Yes you need to constantly feed your readers with new and helpful information. However I am not talking about sending out emails every day but slow and steady, I try to send out every four days with good solid information that my subscribers can use to grow their business.

You need to also stay focused with this, simply because it is all to easy when you have a big list to constantly send out nothing more than promotional emails that will eventually annoy your subscribers who will then start to unsubscribe.

Just my thoughts.. and it seams like more job than webmarketing. I’m not that experienced so it might be lack of knowledge that make me believe so .. well I might try it someday.

I want to say that I have never had an email form where my visitors can sign up. I have seen people to make huge money via thisemail lists on their websites. But I havent.. I even dont know where to start. Maybe getresponse.com?

In my country, where maybe 1 out of 100 people do affiliate marketing, its not popular with this method. But maybe I can start up the trend and make real money?

Anyway, thanks for writing such a good post. I will definetly try this out one day..
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It is very easy today to get caught up in all the hype with selling marketing products online. The sad fact is that nearly all of these are short term and in some cases can actually hurt your online business.

As an example I was reading a sales page just the other day that said this system will teach you how to rank in the top 10 of Google for keywords that people aren’t searching for yet, I had to wander whether or not I was going to be sent a crystal ball in the mail that would give me all those keywords, but people believe this stuff and buy the programs only to end up like you are right now “Disappointed”.

Charles there is really no quick fix to this when it comes to building a quality site, what I would recommend you do first is choose a subject then make sure you have offers that you can sell relating to that niche. You then need to start writing quality content for the site making sure you are addressing issues that people have in that niche, by doing this you are building up trust with your readers.

Once you start getting some traffic to the site you need to add a opt-in list so people can get even more information from you remembering at first you don’t want to be marking just providing quality content on the site and with-in your email list the sales will come later.

Another aspect you can take which works and does not cost any money is to get involved with Facebook & Twitter as well as making sure your sites feed is listed in Feedburner and FriendFeed so you can start getting some circulation online for your content.

These are just some steps you can take to get started that are not going to cost you a cent and are very effective. Also make sure you have a Google webmasters account and once you have all of this in place drop me a line and i will take you to the next step.

Yes email marketing is only as good as the person writing the emails. If you are just sending promotional emails out which offer no value to your subscribers you list will have a very limited life cycle. However if you want to use your list to keep your subscribers informed and updated with quality information then you are going to be on the right track and over time as the trust builds with your subscribers you will be able to recommend products.

You notice how I said recommend, the worst thing you can do to your email list is try and sell, it is to aggressive and usually ends badly.

I just want something legit, something I can follow and understand easily to try and get started in this.
There has to be someone or something out there that is from people who really, no really want to help. I don;t want the same ole ad, I was broke, down to my last dollar out of work but I did this and this and look at my house , my car, my boat. The worst of that is, the name might be different but the house, the car the boat all look the same.

So anyway is there truly something out there, that can work for a person with no experience that is
easy to understand and follow that will not cost them a large investment, that they can get started
doing with very small costs and I mean small? Or is most of what I see just what it is, a bunch f B.S.
I don’t want to go to another web site read the offer for 67 then a window when I say yeah right that pops up Ohh wait I’ll give you a discount to 27 dollars which of course lead you to another and another and another that asks you for more money because you also need this software, this book, this magic marketing and Internet wand and Presto you are gonna make 2 grand a day….thats after
spending like 5 grand just to get started.

Ok enough tell me whats out there that is legit and how to do it, I am sure I am not the only person out there that has the same issues, concerns and wants to be able to make some legit extra money doing this. Thank you

Thanks for the tips anyway, it will come handy sometime

This is a question that is asked every single day on our site… So what I will suggest to you is this.

Let us know if you already have a domain name and hosting, do not buy anything from anyone until you have some understanding and knowledge about what it is you want to achieve. Have you done any research at all in any market to see what you want to sell/promote? If so what is that market.

Lastly all the information on our affiliate blog is free for you to use and learn from so may I suggest that you start there and maybe even subscribe to our newsletter where you will get notified of any new posts we place on our site.

Let’s see… there’s Carbon Copy Pro, Jamie Lewis, Jeff Paul, Jonathan Budd, etc., etc……. Everyone of them promise me the world. Blah, blah, blah. Someone show me how to do this.