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Well, I hope so too, then.

It's been the right track for plenty of others here, judging by my in-box, anyway. Of course there might be loads of other people who don't think so but have remained silent - you never know! In a way I'm making a serious point, there, because what works for some people doesn't necessarily have to work for others, but in general I do firmly believe - with reason and evidence - that this sort of approach puts the odds in most people's favor rather than against them.

The overwhelming mistakes, any one of which can really stack the deck against people, overall, are undoubtedly ...

(i) promoting very high-gravity products (that's just ill-informed and unnecessary);

(ii) promoting products with a vendor's opt-in on their sales pages (and/or other obvious "leaks" - that's just naive);

(iii) trying to promote without building lists (that's just futile);

(iv) promoting products with obviously "hypey"/"scammy" sales-pages (those were written by "people just pretending to be copywriters, imagining that all that nonsense 'must work because everyone does it'!").

My criteria certainly avoid all of those, anyway.

I wish you good luck!

With apologies, like many here, I don't disclose my niches. I do appreciate that this may appear churlish, but that isn't the intention at all: it's simply that product-selection is enormously time-consuming (I've probably spent nearly 500 hours on it, altogether, since I started, and that's nearly 20 weeks' work, for me), and "comparative lack of competition" is of course one of the criteria which one's trying to indentify during that lengthy process, so it would make no sense to disclose anything which might eventually undermine that. My parents are the only people who see my ClickBank sites knowing that they're mine - please excuse me.

I just use the traditional, time-honored, proven technique of giving them a "free report" (I don't actually call it that) on whatever I think is a universally applicable matter within the niche. They're nothing glorious: just shortish, PDF reports with a catchy/compelling title, presented in a prominently incentivized way at the top of my landing page to secure the opt-in, and designed with the specific intention of ensuring that they open and read my subsequent emails, once they're on my list.

This is the key concept. People sometimes imagine that the purpose of the free report is to get the opt-in, but this isn't quite right: that's the purpose of offering the free report, not the purpose of the free report itself. The primary purpose of the free report is simply to ensure that your emails get opened and read. It would be frustrating indeed to go to all this time and trouble to build the list and find that only one person in four on it actually reads the emails which - directly or indirectly - produce most of the money!

In "production terms"/"effort" they're roughly equivalent - from my perspective - to two-and-a-half or maybe three of my articles - that's all. But "glossily presented".

Like any freebie, these things do circulate: people with Recklinghausen's Disease (say!) have friends with Recklinghausen's Disease, too (they met them in the clinic waiting-room and immediately bonded with them over their shared misfortune), and they'll send these things out by email to their friends saying "Ooh, look what I found on the web, free of charge". So I do include in them (a) an affiliate-link or two (but subtly, at the end, making sure they don't appear to be the purpose of the thing, which they're really not), (b) links back to my own site (throughout), and (c) an explanation that people wanting to pass it on to others will in reality do the "others" a far bigger favor simply by referring them to the opt-in page, so that they'll also get the subsequent emails and not hear only "half the story" (and I know I do get some extra traffic and opt-ins that way).