You Need To Know The One Secret To Be An Affiliate Making Money by Stephen Meyer

An affiliate marketer makes his money by selling other peoples products. They can sell products online through a web site or with online advertising. You can also sell products off line using the many available marketing strategies.

Thousands of people have become affiliate marketers for the simple reason it is a great way to earn money from home. Of course the number one method of being an affiliate making money with online sales is using the Internet because of it's ease and convenience.

But, there is secret to becoming successful with online affiliate marketing and it is the one secret that can make or break an affiliate marketer. This method is not talked about real often. The secret that I am talking about to becoming an affiliate making money is list building.

Many affiliate marketers have heard the saying "The Money Is In The List" and nothing truer could be said. This is the one step that will move a person out of the part time home business field into full time online marketing.

The vast majority of "Super Affiliates" who are online today marketing different products all have very large list. Some of these extend into the hundreds of thousands. Some of the most successful affiliate marketers have moved beyond selling some one else's product and have created their own products and promote these exclusively through their list. It has made many of them very wealthy.

Even if they no longer produced their own products and started selling other peoples products tomorrow they would still make huge incomes by simply marketing to the list they have built.

Many new affiliate marketers attempt to make a living using the free tools that most affiliate companies provide them. Most will advertise a replicated website and banner advertisements provided by the product owner with the beliefe these materials is all that is needed. Of course there is an occasional sale made or a new affiliate sign up but that becomes the end of marketing to those people.

It can be nearly impossible to make any real money if you do not own your website, your capture pages, and have full control of the names collected. It is nearly impossible to build a profitable list using someone else's web site.

The only way to become a successful affiliate making money is to hyave full control of your website and the leads you gather. The most successful Internet marketers in the world promote only web sites that feature a sign-up form, or they promote a landing page and most will not give anymore information until they are given the name and email address of the visitor.

This creates a list of eager buyers who are anxiously awaiting the information they signed up to receive.

Building a list of targeted buyers is the only way to truly succeed as an affiliate marketer. If you can master the techniques of list building making money online will come much easier for you. This is the little known secret of affiliate making money that we all must be aware of.