11 Things to Do BEFORE You Start Affiliate Marketing

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all right so here are the 11 things to do before you start your affiliate marketing business my name is Dan Brock the deadbeat super affiliate and if you’re trying to build a passive income online business from the comfort of your living room sofa this is the channel for you so make sure you hit that subscribe button and then tick that Bell icon so that you’re notified of any videos that I release when I release them alright so there are certain tasks that you have to do before you start any business and these are also the ongoing things that you must do if you want to be successful already so with that said let’s get jumping into one of my official whiteboard videos and I will show you exactly what you know about affiliate marketing here we go our right debute so we are back in action for yet another super official whiteboard video so today we’re talking about 11 things to do before you start affiliate marketing number one this is what I think Trump’s all if you don’t get this right you might as well forget about making money online or starting any business in general and that is as a beginner you’re going to want to adopt the 50/50 learn to action taking ratio mindset so let’s go to school the school days when you go to high school college they make you stockpile years and years of information before you put it into action this is not how entrepreneurship works you first want to start out learning a tactic and then putting that tactic into action by taking action so it’s more of like a hands-on learning type of thing you learn more in the trenches now it helps to learn stuff before you do it because it puts you in the right direction so even today I’m still learning stuff every day I invest personally about three to four thousand dollars a month in my business education and marketing education online marketing education but up right now my ratio to learn to action is about 37 t so you adopt this 30% learning 70% action once the money starts rolling in this way you don’t go obsolete and you’re taking enough action to make a lot of money alright so that’s when you get more experience alright overall we’re ongoing with this is you never want to stop learning alright number two is you have to understand how willpower works alright so basically willpower is something that becomes that gets depleted the more you use it and the how this relates to you is that you basically have enough willpower to change one habit or make a change in your life kind of one thing at a time so if you’re for example drinking every day and you’re smoking cigarettes every day you’re not going to be able to do both at the same time so typically what happens is even with just one change if you stop smoking you typically will start drinking more so you have to be very careful and only attack one thing at a time and then once you use that willpower to change your habit it stops being willpower after a certain amount of time and just becomes habit so we’re in burn with us is you can only change one bad thing at a time so even doing something new like starting your own affiliate marketing business that is changing that counts is changing one habit so just keep that in mind your willpower will run out so you have to learn how to manage that and maintain it number three is to get your life in order this is so freaking important so when I would say get your life in order your life in order I mean think most importantly money so savings you need to save up some money before you start your own business get your personal expenses under control and the reason why is because this is going to give you the emotional control that you need if you want to be successful with starting your own business reason why is because starting your own business is an emotional roller coaster and if you don’t have your financial stuff in order you’re going to be extra fearful and you won’t be able to make it through the initial phase you cannot be an entrepreneur if you’re emotional I get messages all the time I can just tell by the way they’re typing people are literally freaking out over the smallest things they’re like oh my god the WordPress icon is different what do I do oh you got it you have to you have to if you’re if you’re just tied to freak out over some small thing like that you’re not in the right state of mind right now to start your own business now I’m not judging anyone I’ve been there I’ve done that I know how it can be everything I’m talking about in this video I’ve learned from personal experience so number four just goes with the willpower thing you literally have to be ruthless as far as cutting out back cut other cut out bad habits are concerned cut out Bad’s wooh that cut it cut it bad bad habits all right so cut out bad habits very very important reason why is it ties into this willpower thing if you if you’re spending too much of your energy on bad habits you’re not gonna be able to develop the good habits that you need to become a successful entrepreneur and we’ll talk more about this right now see entrepreneurship is more of a lifestyle thing it’s not just something that you do for like six months and a whole sudden you have this great business now granted that I’ve seen many stories of that happening but becoming a successful long term entrepreneur means you have to have nothing but good habits even one bad habit can be enough to really drag or drag you down and help and make you lose or cause you to lose that competitive edge alright number five I think this is really important this is one thing I really did bad early on and that is just start eval eval you waiting I swear I can read in books people close to you so I this is the one thing I really messed up when I was a lot younger I just thought everyone was good you know people were looking out for my best interest or at least they were wouldn’t go out to mess me up here’s the deal people this is what I’ve learnt people that party a lot people people that are regular drinkers and smokers they do drugs anything like that drug smoking here’s what this is telling you they don’t even respect themselves enough to look after their own body and their own well-being so how can you expect them to look out for you so people that are into degrading themselves with drinking drugs smoking they are not in a good mindset you want to avoid these people as much as you can I’m not judging anyone here like I’ve been there I’ve done the drinking I’ve done the the pots I’ve done I mean I never smoked cigarettes but I’ve done that stuff in the past and let me tell you why not was doing those things I was not the the most perfect person in the world so if someone’s doing that they’re telling you that not only they can they not look out for themselves in their own well-being they are sure as hell not going to look out for so things like can happen like sabotage they can try to make you feel just as defeated as they are damn telling you that’s what’s gonna happen so evaluate people close to you in that regard also look if they’re the things that they say do they mock you do they try to devalue you do they try to undermine your mindset as far as starting a business I’m telling you when you try to go do your own thing you’re going to get this all the time people are just getting really weird once you start becoming successful so you have to start paying attention to who those people might be I’m telling you every one of these people that I have problems with early on I was like hmm red flag is growing up but I just decided not to do anything about it I was just I didn’t trust my instincts so if there’s that thought that that person could be a liability to you in the future you have to make note of that right now and start getting control of this so this means you have to start cutting people out or at least start setting boundaries but if the person is in the crap a bad enough mind state I just recommend you stay away there’s you can’t really change them all right I talk a little bit too much about this but I think it’s so important number six develop courage to take risks