Build a list of subscribers - from the Master

Here's one of the biggest mistakes many people new to Internet marketing make.

They start off by promoting a product to earn affiliate commission. This product - usually a clickbank ebook- is then promoted by creating Google Adwords which sends bought traffic direct to the product sales literature ... and then keeping their fingers crossed hoping that a good number buy the product ... earning them maybe
£12.00($24.00) per sale in affiliate commission.

What's more, many so-called IM gurus actually recommend this method of earning money online. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that you'll not make money this way - many people do and are quite happy - what I want to do is change the way you look at making money online.

The most important point is to look at making money online as a long-term venture where you first lay the foundations and gradually build upon your early work.

This means that when you first start out, you don't look to make sales, you concentrate on building.

This was one of the best pieces of advice that I received when I first started selling online back in 2007, and it has enabled me to earn £1,000+ ($2,000+) per week online.

If you want to earn the biggest amount of money online, then the most effective way to achieve this is by list building.

Whatever niche you are involved in, your ultimate aim is to build a subscriber list and nurture it.

If you spend your time building a list instead of acquiring sales, in the long-term you'll make much more money.

So instead of sending traffic - whether it be paid-for or organic (seo) - direct to an affiliate sales page, you need to send traffic to what is known as a squeeze page and then to the merchants sales page.

A squeeze page is a way of collecting email addresses - usually in exchange for some free information.

Here's an example of one of my squeeze pages:

www.richmonkey.co.uk/My_Secrets_Revealed.html

It's the same if you write an article or have links for affiliate products on blogs or on a squidoo lens, you replace the link with a squeeze page link where you'll collect visitors information, and then send them to the affiliate merchants sales page.

Doing this allows you to build up a relationship with your subscribers and you can gradually encourage them to purchase the product that you were linking to.

At first you'll make less sales using this method as opposed to sending traffic direct to the sales page, but you'll build up a valuable list that over time will earn you much more.

Plus you can sell your own products,affiliate products and get involved in Joint Ventures.

I have built a list of around 14,000 over the past 18 months, this has enabled me to reduce my monthly advertising spend because about 70% of my monthly income now comes from my list.

I know of three successful online marketers who never advertise their products. They spend all their efforts on building their lists, then sending some free information over a two week period (nurturing), then sending them details of one of their products ... and repeating the process over and over again

Every month they each make over £5,000 ($10,000) using this method and it all runs on autopilot.

Each of their messages are sent automatically, their products are downloadable meaning they don't need to deal with sales - just bank the money.

So I hope I've convinced you that list building is the way to go for long-term online riches.

Source: Robert Evans author of 10 week mentor course