Once you learn how to do affiliate marketing using YouTube there is money to be made. YouTube is the third most visited website on the Internet right behind Google and Facebook.
Did you know Google owns YouTube and that this popular shared video site is also a great way to make money as an affiliate marketer?
Let me amp it up a little. There is serious money to be made with YouTube affiliate marketing.
People generally love videos and this is why it is one of the most lucrative ways for you to generate income.
Are you interested in becoming a YouTube affiliate marketer?
Worry not. I have got you covered.
What is YouTube Affiliate Marketing?
For the sake of those who are new to this, we should define what YouTube affiliate marketing is. If you have been at this for a while you could still learn a thing or two.
When you have your own YouTube Channel, you are entitled to get revenue for adverts posted at the beginning or the middle of your videos. YouTube Affiliate marketing, on the other hand, entails the preparation of a video that will encourage viewers to buy the products from a third-party site. You will get a referral commission for every user that buys a product via your link.
Videos used for affiliate marketing can be a review of the product, the benefits of the product, or any other kind of video. Your creativity matters the most.
The end goal of the video should be to convince your viewers to make a purchase. The commissions of every purchase range could be from 2-10% on physical products or up to 75% on digital products.
Joining the Amazon affiliate program is the best source for physical products to sell as an affiliate. Joining Clickbank is a great source for digital products to sell with high commissions.
Once you have joined an affiliate program such as these two programs you need a place to promote your affiliate products. This is where YouTube comes in.
Getting started with YouTube affiliate marketing is easy. All you need to do is sign up for an affiliate program and begin placing affiliate links on your YouTube videos.
Sounds easy right? Let’s find out more about how to do affiliate marketing on YouTube and see if that is something that you would be interested in starting today.
The Requirements to Become a YouTube Affiliate Marketer
1. Set up your YouTube Account. Signing up for a YouTube account is the first step to becoming a YouTube affiliate marketer. If you already own one then you are better off.
It will take at most, five minutes for you to sign up on YouTube. Afterward, you will have unlimited access to the Creator Studio section that allows you to upload videos, write descriptions, add links, and much more.
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2. Register to be an affiliate with an affiliate network or affiliate program. This is the second most crucial step. the link that I will display at the bottom of the video will show you the process of how to do that.
Without an affiliate network or program, you will have no products to promote. Joining an affiliate program gives you products to sell for that program. Joining an affiliate network gives you access to affiliate programs within the network you can join.
And joining a community the way I did will help you along the way until you begin to make money, and grow a business at home on your own.
There are lots of affiliate networks out there to join. Clickbank, CJ.com, and Max Bounty and some that come to mind.
As I mentioned, Amazon Associates is the most popular. This is true because of the millions of products you can sell. It is also true because they are a buying search engine so people are automatically coming to Amazon to buy what you are selling.
Google AdSense also comes to mind and you can join their affiliate program and earn money when people click on ads on your website. Yes, we will show you how to build your very own website as well. This can still be done with YouTube marketing even though you are not selling a product.
3. A video recorder. You don’t need to break the bank and buy an expensive video recorder when you are just starting out with YouTube affiliate marketing.
The idea here is to ensure that your videos are clear and of good quality. A standard camera will do the trick, or you can use Vidnami which has a 14-day free trial.
If you are on a tight budget you can record using your smartphone camera provided it is clear enough. You don’t want your viewers to struggle with video quality issues.
4. Video editing software. With the right video editing software, you can expect your YouTube Affiliate marketing career to be a success.
Make use of excellent editing tools such as Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas. You could also use free editing software such as Windows Moviemaker which is equally efficient.
5. A microphone. If you intend on making your videos interactive you should get yourself a microphone.
It will ensure that the sound quality is excellent and your viewers can clearly hear what you are saying. As you may know on the Internet people get turned off easily. Poor voice quality might drive viewers from your channel.
6. Finally, you will need a great idea for your video. At the beginning of this article, we did discuss how important it is that you be creative when doing YouTube affiliate marketing.
You should brainstorm the best ideas for a video. Take a look at what other affiliate marketers are doing and gain inspiration from them. This is why we strongly suggest that you join a community like the one below, to help you come up with these ideas, and what is working to make you money. Being yourself works the best.
