Affiliate Marketing Explained Simply
43sClearly defines affiliate marketing with a relatable commission example, appealing to beginners.
▶ Play ClipThis video provides a comprehensive beginner's guide to affiliate marketing, explaining the business model, its benefits, and step-by-step strategies to start earning commissions from scratch. The creator shares personal sales data and platform insights to demonstrate real-world success.
Promoting other people's or companies' products in exchange for a commission on each sale. No need to handle shipping, inventory, or product creation.
Courses, physical books, ebooks, software, automation tools, AI tools – any product can be promoted via affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is simply selling a product for commission (50-80%). MLM focuses on recruiting people and can be a pyramid scheme.
No product creation, global reach, recurring commissions, no customer support, no need to sell directly, low initial investment.
For physical products, use Amazon Affiliates (commission on any purchase within 5 hours). For digital, use Hotmart (courses, ebooks, memberships).
Create valuable content on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok around problems your product solves. Use keywords like 'How to lose weight in 30 days' and include affiliate links.
Creator shows a YouTube tutorial ranking for 'System.io tutorial' with 43k views, earning 60% lifetime commission. Total earned: $1,990.60.
Creator uses Instagram to share weight loss content, drives traffic to product funnels via comments and automation. Monthly earnings shown: $2,420.
Affiliate marketing is a low-cost, scalable business model that anyone can start with organic content. By choosing winning products and consistently creating valuable content, you can build a passive income stream.
"Title promises a beginner tutorial for 2025 and delivers exactly that, with real earnings and step-by-step guidance."
What is affiliate marketing?
Promoting other people's or companies' products in exchange for a commission on each sale.
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What is the typical commission range for digital affiliate products?
Between 50% and 80%.
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How does affiliate marketing differ from multi-level marketing (MLM)?
Affiliate marketing is selling a product for commission; MLM focuses on recruiting people and can be a pyramid scheme.
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What are two recommended platforms for physical and digital products?
Amazon Affiliates for physical products; Hotmart for digital products.
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What is the Amazon Affiliates cookie duration?
5 hours – if someone clicks your link and buys anything within 5 hours, you earn a commission.
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What is the main strategy to generate traffic as an affiliate?
Content marketing: create valuable content on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok around problems your product solves.
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How much did the creator earn from System.io affiliate commissions?
$1,990.60 in lifetime commissions.
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What is the 'snowball effect' in affiliate marketing?
Sales start small but grow over time, building a business model that can generate passive income.
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Definition of Affiliate Marketing
Clear, foundational explanation that sets the stage for the entire tutorial.
00:27Commission Rates 50-80%
High commission potential is a key motivator for beginners.
02:08Benefits: No Product Creation
Emphasizes low barrier to entry, a core selling point of affiliate marketing.
03:17Real Earnings: $1,990.60
Concrete proof of income builds credibility and shows what's possible.
09:56Health Niche Strategy
Demonstrates a repeatable content-driven approach in a specific niche.
