The Money is in the List

You've heard it said many times "the money is in the list". But how do you get the list?

Let's face it, when you are new to affiliate marketing you may not be able to afford Aweber or GetResponse and most free autoresponders don't actually have easy to use list creation capabilities. So this tutorial will show you how to start building your list for free.

This is a fairly simple method which is suitable for beginners. More advanced members should be using a paid autoresponder service. If you’re ready for a paid service then you can use one of the more popular such as aweber.com, getresponse.com or mailchimp.com.

Find a Product to Give Away

First you need a digital product that you can give away. This can be something that you have created yourself or something that you have downloaded that suits your niche and you have give-away rights to.

I found a lot of free products at this link Free PDFs

Just make sure that you have the legal right to use any of these products to build your list. Every download contains a Licence Rights PDF file and it's very important that you do not infringe any copyright laws. You may find a PLR (Private Label Rights) eBook which you can rewrite in your own words and style and create your own eBook to give away. Microsoft Word can convert your document into a PDF. And many of the Resell Rights licences allow you to use the product to build a list.

Whatever you choose as a give-away it should be related to your niche market and something that will entice people to sign up to receive it. It also must give tremendous value to your potential customers or they won't be receptive to your future offers.

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TracyIrv Premium
Hi Marion, I need to build up my email list, but don't know where to start. My customers are business owners themselves ( my website is spa consultancy helping the spa owners).
Is it ok to find their email addresses myself through their websites and just manually email them with an offer or introduce myself? Is this okay to do this to a business just once, or is or seen as spamming them?
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telemarktom Premium
Hi there, as a marketing manager, I get literally dozens of those emails a day, they all go to spam. It's not the best way to go about things, but certainly, people do it.
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TracyIrv Premium
What would you recommend for starting from scratch?
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telemarktom Premium
You have a great niche because there are a number of very targeted keywords you could go after that only potential customers would be searching for.
If it was me, I would get my website up to a point where it looks presentable, say around 30 pages or so, then I would start with Google AdWords.
Send traffic to landing pages that are designed to capture an email address, start collecting the email addresses, and then set up automation campaigns in GetResponse or similar.
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TracyIrv Premium
Many Thanks for both replies. They are of much help.
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telemarktom Premium
No worries, all the best.
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MarionBlack Premium
tommysedge has given you some good advice.
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PeterWolf Premium
There is a super affiliate here who makes it to vegas every year, has no auto responder and does not collect or ask for emails. He strictly promotes WA and uses only SEO. Never uses paid ads.
His website IMO looks like shit.

Found this out on chat one day when he was in Vegas

But, I know nothing about how to make money online because I haven't made a dime in 2 years. Good for him for cracking the code. Thanks for the tips
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JIllW Premium
Thank you for sharing this as I am very tempted to do what this super affiliate is doing as I hate setting up accounts and I dislike setting up and figuring out things with the companies that collect emails. Even it they have trainning I am always suspecious that something is not working right. I guess this triggers paranoa.
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MarionBlack Premium
Everyone has their own method. I hope yours works for you soon.
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PatsyC Premium
Hi Marion, this is excellent! I went through every page and it's the best tutorial I have seen so far especially how easy it is to understand :D I appreciate also that you left us the link for the free products. I'm with Benchmark though already (it's not a plugin)

Thank You :D
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MarionBlack Premium
Yeah I get a lot of stuff to sell on my ebooks website.
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Magieken Premium
Hi Marion, have you done training on autoresponders? I tried MailChimp but found it very difficult to work out how to send out bulk emails. Your training is always first class and easy to follow so I hope you can do some on using autoresponders and which one you prefer and why.
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MarionBlack Premium
Re-writing this tutorial is on my to do list at the moment Magie.
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Magieken Premium
I didn't realize you had already done one of the autoresponders but will check it out and look forward to your update Thanks
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Kambas Premium
Thank you so much for this training Marion.

I now have an opt in widget on my site thanks to you!

Very much appreciated and I will recommend others to this training.

Trying to figure out how to make it a bit more attractive so it stands out, do you know if there is training on this? For the Songwriter theme. I have looked and will look some more but thought you could point me in the right direction.
Thanks again Marion, this was really a SAVER! ;)

Best regards,
Kamil
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MarionBlack Premium
Thanks for going through the tutorial Kamil. Design is such a huge subject I can't think of any specific training to recommend. Perhaps the best advice I can give you is to look at what other bloggers are doing, especially the big name bloggers, and use that for inspiration.
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Kambas Premium
I'm going to do some CSS experiments, managed to change my menu color and overall text size to 14 yesterday! Progress lol :D
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Megan8 Premium
Can you please send a link my way to changing the overall font size for my website and font style? Thanks so much
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Megan8 Premium
Thank you! :)
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Kambas Premium
I see Marion beet me to it :)
Hope the CSS will work with the theme you using.

Regards,
Kamil
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