Try doing something unique that is not being done on YouTube before in your own way. The key to succeeding in this venture is by being enthusiastic. Be happy and positive throughout your videos and your viewers will be pleased with what you have to offer.
Tips on How to Make Great YouTube Videos for Affiliate Marketing
Since you are doing YouTube affiliate marketing make sure your videos are top-notch. It doesn’t matter whether you have video publishing skills or not.
As they say, Experience is the Best Teacher. The minute you upload your first video you will learn from your mistakes and you will grow through them. Always embrace positive criticism.
That aside, here are tips on how you can make great YouTube videos for affiliate marketing so that you can earn money online.
Buy Your Affiliate Product
I want to give you a very powerful tip that I have learned over the years. What I’m talking about is buying the affiliate product you are trying to sell.
This is not what most affiliates do.
What they do is…
– join an affiliate program
– go get their affiliate link
– write a blog article
– include the link in the article to their affiliate sales page.
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If you’re driving enough traffic to your blog post this will work on sheer numbers alone. However, your conversion rates will not be as high as you want them to be. Even if you’re using YouTube videos to sell products or as a pre-sell before passing them through to your blog post you can do better.
A better approach is to buy the affiliate product and learn everything about it. This is how you can create high-quality YouTube videos that are going to be different than what other affiliates are producing.
Only you can put your own stamp on the affiliate product based on your personal experiences. This gives you the opportunity to talk about the pros and cons of the product that you’re trying to sell. This is more believable and that is what people want to hear before they make a decision about buying a product on their own.
There’s no limit to the number of videos you can create when you’re talking about personal experiences. This is another tip when it comes to making money doing YouTube affiliate marketing.
Creating a large number of videos based on the affiliate product you’ve bought gives you more opportunities to make sales. I don’t want to beat a dead horse, but no matter which affiliate product you’re trying to earn a commission on, buy that product. Then learn everything about it before you start creating your YouTube videos.
Stay On Topic
The video needs to relate to the product you are trying to sell. Be sure that you never go off-topic.
One way to do that is to get straight to the point. The online world is not a patient bunch of people. For the most part, they dislike long and obnoxious videos. Try to be as straightforward as possible.
You will see with that approach you would be able to make sales on a continuous basis with the same customers who keep coming back because they will learn to like and trust you as you develop your brand.
Quality Video And Audio Matters A Lot
Quality Video And Audio Matters A LotYou can say goodbye to viewers if your video and sound quality are below standard. Always ask your family, friends, or colleagues if the videos are clear or loud enough before posting them on YouTube.
That is why practicing on. your smartphone on a daily basis as you go through your daily routine is a good place to start, and before you know it, your expertise and presentation would increase.
And this does not matter what background or country you come from cause there are buyers in those backgrounds and countries as well. Most buyers pay attention to the message rather than the messenger.
Be Interactive
Clients enjoy being engaged. Chat with them on social media and reply to their comments on your YouTube channel.
Ask them to like your videos. Ask them to subscribe to your YouTube Channel so they are notified when you create a new video.
Animoto
Make use of free trial versions of different software. It is understandable if you have a low budget when starting out. Now when you begin earning you can invest in premium software.
Let me throw out another option here. This is a video creation software program known as Animoto.
It is a great way to create videos that are professional-looking without actually shooting any video yourself. These videos can be created in various formats including a slide share format where you type in text and add graphics.
There are different themes to choose from. You can change the music on each video if you want as well.
These are very easy to upload directly into your YouTube channel. You can then set the title to target a keyword phrase if you choose.
You will also be able to enter a description with text and a link to a blog post or to your affiliate sales page directly. Using a URL shortener is a good way to mask it as an affiliate URL. An example of what I did years back.
Don’t Spam In Your Video
Don’t spam your viewers with affiliate links. It is best if you do it discreetly while ensuring the viewer sees it clearly.
Never try to sound pushy. People love a genuine and honest approach.
