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How To Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Traffic By 10x

January 9, 2021 by David Sharpe Leave a Comment

Spencer Mecham is a client who has not only mastered having multiple platforms to work off of, but has also mastered bringing income to those multiple platforms. We recently interviewed him on our morning show, Wake Up Legendary, to learn about how he turns his multiple streams of traffic into income.

From the very beginning of Spencer’s affiliate marketing career he found himself worried about his social media accounts being shut down. He decided that after an Instagram account along with a Youtube account being shut down it was time to work off of multiple platforms.

When Spencer finds a new platform to work off of, he masters the platform to the best of his ability and then writes down a system for it. Once he’s written down how it works and what he wants out of it, he then passes it along to someone he’s hired to work on his account on each platform.

Outsourcing Quality People To Help You Create Quality Content

He can’t operate a Youtube channel, instagram account, Tik Tik, blog, Facebook group, email list, etc. all by himself. He typically hires multiple people to help him do things like edit videos and thumbnails. When hiring someone on, Spencer says to not be afraid to move through people. He likes to have weekly meetings and follow up with the people he has hired. He wants to make sure that anyone he has hired is on the same page as him.

Spencer will typically give practice tasks for anyone who he is considering for the job and makes sure they know what they’re doing. He typically hires three people at a time. Two of them work full time and one of them works part time.

Outlining And Scripting Videos To Cater To Youtube’s Algorithm

Spencer outlines each video before filming it, and has passed on the outline job to one of the editors he hired. This creates less work for him so that he has more time to focus on other tasks in his day. The outlines he makes for his videos aren’t just what topics he’ll be speaking about, but includes an entire script for the video. He caters to Youtube’s algorithm by scripting the video and deciding what A roll and B roll go into each video.

Youtube tracks how long each person who views a video is watching it for. If someone is viewing a video for just a moment and clicks out of it, Youtube won’t push it into the algorithm. If a video is watched most of or all the way through often, it is more likely to come up first in the search results or be suggested to watch next by Youtube. “A high click rate and a high watch time equals a viral Youtube video,” Spencer said.

In order for Spencer to keep his videos from being clicked out of too soon, he began using a tactic that would keep people watching until the end- curiosity.

When scripting videos, Spencer spends a lot of time planning. He plans out how they’re going to generate the curiosity factor that runs throughout the video that keeps people watching. “A high click through rate and a high watch time equals a viral youtube video,” Spencer said. Since catering his videos to Youtube’s algorithm, he has grown his Youtube channel to 43,000 subscribers.

Create Unique Content That Generates Value And Curiosity

Spencer says that in order to get more views on videos, take a unique approach to the videos you create. Instead of doing ‘10 ways to make money with x’ Spencer says that a more unique approach would be to spend 8 hours clicking through sites, or take surveys for 5 hours straight and do a video on that experience. That generates a story with the videos and gives the viewer something more to connect to rather than a generic video.

Spencer says to get comfortable on camera it’s okay to go generic videos but as you get more into it to begin throwing in the experiment style videos where you document the process of something like taking surveys or watching a particular type of video.

Don’t Waste Time Editing Videos If You Can Outsource A Skilled Editor

When he first started making Youtube videos, Spencer spent a lot of time editing them. He found that it was easier and a better use of his time to hire someone to edit his videos for him. This way someone else who had more skill than him could do ten times what he could edit on a video.

He watches a bunch of videos and writes down what he likes about them. Then he hires someone and gives them that list with five example videos he’s found that he likes. Spencer has found the cheapest video editor for himself has been about a hundred dollars, but there are sites like Fiverr where you are able to hire someone for cheaper, though the quality may differ.

Videos that you create can still blow up without a bunch of fancy editing. When Spencer was starting out, he did a few videos where he shared his screen and those have gotten over 300,000 views.

Spencer’s Youtube channel @Buildapreneur

Visualize What Your Business Can Grow To And Move To Multiple Platforms For More Income

Spencer’s Tik Tok, Youtube, Facebook group, and blog are his main streams of income. His project manager does the pictures, categorizing, and outline for his blog and then sends that over to his blog writers.

Spencer turns his Youtube videos into blog posts and bases posts off of certain keywords to drive in more traffic. When repurposing his youtube videos onto his blog, he also re-purposes his Tik Tok videos into Youtube videos. He edits the Tik Tok logo off of them and turns them into something called Youtube Shorts, a new program similar to Tik Tok. By doing this he grew more subscribers because once you hashtag a 60 second or less Youtube video with #shorts it is pushed into the algorithm. Youtube is testing Shorts in the United States and pushes videos into the Shorts algorithm to test how well they are performing.

Structure Tik Tok Videos To Hook Your Viewers

Spencer’s Tik Tok @spencerhacks

The Tik Tok algorithm is very similar to the Youtube algorithm. Spencer uses the same curiosity factor from Youtube to keep his viewers watching his videos. He structures his videos so that the viewer doesn't really understand what he’s trying to tell them in the video until thirty to sixty seconds in. Once the viewer has reached that point, they’re been watching the video for so long that it doesn't matter if they scroll out of it.

