Before I send someone direct to my WA affiliate link should I not collect the name and email address first?
You can do this, I would recommend you create email marketing campaigns when you hit around 100 average unique visitors to your website per day.
Creating a list is a lot of work and is not something where you can just "collect" email addresses and expect results. There needs to be full campaigns centered around your email marketing strategies.
I wouldn't focus on building a list until you have a good amount of traffic coming to your website.
Should I build a customer list first?
Before I send someone direct to my WA affiliate link should I not collect the name and email address first?
There are many conflicting ideas around email capture.
some so called experts suggest that you should start collecting email addresses immediately. Their favorite phrase is 'the money is in the list'. Which I suppose to certain degree it is. The reason for the original question was to see other peoples point of view on this subject.
You can do this, I would recommend you create email marketing campaigns when you hit around 100 average unique visitors to your website per day.
Creating a list is a lot of work and is not something where you can just "collect" email addresses and expect results. There needs to be full campaigns centered around your email marketing strategies.
I wouldn't focus on building a list until you have a good amount of traffic coming to your website.
There are many conflicting ideas around email capture.
some so called experts suggest that you should start collecting email addresses immediately. Their favorite phrase is 'the money is in the list'. Which I suppose to certain degree it is. The reason for the original question was to see other peoples point of view on this subject.