4 Best Affiliate Marketing Course 2020 (In-Depth Breakdown)

Here's a review on the best affiliate marketing courses out there in 2020. 

Don't worry I actually went through the courses myself and have real experience making money with affiliate marketing.

Whats important in affiliate marketing is:

• Traffic Generation (Paid or Free traffic?)
• Email Marketing
• Niche Branding / Personal Branding

I would say the most important though is traffic generation, because if you can get traffic you'll make money with any affiliate program.

4 Best Affiliate Marketing Courses of 2020

Free Traffic vs Paid Traffic Affiliate Marketing

Google Hummingbird Update and the Penguin update has totally made affiliate marketing using free traffic tougher since 2016.

There used to be a time where you can build new sites and rank them for targeting very specific long tail keyword for example:

For example, creating a separate page that target the following exact match longtail keyword helped you rank.

• ​how to lose weight for endomorphs
• weight loss tips for endomorphs
• endomorph weight loss tips

Today, Google values high quality pages that come form powerful authoritative domains that will rank for all the long-tail variations. 

Exact match no longer is valued like it once were, Google is smart enough to figure out that all 3 of the above variation is really looking for the same thing. 

Therefore, the following site is ranking for all above variations.

This is why I have an issue with some of these affiliate marketing courses like wealthy affiliate that still teach longtail keywords to be outdated today which is why they didn't place high on my list.

Although they do have other good training on there.

Running paid traffic with affiliate marketing offers is another beast as well.

Here's an example of one of my ads that made me quite a bit of money with an anti-aging skin cream affiliate offer on clickbank.

Image is the most important aspect with paid ads. The above image works because its using vector art instead of real which becomes a pattern interrupt and its pointing out a pain point so drawing an emotional response. (You can use Fiverr to hire vector artists)

PS: I've stopped running these offers eventually though because I just didn't feel right promoting a product that felt like it was scamming people by taking advantage of people's insecurities. But this is an offer that a super affiliate taught me to promote.

It is true, the product or offers that pangs people's emotions convert best with paid traffic.

So I don't agree with some of these courses that teach "you can go into any niche & promote any offer". Which is what Wealthy Affiliate teaches. "Find your passion niche". From my experience, not all affiliate offers were created equal. I suggest researching offers that other super affiliates are already promoting.

The challenge with paid ads is that 1 working ad doesn't stay alive & profitable forever, eventually all ads will reach ad exhaustion.

AKA too many people have seen it and CTR (click through rate) drops drastically. 

Yet you're still spending your entire daily ad budget everyday.

So its a constant process of battling with ad costs & your return on investment (ROI), killing under performing ads & creating new ones.

You take on the risk with paid ads because FB doesn't guarantee ROI, if you don't have high enough conversion % then you're going to lose money on every click.

On the flipside if you become a master at continuously creating top performing ads that convert you then have the ability to generate traffic over night and start turning profits.

I made quite a few profitable ad campaigns to date, so why did I stop? 

Paid traffic require much more on-going work to maintain the performance of the ads than ranking sites organically & generating free traffic.

I got to a point with paid ads where it was difficult to scale.

My days became filled with following activity which got old to me real quick:

• Killing low performance ads
• creating new ads
• finding new ad images (to battle ad exhaustion)
• creating new landing pages
• creating new ad accounts to replace ad accounts that get suspended

It became monotonous and what nailed the coffin for me was that I hit a certain ceiling in income and as soon as that happens I lose interest.

I love entrepreneurship because I have a very growth oriented mindset, therefore I can only be in businesses that allows me to continuously get to the next level of income every month, every year.

"Which route should I take?"

Now all these methods will take some serious grinding hours. Nothing works online without discipline & work ethic. 

• Youtube affiliate marketing - You can do it if you're broke. $
• Free traffic (SEO) affiliate marketing - $10K+ Budget, 6-12 months, big pay day once you rank & very passive income
• Facebook ads affiliate marketing - $15K+ Budget, around 3 months learning curve, couple thousand per month of profit to more depending on how good you get.
• Native ads affiliate marketing - more advanced, $20K+ Budget, I recommend mastering FB ads traffic before moving onto this one. Going up against super affiliate competition

Affiliate Marketing vs. Lead Generation

Conclusion

Super Affiliate System by John Crestani is the most comprehensive course if you got the money.

If you just wanna give affiliate marketing a try without breaking the bank I recommend Savage Affiliate.

Affiliate Marketing does work but if my goal was to get to $10K per month,  lead generation is so much easier imo.

Yes you do have to talk to some business owners and not hide behind a computer screen the whole time.

But this is the exact same reason why I like lead generation because its a barrier of entry.

Why I like Lead Generation Over Affiliate Marketing in 2020

Ranking sites in Google and generating traffic is the best way to make passive income. 

With lead generation we can target local cities instead of competing for keywords globally.  (Let me show you)

Grand Rapids, MI is only 250K population.

There's 35 tree service companies in Grand Rapids.

That's heck of a lot easier competition than trying to rank for:

Which is now you're competing with affiliate marketers globally.

This is why so many affiliate courses teach about making youtube videos.

But youtube is also saturated and very low traffic, takes way too long to gain any traction.

With local lead generation, you can create $750-$2000 per month passive income in 3-6 months (about how long it takes to rank a brand new site locally)

This Lansing Tree Serivce site has been making me $1500 per month since 2015 I haven't touched my site since then and don't really talk to my client anymore he just sends me a check every month.

So once the work is done of ranking the site & getting the client, this biz is as passive as affiliate marketing.

In my experience, lead gen has been far more lucrative, less saturated & easier to scale than affiliate marketing.

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