Spencer hooks his viewer and strings them along in the video. He shows his viewer the process and in the end explains the point. This allows him to keep the curiosity going as long as he can in the video. He uses terminology in his videos that keeps the viewer hooked and gives them something to think about while they watch.

It’s important to differentiate yourself from people on Tik Tok who make videos from similar videos. People don’t want to watch the same video over and over again. When starting your video, say that it’s something different than what your viewer has seen before. That way they want to keep their eyes glued to the screen in suspense.

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How I Grew To 200,000 Subscribers! Step-By-Step Youtube Growth Plan

January 7, 2021 by David Sharpe Leave a Comment

Ryan Hildreth is a client who started off working a 9-5 straight out of college. He stumbled across affiliate marketing and found it to be the best business model for himself. He started his Youtube channel in 2017 and now has over 240,000 subscribers on Youtube and over 250,000 subscribers on Tik Tok.

When Ryan first started out he was finding videos on Youtube to replicate and turn into his own words. Over time it became difficult to find new videos to replicate. He wasn’t getting much done trying to come up with ideas every day. He was missing one key factor- structure.

Creating Structure And A Schedule In Your Process To Become Successful

Ryan began putting out two to three videos a week. When you’re just starting out, he recommends you make two to three videos a week so you don’t overwhelm yourself. In order to do this he had to create a weekly schedule for himself and begin planning out his videos one step at a time.

He says that getting ahead is important in case there is an emergency or something comes up that you need to spend time on. That way you have videos done that you are able to post while not working.

Ryan’s process starts on a Monday. The first thing he does is grab a notepad and a whiteboard. You can also use Google spreadsheet to organize and list your topic ideas. He lists ideas he wants to do videos on. He also plans out topics he wants to expand on and trending topics to make videos on.

Monday is his administrative day, which means no filming or content creation is done. Instead, he uses Monday solely for a planning day for idea generation. He plans out ten video ideas. He scours Youtube and finds trending videos in his niche.

Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday are the days Ryan creates, films, and edits videos. He creates three videos and edits them, and then uploads them each of the three days. He typically spends three days a week on Youtube related work and the remaining two days on his email marketing.

Ryan’s Youtube channel https://legendarymarketer.com/ryan-youtube

Outsourcing Thumbnails From Affordable Creators To Deliver High Quality Images That Stand Out

Ryan outsources his video’s thumbnails. He does this through FIverr, where he finds a nice inexpensive thumbnail creator. He sends the person creating his thumbnails thumbnails for other videos that he likes. Then he asks them to be made to look similar.

He typically keeps his thumbnails 3-5 words if he can. Videos that only have a few words in the thumbnail tend to perform better. He gives the creator the title of the video and then they create his thumbnail for him.

Finding Inspiration From Other Content Creators In Your Niche

In order to find videos to gain inspiration from, Ryan types in ‘make money online’ into Youtube and makes videos around the topics that come up. He isn’t looking for a particular time stamp on the videos. Videos can still be popular and relevant years after they are uploaded. Youtube will push the top trending videos for the keywords ‘make money online’ towards you. If a video is uploaded less than a month ago that means that it's performing really well and Youtube is pushing that towards you.

Ryan doesn’t use any Youtube video filters when finding videos to get inspiration from. He leaves on ‘sort by relevance’ to ensure that he’s getting the most relevant videos to his topic. A video has to be at least eight to ten minutes long to add revenue to it. However, don’t create a video that is too long.

Youtube tracks how long a video is being watched for. If it is not being watched all the way through or too many people are clicking out of it in the first few minutes, it may not rank well. Ryan waits for a video to hit a home run. If one video starts to take off and gets over 20,000 views he will create another one like that.

Ryan stays within the broad niche of how to make money online. He says that if you just do ‘make money with Facebook’ videos for seven days straight the topic may not still be trending. However, if you did ‘how to make money online’ videos, one of those may take off. You have to have a broad topic to create from.

Get the idea?…

There’s probably not going to be a lot of videos you come up with that are original ideas. But that’s okay. Finding inspiration from videos is a great way to take parts of other videos you watch and expand on them. Getting information from other content creators and videos is a form of inspiration. Don’t get discouraged if you can’t come up with an entirely original idea for a video.

Using Free Easy To Use Software To Create A High Quality Video

Ryan uses the free software that came with his Macbook when creating and editing his videos. He uses the screen recording feature on Quicktime Player when filming. He does this by going to ‘file’ on Quicktime Player and then clicks ‘new screen recording’. Quicktime Player is free and easy to use because it saves right to his desktop. This makes videos easier to find.

He also films himself as he’s screen recording with his Cannon T6i camera. He likes to have high quality video of himself. He combines the two in iMovie, another free app for Macbook. iMovie is an easy app for Ryan to use as well. “It’s all about what you’re comfortable with,” Ryan said. Showing a video of himself makes it more personal.

Another easy to use tool is Loom because you can record yourself and screen record at the same time. Loom is free to use for videos up to five minutes. Ryan says that over time it’s better to show your face. Showing your face links your viewers to your humanity. When Ryan films and messes up he keeps going. He takes out the parts he messes up on when editing. Each of his videos take about 20 minutes to edit.

