You're ready to take your blog or platform to the next level. Before you make the investment of money, energy, and time, consider all your options. Here are some questions to ask yourself before you open your wallet.  Make sure you listen to episode 18 for the first part of our discussion where we outline the different ways you can grow as a business person and grow your business with courses, coaching, outsourcing, and conferences.

You're ready to take your blog or platform to the next level. Before you make the investment of money, energy, and time, consider all your options. Here are some questions to ask yourself before you open your wallet. Make sure you listen to episode 18 for the first part of our discussion where we outline the different ways you can grow as a business person and grow your business with courses, coaching, outsourcing, and conferences.

19. Courses, Coaching, Consulting! Part 2 -- Questions to Ask Before You Invest in Your Business

You've decided it's time to spend some money on learning a new skill or moving your business forward, but what exactly should you do? In this episode, we discuss your investment options (courses, coaching, masterminds, consulting, etc.) and the pros and cons of each one. Make sure you listen to episode 19 for PART 2 of this discussion: Questions to ask yourself before you make that investment.

You've decided it's time to spend some money on learning a new skill or moving your business forward, but what exactly should you do? In this episode, we discuss your investment options (courses, coaching, masterminds, consulting, etc.) and the pros and cons of each one. Make sure you listen to episode 19 for PART 2 of this discussion: Questions to ask yourself before you make that investment.

18. Courses, Coaching, Consulting! How to Decide Where to Invest in Your Business

We all want to make money on our content, but oftentimes we are making mistakes that can be easily fixed that when done will increase our revenue. Here are six more common affiliate marketing mistakes I see bloggers and content creators make all the time. Make sure you listen to EPISODE 16 for the first seven mistakes!

We all want to make money on our content, but oftentimes we are making mistakes that can be easily fixed that when done will increase our revenue. Here are six more common affiliate marketing mistakes I see bloggers and content creators make all the time. Make sure you listen to EPISODE 16 for the first seven mistakes!

17. 6 MORE Common Affiliate Marketing Mistakes (and how to fix them)

We all want to make money on our content, but oftentimes we are making mistakes that can be easily fixed that when done will increase our revenue. Here are seven common affiliate marketing mistakes I see bloggers and content creators make all the time. Come back and listen to episode 17 for six more affiliate marketing mistakes!

We all want to make money on our content, but oftentimes we are making mistakes that can be easily fixed that when done will increase our revenue. Here are seven common affiliate marketing mistakes I see bloggers and content creators make all the time. Come back and listen to episode 17 for six more affiliate marketing mistakes!

16. 7 Common Affiliate Marketing Mistakes (and how to fix them)

Everyone says that if you get the same question from three or more readers, it's time to create a product to solve their problem. Great advice, right? But is creating your own digital product (a course, an ebook, a recourse guide, coaching, or a membership site) really the best way to serve your audience well?  In this episode, find out the pros and cons of both creating your own product and promotion someone else's product as an affiliate and how you can make the best decision for your readers and your business.

Everyone says that if you get the same question from three or more readers, it's time to create a product to solve their problem. Great advice, right? But is creating your own digital product (a course, an ebook, a recourse guide, coaching, or a membership site) really the best way to serve your audience well? In this episode, find out the pros and cons of both creating your own product and promotion someone else's product as an affiliate and how you can make the best decision for your readers and your business.

15. How to Decide When Should you Make Your Own Product and When you Should Promote Someone Else’s

The answer to "Should I promote this product as an affiliate" is NOT as easy as "If it serves my audience." An affiliate product needs to serve YOU as the business owner as well as your readers. Listen to find out the criteria you can use to decide if you should promote a physical or digital product or service on your site, to your email list, or on one of your engaged social media platforms.

The answer to "Should I promote this product as an affiliate" is NOT as easy as "If it serves my audience." An affiliate product needs to serve YOU as the business owner as well as your readers. Listen to find out the criteria you can use to decide if you should promote a physical or digital product or service on your site, to your email list, or on one of your engaged social media platforms.

14. How to Decide if You Should Promote a Product

Use these tips to update your already-published content so you can cash in on the work you've already done! Monetizing a highly trafficked post can take less than 30 minutes and the results will bring you passive income every single month.

Use these tips to update your already-published content so you can cash in on the work you've already done! Monetizing a highly trafficked post can take less than 30 minutes and the results will bring you passive income every single month.

13. How to Monetize Past Content

Here are five strategic things you can do to set yourself up to make more money this year with affiliate marketing.

12. 5 things to make more money with affiliate marketing this year

NOW is the time to start your promotional plan for NEXT Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Here are 6 things we plan to implement or change for next year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday to grow our audience, work more efficiently, and make more money in 2019.

NOW is the time to start your promotional plan for NEXT Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Here are 6 things we plan to implement or change for next year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday to grow our audience, work more efficiently, and make more money in 2019.

11. 6 Things We'll Do Differently Next Black Friday

Black Friday and Cyber Monday is our revenue Super Bowl and this year we absolutely WON. Listen to the five things we did over the lucrative pre-Christmas shopping season to engage our readers, work efficiently, and make big money.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday is our revenue Super Bowl and this year we absolutely WON. Listen to the five things we did over the lucrative pre-Christmas shopping season to engage our readers, work efficiently, and make big money.

10. 5 Lessons Learned from Black Friday and Cyber Monday

I teach legit affiliate marketing strategies to help bloggers and content creators monetize their work, diversify their income, and ultimately increase their revenue.

I just found this podcast online and I’ve already run out of episodes! I like Angela’s style and real-world examples. Although there hasn’t been a new episode in almost a year, I’m hoping she will come back.

Come back!!

angela is such a helpful woman and she has helped my business so much!!

so helpful!

Your Affiliate Marketing Mentor

Today I’m joined by Melody Hansen, my online manager and periodic co-host. In this episode Melody and I are going to discuss how affiliate marketing is easier than what you’re doing now. Basically why it’s superior to all other monetization strategies out there.

Today I’m joined by Melody Hansen, my online manager and periodic co-host. In this episode Melody and I are going to discuss how affiliate marketing is easier than what you’re doing now. Basically why it’s superior to all other monetization strategies out there.

3. How Affiliate Marketing Is Easier Than What You're Probably Doing Now

Using Amazon as an affiliate can be a good income stream from your website and social media platforms, but you need to know the rules to keep your account in good standing. Make sure you're following the Amazon Associates rules and that you're using the tools available to make your work more efficient. 

Using Amazon as an affiliate can be a good income stream from your website and social media platforms, but you need to know the rules to keep your account in good standing. Make sure you're following the Amazon Associates rules and that you're using the tools available to make your work more efficient.

7. The Do’s and Don’t of using Amazon as an affiliate

How affiliate marketing actually serves your audience. Alright, well when the topic of using affiliate marketing to make money online or any type of selling to one's online audience, most people who don't use it very often or have never used it at all, start getting kind of all itchy and uncomfortable. They feel like affiliate marketing is self-serving. So, affiliate marketing is all about me, the blogger or the influencer, making money off my audience. And I don't blog to make money, I blog to serve my audience. And if I can get some money on the side, that's just an added bonus. But that's not my intent.  There's the impression primarily, I find from female bloggers, that our work online is only about producing helpful content to our tribe and that our readers will be suspicious of our intentions if we're making money or obviously making money off of them. And for some reason, everyone thinks it's okay, the same person is going to think it's okay, to run ads on their site because that's way more covert or maybe their readers expect it or don't even really notice it. That parts confusing to me.  Well, by the way, I never hear men saying stuff like this. Men are never wringing their hands wondering if they're going to alienate their readers by making money. I've never encountered a man apologizing for sending an email to their list, promoting an affiliate product or doing an affiliate launch. I've never read in a Facebook group from a man who got a nasty email from a subscriber that they ... Complaining that they received more than one email in a week selling them something. I'm sure that men, male bloggers, male online influencers, that they get these types of emails every once in awhile. That their response is so different then what a woman's typical response is. The woman is oftentimes in agony over how she should respond to this reader complaining. And then, maybe she should stop emailing people so much or maybe, change her promotional schedule during the launch. She's wondering if she should change midstream from what she's been doing and planning to do. That one email ruins her entire day and makes her question everything that she has ever done on her blog. She like just, completely starts to spiral.  Well, do you know what the man does? He deletes the email and moves on with his day, because he knows that it's perfectly reasonable for a person to get paid for their work. So, I want you, if you struggle in this department, I want you to change the way you think about affiliate marketing and kind of making money on your blog, in general. So, affiliate marketing is symbiotic. Symbiotic, I don't know how you're supposed to pronounce that, and I learned all about symbiotic friends from Diego, Dora the Explorer's cousin. I don't think I learned anything about this when I went to school for all the years I went to school. But I definitely learned it from Diego. So, symbiotic relationship is when both parties contribute something and then, both parties receive its bounties. It's pretty awesome.  So again, affiliate marketing is kind of, symbiotic or maybe it really is. You contribute amazing content that includes affiliate links. That helps your reader. So they read the content and they are helped. And when your reader purchases something ... Or purchases that helpful item that you just linked too. You are then helped with a paycheck. So it's a little bit like, you scratch my back and I scratch yours. I give you free, amazing, helpful content that makes your life more awesome and you scratch my back by, if you purchase something, I make a cut of that. And you as an amazingly talented blogger, demonstrating her expertise in a particular area, are in the unique and powerful position of identifying your audience's pain points and finding products and services that will solve those problems for them. And for most readers that come to your blog or read your content on social media, they are thrilled when you tell them what to buy and how that purchase is going to make their lives better. 

