How can building a list make a successful affiliate marketer?

Building a list of people that you can market to is one of the most effective ways to promote and market products directly to people's inboxes. With some clever psychology and great product info, potential customers are more likely to buy products compared to lets say for example a static banner ad graphic on the side of a blog.

Build an email list within your niche, find products that would benefit or attract your niche and target your emails to them. Give them offers, reviews, benefits of buying that product, etc.

You can much more easily sell products (and also affiliate) when you have strong base of customers. And email list helps a lot with it.

This, from Discrat:

mwilliams054,

Think of it like this: collection + marketing + remarketing.

To explain . . .

Depending on your niche product or service, whether you're in the business of selling your own marketing e-books or promoting online video game offers as an affiliate or attempting to derive an income from any number of other products and services, your target market can be found in certain locations, both online and offline. This might be in general locations, like in a particular city, or it might be in specific locations, like certain forums or Facebook groups or by positioning yourself to take advantage of relevant search terms in general search engines like Google or internal search engines like the one you'll find on Youtube. I call these locations Market Pools. You can think of them as individual and specific areas where your target audience can be found. In sum, they represent your market, the entire sea of people interested in your product or service.

As an online marketer, your job is to locate the Market Pools, and not merely market your product or service to the occupants, but collect the occupants, and continue to remarket those products and services to them in the future.

An experienced marketer will begin a new IM venture with a Traffic Plan. And part of that plan will deal with the locations of his or her Market Pools. The general aim will either be to market products and services to them first, or, usually in the case of email marketing, to encourage occupants in Market Pools to become newsletter subscribers (collection), and after which, through a process of sales funnelling, to promote those products and services to them (marketing), and, in an ongoing capacity, over time to continue those marketing efforts (remarketing). And what you are in effect doing as an email marketer is, as Discrat points out, and I love the phrasing, putting all of those Market Pools in the one place, your newsletter list(s), which is "like having Instant Traffic at the push of a 'send' button."

Give you an example: cat apparel.

Let's say I have an eCommerce website that sells cat shoes and cat hats and whatever else those funky felines like to wear this season. And let's further say that I'm not merely content to build a newsletter list. I want to collect my audience, yes, to make my own Market Sea, yes yes, but I don't want to rely on the Email List as the only means of doing that.

What I might do, then, is collect my audience members into 3 locations that I can control, with varying degrees of power:

1. An Email List.
2. A Facebook Fan Page.
3. An On-Site Forum.

I could have chosen dozens of other places to collect them; for reasons of brevity here, let's say I chose the above 3. And I do so for a reason. They each represent collection locations with distinct advantages. To give you some examples. The Email List would allow me to develop quite a nice and cosy one-on-one relationship with each of my audience members. The Facebook Fan Page would allow me to syndicate information to my audience members that might easily be engaged en masse and, through that social engagement, spread to the four corners of the internet, thereby spreading word about my cat apparel and likely leading to sales and further audience members winding up on my collection platforms. And, lastly, The On-Site Forum not only collects my audience members, putting them in the one place, but fuels the collection potential of my business through the generation of free, user-submitted, search engine adored content.

Over the last 12 months, for example, and based on my initial Traffic Plan (that details all of my Market Pools), I might have derived traffic from a handful of places that I consider Market Pools:

1. Forums.
2. Facebook Groups.
3. Google Search Terms.
4. Video Search Terms.
5. Paid Search Terms.
6. + Thousands of other locations.

Thus collected, residing as those audience members do on my Email List, on my Facebook Page, and on my Forum, I have within my control something that is vital to the successful application of marketing and sales efforts. Discrat sums it up beautifully. I have, to cut a long story short, a means of getting Instant Traffic. Those traffic platforms are under my control. 500,000 subscribers? 1.5 Million Fan Page likes? 28,000 forum members?

I'm in the business of selling funky feline apparel - and business is MEOWvellous.

- Tom

List is like Confirm grab your target audiences.

You already like " control " them aka you can trace back them who visited your site before back

( but open rate and click don't confirm either. Ask yourself do you open those marketing email which you happen to key in your email in their landing page ? )

I doubt you will go click and buy but yes perhaps the produce is very good you might consider.

Most of the time you just read the email and close that it or unsubscribe if that marketer keep email you every day trying to hard sell you.

on the other hand I do noticed some audience will ownself go back to their site or Face book page if they happen to visit your site before and feel not bad and everyday want to check your site what latest stuffs you post .

these audiences are like become your follower , they might buy stuffs from your site even you don't email them as they ownself visit your site /page every day.


I do know one FB page , yes they have a shop , also have a website

in fact I don't visit their site ..is more on their FB page as check up what the latest gadgets they selling ..I see fellow follower also asking how much their stuffs cost under the comment.

thus you see FB page also can build up your target audiences without you email them. They will come and visit .