Is Opt In List Building for the Affiliate Marketer?

As an affiliate marketer you are no doubt looking to make money online for what many consider minimal effort. After all the website is built for you, it converts well and it would appear all you have to do is draw traffic for decent commissions. Sounds good but for any affiliate marketer to make real money online they simply must consider building an opt in email list of their own

Now, building a responsive list like any other endeavour in life entails some work. That said it can be one of the most profitable things you can do to turbo charge your online efforts not to mention the profits too. The time and effort put in will certainly be well worth it.

Your list opens up various other avenues for business. Take joint ventures for instance. You would be in a strong position to leverage your efforts with ad swaps or give away events to grow your list. Launching your own product or service would have a different outlook as you would be able to test it's popularity by the response of your list.

One other great advantage of having a list is that you can ask your list exactly what they want. You then go ahead and produce it for them and be handsomely rewarded. I also think it is very rewarding to be able to help those on your list to make money online too. You can do this by providing the know how and sourcing the right products at the right price for your opt in email list to benefit from.

It is a known fact that most affiliates, probably about 90 percent of them, are not making any money from their affiliate marketing. I think the reason for this is quite simply that they spend so much effort and money looking for traffic. This traffic is usually undirected and any efforts geared towards this will produce very little. Apart from information, people online are also looking for a relationship. Can they trust you? Trust comes with time. Building your own list allows you to gain this trust and your traffic becomes targeted. You can then expect meaningful results to your offers. It beats expecting people to buy from you first time round on your website especially in the light of the fact that people need an exposure of about 7 - 10 times before they will make a purchase.

I am singing the virtues of having a list as being a key to successful affiliate marketing. Many successful marketers have been known to make serious affiliate sales by just sending a recommendation or endorsement email message to their list and receiving thousands of dollars as payment a few hours later.

This kind of marketing experience is really worth building a list for. It does not happen overnight and requires that you have a good relationship with your list for it to be responsive.

Clearly, owning your own opt in email list will help turbo charge your affiliate marketing efforts and put some money in the bank to show for your online efforts. Is it not time you started building an opt in email list? One that enables you to make real money online.

Build a list and build your own traffic - and I mean targeted and responsive traffic.

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Don't Catch These Two Diseases

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One of my favorite motivational speakers is a guy by the name of Brian Tracy, who is one of the world’s top experts on success psychology and personal achievement. In case you haven’t heard of Brian, he is sort of like a calmer, more “laid back” version of infomercial guru, Tony Robbins.

Not long ago, I had the chance to attend a seminar Brian held at the Jacob Javitz center here in New York City. One part of his talk really grabbed my attention, and I’d like to share it with you...

Brian said that that there are two diseases running rampant across America and much of the industrialized world today. If you had to hazard a guess, which two do you think they are? Cancer? Diabetes? Heart Disease? Osteoporosis? Obesity?

Guess what? They’re NONE of the above. In fact, they’re not even physical diseases – they are mental diseases.



The first mental disease, according to Tracy, is called something-for nothing disease. Something for nothing disease is contracted by people who believe they can take more out than what they put in. These are the people who want all the rewards without paying full price, or as Brian put it, “They want to go through the revolving door of life on someone else’s push.”

Quick fix disease is the second of the mental diseases. According to Brian, this disease is contracted by people who always want a quick way to reach their goals. They search for instant cures to solve problems that may have taken months or even years to develop. They seek short cuts to acquire key skills that actually take many months and years of hard work to master.

These diseases are not to be confused with the desire to constantly get better and search for more efficient ways to reach your goals (which is a positive trait). The “diseased” people are those trying to reach their goals faster than nature intended without any effort (which is a negative trait). As a friend of mine once said, "There’s a big difference between seeking efficiency and being lazy."

Brian’s New York City seminar was mostly filled with businesspeople, sales professionals and entrepreneurs, so he referred to financial examples, such as: wanting to work fewer hours and earn more money, investing in get rich quick schemes, or buying lottery tickets.

However, I personally feel that quick fix and something for nothing disease are more rampant and insidious among people with fitness goals than they are among any other group.

Health and fitness seekers with something for nothing disease they think they can get twice the results in half the time. They want weight loss without dieting, fitness without exercise, and perfect health while eating, drinking and smoking whatever they want.

Those with quick fix disease want to take a pill, go to sleep, and wake up skinny. They are forever on a quest to find short cuts to fitness goals that that normally take months or years to attain.

People afflicted by quick fix disease are suckers for the latest “exercise in a bottle,” “fat burning cream,” “diet pill,” or “steroid replacement” scams. They impulsively buy miracle solutions on a whim, which they haven’t researched and know nothing about.

Saddest of all, they often waste YEARS of their lives on a misguided quest for the holy grail of weight loss or muscle growth, when they could have reached their goals with a better work ethic and a little bit of persistence.

People with these diseases are violating some of the most basic laws of the universe: Cause and effect, sowing and reaping, action and reaction. This is just as ridiculous as attempting to violate other natural laws such as the law of gravity. Jump off a cliff, and you’re going to plummet to the Earth below – 100% of the time.

But there’s more: Not only are you going to FAIL and hit bottom if you catch one or both of these diseases - the very act of seeking a quick fix or wanting something for nothing makes you a weaker person.

On the other hand, the act of setting a worthy goal for something you want and reaching it through diligence, determination, discipline and hard work changes the very fiber of your being. You literally change on a cellular level; you become a stronger person.

The purpose of having a worthy goal then, is not to possess the goal, it is to become a better person as result of pursuing and achieving the goal. If you get something for nothing, you may have that thing, but you have not become anything. Pity the person who wins a million dollars who has not become a millionaire in spirit and character.

It’s been said you don’t get what you want in life, you get what you deserve. If you want to achieve your perfect weight and improve your health… if you want success and achievement… if you want to win the championship title… then set the goal and go for it!

But whatever you do, don’t catch these two diseases. SHUN THE QUICK FIX, AVOID THE FREE RIDE and deserve it. You can have, do or be anything you want - just pay the price and it’s yours!

About the Author:

Tom Venuto is a lifetime natural bodybuilder, an NSCA-certified personal trainer (CPT), certified strength & conditioning specialist (CSCS), and author of the #1 best-selling e-book, "Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle.” Tom has written hundreds of articles and has been featured in print magazines such as IRONMAN, Australian IRONMAN, Natural Bodybuilding, Muscular Development, Exercise for Men and Men’s Exercise, as well as on hundreds of websites worldwide. For information on Tom's Fat Loss program, visit: Burn the FAT!
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