How To Build An Email List As An Affiliate

You have probably heard "the money is in the list" at least athousand times. But it is true; the money is in the list.

There is no doubt about it, 99% of people making money onlinehave an email list. But you already knew that.

What you don't know is how they got those coveted lists of emailaddresses that allow them to contact prospects over and overagain.

To be very honest with you, most people who have built a bigemail list have their own product. But I know getting your ownsuccessful product is very difficult.

So I want to talk about how you can begin building your emaillist as an affiliate. With no product, and no website of yourown.

The first thing you need to do is understand the reason you arenot making as much money as you had hoped with affiliateprograms.

Lets look at a quick real world example. I think it will help yousee what the real problem is with the way most affiliates trymake money online.

Let's say you are promoting printers for a particular merchant.And let's say that you referred 700 visitors, generated themerchant 100 leads and made 5 sales this month. Not a bad month.

But what if you had that list of 100 leads of people that areinterested in buying a printer? Some of those 100 leads are goingto buy a printer soon, and since your merchant has the leads,they are likely to buy it from them.

Imagine if you had that list of prospects. You could turn some ofthose 100 leads into printer sales next month, and earn yourselfsome more commission.

But as it stands right now, you have no way of capturing those100 leads yourself. You can only send people to your affiliatelink, and those visitors really do business with your merchant.

And that's exactly the problem. Every prospect you refer to anymerchant you promote for really becomes their prospect, and notyours.

But what if there was a way to capture the contact informationfrom many of the people who click on your affiliate links.

Now every time you advertise and get a lead or a sale for amerchant, you would actually be building your email list.

So you are building your email list for the future, and not justworking for pennies giving away leads to your merchants.

This is just a much better way to promote products as anaffiliate. To find our more about how to do this you need to gocheck out http://www.affiliate-wizard.com

This article was written by David Lake, owner of http://www.AffiliateAnswers.com and http://www.Affiliate-Manager-Advice.com.