squeeze page ?

Look at this way. Anybody who buys a clickbank product is going to go on that vendors email list for future promotions and such. Why pass this up. They could be going onto your list for future promotions. Get that squeeze page built and do this affiliate marketing the right way.

It can be. It doesn't have to be. It's up to you how you make your pages and what software you use.

A squeeze page can be made from WordPress. It can be a one-page website on its own. It can be part of another website. It's up to you.

No. But it's linked to an account you hold with an autoresponder service such as Aweber, so that when people put their email address into it, that automatically adds them to your list held at Aweber (or whichever other autoresponder service you're choosing to use). When you make the squeeze page, Aweber gives you the "code" to add to the page design, to make sure that happens.

It would give you a website, to draw your traffic to, and to collect the visitors' email addresses from. One way or another, you need that. (You don't have to use WordPress. I don't. But most people do - some because they like it and see it recommended in forums like this; others perhaps because they're not really aware of the alternatives).

You build rapport with the subscriber by sending them valuable content in the emails you send every few days, so that by the time you promote the ClickBank product to them, they feel they know and trust you, and they're willing to follow your recommendation to visit the ClickBank product's sales page because you advise it. But understand that you're not selling the product. The vendor does that. All you do is "recommend" it.

Then you've probably seen hundreds of really bad ones, and will know some of the things to avoid, if you decide to send your own?

The "general standard" is appallingly bad. That's one of the reasons why so few people are successful at affiliate marketing. They're often trying much too hard, sending too many emails, and making them sound like they're selling. Those are really bad ideas that don't work well, for most people, in spite of the fact that they're also "what most people do".

That's because the emails you're looking at are sent by marketers who aren't very good at what they're doing.

That's ambitious.

It's not easy, for most marketers, to get a lot "bigger" than the money you can make by promoting ClickBank products successfully. There are people earning 7 figures per year just from doing that. (But there are a whole lot more barely even earning 5 figures per year, and those are the ones whose emails you're currently receiving, I'm guessing, from what you say).

A squeeze page is a type of opt-in page.

There are other types of opt-in page.

I advise you not to try to sell ClickBank products without list-building, whether you use a squeeze page or some other type of opt-in page to build the list.

These two posts might help you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9319964

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523

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Don't worry - I'm sure nobody will have taken you that way (I just wanted to mention to you that you can build a really big, solid, reliable, asset-based business "just" being a CB affiliate, if that's what you want to do - by using email marketing, by not depending on SEO for traffic, and by promoting multiple products across multiple niches ).

We've all "been there". Nobody was born knowing how to do any of this stuff. It's that kind of "confusing area" in-between "information overload" and not always being able to formulate questions whose answers will necessarily be all that helpful? There's an enormous amount of "information" in forums, certainly. Unfortunately, there's also quite a lot of "misinformation", too. The time that you most need the judgement to distinguish between the two is also the time, inevitably, through inexperience, that you have least "judgement". It isn't easy. Good luck and good wishes to you.

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I believe that not having an opt-in page is a huge mistake (but it doesn't necessarily have to be a squeeze page, and squeeze pages are often not optimal - I don't actually use squeeze pages at all, for all these reasons: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7939758 ).

You can do that (and perhaps more profitably) with other types of opt-in page, too.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982


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No - this isn't necessarily right, Sam.

An opt-in page is certainly a very good idea, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a squeeze page. Sometimes other types of opt-in page are better. It's something to test (and by monitoring income, not just numbers of subscribers). This is more fully explained in some of the threads linked to just above.

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Nobody's questioned that, at all - that isn't what the thread's about.

The OP is asking whether he needs a squeeze page. And the answer is "not necessarily", because there are plenty of other ways of building a list, without using squeeze-pages.

Indeed, as specified in the first post, the OP is planning to sell ClickBank products: some of us doing so have split-tested extensively, across a range of niches, and have found that squeeze pages aren't actually the best listbuilding method for that purpose.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7939758

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You say "here's why", Angshuman, but in fact you're making exactly the same mistake as many of the posters above, and not appreciating that you can do those exact, same things if you build your list from other types of opt-in pages that aren't squeeze pages, as well.

It isn't for me, and I've been making my full-time living as an affiliate for over 5 years, and I've split-tested it extensively to find out what works best, for me, and why.

You should try doing the same, some time: you might get a surprise or two, and learn some very valuable things, along the way.

It's perfectly possible (and sometimes very beneficial) to build your lists without using a squeeze page to do so: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7939758
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982


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