Dave Nick has a popular YouTube channel where he shares lots of lazy, copy-and-paste ways to make money online.
For example, affiliate marketing. You can go to sites like Digistore24 or ClickBank to find good offers to promote.
Digistore24 has one called The Essential Keto Cookbook. It’s an actual physical book.
A “free plus shipping” offer. Meaning, the customer just pays for shipping and the book is technically free.
As an affiliate, you’d make about $5 for anyone who orders it, plus 60% commissions on any digital upsells they buy.
See for yourself, Dave says. Head over to Digistore, sign up for free, and begin browsing through the niches on the lefthand side of the screen.
- Fitness and health
- Business
- Dating
- Animals and pets
- Whatever floats your boat
Below each product you can promote as an affiliate, you’ll see all kinds of useful data.
- Average conversion rate
- Commission rate
- How much you’ll pocket per sale
- Stuff like that
Once you find something you like, you’ll see the affiliate link for it on the right, under “Your promolink.”
You can copy it with one click of your mouse and start sharing it online.
Okay, but what’s the strategy, right?
Well first, Dave suggests going to YouTube and finding tutorials that are related to the offer you wanna promote.
If you’re more ambitious, you could always start your own channel and make the tutorials yourself, but for the lazy, don’t worry, you don’t have to.
So for the keto book, you might pick a popular video that explains the keto diet, right?
Click share, and copy the URL.
Next, head over to Systeme.io and sign up for their free all-in-one marketing platform, says Dave.
Log in, create a custom “squeeze page.”
Slap on an appropriate headline. Embed the YouTube video. Then put a button below it with your affiliate link.
When people come to the page and click it, they’ll be taken to the product’s sales page.
If they buy, of course, you’ll get a commission.
Check out Dave’s down and dirty Systeme.io tutorials on YouTube if you need help designing this landing page.
Obviously, none of this matters if you can’t drive traffic to your landing page. Right?
So what’s Dave’s strategy here?
He likes Google ads.
Again, sign up, put a credit card on file, then launch a new “Website traffic” campaign.
Select “Search” for the campaign type. Paste in your landing page URL, which is gonna act like a bridge to the affiliate offer you’re promoting.
Do not use your affiliate link here. Google doesn’t like it, and so it could get your ad account banned.
But finish up the ad, enter in a headline, some body copy, extensions, keywords, the whole deal.
Then, when someone goes to Google and searches for, let’s say, “what is keto,” boom, your ad pops up.
It works because it’s so targeted.
You’re only showing your ad to people who are actively searching for information on the product you’re trying to sell.
Also, you’re leading with value, right? Instead of going straight for the sale, you’re taking them to a landing page with a helpful video on it.
Another traffic source Dave likes is Quora. Here, you wouldn’t even have to run ads, if you wanted to just manually reply to people’s questions about keto or whatever.
Okay, so, overall? Not bad.
Could I see this working? Sure.
But I could also see you spending $500 on Google ads, only to make like $100 back.
In my experience, it’s very tough to get a positive ROI if you’re promoting low-ticket products as an affiliate.
Just keep that in mind.
If you’re willing to work a bit harder, you can stick to organic traffic strategies (like answering Quora questions or posting in free Facebook groups or blogging) and that way, there’s no risk.
Don’t be spammy though.