Want to be a super affiliate? You need a list first
if you don’t publish an ezine like my Letter from Phil one, I wouldn’t recommend you ever start one. What you need instead is a “mailing list.”
Something you can send “offers” to all the time. You’ll find it’s far more profitable and much less time-consuming. The same (best day to send) rules probably apply to lists too.
If you have a big list to mail to, you can get seriously wealthy. And the right kind of list can take you from making the occasional affiliate commissions to big time affiliate in next to no time.
Here are two ways to build a quality list quickly.
A. Write a report and give it away. The cleverest recent example of this was the recent “The Death of Adsense” report.
It was short, without a lot of real meat to it, but very cleverly done, with a provocative, sensationalist title that grabbed the attention of the masses of people struggling to do well with Adsense. It built Scott a list of over 30,000 people in a little over a week.
B. Ok, here’s the second way to build a big mailing list quickly. And this one will provide you with the real jackpot.
In the past couple of months I’ve written about a few products that have been widely promoted in the internet marketing arena. Apart from one of the products/services I wrote about, I haven’t got into the Top 10 resellers.
Example: in late July I wrote about the excellent GoTryThis and only came in at 13th top reseller for the main software (though I was 3rd in sales of the cheaper, but still good, light version of the
software).
Example 2: then a few weeks ago I recommended Ewan Chai’s SuperAffiliateCloning course and although I made some respectable commissions (enough to make most affiliates jump for joy and more than I’d make in a couple of months in a job) again I didn’t make it into the Top 10 resellers.
SuperAffiliateCloning was also promoted by well known ezine writers (and super affiliates) Allan Gardyne and Michael Campbell and they didn’t make the Top 10 list either.
And that’s because, for both these products (plus another couple I’ve written about recently) the Top 10 affiliates have been people mailing out to buyers of their products.
To put that another way, the latest super affiliates (in Internet Marketing at least) are all creators of popular products.
Example: One of the top affiliates of Ewan’s course was Paul Smithson creator of that excellent site building software XsitePro (the internet marketers alternative to Frontpage and DreamWeaver)
As far as I know this was Pauls very first affiliate promotion. So well done, that’s great for him. Paul (who is a lovely bloke, and took me out to lunch in a posh place in Leeds last time I was in England, as a thank you for making so many sales of XsitePro) has the best kind of ‘list’.
Why?
Because it’s a list of people who are proven spenders, not freebie seekers.
Another top ranking affiliate of both GoTryThis and SuperAffiliateCloning was Rob Benwell of Blogging to the Bank fame. ( by coincidence Rob, Paul, and I are all Yorkshiremen, and all grew up within about 25 miles of each other…must be something good in those Yorkshire puddings after all 
)
Ok, so here’s my conclusion to this:
1. Develop your own products.
2. Market to your list of buyers.
3. Forget starting an ezine
