List building is dead?

Call me naive but I imagined that there was a moratorium on threads asking whether things are dead.

No: list-building is far from dead. Building many types of internet marketing businesses without list-building, on the other hand, is in its terminal stages, at the very least.

That's a different question. The answer depends on your skills, abilities and knowledge.

My sales come from communications with my list subscribers, establishing credibility with them, and the fact that they trust my recommendations.

Even the people who click on an affiliate link on one of my websites and buy a product that way have almost always got to that link, on that page, by being sent to it by a link in an email I've sent them, not just from visiting the site. (Of course, they've been to the site at least once before, when they originally opted in and subscribed to my list).

I'd have very, very few sales without my lists. Those are the primary assets of my affiliate marketing business. The main purpose of all my main websites is to build my list.

Without your list, you can't keep people returning to your site (and very, very few people buy anything at their first visit to a site - with the possible exception of things like a book or CD from Amazon - and even then, sometimes not).

Without your list, you can't make repeat sales of other items to people with whom you've built a trust-based relationship, and that's where most of the long-term money is, in affiliate marketing.

There are a few hundred threads in this forum with titles like "What's The One Thing You'd Do Differently If You Were Starting Again Tomorrow?". Take a look through a small sample of them, and you'll find that one of the things they all have in common is that they're full of replies from long-established, successful Warriors almost all of whom give the same answer: the thing they'd do differently, with what they know now but didn't know when they started, is "start to build a list on day 1". There are reasons for that.

This thread will help you: Without Building a List, How Consistent is Your Income from Affiliate Marketing

Yip, dead as a door nail.
In fact everything is dead so don't waist your time just move on....

Is list building dead?
Nope.

Can you do it?
Can't answer that one, but you can sure give it a try!

Even if you don't have a lot of experience it should still be relatively easy for you, remember everyone started somewhere ;-)

Let me know if you have any questions regarding list building.

It is dead for those who don't want to put in the time to do it right. It is just like any other IM activity. You pay your dues with failures.

It's the best long term strategy you can have if you are serious about making money online