Getting Started With Affiliate Marketing
The Importance of Building A List.
After reading the e-Entrepreneur Success Mindset you should have a clear
understanding of what is expected of you to succeed with your online
business. If for some reason you haven’t read this short ebook you may
get it at Online Success Mindset.
Also, you should have some if not all of the 4 things you need to earn income
online. They are: a website, hosting, autoresponder, and a product. More on
these in a moment.
You may ask “Why build a list?” If you have been on the Inernet for any lenght
of time I am sure you have been ask to give your name and email address to
receive a newsletter, a free report, free ebook, or free software. Something of
value that you can use to assist you with your online business. After you
have subscribed this list you started getting emails with content and an offer
of a product that is relevant to the subject of the newsletter or the content in
the email. This is the idea and purpose of building your list.
The above is referred to as Email Marketing and for it to work properly you
need to stay in contact with your list and give good, useful content to build
trust between you and your subscribers. Once that trust is built, then they
will consider purchasing an offer from you.
You have probably heard over and over many times “the money is in the list”.
Well, this is very true to form. By industry standards they say that each
person on your list is worth $1 per month. So you can see the importance
of having your own list.
If your using affiliate marketing as your business model always send traffic
to your optin page on your website before sending them to the product
you are promoting with your affiliate link. If you send them to your offer
without capturing their name and email you more than likely will not see
them again.
When you have chosen a product to promote as an affiliate use a related
product such as a free report to giveaway to capture their name and email.
The report should be of good content but at the same time give just enough
information for the person to want to know more and want to purchase the
product you are promoting to get all the information that they want and
need.
Note: [ Clickbank.net and PayDotCom.com are great resources for
finding products to promote. I use and find cbengine.com very useful
and give me more data when researching a product to promote as an
affiliate. ]
Always check the website of the product your are promoting to see if
they offer any items that you can giveaway which will help you promote
their product and build your list. If they don’t them you may want to
reconsider promoting that product.
Next time we will cover the autoresponder.
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August 17th, 2010 at 9:13 AM
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