A lot of marketers think of affiliate marketing in terms of getting a visitor to click a link, then hope they buy something. It’s a never-ending battle of having to find new visitors to replace the ones that clicked on a link and left your site. Doing it this way can work, but it’s a lot less profitable than learning how to build an email list.

Think of it like this. If you have 100 people visit your site every day and they either click one of your affiliate links or just leave without taking any action, you need to “find” 100 new visitors every day just to maintain your results. To get better results, the only way is to go out and find more visitors.

What if you could get some of those 100 visitors that are coming to your site every day to come back again and again? You’d keep getting more and more traffic, wouldn’t you?

Learning how to build an email list is how you can accomplish this. By building an email list you’re putting off the revenue (you’re looking for a subscriber instead of a click on an affiliate link) however your list is an asset that help you take control of your own traffic.

After those people join your list, you can get in touch with them over and over, and send them more than just one offer. As long as you deliver value and build good relationships with the people on your list, you could be able to contact them for years.

Isn’t that more logical than hoping someone clicks an affiliate link on your site?

The trick, mind you, is convincing all those people to join your email list. Several strategies can help you make this easier.

First, you’ll have better results if you offer an incentive of some kind. Something that’s relevant to your market and that your visitors are likely to be interested in. You could use a report, an eBook, an audio recording or various other things.

Second, put the opt-in form on your site, where it’s bound to get noticed. Make sure every visitor sees both the opt-in form and the incentive.

Exit pops are an effective way to collect opt-ins when someone tries to click away from the site. This can catch some of that “nearly lost” traffic before it is gone forever.

Using these simple strategies, you’ll be able to learn how to build an email list before you know it. This will help you to drive a bunch of traffic to your site just by sending out one email.

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