ShareASale Tutorial: How I make $687.75 per day...

0:00 in this video I'm going to give you a complete tutorial on how to make money with share sale I'll show you how to get accepted to their program how to find the best affiliate products to promote and how to actually promote those products so you can make as much affiliate money as possible also give you an email script that I use to raise my affiliate commissions that convert 62 percent of the time if we haven't met before my name is Matt Diggity I've been an affiliate marketer since 2009 and I'm the founder of leadspring affiliate marketing Media Group as well as the affiliate lab an affiliate marketing training program with over 2000 members the share sales network has been a big part of my affiliate Journey I've consistently been making a few thousand per month with share sale for as long as I can remember in case I'm getting ahead of myself let's quickly break down what actually is affiliate marketing affiliate marketing is a make money online business model that allows you to

0:45 recommend products and services and get paid for it think of it as being a middleman or middle woman you're introducing your audience to products and services you like and when you do so you get a commission for it now there's many awesome things about the affiliate marketing business model the first is that you can make money online but with without having to create a product you don't have to design anything buy inventory or deal with customer complaints your job is just to recommend products and the thing is you're already good at that I'm sure you recommend stuff a billion times per day in your normal life yo if you watch the series on Netflix bro you gotta try the supplement dude have you not upgraded your office chair if you're doing this all day long why not get paid for it another benefit of affiliate marketing is passive income with affiliate all your recommendations are posted online and as you know the internet works 24 7.

1:30 so you're essentially making money when you sleep what are the different places you can recommend affiliate products first you have blogging you can start a blog or website where you recommend products and if you can get to the top of Google for a search like best gaming chair for back pain you're going to get tons of free search traffic this type of content is called a review Roundup where you're reviewing a bunch of gaming chairs and recommending the ones you like alternatively you could write a review for individual products and get traffic this way this is called a single product review the great thing about using a Blog is your promotion vehicle is you don't need to show your face you can be completely Anonymous another place you can recommend products would be social media if you have a following on YouTube for example you could recommend products here and make money other places that people do well on social media are Instagram Tick Tock and Pinterest the way you get credit for

2:15 recommending affiliate products is through what's called an affiliate link you get a special link from the brand you're partnering with that you place on your blog or social media whenever someone clicks that special link and buys something you get credit for the sale how much money you make depends on the commission rate some programs will only give you one percent of a sale so you can imagine you'd have to sell an ass ton of Gaming Chairs to make any significant money but other programs like share sale can offer you 50 or even higher so you can see that who you work with really matters here's an example of this in action if you were to Google best web hosting for SEO you'll find my website at the top of Google opening up this article you'll see that I've reviewed a bunch of Hosting services and I give my recommendations on which ones I like if you click this link here and sign up with wpx hosting I'll make a hundred dollar Commission on that tail websites that use this affiliate

3:01 marketing model can make a lot of money I left a link in the description to an affiliate case study for a diet blog that I sold for six hundred thousand dollars make sure to check it out after you finish here now where does share sale fit into this whole thing sure sale is a platform where affiliate marketers can find different products also known as offers to promote and the great thing is that it's 100 free to sign up once you're accepted which I'll show you how to do soon you can find thousands of offers in one place without having to dig around the internet now there's quite a few reasons why I love share sale first the commission rates it's not uncommon to see commission rates of 10 20 and even up to 75 percent on many of the programs found in share sale are these numbers good let's compare it to the commission rates you would find on Amazon Associates Amazon's affiliate program here's a screenshot of Amazon's latest commission rates as you can see

3:47 these commission rates are quite minimal especially compared to share sales for example if you sold a vacuum cleaner for a hundred dollars you'd only be making three dollars with that measly three percent commission rate you're not going to get rich on Amazon Associates unless you're selling a lot of products or a lot of expensive products with share sale you can make more money with less sales I also like share sale because it features a lot of the top brands brands that convert easy because of their reputations brands like Reebok freshbooks Etsy and butcherbox and also share sale pays on time and doesn't do any funny business when counting your commissions they're a big network with a rep that they need to maintain so you won't get around like some other affiliate programs might do with you one con that I don't love about share sale is that their dashboard kind of blows it's confusing AF so in this video I'll show you how to navigate it and use it