Consistency Is The Key For Successful Results

Ryan schedules his videos to post at the same time every day at 8am. He posts at the same days and times every week because having consistency in your business is good. You will see results from videos you upload three to four months down the road, but with that consistency you will begin to grow.

Showing Humanity And Building Relationships With Your Email Lists

When Ryan adds someone to his email list, he likes to follow up with them for thirty days straight. The first two emails are conversational pieces. He likes to have a conversation with people who join his email list to get to know them and build connections. The third email he sends is typically when he pitches to them.

He doesn't send people on his email list his youtube videos. He doesn't want them to affect his watch times. This is only because he has so many subscribers and gets several thousand views on his videos within the first few hours. If you are just starting out, you should be emailing your Youtube videos to your email list.

Using Tik Tok To Generate Youtube Subscribers

When Ryan first created his Tik Tok, it took a while at first to build up followers. When he started, he started from scratch. He didn’t tell anyone about his Tik Tok and wanted to see how big he could grow it to challenge himself.

He posted at least twice a day and did mostly ‘make money online’ related posts. His posts were mostly previews of his Youtube videos. He put only his Youtube channel link in his Tik Tok profile. He wanted people to click on his Youtube channel from his Tik Tok videos to use it as a lead generation to his Youtube videos.

Ryan hit a record month in commissions the second month he was creating Tik tok videos. He was growing 1,000 to 2,000 subscribers each day on Youtube that were coming from Tik Tok.

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The Exact Plan To Succeed In Affiliate Marketing In 3 Just Hours A Day

December 7, 2020 by David Sharpe Leave a Comment

Zeb Summers started off the year as an IT Manager, but after 15 years of hard work was laid off when Covid hit. Instead of deciding to go back to corporate America, he took the leap to turn his affiliate marketing side hustle into a full-time career. He wanted to do something that gave him full control of his time. As a 45 year old father of 2, he was looking to get some time back to spend with his family.

Zeb loves affiliate marketing and has grown a passion for it, which is why he decided to do it full time. By full time I’m not talking 8 hours of labor each day. Full time as in 3 hours of work each day, and the rest of the day to spend with his family and do whatever he wants.

We recently had him on our morning show, Wake Up Legendary to talk about his strategy for success. So what is Zeb’s strategy for success?

Planning A Month At A Time To Focus On Money Producing Activities

When Zeb first started his full time affiliate marketing career, he felt he wasn’t producing the results that he should be. He began focusing all his time on money producing activities. He plans out his schedule a month at a time, and makes weekly and daily schedules for himself.

He schedules everything he wants to do in his 3 hour work window in his planner. He does this by focusing on certain things each day. For example, one day may be a planning day for his Tik Tok videos, and the next may be a day where he creates his Tik Tok videos.

One key to this process Zeb feels, is getting a good night’s sleep. The human brain cannot function to its fullest potential without a good amount of sleep. Whenever Zeb feels like he has an idea for the next day, he always makes sure to write it down. By writing it down, it helps him to sleep better because he doesn’t have to think about it while he’s trying to sleep.

Zeb creates 3-12 Tik Toks to post throughout each day along with creating Youtube videos. He plans out each video and it’s headline. Planning is a huge factor in keeping his work day to only 3 hours.

Create Goals For Yourself To Accomplish And Create To-Do Lists To Keep Track of Them

Zeb takes his goals for the month and the week and divides them down into weekly, then daily goals. He creates an amount he wants to make for the month. He then decides how many emails he has to send, how many Tik Toks he has to create, and how many sales he has to make to get the commission.

Once he has created his monthly goals, he takes them down to weekly goals. Every week he knows he has to send out a certain number of emails each day, a certain number of Tik Tok’s, and a certain number of customers to follow up with each day.

But he doesn’t stop there…

Zeb says that once he breaks down his goals into daily goals, the magic starts to happen. Zeb says he has to tune into his daily goals and be self disciplined and present.

“It’s not about taking action, it’s about taking daily action,” Zeb said.

He starts off each day writing emails to his email lists. Sometimes he spends up to an hour writing emails and interacting with his email list. He creates a goal number of emails to write and sticks to that goal.

He wants to humanize himself to his customers and stay present because that’s something that is very important in affiliate marketing. The more authenticity you show, the more your customers can relate to you and build trust with you.

He also creates a goal amount of Tik Tok videos and Youtube videos to create. Once he’s planned out and created those videos, he spends his 3 hour work day creating those videos to be readily available to post throughout the day.

[Image description] Zeb’s Tik Tok @zebsummers

One great tool for this that Zeb uses, is Trello. Trello is a planning website that allows you to create to-do lists and organize different lists to check tasks off of. Trello also shows you a percentage of how much you have completed each day and can refresh so that you have a clear list of tasks to plan for each day you’re working.

Zeb typically uses a pen and paper for his planning. For more tech savvy people, Trello has a mobile app. Another useful tool is the notepad or calendar on your phone or computer.

Becoming The Creator And Tracking Your Progress

Zeb always says that at the beginning you can’t focus on the money. He says to focus on creating the foundation and creating content. Once you create the content, the money will come. At first, it’s hard to figure out where to start. He says that when starting out create goals for yourself and get out of your comfort zone.

