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If you’re an affiliate or you’re looking into affiliate marketing to make a little extra cash online, then you need to focus on building a list before you start promoting affiliate products. In this article, I’m going to give you a surefire method for building a list and making money from affiliate programs faster and easier than you ever imagined was possible.

Now you may be wondering why you need a list in the first place. Well it may seem obvious, but here’s the simple answer…

You can sell more stuff to the same visitors if you get them on your list first, instead of just sending them to a sales page. I mean, once they’re gone…they’re gone, right? And you can’t sell anything else to those people whether they buy or not.

But there’s more to it than that…

If you follow up and build a relationship with your subscribers you can drastically increase your conversion rates for the affiliate products you promote. In other words, you make more money from the same number of subscribers.

How do you do that?

In a nut shell, you make money by helping others achieve their goals.  You make money buy giving away quality information and then offering top-notch products and services that will help solve their problems and get them where they want to go.

Now, to build a list, you need two things:

1. A way to capture leads
2. Targeted traffic

In the past, I’ve always advised affiliates to create a squeeze page and concentrate on ONE traffic generation strategy at a time to get visitors and build a list. That’s still a viable method for building a list.

But there are two major flaws…

1. Pay per click advertising is risky and if you don’t know what you’re doing you can lose a lot of money before you ever see a return.
2. Free methods like article distribution and social networking take way too long unless you can outsource the work and quickly build a vast network of content. And of course, you have to know what you’re doing before you outsource the work…and that takes money too.

I’ve found that many of my affiliates run into a brick wall trying to generate traffic because they’ve been misinformed. They’ve been told that it’s easy to make money online without a website or a product. How many times have you seen that headline?

While you certainly can build a list by generating traffic on your own, there is an easier way…

You see, when it comes to getting traffic, you really only have three choices:

1. You can buy it
2. You can build it
3. You can leverage it

I’ve already discussed the first two methods. The third method is what I’ll cover now. And that is to use leverage to get other list owners to send you traffic and build your list.

This method eliminates risk and multiplies your own efforts to build a list ten times faster than you could do it on your own. It’s the absolute fastest way to build a list. And compared with most of the free traffic methods, it’s a lot easier than you might think.

Here’s how to build a list fast and make more money from even a small list of subscribers:

1. Develop a self-liquidating offer
2. Create a simple sales page
3. Set up an affiliate program
4. Recruit affiliates
5. Build a quality list
6. Nurture your list
7. Sell affiliate products

At first glance, that may look like a lot of work. I’m not going to lie to you…it is. But you only have to do the work once. And then you can use leverage to grow your business by leaps and bounds.

Now what do I mean by leverage?

First, if you sell a product that people are willing to pay for, you can get affiliates to promote it and send you their customers. And as you may already know, a customer is worth at least 10 regular subscribers.

Second, you can also get your customers to promote you because you already have an affiliate program in place. So your affiliates are really sending you customers and affiliates, which will have a snowball affect on your backend profits.

Third, if you nurture your list with free quality information, you can repurpose that content as articles, reports, videos, audios, and build a network of content that drives traffic back to your site and the whole process starts over again.

Look at these three different scenarios:

1. Drive traffic to an affiliate product, have one chance to make a sale, and make a little bit of money
2. Drive traffic to a squeeze page, build a list, follow up with multiple offers, make more sales and make more money
3. Create a self-liquidating offer, get other people to generate traffic, build your list and make a ton of money selling affiliate products

In the first two scenarios, it’s YOU who is generating the traffic. At least scenario two uses the leverage of a list to make more sales. But I think you’ll agree that scenario three looks much more profitable. And the best part is, you don’t have to slave away generating traffic or paying for much up front.

Now I’m sure you’re wondering what a “Self-Liquidating Offer” is, and that’s what I’ll cover in the next article. So keep an eye out for my next email.

Until then, keep on truckin’

Derrick VanDyke