How do you manage?

With a list.

Send traffic to opt-in, from there you can presell affiliates, your own products, or J.V. another list owner.

Or you can send traffic to your blog.

Or, have SEO sites set up on auto. Multiple sites that generate cash from Adsense or text ads.

Use niche specific articles, podcasts, videos... to send traffic to specific pages for specific offers.

Break everything down by niche. Each niche has it's own funnel.

Matt

The only problem with lists is that the products I usually promote as an affiliate have no correlation with each other; don't really see the point of building 2000+ subscribers and sending them through autoresponder sequence for a product or niche that I'll only be participating and is hard to cross sell with other products.

I only say this because the bigger the list gets, the more expensive it is to manage.

With one auto-responder account you can have separate lists.

You can create a list for IM, another for weight loss ...all under one account.

The lists aside, you can still organize your overall activities by breaking them down into niches.

For each niche that I am in I will have a separate folder on my desktop. Everything that I use for a niche goes into that folder.

Website templates, giveaway products, articles that I have written...all have sub folders within the main niche folder.

When I do research for a niche all notes go into the niche folder under "Notes". I also have a list of affiliate products that fit that subject. Ezines that are about that niche go into that folder.

Each time I work on something I am working on one niche at a time from the niche folder.

If I have software that I use for all of my marketing then I have a folder titled "Marketing Software".

Every product I buy goes into a folder that is titled for the subject. "Article Marketing", "Article Writing", "List Building", "Squeeze Page Templates",...

If I start a new niche I can go to the "Templates" folder and grab a website template then go into the "Graphics" folder and look for a header and start building the new site.

If you only work on one niche at a time and only one specific area then it's not as daunting.

You can even use a checklist like "Niche Research", "Find Products", "Create Blog"...

I try to make things step-by-step and paint-by-numbers as much as I can so that I'm not even thinking about it and getting it done.

The most important thing is not to get overwhelmed and take action.

Step one then step two and so on until you have a site up and running.

Matt

Hey Matt

I thought it didn't matter how many individual lists you have and that the autoresponder service you were with just looked at how many you have opted in in total, that's why I was a little concerned about the rising costs and the building subscribers for a niche that you have only one product to sell to them.

The only downside I can see to managing affiliate income via list is the cost.