He says to take 60 to 90 days and track the progress that you are making. Focus on your goal and track the progress of your videos and work. If you aren’t meeting your goal, take a few steps back and figure out what exactly you need to do to meet that goal.

The money might not flow in at first so it’s important to make a realistic goal for yourself that you can track. Once you’ve reached your goal you can assess what you did that month to reach that goal and continue to repeat and tweak that process.

In the beginning when you’re creating your baseline, it’s important to consistently do content creation in a channel or two, such as Youtube, Facebook, Tik Tok, or your email list. Once you’ve succeeded in making content, you can track what is working and do more of it.

When Things Don’t Go As Planned, Keep Moving Forward

When a day doesn’t go as planned, Zeb says to always keep moving forward. “You’re going to be on top of the mountain and you’re going to be in the pit of despair,” Zeb said. It’s important to move forward and try your best to not let the little things bother you.

You don’t have to get analytical to keep track of your progress. Just simply writing things down and keeping track of them is enough when starting out to monitor what’s working and what isn’t. Don’t give up even if it feels like you’re not being successful. Behind an unsuccessful day could be a thousand dollar day, but you won’t know unless you stick it out.

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How To Start Getting Leads And Sales With No Ad Budget On Facebook

November 25, 2020 by David Sharpe Leave a Comment

Aaron Szczotkewycz is a client from Melbourne, Australia. He comes from a construction background that eventually took a toll on his body and he felt like he was burning out. He knew he needed to do something for work that wasn’t so physical. He felt he was destined to do something else, and stumbled across online marketing.

For Aaron, there hasn’t always been good days. There have been hard days and hard times since he started working remotely from home, but it has all been worth it for him.

“Wondering my whole life if this could have worked out was so much worse than not taking that risk,” Aaron said. Now both Aaron and his girlfriend work from home and are able to spend more time together and less time straining their bodies at a physical job.

When Aaron first started marketing online, he played around with a few different things at first, like blogging. He spent a lot of time on his blog and even paid someone to do his blog for him, but still doesn't get a lot of blog visits. He eventually realized that blogging just wasn't for him, and he wanted to do something more active online.

He ran a few ads and decided he needed help, and that was when he found himself here at Legendary. Since joining Legendary Marketer he’s been able to generate leads and sales with no ad budget on Facebook, amongst other things. We recently interviewed him on our morning show Wake Up Legendary to guide us through how he does it.

Step 1: Build Your Facebook Friends List With Highly Targeted Buyers From Your Niche

Facebook is a very active site for organic marketing. When Aaron began Facebook organic marketing, he deleted his friends and family from his Facebook page and built on that. Now, you don’t necessarily have to delete your friends and family but there are ways to organize who sees your posts so that you can separate your family from your business, such as segmenting your friends list. Here’s how to do that:

On the far left menu of your Facebook homepage select ‘see more’. After this, click ‘friends list’ and from there you can create a list of friends and select which of your Facebook friends goes in it.

Adding Facebook friends is key because this is the best way to build connections with your customers. You can add friends from Facebook groups, Facebook pages, and Facebook ads. “It’s important to know who it is you’re looking for,” Aaron said. The best place he’s able to find people within his target audience is in groups that are specific to his niche.

To find groups that may have your target customer in them, go to the Facebook search bar and type in phrases that are relevant to your business.

In this example, since Aaron is an affiliate of many programs that teach affiliate marketers how to b3 more successful, we typed in the search term affiliate marketing and tons of results came up within that niche.

[Image description] Facebook groups for ‘affiliate marketing’

Now, you may be thinking how do I make more room to add more friends and how can I remove people who are not engaging with my posts?

It’s important to go through old friends and refresh them when doing organic Facebook marketing. Adding Facebook friends never stops when you’re in organic marketing.

A lot of organic marketers use automation software to find out who hasn’t been engaging in content to keep their friends lists refreshed, such as FB Social Accelerator. Others try to keep up with it manually.

The bottom line is even though you can only have 5,000 friends, an unlimited number of people can follow your Facebook personal profile so at the end of the day it’s not mandatory that you remove absolutely anyone who’s not engaged with you.

It is however important that you’re constantly attracting fresh people to you. How? By using attraction marketing.

Step 2: Use Attraction Marketing To Build Credibility And Deliver Value That Makes People Want To Do Business WIth You

Attraction marketing is providing value to a customer rather than just pitching them a product. “Organic marketing doesn’t work if you’re just pitching on the first message or making offer posts constantly on your wall,” Aaron said.

Instead of pitching products to just anyone, Aaron builds trust and relationships with his audience by only pitching the product to someone who needs it and who is a good fit for it. This way he knows exactly what the customer is looking for and isn’t recommending a product that is unlikely to help them.

He also only sends affiliate links to people once he’s begun a conversation with them in messenger, to avoid publicly selling on his Facebook wall.

Step 3: Building Authority In Groups Using Value Posts

The best way to build authority in Facebook groups is to create value posts. A value post is a post you make that offers value like tips or teaches them something they didn’t know before without asking for anything in return.

