I've promoted a lot of affiliate products over the years, but Russell Brunson's ClickFunnels is the most profitable affiliate program for many internet marketers, in my opinion.
But to unlock this potential, you really need to have a good understanding of all the features that ClickFunnels offers.
And then use your strengths as a marketer to insanely promote your chosen method.
In this first article in the series, I'll tell you everything you need to know about funnel sharing, which I think is the best way to make money with ClickFunnels.
This is a built-in feature of ClickFunnels that can really increase your affiliate commissions if you do everything right.
Why promote ClickFunnels?
Before we get started, let me start by explaining why clickfunels is one of my favorite affiliate programs to promote.
First of all, I really like the product itself.
Although ClickFunnels has some drawbacks, I've been using it since 2015 in my own business.
And it does exactly what it promises-it helps me build sales funnels that add value to each of my customers.
I'll tell you more in my review of ClickFunnels.
Also, I really get a huge amount of value from what Russell teaches. Sure, he may seem super-selling at times, but I read two of his books (DotComSecrets and expertsecrets) and was impressed with each of them.
His message really resonated with me, and I was able to find a lot of effective ideas in it, which I now use in my own business.
As for the ClickFunnels affiliate program, they now have different levels for affiliates.
When you first join the affiliate program, you cannot directly promote the 14-day free trial of ClickFunnels. You can only promote products like books or the One Funnel Away Challenge.
However, there are several ways to indirectly promote ClickFunnels. The first is to add a small icon to the bottom of the sales funnels you create. If someone clicks on this icon and makes a purchase, you will receive a discount.
The second method is the sharing of funnels, which I will discuss in more detail below.
Any sale you make using these two methods will earn you 20% regular commission.
To promote the free trial, you will first need to prove yourself by earning at least $ 1,000 in affiliate commissions. Once you reach this level, you can apply, and if approved, you can earn 30% regular commission on ClickFunnels sales, as well as 30% commission on all related products in the ClickFunnels ecosystem, such as Funnel Scripts.
The exception is the One Funnel Away Challenge, which offers 100% commission on sales. That means you earn $ 100 for a $ 100 product!
If you manage to attract more than 40 active ClickFunnels referrals, then you will be eligible for regular commissions of 40%.
There is also a special level for leading ClickFunnels affiliates, of which I was lucky enough to be a part. This allows you to promote exclusive offers like OFA Platinum and work directly with your own ClickFunnels affiliate manager. However, this is an invitation-only program.
Each product has its own funnel with additional and smaller sales, designed by the funnel master himself, Russell Brunson. You can even promote free products like the wonderful Affiliate Bootcamp and earn money in OFA competitions for additional sales.
ClickFunnels uses so-called sticky cookies.
This means that as soon as a customer clicks on your link, they will have a sticky cookie, and you will receive commissions for ALL the products they have bought, through whatever funnel they go through.
What's more, ClickFunnels has one of the best bonus prizes you pay for renting your dream car.
If you sign up for 100 paying ClickFunnels customers, they will pay $ 500 a month to rent their dream car. And if you get 200 registrations, they'll pay you $ 1,000 a month.
Don't you think this is achievable? Take a look at this page, which shows all the current dream car winners.
I recently qualified as a "Dream Car" and am looking forward to getting my car in the near future.
And that adds up to all the ClickFunnels affiliate commissions I've earned that you can see here:
How do shared funnels work?
Swap funnels are one of the most interesting features of ClickFunnels. Basically, every funnel you create in your account has a unique sharing URL that you can share with others.
When someone visits this link, they come to a page like this:
There is a video that explains how it all works, and then a preview of all the steps of your funnel is shown.
If the person is an existing ClickFunnels user, their funnel will be added to their account. But if not, it will ask them to sign up for a 14-day ClickFunnels trial account to access the funnel.
And if they stay as paid members, you get an affiliate commission. This is a super powerful tool and this is one of the main secrets to making a lot of money as a ClickFunnels affiliate.
Here are the steps to get the URL of your public folder.
Log in to your account and edit the funnel you want to share
Click the Settings tab
Scroll down until you see the Blue Share this URL funnel box.
Copy your URL and share it!
7 ways to make money with a funnel of shares
Now that you know how exchange funnels work, how are you going to make money from them? Here are 7 examples of how you can promote ClickFunnels using them.
These are just a few ideas that came to mind. Hopefully, you can use them as inspiration for your own ideas and get the car of your dreams.
1) promotes the challenge of a funnel
The one Funnel away Challenge is a great training that has changed the course of my own online business. It is also the best ClickFunnels affiliate offer to promote because of its popularity. It only costs $ 100 and you get 100% Commission. It's great!
