I saw a lot of posts here about struggling to earn more money with Clickbank. A lot of typical answers for help are: "Just do more article marketing", "do more social bookmarking", and "you have to do SEO." The funny thing is that some of these people who are teaching others how to make more money are making $0 from Clickbank. I have said this many many times and I will say it again: The money is in the list! If you want potential buyers to take you seriously, then you will need to build relationship and trust. Most potential buyers will not buy anything from you because they do not KNOW you! Simply writing bogus reviews of products that you have never used will only get you a few bucks, but you won't make it far. You NEED to know your niche really well if you want to make more money. For example, if you are promoting a bodybuilding guide, then you need to know about bodybuilding. You want to provide potential buyers with free information that can truly help them. If you know the niche really well, then you should be able to write 20+ page ebook easily. This is how you build trust because you are helping people for free. In order for them to get free information, they must opt-in to your list. Fair trade? You then send them about 5-6 follow up emails of useful free information. These can all be automated if you have an autoresponder, such as, AWeber. Every now and then, you throw an email out there to recommend a product that you believe will truly help your subscribers. If you have been sending people a lot of free useful information, then they will expect a paid product to be even BETTER. This is how you get high conversions as well as turning non-buyers to buyers. If you are directing traffic straight to an affiliate product without getting them to opt-in to your list, then you will never hear from these same people ever again. It is great that some of these people will make a purchase, but you want these same people to make a purchase in the future for another product as well. This is why you see vendors make big claims on Clickbank such as, "One of my affiliate has made $10,000 in less than 24 hours." It is because that affiliate has a huge opt-in list, and his subscribers trust him so when he tells people to buy that product, most of them would buy. All he has to do is broadcast an email to all his subscribers and make $10,000. How hard is that? Not at all when he has a huge list. The money is in the list and I will preach that over and over again.
I opted in to your list yesterday. I was sent to a dead link. Obviously building a list is a great way to generate revenue, and a lot of it. But what's one of the best ways to generate a list? Article marketing. I saw that you have over 700,000 people on your list. That's pretty substantial. It's obvious that you've had great success with your list. How do I know? Because you've said it in about five other threads and then here again. You made 26,000 grand in a day, is that correct? Congratulations. Instead of just telling people to build a list, tell us to build a list and offer some of the most effective ways to do it. Of course, we don't expect your secrets, but we might expect you to tell us more than just about your 26k day and that we're all wasting our time doing other things. And you're right. A lot of people offering that advice may very well be making $0 dollars a day, but some of them are also making some substantial amounts of money using those very same techniques. You may have made 26k a day with your list (and that is no small achievement), but have you made 26k a day using other techniques? People make that much with PPC, too. The thing that irks me is that you seem to be telling the people who are writing articles and social bookmarking that they're wasting their time. They're not. Developing long-term income means having many different income streams coming from many different places. And yes, a list is one of those places, and it happens to be one of the most powerful. But many of the people here have a difficult time sticking to one thing at a time. They will progress naturally, and building a list is part of that natural progression. You're making it sound like they're going to be able to build a massive list in one month and start raking in thousands of dollars. They're not. So please, do share some of your magnificent, life-changing list-building ways. It would be greatly appreciated by all.
I am not saying they are wasting their time. I am saying that social networking is not as simple as just "submit site to social networks". Simply submitting site to those websites is not socializing nor networking. I am not good at PPC so I do not talk about making money with PPC. I only talk about what works for me so that is why I write a guide based on my experience of what works for me. It took me a few months to start realizing the importance of a list, and then figured out methods to build up the list. I have never mentioned anything about overnight success. I have to check in to the deadlink that you are talking about because nobody else has emailed me about the issue, but I will check it. When people opt-in to my list, I only provide useful contents to help them get started IF they take actions. In my guide, I don't even advertise at the bottom of the guide. I just simply tell them that they can email me at anytime for questions and help.
If what you're saying is that the OP is trying to get you to click on his signature then you should learn from that. It's called forum marketing and he is doing it very well. It works. That is how you do it with efficiency.
Heh, he is definitely marketing his sig link but he's also correct. The biggest affiliates and vendors have big email lists. Its a more advanced marketing tactic.
Agreed. That is a much better way, and I do it also, just look below I'm sure we don't want annoying pointless threads everywhere on this forum, do we now?
Actually a blog with many followers and many subscribers are better than mailing list. At least the comments in the blog can encourage others to try out the products.
I concurr with the trust issue. The knowledge of your niche is also important but i also believe a well designed site is very important.
All this guy been doing is trying to sell his sig to everyone here, I asked him for PROOF of his earnings which in one of his threads he claims to have made 26k in one day on CB but refused to show a screenshot to validate his claims!! More than one person requested this but he avoided doing it which means he is a BIG SCAMMER!!
The 26k was a JV product launch. That is the power of networking with other affiliates in related niche. I build a good relationship with my list and never scam them for anything.
But how do you get the list in the first place...? By getting traffic.. or does that list just build itself... you have to first get traffic before you can even build a list... so the money is really in getting traffic via SEO, PPC, Article marketing, social media etc... then how you leverage that traffic is how you make money...
That's a good thinking! When you find the answer, you find the money! Keep searching! Others have found it obviously!
When I write articles - I do not send people to Squidoo or some blog or a redirected URL... I send them to an opt-in page that offers a free report. This is how I build my list in many different niches. Money is so much better than simply selling to these folks. That list buys and buys and buys... The Money is in the List - I have to agree.
Are you suggesting, we don't monetize our sites/blogs just simply provide a list? Won't we be missing potential sales?# Sam
After reading this (and I'll admit I've never played with mailing lists), seems to me that both sides make a good point. Even before I knew anything about Internet Marketing, I knew a sales page when I saw it and I also knew to stay away from it. Why? Because: A: It looks like an infomercial on late night television (especially with a .info domain) B: I know nothing about the dealer So I think the OP is right, there is a lot of money to be had in mailing lists. It's basic networking, building a relationship with your customer. Make the products look like a little something extra, and you look less like a salesman. But, it isn't to say that you shouldn't also list the products on your web page. Just don't shove it down people's throats. You have to remember, most people don't have a credit card glued to the side of their monitor. It takes a lot of work to get the person to walk all the way into their bedroom, grab their wallet, come out, and go through the whole order process. People also don't like investing in information (at least I don't). As far as their concerned, every little piece of information is out on the internet if they look hard enough. While this may or may not be true, it's what most people believe. So in order for you to sell them something like an eBook, you have to really look like you know what your talking about.