10:50[00:02] teach you how to start making money with affiliate marketing if you're starting from scratch. This is a video I'm really excited to record because I've recently received many comments here on the channel from people
[00:14] affiliate marketing works, who want to get started in the world of digital sales, and who want to understand the business model, which is one of the fastest growing in the world right now. So in this video, I'm going to explain
[00:27] what affiliate marketing is and how to get started in this business model step by step from zero. At the end of this video, I'm going to show you my sales and Hotmart platform and tell you how I make those sales and how I earn money
[00:43] online regularly. Let's start with the basics: what is affiliate marketing? Basically, it's about promoting other people's or companies' products in exchange for a commission on each sale you generate. The best part is
[00:59] that with this business model, you do n't have to worry about shipping, inventory, or even creating the product. In fact, I'd say it's one of the best ways to get started in the world. Digital affiliate marketing
[01:13] works with different types of products. We're talking about courses, physical books, ebooks, software, automation tools, and even, nowadays, artificial intelligence tools. In short,
[01:27] any product you can imagine has affiliate marketing. Many people think that affiliate marketing emerged in the digital age, but I want to tell you that it goes back many years. Look, for example,
[01:40] appliance, there's always a salesperson who wants to sell you an appliance—a refrigerator, a stove, a washing machine—and when that person closes the sale, they get a commission. So,
[01:54] affiliate marketing is really just traditional marketing; it's just that today we can apply it digitally. There's something I want to emphasize, and that is that affiliate marketing is very different from multi-level marketing. In
[02:08] affiliate marketing, what you do is sell someone else's product, and earn a commission, which is generally a very substantial commission, between 50% and 80%, because there are
[02:22] no shipping costs, no rental costs, none of that. Multi-level marketing (MLM) is something completely different. It's a type of marketing that focuses on gathering people, like forming a pyramid scheme. For example, it's a
[02:36] business model where you have to invite someone else to invite others, and those others invite even more people to join. That's MLM, and be very careful because some MLM schemes
[02:48] are pyramid schemes. This is unlike affiliate marketing, which is simply selling a product and earning a commission. To make money with affiliate marketing, you need to attract traffic, which would be
[03:03] people interested in that product or service. In this video, I'm going to show you how I do it and give you the basics so you can Now that you know how affiliate marketing works, I want to share the
[03:17] benefits of why I consider it one of the best businesses to first benefit is that you don't have to create the product. An affiliate basically finds a product that resonates with them and
[03:32] promotes it on their social media, runs traffic campaigns, and does anything that generates traffic. Being able to sell it. So the save all that money and all that time in production. There are products that
[03:44] are already ready and all you have to do is sell them. The second reason is for you to subscribe to this channel and like this video because, seriously, these videos take a lot of work to make. There's a
[03:57] behind the scenes, and the best way you can repay me for all that is by subscribing to the channel. So thank you for doing so. The second benefit the world. You only need a computer, a cell phone, a good
[04:12] you are, you can run your advertising campaigns, create your content, make your YouTube videos anywhere, and receive commissions anywhere too. affiliate marketing is global. You always sell in dollars, but the
[04:27] money, converts it to pesos, which even the bank does automatically. The third benefit is recurring commissions for life. I sell some software that includes automation tools,
[04:40] some memberships where I'm receiving a recurring commission great benefits of affiliate marketing is that you can also first, you'll make some sales, and it will be like a snowball effect. It
[04:57] starts very, very small, but over time, you'll build a business model where you often don't even need to be present or money online. The fourth benefit is that you don't have to provide support for
[05:10] anything at all; the producer takes care of that. But be very careful with this bad, you can have many refunds. So, I recommend that you affiliate with support. The fifth benefit is that many times you won't need to sell
[05:24] directly. I even do that myself nowadays; I simply send traffic to the there's something called Hot Lads, so you, for example, can offer something for have the structure; the producer will. That person will register
[05:39] in the producer's funnel, the producer will start running advertising campaigns, will start sending emails, and if the person buys from them... The affiliate takes the commission from the producer's link; those are
[05:52] Hotmart platform, affiliates are always guaranteed a commission above the product link. And lastly, you don't need to invest a lot of money. For example, when I started, I started with everything: 100% organic content—
[06:06] YouTube videos, Instagram stories, valuable content. So, digital products right now, as I'm recording this video, is very Anyone can create an Instagram account, anyone can
[06:20] has a phone to make videos. So, it's a very good business model to achieve success in digital sales. What you really need is a winning product, a very good product with a good
[06:34] sales page, good after-sales service, and an irresistible offer. For that, I'll leave a video here in the listings for you to review, where I explain how to choose a winning product. But basically, with
