Thread by @hustlenconquer

How I built a newsletter selling $5,000/mo…

Without even having my own product and with zero followers.

And how you can do the same:

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This is the simplest and one of my favourite ways to make money online.

I built a $5k/month newsletter in the Fitness category with just a simple landing page and a ClickBank offer.

Here’s how you can do it too…

The Game Plan...

> Build or Rent an Audience
> Find Affiliate Offers
> Build a Bridge Page
> Send Traffic to a Bridge Page
> Make Sales
> Get Emails
> Promote more products via emails

Let's Go...

First Step?
Build or Rent an audience

> Social media following
> Email list
> Rented audience

I didn't have a large audience when I started it. So, I rented an audience.

I'll show you how I did it in a while

But first,

Let's see how this business model works

It's basically affiliate marketing, but better.

Here’s a simple funnel you can use to make this work for you.

Audience ---> Your Bridge Page ---> Affiliate Offer

Now...
Let's see how to find affiliate offers

If you already have an audience ( social media following or email list) you can find people on Twitter who are selling products and ask them for an affiliate link.

Your chances of getting accepted as an affiliate are higher if you have bought their product and used it.

Most people will accept you as an affiliate if you have a decent size audience. (2k Twitter followers, 2k email list)

What if you don’t have an audience and no one on Twitter is willing to give you an affiliate link?

Fret not, There are more than one ways to do it...

You can go to Affiliate marketplaces

Few Affiliate Marketplaces...

> ClickBank
> JVZoo
> WarriorPlus
> CJ Affiliate

Clickbank is the easiest of them all to get accepted as an affiliate.

Now that you've an affiliate offer... it's time to build a Bridge Page...

What’s a bridge page?

It’s a landing page where you direct your traffic, give something of value for free and presell on the affiliate product you’re promoting.

Once they enter their email address, you redirect visitors to an affiliate offer.

Got it?

You can create a Bridge page using Mailchimp, Convertkit, Leadpages etc.

There are a lot of free softwares too.

If you're just starting out... start with a free option.

Once your bridge page is ready. It’s time to bring traffic to your landing page. If you have an audience, you can promote it to your audience.

If you don’t have an audience, you can rent an audience by paying influencers on IG and Twitter or run ads.

But first...

Why do you need a bridge page?

If you’ll send traffic directly to the affiliate offer, you’ll not have data on the people who visited the affiliate offer.

This is the biggest mistake I see noob affiliate marketers do here on Twitter. Leaving money on the table.

If you have a bridge page and you collect their email addresses before you send them to an affiliate offer.

Now you own that audience and you can promote offers to them in the future.

This is important. Don’t do affiliate marketing without building a bridge page.

I built my Bridge page using Leadpages. I was selling a Fitness offer.

The front end offer was $80 (My commission $40) with a shxt ton of up-sells

Highest I ever got paid for one sale was I think $150 (Someone also bought the upsell using my affiliate link)

This is a good thing about ClickBank and other affiliate marketplaces.

Those are experienced marketers and they know how to up-sell, down-sell, cross-sell.

You make more money without putting in any extra effort.

Not possible if you're affiliating a Gumroad offer.

Here's how you make money

For example, you’re promoting a course worth $100

Most info product sellers offer a 50% commission

So, every time someone will buy using your affiliate link, you’ll make $50

If you have an existing audience or an email list, $50 is your profit. Laugh

But, if you don’t have an audience, you can’t afford to spend more than $50 to acquire a new sale.

This will help you when running ads or paying influencers.

Here's how you can make this work for you...

I’m assuming you don’t have an existing audience.

So, you’re going to get an affiliate link from ClickBank.

Let's say the offer you're promoting pays you $50 for every sale you make. (50% commission on a $100 product)

Now you build a bridge page.

For this example, we’re not going to create a free product. No lead magnet.

Your bridge page is basically teasing people to give them their email address in exchange for a "secret method" you’ll share with them.

(Copy of your landing page should be similar to the offer you’re promoting)

Once they enter their email address, you re-direct them to the affiliate offer you're promoting

Your job is done. Now, wait for the commissions to roll in

But
You need the traffic to your bridge page

Here's how I did it...

Find a big IG page in that niche.

100k to 300k followers.

Pay them for a story swipe-up story post. Most charges between $20 to $40

This should get you approx 100 visitors to your landing page.

40% of them will give you their email address. That’s 40 email addresses.

And 40 people visiting the affiliate offer page.

At a 5% conversion rate, 2 people will buy the offer.

You’ll make $100.

Your profit is $60 to $80 depending on how much you paid to the influencers.

+ You'll build your email list and can promote more offers in the future

You’re basically getting paid to build your email list.

Some of these ClickBank offers convert like crazy if you send the right traffic to them

You won't find the perfect traffic- offer match immediately

You may need to spend a few $100’s before you nail everything down.

But once you figure out the formula. You can scale this to the moon.

It's simple.

Anyone can do it.

Yes, you do need to spend some money upfront to make this work for you.

But it's perfect for you if you're looking for a side hustle and don't have an existing audience.

A few pointers for find the right affiliate offer

Stick to the main three niches

> Health
> Wealth
> Relationships

There are tons of offers around Law of Attraction on ClickBank if that's your niche.

When selecting an offer go for the one with the highest Gravity score.

The higher the gravity score, the better your chances of selling that offer.

That's it for this thread.

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