How to set up an affiliate site on ClickFunnels

ClickFunnels is a software that can help you automate your sales and saves you from creating all those sales pages, landing pages, and checkout pages. It is currently the best tool available to generate sales and is a good product to promote as an affiliate.

Why promote ClickFunnels?

Aside from being the best tool for generating sales, there are other reasons why you should promote ClickFunnels. The platform is very reliable and has been updated regularly to make things more efficient.

Lifetime recurring revenue is the best selling point of ClickFunnels. It means that when you can get someone from your funnel link, they will be tracked forever.

Even if they buy a free book, they will be tracked, and you will get commissions from any product that they buy through any funnels.

ClickFunnels uses sticky cookies to do this process. In most cases, you can earn commissions in one-and-done deals. The commissions can range from 5%-80%. However, ClickFunnels will give you a 40% commission at a recurring rate. (READ: What is the ClickFunnels Affiliate Program?)

How to be an affiliate for ClickFunnels?

This is very easy if you are already a user. You have to click on your account at the top right and click on “affiliates.” You will find a link there that will automatically give you your affiliate links. (READ: How the ClickFunnels Affiliate Program works)

If you want to join the ClickFunnels affiliate program, you need to become a member first. Once you become an affiliate, you can find tons of resources that you can use. You will find email swipes, banners, free trials, and freeboot camps as well.

How to promote ClickFunnels as an affiliate

1.       Promote through Facebook

Facebook is the biggest social media platform, so you can maximize this website for purposes other than socially connecting with people. Below are some ways on how you can use Facebook to promote this tool.

•       Promote using your profile

If you want to use your personal profile to promote ClickFunnels, then you need to treat it properly. Think of your profile as a business card. It means that it should have all the necessary information in an organized way so people can easily understand you mean business.

Start by writing a quick, engaging bio. Provide some useful information through your profile, and don’t abuse it by spamming your friends with links. 

•       Promote through a Facebook Group

It is recommended to create your own group. The group does not have to be related to affiliate marketing. However, it needs reliable members who will engage with you and help promote those links by buying products.

You will need to customize your group fully. Add a detailed description and include instructions on how to carry out the tasks.

Moreover, add a downloadable sheet that has all the affiliate links. Most importantly, maintain high engagement within the group. 

•       Use Facebook Ads

You can either use a paid ad strategy or make your own videos and start your own campaign. You can use your videos for retargeting customers to your links. 

2.       Promote through YouTube

YouTube is an excellent platform for affiliate marketing. The type of videos mostly used are product review videos. These videos are handy and effective if you want to promote a product or service. The same applies to ClickFunnels.

In case you are wondering what type of videos you should make, try these out:

•       Make small tutorial videos in which you review all the functions of the software.
•       Make comparison videos to show how and why this tool is better than the rest.

However, you need to optimize your videos so your audience can find them easily. Below are some of the ways on how you can optimize your videos.

•       Use high-ranking keywords

Before making the videos, you need to search for high-ranking keywords to see what your audience wants to watch. It will give you a better idea of which topics you can make videos abo 

•       Use optimized video descriptions

Use a few high-ranking keywords in the description if you can. However, make sure to avoid keywords stuffing. 

•       Use Call-to-Actions

The purpose of your videos is to guide the people. So, use CTAs in overlays and annotations. 

•       Use short URLs

This has no technical impact. However, long URLs are unpleasant to the eyes. You can use bit.ly to shorten your URLs and make everything look cleaner. 

•       Share them on other social platforms

If you want to make sure your videos and links get a wider reach, ask your friends to share your videos from their profiles on different social platforms. 

3.       Promote through Blogs

When it comes to promoting through blogs, you can use the similar methods described above for YouTube.

In this case, you need to write quality content. The whole procedure will be the same as any market affiliated write-ups.

First, you need to research high-ranking keywords. There are many tools to make this process easier. Once you find the keywords, you can get started on writing posts. You can write product reviews, round-up reviews, staple posts, response posts, and how-to guides.

If you already have a website and you are using it for affiliate marketing, it will be easier to promote it through your website. 

4.       Promote using Google Ads

Google AdWords is an excellent way to generate sales. In this case, it works well to drive people to the links. You need to bid on a keyword and then set up your targeting options. However, that is the easy part. The hard part is to get people to click the link.

Remember not to drive direct traffic to the links. Instead, give out some incentives to redirect your audience to the ClickFunnels page.

If you are a newbie in using Google AdWords, it is best to hire someone with more experience to handle this task for you. 

5.       Promote through Quora

Quora is one of the best platforms. It was built as a question-and-answer platform. However, you can drive traffic from here to your blog posts, social media posts, or YouTube videos if you use it properly.

If you want to promote through Quora, you need to find questions related to your topic and then accurately answer them. Do not put any naked links in your answers because this is against Quora’s policy. Instead, use anchored texts to drive traffic to your desired page or directly to the sign-up page.

What is ClickFunnels Backpack?

Backpack is ClickFunnels’ affiliate marketing management platform. It is a built-in application like Actionetics.

Since it is built within ClickFunnels, you’ll find that your affiliate marketing works seamlessly with your funnels. It allows you to develop and design your funnels, set up your affiliate program, integrate your affiliate program within the funnel, and set up your email automation for marketing purposes.

User Interface

Like Actionetics, Backpack features a user-friendly interface. Both IT experts and non-IT experts will find it easy to navigate and use. It allows users to familiarize themselves quickly with all its features and functions.

The users can also appreciate the readily available how-to videos and guides to make the most out of their Backpack experience. With time-efficient processes and easy to understand guides, you spend less time on the set-up process and more time growing your affiliates.

Features of Backpack

1.       Dashboard

The dashboard is the section where you will see general affiliate information, which includes the number of active affiliates you have, how much they earned for you in terms of sale, how much commissions you owe them, and how much has already been paid to your affiliates. 

2.       Affiliates

The affiliates part is where you will find the list of all your affiliates. Aside from being added to your list automatically, you can also manually add affiliates by exporting your listing through a CSV file or by clicking the Add New Affiliate button. 

3.       Commissions

The Commissions section is a reasonably straight-to-the-point section where you can see all commissions, affiliate who earned the commission, the amount due, the purchase made, and when the commission is due to be paid. 

4.       Commission Plans

The Commission Plan part is where you set up how much your affiliates get paid in commission for every sale they make from promoting your product or service using ClickFunnels.

The best part about this section is that you are empowered to create not only one type of commission plan. You can also create a tier-based type of commissions.

If you want to create your Commission Plan, below is a quick guide that you can follow.

•       Click Add Commission Plan
•       Enter the information needed, like the name of the commission plan, currency, and status of the commission plan. Click Create Commission Plan when finished.
•       Choose the affiliate type by clicking Add Affiliate Type. It allows you to segment the affiliates qualified to receive the commission you are currently setting up.
•       Once you are done with the affiliate type, click Add New Tier and set up the amount of commission, the payment type, and the number of months before payout.

5.       Affiliate Funnels

The Affiliate Funnels section is where all your funnels with affiliate programs are listed. If you don’t have any funnel integrated with affiliate programs, your Affiliate Funnels page will be left blank.

 

ClickFunnels is an amazing tool that has so much potential. The basic idea of this platform is easy to understand. (READ: Everything you need to know about ClickFunnels) All you need to do is drive traffic and receive monthly recurring payments. Try experimenting on which method works best for your business.