Darren and Andy’s take-home study course on how to become a six figure blogger (about $10,000 per month should do hey?) just launched, and the special five day discount period that I previewed will end this Friday USA time.
If you plan on blogging your way to online profits then there is no other course you need and no other course on offer that will teach what this course teaches. To be honest though the main reason I recommend this course is because I know Darren Rowse (ProBlogger) and I know how much money he makes from blogging. He’s definitely living the dream and the most qualified to teach how you can join him as a six figure blogger, although he’s closer to seven figures now.
Affiliate Program
I’ve made over $100 (***Update*** Make that $400) in referral income from selling the Six Figure Blogging course. I don’t have to ship any products, offer any downloads, provide any customer support at all – just send traffic to the course website and get paid a referral commission for my troubles. I think the product is great, so I don’t feel like I am cheating anyone, in fact it’s win-win-win. I earn some income that indirectly is a result of my efforts blogging and building an audience over time, the people that offer the product get paying customers and the customer gains access to a great product that will probably lead them to make money online too.
The most successful online marketers make use of affiliates extensively, but I’ll leave that topic for another day. For now I recommend you join up to sell Andy and Darren’s Six Figure Blogging course to your audience, especially while the discount period is still on (you have about 3 days left at the time I write this). If you have a popular blog or website, especially one focused on blogging or online business and you feel it would be appropriate to advertise this course then the affiliate program is for you.
How To Sign-Up As An Affiliate
The sign up to become an affiliate is at the bottom of the six figure blogging page – click the link that says “Affiliates”.
Note that this is Andy Wibbels affiliate program so it gives you the ability to sell not just the Six Figure Blogging course but also the other courses and products Andy sells.
How Much Will You Earn?
Andy and Darren offer affiliates 50% of the total fee, so during the discount period while the course is $245USD each sale you make earns you just under $125. Not bad for simply typing a blog post with some links. There is a lot more to affiliate selling than just putting up links of course, your ability to presell and the amount and quality of the traffic you already have will greatly impact your results, but there is no harm in trying.
If you are new to the affiliate selling game this is a great product to start with if you run a blog. Join the affiliate program, do a blog post about it linking to it with your unique affiliate URL and you never know, you might make some referral money. If nothing else you will get a feel for affiliate systems. For those seasoned affiliate marketers you will already know the best way to sell to your audience and given this product has a high commission and solid credibility I suspect it will appeal to you.
I agree with you Yaro – Afiliate programs are one of the best ways out there to earn some money for almost any work. But as you said before; you need to promote it, convince people (or explain in a clear way to them) of the benefits joining a service/community or buying a product and that takes time. It’s worth it anyway.
Is just that when you have the affiliate link laying there, and you did everything you can to communicate the benefits, there is always a guy that just posted one link on his site and earn it twenty times more than you do! and that guy always say: “that was great, I just posted a link at the bottom of my site and now I have 240 sales confirmed. I’m getting rich!”
That kind of stuff makes me crazy!!! (AHHH!) but I think the secret is having a good quality of content so people trust you on your advices. And of course, being real on what you say; being honest on what you think and advice. People knows when anyone is cheating
Great post Yaro, I already make a good use of your last post (my titles looks better! let’s see how GOOG index my blog) and I’m ready to explore this one!
Thanks!
Ahhh Yaro – about time you got onto the affiliate gravy train!
Affiliate income so far is definitely better than AdSense for this blog. That makes sense of course if you read the horrible ads that AdSense spits out – one get rich quick scheme after another.
It’s about time this blog started paying for itself – 2000 downloads per podcast is starting to get costly!
Hi Yaro,
I agree with you regarding the comparison between affiliate income vs. PPC income on marketing blogs. It’s also my experience that affiliate income outperforms PPC ads on my blog. After all, look at who we are writing for. They are people who are interested in marketing online. They prefer to read good, honest, no-hype reviews about a product and wouldn’t mind buying through our affiliate links if they trust our reviews.
Hock
I bought it and am selling it on some of my websites. I was not able to do the original course due to time contraints, and am looking forward to getting into the home study version. Hopefully a few people will buy it too since money is a little too tight right now to really be able to justify it. Ha ha.
