We’re coming off our best affiliate promotion ever…and a LOT went right. But it wasn’t all cupcakes and rainbows. We made a lot of mistakes that ultimately cost us big time. Today, we share what went wrong and what we will do differently in the future.
We just finished our best affiliate promotion ever in terms of revenue. Over $30,000 total from Marisa Murgatroyd’s Experience Product Masterclass. And we also finished in 3rd place on a PACKED leaderboard, beating the likes of Steve Olsher, Alex Mandossian, Josh Turner, Lisa Sasevich, Bill Baren, and more. We tied with Justin Livingston and Callan Rush and barely lost out to Eben Pagan and Todd Brown. In all, a HUGE success for us! So…what made it a huge success? That’s what we share in today’s episode.
It’s easy to think that you have to have tens or hundreds of thousands of people on your email list to get on the leaderboard of your next affiliate promotion. That is simply not true. Today I share my takeaways from a conversation I had with my friend Matthew Loomis about how he finished SECOND in a recent launch — outperforming people with lists 2 or 3 times bigger than his.
Last year Matthew Loomis surprised everyone (I’ll admit it…including me) when he finished second during the Fall 2016 Tribe Writers launch. For his list size, he GREATLY outperformed his list size — beating out affiliates with much larger lists.
For years, Breanne Dyck believed that she couldn’t sell to her email list. And her results proved her right. That is until she began to practice what she preached. She used the four techniques I’ll share with you today to send her most successful email ever.
Before writing this one email, Breanne was great at teaching others how to send effective emails. Her consulting company was thriving as she taught others how to sell to their lists.
But her own list was a different story. Breanne didn’t believe she could sell to them. So, she did what was easy, not what to was right.
Recently, while Matt was out of the office for a few weeks, I ran a Quick Launch offering several of our swipe files, a case study, and a 2-hour Affiliate Bootcamp in honor of Matt’s birthday. Today I want to do a recap of that launch and share what went well, what didn’t go so well and what you can learn from all of it!
Is it possible to succeed at affiliate marketing with a small email list? You bet it is! Today, I share an awesome case study with John Meese who made $5,359 in affiliate commissions in just one month with a list of only 1,302 subscribers.
If you haven’t noticed, I am a big believer in affiliate marketing as an income builder. From 2014 to 2015, I made more than $100,000 in just in affiliate commissions. My list was never more than 2,000 people.