What’s the easiest way to make money online, without having to create a product or a sales page? Affiliate marketing, of course. 🙂

So, why is it that most affiliate marketers never make nearly what they could make? Anyone has the potential to make HUGE money in affiliate marketing, yet 90% or more of affiliates make a pittance (I’ll wager the number is closer to 98%, in fact.)

Think about this: If you earn an average of $50 on each sale in a sales funnel you promote, and you make 6 sales, you’ve made $300. Sounds good, right?

But guaranteed, there is someone else who made 600 sales and walked away with $30,000.

Why did they make 600 sales when you made just 6?

There are reasons why a handful of affiliate marketers do amazingly well, and everyone else barely makes a profit.

And marketers who understand this will always have a tremendous advantage over marketers who don’t.

1: Build a Relationship

I know you’ve heard it before, but are you doing it? People buy people, not products.

If you want them to open your email and click your link, or visit your Facebook Group and click a link, you’ve got to have a RELATIONSHIP with your people.

This is so simple to do, yet few marketers take the time.

Start with a blog post that is all about you, and then send new opt-ins to the post so they can get to know you. Make the post silly, funny and most of all REAL. Talk about the stupid stuff you’ve done, the mistakes you’ve made, where you live and so forth.

Do you have a strange hobby or unusual taste in food? Include that. Do you have 17 pets? Talk about them. Do you work until 3 in the morning and sleep until noon? Mention that.

Reveal the real you. Not the details people don’t want, but the ones that amuse and interest. You’re looking to make a real connection, not give a resume.

And above all else, don’t make your life seem like a series of magnificent accomplishments. No one is going to relate to someone who turns everything they touch into gold.

But they are going to relate to the time you bought Bitcoin when it was worthless and sold it just before it took off, or the time you thought you could fly and jumped off your uncle’s barn into the manure pile.

And don’t stop with your ‘about me’ page, either. Use this relationship building in your lead magnet, your emails, your other blog posts and so forth.

Always inject a little bit about yourself. Not so much that you bore people, of course, or make everything seem about you. But just enough to keep it real.

Think about relating an event to a friend. Aren’t you going to give your own perceptions of what happened, as well as tell about how you got out of your car and stepped in the mud puddle just before your big presentation?

Use this same method of personal, one-on-one friend communication with your readers as well.

Post on your blog as often as possible, and we’re talking every day or two. Encourage your list to subscribe to Feedburner or the equivalent so they know when you add a new post.

Your readers will realize you’re a real person who isn’t out to pitch them a new product every 5 minutes. And they’ll gladly read your sales emails much more readily when they know there is a real live human being who is sending them these messages.

2: Use Your Own Voice

How many emails do you receive that say something along the lines of, “Buy this product – this product is the greatest product ever – you will be sorry if you miss this – so rush right over and buy it now.”

Yeah. Same old stuff, over and over again.

There is a marketer (or maybe several, but I’m thinking of one in particular) who sells MASSIVE quantities of this exact type of emails as a swipe file to new marketers.

Like a brand-new marketer couldn’t write their own 25 word email that basically says, “GO BUY THIS NOW!”

People are TIRED of getting these emails. You’re tired of getting these emails. I’m tired of getting these emails.

Same phrases, same message, same B.S.

If you’re not going to stand apart from the crowd, then you’re going to have to share the same crumbs they’re getting.

Instead, take 30 minutes and write your own promotional email in your own voice.

Forget hype. Be sincere. Be honest. “Hey, this product isn’t for everyone. I don’t even know if it’s for you. But if you have this problem, then maybe this is your solution. Check it out and decide if it’s right for you, because I know it’s worked like crazy for some people. And it’s on sale right now, too.”

I’ve written emails where I basically tell people not to buy something unless they really really want it or need it. “Don’t buy this if you already know how to do xyz.” “Don’t buy this if you’re not going to be doing this type of marketing.” This is only for people who want (fill in the blank.) It’s like I’m trying to talk them out of it, which paradoxically often results in more sales, not fewer.

But the point isn’t tricking them into buying; it’s to be honest. Because you know what? That latest, greatest product you’re promoting ISN’T what everyone on your list needs. Some of them, sure. The rest of them, no.

