Which is best to start with? email marketing or affiliate marketing?

I think the best thing to start is email marketing and start build your list

If you start with email marketing, you must think how to pay the bill for autoresponder service. You said you don't have much money. I recommend you to start with affiliate marketing with blogging because no need to worry so much about the bills.

But I suggest you more to have a good fast cash income for you to pay your daily needs.

In my view, Email marketing is best for the beginner. It need two resources
1. Email Database, Which is having active users.
2. Bulk Mailing Software.

Yes start with email marketing and thus you can build a large list. After that you can do affiliate in particular product based on your list niche.

As most of the members already said, start with building up your list.
Every person has knowledge about a subject. So start giving value to your new
email list. Let's say you know about "How to make money", or "How to get a slimmer belly in 30 day's"
Then give free information to your list, so they will know you, like you, thrust you.
You build up a good relationship with your list, and then you can sell your offers........

They're not alternatives, Andrew.

"Affiliate marketing" means not being the vendor yourself, but being paid a commission by a vendor whose products you sell to one of your own subscribers/visitors.

"Email marketing" is one of the ways in which you can do that (and/or a number of other things in internet marketing which can produce income).

You can do email marketing with or without doing affiliate marketing. You can also do affiliate marketing with or without email marketing. (I wouldn't advise "without", at all, though - the people who experience any success with affiliate marketing are almost always doing it "with"/"by" email marketing!).

In other words, if you want to be an affiliate, the answer you're looking for is "both".


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Email marketing... you always want to be building a list no matter what and email marketing and affiliate marketing go hand in hand...

Build your list via a capture page ... once your subscribers opt in present them with a one time offer (your affiliate offer)...

Bada BOOM killed 2 birds with one stone!

personally I would just do both so you can make money doing both and they dont have to be two differnt things. Just join the two together and make money from both

You can do both pretty easily through JVZoo by promoting products as an affiliate with bonus offers that require an optin to your list for the download page link to the bonuses.

And what do you think email marketing is mostly about? Relationship building leading to promotion of products to your list as an affiliate (in most cases). Granted, you may choose to promote only your own products to your list or use email marketing to acquire new clients for services/consulting and so on, but you'll be passing up some serious income if you limit yourself that, imo.

Andrew here are some tips to getting started with Affiliate Marketing:

1- Pick a product to promote. Make sure you see the 'value' in this product for yourself before trying to sell it to others.

2- Get a lead capture page.

3- Set up Aweber or some other quality based auto responder. This is going to cost you around $20 monthly.

4- Traffic: Start driving 'targeted' traffic into your lead capture page. Use Free or Paid methods. You are probably going to have to use Free methods.

5- Conversions: X amount of traffic will turn into sales for you. However, not all of them will depending on how highly converting your sales page (affiliate sales page) is.

6- Email Follow Ups: This is your chance to build a 'relationship' with your list. I usually send people to my sales page right from the start after they 'opt' in.

You can send them 'relevent' info helping people on issues you are learning (right now).

How to do this?

You first learn something that you consider valueable yourself, then teach it or share it to your list.

You are most likely ahead of many beginners. Share what you have learned or are learning and with (your list).

They will perceive this as value because you have helped them with some issue or area.

"Email marketing" is foundation of the online business.

So no doubt how to start... You can also do affiliate marketing with email marketing.....

Hey everyone.

I am like OP here and a beginner and am kind of confused about some of the things that have been said in this thread. As a matter of fact, I have been kind of stuck in understanding how this email marketing goes hand in hand with affiliate marketing for weeks now?

I'm currently on my first site and am trying to learn about building an email list so I went and signed up to the email list of some of my competitors in my niche to get ideas and since they all manufacture / own these products, they have the freedom to do what they want (ie free giveaways, discounted prices, etc.) unlike an affiliate who is just promoting the products without any kind of rights or ownership of those products.

If you start email marketing with a service like Aweber as an affiliate marketer who promotes physical products, then how are you supposed to offer those products that you promote at a discounted price or give some kind of offer related to that product as a "bribe" so to speak, to capture their email since you, as the affiliate, do not own those products and don't have the freedom to give things away or at a discounted price?

I have read about people starting contests and giveaways and such to build an email list, but am still failing to understand how that works without you just buying the products yourself and giving it away for free?

Or is the only option to send / give away a newsletter or video of some sort sharing the knowledge you have on those physical products since you are not the actual owner?

I have also thought about contacting the owners of these products myself and asking for free samples, discounts, etc. but hesitate to do so because I am sure they wouldn't even give me a chance if they knew what my traffic was like.

I mean, I can see how this would work for information type products that you create yourself, but I am failing to understand how this works with physical products as an affiliate?

Can someone please shed some light on this for me? I have seriously been struggling to understand this for weeks now and came to the conclusion that maybe building an email list is not appropriate for some niches.....

Am I wrong? Right? I am seriously confused?

I have been on this forum for hours everyday searching for different topics to help me get on the right start and all I keep reading is email this and email that, build a list from DAY ONE!

Ok cool. I don't doubt that building an email list is the way to go, but how are you supposed to do this from day one when your site is still in it's infancy.

What am I not understanding here?

Thank you all for the answers ,you've been very helpful to me !It certainly gave me courage to see that there are so many people willing to help here!I wish you the best!!

Me personally i started out affiliate makreting but figured out later if i had started email marketing and built a huge list like i do know, i would be lined up properly to make big sales with my affiliate business/products to sale as backend stuff in my email funnel