You ask, how can I promote this affiliate product if I have no list yet, and no traffic? This is a common question. If you’re a beginner to Internet Marketing usually you will have no list and no traffic. You want to immediately promote an affiliate product and get some $money$ coming in. Am I right? And you’re not sure how to get people to your new website. Right?
To be polite, but blunt, you’re looking at it from a backwards approach. The first and foremost thing you need to be focusing on is building your list of subscribers. The steps are simple but they must be followed in a certain order. You can have the best website and affiliate product in the world but if no one knows about it how can you sell anything?
You can’t. No way, nada. You need the list first. How you ask?
Sure a few people might stumble on your site from search engines but that doesn’t mean anything. You need is a steady stream of people to your website who are interested in your product. You must focus on building your list first. You build your list by having them opt in to your squeeze page, or on your blog etc. Anywhere you can put an opt-in form. Once you have this list of subscribers you can then send them to the affiliate products you want to promote. And yes, this can take some time. But with a little patience, and effort you will succeed! = Bliss 
You will be lost without a list. Period. Yes, there are other ways you can send bits of traffic to promote an affiliate product such as Pay Per Click etc., but to be successful in Internet Marketing you must have a large subscriber list. This is a given. To become good at Listbuilding, you will need to learn how. There are many ways to build your list of subscribers but the easiest approach is to put up a simple squeeze page. A squeeze page is a basic page that has an opt-in form on it, with a call to action asking the visitor to enter their name and email address. You are asking for one thing, for people to opt in. Once they opt in they are on your list and you are free to email them.
There are many ways to send traffic to a squeeze page. One of the fastest is by doing a teleseminar. Other ways include article marketing, blogging and pay per click. If this is beginning to sound confusing don’t despair. We can teach you everything you need to know in step by step videos over at http://www.CreateYourFirstDomain.com. My friend, Chris Farrell, has a membership site where we teach brand new beginners how to get started online in very easy step-by-step videos that even a child could understand! = Bliss
A lot has been said about list building and internet marketing. One thing most coaches leave out is finding out what your clients want and need . It’s actually probably the most important step when it comes to Online Marketing.
If you aren’t finding a need, you’re really not going to get very far in your efforts to make money online. This has to be done before product development, before marketing, before find an affiliate product, before anything. You have to be able to supply what people want and need. If you don’t, you’re wasting time and resources.
Let’s say that it’s around March or April. You know that people are shopping for Easter Products at this time. You decide to launch an Easter based product, or made a special Easter sale. You realize that there are people on the Net with a want and money to spend. You provide the wanted item, and make money. That’s the essence of how to go about finding a need.
It’s all about target traffic. As I just said, you have people browsing the Net that are “just browsing,” and then you have people that are actually shopping. Obviously, you want the ones who are spending money. Finding what they want or need is the first part of targeting your traffic. You don’t care about the guy browsing, you want the guy ready to buy.
Of course, the process of finding a need is a bit more complicated than just knowing that Easter (or any holiday or special occasion) is coming up, so you should develop an Easter line. It takes a bit of market analysis. Let’s say that you have this brilliant idea for a launch. Let’s say that it’s a line of instruction manuals on how to do something specific.
The first thing you do in finding a need is condense this whole idea into as few words as possible. Now you can take this to your keyword tool. Plug your words into your keyword search tool and let’s see what happens. Your keyword tool will kick out every (more or less) current combination of your keyword and how often it got hit.
Based on this analysis, can you say that by doing this search that you’re finding a need? A want? If you’re not, perhaps there’s some variation on your keywords that will actually hit higher than your original version. It can be a boring process, but sticking through with it will pay off in the end.
Now that you’re done finding a need, you can begin making your instruction manuals, or finding an affiliate product to promote for whatever need you see out there. You can then move on to pricing and marketing and everything else. But this is how we begin.
Once you have the wants and needs of your potential clients, and have your manual, ebook, or product in place, you can start building your list of potential buyers=Bliss!
First of all, if you’re a total ‘newbie’ you’re probably wondering what in the world is an autoresponder? An autoresponder is a tool or email system that allows you to manage, organize and automate the process of collecting email addresses through opt-in and distributing information via email. Most companies, including all of the best companies use autoresponders! I use Aweber.com to handle my mailing lists because they are the most well-know autoresponder online and their features are wonderful = Bliss! They are one of the most highly respected companies known online. I highly recommend that you use them if you are serious about building your own mailing list.
Once you are signed up to an autoresponder service like Aweber you will have access to many of their services that include list building tools, you’ll be able to generate opt-in forms, tracking, analytics and even reports. You can simply create a new list, the paste the web form code on your web page, and and sit back and wait. The autoresponder will do the rest. You can send a series of emails that are sent out once a week for however many weeks you choose. It’s very easy. All you have to do is create a follow-up sequence of email messages, save them in in your Aweber control panel, and each time a new visitor signs up to your mailing list they will be sent the emails, all staggered at intervals that you choose. The feature and benefits of using a service like Aweber, far out weigh the small fee = Bliss 
Email marketing to existing and prospective customers is one of the most important and powerful internet marketing techniques for creating long-term clients and lifetime income – bliss! The potential that these lists provide us as affiliates and internet marketers is well…bliss! If you’ve even been thinking about becoming an affiliate or internet marketer you should at least entertain the idea of building a list or at least understand what a list is and what it can do for you and your business.
Email marketing is exactly what it sounds like. You use email to promote your products or website to potential clients. If you’v ever made a sale without a list, have you ever wondered where your customer is? Will he ever return to my site? Does he/she know of my other sites? Probably not. Once your customer is gone, they are lost. If only you could contact them again. Would you be able to convince them that another one of your products or services is worth purchasing? Maybe they would continue purchasing from you if they were happy with the first and second? Here’s a hint…without email marketing and an autoresponder you’ll probably never know! Email marketing allows you to create long-term business with long-term customers. Bliss! It allows you to fully monetize all of your website traffic.
Example:
Your Website (with built-in form)>>>Autoresponder>>>Send Email>>>$$$You Earn A Sale$$$>>>BLI$$