Do you have any idea how refreshing it is to open an email that says, “Here’s a new product, thought you might want to know, but please don’t buy it if you’re not going to use it.”

The first time I got an email like that, I bought the product without even reading the sales letter. True story. I was just so happy that someone wasn’t ramming a sale down my throat, that I jumped at the chance to buy it.

Weird but true.

My point is, be you. Be honest. Talk to your readers as though they are your best friends and you don’t want to lose your best friends by acting like a carnival barker who is here today and pulled up stakes (vanished) tomorrow with their money.

3: Email a LOT

This is the one where people like to argue with me, and I understand that.

You’ve heard over and over again that you shouldn’t email too often, or you’ll upset your subscribers, right?

After all, every time you email, there is the potential that a subscriber will hit the unsubscribe button.

Do you know what the potential is when you DON’T email? Nothing. No opens, no clicks, no sales… not even any relationship building.

Do you want people to open and read your emails? Then send out those emails EVERY DAY.

Here’s why:

First, almost no one will see every email you send out. Let’s say you’ve got a sale on one of your products. Don’t you think your readers might like to know about it? But if they miss the one and only email you send that lets them know, then they’ve missed out on the discount and you LOST a sale.

Second, send emails at different times. I opened someone’s email just yesterday, decided I was VERY interested in the new membership he was selling, clicked the link and discovered it was no longer available.

What happened? This particular marketer only sends out emails at 1:00 a.m. my time, so I don’t even see most of his emails in the avalanche of mail I get before I wake up.

Third, if you’re sending email once a week or once a month, your readers are forgetting who the heck you are. And when you finally do send an email, they think it’s spam.

Fourth, if you mail more often, you will make more money. Don’t take my word on this, just do it for one month. Send out one email per day, every day, for 30 days. Put a promotion in each one. See if you haven’t made more – a LOT more – money during that time period than during the previous month.

And by the way, I’m not saying JUST send out a promotion in each email. Make sure you have some content in there as well, even if it’s just an amusing anecdote.

4: Think of affiliate marketing as a BUSINESS

This isn’t a hobby, nor is it an add-on for an additional income stream.

Even if you go on vacation, be prepared to send out an email every day. Schedule them in advance or write them on vacation. Either way, affiliate marketing to your list is a business that you can’t just jump into when you need cash and forget about the rest of the time.

You don’t have many support issues, since the product owners handle this. You don’t have to worry about creating products, sales pages and so forth. You don’t have to drive traffic, unless it’s to build your list bigger.

With so much you don’t have to do, there’s no reason not to focus your time and energy into building relationships with your list and promoting to them every single day.

Affiliate marketing can be some of the easiest money you’ve ever made, if you put in the time and effort to make it a real business.

Have you found yourself so BUSY in your business but NOT making any money?

I was looking at my calendar today and thought “Geez Louise I’m busy!”  Zoom call after zoom call, emails and texts and before I know it, its 5:00 and I’ve accomplished nothing I had wanted!

Sound familar?

Looking and feeling busy can be ca common pitfall to entrepreneurship for a home based business.

No structure and co-workers sounds like a dream come true for many…and it is if you take the right approach.

You’ll hear me say there are a 1000 ways to solve any problem and finding the right one for you will take patience and practice!

I know waking up and journaling and praying is great but its not sustainable for me.  I live and work in our RV so we can travel the United States.  That means … I don’t have a lot of “private” space.

I’m realistic about what I can do.  The first 15 minutes of my day I walk the dog and just spend a few minutes stretching as I get some sun on my face.  (There is a belief the sooner you get sun in our eyes the happier and more energized you are. )

I walk or run first thing in the morning usually before I have coffee.

I eat a great breakfast high in protein before I sit down at my desk and open my email and/or start working.

I started saying no to calls or group zooms that don’t directly affect my business.  Almost all of the calls are recorded and I can watch the replay and play back quicker if I need to.  I almost never NEED to!

I have a non-negotiable list of things that have to be achieved daily.

• Email
• 1 hour of learning and taking action if I am in the middle of implementing a new strategy.
• 1 Marketing — can be a combination of what I am doing.  My daily goal is to share my “offer” to at least 100 people 5 days a week.