However, some group moderators don’t always like the value posts that are made in their groups. This is due to one simple unspoken rule: never outshine the master.

When joining any Facebook group, make sure you are always respecting the group owner if it’s a group that has a leader on Facebook. One way to sometimes get around this is to thank the group owner in your post or to just make an entire post in the group acknowledging the owner and thanking them.

Not all people will get results with this, but the better you get with wordsmithing and framing how you share your results, the more you will attract people who respect you, rather than people looking at you as a piece of “money meat”, meaning if you can’t help them make money then they don’t care about you.

Step 4: Consistently Make Posts On Your Timeline To Build Authority And Attract Your New Followers To Reach Out To You

If you make a great value post in a group, or answer a question on an ad, or even comment something positive on someone else’s post in a group…

You’ll have people begin to friend or follow you. This is when you need to continue to deliver value to them by simply posting to your posts Facebook wall so your posts show up in their newsfeed.

Now that they’re a friend or follower of yours, you can make a post that gives them a call to action at the end to reach out to you.

There are a few different types of posts you can create. The first is a results type post, meaning you share your results from a technique, tip, or strategy with your friends and followers.

The other type of post is a lifestyle post, where you make a post with a photo of you in your day to day life doing something. This offers a look into who you are as a person so that you can humanize yourself to your audience.

Take a look at this example from Aaron.

He gives away some value in the form of explaining that doing high ticket affiliate marketing isn't as difficult as some people might think. He then adds a picture of himself to help humanize the post so it doesn’t feel like a sales pitch. He then adds a call to action at the end of the post for people who resonated with the post to reach out to him via direct message.

The only goal is to chat with your audience and get to know them, it all starts with building a relationship and engaging with your audience. It is very important to engage with your audience, especially the people who are commenting.

They have taken the time to read your post and leave a comment. It’s important to build that relationship and trust because if they continue to comment and you don’t reply, they won’t keep commenting.

When building a connection to your audience, it’s important to build rapport and find common ground. Be super clear with where the person is at and what they’re struggling with so that you can help them. If you can find out what their goal is and where they want to go, fill in the gap with the product that you think is going to help them the most, then you make a lot of money with this technique.

Step 5: Supercharging Your Organic Marketing To Multiply Your Results

Ads aren’t able to be run from a personal Facebook profile, but they are able to be run through a business page.

So if you have a post that does really well on your personal page, you can take that post, put it on a business page, and then you can run it as an ad.

At the bottom of your post, add a call to action similar to this:

If you want more info, here’s what to do next:

Step 1) Comment “MORE INFO” below

Step 2) Click my profile pic above and go send me a PRIVATE MESSAGE telling me you want more info.

By adding a line on your post that asks people to comment “more info below” it creates a lot of social proof and interaction and people will feel like they’re missing out on the information you’re offering them.

It will also make your ad post blow up with comments which will make it convert higher due to so much interaction on the post.

When people begin to reach out via private message, how you answer (and how fast) is key. One cool thing Facebook allows you to do on your page is set up Saved inside your Business Page inbox so you can reply to people who are messaging you faster. You can add new responses as well as add their name to the response for personalization.

Conclusion, Plus How To Learn More Strategies Like This

If you are trying to get organic marketing going, always put value first, expect nothing in return, and don’t put a value post up expecting to make a sale out of it. Always lead with value and make a commitment. Any marketing strategy can be great if you can make the commitment and stick with it. Organic marketing is the same way. You need to be consistent and make a commitment to see it through until it works.

Building up a successful business from Facebook can take time and patience. It requires dedication to your customers and is a great way to build relationships and earn money at the same time. It doesn’t require working a 9-5 that might stress your body out.

Successful Affiliate Marketing Method for Facebook 100% Free

November 14, 2020 by David Sharpe Leave a Comment

Darren Youd is a client who works as a full time floorlayer in Manchester, England with a side business as an affiliate marketer. We recently interviewed him on our daily show Wake Up Legendary about his affiliate marketing strategies to hear how he uses his Facebook to make value based posts to bring him in business.

Darren has been in the affiliate marketing business for nearly 2 years. He stumbled into affiliate marketing when he wanted to delve into online marketing strategies, and it stood out to him the most. He wanted one on one culture with people after spending 12 years in the fitness industry. Darren said affiliate marketing stood out to him and he’s found a liking for it because “you don’t have to create products, you basically just go out there and promote another person’s products.”

He was attracted to legendary from his inspiration with (my) David Sharpe’s story, and from there he became an affiliate marketer for Legendary.

Darren had always had a knack for helping people, but going through the Legendary Marketer 15 Day Challenge and then enrolling into the Business Blueprints took that desire to a whole new level for him. He feels that one of the most important chapters in the course is the coaching and consulting module. “I couldn't even put a price on it, it’s that valuable to me. I feel that everyone who goes through Legendary Marketer, whether you want to be a coach or not, should go through that module, because what you can actually learn from that, from a dynamic and a mechanical part from (David) , it will steer you to achieve the things that you want in life,” Darren said.

