If you are considering starting your own home based business by joining an affiliate program, be sure and do your research first. I personally would recommend Multiple Streams of Internet Income by bestselling author Robert G. Allen. It was in this book that I learned that I was holding an AMAZING tool to rack in thousands of dollars. I felt quite stupid actually, because nearly every internet marketer I had talked to seemed shocked that I hadn’t known what the real purpose of this tool was.
The tool was a list of subscribers. An opt-in list.
I had numerous newsletters that were broadcasted to my list every several days. I knew that this was to build trust with my list, and it was my hope that a select few would sign up for their own home based business under me through the advertisement at the top of every newsletter.
Don’t get me wrong, that hope is still there and it is an effective way to refer people to ANY business, but building trust and placing a small advertisement about your business is only a SMALL PIECE of the benefits your can reap from having an opt-in list.
There is another great method to both make you money AND build trust with your list. This is to advertise some sort of information, presentation, or anything that will benefit your subscribers. Don’t do this right away however. You must first set up a list of tips, or advice, or articles or reports or SOMETHING to broadcast to your list of subscribers. Something that is free, and something that is beneficial to them (Many online businesses will PROVIDE that list of tips FOR you.)
Once you start broadcasting your newsletters to your list, wait a few weeks (preferably a month), before you start advertising to them.
When it finally comes time to advertise something, here are a few tips: