When to start Promoting

[dunzen]

Hello All!

I am new to the affiliate game and I have a quick question. I am creating a website that will also have a weekly newsletter and daily Blog. At what point should I start to promote other sites to start earning money as an affiliate? Should I wait until I have at least 500 people signed up for my newsletter? I was just wondering if there was a best practice here.

Thanks!

Dan

[Rosalind Gardner]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your question!

I can't see your site so it makes it hard for me to know exactly what's there already, (I'm assuming Adsense) but...

You should have products to promote to your newsletter subscribers right from the outset. Better to make a sale, than pennies on the dollar with Adsense.

Cheers,
Rosalind

[Lowell Rieger]

Dan,

Here's my 5 cents.

Stock your autoresponder ahead of time. When you get enough subscribers, add broadcasts. You may even switch over to broadcasts only. You can schedule them in a good hosted autoresponder service like Aweber. Broadcasts convert better for me, I think it is because they are more immediate. I write them a day or two ahead, sometimes a week if I travel. I have a few sandbagged if I run out of ideas.

Daily blogging can be a chore. Make sure you blog with a purpose, in other words, have something to say. You can multi purpose autoresponder emails and blog content. Aweber will even send a list broadcast they pick up from your blog RSS feed.

List, blog, or site - provide lots of content from the start.

But Like Ros says, also promote from the start. Don't make it a pitch fest. If you're selling as an affiliate, pre-selling is the key. You read Ros' book I hope....

Adsense can show an Ad for the affiliate product you promote, so either block that url in Adsense control panel or better yet don't put Adsense on your affiliate presell pages.