John Crestani explains how he built a $50,000 a month affiliate marketing business. He covers performance deals, networks like ClickBank and Amazon, and how to partner with local businesses to get started.
What's up everyone? Today we're interviewing John Crestani, who is a master performance marketer, affiliate marketer, whatever you want to call him. He's great at what he does. You're gonna learn a lot. And with that being said, we're gonna go ahead and sit down and get into it.
Let's talk.
Hey everyone, so today we're gonna talk about how you can get started with affiliate marketing with my buddy here, John Crestani. So I think it might be helpful, John, for you to give everyone a little context on—
Sure.
Kind of who you are and your background with this affiliate marketer, performance marketer kind of thing? Sure.
So for me, it started— I was working at an ad agency actually when I got out of college. I was a PPC analyst and I was just managing people's AdWords campaigns and I took on some of my own clients on the side and what happened is one of the clients I took on said, okay, we'll pay you your base rate but we also want to give you a percentage commission if your advertising leads to increased business for us. And I said, okay, I won't say no to that. You know, I was like, oh, you know, usually I charge a percentage of spend. And I was like, okay. And what ended up happening is that percentage commission ended up becoming $10,000 a month, then $25,000 a month, then $50,000 a month.
Wow.
And I was only making You know, $5,000 to $10,000 for my entire agency. So over a few months, I ended up delivering so well, it just, you know, then I said, okay, how do I do more of this? And I learned it was called affiliate marketing. And I was just like, okay, I'm an affiliate marketer and I'm going to choose my clients and I'm going to work on a performance basis.
I love it. And so how do you get started with affiliate marketing?
You need to work out a performance deal with the company. Or you join an affiliate network. I mean, it could be as simple as, you know, you talk to a local chiropractor or dentist in your community and you say, hey, if I do some Facebook ads for you and, you know, you get new customers coming in with, you know, some discount code or some coupon, you know, give me $50 or give me $100.
Right. And if you get a couple hundred, then you're making a couple thousand bucks a month.
You get a couple hundred, yeah. You pack their, you know, you pack that location And you pack a couple other locations, yeah, you have a business and it's a very easy, very simple arrangement or you could go to an affiliate network like ClickBank or, you know, even Amazon has affiliate programs, Uber does, Walmart does, there's lots of options but basically you're just, you know, you're working on a performance basis and that's how you get started, it's very simple.
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Yeah, check it out. This guy is the master. Definitely learn from this guy.
