This article is an overview of using affiliate products and/or services in your list building efforts.

List building or what is commonly referred to as building an online email list is one of the many options you can take advantage of as an online marketer.

Affiliate marketing is generally referred to as selling someone else’s product or service. The product or service may be offered by an individual, a small company or large corporation.

For someone who is building a list of subscribers, affiliate marketing is one option for generating revenue.

How the process works…

First the searcher subscribes to your list and then you place affiliate products in the follow up emails. Another way is to have the searcher subscribe to your list first and then redirect them to whatever affiliate product or service you are marketing.

The great thing about affiliate products and services is that you don’t have to produce and create any of the products or services. All you do is send your subscriber to the affiliate offer (usually a sales or landing page) and then when your subscriber makes a purchase, a commission is then paid out.

There are a lot of different ways to make an income with affiliate marketing. Doing so through the process of list building allows you one big benefit and that’s the simple fact that you have the subscriber in your database, versus just sending them directly to the affiliate offer.

One other thing to mention here is that you need to make sure that the affiliate products are related to the list that your subscribers are receiving information from.

If the affiliate offer doesn’t have anything to do with what you are sharing with your subscribers, then your conversion rate will most likely be much less than if the affiliate offer (product or service) directly relates to the information you share with your subscribers.

So choose your affiliate products and services carefully and make sure you test and track all your pages and advertising.

Thinking that affiliate marketing may be for you but you and that building a list with affiliate products or services sounds like the way to go?

Here’s another resource that might be helpful in your list building efforts – List Building Guide.

Enjoy,

Dave Krygier
Publisher