An Introduction to My New Course "How to Become Really Wealthy Through Affiliate Marketing".
Part of my Personal Growth Series of Inexpensive Self-Guided Courses
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I am now in my 7th decade and have learned many lessons about creating wealth (many of them hard lessons) along the way.
Still, I have been blessed with great success. This success did not happen by accident. Of course, there was some luck involved, but I mostly prospered because of great mentoring and coaching, powerful and effective support from others, asking for help at the right time from the right people, and seeking out training in how to make wise decisions.
About five years ago, just about the time the COVID-19 pandemic blew in, I saw many of my brick-and-mortar businesses deflate, and I had to shut down a few. I lost 80% of my income, and some of my businesses were hanging on “by a string”.
What was I to do?
I have been a serial entrepreneur for over 50 years. I’ve been up and down, and one thing I knew…”I wasn’t going to quit”.
Then, checking my Facebook daily, and watching videos on YouTube, I began to see advertisements about courses, trainings, and videos about something called Affiliate Marketing. This term was new to me, and I initially assumed it was some type of scam or some Multilevel marketing system. It wasn’t.
Affiliate Marketing was one of the greatest business opportunities I had ever encountered.
Let Me Give You The Basics Here.
Affiliate marketing is a performance-based online marketing strategy where businesses reward affiliates for driving traffic or sales to their website through the affiliate's marketing efforts. Essentially affiliates are people who sign up, usually for free, and get a special code that connects them to a specific product, service, or company.
In this model, affiliates earn a commission for each customer or lead acquired through their unique tracking links. These links are embedded in various promotional channels such as websites, social media, or email.
Let Me Repeat. Affiliate Marketing Is Not A Scam?
It’s just an old business model repurposed for the digital - Social Media Age. And a great business model it is!
Affiliate marketing benefits both merchants and affiliates. Merchants can expand their reach without incurring upfront marketing costs, while affiliates can monetize their online presence by promoting products or services relevant to their audience. The commission structure varies, with some programs offering fixed fees, while others provide a percentage of the sale.
Affiliate marketing relies on the concept of revenue sharing, fostering a mutually beneficial relationship between merchants and affiliates. This model thrives on the affiliate's ability to attract and convert potential customers, making it a cost-effective way for businesses to increase sales. The tracking system ensures that affiliates receive proper credit for their contribution, making the process transparent and accountable for all parties involved in the affiliate marketing ecosystem.
So What is the Problem? There Really Is No Problem!
There is nothing inherently wrong with affiliate marketing, and it can be a legitimate way to earn money online. However, there are some potential drawbacks and pitfalls to be aware of. The 52-week course I am about to offer you here will address all of these.
1. You need to be patient. The money and wealth is definitely there. The goal here is develop a customer base. This requires either time, or money. Those who are impatient are destined to fail. One of my favorite quotes is “Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die to get there.” This quote perfectly describes the mindset of many who enter the affiliate marketing game but are neither ready, willing, or able to do it properly. In the end they either quit to early, go broke buying Facebook or Google ads, or burnout poorer, an more frustrated than when they started
2. Ethics and transparency: If you're not upfront and transparent about the fact that you're promoting products or services as an affiliate, you could be seen as dishonest or unethical.
3. Quality of products: As an affiliate marketer, you are promoting someone else's product or service, and you have no control over the quality or reliability of the products you are promoting.
4. Saturation: Affiliate marketing is a popular way to make money online, and many people are already doing it. This means that the market can become over saturated, making it difficult to stand out and make a profit.
5. Dependency on the affiliate program: If you rely too heavily on a particular affiliate program for your income, you run the risk of losing your income if the program is discontinued or if your account is suspended or terminated.
Here’s the Good News
Overall, affiliate marketing can be a viable way to make money online, but it's important to approach it with a clear understanding of the potential drawbacks and to be transparent with your audience about your affiliate relationships. In my experience, the only way to get this understanding is by getting some structured training and easily accessible mentoring and coaching.
It’s Usually Available For Very High Fee
All you need to do is type in on Google “What is affiliate marketing” and within 24 hours you will see pop-up ads for courses, funnels, challenges, summits, coaching and trainings, all related to Affiliate Marketing. They will be in your email, Facebook pages, and YouTube searches…. and they ain’t cheap!
$2,000, $10,000, $15,000, even $20,000. Then, once you have paid for the coaching, and training there are going to be monthly fees to pay for, ads, funnels, and advanced coaching. It will be an endless financial bleed. How did this all happen to you? It happened because you didn’t sign up for my $ 5-a-month course on Affiliate Marketing!
My Backstory
I was raised in the tough streets of the South Bronx in the 1950s and 1960s.
I had great parents and a strong system of mentors and positive peers, many of whom were pioneers in the formation of Hip Hop culture and are now billionaires.
I was always taught to stay out of trouble, and whenever possible, to bend, or even make up my own rules.
Today, I live a minimalist and simple life, have been happily married for over twenty-five years, and among my many great successes, I have had dozens of books published, and produced and hosted a radio show for close to a decade on an NPR-affiliated station. I spend much of my time helping billionaire philanthropists give away their money. I don’t charge for this service. I also create very low-cost, self-guided, online courses. This course, "How to Become Really Wealthy Through Affiliate Marketing" is one of them.
