The Health Affiliate Marketing Program Blueprint

In this article, you're going to learn how you can make a lot of money in the health and wellness industry through health-focused affiliate marketing programs.

Have you ever thought about opening up your own health and wellness business?

Wouldn’t it be great to help others lose weight and get fit?

Do you want to get your slice of one of the largest industries in the world?

Let's explore the process of promoting health affiliate offers through niche content websites...

Who is Your Target Audience?

Before building a business, you have to ask yourself about the market - who is your target audience?

According to IBISworld.com, the health club industry pulls in over $25 billion dollars a year. Even in a down economy, people are still willing to pay membership dues to get fit. It’s an evergreen business!

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2012, 35.7% of adults are obese and for children and adolescents - 17%.

There are a lot of diseases that are greatly impacted by obesity and poor health. In 2008, the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse reported that 35% of the adult U.S. population has prediabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, non-traumatic lower-limb amputations, and new cases of blindness among adults and is also the major cause of heart disease and strokes. Diabetes is also the 7th largest cause of death in America.

Why mention diabetes? Besides prescription medication, losing weight, eating healthy, and exercising are the primary components of diabetes treatment and management plans.

Just by looking at these stats, I’m sure that you’ve realized that the health and fitness market is huge! There are plenty of opportunities to health others. By providing value to others, you can build a profitable business!

What About the Competition?

There are plenty of businesses providing products and services in the fitness and weight loss industry. Are these industries competitive? Yup...they sure are. Can you still build your business? Yes!

If you’ve ever wanted to build a business before (or you currently are building one), one thing that you should know is that you should build your business where the money is. When there are more competitors, that tells you that there is money to be made!

Have you ever looked at a popular magazine or website? The first thing that you might see are colorful pictures...a lot of them being advertisements. These are ads for products and services that a lot of people want (versus tiny niche offers that a small segment of the popular wants). There’s a reason for this...popular, huge, competitive markets are where businesses make money!

So how can you actually make money with all of this competition? As a business that’s just “starting out”, it’s not realistic to think that you’re going to totally dominate the health and fitness market...especially in a few years. However, it is realistic to earn your tiny slice of the pie - the huge industry that you’ll be building a business in. According to a Marketdata Enterprises, Inc. report in 2011, the weight loss industry pulled in revenues of $60.8 billion. Even if you received 0.001% of that, that would be more than most people earn in their lifetime!

Building a Business - The Traditional Way

When I was in high school, I dreamed of having my own gym. At that time, it wasn’t about money. I enjoyed working out and I thought it would be nice to workout for free!

As usual, we don’t think about all of the headaches that come along with a business. First, you have to look for a location for your business. That’s not easy. It costs a lot of money to buy or lease a building.

Most realtors and business people are familiar with the phrase “location, location, location!”. I’ve seen businesses prosper just by picking a good location. However, not everybody is lucky to pick the best location nor do most businesses have the money to buy it.

Besides location, you also have to think about all of the equipment that you’ll need to buy. As a teen, I’ve always wanted to have a Soloflex. If you don’t remember or know what that is, it was a machine that “used to” have a popular infomercial that played almost every night. Now imagine if I built my gym with hundreds of those machines and how it would do today. Since they aren’t so popular nowadays, I would most likely have to purchase a new set of equipment...and that would be extremely expensive!

In a traditional business, you also have to think about having staff and all the resources they would need to conduct business.

All of these things that I’ve mentioned are still doable, but this sure is not the easy way to make money for most of the people out there.

How to Easily Profit On the Internet By Marketing Health Affiliate Programs

The internet has opened up a lot of doors for those that want to profit in the health and fitness industry. Just to open your doors in the traditional realm, you would have to spend tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. With the internet, you can get started with a relatively tiny portion of the money and still have the opportunity to earn the same or more!

Let’s say that you decided to start a traditional health shop. You buy a building, a bunch of equipment, and staff it. Now, it’s time to open your doors for business!

There’s a lot more too it than that. Businesses still have to market themselves and collect money. A huge part of this type of business is getting return customers.

With the internet, you can build a “virtual business”. That means that your location can be found via a “web address”. You can build out your business from scratch, but to make it even easier, you can build one from a “turnkey health business” using one of the top health affiliate programs.

With your own health affiliate marketing business:

• You don’t have to spend a lot of money
• You don’t have to do any face-to-face sales
• You don’t have to build out a fancy or techie website
• You don’t have to hire staff
• You don’t have to buy expensive equipment
• You don’t have to deal with merchant processing accounts
• You don’t have to create an elaborate system or concept for your business
• ...and even if trends change, you don’t have to personally deal with them

The merchant will do most of the work. As a business builder, the main thing that you’re responsible for is building the business. That’s where marketing comes into the picture. Getting the word out online and offline is how you make money.

Building Your Virtual Business Step-by-Step

Earning your first $1,000 online might seem kind of tough if you've never built a business before. What's great about building a business online is that you can build one without being a techie and even if you're on a tight budget.

For people that are getting started, I highly recommend building your own website that attracts visitors through search engines like Google and Bing.

If you can afford a large pizza each month, you can pretty much start this type of online business. It's really that affordable.

Here's a quick step-by-step outline:

Determine what market you'd like to serve - for this step, brainstorm and write down several ideas that you're interested in.

Come up with a 2-3 domain name ideas for your web business. As an example, the domain name for this site is "infospike.com". I typically choose domain names that end with .com, .net, or .co.

Build an email list and/or start your website. I highly recommend using GrooveBlog or choosing a managed WordPress hosting system sot that you can easily build out a rock-solid website. If you have the skills to create a MS Word document or send an email through Gmail, you pretty much have the basics skills that will allow you to publish content online. No website programming is required.

Create high quality for your audience that will allow them to solve a problem.

Monetize your website using health affiliate programs. The 2 that I recommend are Sell Health and Market Health. These programs are free to join and allow you to promote products and earn a relatively high commission. You can promote one affiliate program or both on your site.

Frequently Asked Questions

Excited about building a health and fitness business yet? I hope so. I also want to provide more tips for improving your chances of success.

What is Your Money Your Life (YMYL) and EAT (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness), and how does it impact your health-focused business?

YMYL and EAT - what do they have to do with your business? In recent years, fake news has been a huge topic. Popular search engines and social media websites have been working hard to slow down the spread of misinformation.

Some business builders might want to avoid building health-focused websites because of YMYL and EAT. However, if you're passionate about health, and you're willing to build up your authority in the industry, then go for it!

Google has been killing off a bunch of sites that are spreading B.S. If you're an ethical person, willing to build your personal authority, and you're spreading the facts, you'll be able to compete in this industry.

Do you have any recommendations for building health-focused content?

You can still create content without being perceived as fake news. While I've read so many health books and magazines, I still don't consider myself an expert. If you're not a doctor or any other medical professional, don't provide advice as if you are one. Also, if you're diving deep into factual information, make sure that you cite resources that are extremely trustworthy.

My last tip is to create content about your own health journey. If you're discussing healthy foods or working out, people can connect with you through experiences that are similar to theirs.

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