A video that just pushes people with too many links in the video is a sure way to get them to click away. Think about yourself and what you like to see in a video and treat your viewers the same way.
final thoughts
Earlier in this article, I mentioned that Google owns YouTube and it’s the third most visited search engine on the Internet today. That’s really what YouTube is. It’s a search engine.
It may not be quite as much of a buyer search engine as Amazon is, but it is a search engine and people go there for information on things. This gives you a great opportunity to use YouTube to make money as an affiliate marketer.
For you to succeed at YouTube affiliate marketing you want your videos to stand out from the rest. You can achieve this by following all the above tips.
Once you get the hang of it YouTube affiliate marketing is easy and you can earn substantial income from it. You will be surprised at the number of online entrepreneurs who work full-time as YouTube affiliate marketers.
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I find that the unboxing type of videos is easy to do because you basically speak your mind. It’s also anticipative for the viewers because it’s like opening a present to see what’s inside. Of course, if you take it a step further by showing the features and testing out the functions, it would really make the product review for comprehensive.
Hi Cathy, so true. The goal in mind is to let your message comes across as clearly as possible and to the point. and once they see the value in your products or services is a win-win situation for both parties. thank you for your contribution here.
I believe this is the first website to carry this information that I have seen. I have been very curious if this were possible. I am new to affiliate marketing. Are there other guidelines to follow based on this article? Please let me know. In time I would like to implement this form of advertising. Best, Krista
Hey Krista, happy that you find this article very informative and if you follow these guidelines, you will be on your to building a successful affiliating marketing business. People are becoming very visual that is the reason for Youtube being very popular.
When you begin to implement this form of advertising please let me know, I would be glad to give you more information that would be beneficial to you. Is better you get started with Affiliate marketing, in the beginning, to get your website up and running. Talk to you soon.
Great tips Bishop,
Especially the buying the affiliate program part, that is golden because as we’re in the content creation line, we need to create ideas regarding a product regularly and what better what to do that than trying to program itself so that you know it by heart. Out of curiosity, do you have a limit on how much should you be spending on a specific program?
You are welcome, Riaz.
The affiliate program is the best way to get started and become a member Wealthy Affiliate is the best way I have found do such that. the Internet keeps changing and is good to be up-to-date with the changes and trend.
Almost all affiliate program is free to join and I recommend that you look for one that requires a free service so that you can take it for a test run without spending your hard earn cash at the beginning. I have realized that under $50 is a ballpark amount that most people are comfortable with. Hope that helps!
Thank you very much for this great post, personally I do appreciate any post that explains how to make money online. I have heard about YouTube affiliate marketing a couple times and I think with this explanation of yours, it is really worth a try. But am a little bit ignorant on how to generate leads or drive traffic.
Youtube is gaining in popularity because we are living in an information and more visual age. Once you have an audience to your offer, giving value would be the key strategies to increase your audience based. You can presell them by giving them a free offer just to get them to sign up to your email list.
This would in due time work as your main traffic source. Then you can sen they drip emails on a continuous basis educating them on your product or services. And over time they would grow to like and trust you and eventually buy from you. That would be one way to drive traffic to your offer.
When you join my number one recommendation you will learn other ways as well and how to get them set up to grow your affiliate business. Hope that helps!
Hello David, that is a comprehensive post on how to use YouTube for affiliate marketing. As an affiliate marketer myself, time and resources are of key consideration. Those steps you mentioned can be pretty daunting for people who have not done video before. You got to prepare a script on your review, pre-production planning and then post-production editing. I have 3 questions for someone who have not done video review before.
1. How do you overcome the mental fear of shooting yourself? Some people are natural at it, others struggle.
2. How long should a review video be, eg. 2 minutes?
3. How long does it take in total time to prepare the video and get it on YouTube base on Q2?
While there are a lot of emphasis on video today, the effort and skill may be higher.
Stanley, thank you for your feedback. I have seen most people put off using video marketing cause they want to get it right the first time. That would never happen. Like I said your approach is to get started using the different avenues I discussed and over a period of time you would get better with your brand.
This is why I strongly suggest you join my community so we can figure out the approach to fit your brand. Remember is not a movie we are preparing but an introductory message to take them to a website for the full information.
