Lets cut to the chase. Pure and simple, for any successful internet marketer, the key to financial success is creating a large email customer list, but also a list that is based from targeted customers for a specific market niche. It makes no sense if you have a large email customer list from selling eBay collectibles and then use the list to solicit sales for affiliate marketing and ebooks. You may get some hits but the results will be far from successful.
Base your list building strategy by first focusing on a highly competitive market niche such as digital information. This market, although competitive, has a high demand in the market place. People are always looking for information to solve a problem, to start a business, how to make money on line; it goes on and on.
It also has something else. It has numerous opportunities to do joint ventures with other marketers looking for help in product promotion and affiliate programs. Joint ventures will help any marketer skyrocket their ability to create targeted web traffic that can be converted to potential life long customers for your business.
To best play in this arena though, you should be the physical owner and author of a high quality ebook that would be of value to your joint venture partners to promote using their email customer lists.
Many of these internet marketers have literally thousands of e-mail subscribers created through their businesses where they not only sell products but also have their own membership forums, news letters, as well as ongoing mentorship sites. These people are well connected.
To break in though, you must have a product of high value to submit to them. After all they will not promote your product unless they have reviewed it and verified its value. These marketers will not tarnish their reputation with their subscribers by promoting an inferior product.
As for your product, you do not need to be the original author, but it helps.
Some of the best digital information marketers do not write most of their products. They often use products with private label rights. These products are unpublished and are bought with full resale rights that allow the buyer to modify the product any way they see fit; pack it with targeted links to viralize the book, change the title of the product and finally create or modify a selling page. Bottom line though, typically 75% of the product is usually left unchanged.
View your product as a business asset. Just having one good product could explode your business and build a large email list of customers and subscribers, and you will make a lot of money! If you are not a writer, there is another alternative. You can actually have someone else create an e-book for you for about 150 to 600 dollars.
Now where do you find internet marketers to promote your product? A great site for that is Click Bank. This site is a meeting place for marketers who have information products to sell and buyers or affiliates looking for information products to promote.
This is the site where you register your product, set up a merchant account when you do sell your product and Click Bank takes care of the transactions, and it lists your product for availability for affiliate marketers to find who are interested in promoting your product in the same market niche.
Going back to the joint venture issue, Click Bank as mentioned is where you find your potential partners. When in Click Bank, you have the ability to search for products that are also in your product niche. Say for instance, selling on eBay. By doing a search by the word eBay, you will find over 100 products listed in Click Bank.
Find 10 to 15 information products that interest you and are similar to your own. Open up each of their sales pages and send an email to the authors requesting a reciprocal promotion of each of your products thorough email lists, news letters, or forums. Offer them a free copy of your product for evaluation and request the same from them. Most will be interested in this reciprocal promotion. You promote their product, and they promote yours. Then watch with amazement how fast you make money as well as collect targeted email subscribers.
By the way to collect those subscriber email addresses you need to use a site like Aweber that offers auto response systems as well as the ability to collect your email addresses from your subscribers.