Newbie affiliate seeking help

You should have a thank you page where your leads can download the free product. You should focus on giving value and building relationship with your leads so you get loyal followers with your brand and building long term networks and buyers.

I would focus on having an authority blog while building list so your business
Becomes more long term.

Joe

What I do is that I lead them to a page there I thank you them for downloading the product and tell them to connect with me in social media.

I mostly use this page to build relationships and grown my social media base.

Not trying to promote myself but if you want to see my thank you page you can after you opt-in to get my ebook on my blog.

Most people hate being sold to so even if you had a product I wouldn't recommend selling it just after the person opt-ins because this will not make a good first impression on your lead.

Esteban Gomez

You host somewhere the "free report" or whatever you're using, and send them the download link by automated email.

Don't make the mistake of giving them the download link on the "thank you page": if you do it that way, you're failing to verify that they can receive emails from you in their in-boxes before you give it to them (and that's a huge and increasing issue in list-building - if you do it the wrong way, you'll have significantly lower open-rates for your emails, and you'll be devaluing the list you're building).

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I have had better luck bringing people who opt in to my list to a thank you page where they are told that the free report is emailed to them, and to check out an offer while they wait.

You can make this offer an affiliate offer or your own product. I do recommend creating your own product in time because it's an instant authority builder compared with affiliate products.

They should be going to your first intro. email that is automatically sent ( if you have a proper AR service) when they submit address in your Sq. Page.

Make sure that Intro email Follow Up explains what you will be sending your Subs and how often and what they should expect overall from you.

Also, you might want to tell a little bit about yourself and your Story. Either now or second email.


- Robert Andrew

One of the techniques which has worked for me is to offer bonus incentives as part of the affiliate offer... The bonuses should be highly relevant for it to work... Through that mechanism it's real easy to build a list... I've now managed to automate this process with even linking to the direct to sales check out which really is a game changer... Affiliate now becomes the vendor!

Alexa and cianci1129 are absolutely right: do NOT give your download away on the thank you page. People are hoping or thinking you will and submit bogus e-mail addresses and you end up building a worthless list.

Once they've submitted their e-mail address, redirect them to a Thank You page which thanks/welcomes/congratulates them and let them know that the goodie is being sent to the e-mail address they provided. Head off complaints by letting them know it can take up to 15-20 min. to arrive and remind them to check their spam folder.

Invite them to check out your offer while they wait. Or ask them to submit a comment on a launch page. Or take whatever action it is that you want them to take. Just invite them to take action to get and keep them engaged.

This starts training them from the beginning:

1. You're training them to check their e-mail for goodies from you

and

2. You're training them to expect offers from you.

Both are VERY important.

Hope that helps!

Michelle

Of course you will bring them over to your thank you page, but don't stop experimenting. Frankly your subscribers probably know too what to expect when submitting info into an autoresponder form...so don't be afraid to try something different to build relationships with your customers too.

You bring them to your intial offer. At this point your leads are red hot because you would have peaked their interest. So now is your time to wow them before they become cold again.