Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest online businesses to get started. There isn’t much involved, other than finding a product you want to promote and getting your link. You’ve probably heard you don’t even need a website. You can just link right to the sales page right?

That’s one way you can do it.

Although you can send traffic directly to the sales page it’s not the best way to do it. Studies show it takes people 7 to 9 times seeing a product before they will buy. There will be a few people who will just grab it the first time they see it, and that’s a start right?

It is a start.

Here’s the problem though, the product owner will have an opt in form on his sales page. He knows the importance of building a list. He will get your referral on his list and keep sending more and more information to your referral. Your referral will  finally get comfortable enough with the product and he will buy it.

But you won’t get the commission. The person will have purchased through the product owners link and the product owner will get what would have been your commission, because he had the list.

You can send people right to the sales page with your affiliate link, but you will not make anywhere near as much as you would if YOU were building the list.

This is why it’s so important to have your own squeeze page and build your own list. If you get your lead on your list first, then you have the chance to talk with them over and over about the product. You increase the chances that it will be your link they see the seventh or ninth time they hear about the product and decide to buy. You also get to build a relationship with your lead, build more trust, they will know who you are and that is huge when it comes times to pull out a credit card and make a purchase.

Here’s the 5 reasons you need a squeeze page, one more time.

1.    Capture name and email so you can continue to connect with the person
2.    You don’t just “lose” people if they don’t buy the first time
3.    You get to continue to build a relationship with the person
4.    You get to continue to build trust with the person
5.    You can even offer OTHER products and services that are related.

I hope those 5 reasons have persuaded you to get started on building your list and creating an opt in page. It doesn’t matter what niche your in, or even how many niches you’re in. Creating an opt in page, and building a list of people who want to hear from you will grow your affiliate marketing business exponentially.

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