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Let’s be honest here. For 99% of Internet marketers affiliate marketing sucks big time.
You spend a ton of time and effort and energy (and sometimes money) to send traffic to a sales page that isn’t converting any traffic into sales.
What a waste!
More traffic?
The solution is NOT sending more traffic to a sales page that doesn’t convert.
Traffic isn’t your problem; conversion IS your problem.
Unfortunately you have no idea what the conversion rate is for a sales page until you send a bunch of traffic to it.
Worse yet, once you determine that the conversion rate sucks, there’s nothing you can do about it because you’re just an affiliate.
How to fix this problem
The simple solution is to stop sending traffic to affiliate offers and instead send the traffic to your own email list sign-up page.
Once people are on your e-mail list you can test different affiliate offers to see how well they convert. If one of the affiliate offers converts poorly you still will have your e-mail list.
Get to know your list
Part of the problem with affiliate marketing is that you are trying to sell stuff to people without knowing what exactly they are searching for. You have no idea what problems and needs people have.
Through your email list you can interact with your subscribers and find out what they’re really looking for.
You can invite them to ask questions and expect answers. (If you go this route make sure you actually answer their questions!)
I have even bribed people with a free product if they simply ask me a question.
But how do you setup an email list?
I have several posts that show you how:
