{"id":6553,"date":"2023-04-25T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethmccravy.com\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2024-06-11T18:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:08:41","slug":"make-affiliate-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethmccravy.com\/make-affiliate-income\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top 3 Hacks for Making It EASY to Make Affiliate Income"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 7<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n\n\t

Affiliate income is an AMAZING way to earn extra money as a business owner. If you want to share things you love with people who may already be asking you about those things, affiliate income is for you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And here’s the thing: <\/i>for years now, my business has earned multiple five figures a year from affiliate income alone. I’ve even had years where it’s been over a hundred thousand dollars of revenue coming from affiliate income alone. I’m telling you that for two reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. What I’m doing to make affiliate income WORKS<\/li>\n
  2. If it looks like I’m not spending tons of time and energy working on making affiliate income, it’s because I’m not.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m not saying affiliate marketing is passive, but it is more<\/i> passive than other types of income we typically have as business owners.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t

    LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE NOW:<\/h1>\n\t

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    If you have been in business for a while, you likely have a few companies that you’ve become an affiliate of. It’s rare for a company not to have an affiliate program or some kind of referral program nowadays! But maybe you don’t find yourself making a lot of money from affiliates because your process looks like this:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    1. Someone sends you a DM or Email<\/li>\n
    2. You don’t remember that long random link you got when you signed up, so you need to find it by logging into that company’s affiliate program portal.<\/li>\n
    3. Finally, you send it to them. Likely only if you were sitting at your computer at the time you were asked!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      This might not seem like a huge problem, but these extra minutes matter. If you’re really wanting to start making affiliate income more often, you need these three hacks I’m about to share.<\/p>\n

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      What IS affiliate marketing?<\/h2>\n

      Quite simply, affiliate marketing is a “type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.”<\/p>\n

      I’m a member of so many affiliate programs. Some are like Showit<\/a>, where they give you a free month for every person you refer. And some are cash-based, where they direct deposit into your account (often through PayPal) whenever someone purchases through your link. When I say I’ve had years where I’ve made over six figures in affiliate income, I’m ONLY counting cash programs. But the free perks are nice too!<\/p>\n

      Did you know that I also have my own affiliate income program? Want to get started making affiliate income and love my website templates<\/a>? I would love to welcome you into my affiliate program here!<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

      Read More:<\/i> Passive Income Isn’t What You Think … BUT Scalable Income Is What You’re After<\/a><\/p>\n

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      Short Links for Your Affiliate Links = Easier to Make Affiliate Income<\/h2>\n

      You probably don’t know ANY of the affiliate links you promote by heart, right? You might save time to have a document where you keep all the links for easy access, but I have a hack that’s an even BETTER time saver. Use a link shortener.<\/b><\/p>\n

      While you could use something like Bit.ly<\/a>, I prefer to use my own domain and create re-directs with “Pretty Links<\/a>” (an awesome free WordPress plugin that works with Showit websites<\/a>!).<\/p>\n

      Here’s an example of what that looks like: https:\/\/elizabethmccravy.com\/thrivecart<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

      I also use a program called Reward Style\/LTK<\/a> to create affiliate links on Amazon<\/a> and other places like that. For an example of how I can kind of “cash in” on rewards twice, check out this affiliate link and watch it redirect twice: https:\/\/elizabethmccravy.com\/lovevery<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

      You’ll notice I always use the business name, and I keep it as short as possible. This helps my team share the affiliate links too!<\/p>\n

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      BONUS: If your affiliate link changes for any reason, you won’t have broken links!<\/h3>\n

      From time to time, a company may change its affiliate program, and the result might mean that you have a new affiliate link. You don’t need to worry, though. Because of this hack, you ONLY need to update your redirect link, and then everywhere you’ve shared your affiliate link will automatically be redirected to the right place. No more frantically going through each page on your website (and every old blog post!) to update links!<\/p>\n

      Read More: 5 Reasons Why Your Business Can’t Afford To Not Have A Website … Even If You’re Crushing It On Social Media Or 3rd Party Websites!<\/a><\/p>\n

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      Track Your Affiliate Links (I use ClickUp<\/a>!)<\/h2>\n

      Once you’re like me and you start being an affiliate for a TON of companies, it can become a lot to keep up with (especially when you promote some more than others).\u00a0<\/p>\n

      For me, It’s easy to remember companies like FloDesk<\/a>, Showit<\/a>, and Dubsado<\/a> because I talk about them a ton (and make more significant money off of them). But, I also don’t want to forget that I’m also an affiliate for some real estate softwares, motherhood things like Lovevery<\/a>, other friend’s courses, and more.<\/p>\n

      As I grow my team and have other people writing blog posts for me and things, I want to make sure I’m making it easy for them too!<\/p>\n

      You’ll also want to keep track of the commission information and discount codes so you can keep it all straight!<\/i><\/p>\n

      For example, you want to remember that if you promote X product, you get a 10% commission, and they get a 20% discount or a free week or WHATEVER it is. Prior to ClickUp<\/a>, I had all of this information in a Google Doc, and that worked well too. So, if that’s what makes sense for you now, do that!!\u00a0<\/p>\n

      I just checked, and right now, we have 34 companies that I’m an affiliate of listed in our ClickUp (and that’s not even all of them). You’ll eventually NEED something to stay organized, whether you like Clickup<\/a>, a Google Doc, Notion<\/a>, Basecamp<\/a> or something else!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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      Quick Aside: You’ll make more affiliate income when you have a great website.<\/h3>\n

      Not only are you more likely to get approved by affiliate companies that have stricter programs when you have a website, but you’ll also be set up to make more affiliate income when you can blog and create landing pages for the companies that you partner with. My full website templates<\/a> all come equipped with an amazing blog design that is set up to support you whether you’re like writing your first three blog posts ever or you’re transferring over 200+ blog posts to your new Showit website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

      As a blogger and podcaster myself, I put so much strategy into thinking through the blog templates.<\/b> I make sure I’m creating thoughtfully designed sidebars to maximize space so that readers can know whether or not they want to click into a post to read it, and make sure that each layout has clear search functionality so that people can find what they need within your content. I also always design thoughtful 404 pages for when you have a broken link.\u00a0<\/p>\n

      If that sounds like what you need right now, <\/b>use the code BBPODCAST for 10% off ANY template from my shop<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

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      How I Organize Affiliate Income Links on ClickUp<\/a><\/h3>\n

      Love a peek behind the scenes? And by the way, if you use my ClickUp affiliate link, you get<\/p>\n

      First, I have each affiliate link sorted by these categories:\u00a0<\/p>\n