If I was learning affiliate marketing from scratch, these are the 7 things I'd learn first.
1. How to spot a product people already want. I I'd learn how to recognise existing demand, what people are already spending money on, what they complain about and what makes them choose one solution over another.
2. How to identify the person most likely to buy. "People who want to make money" is too broad. I'd learn how to identify the specific situation someone is in, what they're trying to achieve and what would make them seriously consider a solution.
3. How to create content around buying situations. I'd learn to stop making every post about the product. Instead, I'd talk about the problems, frustrations, mistakes and moments that make someone realise they need the kind of solution I'm recommending.
4. How to create desire without constantly pitching.
5. How to have a sales conversation.
6. How to track what produces commissions. I'd track which content brings interested people, which conversations lead to purchases, which products convert etc
7. How to improve from every sale. Every buyer gives you information. Why did they buy? What almost stopped them? What did they ask before paying? What outcome were they hoping for? I'd keep collecting those answers because they make the next piece of content and the next sales conversation better.
If I understood these seven things, I'd have a much stronger foundation than someone who simply learns how to get an affiliate link and start posting it everywhere.
Stop ending every educational post with “Hope this helps.” Use these 5 CTAs in your next post.
1. To get comments: “Which one of these are you guilty of?”
2. To start conversations: “What part are you currently struggling with?”
3. To get saves: “Save this. You’ll need it the next time you’re working on this.”
4. To get shares: “Send this to someone who still finds it difficult to do this”
5. To create demand: “If you want me to show you how to actually do this, send me a DM with [keyword].”
Instead of creating content around your product every day, create content around the situations that make people need your product.
For example:
If you sell a budgeting course:
Don’t keep talking about budgeting. Talk about getting paid and somehow having nothing left two weeks later, impulse spending after a stressful day, or realising you can’t explain where your last ₦100k went.
If you sell a fitness programme:
Talk about avoiding pictures because you don’t like how you look, getting tired from simple activities, or buying clothes and constantly changing your mind because you don’t like how they fit.
If you sell a sales course:
Talk about someone asking for your price and disappearing, getting lots of “I’m interested” messages that never become payments, or having people compliment your content while nobody buys what you’re selling.
You see the pattern? And that’s how you sell without selling!
I want to teach you something that could change the way you sell from today, especially if you sell physical or digital products.
And no, it isn’t another hook formula or some complicated funnel.
There’s a simple exercise you can do that will show you exactly what your customers are thinking before they buy from you.
Take your last 20 people who bought from you, then go back and study what happened before each purchase.
What did they ask you?
What were they struggling with?
What almost stopped them?
What made them finally decide to buy?
What words did they use to describe the problem?
Then look for patterns.
You might discover that the thing you thought was convincing people isn’t actually what makes them buy. Maybe most of them had the same objection before purchasing, or they kept describing the same desired outcome in completely different words from the ones you use in your marketing.
Now take those patterns and build your content, sales page, offers and conversations around them.
Do this every month and you’ll start understanding your market in a way that scrolling through competitor pages simply can’t give you.
And if you want to learn more ways to understand what makes people buy and use that knowledge to sell better, that’s exactly the kind of thing I teach inside MTBTB.
Send me a DM with MTBTB if you want it.
If you are a beginner affiliate marketer, I’m going to summarize everything you need to actually make it big with affiliate marketing.
First, understand that the product is not your business, your ability to sell it is. You can find an amazing product with a 50% commission and still make nothing if you don’t know how to get the right people interested in it.
So start with a problem, not a product. Find something people already spend money trying to solve, then find a good product that solves it. This immediately gives you a better audience to market to because you’re not trying to convince random people that they need something.
Then learn how to attract those people. Your content should make the person with that problem stop and think, “She’s talking about me.”
After that, learn how to create desire. Don’t spend every post describing what the product contains. Show people what changes when the problem is solved, what their current situation is costing them and why the solution is worth considering.
