In fact, you will lose a lot of commissions if you do not try to build your own opt-in list. One or the things you may probably know is that you will be able to pre-sell when you are sending emails or newsletters to your subscribers or members.

As a result, you should try your best to collect the email addresses of the visitors. One of the ways to do so is to put a subscription box in your website and landing pages. Here, you are trying to encourage your visitors to subscribe before going to the merchant site.

You may wonder why your visitors will subscriber. This is indeed a very good question. The truth is that visitors to your site or landing page will not be eager to subscribe if there is no incentive. So you will need to find some ways to encourage to subscribe.

One of the ways to encourage your visitors to subscribe is to give away some free stuffs. It is very popular for affiliate marketers to give away free ebooks to the visitors to their sites in order to encourage them to subscribe.

In most cases it will be working like this. You will tell your visitors that they will be able to get your free stuff by registering to your opt-in list. You will lead them to a "Thank You Page" after they have submit the information. And you will use some autoresponders to send the visitor and email and download link of your free stuff. By doing this you will be able to get more subscribers.

So, how do you make money with your list? As mentioned, you will send your subscribers newsletters and promote the affiliate products. As a matter of fact, the affiliate program will sometimes launch promotion campaigns. The visitors may be able to buy the products in a lower price during the period of promotion. You can send your subscribers this kind of information so that you can encourage them to purchase.

The above is only an outline for you to make use of your list. You should try to think out of the box and find more new ways to make money with your list.