Affiliate Marketing

If you work as a bartender, personal trainer, group fitness instructor, photographer, tutor, or even at parties as an entertainer (clowns and djs), you have skills people need now more than ever. And these skills could help you make money while growing new business while everyone is in self-quarantine.

The best news is you have everything you need, you’ll only need to embrace a bit of technology. And since we cannot go outside, now is the perfect time to learn it.

Below you will find ways that you can use your skills as a service professional and make money until you can return to your place of work. I start with a list of the steps below and then dive into detail about each.

What you need to make money during Coronavirus:

1. Create an editorial calendar
2. Join affiliate programs specific to your niche (examples below with explanations)
3. Use your cell phone or digital camera that connects to social media
   1. A computer can work too
4. Post a set day/time to record, publish and/or stream
5. Learn the tools to build a larger audience
6. **bonus step** set up a website and collect subscriber information

Now let’s go into detail about each of these and make them relevant to you.

Create an Editorial Calendar

The first step is to create an editorial calendar.  But make sure the first stream or video can be done without any extra equipment or supplies.  Start by letting viewers know they can do the first week of activities with items around their own home but they might need to order a few things online for upcoming broadcasts.

Here are some examples by niche.

• Fitness professionals – body weight exercises (not gear needed).
• Bartenders and chefs – use common pantry items.
• Photographers – taking advantage of natural light or even desk lamps.
• DJs – create themed dance party nights and host a costume or themed contest during it where you give a free recording from an event away after we are out of quarantine.  The theme can be anything that uses common items like toga parties.
• Teachers & tutors – you can line up daily or weekly themes like algebra, physics and also create experiments that are educational, safe and fun and that use peroxide, baking soda or vinegar.

As you’re talking about the first week and using items the person already has, mention what they’ll learn and need for the upcoming 3 or 4 weeks while we may be trapped inside.  This is your first opportunity to earn revenue.

Join Relevant Affiliate Programs

(note, some of the links below are ads and I earn commissions if you shop or sign up for services through them.  Just like I’m recommending you do.)

You’ll want to join affiliate programs and get unique coupon codes that are trackable to you.  When your fans and followers use the code, you earn a commission.  ProsourceFit.com is an affiliate program I manage and I will happily get you set up.  Click here to join, its free and we’ll get to work together so double bonus!

If you’re a bartender and are recommending unique items like bitters, or a chef and spices may not be available, join programs from herb and spice, or food ecommerce websites.  You’ll be supporting small businesses and also helping your fans and followers.  If you’re a teacher or [Read more…] about How to Make Money During Coronavirus

Affiliate Summit is coming up soon, and the only thing that comes up short at this show is time. You have incredible networking opportunities, tons of meetings and parties, not to mention a crowded expo hall.  But something else you won’t want to miss are the speakers.

(The links in this post are ads and I earn commissions if you shop through them.)

Affiliate Summit speakers are almost always on point, or ready to help.  They provide you with information, entertainment, and some let you know when you’re making money.  That is one of the best things about the show, you get all the networking in the world, and also access to some of the most informative speakers.  That’s why I’ve created this list of my favorite speakers to listen to at Affiliate Summit.

And if you haven’t purchased your ticket to affiliate summit yet, click here to buy it today since they always sell out and the prices go up the closer you get to the show.

If your favorite speaker from Affiliate Summit is not on it, I apologize, but this list is kept for the top 7 only.  It may change from show to show, but these are my personal choices and the reasons why.

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The newest version of Firefox, and we can assume each moving forward, will be blocking tracking platforms by default. Most notably is Google Analytics, Facebook and other large sites. So before anyone else says it, Firefox killed affiliate marketing and it is now dead.

If you believe that Firefox killed an entire industry with this one change, then you’re done, don’t continue reading and go watch videos on YouTube, which is also being blocked oddly enough. =0)

If you don’t believe that affiliate marketing is dead, then you belong on this post.

Read below and you’ll learn why and how Firefox blocking cookies as well as tracking code placed on the merchant’s own website may impact your affiliate tracking, and your revenue, from both an affiliate and merchant standpoint.  I also share a step-by-step with screenshots on how to see what the impact on your own revenue will be.  After, I share new tracking options that you as a merchant can implement, or if you’re an affiliate marketer, you can give to your merchants to help provide extra layers of protection for your income.

First, here is the blog post that started the discussion in the SEO industry, but I didn’t see anything from the affiliate blogs and resource sites which was odd (and why I’m writing this post).  Here is another post from the Mozilla website which sources the site and solution they may or may not follow for which sites to block ads and tracking from.  Now the important one, this is the potential list of sites and ad platforms (including affiliate networks and servers which will possibly no longer be tracked).

If you look at the list, almost every major affiliate network, CPA network and affiliate platform is listed.  But remember, this also blocks tracking code within a website.  That means your monetization scripts like viglink and skimlinks will potentially be blocked.  They’re both on the list too.  I hope they are able to find a work around because they do represent a huge network of sites and a lot of my friends use them on their blogs.  But no, that is not a recommendation from me that you should work with them, you need to evaluate your own business model.

I didn’t check all traditional affiliate and CPA networks, but everyone that came to mind is there, including the URL redirects and server redirect links…it is very complete.  So now that we know sales and traffic may no longer track, and unlike ITP compliance with apple and Safari, I haven’t seen any network give a solution.  So let me help either alleviate your fears, or give you reason to invest in a solution.

It’s also important to note that this isn’t only wiping cookies, it is blocking code installed on a merchant’s own website.  That is why many of the newer, advanced and cross device solutions may not be effective on this.  They rely on code placed within and across a merchant’s website, and this new form of blocking will possibly block that too.

Find How Many Firefox Users Are on Your Website

Log into your Google Analytics account or whatever platform you use.  If you are a blogger, affiliate or website owner [Read more…] about Firefox is Blocking Affiliate Tracking – Here’s How to Stop It