In a world that is ever-changing and always evolving and adapting, it’s crucial that you set up income streams other than just your regular job. Any day, any month, at any time, you can be let go, fired, or laid off by your employer. It’s not fear mongering if it’s true- and the stats don’t lie. Look into the unemployment rates in the United States and seriously ask yourself if you feel 100% comfortable that you won’t be laid off any time in the near future.
With that being said, one of the best ways to ensure your financial success regardless of your employment status is to build passive income streams that can operate autonomously, or nearly autonomously. In the past couple months, I have discovered a new way to earn some extra money on the side, and I seriously think this is one of the best strategies to earn money without a job.
My company helped a few clients get set up with simple “One-Page, Six-Figures” affiliate sites, that are able to generate passive income through high-ticket affiliate marketing. We use a pretty simple framework, so it’s fairly easy to replicate on your own. The framework looks a little like this:
The framework really only has three steps, but really it’s more of a circular cycle rather than a linear system. The first step is building an SEO-optimized site with a list of affiliate products, which will look basically like those sites that tell you about the “best products for XYZ” The truth is, most of the sites you see that are talking about physical products are using affiliate marketing to drive revenue.
Once you understand the framework of the One Page, Six Figures system, you will be able to repeat it over and over again, increasing your potential passive income every single time. With that being said, let’s get into the first step of the framework.
Build SEO Optimized Page with Affiliate Products
Listen, you really don’t have to be a genius to get a one page affiliate site set up. In fact, I can almost guarantee you that you could get one set up in under an hour without any prior web development skills. The best way to craft a website from scratch is to use a simple website builder like GetResponse and build out a super simple affiliate page.
BONUS: Integrate some kind of free offer to collect email leads to get more profits via retargeting.
The GetResponse builder is very intuitive and easy to use, and I also think they offer one of the cheapest solutions I’ve found for email marketing. To get started making an affiliate website using GetResponse, click on the “create a landing page” button on your dashboard.
GetResponse offers dozens of free templates to create your affiliate site, but I like to go with the simple themes because they offer the most availability for customization. For this example website, I will show you an old affiliate site that I used to generate thousands in sales for a pretty niche market: pellet and air gun hunting.
All I did to create this site was use GetResponse’s landing page builder, built out the list, then added my affiliate links. For every sale I got 3% of the order value, and when the pellet guns were worth anywhere from $200 to $900, that equated to around $5 total commission per conversion. Although that’s not a huge commission, it’s pretty decent considering the affiliate site only took me a few minutes to get set up.
Use Google Ads to Drive Traffic
The next step to making commissions through this Amazon affiliate site is driving automated traffic to the offer. Although this could be done using free methods such as TikTok and Instagram, Google Ads are very inexpensive when you are target specific niches. For pellet guns specifically for the use of hunting, the competition was incredibly low, and it really didn’t cost much at all- in fact it was less than $0.50 per click when I was using this affiliate site.
I usually was able to get around 20–25 conversions per day from running Google Ads to this affiliate site, which was around $100-$125 in commissions per day from front-end sales before advertising costs. This particular affiliate site had a conversion rate of about 40%, so my average cost per conversion was $2.
The actual profits varied, but only on the front-end conversion of the actual pellet gun sales I was able to get around $1500 in profit per month from pellet gun sales alone, not taking into consideration the 24-hour cookies that Amazon Associates offers.
Amazon Associates Cookies
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Amazon affiliate program, whenever a customer clicks on one of your affiliate links, you don’t only get the commission from the sale of the product you were originally promoting. For 24 hours, you will get a commission on any product that customer purchases. So even if a customer clicked a link but didn’t convert, I still had a chance to earn some commission. When I was driving this much traffic to affiliate links every single day, I was able to get a lot of commissions on the backend simply because people who clicked my affiliate links ended up buying something else on Amazon within 24 hours. With that being said, you have to take into consideration that you won’t only be getting commissions for the product you are promoting, but also whatever else the customer purchases on Amazon. This little boost in commissions helps to make a lot more money through affiliate sites, and it’s been a game-changer for affiliates around the globe.