How to Start Affiliate Marketing With CLAUDE AI (STEP BY STEP)

0:00 Welcome to today's free course on how to start affiliate marketing with AI. You can do this from anywhere in the world with little to no money and even start this completely faceless. It has never been easier to start an entire affiliate marketing business from scratch just by combining simple tools like Claude AI, Gen Spark, and Pinterest, you can build a full affiliate marketing business today. And I will also be showing you how to use free marketing techniques to get traffic. So, in today's video, you're going to learn how to choose the niche, how to find products that people are already buying, how to build the website, and how to create Pinterest content and drive traffic to your affiliate links. I'll also be showing you how to build up an email marketing list, how to create a freebie for people that are interested, and how to track what's actually working so you can just keep scaling. And by the end of this video, you can see if this is worth it for you to actually get started with.

0:54 For those that don't already know what affiliate marketing is, affiliate marketing is just when you promote something for somebody else like a product or a service online and you earn commission whenever somebody buys that product or unique offer, anything through that link that you are giving. And that's really it. Like you don't have to create a full-fledged business, you don't have to create a product. This is a side hustle that so many people have been doing for a very long time now. It's just so much easier to start now because of AI. And even if you wanted to expand on this long-term and even sell a digital product through this or, you know, sell a product of your own later on, this is something you can continue to expand on as well. So, if you invest your time into this, this is something that you can just keep growing over the next 5 to 10 years as well.

1:34 Your job with affiliate marketing is literally just to get the right products in front of people who are already searching for them. I'm going to show you how to find those products and how to use free traffic completely faceless. For example, let's go to Pinterest and I'm just going to search something like new mom essentials. You can also search like anything like baby registry must-haves or I'm just like picking a random niche here. When you scroll through Pinterest, you'll notice something very interesting. A lot of these pins are not directly trying to sell you a product. They're just trying to get you curious enough to click on them. So, on Pinterest, when you see one of these pins, a lot of times it brings you to some kind of blog-style website, article, product guide, or list. And inside that article, there could be dozens of different products, physical and digital. Many times they monetize from on-screen ads, too. So, it can become very profitable. Maybe there's a bottle washer, a stroller organizer, a baby carrier, a portable sound machine, like so many things like in this one single niche. And this is where affiliate marketing comes in. And you can see like when you were on these blogs looking at them, they're also monetizing in so many different ways, not just through affiliate marketing, but also from like actual ads on their blogs. This is happening in thousands of different niches all over the internet, and specifically Pinterest. Pinterest is just one traffic source. It's known to be one of the best with affiliate marketing, but it's just one of so many other sources that you could take advantage of. I just want to keep it simple for you today and faceless, so we're going to keep it just through Pinterest today. Especially if you want to pump tons of content using AI. And pro tip, Pinterest is a woman-dominated platform. So, women and moms or future moms are checking Pinterest for all these kinds of things. They're already searching for them. You're just putting it in front of them, in front of the right person. So, how can you choose your niche?

3:22 I want you to remember these four things. Pick something that people are already actively spending money on in that niche. That something that there's a lot of visual content you can create around it. Products that can solve a specific type of problem, or make somebody's life easier. And my biggest tip is just you can you should try to relate to the niche in some type of way. Otherwise, you'll wind up hating it. So, just try to pick something at least that you can kind of relate to or kind of like, so you're not just like doing things like in a pointless way, and then like there's zero purpose behind it. And if you're like curious like what type of products are selling the most online right now, I love just going to Amazon.

