A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing Review

Affiliate marketing is the stuff dreams are made of for a lot of guys.

There’s an idea that you sit around in your underwear typing at a keyboard, and magically money appears in your bank account.

The average affiliate marketer’s life is, in the head of a dreamer, a jet-setting James Bond lifestyle of exotic locations, four-hour work weeks and five figure days.

In reality, it’s a lot different. The life of an affiliate marketer is often filled with more failures than successes, a constant lack of knowledge (even super affiliates don’t always know why what works, works) and temporary successes without any future promise.

But that’s not the biggest problem with affiliate marketing.

The biggest problem with affiliate marketing is – and anyone who has tried it will know I’m telling the truth here – that most affiliate marketers are full of shit.

I don’t know how many times I’ve tried to read an affiliate marketing book and had to get a refund (and I don’t usually ask for refunds on books.) I don’t know how many emailing lists I’ve signed up for that promise to give you a step-by-step guide to making affiliate marketing work.

And I definitely can’t tell you how many pie-in-the-sky stupid forum posts and blog entries I’ve had to read where some wannabe-Tim-Ferriss reckons you’re going to go from $0 a day in earnings to the millionaire lifestyle in a stupidly small amount of time without incurring any risk.

If it seems too good to be true, it usually is.

What Would You Want In A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing?

I’ve tried getting into affiliate marketing – and by that, I mean paid advertising and sales funnels and everything related – a few times. After all, I’m a copywriter. I work for clients based on my ability to create the pieces of their funnels. It only makes sense that I should expand my horizons and use my copywriting base as a competitive advantage and just do what people are paying me to do anyway, but for myself.

As I mentioned above though, I hate the life hacker stuff. Sure, sell the future as being bright and rosy. I don’t mind that. I also don’t mind if you hook me on something free and then upsell to a paid product – we’re all trying to make a living, after all.

But if you’re going to promise me information, then give me information. Vague stuff doesn’t make me think you’re “holding back the secrets.” It makes me think you’re a scammer who makes their money selling repackaged forum information as opposed to actually doing anything related to what you’re selling.

With that in mind, I have put off learning more about affiliate marketing for a while. I figured I’d only get stuck in once I found some good resources that’d actually help me learn.

A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing by Finch is that resource. I’ll tell you why.

• It doesn’t sell you on the James Bond lifestyle. It doesn’t sell you on being a multi-millionaire with a yacht by the end of the year. It talks about massive profits and revenue figures, but at every point it urges caution and gives you frequent doses of reality.
• You’re given a framework by which to understand the industry. It starts at the meta-level; what subjects are you going to talk about, what types of traffic exist, how, when and why affiliate marketers get paid and so on. This is comprehensive but easy to follow for anyone who works online already and probably for anyone who doesn’t.
• You’re given actual, real-world examples of campaigns from start to finish. The case studies are comprehensively explained – why you’d do a certain thing at a certain point, why you’d stop running a certain ad or how you could improve a failing campaign until it’s profitable. There’s no “I can’t tell you what I’m doing because you might steal my money!”

Those are the three major benefits of A Complete guide to Affiliate Marketing by Finch. There are others; it’s an actual book for one, 419 pages of pure writing, and appendices with resources, a structure and a ton of information. Not like the average 19-page PDF pamphlet that usually retails for $27.

Also, another positive which masquerades as a negative; your head will hurt. Around halfway through, I was finding the book pretty easy going. I could understand the framework, I had an idea of the mechanics of buying traffic and everything was rosy. Then it got a lot more complex. My head struggled to contain all the new information and organise it as I kept reading. When you get information that does that, you know you’re actually learning.

A Complete Guide to Affiliate Marketing will help you learn about affiliate marketing from the big picture down to the smallest details of the mechanics of buying traffic and analysing the data you receive.

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room though.

A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing Is Expensive?

I’m not going to lie to you… A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing is £40. That’s a lot for a book.

What it isn’t though, is expensive for a ton of useful knowledge.

When I wanted to get some good resources to teach myself about paid traffic, I looked into getting a membership at StackThatMoney, which is a forum for affiliate marketers. The price… $99 per month.

I was trying to justify the expense when I came across this guide. I figured that £40 total plus working to go from beginner to intermediate myself was a lot cheaper than $99 for a resource whose quality I wouldn’t know about until after I’d paid $99.

I like to think of buying books like A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing as a business investment. Ergo, it needs to be a victory in at least one of two ways:

• It needs to add money to my business and pay for itself.
• It needs to make learning a process a lot quicker and more efficient. Do I save months by following a recipe? Do I save a ton of time and money by not making obvious mistakes?

I am absolutely confident that A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing is going to fulfil both of those criteria.

In addition, it comes with a bonus: something called Premium Posts. I haven’t looked at this yet (I finished the book a couple of hours ago,) but it seems to be a compilation of Finch’s posts from his blog on various affiliate marketing topics. There are 170+ pages of these.

Also, a final thing is included. It’s a checklist for everything you need to do when running an affiliate marketing campaign. I don’t want to say, “That’s worth the price of admission alone” because that sounds salesy… but it is.

PPC and affiliate marketing is complex, and having a checklist to make sure you don’t do anything stupid or forget to do something crucial will possibly save your bacon.

Final Thoughts For A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing Review

I rarely write any reviews for products related to online business. The reason is that most products related to online business are pie-in-the-sky wantrepreneur guides with little usable information.

I am giving a positive review for this guide to online business, because A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing is a great book that will give you a ton of insight and information into the world of paid advertising, affiliate marketing and a lot of the information will be useful to you if you want to get involved in online business in general.

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P.S. Here’s a final benefit of A Complete Guide To Affiliate Marketing: If you read this site, then you already know a ton more about selling online and copywriting than most of the people reading this book do. You know a super ton more than the average wantrepreneur who wants to go into affiliate marketing to live the Tim Ferriss life.

Those things are definitely a competitive advantage for you. This book will give you even more of an advantage. Get it here.