{"id":4420,"date":"2019-11-07T14:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:03:15","slug":"affiliate-marketing-as-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/affiliate-marketing-as-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Affiliate Marketing As A Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I had a crazy idea while I was sitting down having my morning cup of coffee and I want to do a training article for you. I want to do an article because I want to walk you through the business of affiliate marketing with the sole purpose of getting you to look at affiliate marketing <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4423 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/austin-distel-Imc-IoZDMXc-unsplash.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/austin-distel-Imc-IoZDMXc-unsplash.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/austin-distel-Imc-IoZDMXc-unsplash.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/austin-distel-Imc-IoZDMXc-unsplash.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/austin-distel-Imc-IoZDMXc-unsplash.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/austin-distel-Imc-IoZDMXc-unsplash.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>as something a little bit different then you might have been taught about affiliate marketing before.<\/p>\n<p>I know there&#8217;s a lot of people out there that think affiliate marketing is just something that you do, like it&#8217;s just a really great way to get started in this space without really ever mapping out the long term sustainability of their affiliate marketing business.<\/p>\n<p>So a lot of times they&#8217;ll get caught up in promoting one-off products and services from Click bank or from JV Zoo or from Warrior Plus or maybe they become an affiliate of a friend&#8217;s course or friend&#8217;s product or maybe they jump inside of an affiliate marketing system, where they&#8217;re promoting the products of that system or maybe they are promoting a friends product.<\/p>\n<p>But they have a very much so like a one-off mindset when it comes to affiliate marketing.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to think differently about it when I&#8217;m done with this training article. I don&#8217;t want you to think about it as something that they&#8217;re merely doing or a product or a service that you&#8217;re just simply trying to sell. I don&#8217;t want you to think about affiliate marketing in the short term, in terms of just trying to make a quick buck.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I really want to help you with your mindset and understanding that you can actually use affiliate marketing as a great low-cost way to get started in a business for yourself that you can leverage other people&#8217;s products, other people&#8217;s services, other people&#8217;s opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>But that you can build it out in such a way where you are in fact building out a business that is not about just a one-off product or a one-off service or one-off sale, but you&#8217;re thinking a lot bigger and you&#8217;re thinking for the long-term.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, you&#8217;re building out a system that&#8217;s conducive to that.<\/p>\n<p>So I actually made this discovery because I&#8217;ve been in business for over 9 years. I personally have marketed all kinds of products and services and opportunities and I&#8217;ve made a lot of money promoting other people&#8217;s stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, that&#8217;s what affiliate marketing is, is when you decide to affiliate yourself with another company or another person&#8217;s products, services or opportunities, and when you decide to affiliate yourself with them and you make a sale that you earn a percentage of the commission, right. You earn a percentage of the sales which equals your commissions.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side of things, you can also create your own products and services of which case allows you to earn a lot more money because you&#8217;re technically earning pretty much 100% of the proceeds. It allows you to be able to do a lot more things inside of your business, right, and I&#8217;ve been able to make money from all of those things.<\/p>\n<p>But when I got started in affiliate marketing is really how I got started and I got really, really, good at promoting other people&#8217;s products and services. But what I didn&#8217;t realize is that the entire time, I&#8217;ve always built my own systems, and I&#8217;ve always built my own infant structures, and I always had a process about how I built my business so that it truly was never ever about a one-off product service or opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>That truly on the back end I was building something that was more sustainable and something that was for the long-term. Even though no one truly breaks this down for me, it was just something that I just inherently did. What I realized over time is that more people need to be taught this.<\/p>\n<p>If your new to marketing or an experienced marketer you can get started with this Automated Sales &amp; Success System which has everything we talked about built into it in a done for your affiliate marketing system, you can check it out here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/automatedsalesprogram.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/automatedsalesprogram.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a guest post from Shane Purcell, if you would like to be considered for a guest post please contact me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I had a crazy idea while I was sitting down having my morning cup of coffee and I want to do a training article for you. 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