3:57 And for example, let's just go to Amazon and just click on all, and then just go to best sellers, and from there you can explore tons of categories that are trending right now, and just like categories that sell really well to help you gain more ideas of different niche types. And let's go ahead now and open up Claude AI. It's completely free. It's kind of like the new ChatGPT. Or you can use ChatGPT if you want also. And inside here, I just want to like develop this, like even though I'm giving you the strategy, I just want you to also see how you can formulate an entire strategy through using free AI systems like ChatGPT or Claude AI. So, for example, let's go ahead and just go to Claude, and let's use a prompt like this, which is help me develop an affiliate marketing business in the new mom and baby products niche. Give me profitable content angles, Pinterest content ideas, categories of products moms actively purchase, common problems that these products solve, and ideas for turning Pinterest traffic into affiliate clicks and email subscribers. Focus on newborn essentials, baby registry products, postpartum products, feeding products, and products that just make life easier for moms. So, I will also, guys, put all these prompts like on the screen, so you guys can see them big, and I'll also put them in my description box down below for you guys. And obviously, you guys will probably pick a different niche. So, whatever niche you just pick, just replace my niche with yours. And once you paste that in, whatever AI you are using will start mapping out the entire business strategy, so you can just already start formulating it and getting ideas. And really, what we need are three steps: an affiliate marketing website, content that gets people to click on your website, and a funnel to capture the people and bring in the sales. And the craziest part is is that we can do all of this through using AI.

5:44 So, the first thing that we're going to do is let's do our website. So, this is going to be your little hub where you actually have all of the blogging, all of the links, all of it's going to be done through AI and streamlined through AI. I'm going to show you how to do it, but this is going to be like your home base of how you're making money and how you're going to build a audience kind of on this website long-term. So, to build this website and the rest of this affiliate marketing business, I'm going to use GenSpark. It can handle everything from deeper research and brainstorming to organizing the materials, building the website, and creating our Pinterest posts for us, creating the brand kit, and so many more things. GenSpark is basically like an all-in-one AI, which becomes our workspace with tools for coding, website building, research, image generation, documents, slides, and tons of other AI workflows. Like, the list literally goes on. And we can even use like all of these AI models like Claude all inside of GenSpark. But, we also have access to all these other tools under one umbrella. So, we don't have to jump around to like a hundred different AI tools and applications. So, I put the link for GenSpark right down in my description box below. Once you click that link, it will bring you to this page. And once you're here, you can make a free account, and then you'll be brought to this dashboard. The first tool that we will use is GenSpark Design.

7:04 So, I'm just going to go ahead and click design. Then just choose the option to create a simple website or web app, and now we're going to describe exactly what we want. Here is the prompt that I'm using here. So, go ahead and screenshot this or save this. Again, I'll put this in my description box for you guys. So, once you have that written out, click enter, and this is where it gets really cool. Instead of us manually coding the website ourselves, the AI starts to plan out the entire website structure. It's going to start writing the code and structuring the layout, and we can actually watch the website being created and preview it in real time. The AI is now working for us, and we're about to have a fully functioning affiliate style website in a couple minutes. So, now let's go ahead and just go through what it created. We can see here it has a whole hero section, we have product showcases, we have buttons where we can eventually insert our affiliate links, we have categories, and we already have an email capture section here. But, one thing I really want to point out here is that you don't have to accept like this first version that it gives you. If you don't like something, you can really tell it. So, you can just say, "Make the website more minimal." Or, "Give it a more soft neutral mom look." Or, "Add a first-time mom's favorite section." Or, tell it to create separate sections. And whatever you want, you can basically talk to the AI like you would a website designer, and it can continue changing the entire website for you. So, once I'm happy with the desktop version, I'm just going to go ahead and check on the mobile version. And this is really important because 90% of people clicking at Pinterest pins on social media are viewing it from their phones. So, let's go ahead and just switch over to mobile preview, and make sure that the text is readable, make sure the buttons work, make sure the product cards aren't cut off. Make sure nothing is overlapping, and make sure that the layout still makes sense on a smaller screen. And it should be automatically really good, but just good to check this as well. And once you are happy with the website, you can just click publish, and it's ready to go. And for your link, you can temporarily use the jensberg domain.

