition. You're in business when people are paying you money. If you don't get money, you are playing it business. So that's the first thing. So the early stages is all about going out and getting a sale.

Don't worry about your content marketing, don't worry about your brand, don't worry about anything other than making a sale. You're going to have a number of pitches and you're going to have a percentage of those that you close. The more pitches that you make, the better you get at the close, the more sales that you're going to get. But literally all day, every day, it needs to be focused on that pitch side. And then so it's almost like hunting in the beginning and then, you know, building a longterm asset. We want to build systems, we want to build potentially other, we'll talk about the things we want to build, but you want to be at more of a farmer. You want to start getting people showing up to you. And really I think that's, that's marketing, right? Versus sales versus say in the early days, all in on sales.

Then as you start to get cashflow and you start to get your kind of legs beneath your sea legs on at that point you want to build marketing systems and we're going to start with sales and go into marketing. So number one on the five ways to get more customers is cold outreach. Now, Tim, are we talking like email stuff here? What do we mean by cold outreach? Currently cold outreach really falls under. What are you good at? Are you good on the phone? Well then you should do cold outreach on the phone. If you have a great a list that you can connect with through email, we'll then do email. But what I'm seeing is that it's getting really hard to get people on the phone. It's getting even harder to get people to actually respond to an email. So the one thing, and it's temporary, but it's working amazingly well right now, is reaching out to on LinkedIn who fit exactly the kind of business that you wish to work with as a business owner.

5 Biggest Lies About Affiliate Marketing Dec 05, 2019

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Does affiliate marketing REALLY work? Is everyone a SCAMMER? Learn the 5 BIG Fat Lies of the affiliate marketing industry.

Free Course: How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD97...

In this video you are going to learn the five lies about affiliate marketing that are keeping you from earning the income that you desire. So I started making money online as an affiliate in 2003 I've generated millions of dollars online in profits and today currently I earn hundreds of thousands of dollars as an affiliate. And I'm seeing there's a lot of lies being passed around by the fake gurus and on forums and Facebook groups that are keeping you from having the right mindset to truly create the success that you desire. Affiliate marketing works when you do it the right way. So let's break down these five lies and give you the positive alternatives so you can build a proper mindset. Number one is that it's easy. Now this comes from a lot of sales messaging from the fake gurus who are selling you how to courses. And if they sold you the reality, which is it's a three to five year plan, it's a ton of work now.

It's a lot of late nights and early mornings and banging on your keyboard solving problems. And that ain't very fun, but they can't sell you their thousand dollar course, their $500 course or $2,000 course with that truth. So what do they do? They make it sound easy. And here's the problem with making affiliate marketing sound easy is when you get engaged with the process and you realize this is extremely difficult, you might give up and if you give up, you're never going to earn the income that you truly desire. Okay? So that's how this kind of unrealistic expectation that's passed around from it being easy is really hindering a lot of people because ultimately it is a three to five year. My best analogy that I use all the time is that we have gigantic pile of manure that we need to move and we have a spoon to do it.

You got to work hard and you gotta work smart. So that's number one. Number two is that it's passive. Somehow. This world of affiliate marketing is passive income. And as someone who's been earning income online for over 16 years at this point, I can tell you nothing about it is passive. Your server's going to get it on at certain points. Your WordPress site is going to need updates. Your WordPress site is probably going to get hacked at some point. You're probably going to get an SQL injection at some point.

Somebody is going to take over your website and redirect people to unmentionable websites happened to us multiple times. There is, you might think, well, I could outsource the whole thing and I can let other people run it. Well, who's going to hire those individuals? Who's going to manage those individuals? What happens when they stop showing up because they see the owner isn't showing up?

The truth is that there's nothing passive about the world of affiliate marketing. It takes a lot of work and that's okay. What are we doing with our time anyways? As an affiliate marketer, we focus our time on creating helpful, valuable content for our audience.

