When Your Are List Building, You Must Know What Your Niche Is

Before you begin choosing products to promote, know what your niche or topic is, what you will be building your list around. You want this to be easy, right? So you'll want to have that figured out. It can be about something you are very knowledgeable in. Maybe there is something you've always wanted to learn about. Have a teleseminar series and invite a lot of people who already have lists, with great products to offer, and ask them to partake in your interview series.

Sellers always want more exposure and ultimately be able to sell more of their products. So what they do is they promote your teleseminar series as part of the agreement to do a series with you, promoting their products and services. Of course you will have a thank-you page people will be redirected to after they opt-in for that interview series. On the thank-you page, put your affiliate link there so subscribers have the opportunity to purchase from you right away if it so tickles their fancy. You sell one of their products and you earn an affiliate commission. After that, hold your series of interviews, webinars, podcasts, etc. and watch your list grow!

Through your efforts, you begin making lots of money, the person who's products you are promoting is making lots of money, which makes everybody happy. Then do it all over again. Build up a series of recordings about something you want to learn about and be an inquisitive interviewer. Do a series about something you are knowledgeable in and be an expert interviewer. Get about 10 to 15 people who all have lists that they would promote to your list, and that's how it all starts and then gains momentum from there.

Then find at least four products, which you can do at ClickBank.com that apply to your niche or topic. Before you promote products and services to your list, however, you must try those products for yourself. You don't want to promote a product that you have no idea if it is a good product or not. Be honest with your list! Then you can feasibly offer them to your autoresponder list. Start with a few messages, and add more as your list grows. You will want to offer more and more value to the people on your list. It is crucial to build strong, trusting relationships with your people, because it is a solid reason for them to become long term customers and those customers will recommend you to more customers, and so on. You have now built yourself a respectable reputation and therefore, continued business.

Affiliate marketing takes the guess work out of internet marketing. You don't have to worry about customers, inventory, shipping, etc., the seller handles all that. You just need traffic, and to get traffic, you must target your audience, give them what they are asking for, and always offer value. I had tried my own venture with the travel industry, and ended up trying to reinvent the wheel. The more I learned about affiliate marketing, the money to be made, and the ease with which it can be done, the less I struggled. Now I go with the flow and I find plenty of wonderful products to promote. Your audience and products are there, you just need to drive them out of the woodwork!

Andrea McClure is the creator of Perpetual Affiliate Profits, where you can find the latest in earning profits as an affiliate marketer and the fastest, easiest ways to get it all rolling. Get instant access to your free newsletter! Visit: http://www.perpetualaffiliateprofits.com