The key to making money with affiliate marketing is getting people to click your vetted, trusted affiliate links in the context of a real conversation — live or virtual — where you’re genuinely helping them.

In today’s article I’ll teach you some fundamental, proven techniques to make money with affiliate marketing. I’ll also give you free access to my vetted list of affiliate and CPA networks so you can get started right away.

My 4-Step Formula to Make Fast Money With Affiliate Marketing

If you think about it, most of your family and friends are going to buy something online today or this week.

I teach many of the students I coach and mentor how to make money fast with affiliate marketing by simply referring family and friends to click their affiliate links to buy products they’d be buying anyway. Those people won’t pay anything more, but they’ll be helping you earn a commission and build your business.

The strategy is simple but very effective — especially if you’re new to affiliate marketing and want to get your feet wet.

1. Ask for their list. Ask your family and friends to give you a list of the top 10 things they plan to buy online in the next week. Call or email them.
2. Offer to find the best deals. Tell them you’ll happily research the best deals on anything they plan to buy, because you’re building a reputable online business. Let them know you’ll get back to them with the links to buy each item.
3. Sign up for the affiliate programs. Sign up for the affiliate program of any product or service they’ll be buying through your unique links. Not every company has an affiliate program, but most do. Think about everything people buy on Amazon — their Amazon Associates program is free to join and gives you access to almost any product on the planet to promote.
4. Share your links. Send your unique affiliate links to your family and friends to click and buy each product they were going to buy anyway. Email or message them.

There you have it — my 4-step formula to making money fast with affiliate links. Give it a try.

If you’d like personal guidance building your online business and passive income streams, you can talk with me free for 30 minutes by booking a call here. The call won’t involve any sales pitch unless you want it to — we’ll simply chat, get to know each other, create some real value, and help you move forward.

3 Critical Tools to Promote Your Affiliate Links

First, start a blog. One of the most effective, time-tested ways to create passive income with affiliate marketing is writing valuable blog posts on a regular weekly basis. If you don’t have a blog yet, go with the best — WordPress. For a low monthly cost you can have your blog set up in minutes. To skip the technical details and get going, set up your blog on the same host I use here, then watch the tutorial below.

Once your WordPress blog is set up, you can start placing affiliate links in your articles for people to click as they read your high-value content. But remember — if your articles are low quality, you won’t make money. It’s well worth learning how to write an article that genuinely helps people with something specific. You can also delegate this and hire someone to write blog articles for you.

Second, use email marketing. As you build your email marketing broadcasts and automated campaigns, you can include clickable links that take people straight to your affiliate offers.

Third, use a deep link generator. Use an affiliate deep-link generator bookmarklet to quickly create unique affiliate links on the fly and share them in your marketing. For example, when you sign up free with networks like CJ and ShareASale, they make it easy to create customized affiliate links to any page for any advertiser you’ve been approved with.

Finding and Signing Up With Affiliate Programs

You can apply to affiliate programs directly with thousands of companies globally. You can also apply to affiliate networks, which give you access to many companies you normally wouldn’t reach directly.

Over the past 15 years I’ve researched over 150 affiliate marketing companies and networks. Many turned out to be junk or outright fraudulent. Whether you’re just getting started or you’re a seasoned marketer, today’s vetted list of affiliate and CPA networks will help you access reliable, high-paying offers to promote to your audience.

Many of these networks are also companies with current job openings — so if you’re looking for employment, you can apply with them directly, too.

45 Vetted CPA & Affiliate Networks to Join

Here’s a refreshed list of reputable affiliate and CPA networks that are active and worth exploring. They’re grouped so you can quickly find the right fit for your traffic.

Major Retail & Brand Affiliate Networks

• Amazon Associates
• CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction)
• impact.com
• Awin
• ShareASale
• Rakuten Advertising
• FlexOffers
• Pepperjam (Ascend by Partnerize)
• PartnerStack
• LinkConnector

Digital Products & Info-Product Networks

• ClickBank
• JVZoo
• WarriorPlus
• Digistore24

Top CPA / Performance Networks

• MaxBounty
• Perform[cb] (formerly ClickBooth)
• ClickDealer
• CrakRevenue
• Global Wide Media
• Convert2Media (C2M)
• Tune
• Mobidea
• Admitad
• CPA Grip
• CPAlead
• AdCombo
• Advidi
• Toro Advertising
• MyLead
• A4D (Affiliate4D)

Content-Locking & Rewards Networks

• AdGate Media
• Adscend Media
• Adwork Media

Pay-Per-Call Networks

• Ring Partner
• HyperTarget Marketing
• Astoria Company

Dating, Nutra & Niche Networks

• Together Networks (dating)
• AffiliaXe
• Aragon Advertising
• Clickky
• Leadnomics
• WOW Trk
• RevenueAds
• ClickDealer Mobile
• Zeydoo
• CPATrend
• Adsterra

If you would like personal help building your affiliate marketing income and choosing the right networks for your niche, book a free 30-minute call with Trent here.