A big welcome to those of you who are joining us from Wonga, my new course on creating proven, fast streams of income or side hustles, as they are popularly known.
In celebration of that, I am going to focus this week on ways to speed up or improve various areas of marketing for even better results.
Let’s start with affiliate marketing, that perennial favourite of newbies and seasoned marketers alike. The only problem is that it can be harder to make it work than you think, especially fast…
And the clue is in that last sentence because it really does take some hard work.
Yes, I know you’d like me to tell you it’s push button easy but these days the competition is fiercer and so you need to work smarter, if not harder.
This is an excellent, evolving case study on how one man made over 90k with Amazon affiliate marketing…so far:
http://upfuel.com/make-money-with-amazon/
From that, I suggest you focus especially on holiday marketing which can really bring in those faster, better results. There is some good advice on how to do that here:
http://www.allinclusivemarketing.com/affiliates-seasonal-year-round-effort/
Email marketing is another popular marketing method and can be one of the fastest ways to get a great ROI if you do it right.
If you’re not going the results you want or not getting them fast enough, take a look at these tips:
https://www.incomediary.com/make-money-from-email-marketing
And here’s Anik Singal’s five step method:
http://lurn.com/blog/best-ways-to-make-money-online-email-marketing/
Instagram is still one of the best platforms out there for near instant results…again, if you do it right.
Here are some ways you can do it better:
https://blog.bufferapp.com/instagram-marketing
Then there’s Snapchat which is arguably faster as a participation platform than Instagram. Not got a clue how to market on there? Or tried and failed?
Take a look at this:
https://adespresso.com/academy/blog/ultimate-guide-marketing-snapchat/
Video marketing results get faster by 49% year on year as you’ll learn here – use these stats to help craft a winning strategy:
https://blog.bufferapp.com/social-media-video-marketing-statistics
And then design your video marketing to capture attention faster with this tutorial:
https://www.vidyard.com/blog/video-marketing-to-capture-attention-faster/
Your TED talk this week is the apt ‘Smart failure for a fast-changing world’:
