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Affiliates VS List pimps

by Scoutt921
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Do people really make money as affiliates or is the best way to make money to pimp out your list?
#affiliates #list #pimps
  • Profile picture of the author NewAge29
    Pimp out the list. A Team and B Team.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dragonfire Wealth
    You're not seeing the big picture! Build the list (with either small product sales where you capture their e-mail, or they pay to join your list), give them freebies/good content, do swaps of small products every now and again (swaps you can be sure about the niche AND quality, and not to frequently either) to build it. You can also buy solo ads to small offers with opt-ins after purchase. When it becomes big enough (10k), CREATE a product to market to them.

    DON'T Sell solo ads
    DON'T Promote affiliate offers (unless you're lacking a product of your own)
    DON'T Screw with small-ticket items

    You've got a list of 10k people that you already know spend money on the internet.

    Promote a BIG TICKET offer of your own to them once a quarter.

    Say you follow these guidelines and you have 10k quality members. You promote your product for say, $997 (offer it for $1,997 to the general public), even if you only convert at a HALF A PERCENT that's 50 grand a quarter. Can you live on that?
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  • Profile picture of the author paul nicholls
    selling affiliate products is fine and you can do well with it but you will be better off
    creating your own products as soon as you can do it

    selling your own products gives you lots more options and you have the ability to
    get affiliates to send you buyers too

    selling ads to your email list is just going burn the relationship which you have with your list

    leave that to others meanwhile you can leverage there lists to build your own business :-)

    paul
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    • Profile picture of the author Trevor
      Originally Posted by paul nicholls View Post

      selling affiliate products is fine and you can do well with it but you will be better off
      creating your own products as soon as you can do it

      selling your own products gives you lots more options and you have the ability to
      get affiliates to send you buyers too

      selling ads to your email list is just going burn the relationship which you have with your list

      leave that to others meanwhile you can leverage there lists to build your own business :-)

      paul
      Yeah I think starting as an affiliate is better as opposed to a product creator because you will learn the affiliate business model and how it all works. You will get the necessary experience to run your own affiliate program afterwards, after you've created a product.

      It's pretty much the same process as in CPA marketing - you first should be a CPA marketer (a publisher/affiliate) and after you truly learn all aspects of CPA marketing (learn all possible traffic sources, the language, what offers convert with what traffic sources, etc.) then you can eventually start your own CPA network.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Chicas
    It all depends on what niche you are in and how often your list wants to hear from you.

    Of course it's more ideal to have your own product but in the mean time while you get there you do need to be an affiliates, well it's an option.

    I think as long as you don't lie to your list and you give them excellent content then your chances of success are far better.

    One thing that I don't like is when people begin lying to their list - "you'll never see this offer again" "or this is the last time you'll hear about this" Specially coming from so called gurus.

    Anyways just food for thought. Every situation is different.
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