How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing Without A Website

In this short post, I am going to reveal to you a good strategy in order to make money with affiliate marketing without a website.

Normally I always recommend starting a blog for any beginner marketer out there, however for the sake of this post, we will explain a way you can generate your first affiliate sale without using a website.

Affiliate Marketing Without A Website

The major problem I see with most beginner affiliate marketers is that they send traffic directly to the affiliate offer.

Why is this a huge mistake?

Because if someones does not buy the product off of that first initial visit, that lead is lost forever.

Instead, it would be beneficial to first capture the lead/email address (using a squeeze page) and then send them to the affiliate offer…this way you can follow-up with the prospect in the future.

Does this make sense?

So below we will highlight the affiliate model that most beginners use (that simply doesn’t work today), and the model that I recommend if you want any shot at making money with affiliate marketing without a full website.

Wrong Affiliate Marketing Model 

You can see in this first model that most people send traffic directly to the affiliate offer which is a big mistake. Not only does this result in a super low conversion rate, but you are also completely throwing money away if you’re not collecting the email address in the process. What good is it to send traffic to an affiliate offer and not build your email list?

This is a lazy approach to affiliate marketing and it rarely is successful. You may snag a sale here and there but it will not result in anything sustainable. The only way this model works well is if you are reviewing/recommending a product on your blog and sending traffic directly to the offer, however you need a website for this…And again this post is explaining how to make money with affiliate marketing without a website.

Right Affiliate Marketing Model

Now the right way to make money with affiliate marketing would be to send traffic to a squeeze page first in order to capture the lead and then redirect them to the affiliate offer after they “opt-in”. This way you can follow-up with them for as long as they are on your email list and potentially turn them into a customer for life (buying from you more than once). In this model, if they don’t buy right away, you aren’t just throwing away the lead since you will be collecting their email address. This is a more sustainable model and allows you to build a profitable email list in the process. And your email list is a true asset.

In order to set up this kind of funnel, check out The Conversion Pros and the marketing tools they offer. The tool suite inside of The Conversion Pros allows you to create high-compelling squeeze pages and set up an email follow-up series that will automatically work for you after a person opts-in to your list.

Now in terms of actually generating the traffic for the model above, there are multiple ways in which to do that. However, one traffic method that I reccomend to test the waters and get quick results with is solo ads. This basically allows you to leverage someones elses email list and is a great way to get traffic flowing as a beginner.

Hopefully the information and charts above are helpful to you and especially if you’re struggling to make any money with affiliate marketing.

Know that you’re not alone and that most people use the first model as well.

Make sure to test different squeeze pages for the highest possible opt-in rates and create, at the very least, a 7 day email follow-up series as well.

Yes this may take more work compared to sending traffic straight to an affiliate offer, but the payoff is worth it.

How do you currently do affiliate marketing?

Rather watch my review of this on YouTube? Here you go: How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing Without A Website