jhongren

Hi,

I was talking to a friend on being super affiliates for
joint venture partners and I feel there are some
useful pointers even newbies can start applying
and aim towards being one of the best affiliates:

1. Build your list from ZERO and UP.
A list is the most important aspect of a business.
I have learnt from an experienced internet marketer
that you can sell your business, but you can always
have your list to fall back on.

Your list is your most important treasure of your
business.

Start building it now by creating a simple product
and using it as a freebie for optins and slowly
drive them up your sales funnel and convert them
to higher ticket item.

2. Treat your list well.
Your list is like your friends who trust you
enough so that is why they have opt into your list.

Beside promoting products to them, always give
them free good value stuff such as a useful blog
post to answer their burning questions, a gift exchange
between you and another product owner so your
list gets it for FREE.

It is similar to you receiving a surprise gift from
your good friend and I am sure you will stay happy for
the whole day.

3. Plan your list well
When you collect opt in, remember to group them
up into different groups or campaigns.

You wont want to group a dog owners in a cat owners
list.

The freebie or promotion you sending to your list
must suit their needs.

Imagine you have signed up for a travel newsletters
and you keep on receiving food recipes emails.

It does not make sense.

4. Dare to see where your list stands.
Join giveaways or joint venture contests. You can sign up
Mike Merz's Joint Venture (JV) Lists, Announcements, Blogs, And Community Forums.

I think it is one of the best jv communities in the internet.

or you can join Reed Floren's list at Reed Floren How to Go From ZERO to HERO! Success Secrets to Take You Straight to The Top!

Join about one contest a month to see what is the price
of items your list can buy.

Offer your own bonuses other than those bonuses
offered by the partners...

They can be audio interviews with the jv contest owners
with PLR, or personal consultation for the buyers
through your affiliate links...

the sky is your limit and the best thing for you
to do right now is...

Start building your list from ZERO and UP.

Start building it RIGHT NOW!

My 2 cents,
John

yuyuan

Thanks for sharing John.

I totally agreed with you that a list is the most important asset of an affiliate marketer and JV is definitely one of the quickest way to build a list.

Recently I joined Reed's giveaway JV and saw my list grew in just a few days.

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jhongren

Thanks Yuyuan...beside JV partners list, how else do you grow your list?

Love to hear from you.

John

yuyuan

I mainly use article marketing to build my list. Squeeze page works very well for me and by submitting article regularly to EZA and GoArticles, my list is growing consistently everyday.

However, one disadvantage about squeeze page is that Google don't really like it very much... so is kind of hard to optimize it for more competitive search terms.

What about you John? Do you mainly use JV and Blog to build your list?

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fherrera

Don't mind me...I'm just posting so I can subscribe to this thread.

jhongren

I mainly do JV because it is the most targeted
traffic and there is trust between the list
and the list owner.

It is similar to us buying things our good friends
recommend.

There is not much of barrier to buy
or buyer's remorse.

Blog is good too as I can post
product reviews,
interviews,
free giveaway contests,
good quality info etc
and the blog get indexed too
bringing more traffic.

Quite cool as I learnt all these from
some Warriors friends I met here.

John

Johnson Tay

Currently, I'm not really active in building a list because I think it's a long term process which means you won't see returns immediately. Afterall, it takes time to build relationship with those on your list before you'll make any significant income, that is if you make any income off that list at all. i think list building should be a "back end" activity that shouldn't be the CORE focus of a newbie. The CORE focus of a newbie is to learn to convert as many first-time visitors into customers as possible, and in the process of doing so, build a list. Always focus on getting as much money on the front-end then you focus on the back-end. Do note that you don't necessarily need to have a list to make serious cash online. I know of several super affiliates making 4 to 5 figures A DAY converting first-time visitors into customers using various traffic sources; from PPC to Media buys. At the end of the day, it's not the list that is valuable, it's the never ending stream of qualified leads that you want which can be acquired from so many different ways. My 2 cents..

penny_zf

Hi John,
Thanks for sharing. JV is certainly a good way to boot strap your way as you start building your list. What other methods have you tried with good results? I have recently come across someone who has been paying for paid traffic thru PPC ads & e-zine advertising with lots of visitors but have problems converting these visitors to paying customers. Any suggestions?

jhongren

Hi,

I have also set up a blog for branding purpose and have
new subscribers opting in everyday.

This helps me to build my list and they have been
moved up in my product funnel.

The traffic sources to my blog consists of
social networking sites such as
twitter, facebook etc

John