To answer your questions:
1. The mental fear will go away after a few practices, depending on your focus.
2. The length of your video will depend on your message. It could be under 8 minutes according to your brand.
3. The length of time could be within 5 minutes depending on what you are looking to accomplish in the video. here is a detailed approach that I have used in the past. Click here!
Hope that helps!
I think anyone would agree with me that getting started with YouTube affiliate marketing can not come at a more easier way than. the way you have simplified it above. Thanks so much for bisecting this cumbersome area of affiliate marketing to make it much more easier for me to understand. I would like to maximize the use of YouTube too. Thanks for sharing the necessities to achieving success with YouTube.
You are welcome Tracy, and once inside Wealthy Affiliate, there is step by step videos showing you how to go through the process to maximize your Youtube Affiliate Marketing business. feel free to look me up so that I can send you to the right information and training. Thank you for the feedback.
Doing affiliate marketing on YouTube has been an area I want to explore for a long time and I’m delighted I came across a detailed overview of how it works on this post. Is there a way I can make YouTube videos without being seen because I have a phobia for the lens. I would love to learn how to make anime videos. Also, is there a need to do an SEO on YouTube marketing too?
Matias, happy to know that you find value with this post. I am still going through different ways to approach Youtube videos and yes, you can do videos without being seen. I have touched on that in my post using Animoto, so take a look at it again and follow along.
Inside the platform, I recommend there are detail training with step by step videos on how to set up your videos to marketing it on Youtube. When you join WA for free send me a message and I will point you in the right direction.
Feel free to come back here if you have more questions or need clarification on anything pertaining to Youtube videos and how to leverage it as an affiliate marketer. Talk to you soon.
Hello,
What a great post! And, you are very right saying that You-tube is a big search engine. I like to to use You-tube for every little or big thing. Or, if I have a question – You-tube is a perfect place to find an answer.
I was reading your post a couple of times, and I was tempting to create an account. You explained in detail where to start ( the first steps), what kind of tools we need to have, and how to use them. Also, tips on how to make great You-tube videos and many other great ideas.
Youtube videos – are in my plans, and I will use the tips you provide.
Thanks again for the post.
My website is based on making money tips and what someone can use to build and grow an online business. although there are a lot here I always suggest that when starting out you pick one approach at a time rather than using all the various ways to grow your online business.
When starting out I focused on two areas in my business that was content marketing which I know would be long term and paid advertising to keep my business alive. so although youtube is a great tip to grow your audience having SEO knowledge for rankings would be a great help to your business, and you can get all the information within Wealthy Affiliate platform. Take care!
Excellent review on how to make affiliate marketing on YouTube channel. For this type of affiliate marketing to be successful, there is a need to know much about software and video editing. Spam can be a very annoying thing the audience doesn’t like.
For the fact that we will still have to write a blog post to say our mind about the video, I think YouTube affiliate marketing does not have high hand compare to the other ones. Am I right? Is it possible to combine bothering youtube AdSense and youtube affiliate marketing together link on the same video?
I would agree with you that some knowledge is needed and editing software, but that should not hold us back from leveraging Youtube for SEO. we can send a short message to our audience to a blog post. Remember people video chat on their phones all the time. Smartphone video is getting more sophisticated as before, and we can use them to get started.
I personally believe that Youtube will outrank content marketing in the near future, but that is just my take on this. depending on where you are with your website then Google AdSense is fine. In the beginning, I do not recommend it, only if it is a separate website from your brand. I would stay away from adding Google Adsense links to your videos. Just my thought on this.
Thanks for putting up those wonderful post. Most people are looking for various means of taking money online but lack of knowledge that these little things we overlook can bring us some cook cash. I have heard about making money on YouTube from an affiliate marketing strategy but I had little understanding of it and that’s why I searched for a post like it. I now have a better understanding of how the process work and how I can set up my account. Thanks for this educational post.
You are welcome, and if you follow my guidelines you can be up and running on Youtube in little time. Just do not get despondent if you are not satisfied at first you can practice on Instagram for fun if that makes you feel better. Remember they would be people looking at your videos who never done any so it is not that serious. Thank you for the feedback.