9:10 This is your website link that you'll share. But, obviously, if you're going to like turn this into a real business long term, you do want to definitely get a custom domain, which you definitely can. They're like a dollar for the first year. easy to find, easy to get. Now, technically, we have a website. The next step to building your affiliate marketing business with AI is joining affiliate programs. If you want to go the Amazon route, you can join Amazon Associates. You just have to fill out a super easy application, share your website link with that application, and they get back to you pretty quick.

9:40 Another one of my favorite ways to find affiliate deals is actually through this website called Impact. You can just go to impact.com, and almost all brands use this one, so it's super easy to connect with them here, or you can literally just Google and look for individual brands. So, if that's like, you know, if you're doing mom brand, look for mom brand. Just like search like the products that you're looking for, and you'd be so surprised like how many websites actually like have a little section like for affiliates. So, just like keep an eye on that. Then when you're approved, you can immediately start receiving your tracking links with those brands, and usually they send them to you right away. Usually you're approved right away. And those are the links that we will attach to our website and the individual pins, which we'll go over next. Now that you have your website, you have your brands with the links, you have your offers, and you're ready to start showcasing. Now we're going to make Pinterest posts using AI.

10:31 The most viral Pinterest posts, like if you're scrolling on Pinterest, you can see the ones that are going the most viral are the most valuable, and just grabbing attention from like simple stuff, but like stuff that people are already searching for, just grabbing that attention, and giving value. And you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You can see which ones are already working, and use this as a example and a basis. Also, keep in mind that Pinterest favors vertical pins. So, make sure that all of your pins are vertical. I will put like the actual ratio of what Pinterest recommends and boosts right here. So, to create the Pinterest pins using AI, I'm going to head right back over to GenSpark, and using the GenSpark design, we will use the image generation feature. And what's really cool about this is we're not just asking AI to give us ideas, but we can actually have GenSpark turn those ideas into an entire set of finished Pinterest pins. So, I'm going to start with this prompt. Create 10 highly clickable Pinterest pin concepts for modern mom and baby brand.

11:26 Focus on useful curiosity-driven topics that would naturally lead someone to click through and learn more. Avoid misleading or unsupported claims, we always want to put. So, first, I'm just going to let Jen Spark come up with all these concepts. So, here we go. Here's all of our concepts here. So, we're not going to just like sit here and try to like brainstorm ourselves. Now that we have the concepts, we're going to tell it this, to turn the concepts into polished Pinterest pin graphics. So, here is that prompt that I'll use here. And what's so cool about this is instead of generating one random image at a time, we can create a complete set of Pinterest creatives that actually look like they belong to the same brand. So, we can use the brand kit and design system to keep things like our fonts, visual style, colors, and overall branding consistent across the entire set. So, even though we're generating multiple pins, we're not ending up with 10 graphics that look like they just came from 10 completely different profiles. And everything is still layered and editable for us. So, if Jen Spark creates a design I like, but I want to change the headline, move an image, adjust the text, swap an element, or just like change up the layout, I don't have to necessarily like regenerate the entire thing every single time. I can just directly go into this design and make those individual changes, and you guys can now see what we have now. Instead of manually designing Pinterest posts one by one, Jen Spark has helped us go from an idea to an entire coordinated set of Pinterest content that we can review, customize, and prepare for publishing.

12:54 Then we can export the finished graphics, and now we have a batch of Pinterest content ready for the next step in our affiliate marketing strategy. Here is another prompt that you could use to generate pins as well. So, I'll also put this one on the screen. Now, I'm going to show you guys how to post your Pinterest pins. So, once we're happy with the post that we made, now we can upload them to Pinterest. So, let's go into Pinterest, and you can do this from your phone if you want to, but today we're going to just do this from the laptop since everything else I'm showing you was on the laptop. So, let's go ahead and just click create a new pin.

