| If you've been an affiliate for any length of time | | | | can't help but buy. |
| you'll know how powerful email marketing can be for | | | | Squeeze Pages |
| affiliates. Below is a easy three-step method to | | | | Squeeze pages should display enough information to |
| building a killer email newsletter list. Facebook, | | | | show the benefit of 'signing up' while 'not giving the |
| Twitter, IM and RSS. | | | | milk away for free' as it were. |
| Email has survived had so many would-be assassins | | | | Make the page attractive, clean and enticing as this |
| that you'd think it was part vampire. | | | | will be the thing that convinces people to join your |
| In fact, email has flourished to the point where email | | | | email list. |
| lists are a cheap, sustainable way of earning a very | | | | Emails |
| profitable ongoing commission from people who will | | | | Emails should be interesting to the person concerned |
| continue to respect you. | | | | as well as lucrative for yourself , otherwise they will |
| So, how do you develop an email newsletter list? | | | | end up in the spam folder. |
| You do it by following a few simple steps. | | | | Spend the most time on the title each time as it's |
| Step 1) Put Together The Mechanics | | | | this that determines whether people will open it or |
| All successful email lists are made of two things: | | | | not. Shorter titles tend to work better than longer |
| The squeeze page, where you get email addresses | | | | ones and power words/linkbait titles also tend to |
| and consent and the email software that manages | | | | work well. |
| the list and sends out the emails. | | | | Five Final Suggestions |
| Designing squeeze pages is usually not hard and | | | | 1) DON'T spam |
| requires little coding knowledge. In fact, more thought | | | | Don't overwhelm your readers with emails once you |
| should go into the message than the code because a | | | | have their email address. Email marketing is one of |
| good squeeze page can double the number on your | | | | those things that looses its effectiveness over time |
| email list while a bad squeeze page can drive people | | | | and if you are emailing people on a daily basis there is |
| away. | | | | a good chance your email is just being deleted. |
| There is a lot of email software out there to help | | | | 2) Test your messages. |
| you manage your list easily and some service | | | | Don't wonder which offers work best for a certain |
| providers include aWeber, Constant Contact and | | | | email group, test it out. Send ? to one group and ? to |
| MailChimp. | | | | another and you will quickly find that you are able to |
| | | | | maximize returns from a particular group. |
| Step 2) Deciding On The Strategy | | | | 3) Give your readers real value. |
| The next step is deciding how to create a central | | | | The more you give, the more you get back. By |
| concept so good that complete strangers will trust | | | | giving them an interesting resource they are going to |
| you enough to give you their email addresses and | | | | open your email first, no matter when it comes, |
| allow you to constantly update them on topics. | | | | because they know that your email is interesting. |
| In most cases, the emails center around a particular | | | | 4) Research, research, research |
| topic, and they generally offer information of interest | | | | There's no shortage of free resources out there and |
| in addition to advertisements. | | | | large numbers of forums dedicated to email |
| It could be anything from tips for mechanics to | | | | marketing. Keeping up your reading will help you to |
| camera tips to suggestions for eBay resellers but | | | | put together your emails better and get better |
| essentially it should be something that is not only | | | | results in the long run. |
| interesting to the person that is signing up but related | | | | 5) Multiply your efforts |
| to the items you are marketing so they will buy your | | | | Once you have set up one email group and its |
| merchants' items once they do sign up. | | | | running smoothly set up another. By multiplying your |
| Step 3) Executing The Strategy | | | | lists you are essentially just increasing your income. |
| Once you have decided on a topic/concept it is now | | | | There you have it, with just a little work and a little |
| down to you to work the squeeze and subsequent | | | | research and a little work you can be making good |
| emails into sales writing so good that the prospect | | | | ongoing profits with an affiliates program. |