Affiliate marketing is relatively painless and involves little

or no cost because...

You don't need a product of your own

You don't need to build a complicated website

You have no shipping or inventory costs

You don't handle credit cards or refunds

Then you're told all you have to do is promote your affiliate

link and refer people to a merchant site. You are rewarded

by getting a percentage of the profits. TRUE...

But, promoting your affiliate link is only the begining!

What you need to understand is that the critical element for

long-term success is to build an opt-in list of prospects.

Yes, prospects, they are not customers yet! It is these

"potential buyers" that you must form a relationship with

over time and who will purchase the products you

recommend. They will come to trust your recommendations

as you routinely follow up with your personal experience

with those products.

Avoid the mistake that 95% of affiliates make... assume

people will buy from you.

First, people do not give up

their hard earned cash easily or the first time they see

a product. Do you buy the first new car you see? Probably

not unless you're in despirate need. Online buying is no

different.

Second, people rarely make a major purchase from someone

they don't know or trust. You are merely one of millions of

affiliates trying to convince them that your product will

fullfill their needs.

The #1 mistake you can make is to send your prospects directly

to a merchant's website. Ponder this: You purchase advertising

or spend countless hours generating traffic from your promotional

efforts and you send those prospects straight to a merchant's

site. You have just lost them forever if they don't buy!

If they do buy, you just got lucky with a commission. But you're

still flushing a lot of potential cash down the toilet!

That is precisely why you need to get people to opt-in to YOUR

list first. You'll be able to recommend products and follow up with

multiple offers days, weeks and even months later. You'll actually

enjoy the lifetime value of turning prospects into YOUR customers!

If you do not build your list, you cannot build your business...

you're only building someone else's!

The key to affiliate success is to...

Drive traffic to your lead capture page

Convince those prospects to opt-in to your list

Follow up through email campaigns

PREsell your prospects with quality content and personal

recommendations

The long term profit potential of your business relies on repeat sales

from some of the same satisfied customers. Any successful off-line

business already knows this... Wal Mart, Walgreens, Trader Joes.

Your online business is no different!

Maximizing your promotional efforts in this way will pay huge dividends

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