A good piece of advice he gave is how the dynamics of a business are much more important than just the mechanics of it. If someone is not the biggest fan of reading or if they’re working a full time job that just sticking an audio on of a training course and listening to it repeatedly will help them soak in the information until it’s glued to their brain. “This will play a vital and important role in your journey in moving forward because without it you might as well not have the business,” Darren said.

Becoming an affiliate marketer can be hard, especially with a family or a full time job. For Darren, the big picture is what gets him to keep going. “You’ve got to think to yourself and have that vision. What will my life be like in the next few years? Even if it took 6 years will it be worth it to have such an amazing life? Just keep going, and put as much effort as you possibly could each and every single day of your work,” Darren tells us. He says that everyone needs to have an action plan in order to move forward because businesses need structure. Don’t focus on too many things at once because splitting energy between too many things results in not getting much done. Incrementing progress one step at a time will lead to seeing some amazing results in online business. He says to start creating, and producing and to stop consuming.“You can keep listening to reading books but if you’re not actually doing anything with the information, you’re not actually digesting and you’re not doing anything with it. it’s all about implementation,” Darren said.

Darren was doing organic Facebook marketing before he found Legendary. His advice to anyone starting with Facebook is to build more relationships with people doing the same thing and gain attraction. Gaining attraction is important but don’t spend too much time worrying about how many likes and comments a Facebook page is getting because that’s wasting time engaging. Creating new relationships with people and building a brand is where he focuses his energy more. Darren is branching out to Youtube as well to continue to grow his affiliate marketing business. “I’ve got nearly 109 subscribers, I do 3 videos a week, I want to try and up that soon. That's a long term thing,” Darren tells us.

He says to start picking a platform, he suggests Facebook, and follow people in the same niche. “Just bounce off of people and create an amazing business bubble,” Darren said “Once you’ve done this and start creating a pretty decent engagement you can start prospecting as well.” He says that Facebook is a great platform to use to get feedback and comments from others. This will help to build instant credibility on Facebook to create sales using messenger. If it’s treated right, the traffic will come in faster than Youtube.

Darren says he treats his Facebook like a mini blog. He posts value based posts and gets instant feedback. He humanizes himself with a photo of him at the top of his posts and because of the value in his posts he gains instant authority. He also looks at his Facebook like an email. “Each post is an email, all you’re missing is a click here link, but you don’t need that because of the comments. You’ve gained that attraction, they’re gonna end up following you and joining your facebook group anyway,” Darren said. He uses everything he can to build his community and connect with his followers.

He says not to get too wrapped up in posting creative motivational quotes. Those do get engagement but don’t bring in potential buyers. “It’s about sharing as much value as you possibly can,” Darren said. In the future, he wants to start ramping things up. His plan is to get his own hosting website, start patenting a Youtube channel and a Facebook page, and using his Facebook and Google traffic for his affiliate marketing business.

If you’d like to learn more of the strategies just like Darren applies to his affiliate marketing business, including how to make multiple high-ticket affiliate commissions each month to supercharge your earnings, watch our brand new free webclass while access is still free.

The Fastest Way To Get Free Traffic From Facebook Groups While In College

November 9, 2020 by David Sharpe Leave a Comment

Grant Poulson is a client who became a full-time affiliate marketer in just 3 months after going through our training. We recently interviewed him on our morning show Wake Up Legendary to hear how he’s getting loads of free traffic from Facebook using a unique free marketing strategy: value posts.

[Image description] From his Facebook profile, Grant reading a book on money.

Grant was looking for something different out of boredom in his last semester of his senior year of college and after a week of searching, he found it. He watched a training video from me and was inspired by my (David Sharpe) story. “I resonated with your message more than I’ve resonated with anything in my entire life,” Grant said. He was originally looking to cure his boredom and make some money, but that turned into a drive for success because he saw the type of life he wanted to create for himself.

Grant opted into the 15-Day Online Business Builder Challenge and later also enrolled into Legendary’s flagship advanced training “The Business Blueprints and from there he learned more knowledge on building his affiliate marketing business than he thought he would ever have. Grant got into every grad school he applied to, but declined every one of them because he had found his career and passion in affiliate marketing. He now has a Facebook page with over 3,700 friends and is building a business for himself using Free Facebook strategies. This is how he does it:

Step 1- Create a Facebook page

Go to Facebook and create an account. Input your name, email address, gender and birthday then hit ‘sign up’. Go to your email and confirm your account.

[Image description] This is the Facebook sign up page where you will make an account

Add yourself to Facebook groups. There are tons and tons of affiliate marketing groups on Facebook. Do this by going to the ‘Groups’ icon at the top of your Facebook home page and searching ‘affiliate marketing’.

[Image description] These are some of the Facebook affiliate marketing groups that come up that you are able to join

Once you’ve been accepted into Facebook groups, you can not only add friends, but you can also create your own posts. Being active in Facebook groups not only gives you the ability to create your own audience, but also gives you the chance to be in front of someone else's audience. There are thousands of people in some of the affiliate marketing groups, and most of those groups are filled with people spamming affiliate links, but most importantly people who want to learn affiliate marketing strategies. Finding your audience is key because these are the people who are going to be interested in what you have to say. People who want to work from home or who don’t like their current situation often go online and find affiliate marketing as a business model to start quickly and easily. But all too often they get stuck and find themselves joining Facebook groups to get help.

