The best paying affiliate programs are of course those which actually pay! Not that programs don’t pay, just that joining a program is no guarantee of making a sale. Even the best affiliate programs don’t pay if you don’t make any sales! Affiliate marketing has performance related pay. So, if you don’t make any sales, you still earn nothing!
That aside, I consider the best paying affiliate programs the ones which pay you in multiple ways. Selling a single item takes a lot of work. Once you’ve made the sale, you still have to sell again and again. The best paying affiliate programs give you ongoing commissions from:
- Subscription products – Subscription products pay you again and again for the initial sale. Make a sale once, and keep getting commissions – potentially for life with a good program. Choose subscription affiliate programs.
- Up-sells – Just by choosing a good sales funnel and range of products, rather than selling a stand alone product, you can earn a lot more as an affiliate. Up-sells are sales sold later to your referrals by a built in sales team or automated sales pages.
- Multi-tier sales – Not many affiliate programs offer the potential to earn from the sales made by your referrals. If you find one, and can position yourself at the top of a business system to do this, you can earn a lot more in commissions.
- High Ticket Products – Yes! High ticket affiliate marketing is a major key. The best paying affiliate programs offer high commission affiliate products.
One of the best paying affiliate programs which offers all of the above is The Six Figure Mentors.
Best Paying Affiliate Programs – Training
So let’s say you’ve got your sales funnel with all of these products in it! What next? The best paying affiliate programs pay you after you make the sales, not before. Before you actually make a sale with any affiliate program, you’ve got a lot of work to do. It really doesn’t matter how good a program is in terms of its business model; if you don’t make any sales, you won’t get paid.
The Six Figure Mentors also offer some of the best training and education available to help its affiliates with this side of the business:
Microsoft Lynda (Under the Linkedin umbrella of companies) recently partnered with SFM as a way to offer their own 6,500 training courses as part of the SFM curriculum.
DigitalMarketer (The world’s longest standing and most highly respected B2B and B2C marketing training company) also partnered with SFM and now offer their own training as part of the SFM curriculum.
They also have masses of training and education videos, run continual training events worldwide and run seminars and webinars constantly throughout the year.
As an affiliate your job is the marketing side of things. The SFM offers a fully functional back end business system which anyone can benefit from by promoting it on the ‘front-end’. Unless you do this successfully, you won’t see any commissions, none. The same can be said for any affiliate marketing products of course.
What Do The Best Affiliates Do?
Within The SFM back office is a list of the top performing affiliates. Top affiliates for The SFM use paid marketing strategies and scale up to an ever growing audience.
Some affiliates use YouTube, some use Facebook or Adwords. You can even use a combination of many online marketing platforms. However, the top affiliates all have one thing in common – they use paid marketing strategies, on the whole.
It is possible to earn commissions from content marketing strategies but this tactic takes much longer to get any traction. With a sales funnel and business system like the one described above, paid marketing can give you traction quite quickly.
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