Affiliate marketing thought to be one of the easiest way to make money online. Why? Because one doesn’t need to create a product or service. All you have to do is find a profitable niche, a profitable product and drive endless amount of traffic to the merchant website and that’s it! You’ve got money in your pocket!

Is it true? Well that was what I thought at the beginning when I started out to make money online. Why you need an autoresponder? Why need to build a list? Why so clumsy? As I got more experience and losing out money in this affiliate marketing thing, I began to realize that was something I didn’t do right. I began to think to myself, I saw so many people succeed online and why I am not the person? So I started to listen to what the gurus said the money is in the list!.

If you were an insurance agent or some kind of sales person in the past, you will know this concept very well. But just in case you are not, imagine a moment you were. And in every sales industry there is a concept called quota. You need to meet a certain sales quota per month to secure your job. Imagine a moment your boss says you need 10 sales to stay in your job by the end of this month. Today is 20th of the month but you have no sales. So you begin to think to yourself how on earth you can make those sales?

What you need to do? The answer I can tell you is you need to meet potential clients. You need to meet them and explain your proposal to them before you have any chance to convert them into sales.

So how do you get clients. If you have some sort of contact list, this will be easy, just pick up a phone and contact them one by one. But If you don’t have a list, then you need to make cold call. That is calling some one that you don’t know and never meet before.

Now, If you ask any experienced sales person, they will generally say cold calling is much harder than speaking to a person that you have already known and have relationship with (such as your friends, or relatives). Because the person you cold call, might well just hanged up at the moment you speak to them I myself did have some experience of being a sales and cold call to someone that I didn’t know. This is in reality they would do just that, hang up. Never give you any chance to speak with them. Right?

So what does this analogy have to do with affiliate marketing or make money online?

First, we are humans. Humans act exact the same way no matter they are online or offline. When your site visitors arrive to the merchant sites that tries to sell them something, they will just act like the person that you are cold calling. They will just shut their minds and not listen to what the page is saying to them because they don’t trust you nor the merchant. They don’t know you nor the merchant, and you are just trying to get their money out of their pocket! So what do they do? Close that page and move on to something interesting.

At that time, the smart merchant may try to offer a free gift to the site visitor in return for their name and contact email address before they leave but you? You don’t have anything as an affiliate marketer. Once you drive direct traffic to the merchant site, you leave nothing. No money, no leads, nothing!

So by capturing that lead before you drive traffic to the merchant, you give your subscriber’s a chance
to know you better. As you remember what most experienced salesperson said at the beginning? “Cold calling prospects is generally harder to convert them in to sales than a person you have already met or have relationship with. Since they know you much better and generally will trust you more than a stranger that tries to sales them!”

So in conclusion, building a list of email subscribers will give more chance your prospects to know you more
so that they can trust you when comes to ordering something that you recommend online.

To celebrate I have finally quit my day job, I am going to host my first ever JV giveaway where you can build
a list for free and also have chance to win $500 in cash! But you better be hurry as I am closing the JV partner sign up on Friday this week May 8th. So click the following link as sign up as a contributor right now!

=> http://www.searchenginegifts.com/contributor.php?id=1

Day by day, internet based businesses are flourishing and getting competitive. As an internet marketer, it is imperative to keep up with the latest trends or be lost in oblivion. More and more people have come to realize the endless possibilities of having an online business. In response to this, another viable option is available to achieve the competitive edge in the online business arena. This is called the JV or joint venture giveaways. This is a great way to build your email list or just pick up new, good quality products for free.

Essentially, joint ventures are the merging of two or more people or companies and sharing resources, products or services and efforts. There are two main purposes to JV giveaways. They are to help internet marketers to increase the size of their lists by contributing to the giveaway and getting subscribers who want to download their free gift. This is called Email List Generation. The other purpose is that they are also a very good source for other internet marketers to find some valuable information and products for free.

How does this work? You must first be invited to contribute a gift to the event. There is most often an upgrade offer which allows you to contribute several gifts. Then, as a JV partner you start promoting the event to other joint venture partners. The JV giveaway itself starts with the announcement of the event and member sign ups. This is where you start giving away your free gift.

Aside from email list generation, you will be able to increase your credibility within your particular niche if you are linked with another business owner. This is especially true if you happen to be linked to an authority of the particular niche. In line with this, your keyword choice must be effective to be identified with a popular niche and have associations that will be helpful for your online business.

A JV giveaway is something that you must be involved in. There are not many opportunities like this that will give you such benefits and help your business out so much.

To celebrate I have finally quit my day job and enter full time Internet marketing, I am hosting my first ever JV giveaway where you can build a big list and possibilities of winning $500 cash prizes in total!

To get the details, simply click the link here.

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In our last post, Make Money Online With Pay Per Lead Affiliate Marketing Model, we ended on it’s important to build a list, today I want to show you step by step on how to get an email list subscribers.

1. a Reliable Autoresponder service
2. a web page editor
3. an Affordable hosting account
4. a Domain Name
6. and a Free Product/Coupon in your niche to give away

A free product for example, if you are graphics designer, produce some high quality graphics that helps the site owner to increase his sales or sign up conversion as samples to entice optin to your site visitors and if you have a dog online retail store, produce an giveaway ebook title, “70 ways to get your dog obedience” to your site visitor will always encourage sign up. One popular example may be downloading itunes the popular Apple software, if you goApple itunes downloading site, you will notice, a big box in top left corner saying “Downloading Itunes 8 Now!” then followed by few check boxes and finally a text area where you put your email address there. (See the picture below)

so you probably come across in your daily life but not sure how to put it all together. Don’t worry, here is a free list building video tutorial where I will show you step by step on how to get your email subscriber fast for a limited time! You can watch it online here or you can download it here. But you have to act fast, as I might pull this page offline at anytime! So just click here to watch it online and be sure leave a comment on what you think.