Believe me, I am not new at this. I’ve been at entrepreneurship for a long time, and I’m good at it (I’m not being arrogant here, just honest.)
Click on the bookshelves below to view a list of many of my best-sellingbooks:
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Why Did I Create This Course on Affiliate Marketing Success?
I believe that it is extremely difficult to achieve financial success and economic freedom without the right information, and the proper guidance on how to use that information.
If you are not presently wealthy, or you’ve already spent a lot of money on trainings, and courses related to affiliate marketing this is what most of my very wealthy friends will advise you to do:
Create a clear intention,
Get involved with some product or service that reflects some passion or strong interest you have. My passion is sharing fact-based information through courses. Essentially what I am doing here.
Define your desired outcome.
Determine how you are going to use your wealth to serve others and make the world a better place.
Take this structured, information-rich, motivating, and inspiring course. It will show you how to do all these things
The Richest People in The World Had To Study With Someone Somewhere! Just look at these names…
Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com), Elon Musk, Zhang Yiming, who founded Tik Tok-parent Bytedance), Changpeng Zhao (Binance), Bernard Arnault (of luxury goods giant LVMH), Amancio Ortega (Spanish retailer), The Kardashian Family, Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP co-founder and former New York Mayor), Tiger Woods, Taylor Swift, JayZ, Beyonce, Carlos Slim Helú, (Mexican telecom mogul), and Russel Simmons (Hip Hop and music industry mogul).
All of these extraordinary individuals had mentors and coaches and have advisors to this day
Even if a few of these people happened to get wealthy from luck, they still had to learn to how keep that wealth!
Believe me, you are not going to get wealthy in affiliate marketing on your own, just knowing what you know now.
It Ain’t Gonna Happen…No Way, NO How!
Remember:
• Kings and Queens have Ministers,
• Great leaders have ministers and cabinets.
• Great athletes have both trainers and coaches.
• Financial investors have special advisors.
• Artists have mentors,
• Corporate executives have advisors.
Many of us have a dream or vision that has never been fulfilled. It might be connected to spirituality, wealth, relationship, or career…But somehow it got lost along the way, or you were never on the best path to begin with.
When dealing with creating wealth through affiliate marketing - you will need to have at least a simple understanding of the basics of digital marketing, business, and economics. Economics is the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. You will learn these things in this course.
THE BENEFITS OF STARTING WITH MY BASIC COURSE IN…
"How to Become Really Wealthy Through Affiliate Marketing".
Through this $5. a-month course (4 lessons per month) you will get the information you need to take the next step. You will also get motivation, inspiration, information, influence, greater effectiveness, clarity, spiritual focus, better health, validation, networking resources, and expert advice. What you will learn here can result in some or all of these things depending on your intention and commitment to applying the weekly lesson.
To get the most out of the course, you must be ready, willing, and able to take action, experiment along the way, and be patient.
Let this course guide you in creating great wealth while helping you fulfill your Life Vision through:
1. Exploring options
2. Finding the right tools and resources
3. Resolving personal struggles
4. Overcoming unexpected obstacles
5. Making discoveries and insights
6. Achieving results
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If you need private mentoring with me it is available and reasonably priced. If you are ready, willing, and able I can assist you in discerning:
• What is going on in your affiliate marketing strategy, and why?
• Where you are developmentally?
• What specific help is needed?
To learn more about low-cost, private, personalized mentoring/coaching in creating wealth through affiliate marketing drop me an email at LewisCoaches@gmail.com.
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Who are My Students?
They may include young artists and musicians, administrators, physicians, attorneys, accountants, brokers, health professionals in private practice, investors, entrepreneurs, small business owners, professional associations, sales professionals who want more and who want to put up with less, and ordinary individuals who want to live extraordinary lives.
“This course on building wealth through Affiliate Marketing will bring you the riches of your greatest dreams: Experience the life you've always wanted to live. Overcome procrastination. Delete obstacles. Stop flapping your wings and start soaring. Play more. Stop watching life from the sidelines and get in the game. Have more fun at work and enjoy the best things in life.”
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If you enjoyed and benefited from this newsletter and would like to take the more advanced course in creating positive power and influence, Email me at LewisCoaches@gmail.com, and let’s schedule a short chat or Zoom call to find out how I can help you solve problems, and get your needs filled.
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Consider this newsletter as a stepping stone into longer and more advanced courses that also include personal mentoring and coaching.
If you want to learn more about the intermediate and advanced Self-Improvement and Wealth-Building Courses, just e-mail me at LewisCoaches@gmail.com, and we can schedule a 15-30-minute conversation to explore how these courses can help you simplify your life, transform your thinking, and help you to solve your specific problems.
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About the author: Lewis Harrison, is a public intellectual and has been mentoring and coaching visionaries, world-class athletes, thought leaders, billionaires, and individuals seeking to become more effective, efficient, productive, and self-aware for over half a century.
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