4:32 optimally but before we get started I'd like to ask if you can please optimize that like button you see below I don't know if you know this but smashing the like button now shoots out digital confetti it's fun to smash but at the same time helps my channel out a lot and lets a YouTube algorithm know that you like to see videos like this let's get started with a quick demo on how to sign up with share sale I left a link in the description that takes you to the sign up page using that particular link gets you a head start in the application process and it helps to support the channel on this first screen you put in the username and password you'd like to use they'll also ask what country you're from with the handy tool tip that'll help you figure out where that is ah boy on the next screen they'll ask you to put in your website URL ideally this is the website you're going to use for affiliate promotions if you don't have a website yet you can put in a social media profile a YouTube channel can be created in minutes fill out what

5:18 language your website is in then answer these questions below most likely you're going to select no for all of them but go ahead and read these just in case and click step 3 when you're done on the next screen is where you give them an email address here's a tip if you give them an email address that is connected to your domain then that significantly speeds up and probably improves your acceptance rate when you select that option they even tell you it's a quote unquote Fast Track application so it's clearly what they want to see on the next screen fill out your contact information you're most likely not an incentive website so select no if you're not and then verify that you're the owner of the domain and on the last page select how you want to get paid pay cash money now it's a waiting game for demo purposes I actually reapplied the share sale to see how long it would take I got my approval back in exactly 28 hours 15

6:03 minutes and 52 seconds note that when you're accepted to share sale you're automatically approved to many of the programs that are in their network but not all of them a lot of the good ones require an extra layer of application let's start to dig into that once you're accepted head on over to share sale then click the login button you're going to want to click affiliate login then on this next page type in your credentials here's what the dashboard homepage looks like up here in the top left you have an activity feed that will show you recent transactions and other important information in the upper right you have a snapshot of your current balance and alerts this top Merchant section gives you a summary on how much total money you made with each program and then down here this trending Merchant section gives you suggestions on programs that might be of interest to you let's start to look at how to find awesome products to promote on share sale click on this Merchant search go button right here or

6:50 for the navigation bar and you'll be taken to the merchant search page I'm going to show you two ways to find affiliate products that have to find most useful and efficient if you already know what category your audience is in you already have a blog or social media audience then just Browse by category here on the left hand side let's say you're in the automotive Niche once you click on this category here you'll be taken to this page chock full of offers related to cars they have radar detectors car parts car covers trailers batteries they have everything all these numbers here are super important and I'll get to them soon but let me explain the other way I recommend hunting for offers real quick let's say you don't know what Niche category you're going to operate in if you go back to the main Merchant search page and click on power rank you'll be taken to this page here this is an ordered list of share sales top 100 offers they're not ordered by category you're just looking at the best

7:36 of the best overall I want to take a deeper look at this offer here freshbooks this is a program that I'm promoting now and it's freaking awesome let's see the details by clicking on exactly this text right here if you click anywhere else you'll be taken to who knows where see what I mean about the dashboard let me explain what you're looking at here up here at the top they say you get 55 dollars per sale but there's a bit more to it let's click on this link here to see what their landing page looks like this is where you're going to send your traffic to when they click your affiliate link right away you already feel like this offer passes your test it doesn't look spammy it looks professional AF it looks like they're trying to get people to sign up for a free trial of their invoicing software that should be pretty easy to do now let's go back to the share sale Merchant detail page and scroll down so this is how the program works you'll actually earn up to ten dollars just to get someone to sign up for a free trial

8:23 then later if that free trial converts to a paying customer you get another 200 bucks that sounds tasty as hell now let me explain the important numbers here EPC is earnings per click actually it means earnings per 100 clicks in share sale terms so every time you get a click to this affiliate link you should make around 2.56 that's not bad at all the conversion rate is 6.04 percent which is pretty damn good and that's because it's a free trial free trials are awesome and one of the best things about this offer is the 120 day cookie when people click affiliate links a cookie ends up on their browser which stores the fact that someone use your affiliate link to get to that page what a 120 day cookie means is that this person could literally go away on a four month Safari come back buy fresh books and you'd still make money this is way better than Amazon's 24-hour cookie

