How To Build A List For Affiliate Marketing

By Author: Bob Perry
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If you are new to internet marketing or affiliate marketing as it is also called than you probably have heard the saying that "the money is in the list". What do they mean by that statement. How do you get a list? What kind of list are they talking about?
I know when I first heard it those were the questions running through my brain and even after they were answered I didn't have a clue on how to get my own list. I also wondered if it is true?
Positively! From my experience in the trenches the list really is the key. It's the key to having the ability to selling to a pre-qualified group of people who have let you have their email address who are interested in something that you are selling. The beauty is that you can sell to them over and over again when you come up with a better product or service. You can educate them in what it is they need to know about said product or service. You can build a relationship with them that can last for years.
But before you get a list you need to choose what it is that you want to sell. I am involved with affiliate marketing and the beauty of it is that you do not ...
... need your own product to begin making money. There are thousands of practical products existing that you can make a dollar on. All you have to do is find the customers and send them to the sellers and collect the cash.
Whatever your interest is there are an unbelievable amount of products that you can make money selling. There are websites setup exclusively for this that have literally hundreds of products in a multitude of categories. You have no excuse for not being able to find a product that you have some interest in. If you are creative there is also a surplus of room for you to make and promote your own product.

This is called being an affiliate for the product that you choose to sell. Affiliate marketing is very easy to get started doing. You just need to sign up for their affiliate program, promote it, and watch the money start rolling in. This is great, you can't believe how easy this is, but then what? Most likely you would just find another product and start all over again. If only it was that easy.
Picture this, when you pick or create this new product you already have a list of hundreds or thousands of people to instantly notify about it? You can fire off a snazzy email and immediate have money coming into your pocket. Because this is your list and they have already shown an interest in the type of product you are selling they are much more likely to buy it. Especially from you, who they now have a trust in, since you have built a relationship.

Then you can start advertising this product and add more people to your list to grow it even more. Then the next item you pick or create you will have all the more people to sell to. As you can see this method can have on a snowball effect. In a relatively short period of time your primary income will be from your online business. Wouldn't it be sweet to work from home!
But the key question is how do you go about starting a list? Sounds easy enough but no one has mentioned the technique of acquiring this list.

One of the most often used ways is to create a squeeze page with some type of offer on it in exchange for their email address. This is a simple one page website that is designed to capture your visitors name and email address. If you offer them something of value they are more likely you give up their precious name and email address. There are plenty of things that you can get for free, like reports, charts, ebooks, that you offer to them.

Once you have captured their name and email address you add them to your auto responder and they are a part or your list. You now have a person who has shown an interest in your particular product or service and really wants more information. At this time you would redirect them to your affiliate product website or to your own website with a link. I have found it best to first send them to my own site to warm them up for the affiliates website by telling them all of the virtues of the product or service.

You now have a potential customer for your current and your future products. And they are more likely to buy than if you just sent them to an affiliate website because they showed they had enough interest to give up their precious name and email address.

When you email them regularly, every other day or so, make sure that you are giving them something of value. Some ideas are useful information, free reports, free software, or news articles you've come across. Try to show your personality in the email.

You can than show them your product and recommend a link to your product or affiliate page. Promote your product with a strong sales message. Tell why they need it and why it is better than other alternatives, stress any freebies that are available with purchase. Do not over use your list or they will shut you out. This is your most valuable resource and should not be jeopardized by overselling to them.

If you only promote the best products and always give good information you should do fine. You must not try to cheat or misrepresent anything to your list. Be a person that they can trust and get good information from and you will be able to make money from your list for years to come.

Bob Perry is a freelance writer with experience in financial markets and investments.
Lately he has become involved in affiliate marketing.
Check his blog for more informative articles
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They have multiple videos and a forum to answer any question that you might have.
They cover the whole spectrum of selling from the very beginning to the last question that you could think of.