13:29 We're going to upload the post we made. Let's write the title, add the description, and we're going to stack this with keywords. Like I like to just Again, you can like get Jasper to write up like what the description is or keywords, anything you want. But I stack as many keywords here as possible because that's what's going to actually get you to like the main explore page and like get you on as many people's searches as possible. You can also like actually add like tags and like topics. So, just you can search a bunch of different random things here and the topics will actually pop up and I like to add as many as possible. And then right here, you'll just add the link that takes people back to the relevant page on your website.

14:09 And this part is important because like if the pin says 25 baby registry products you'll actually use, I would not necessarily send that to like that person to just your random homepage. We should send them directly to a page that is relevant for this topic and may even have other products that are like similar to that topic. So, it makes sense for them and they might even buy even more stuff because that's like what they clicked for. Now that our pin is posted, people see the Pinterest pin, they click it, they go to the website, and from there they can click the affiliate links or they can join your email list. We're going to talk about that next. So, let me now talk about how to maximize email marketing, grabbing people's emails, and creating lead magnets using AI. Now, I don't think Pinterest is going anywhere. I don't think Instagram is going anywhere. I don't think any of these social media sites are going anywhere anytime soon.

15:00 But if for some reason the algorithm's not in your favor or like for some reason if something does happen to your account, email marketing is like owning your people and your audience as you're growing. And even if you guys are starting from $0, when I say audience, don't let that scare you because you do grow an audience like slowly slowly. Everybody starts at zero followers, zero email list, like but you grow that over time. But it's good to just have people on this email list because you can then retarget them and send them tons of other things that you can also make affiliate commission on. Or if you decide to sell your own digital product or sell your own checklist, this is also something you can expand on and use those emails. So, all we have to figure out is like why would somebody give me their email? And usually, that's by just giving them like a free checklist or a small guide and then linking that to the Pinterest pin. So, for this mom niche, we could do like the ultimate first-time mom checklist. Something super simple, something specific, and something that just gives people immediately gives them value. I'm going to use Jen Sparks research and document tools to research products, organize them into categories, and create the actual guide. So, for creating the lead magnet, I'm going to use this prompt. So, I'll go ahead and again put this prompt on the screen. You guys can copy this prompt. And the AI will help us create the content for this.

16:15 Then from there, we can turn it into a downloadable PDF. And if we wanted to take this even further, we could use the AI slides to create something more visual. Maybe like a whole guide for your baby registry or a hospital bag checklist or a newborn checklist. There's so many different types of lead magnets that you can create. So, using the AI slides feature, we can ask it to make us this. So, this is another really good prompt that you guys can use when you're using this feature. Then just hit generate, and you can actually watch Jen Sparks build the presentation for us.

16:49 It's taking our initial idea and turning it into an entire deck, which creates the structure, writes the content, designs the individual pages, and puts everything together in one cohesive presentation. So, here is the completed set of slides. So, we just got like a cool really awesome like actual visual presentation that again, you could even sell this as a digital product if you wanted to. I've seen so many people actually selling these like for $5 and everything like that. So, let's go through each page. I just like to check and see like how they organize the information and just make sure like that we don't need to change anything. So, like let's just say I like this slide, but I want this headline to be shorter. I can just click literally right onto the text and edit the headline live. And I'll just change the text right here. Or maybe like I want this moved around. You can adjust the layout. You can move any elements around. And I can make these changes directly instead of having to start the entire like AI presentation all over again. So, once you're happy with everything, we now have a full slide deck. So, now we have this done. This is what you were able to upload to your website and give an exchange for somebody's email. Or like I said, sell as a digital product if it's very valuable. Or you could honestly just try both. So, to add the actual email capture onto your website if you didn't get it on the initial one or just like to add in different places, just go back into GenSpark and just type something like this. We want to just add a modern email capture section offering a free downloadable guide called 25 baby registry products you'll actually use, include a strong call to action, clean neutral mom aesthetic, and an email sign-up form. Go ahead and submit that.