And since so many of these groups are filled with spammers just looking to pitch their business opportunity, if you come into the group and offer real value to these lost newbies you can really cash in.

Step 2- Create a daily process that works for you

Create a daily action plan for yourself. Create a value post every day on your Facebook and in Facebook groups. Make sure that post has a good call to action, and build on it. Make good value based posts teaching a skill or sharing your success. People in affiliate marketing love to see each other succeed. Going live is another way to get in front of the group audience. Offer affiliate marketing strategies or teach a strategy in a live video. Your audience is looking for a solution to their problem. It’s likely that most group members that are part of an online marketing Facebook group don’t have something that is genuinely working for them. Making a post that inspires them with your success and how something is working for you is an opportunity to help others who might not have that success and are looking for it.

[Image description] This is a screenshot from one of Grant’s Facebook posts. He adds emojis to stand out in his posts while offering strategies that will be valuable for others to learn about (ie: “value posts”).

Step 3- Show your humanity

A key step in Grant’s process is showing his humanity. Include photos of yourself, tell your story, add humor, use analogies and call to actions. Create inspirational posts with good value that shows your struggles and how you’ve overcome them. Respond to comments on your Facebook page to not only make it look like you have more comments on posts, but to also show people that you are in fact a real person. Your best target customer when selling a product are the people who have typically already bought a similar product. Showing how the product you are promoting has helped you and how it can help someone else is what is going to show people that you’re a real person with real problems, and that those problems have solutions.

[Image description] This is a photo from Grant’s Facebook page. He includes a photo of himself in his life to his posts to show his humanity. He also includes a call to action at the end of each post offering the ability to help others become successful.

Step 4- Invite friends to private message you and comment on your posts

A big part of the process for Grant is using the Messenger feature from Facebook. This allows you to private message your Facebook friends and create business relationships with them. Through one on one conversation you can offer your help and show them that you care about them and their success. People are less likely to buy when you’re just trying to sell them something. People buy from people and are more likely to buy from you if they know that your goal is to help them succeed, not just to sell them a product and move on. Once you make a good value based post in a Facebook group, you will typically find yourself with multiple Facebook friend requests. When a personal connection is there, the chance for a sale to happen increases dramatically.

Step 5- Turn your content into a service

Turn your Facebook page into a place where people can come to learn business tips, strategies, and lessons. It’s all about learning, even for you, and if you are unsure about what to post, post a photo or something about yourself and create a message out of it. Monitor what is getting the most interaction on your page and from there you can see what is working for you. People want to benefit from the content you are putting out and what you are saying. People are interested in what you say when it can influence them and they can learn from it.

Step 6- Continue the process

Continue to create Facebook posts and group posts to help others learn affiliate marketing strategies, lessons, and show them that you’re a real person. Once you’ve brought them to your page, you can leave an affiliate link at the end of each post with a call to action. Once people know you and know that you’re there to help them and watch them succeed, your commissions and sales will begin coming in for you to collect because customers will want to buy the product you are promoting.

If you would like to learn strategies to apply to your business just like the one Grant applies into his business in affiliate marketing, including how to make multiple high-ticket affiliate commissions each month marketing valuable products people already want to buy, watch our brand new free webclass while access is still free.

Staying Savvy: Social Marketing Through Facebook

November 6, 2020 by David Sharpe Leave a Comment

Social marketing is the inevitable next step of social networks. As marketers, who can blame us for pursuing our options? There are 2.77 billion active users worldwide with a projection of 3.02 billion by 2021 if growth continues at the current pace.

Even a fraction of that number would be enough to power a successful business. And most of them — about 2.32 billion — reside on Facebook.

Of course, there's some overlap with multiple platforms being used by a single person. But Facebook is routinely No. 1. So why shouldn't you try harnessing that to your advantage?

In the following article, we're going to examine the 11 tips for marketing on Facebook the savvy way. Let's start posting!

1. Remember It's Facebook and Not Salesbook

Some businesses make the mistake of allowing Facebook to be their lone marketing and sales channel. While it's possible to set up the social network for sales, it's probably not the best idea.

There are a few reasons we would advise against it. First off, that gives Facebook a share of your sales essentially when that's typically not the reason people are there.

Establishing Facebook as your sole revenue-generator puts the fate and the creativity of the business in the social network's hands. If they don't agree with something you're doing, then they reserve the right to prevent it. They've got that power.

Furthermore, selling through Facebook requires you to be sales-y in how you establish new relationships. As it turns out, people don't like this.

2. Let Others Do the Work for You

Brands tend to love Facebook (and other social networks) for one very special reason. User-generated content.

User-generated content, or UGC as it's called in the social marketing community, is exactly what it sounds like. You allow your followers to generate a lot of the content that makes your channel interesting.

It sounds like a crapshoot putting your business messaging in the hands of the public. But there are ways to control the messaging. Some good examples:

Ask someone to snap a pic of them using your product or service in return for something
Conduct contests and giveaways where the entrants have to post some kind of “buy-in”
Ask questions
Spotlight customers or employees to garner goodwill with their followers
Show up in-person to popular events and find ways you can be seen giving back; then, post it to Facebook

A steady stream of content with some brief direction will bring out your biggest fans. They'll take over from there. And you retain veto power to ensure nothing inappropriate or negative intercepts your messaging.

