The Ultimate Guide to Affiliate Marketing Gold

Why is affiliate marketing such a powerful income stream? Imagine earning significant passive income by promoting products like LeadPages, which pays not only an initial commission, but also recurring ones without dealing with product hassles. This setup allows for earning from anywhere, even if life throws you curveballs, like when I moved from Israel to Canada seven years ago, my income remained steady, proving the power of setting up effective systems over just trading time for money. Ready to learn how you can do the same. Let’s get into it.

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I’m Igor Kheifets, and this is the List Building Lifestyle, the podcast for anyone who wants to build a wildly profitable email list working from home. If you’d like to make six figures, travel the world and help people improve their lives in the process, this podcast is for you. I also invite you to claim a free copy of my best selling book, the List Building Lifestyle Confessions of an Email Millionaire at igorsbook.com. Get the free book plus $3,000 bonus package that includes my best capture page templates, email swipe files and traffic blueprints. Visit www.igorsbook.com for details, and now it’s time to claim Your List Building Lifestyle. 

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The reason I love affiliate marketing is because I can make half the money off of a sale of a product, and I don’t have to deliver on any of the headaches for that product. For example, let’s take lead pages. It’s a great example. LeadPages pays out a really sweet commission, and also a recurring commission to that. So not only do I make a commission when I refer somebody to lead pages, but I’m also getting paid over and over again for as long as they stay a member. Now that allows me to build passive income, but in addition, it allows me to profit from promoting a product that I essentially can’t build myself. I mean, the amount of money and effort that goes into building something like Lead Pages is probably way beyond anything that I’m willing to endure, as well as the knowledge, of course, and the architecture like there’s no way I’m building something like that, but it still allows me to profit from that product existing in the marketplace while adding value to the people to whom I promote this product. 

So affiliate marketing, the beauty of affiliate marketing is you can build incredible income, and I’m talking about a large income. I know some affiliates making over $100,000 per month, not a year, per month, without owning any of your own products, which is not very different from, say, if you owned a shop, and let’s say you owned a computer store, right, or a smartphone store, like you don’t have to produce or manufacture phones or computer hardware to actually, you know, make money, right? You can sell other people’s products. It’s just, it’s a lot more difficult to set up. When it comes to setting up a shop. You need licenses, you need, you know, to rent a space, and there’s a whole bunch of headaches. But with affiliate marketing, you can start with nothing from your laptop and be making more than the shop owner within the span of weeks, maybe months, without having to take any of the risks. And you can do it from anywhere in the world. In fact, if you wanted to just be a nomad and move around the world, or maybe if you wanted to live in a warm place out of a cold place, you could literally pack your bag move and your income wouldn’t get hurt. 

So for example, when I immigrated from Israel to Canada five years ago, it was December 2017 that I immigrated, what ended up happening is, in the first two months, I barely got any work done. It was just all about setting my life from scratch, right? It was getting the driver’s license, the insurance, getting a place to live, etc, and I barely worked at that time. And what’s interesting is that my income didn’t drop, didn’t grow, but it didn’t drop either because of all the different income streams that I set up thanks to affiliate marketing, including passive income streams that continued to pay me commissions month after month, even if I wasn’t working at the time. And that’s really the big advantage of building systems versus trying to build a hourly income or trying to improve your skill set and become a higher paid skilled worker. You know the beauty of it is, at some point the skilled worker is going to want to take a break, or they will need more money, but they will not be able to invest more time, while for someone like myself, who builds systems right, I can continuously scale what I’m doing if I want to make more money, but not work more hours. 

So that is why, also, I’m a great believer in having an email list. When I started this, and all the way until I was making $10,000 a month, I didn’t have a team. It was just a one man show, one man operation. And you know, I was working around the clock. I’ll be honest with you, I was very ambitious, very aggressive. And the moment I figured out that I could make money in a certain way. I just put all my attention into it. Now, I wasn’t as smart back then as I am today in terms of automation, in terms of setting up systems. A lot of it was still manual labor. It was just me kind of doing a lot of repetitive stuff. But as soon as I got educated a little bit about getting rid of the repetitiveness in my life and either using software or using cheap labor to outsource it. That’s when my business really took off, and I was able to not only claim a much higher income and scale from 10k per month to 40k per month. And the day my daughter was born in November 2012 I scaled to 80k per month, and I just continued to scale since then, that’s when I was also able to regain my time.

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