List Building From the Ground Up   by peteyboy

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How to get started, if you don't know where to get started!

If you're an affiliate marketer, you might think that your only task is driving traffic to a product owner's site. But if that's all you're doing, you're missing out on some major profit potential!

Affiliate marketers have been kept in the dark by product owners who just want them to quickly and effortlessly hand over the goods - the prospects! They make it really easy for you, giving you cut and paste banner and text ad codes to slip into your online marketing efforts.

But there's one crucial component that could help you go from small-time earner to affiliate superstar - building a list of your own. Yes, it's one extra step - making your prospect opt into your list instead of getting instant gratification from an immediate product sale and commission, but in the long run, it pays off nicely.

Affiliate marketers who chase single sales time and time again are busy - there's no relaxing by the beach sipping Mojitos for those poor saps.

The affiliate marketers who truly cash in while they sleep are the ones with lists of their own - the guys that product-owners come to begging for a chance to promote to their list.

Affiliate Marketing Free Traffic Ideas 

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How to Start Building an Affiliate Marketing List 

Once you have a readymade list of targeted prospects compiled into a list that only you have access to, it makes it very easy to command thousand of dollars on a single recommendation you blast out to your faithful followers.

But how do you start building a list of interested prospects if you're just an affiliate marketer with no product of your own? You start with something valuable that you can give away free.

Write a short 5-page report, or offer a 7-day free email course to your visitors where they start receiving the goods once they type in their first name and email address. You market your squeeze page, as it's known, just as you do anything online - in your signature file in forums, via article marketing, in blogs, and more.

As traffic builds, your opt in list will grow, and over time, you'll be able to blast out emails whenever you have something to promote and rake in a lot of money if the subscribers trust your opinion about what it is you're promoting - without having to work hard for more targeted traffic.

Viral Marketing Tips for Affiliates 

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Don't Let Your Affiliate List of Subscribers Sit Stagnant 

The worst thing you could do is build a list for your affiliate marketing efforts and then not know how to use it! Before you even start building a list, you need to have several messages ready to go out like clockwork.

You can space your email marketing apart by a certain of days, so that the recipients get a new message every day, every 3 days, or once a month if you like. Don't go too long without contacting them because then you lose branding potential - they won't remember who you are or why you're contacting them!

Some affiliate marketers believe that if you don't promote at least one thing in every email, you're leaving money on the table. Others believe you have to give some free stuff because you ask for something in return.

You'll have to test your own list to see how responsive they are to back-to-back email offers. Sometimes, if you give some extra valuable information in addition to your promotion, it is better received than if you just blast a "buy this" email day after day.

Email marketing is an easy way to bulk up your affiliate income.

You can use one tool, such as Aweber, and build multiple lists for a variety of niches.

Having your own list is like having a membership site - when and if you decide to cross the line and become a product owner of your own, you'll already have a willing list of buyers open to receiving your communications.

Viral Marketing Tips for Affiliates 

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What Is Email Marketing? 

E-mail marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every e-mail sent to a potential or current customer could be considered e-mail marketing. However, the term is usually used to refer to:

* sending e-mails with the purpose of enhancing the relationship of a merchant with its current or previous customers and to encourage customer loyalty and repeat business,

* sending e-mails with the purpose of acquiring new customers or convincing current customers to purchase something immediately,

* adding advertisements to e-mails sent by other companies to their customers, and

* sending e-mails over the Internet, as e-mail did and does exist outside the Internet (e.g., network e-mail and FIDO).

Researchers estimate that United States firms alone spent US$400 million on e-mail marketing in 2006.DMA: "The Power of Direct Marketing: ROI, Sales, Expenditures and Employment in the U.S., 2006-2007 Edition", Direct Marketing Association, October 2006

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