Vince Reed narrates how watching a "yacht party" video inspired him to become a top affiliate marketer. He describes deciding to target his mentor by becoming a top affiliate for a lead-capture software, building thousands of keyword-targeted landing pages and ads tailored to specific companies, and generating extremely low-cost leads (about $0.20), which led to dominating the product's leaderboard.
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So one day I wake up, I click on the link in my inbox and there's an email and it says yacht Party. And I'm like, what is this all about? So I click on it, it takes me to this video, and I proceed to see every single guru on the Internet, all of the movers and shakers, the people that are making money. And I'm like, man, how cool would it be to be able to hang out with the best marketers in the world and have fun and get to know them and. And this is the time when I was really diving in deep to all of my mentors work. And you know, it's weird online because you can have a mentor that you've never met in person, but you feel like you know them because you're watching so much of their content and you're just inspired by their work. So I couldn't wait to the day where I could meet this person. And not only were there several other gurus on this yacht party, my mentor was there. And I remember being so inspired, I said, I'm going to do everything that I can to, to master and learn this industry because I want to be where the movers and shakers are. I want to be inspired and I want to be inspiring others. And that's just what I set out to do. So I remember I got up, I was watching that video, I was so hyped, and I went and I rewatched all the marketing training videos and I just went to work and I made a commitment at that very moment that I was going to just step it up even another notch than I already was at that particular time. You know, at that point I was really transitioning out of working for these companies, these MLM companies, you know, doing all this stuff for other people. I was starting to come up with these ideas of some of the other things that I could start to do for myself in terms of products and services that I could control, that I could earn commissions on. But I knew that I had to do something different to start to get the attention of some of these other marketers out there? And that's just what I started to do. That's what I did. So I stepped back and I said to myself, what is the one thing that I could do to get the attention of my mentor? You know, I was like, how can I get on these parties? And I did some research and I realized that the people that were at this particular party had been the top affiliates for some other type of product launch. So, you know, at that time I was an affiliate for my mentor's system. Now this system that he had allowed you to create lead capture pages where you can capture leads. It had all the training in it, like I mentioned before, but you could also offer this particular tool or product to others and earn commissions very similar to how I earned a commission when I sold that AWeber software, when I earned my first commission. So I said, okay, that's my plan. That's how I'm going to get on the radar. I'm going to literally become the top affiliate for this system. Now when you would log into this system, there was this leaderboard, and the leaderboard listed all of the top sellers for this particular product. And I was nowhere to be seen on this leaderboard. So I remember I set a goal for myself. I said, I, I have to figure out a way to at least place in the leaderboard and that way I could get the attention of my mentor and who knows, maybe I could meet him one day. So I started to implement all of the strategies that I used in that MLM company. And I started to target, essentially buying keywords. And I would target people that were out there looking to market and promote their business. And I would share with them this amazing software which allowed me to build capture pages. And obviously inside there was training as well. These trainings were teaching me all of the skill sets that I was learning to run ads. So I said, what better thing to offer? This was great. So I don't know if you've ever heard the story of the California gold rush. Essentially the people that made all of the money were the people selling the picks and the shovels and all of the tools to the miners. And that's literally what this tool was. So I went out there and I started to find all of the people that were marketing online that were promoting different opportunities out there. And I decided to promote this affiliate program and I literally dominated. I went and I got a list of every single company, every single network marketing company, every single direct sales company, every single affiliate product out there. And I created an individual page, I created an individual ad for each one of those keywords and I would set up a Google keyword ad to that specific company. So you would see an ad that would say company A Top Secrets. And it would say, before you get started with company A, watch this video. That would be the ad. So then I would be on a video and the video would literally say, hey, if you're thinking about getting started with company A, here's a way to not talk to friends and family, Here's a way to generate your own leads. And my strategy that I would always do was walk people back in terms of the process that they just went through, right? So those individuals were searching for company A, and company A being the name of that company. And then they would see an ad that spoke to company A. The page spoke to company A. The video spoke to company A. Now, I want you to imagine this process for thousands of companies and thousands of keywords. I was literally going crazy. I was like, no one's gonna outwork me. I'm do this for every single one. And I just dominated. I was generating leads for literally, like, 20 cents. My list grew, and people started joining this system like clockwork.