But if you really want to increase conversions by offering the one Funnel away challenge, then you need to create a bridge page for it. This allows you to collect the email addresses of your potential buyers and gives you the ability to offer your bonuses.
For those who don't have the time or skill to create something good, they can download one of the many proven one Funnel Away Challenge action funnels that people have to offer.
Here is an example of a call funnel that my friend Kevin Stephen created and that converts very well.
You can try this swap funnel for yourself by following this link.
2) Create your own sales funnel to sell your own product or service
The best way to promote ClickFunnels is to get your hands dirty and start using it in your own business. So if you have a product or service to sell, use ClickFunnels to build your sales funnel and start selling your product.
Just make sure you take the opportunity to create up and down sales to get even more value from each customer. Then you can pay more for your traffic and start generating sales.
One of the companies that does it best is the legendary marketer. They cleverly built all the sales funnels for all their front-end products using ClickFunnels. And as a legendary partner, you can get stock funnels for them and upload them to your own ClickFunnels account.
This gives you a good foundation to get started, and you can customize the funnel design and copy it to suit your specific needs.
It's a nifty system for promoting high quality affiliate products, so I love promoting a legendary marketer.
Below are some examples of your funnels that you can promote:
Legendary Supplier, 15th Day Test Funnel
The legendary funnel of the dominance of marketing partners
3) Use your distribution funnel as an incentive to update content
The joint of the funnel allow you to update the content. If you can reasonably say that you are using a sales funnel that has legitimately helped your business, then that will get people to subscribe to your list and add your funnel to their account.
This means that you can start creating your own mailing list and earn ClickFunnels commissions right away.
There are really many ways to implement this idea. The main thing is to make sure that the content you attach the content update to is very relevant to the funnel you want to share.
You can see how I do this myself in all the clickfunnel related posts on this site. I'm using this recurring affiliate program guide that I created as a lead magnet and created an action funnel for it.
He gets a good percentage of the subscription and gives me an affiliate Commission. I even made it easier for you to change the funnel and use it yourself to create your own mailing list.
Get my Free Permanent White Label Funnel Affiliate Program
4) Create funnels for local businesses in your area.
This idea requires a bit of work from you. But if you're willing to hurry, it can be extremely lucrative.
As you know, many local businesses don't have the budget or know-how to provide a good online presence to sell their services.
So what you do is create a funnel for their specific business and then sell it to them at a fixed price ... say, $ 500. Once they agree, you give them the URL of your action sequence and they must register a ClickFunnels account to use it.
The good thing about this is that if your sales funnel works for them, they will remain ClickFunnels members for a long time. And you can get regular commissions.
The main thing is to make a trip to local real estate agents, dentists, jewelers or any business that sells expensive goods or services.
As an example, here is an action funnel that you can use to promote chiropractors in your area.
Get a funnel for a chiropractor
5) Create your own funnel building service
ClickFunnels has become so popular that I often see the term "funnel consultant".
Why not become one of them and create your own business that will make sales funnels for others? ClickFunnels makes it easy to create these funnels, and the more you create, the easier it becomes.
And once you create your service and get more work done, you can easily pass it on to other employees.
I recently posted a job on Upwork looking for ClickFunnels landing page designers and got a ton of offers. So the suit is definitely there.
For each funnel created and sold, don't forget to use the URL of your stock funnel to earn these bonus commissions.
ClickFunnels has also launched a service to sell funnel building services. It's called Funnel Rolodex and is designed specifically for people from the ClickFunnels community to promote their services. This is a great way to earn extra money and increase the visibility of your service.
6) Find other successful sales funnels and reproduce them.
Every business that sells something has some kind of sales funnel. Find some good ones and play them on ClickFunnels. While you're doing this, shoot a video or write about the experience in a blog.
This way you will demonstrate how easy it is to use ClickFunnels. Include a resource sharing funnel link to the finished product so that your readers or viewers can check out your work. If you show them how easy it is to use ClickFunnels, they will definitely subscribe to find out what it is about.
For example, let's say you're a Grant Cardone fan. You can take a look at the funnel where your Millionaire Booklet product was sold. Learn it, learn how it works, and then demonstrate it to your audience.
I've compiled a bunch of these shared funnels into a free resource called CF Share Funnel Library.
If you want a copy, you can find it in my Affiliate Profits Mastermind Facebook group.
7) Use the action funnel as an additional value for your email marketing.
For certain niches, this can be a great idea. As you know, a good email marketing campaign requires that you provide consistent value to your readers so that they discover and engage your emails.