so this this is something you can train yourself to do everyone no one is born with an innate quality to be super courageous this is something that you learn one small change at the time one little risk at a time so develop courage it’s kind of like an emotion or a skill in my opinion develops start developing courage now and by the way guys all these is all tips I’m telling you right now don’t wait the changes before you start taking action with affiliate marketing this is what you should be doing kind of an ongoing basis as you start building your site’s number seven is realize that there are three phases to making money so the first phase this is hard enough as earning so getting to a hundred thousand a year two hundred thousand a year four hundred thousand a year earning is a challenge what’s even harder for a lot of people is saving saving not upgrading your lifestyle as soon as you start making money I cannot tell you probably 90 not ninety percent of people that make a lot of money don’t even figure this out I see it all the time as far as the entrepreneurs that I hang around so many people able to earn money but they blow it on the dumbest stuff they go to clubs they spend like $2,000 a night at clubs so they can earn it but they can’t keep it very few people can multiply it so this is the third skill what I do right now is I’m still learning how to do this as far as investing is concerned I still consider investing into my business multiplying the money but I’m talking about like stocks real estate and all that I’m spending a significant amount of time learning about that just because investing is so important so investing you gotta learn this stuff in the background or at least start thinking about it now number eight that is take a mental toll the things you are passionate about so what are the things that you are spending money for because you’re so passionate about it so those are might be the topics you might want to consider promoting so let’s say you’re a nut with photography you have you know like 50 of these nice cameras around maybe that’s something you should be an affiliate for and the reason why is because one you have all the stuff that you can talk about you know products you can share that off but even though you typically have expert knowledge even if you’ve been doing it for a year or two you still have more knowledge than 90% of people so pick things you’re passionate about now that’s not a prerequisite to make money like I’ve totally made plenty of money on stuff I don’t care about but it is very hard to stay motivated when it’s just something you’re doing for profit trust me on that one it’s very hard to do so and that next thing you want to do is after you find your passion and you know it’s a good market you don’t want to start finding out what people in that niche congregate so as a rule of thumb YouTube and Google SEO are always a good versatile traffic source meaning that pretty much in every niche there is traffic to get in those two traffic sources but there are places in your niche like for example forums specific blogs Facebook groups there are spots where people super interested in in your niche congregate and spend their time on so you’re gonna want to scout out the territory and figure out where people are spending most of their time outside of YouTube and Google in the reason why is because these can be some great areas to tap into without kind of having to lay the groundwork that’s required for YouTube and Google SEO number ten is scope out the competition this is super important basically pick the top look at the top this is why I usually always do this look at the top three competitors in your niche and find out or try to estimate in your head what are the two to three things that they’re doing right that has gotten them to that position so some people might be better at ads and targeting that can be someone ads and targeting another company can be better at building you know funnels and back-end stuff another one could just be really good at marketing so you have to look at the things that they’re good at and try to replicate some of their strengths that got them there in your own marketing now that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t develop your own strengths but you always want to make sure that you see the things that are working with your your competitors and at least try to replicate replicate some of those it’s always worked for me number eleven is super important is that no matter what method you try to do learn some basic SEO as far as that’s concerned learn basic SEO as far as that’s concerned I mean like keyword research keyword research is way more than just finding terms to rank for what it’s telling you is what the general people in your market are interested in so keyword research in and of itself can be a nice market research tool because it’s going to tell you what products people want to search for which products are becoming obsolete or which ones are becoming more popular what are the problems that people have so all this you can find from keyword research it is more than just the words to target all right so with all that said these are the eleven things that I would do before I start affiliate marketing but just to be clear here you kind of want to do this as you’re building your stuff so what I don’t want you to do is spend the next three years figuring all this crap out you want to do this kind of as you go pick one of these things on the list to start getting good at and most importantly just take action now don’t trick your money your minds gonna play tricks and it’s gonna be like let me learn all this stuff first before I start taking action you can’t do that you just got to start doing stuff so start today don’t put this off off if you need some some actual guides to help you start affiliate mark today the actual technical stuff like basic keyword research writing content getting ranked on Google finding the products that sell and promoting them all that stuff that you need to do start making money with affiliate marketing I do have a free guide that you can get right now that shows you step-by-step how to do everything so there’s gonna be an image that pops up this on the screen here but that’s the image for the guide the link to get that is right below in the video description or you can go to deadbeat University dot-com slash guide alright so I wrote the guide in a way that you can do this kind of part-time if you if you have a job or something you can’t devote a you know eight hours a day this this is stuff you can get started with right now for an hour or two per day alright second I have a second giveaway for you it’s 100% free under this video is another link and this guide it’s a four video series shows you how to get youtube traffic we’re talking right here very versatile traffic source super profitable I’ll show you how to tap into YouTube without having to appear on camera so I know a lot of people are afraid of showing up on camera this method that I teach in the link below is how you get traffic from YouTube without having to do any of that stuff that makes people uncomfortable so get that below or just go to deadbeat University comm /live and when you get that it will also notify you when I go live on YouTube for any of my internet marketing live streams alright hope you enjoyed this video if you did make sure you subscribe and hit that Bell notification button for all the videos that I’ve released about affiliate marketing internet marketing when I release them also share this video with your friends and comment below if you have any questions about affiliate marketing in general I am happy to help with all I said my name is Stan Brock the deadbeat super late also somewhere around here I think it’s to the left of me I think that’ll be right here if I’m not mistaken here here are more videos on my youtube channel about making money online with affiliate marketing and all that other cool stuff check that out this is the one that I did yesterday also right here is the circles subscribe button to join the deadbeat revolution today hit that and I’ll see you deadbeats later