Then learn how to handle the buying conversation. Someone asking for the price isn’t necessarily ready to buy. Someone saying “I’ll think about it” isn’t necessarily rejecting you either. You need to understand what is happening in their mind and know how to move the conversation forward without begging them to buy.
Finally, track what actually produces commissions. Which content sends people to the offer? Which questions come up before people buy? Where do interested people disappear? Which products convert? Which ones generate refunds? Keep studying those patterns because your first few sales should teach you how to make the next hundred.
That’s really it.
Find a problem, find a product, find the people who have that problem, learn how to sell the solution, then keep studying what makes them buy.
5 business lessons I need everyone to know
1. A good product does not guarantee good sales: People can genuinely need what you sell and still not buy it if you haven't communicated the value properly.
2. Attention is not the same as demand: A post can get thousands of views from people who will never buy from you. Learn to attract people who actually have the problem you solve.
3. Your customer doesn't care how hard you worked on the product: they care about what changes for them after buying it so stop selling your effort and start selling the outcome.
4. The fastest customer to sell to is often the one who already knows they have a problem.
5. You can have a traffic problem and a sales problem at the same time: Getting more people to see an offer that doesn't convert won't fix the business.
If you want your content to generate buyers, add these tweaks to your post:
1. Talk about a problem people already want solved: Don’t just teach something interesting. Tie the lesson to something your audience is actively struggling with.
2. Show them what the problem is already costing them, in money, time, missed opportunities, stress, or results.
Basically, give them a new way to look at the problem.
3. Sometimes people aren’t taking action because they don’t see the problem the way you do. Give them that shift.
Show what changes when the problem is solved.
4. Don’t stop at “here’s how to fix it.” Let them picture what becomes easier, faster, or possible afterwards. Give the post somewhere to go.
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Tell ChatGPT your current skills, available time, budget, and income goal. Then ask it to compare different online business models based on those factors.
For example:
"Here are my current skills: [list them].
I can commit [X hours] per day.
My starting budget is [amount].
My target income is [amount] per month.
I live in [country].
Compare affiliate marketing, digital products, freelancing, consulting, content creation, and other realistic online business models for me.
For each one, show me the startup cost, skills required, time before I could realistically make my first money, income potential, difficulty of getting customers, how scalable it is, and the biggest risk.
Then rank the options specifically for my situation and tell me which one you would start with, why, and what I should do during my first 30 days."
You’re welcome.
5 ways to naturally promote your stuff without seeming too salesy:
1. Talk about the problem before you talk about your product: If you’re constantly saying “my course does this” and “my product does that,” people start tuning out.
2. Don’t always announce that you’re selling. Show how you use it, what it helped you do, what changed after using it, or what someone else achieved with it. People get to see the product working instead of just hearing you praise it.
3. Turn questions into content: If someone asks you, “How do I do this?” answer the question publicly, then mention that your product goes deeper into it. Now the promotion came from a real conversation instead of you randomly deciding it’s time to sell
4. Tell stories where your product is part of what happened: Instead of, “Buy my course because it will help you sell,” tell the story of something you or a student did using what you teach.
5. Give them a useful piece of the process, then let them see where the gap is. If your product helps them close that gap, mention it.
Instead of saying: “Here’s 5 marketing tips.”
Say: “Here are 5 marketing tips that helped me get more enquiries without posting more often.”
Don’t say: “My course teaches sales.”
Say: “My course teaches you why people say ‘I’ll think about it’ and how to turn that into a ‘Where do I pay?’”
Instead of saying: “Be consistent.”
Say: “Post about the same problem often enough that people start associating you with solving it.”
Don’t say: “I help businesses grow.”
Say: “I help businesses turn the attention they’re already getting into paying customers.”
Instead of saying: “This product is affordable.”
Say: “Most people recover what they spent on this product with just one sale.”
Can you see how each of them creates a completely different picture in your mind?
You’re saying almost the same thing, but the second version gives people something they can imagine, understand, or believe.
The way you word your posts matters.
If you want my ChatGPT prompt that helps turn boring hooks into scroll-stopping ones, let me know in the comments and I’ll share it.
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