Spoken overview introducing affiliate marketing as a method to monetize social media by recommending products and earning commissions. The speaker contrasts affiliate marketing with brand partnerships, describes it as paid product recommendations, and frames it as a way to build business authority and ongoing revenue.
The next part that we're gonna dive into is all around monetizing your social media via affiliate marketing. Now, it's kind of crazy to me because when I started this journey, I was all about brand partnerships. And affiliate marketing is something that I have become so much more well versed in and actually, like, so passionate about over the last few years. And in all honesty, I didn't even know that this was a way that I could monetize my social media. I had heard about it. I knew that, you know, there was an opportunity here to earn some money, but I didn't think that it could actually make me as much money as it has. Affiliate marketing, for anyone that doesn't know, is, in essence, the recommendation of products and sharing products through social media and then making a commission on that. If you think about it this way, when you were recommending your favorite beauty product to, you know, your family member last week, or maybe you tried an incredible restaurant and you just couldn't wait to tell your best friend, in essence, you get paid for that. Like you get paid to recommend and send people to that product or to that place. Affiliate marketing is such a great way to build your business and also make you more authoritative. Because if you're sharing products that your audience are loving and you're continuing to make money off the back of that, that's so incredible and so great. I am so pumped to dive into this next section with you, and we'll go into a lot more detail, but I just wanted to give you a little bit of an overview on what affiliate marketing is.
