How To Make Over $50,000 A Month Through Affiliate Marketing

Gina

Gina is the co-founder and co-author of The Wicked Wallet. She has a bachelor's degree in finance specializing in personal finance. Her goal is to make personal finance more accessible to the masses by sharing knowledge and insight on the topic.

May 20, 2019

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As the title suggests, this article will discuss the benefits of affiliate marketing and how we got started on our journey of affiliate marketing. If you don’t know what affiliate marketing is, do not fret! Keep reading to find out. 🙂

People start blogs on all sorts of topics. From creating plant-based recipes to sharing knitting patterns, there are millions of blogs out there. However, there is one thing that most bloggers have in common; they don’t make the income they would like to from their blog.

Bloggers that want to make an income through their website but don’t participate in affiliate marketing are leaving money on the table.

When Jake and I started our blog, we didn’t want to be like the majority. Our goal was to help as many people as we could as well as make a sustainable income through this blog.

Since we like to set lofty goals and push to achieve them, we didn’t think much of having one of our goals to make money within the first 6 months of launching The Wicked Wallet. Especially considering that most bloggers don’t make a penny for their entire first year of blogging. We thought 6 months was aggressive and would push us to hustle.

It was to our own surprise when we actually beat our goal by 5 months… yes, you read that right. We made money in our first month of blogging!!

It definitely was not easy and we definitely did not get a full 8 hours of sleep every night but it, was totally worth it in our eyes. And since that first month our cash flow from this blog has steadily grown month-over-month.

If you’re interested in starting a blog and don’t know where to begin, check out this article!

All that said, we would have never made a single dime if it weren’t for one simple thing, affiliate marketing.

What Is Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is when you (a blogger/influencer/human being) gets paid a commission by a brand or company for bringing in leads, traffic or sales through a designated link. Commissions can be a percent of sales, a specific dollar amount or a gift of merchandise.

When we started our blog, we knew very little about affiliate marketing other than the incredibly impact it could make on our monthly cash flow from the blog. That’s why we took Michelle Schroeder-Gardener’s course, Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing.

Michelle from Making Sense of Cents launched her course Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing to help others learn her best tips and tricks on how to really grow your affiliate marketing income so you could potentially live off of your blog.

Michelle makes over $50,000 a month from Affiliate income, which in our opinion, makes her somewhat of an expert in the topic. Don’t believe that number? Go check out some of her income reports where she lays out exactly where all of her income is coming from (note that her more recent income reports are generalized for her safety since she is traveling around the country, but if you check out her November 2018 Income Report, you can see all of her affiliate income broken out).

Michelle started off knowing absolutely nothing about the topic but pretty quickly became a leader in the blogosphere because of her ability to quickly adapt and work with brands that fit her business. She created this course to help other bloggers avoid the mistakes she made when she started out experimenting with affiliate marketing. You can learn from her and avoid all the mistakes she has made in the past by taking her course.

Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing Course Details

The course has 6 modules, more than 30 lessons, over 20 worksheets plus bonuses too! Not to mention, she also gives you free access to her helpful Facebook group where she actively answers questions and asks thought provoking questions (a lot of bloggers charge you for access to their FB groups!).

Some of the topics covered in this course include:

What affiliate marketing is and how it works
Why affiliate marketing is great
The exact steps she’s taken to earn over $300,000 from a single blog post
How to pick the right affiliate products to promote
How to increase conversions
How to build trust and not lose followers
Required disclosures that you need to know about
The one major tool you need for affiliate marketing
Different strategies to use to promote your affiliate products
How to use Pinterest to succeed at affiliate marketing (yes, this includes the newest Pinterest affiliate rules!)

The material is this course is invaluable. Michelle is constantly updating it and adding more lessons as her knowledge expands.

Some of the more influential lessons we learned include:

Almost all companies either already have an affiliate program or are willing to work with an affiliate.
Be particular when choosing which affiliates to work with. Work only with brands you have used and fully support.
How to find the best affiliate programs in terms of biggest commissions available to us.

We have also found the Facebook group to be incredibly beneficial. Through the Facebook group we have found companies with great affiliates, supported other bloggers by participating in guest posts and even grown our blogging network exponentially.

Final Thoughts

If you are a blogger and looking to make money from your online hustle, you need to be doing some sort of affiliate marketing. If you aren’t then you are leaving money on the table. Whether you already know a bit about affiliate marketing but aren’t making the income you would like OR even if you know nothing at all (like we did!) then this course could really help you!

If you have more specific questions about the course or affiliate marketing in general, please let us know in the comment section. 🙂

Go check out Michelle’s Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing course and amp up your affiliate marketing game TODAY!

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