3. Use a Consistent Voice

The best way to control Voice is to make sure administrative privileges are restricted to your most trustworthy communicators. The larger a company or entity is, the more important this becomes.

You don't want 200 messages randomly circulating about your business, especially on a potentially volatile platform like Facebook. Control the messaging and be consistent with you're saying. The Voice of your brand will emerge from that.

4. Frequency and Scheduling

There are three common content-related questions we hear the most about Facebook. They are:

How often should you post?
When's the best time to post?
What should the content of those posts convey?

Answers vary. But there are some basic truths. For starters, you should be posting on a dependable routine.

A minimum of once per day is recommended. You could get away with less if you're posting on a consistent schedule (weekly) with more dense content.

But keep in mind as you walk through the paces that audiences aren't necessarily on Facebook to learn everything about you. They're there to connect.

As such, a simple funny meme can attract more connections than a 2,000-word guide. That's true even if there's a lot more value in the latter.

So commit to posting often. Follow a schedule where followers and future followers can depend on you. And try to do a mix of media (videos, images, blogs, rants) and outlook (positive, negative, heartwarming, angry, thought-provoking).

To stay brand-positive, you may want to work by a ratio of 3-to-1. That's three “feel-good” posts to one less-so.

5. Be Interactive

Facebook is there for you to be found. Don't get on it if you don't plan to engage.

Of course, there are different ways to engage. News releases, responding to comments, liking and engaging with other connections' posts, responding (professionally) to bad reviews.

Whatever you do, don't engage in the darkness. If a user seems like they want nothing more than to start a fight, don't be afraid to hit the “Hide” button.

But never misconstrue constructive criticism with mean-spiritedness. It's always possible to turn your critics into fans, so long as you're viewing their comments through the right perspective.

6. Think Visually

We touched on this in No. 4, but it's worth singling out. Visual content on Facebook consistently performs better than strictly textual content. And video content, in particular — from YouTube to Facebook — is here to stay.

So figure out ways to display what you have to say in interesting visual terms. It could be a quick informational video, an Infographic, a meme that gets people laughing or thinking.

Do your own. But don't be afraid to curate from other sources, so long as you give credit along the way.

7. Know the Difference Between Real Relationships and Facebook Relationships

Boosting your Facebook following is great. But those relationships are worth more to you offline. And by “offline,” we don't necessarily mean “in the real world,” though that's not a bad idea either.

No, we mean your goal should be to bring your Facebook relationships from the platform to your website. This ensures you own your data, and that you're not at the mercy of any future algorithm changes. It also helps you grow your circle of influence.

Facebook is great for attracting people to your business and establishing your brand. But at day's end, Facebook's only real commitment is to Facebook. And that won't always align with the best interests of your business.

8. Focus on Organic But Know When to Boost

Organic is the way to go from the very start of your online marketing journey, Facebook or otherwise. What's great about organic — other than that it's free — is that it lets you see who is connecting with your brand on a visceral level.

Gaining organic Facebook traction sort of predicts any paid marketing success you're likely to experience. That's because the platform allows popular posts to be seen and engaged with by more of the people who see it.

Think of these individuals as a sample group. As you move into ad-spending, they allow you a better chance of seeing the potential return on investment.

9. Control Your Spend

Another great thing about Facebook is that it allows you to see, at a glance, the posts that are performing better than others. These notifications are red flags of what you should do more of organically. They also tell you where you should spend your ad dollars.

Facebook's system is easy to follow when it comes to functionality. All you need to do is target the right demographics. An understanding of keyword science helps.

10. Do Not Neglect Your Other Marketing Channels

Facebook is the largest social networking platform. But that doesn't necessarily mean it'll be the best one for your business. And if you're experiencing good results on another network, don't go all in until you're certain it's a wise financial move.

Besides, staying cross-platform in your marketing efforts will ensure followers are more about you than the network where they found you. And not every social media fan is a Facebook fan, so there's a good chance that if they found you elsewhere, they aren't going to be following you on Facebook.

11. Be Cognizant

Facebook Insights are enormously helpful when it comes to determining the most active times your users are engaged. It's also useful for singling out the types of content that perform the best. And it can show you how you're stacking up against competitors.

It's important to be cognizant of all of this as you start your Facebook marketing journey or redirect its use. Seeing how you stack up gives you a benchmark and helps you make changes to stay ahead of the pack.

Last but not least, follow any Facebook changes looming ahead. You never know when Zuckerberg and Company will institute a change that dramatically impacts the success and well-being of your business.

Facebook Is Still One of the Best Social Marketing Opportunities

Any social marketing plan that resists Facebook is cutting off its nose to spite its face. Yes, there are some not-so-great things that go on there. But it's the undisputed champ of social networks for a reason.

Businesses that fail to see this usually will see a long marketing road ahead. If you're ready to see better results out of your marketing on Facebook and other social platforms, watch our brand new web class while access is still free.