I set weekly intentions — they are things I would like to achieve that I have no control over but when taking the right actions daily it will help me achieve the weekly intentions.

When I find myself “busy” I ask “Is what I am doing right now helping me get closer to my intentions for the week?”  If I answer no then I stop doing it or I don’t do it at all.

Of course there are more tasks I complete daily/weekly.  I set a timer and work in time chunks.   I get more done in a few hours than what used to take me days or weeks to do without time chunking.

This helps me stay focused and clear on my tasks resulting in more efficiency overall!  If/when I finish before the timer goes off, I get to cross something off my list, stretch and take a break.

It is said that when you stop and start any task it takes over 26 minutes to get back to where you left off.

These are just a few of the tactics that have worked for me. Let me know what you think by commenting below.

Getting eyeballs on your offer!

We all know the key to success is getting people to actually look at it. You have to invite a lot of people to actually get one conversation.  What do you do if you’re an introvert, don’t have a lot of followers or friends and just don’t like prospecting?

This is something I’ve been trying to answer for years.

• I love entrepreneurship!
• I love deciding when and where I get to work.
• I love helping others!

AND

• I hate selling!
• I hate convincing others what I have is good!
• I hate failure!

But growing a business to have time and financial freedom requires selling even when you don’t think you’re selling.  AND getting new eyeballs on you and. your business.  It takes time and effort …aka as marketing!

As a new entrepreneur or solopreneur you just may not have a lot of time OR money to market and run your business.  Its been an age old problem for years.

Spend time… doing it on a shoestring budget and work a TON of hours!

OR

Spend money (you don’t have YET) to grow FAST!

Doing great work and expecting to grow by referral or word of month is NOT a sound marketing plan!  Trust me I tried it! 

In fact even when I did start getting referrals and my business was growing I realized that to scale I had to change something because as a service based company there were only so many hours in a day!  I found my self sitting in front of my computer for 8+ hours a day and always thinking about what I had to do next.

My dream of time and money freedom as an entrepreneur wasn’t exactly the life I was living!

I’ve been searching for ways to scale back, work less, give value, and make money!

I needed to figure out,”How can I help more people l ike me enjoy our business and get eyeballs on our offer (what ever it is) without slaving away hour after hour on social media?

While there may be a 1000 ways to achieve this many how based businesses want it to happen fast.

In my experience the questions you should be asking yourself is:

• What are my skills?
• How much time do I have a day to do this?
• How much money do you want to make?
• How much money can you invest?

If you want to earn while you learn YOU CAN build a business!

If you can commit to spending 1 hour day for the next 30 days YOU CAN build a business!

If you desire to make any amount from $100 extra a month to a full-time income YOU CAN build a business!

If you have NO money to build a business, it will take you longer but YOU CAN build a business you will need just a small amount to get started (less than $50).

If you have a small budget YOU CAN build a business!

If you have a larger budget YOU CAN build a business FASTER!

The key is finding the blueprint that helps you learn the skills you need, get eyeballs on your offer (even if its NOT your product).

I’ve tried A FEW! Some are good and MANY are bad!  I have learned a ton of skills — not all are necessary but I love learning.  Unfortunately learning is not earning!  Many of the courses I spent thousands on never had a clear path to taking action and creating a true path to a successful long-term business.

If you’re ready to solve the problem, get eyeballs on your offer and start earning.  Invest your time in a program you can check out before you open your wallet.

Have realistic expectations.

Look for a leader that is clear to you what you will learn, what you NEED to implement, what you can skip until you have the funds and STILL show you everything you need to get started. It is a tall order!

No matter what you do – you should expect to pay for:

• A domain name – less than 30 a year!
• An Autoresponder! – about $30 a month

There are so many cool tools you will see that are fun!  Many are not needed – at least at first. Just start by building a solid foundation before you start worrying about ALL the things.  There are soooo many?  And if you think you have to get the latest and greatest AI Thing-A-Majig, wait a day or two.  These are distractions to growing your business.

Not sure its something you need — send me a message and I will give you my honest opinion.  I’ve been caught up in FOMO lots of times too!  99% of the time its just another “thing” I’ve paid for that I never use.  Save your money!  Put it towards something that will actually help you get eyeballs and customers so you can make more money!