How affiliate marketing actually serves your audience. Alright, well when the topic of using affiliate marketing to make money online or any type of selling to one's online audience, most people who don't use it very often or have never used it at all, start getting kind of all itchy and uncomfortable. They feel like affiliate marketing is self-serving. So, affiliate marketing is all about me, the blogger or the influencer, making money off my audience. And I don't blog to make money, I blog to serve my audience. And if I can get some money on the side, that's just an added bonus. But that's not my intent. There's the impression primarily, I find from female bloggers, that our work online is only about producing helpful content to our tribe and that our readers will be suspicious of our intentions if we're making money or obviously making money off of them. And for some reason, everyone thinks it's okay, the same person is going to think it's okay, to run ads on their site because that's way more covert or maybe their readers expect it or don't even really notice it. That parts confusing to me. Well, by the way, I never hear men saying stuff like this. Men are never wringing their hands wondering if they're going to alienate their readers by making money. I've never encountered a man apologizing for sending an email to their list, promoting an affiliate product or doing an affiliate launch. I've never read in a Facebook group from a man who got a nasty email from a subscriber that they ... Complaining that they received more than one email in a week selling them something. I'm sure that men, male bloggers, male online influencers, that they get these types of emails every once in awhile. That their response is so different then what a woman's typical response is. The woman is oftentimes in agony over how she should respond to this reader complaining. And then, maybe she should stop emailing people so much or maybe, change her promotional schedule during the launch. She's wondering if she should change midstream from what she's been doing and planning to do. That one email ruins her entire day and makes her question everything that she has ever done on her blog. She like just, completely starts to spiral. Well, do you know what the man does? He deletes the email and moves on with his day, because he knows that it's perfectly reasonable for a person to get paid for their work. So, I want you, if you struggle in this department, I want you to change the way you think about affiliate marketing and kind of making money on your blog, in general. So, affiliate marketing is symbiotic. Symbiotic, I don't know how you're supposed to pronounce that, and I learned all about symbiotic friends from Diego, Dora the Explorer's cousin. I don't think I learned anything about this when I went to school for all the years I went to school. But I definitely learned it from Diego. So, symbiotic relationship is when both parties contribute something and then, both parties receive its bounties. It's pretty awesome. So again, affiliate marketing is kind of, symbiotic or maybe it really is. You contribute amazing content that includes affiliate links. That helps your reader. So they read the content and they are helped. And when your reader purchases something ... Or purchases that helpful item that you just linked too. You are then helped with a paycheck. So it's a little bit like, you scratch my back and I scratch yours. I give you free, amazing, helpful content that makes your life more awesome and you scratch my back by, if you purchase something, I make a cut of that. And you as an amazingly talented blogger, demonstrating her expertise in a particular area, are in the unique and powerful position of identifying your audience's pain points and finding products and services that will solve those problems for them. And for most readers that come to your blog or read your content on social media, they are thrilled when you tell them what to buy and how that purchase is going to make their lives better.

4. How Affiliate Marketing Actually Serves Your Audience

Black Friday and the lucrative holiday shopping season is quickly approaching. Learn how to publish, monetize, and promote gift guides as a way to earn income from affiliate marketing now and in the future.

Black Friday and the lucrative holiday shopping season is quickly approaching. Learn how to publish, monetize, and promote gift guides as a way to earn income from affiliate marketing now and in the future.

5. How to Make Money with Gift Guides

Today we’re talking all about how to get ready to use affiliate links to make money this Christmas season.  This is one of my favorite times of the year. I personally love finding and sharing deals and I make probably half of my affiliate marketing revenue my frugal lifestyle and deal blog during November and December. So, I know about making money during the holiday shopping season and I know you that you’re not too late. Everything we’re going to talk about in the episode can be done in November and can be accomplished in just a few hours of concentrated work. You don’t need to have started a plan back in summer. Promise. One other thing to mention is that the tips we’re going to cover can be done in any niche. Seriously, any niche. Even the niches where your people don’t like to spend money -- I promise you that they will spend it during November and December. You can join our community by simply going to youraffiliatemarketingmentor.com/facebook

Today we’re talking all about how to get ready to use affiliate links to make money this Christmas season.  This is one of my favorite times of the year. I personally love finding and sharing deals and I make probably half of my affiliate marketing revenue my frugal lifestyle and deal blog during November and December. So, I know about making money during the holiday shopping season and I know you that you’re not too late. Everything we’re going to talk about in the episode can be done in November and can be accomplished in just a few hours of concentrated work. You don’t need to have started a plan back in summer. Promise. One other thing to mention is that the tips we’re going to cover can be done in any niche. Seriously, any niche. Even the niches where your people don’t like to spend money -- I promise you that they will spend it during November and December. You can join our community by simply going to <a href="https://youraffiliatemarketingmentor.com/facebook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">youraffiliatemarketingmentor.com/facebook</a>

6. What you can do now to get ready for Black Friday and Christmas

Learn how to use Amazon tracking and analytics to increase your conversions and make more money as an Amazon associate. Amazon has a new Content Insight feature that shows you how individual posts are converting.

Learn how to use Amazon tracking and analytics to increase your conversions and make more money as an Amazon associate. Amazon has a new Content Insight feature that shows you how individual posts are converting.

8. How to use Amazon's Content Insight feature to increase your Amazon Income

Eventually we all have a reader email, comment, or message fussing about you selling or accusing you of "selling out" or being "too salesy." Here are four things you can do to deal with that person and also to keep it all in perspective.

Eventually we all have a reader email, comment, or message fussing about you selling or accusing you of "selling out" or being "too salesy." Here are four things you can do to deal with that person and also to keep it all in perspective.

9. What to do when readers have a problem with you selling

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