[06:47] products, you have two options: go for physical products or physical products, I highly recommend that you become an Amazon affiliate. Amazon Affiliates has a very interesting affiliate system with
[07:02] policies where if someone clicks on your affiliate link and makes a purchase within the next five hours, you'll earn a commission on that purchase, even if it's not 're promoting. So, if you want to sell books,
[07:15] tech products, or any physical product, Amazon is the place to go. Now, if you want to sell ebooks, memberships, or anything digital—anything on a screen that isn't
[07:28] tangible—Hot is the best option. The important thing is that you can choose courses, programs, ebooks, or services that solve a specific problem. For example, I help people who can't
[07:41] lose weight or who are very frustrated, so I sell diet courses, intermittent fasting courses, healthy recipe books, healthy menus, and everything related marketing, once you've chosen your
[07:54] product, you need to generate traffic—attract people to your sales funnel or your product. You can do this with content marketing, which is basically leveraging organic traffic. On
[08:07] platforms like Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, you can create videos that people are already searching for and offer a product related to that topic. For example, if people search a lot for "How to lose
[08:19] weight in 30 days," you can create a video about that. If that's the niche that resonates with you, give some tips, make a 10-minute video, and at the end, recommend the product, leaving the link in the video description. You can do the same on
[08:32] TikTok: tell people to go to the bio and click the link. Or, for example, like I do on Instagram, where I create high- value, impactful content, I tell people to comment "I want it" or
[08:45] any phrase to activate an automation and send them the link to the sales page or the product funnel so the can earn commissions here automatically. Now, I want to
[08:59] show you how I earn commissions selling as an affiliate. I'm going to open an anonymous window here and go to YouTube. Here on YouTube, I have tools that I sell ranked. For example, I'm going to... I put "System.io tutorial" here, and
[09:14] look, I appear among the top results showing a video on how to create your free funnel with System.io. If we go to this video, you'll see it's a 20-minute video with high- value content. It has
[09:28] 43,000 views, and basically what I do here in the description is click on it, it's an automation tool called System.io. person who accesses a System.io plan, I earn a commission, which,
[09:44] If we go to the System.io platform and my affiliate panel, let's say the lifetime earnings the lifetime earnings are 60%. Here's my
[09:56] affiliate link, and it has already paid me $1,990.60 in commissions. In fact, here I see all the leads that I send to the producer's funnel. That's what I'm saying: I send them to the producer's funnel. The producer takes care of making the
[10:10] sales, and I earn the commissions automatically. For example, here in this automatically. For example, here in this last month, I collected 364 lists. 364 people and a total of 750 have been sent. Besides that, I have other videos. For
[10:24] example, here I put the keyword "How to create a consistent sales page," and it appears first. And when people enter this video, I have a strategy where other videos of mine will also appear on the right.
[10:37] So, look, here I also sell the System EO tool, and some Hotmark marketing products. And that's how I make money, creating valuable content here on YouTube. Another way I also make
[10:50] money is in another niche, which is the health niche. I love that niche because I'm the transformed avatar. I was a very overweight person who went through several diets and processes until I lost weight. So, I have a page
[11:02] on Instagram where I share valuable content. I even do launches there twice a year. I have some products rolling out in what they call a let me know in the comments. And look, here I make some short videos and tell
[11:15] keyword. For example, here I start with this. It says, 'Be careful if you eat cornmeal with eggs,' and I tell them that if they want a diet method to lose weight, they should comment 'I want' so I can send all the instructions. Then I do an
[11:29] automation in Mench. I even have a super video here on the channel; I high-value video so you can learn how to do this strategy, and look at all the There are many comments here, like 300. And that's how I
[11:44] manage to make all these recurring sales. Here, one day it was $255, another day $100, and in total, this last month we made $ last month we made $ 2,420, and here we have a total balance of
[11:58] $2,918 with these strategies that I 'm showing you in this video. I tried to make this video, believe me, as didactic and explained as possible so that you don't have any doubts and you can start in this business model, which
[12:12] is the fastest growing in Latin America and the world right now. If you want me to make a video with affiliate strategies to sell digital products, comment 'affiliate' below, and I 'll gladly make a new
[12:26] video. Showing you the strategy I use to sell these commissions on Hotmart, I'll be answering as many comments as possible because I know many people will have different questions.
[12:39] more personalized response, you can send your question to my Instagram @jonier Gómez, where I also post valuable content and show behind-the-scenes glimpses of my business. If you liked this video, please give it a like and subscribe to the channel.
[12:53] That's how you can reward me for all the work I do here. Believe me, it's high-value content. Today I held nothing back; I showed you my commissions, my Hotmart System commissions, my YouTube channel, and
[13:05] my health website. So I strongly believe this video deserves a like. Thank you so much for watching this video until the end, and I'll see you in the next video. [Music]
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