Let’s say you want to start an Affiliate Business for 2023. The best way to promote affiliate offers is by building an email list. Let’s talk about building one today.
To build an email list, you will need at least 3 things:
A lead magnet
As a thank you for signing up for your mailing list, you will offer your potential subscribers something in return. This could be an eBook, a checklist, a report, a whitepaper, software tools, or even a free consultation. You’re going to ask them to sign up to get it.
Now, what you will offer as your lead magnet is going to be determined by the affiliate offer you plan to promote to them later. For example, if you choose to promote software that automates social media marketing. (ex ChatterPal )
You can give out an eBook that contains 365-day social post templates for free, as a lead magnet. You may also give out a course that teaches how to monetize your social media pages.
It goes without saying that anyone who wants a 365-day social media template will need software that will automate the process. So, the lead magnet you create should complement the affiliate offer you are trying to market.
It is even possible to pitch the affiliate offer right inside the lead magnet.
Hopefully, you now understand why I suggested picking a product first.
As a next step, you must create a series of 8 follow-up emails
It is important that these emails educate and sell to the new subscribers.
Your emails should be very engaging, and entertaining, and offer value to the reader, while also pitching your affiliate offer subtly.
As you move on down the list, you can go more aggressive on the pitch to maximize sales. Your autoresponder will be set up to automatically send these emails daily to new subscribers.
You can sign up for this free autoresponder (your first 500 subscribers will get full access to all their features).
With your emails and lead magnet ready, the next thing is to…
Set up your landing page and bridge page
This is the page where people will enter their email addresses to receive your lead magnet. This page will be connected to your autoresponder so that when they opt-in, your autoresponder will deliver their package and begin sending follow-up emails.
Here is where your copywriting skills will help. You should ensure that the content on this lead capture page is enticing enough to make the visitor sign up.
This copy can be written with ease with the help of many apps. SalesBoosta is one example. I wrote an article on this you can find it here.
The good news is you only need to do this once, and it will start working automatically
The only thing you have to do is get as many people as possible to sign up and you can get at least $500 – $1,000 in commissions within 30 days.