To learn more about the whole process and have an expert guide you along the way check out the Plug-In Profit System with Stone Evans — its advertised on this page.  It won’t cost you a dime to go through the training (you will need a domain but don’t worry he will walk you through the entire process).

I spend well under $100 to run a real online business with ALL the tools necessary.  (Advertising and marketing not included – personally I use a combination of paid and free and spend time daily doing it witout posting on social media!)

It’s the only SYSTEM I have found with real people helping you every single step of the way.  Any questions…just comment below or send an email to support@heathershub.com

I hope you found this article helpful!  Please comment below and let me know your thoughts.  My strongest desire is to help more people achieve success in their home business even after years of trying!  I want you to spend less, make more and have fun every day!

Hi, it’s Heather and this is my new website. Stay tuned… I’ll have great things to share!

For starters, here’s an article I think you’ll enjoy…

It’s called: “Make the Leap to Home Business Success”

If you are going to build a successful home business, you need 3 “intangibles.” These are things that must come from WITHIN you.

===> Intangible 1 <===

First, you must have a strong WHY.

Why must you make a home business work? What’s driving you? What is it that you CAN’T have in your life anymore and/or what is it that you absolutely MUST HAVE now?

For me, I couldn’t stand working 12+ hours a day anymore and missing the experience of my children growing up. I also absolutely HAD TO HAVE the freedom of being able to control my life and finances through a little box that I could carry with me anywhere in the world and not be tied to anyone’s time pressures or demands but my own. That was my carrot and my stick. I felt a great pain deep in my gut of missing out on my children’s lives and the incredible freedom that succeeding in this business would provide for me. I found my why. You MUST find yours.

===> Intangible 2 <===

You must BELIEVE that it is possible.

If you don’t believe that it’s POSSIBLE for you to succeed in a home business or make your living on the Internet, you won’t. It’s that simple.

For me, figuring out that it was possible was just a matter of realizing that many other people were ALREADY making great money with a home business online. If they could do it, I could too. It would just be a matter of figuring out what those people were doing and then adapting it to my situation.

There is no shortage of undeniable PROOF that people (millions of them) are making money online in many different ways. Just get online and do some research and you’ll find countless testimonials and stories of REAL PEOPLE making real money on the Internet. Or head to your local bookstore and you’ll find the same documented evidence of this fact. Truth is, it’s getting easier and easier to start and succeed in a home based business. This is primarily because of the Internet and affiliate marketing.

I’ve always said that “affiliate marketing” is the job of the future. In the “old” days, you had to go to a potential employer, apply for the position and hope for the best. Now you can simply go to any company you want, fill out their affiliate application and start work immediately. Affiliates are the new working class. Believe me, making money with affiliate programs or making your living on the Internet is WAY MORE than possible. It is pretty much (or will be soon enough) unavoidable now. Affiliate marketing is the “job” of the future that’s here TODAY.

===> Intangible 3 <===

You must be willing to MAKE THE LEAP.

Ready, FIRE, then aim… This is the operating philosophy you MUST adopt to succeed with an Internet home business.

That’s backwards for most people who like to aim before they fire. The fact is the Internet is a moving target… The only thing constant about it is change. You need to stop analyzing the game and simply jump into it. You can’t learn from the outside… You have to be IN THE RING to truly understand it.

The lesson here is that you will never really be READY to start a home based business. You simply have to start one. This is what I call “Making the Leap.”

The good news is that the cost of failure on the Internet is very small. In the “brick and mortar” world you need to evaluate things very carefully before you decide to open up a business. It’s almost always necessary to invest thousands of dollars to get an offline business off the ground. However, on the Internet you can often start a successful business for less than $100. In fact, Plug-In Profit Site is a really good example of this.

You simply need get IN THE GAME… Each moment that you stay “out there,” you’re wasting valuable time that you could be learning and skills necessary to become a successful affiliate marketer. In fact, if you’re not in the game yet, you’re ALREADY behind the times. Come on… You can do it! Make the leap to becoming a successful home based business owner today!

About the author: Stone Evans was a washed up restaurant worker desperately searching for a way to save his family when he discovered the internet and affiliate marketing… 24 months later he finally cracked the code and started earning over $10,000 per month. Now the same system that saved him is available to you here >>