If affiliates promote my product, do I get the buyers on my list?

Well, it depends on how you set up your affiliate program. I've seen some where buyers have to first opt in to a list and are then redirected to the actual buy page. In this situation, depending on the affiliate system, you can pay the referrer per lead AND sale or per sale only.

The fact that they're sold through an affiliate actually isn't relevant to your question. You either do or don't get them on your list exactly the same as if you sold them yourself, without any affiliates.

You're perfectly entitled to add buyers to your list: they're your customers.

Exactly how you do it will depend on (a) where you're selling it, and (b) how you go about it.

It's ok to do it automatically, if their email address has been collected during the sale process (as it sometimes is).

And it's ok to do it "manually" (i.e. to make them opt in separately/additionally before giving them the product) BUT (and this is the important thing for you to know) it's not ok to sell them the product, have them pay, and only then tell them you need them to "opt in" as well in order to download the product. In other words, if it's a condition of sale that they "opt in", then you have to tell them that before they pay. (Especially if you're using PayPal to collect the money, because if you let customers pay before telling them they also need to opt in, and PayPal finds out, they'll close your account! This thread may interest you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6910264 ).

I suggest you make the opt-in voluntary, that way you will have highly inclined and responsive list that you can promote similar offers to anytime and make money almost instantly.

There is no way you can ensure or guarantee people onto your list and it depends whether you want to focus on building a list of customers or focus on pre selling from the sales page.

Bear in mind that although pre-selling from the selling page with an opt in can be effective some affiliates are put off mainly because there have been cases of the vendor than promoting through their own affiliate link.

A good way is to get a list of buyers for free updates or something.

Chris

If your tunnel is set up to get people opt in to your list as soon as they purchased your product, you will certainly capture their email address. Building a buyers email list has far more potential then trying to to build a freebie seekers list.

I personally prefer to create a great product with bonuses and offer affiliates 100% commission. In return I will get the email address of each person who purchased my product. I´ve set my tunnel up so that every person who successfully purchased my product through PayPal gets redirected to an opt in download page, meaning the person needs to leave their email address to receive the product that they paid.

It does take a lot of effort to create a high quality product and find top affiliates but the quality list you build will be well worth it.

Yes, my buyers list made me money for years. 100% commision may seem scary but you can have a backend product if you want and offer 50% for that

I agree with Alexa all the way as I have seen such practices used before when making a Purchase. In your situation, it may be easier to find a payment processor that has the feature to add buyers automatically your list during the sales process.