9:09 so so now before you apply check out this commission rate tab here this gives you a breakdown on how exactly their commissions work you'll get paid more for different order values and sales from different countries but check this here at the bottom there's a section for your personalized commission rates always know that the rates you start off with are the bare minimum these commission rates are the rock bottom and they can and should be renegotiated I'll show you how to do that later click on join program here take the box here at the top and then briefly describe how you're going to promote them through a Blog social media paid advertising whatever now it's another waiting game until you get in you can head to the merchant status page from the nav bar to check on any pending applications now let's talk about how to promote your share sale offer once you're accepted to a program you'll see this get links

9:55 button here at the top of the offer page this is where you're going to get your custom affiliate links most of the time you only care about text links these are links that you can just copy and paste on your blog to start making money ignore Banner links these are for display ad networks not you you can use the custom link generator if you want to link to another page on the software's website just type in the URL here and they'll generate you an affiliate link to that page and lastly check out the deals and coupons to see if there's any special deals that might help your audience convert better in my experience buttons convert way better than straight up text links if you have a WordPress blog it's super easy to create a button with an image as you know my favorite way to get traffic to affiliate sites is through blogs and websites websites have the ability to get free traffic from Google and this process is called search engine optimization or SEO there's no better form of traffic than organic

10:41 Google traffic it's free and visitors convert easier because they're already searching for what you're offering if someone is searching for best invoice software and they see my review of freshbooks they're going to convert that said the topic of SEO is Way Beyond the scope of this video in the description I left a link to a video on how to rank content that ranks number one on Google so check it out after you finish this video now here's a pro tip once you start getting some affiliate sales as soon as you're making 100 per month reach out to your affiliate manager and start relationship you can typically find the email address of your affiliate manager in the merchant description or in your acceptance email here's why you want to reach out to them first you can ask for recommendations on which of their products convert the best next you can ask for custom coupon codes if your blog is called biohacker.com and you get a 15 biohacker coupon code this is going

11:28 to convert like crazy because your audience knows it's created just for them and lastly and most importantly you can negotiate commission rates as mentioned before the commission rates you start out with are Rock Bottom they're always up for negotiation when you reach out to your affiliate manager and ask for a raise you need to focus on one thing how can you make it about them if an affiliate manager is already paying you 10 commissions you need to give them a reason to increase their rates what's in it for them here's what you need to understand an affiliate manager's job is to make sure their product gets as much traffic as possible when someone Googles best fishing poles it's the affiliate manager's job to make sure their fishing pole is on each of these lists and as high up as possible so one strategy to get increased commissions is offered to write more content reviewing their product add their fishing pole to a best fishing

12:13 pole for a beginner's article for example another strategy would be to move them up your review list if you have them in a review of best fishing poles you could offer to remove their poll up your rankings that said here's my Approach here's the script I sent that has a 62 conversion rate on getting higher commissions there's a lot of psychology going on here so let me explain Hey Joe how are you do you have authority to increase commission rates this line here asked them if they have the ability to increase commission rates we already know they do they're the affiliate manager that's their job but this question is going to get a yes from them right out the gate the put your blog's name here team has been putting in major work squeezing your brand into our content at every opportunity we get we've identified more content opportunities but we're doing some Roi calculations before we jump into more your brand commitment what this line does is tells them that their growth may

12:59 slow down unless you get a higher commission rate and that growth may be applied to a competitor notice how I didn't offer to write more content or to move them up list if they counter and ask for these things we'll take a get from there now this script or any negotiation for that matter works better if you have a prior relationship so meet your affiliate manager as early as possible before you start negotiating check out my interview with an affiliate manager video to learn more Insider Secrets like this link in the description now finding a good product to promote on share sale takes a little bit of trial and error some products look great on share sale but they're not a perfect fit for your audience but when you find a product that hits you want to double down on it create as much content as you can find every angle and milk it for what it's worth and make sure to subscribe for more videos just like this one