Hmm to be honest, I don’t know… It makes me turn away from this blog. I am really attracted to blogs where I know the content is getting there because the blogger really and truly thinks what he or she is saying and two that they are willing to say it regardless of the potential readership it may alienate.
The days of “adverblog” were quite predictable but it will be very sad as the blogosphere ends up being dominated by adverblogs whose content is influenced by the advertiser or influence by the need to ‘keep’ the advertiser (etc, etc as per Chomsky’s 6 filters for media content).
Take a moment to actually step back and look at what this post is saying: go to this course about making money and thereby help me make money and you *do* make money because other people are attracted to the idea of making money and so on… But somewhere along the line we forget the reason why we are blogging in the first place: not to make money (I hope!!) but to get as yet unheard opinions out there and to have an unparalleled access to readership without going through formal publication process (and many other non-commercial reasons).
I’m sure this attitude makes marketing a dead-end career choice for me, but hey just trying to keep it real for a second!
Lisa – I’ve felt similar feelings to what you are writing as well. In fact it’s what keeps me from slapping AdSense all over this blog, although I won’t rule that out altogether either.
Take a moment to actually step back and look at what this post is saying: go to this course about making money and thereby help me make money and you *do* make money because other people are attracted to the idea of making money and so on
Spot on. I would hope that the course will also help the student to make money. Much of my blog is about making money, it’s a business blog and pretty much every how-to article I write is designed to either directly or indirectly help people make money – by building a profitable online business.
For a lot of people *part* of the motivation behind blogging is to make money. It may not be the only reason but I doubt many in the business field would blog if it had no potential to help their bottom line in some way.
Being a business minded person much of my success is tied in with my ability to create a revenue generating enterprise, this blog is the same. That’s what business is about – and profit is the main evaluation tool (whether that’s a good thing is another question – but that’s the way society works at the moment).
I suspect you will find some blogs will become/are advertiser driven, some will be independent but aiming to make an income, and others will remain staunchly independent and all about creativity, not the profits. As a user you can decide which blogs you frequent and in the end that decision will be based on whatever motivates you. If you want to make money then you will probably enjoy posts like this. If you abhor the idea of capitalising from blogging then you might never come back to read this blog again.
Lisa – One more thing – I often face an inner battle regarding business and it’s relationship to money.
The question I pose to myself and to others that run a business is whether they would do so if there was no need for money. What’s the purpose of business if you don’t need to make a profit. How do you have motivation to create if there is no need to make money? Even a charity aims to make as large a profit as it can so it has more money to help people with.
Take a fictional society where money doesn’t exist and our basic needs are met. Innovations in health, technology, production etc are still sought after – we still have that desire to better ourselves – however we don’t need to make a profit in order to be successful. Do you think the motivation to create would still exist? Would we have built airplanes if the potential to profit from air travel wasn’t there ? Can Star Trek really happen!
As always I read the posts here and their comments with great interest. Sometimes I feel I have an unhealthy obsession with perfection and perhaps that gets in my way from achieving my objectives.
My young web project now has AdSense carefully ‘plastered’ across various popular pages and makes a few dollars here and there (and it is just a few $!). I’ve also tried an affiliate program with a national florist and have had very few clicks and zero financial results from that.
I’ve dedicated a tab for another affiliate program that sells hotel rooms around the country (Thailand). This would generate a bit of commission for me once bookings were confirmed. Again, zero results and we’re 2 months down the line.
So there we have it, a bunch of pages with Google AdSense, 2 affiliate programs, around 10,000 unique and targeted visitors every month and yet diddlysquat for my efforts. Phew! It can be quite frustration sometimes but I’ll keep pressing on, listening and learning.
Hey, perhaps I’m barking up the wrong tree and what I thought was a great idea for a website at the time was in fact not so smart!
Love the success stories though so will keep coming back for inspiration.
Cheers everyone.
Aitch
Thanks so much for the write up, Yaro! I find recommendations from friends drive my business… cheers!
That’s a great article. Isn’t six figure supposed to be 100,000/month though?:P