Hi
What do you do?
A question I’m often asked and was asked again yesterday
Over the years I’ve gone with:
“I’m an internet marketer” - This is usually met with a blank stare (not so much now)
I came to realise that most people who nothing about how things sell online assume that it must be ultra technical and complicated. They don’t dare to ask any more in case they find themselves out of their depth. (it isn’t and they wouldn’t)
So I switched to
“Affiliate marketer” - more or less the same result….
Now I say
“I recommend amazing things on the internet”.
That always prompts some questions:
1. “What sorts of things?”
2.“How do you make money at that?”
3. “How did you get into that?”
are the most frequent.
The answers are:
1.“Everything from high end trining and self development courses to video software -basically everything I use myself”
2. “I just recommend these goods or services to people who I know are looking for them by reviewing them from an insider’s point of view. If someone then buys them, their owners pay me a commission. The whole thing is automated”.
3. “When my corporate employers made me redundant in the last recession I knew the internet was the way ahead and went looking for training, support and a profitable business to start with. I found this amazing organisation that provided absolutely everything I needed and have been a member of it ever since”.
Usually the conversation goes on and I explain that affiliate marketing is really based around something we all do anyway. We talk enthusiastically to our friends and family about things we have found to be great. That can be anything from a good cafe or restaurant you’ve found to a University level video training course.
Affiliate marketing simply takes that principal online where you can recommend things to literally billions of people and be paid for your trouble.
And as Ringo Starr sang on the Beatles album Help - “All you have to do is act naturally”.
Nobody these days wants to be SOLD things.
But they will happily buy from straight ahead people like themselves who can demonstrate the benefits of X, Y or Z without shoving it down their throats.
Why wouldn’t you want to have a business like that?
Bests
Dave