So knowing that it is active, it's a real business. It's an active business. It takes constantly refining your skills. It takes constantly publishing new content. We have to stay ahead of the game. You have new competitors entering the world each and every day who are all vying for that number one spot on Google or YouTube or whatever platform you're on the day you try to coast on easy street is the day like me, ambitious and individuals like myself and like the millions of other people here who are hungry.

That's when they'll start to overtake you and anybody who tries to treat this as passive is lying and you can see all the people selling you passive income lies. They're blogging, they're posting to social media, they're sending emails to their list. All of this is active work. Embrace the work, do the work, and you will be rewarded if you stick with it and you're strategic and intelligent enough. Number three is the biggest third biggest lie is that it's all about finding the right product, okay? So many people are like, well, what network is the best network and what products should I go after or what niche, what this, that, the other. That is the wrong way to look at it. Okay? Affiliate marketing is not about products. Affiliate marketing is about helping people accomplish their goals, solve their problems, and really, truly achieve more happiness in their life.

And when you realize that as an affiliate marketer, you're literally taking on the role of problem solver for other people, you start to align with the right way to do affiliate marketing.

Digital Marketing & Online Entrepreneurship - Q&A December 1st 2019 Dec 03, 2019

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Have marketing questions? Need help growing your affiliate marketing business or selling courses? Ask Me Anything in this LIVE Q&A.

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5 Steps To Overcoming Imposter Syndrome - Today Is The Day You Break Through! Nov 12, 2019

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Imposter syndrome affects creators, entrepreneurs, and artists by the millions. Learn how to overcome the feelings of not being enough, today...

As mentioned in the video here's the subconscious reprogramming meditation you can listen to daily to help reprogram your operating system - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu5Dpw_PSuo

I cover more about how and why this works in this post here- www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.milesbeckler.com%2Frewire-your-brain%2F&event=video_description&v=qmMI8CnS0jQ&redir_token=iIpfQTc5OyMhWIeA4fqDo5XH5uV8MTU3MzYzNzQ3NEAxNTczNTUxMDc0

And for the last point, focusing yourself on your audience… This post goes deep into how the law of attraction and the law of reciprocation actually works seek and understand why this is beneficial at a business level - www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.milesbeckler.com%2Flaw-of-attraction%2F&event=video_description&v=qmMI8CnS0jQ&redir_token=iIpfQTc5OyMhWIeA4fqDo5XH5uV8MTU3MzYzNzQ3NEAxNTczNTUxMDc0

And while you're at it you might enjoy my video on the law of attraction here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP9SqusSJQM

In this video, you're going to learn exactly how to overcome imposter syndrome. Specifically, you're going to learn the five keys that I've used in my life to overcome this myself because if you're moving your life in a direction of doing something that you've never done before, that none of your friends, your family members or your coworkers have ever done before, odds are you're going to meet resistance along this path, and it's going to come in a couple of ways. Number one is external resistance from these individuals. I mentioned, right? When you're surrounded by people who are striving for mediocrity in their life and you're shooting for excellence, there's a lot of people that are going to think, Oh, don't you want to be safe, or who that stuff's risky. Your mom go, Charlie tried the internet stuff, man, that stuff don't work.

Everyone on there is a scam, so there's this ex ternal form of resistance that you're going to have to deal with, but then there's the internal form of resistance. That internal conversation we have with our ego that's going to ask very rude oftentimes questions, at least for me, like who do you think you are or you're not enough and I'm here to tell you you are enough and when you reframe your mindset based on these five specific principles, you'll be able to blaze forward on your path confidently knowing that this is totally normal, right? Everyone who has created amazing things out of nothing and they had no clue how they were going to do it, they all deal with this at some point in their process of you're feeling it. That just means you're on the path. Let's jump into the actual five steps. Number one is stay focused on who you are becoming.

Okay? There's this whole like fake it till you make it thing and I don't buy into that. I think it's a bunch of bologna, but I want to ask you, who are you becoming? When I started making my videos, I started making them out of a frustration that I noticed a lot of people teaching on YouTube about digital marketing. They weren't teaching at all. They were just trying to sell their overpriced courses. I bought into a couple of courses and they were terrible, and I was like, I know more than these dudes charging thousands, and I was like, F it. I'm gonna just make the videos myself. Okay? So in that moment, I committed to becoming the most helpful internet marketer online period. I'm the most helpful marketer in the world. I've kind of refined that down and I stay focused on this. Here's what people can't do.

And that journey is the process of becoming. So you're not necessarily trying to be the be all end all today. You're in the process of becoming that. Okay, so who are you becoming and what would that person do? And then do those actions. Now you'll get better at it. And I got better at making videos. I got better at teaching.

Everything has fallen into place because I stay focused on who I am becoming. So get focused on who you are becoming.

Steal My 9-Step Process To Create Blog Posts That DOMINATE Google & Drive Traffic! Nov 07, 2019

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Here's the exact process I use to reach over 30 million visitors with my blogs... The step-by-step blog publishing process revealed.

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As mentioned, you will definitely want to watch the "How to write SEO Content FAST" video next, which is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDl16D71riQ

In this video you're going to learn how to create and publish blog posts that crush it on Google so you can get more impressions, more clicks, and more traffic to your website, helping you grow your business case. Specifically, I'm going to be talking about this through the lens of being an affiliate marketer, but even if you're not doing affiliate marketing and you're just using content marketing and SEO, you're going to get a ton of value. And I've got a nine step process that my team and I have pretty much perfected at this point. And that's what I'm handing you here. And if you're not doing affiliate marketing, it will be an eight step process cause there's only one step specific to affiliate marketers. I'm doing a a case study building an affiliate marketing website from scratch. So this is month five and at the end I'll talk about the, the statistics and the numbers of that site.

But really I want to give you this process because up until now our biggest challenge has been how do we really create and publish enough content in the right way? I'm not doing all of the content anymore, so I've had to really get super specific with my process that my wife and I have used to drive tens of millions of visits. Her site gets something like 8 million visits a year. It's had like 35 million plus people on her website. So it all comes out of this. And then how do we apply it? And that's what you're gonna get is the whole process. So without further ado, the nine step process to creating and publishing blog posts that rank get clicks and crush it. Number one, keyword research. Now if you know who I am, you've seen any of my videos, you've absolutely heard me talk about keyword research before.

I think I have five or six different keyword research videos that all rank really well here on YouTube. The one that I think you need to watch if you're going to watch one of them and you haven't is how to find the low difficulty, high search volume keyword phrases. That's the process that we're using. So we're looking for long tail phrases and it's all about identifying the right keyword phrase and then it's about understanding the intent behind the keyword phrase. And this is where a lot of people missed the boat. Okay? They'll go find a keyword phrase in the tool and they're like, perfect. That's the phrase. It's got low difficulty, it's got high search volume, I'm just going to write, and they go straight into writing and that as a huge risk. You need to take time to analyze what is that search intent from two filters.

Number one is the human being who goes to Google and what are they thinking? Where are they? Is that actually your perfect lead, your perfect potential customer? Get into their mindset. Think of who is actually searching that. Kay. So there's the human search intent. Part two of the keyword research search intent is the algorithms search intent. What does Google think that this phrase is all about? How do you learn what that is? You go Google the keyword phrase and it's a simple step and this actually leads us into step number two. The once you're pretty sure you're confident based on the numbers from your keyword research tool, you're like, I think this is my keyword phrase, go to Google. So step two is to write out your title and description first. Now, a lot of people save this until the very end. You've written your great blog post and then it's like, Oh man, I got to come up with a unique title and a description and you have this, a little bit of a creative hangover.

So you need to spend time writing this first. When you're full of energy and where do you get the ideas of what's working? This is where you really start to frame what's working. It's from that Google search, so step one you find your keyword and then you search it to know the intent. When you're on that Google search page, this is where you need to be looking at what titles are working, what descriptions are working, are all of the posts a top 10 list will great if so, make a top 21 list, right?

Make it bigger and better. Lists are look at what is already working on Google and realize that Google is showing you clearly by the first page results what Google thinks is the absolute best topic angle hook for this post

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