18:25 And after a few seconds, it can update the website and add the section for us. Now, when somebody lands on the website, they have two main actions they can take. They can click one of our affiliate products or they can join our email list. But the form needs somewhere to actually like send those email addresses. So, the next step is connecting an email marketing platform. And you can connect the sign-up form to an email marketing service that stores subscribers and lets you send automated email sequences. Once that is connected, we can create an automation where when somebody enters in their email, they will automatically receive their free guide and enter someone into that welcome email sequence. And obviously, just make sure that like the sign-up language, the unsubscribe functionality is working and complies with like the laws and the the requirements that apply to you. Now, when somebody joins your email list, we can start sending emails to them. And this is another area where AI just saves you so much time. So, back on Jen Spark, we can ask it this prompt right here and get a five-email welcome sequence for whoever gave us our email. So, then it can generate this email content for us.

19:34 And obviously, you still want to just like review everything once it's generated. rewrite anything that doesn't sound like you. I mean, this obviously looks great, but then you can add your links, add your disclosures, add then load those emails into your email marketing platform. So, now we have the website. We have our affiliate products. We know how to make Pinterest pins that are faceless and easy to pump out. You have your email capture. We have our lead magnet. And we even have the automated email sequence. Now, we have a full system, but we're not going to just like sit around and just guess.

20:06 We're not going to just be posting content and just like hoping that it works. Jen Spark AI also has this AI Sheets tool that allows you to track everything. So, you can see which Pinterest pins are getting the most impressions. You can see which pins are getting the most clicks, which website pages get the most traffic, which products get the most clicks, which product categories convert the best, which lead magnets generate the most email subscribers, which emails get the most clicks, and which content topics perform the strongest over time. Like, data is literally everything when you're building a business. So, instead of just guessing, we are using that real data.

20:43 Then we can discover like what we need to hone in on and figure out like what to just create more of. So, in order to get this, you guys can use this prompt. So, again, keeping this on the screen for you guys so you guys can use this one. And you can see that most of like AI, like mastering AI, is just learning prompts. And I got you. And you don't have to guess because I got you. There is one more Jen Spark feature that I do want to show you guys called the Jen Team, which is really cool. So, basically, what it is is like instead of having like one AI, it's basically giving you a team of AI agents that can work together on our larger goal. So, everybody can be working at the same time for you. For example, I could give Gen Team a goal like this. I could just tell it to build a Pinterest affiliate marketing strategy around the mom and baby products. Research potential products and affiliate opportunities, identify Pinterest keywords and content ideas, develop a content strategy, and organize everything into that one actionable plan. So, instead of me manually trying to do all of this myself, Gen Team is breaking this into all these different tasks. So, you guys can see it has never been easier to build an affiliate marketing business. I hope you guys learned tons from this free course. If you guys have any questions about this free course, feel free to comment down below because I literally read through all of my comments and all my all the questions that you guys have for me. I really just try to answer as best as I can. I know this was a lot, and it's AI the whole world of AI is just like continuing to expand. It is a lot, but it's so fun to learn. So, I hope you guys learned something new from this, some kind of new capability that AI can do. And again, all these prompts will be linked down in my description box down below for you guys and every other resource that you guys need. Of course, don't let your education stop here. You guys already know my YouTube channel is your number one source for 100% free education and courses. All I ask in exchange for the free education is just smash that like button for the YouTube algorithm and subscribe to my YouTube channel so I can continue to create free courses and videos for you guys just like this. If you guys want more videos about affiliate marketing and like Pinterest and everything like that, let me know also down in the comments down below because it is such a like cool like faceless side hustle, and I'd love to do more videos on it for you guys if there's like certain things you want to see. So, definitely let me know down in the comments what I can give for you guys.

22:57 Make sure you follow me on Instagram as well. My Instagram is Body and Biz, Body and BIZ for more business inspiration and updates. Wishing you guys all the best and I will see you guys in my next free course. Bye everyone.