POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA CAN’T GET YOU SALES ANYMORE.

Sometime ago, you could simply post content for your marketing in a simple manner on social media and start raking in the cash. Well, not anymore. Times have changed and if you don’t adjust, you will be left behind.

Back in 2017 when the whole idea of affiliate marketing, freelancing and online entrepreneurship were still relatively new and not as publicized as they are today, anyone could pick a niche, sign up to an affiliate program, create content revolving around their product and boom!!! They’ve made a sale.

Well, this isn’t the case anymore. In this present day, simply posting content about your product niche or affiliate product on social media simply won’t do anything like it would before.

We all owe this pleasure and situation to the mass publicizing of internet side hustles, freelancing and affiliate marketing by YouTube channels and TikTok. This has brought about a whole bunch of competitors who do not know what their doing and slander these business models.

For example, a brilliant affiliate marketing strategy was joining Facebook groups that contain an audience for your target niche and promoting your product to them, helping them solve their problems at a profit to you. Everyone was happy. When you practice this strategy, you even get comments like “thanks a lot”, “that was really helpful”, “you are a life saver” and so much more.

But now, that this brilliant strategy has been publicized, trying this strategy is very risky. This is because as opposed to the comments that I mentioned before, you’ll get comments like; “admin do your job”, “why is there so much spam in this group”, “why do the admins approve these kinds of posts” and much more.

This is only because so many people are out there, doing this same thing, creating a bad name and making the process a whole lot harder for others.

This is why posting on social media like you would back in 2017 can’t get you anymore sales. (it still can but only If you are lucky which you probably aren’t).

Most people still don’t get this fact even till this day and this is why you see so many beginners who haven’t put any thought into it or sat down to have a good think about it say things like “affiliate marketing is dead”, “my niche is too saturated” and so on.

My answer to those will always be NO IT IS NOT, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM BECAUSE ALL YOU DO IS MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO.

Most of these people just watch YouTube videos to find a marketing strategy, they don’t even think about how to improve or make the strategy unique, all they do is copy and paste because they don’t want to put in any effort but want to see results. If you are that kind of person please, abstain from it.

One thing you need to always keep at the back of your mind when you go to YouTube or other social media platforms to find a strategy is that any strategy you find on YouTube isn’t going to work and be useful to you unless it is one that doesn’t involve social media. You should always know that anyone out there can replicate such a strategy. And then, a million-dollar strategy can become worthless.

Just so you have an idea, do you know the amount of people who have seen that same YouTube video strategy that you are planning to copy? Thousand, probably millions.

I AM NOT TRYING TO CRITICIZE THE PUBLICIZATION OF BUSINESS MODELS AND STRATEGIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA. After all, this publicization has changed many lives and helped a lot of people achieve financial freedom including myself.

All I’m trying to say is that simply copying and pasting like back then would not work anymore.

(this is probably why I laugh when I see titles like “copy my million-dollar strategy”).

I want you to also know that watching YouTube videos to get strategies is not a bad idea. Don’t simply copy and paste.

WHAT THEN SHOULD I DO? You may ask.

Here is what I am currently doing.

Note: this is not a strategy it is just an advice and you cannot simply copy and paste. All I’m doing is giving you an idea of what you should do. (this is how YouTube videos ought to be not the copy-and-paste kind that don’t work)

1. Don’t discard the ideas on YouTube videos simply because they may have been publicized, listen to them and find out if any good can come out of them or if they can be of use to you in any way. I personally check out these videos, making sure not to copy the exact strategy like many others and I select the desirable qualities from the strategy to use them later on.

2. I outline the major and minor flaws of the strategy and capitalize on how I can improve or negate them.

3. I add my very own touches to it. Like a little personalization, mood lightener, etc., and then, I make it completely mine, creating a brand-new strategy from an already publicized copy-and-paste strategy.

THIS, MY DEAR FRIEND, IS HOW YOU CAN GET AHEAD OF THE CROWD. Knowing that posting alone and copying strategies are mundane is a good way to start your journey ahead of others and also, being unique with your marketing lets you stand out more and increases your chances of profit and making your impact.

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