Without Building a List, How Consistent is Your Income from Affiliate Marketing

Yea I went months without building a list.. Started building one and fell for my own hype.. LOL...

I made money but didn't understand the process of building a relationship with your list..

I remember finding a 75 autoresponder followup sequence on fiverr for weightloss and thought I hit the jackpot.. Not one sale...

Building a list is the legal way to print money but you have to treat them as your friend if you want to make money long term..

Ditto. I was real stubborn when I first started my business and struggled for two years because I wanted to mess around with blogging and article marketing. I started in 2008, which was right around the time article marketing started going downhill. Once Google finally slapped the crap out of article directories and Web 2.0 sites, I finally decided to start building a list.

I learned how to drive tons of traffic to my squeeze pages and within a years time I was making more as an affiliate marketer than I had ever made at any job I had ever worked.

Now I would never do anything else. I'm still an affiliate marketer, and a very successful one. And it's all because I got into list building.

So yeah folks, I'm going to use the corny old cliche:

THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST!

Amen to that.... The biggest mistake I made was not to build a list, I hate to think how much income it cost me over the 4 years I held out.

Of course there is a lot more to building a list than just getting names into aweber...but thats for another post

I dont believe that money is in the list. I do believe that money is in the relationship with your list. If money is in the list then spammer would be the richest person of the world by buying some else list.

In what way do you prefer that your affiliates promote your offer?

Are we allowed to be totally honest (and verbose) on the WF?

My income has been consistently zero with or without building a list.
I'm a prime example of doing everything wrong...consistently. But for
some reason I never give up.

It's a new year. Time for a new start. And I'm starting with an almost 3
year old Warrior member profile with less than 10 posts. But hey, as I just
said, I never give up. And I gotta start somewhere. Am I right?

OK. Enough of my snob..er uh...sob story.

About this list building thing, I have a couple of two cents to add.
Although, rather, I'll be weighing in more from the subscriber's
perspective.

I'm signed up on way too many lists spanning numerous email accounts.
For some of you list building guys and gals, I am signed up on your lists
more than one time. I signed up on almost all of them because you were
offering a free gift of some kind at the time.

Hehe. In fact, just last night, I signed up on a few new lists. It was a
giveaway event. Have you checked out Kevin Fahey's new JV giveaway
plugin yet? It is very cool. But I digress.

I always wondered how you all were making any money. You certainly
weren't getting rich signing up freeloaders like me.

But there you all were. Week after week. Month after month. Year after
year. Yes! It has been years for me, off and on.

So, I came to the conclusion that successful list builders had to be making
consistent money. Because if they were not, they wouldn't keep doing it.

And I know, I should be doing it, too! Whether by building relationships
and a list selling physical products in specific niches as dennis and fluffy
advocate or as an affiliate. Just do it!

HOWEVER, (and I promise, I'm just about done), I am totally perplexed
by those of you who say you don't need a list to make money. Sounds like
in that case, you had better be really good a driving traffic.

FINALLY... whatchoo talkin' 'bout silas, when you say you ask people
not to sell your products to their email list? Sounds intriguing! Do tell.

K. Phew! I'm done. Thanks a bunch for reading.

I was wondering how others might be doing it without a list. Hoping you,
Jason would shed some light... on those things without list. I guess you could
do CPV to affiliate offers, now to think about it I know guys that do that all
day long. However, makes more sense to me not to build the list.

Well then you probably lost another $300,000 in cash by not having a list. Here's why:

Acquiring new customers is 3 times (or more) more expensive and time consuming than selling to your existing customers.

If you had built a list from the start you would be able to make money from people who have already identified themselves as being interested in what you are offering.

Not having a list is leaving money on the table for sure... Can you make money without a list? Sure, but if you want to make more money with the same amount of effort then list building is a must for sure.

I'm guessing that you mean "monthly", not "each year"? Over the years (and twice just in the last half-hour, actually), I've seen so many people here explaining how they've managed to do something like that, and then found that they tripled or even quadrupled their income quite quickly when they started list-building. I admit that I wouldn't have waited 5 years, myself: I'd have started about 4 years, 11 months and 3 weeks ago.

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