My recommendation is to pick 1 affiliate program and stick with it for a few months. If it's not working out for you, choose another. If that one's not working, choose another, and so on.

*Free Auction Profits has a great 50% affiliate program at http://www.freeauctionprofits.com/affiliates.html hint, hint :)

Where do you find these affiliate programs to join?

My favorite are: eBooks from Clickbank.com: http://www.freeauctionprofits.com/cgi-bin racker.cgi?cbanknews

Drop Ship Source Directory: http://www.freeauctionprofits.com/cgi-bin racker.cgi?dsnews

Commission Junction: http://www.cj.com

These are all free to join, and there's tons of money to be made with them. I'll share more of my favorite affiliate programs in future. For now, this should be enough for you to experiment with.

One last recommendation I have on affiliate programs: I don't promote anything I haven't purchased and benefited from myself. You might want to do same so you know you're promoting a quality product.

Until next time,

Karol Gajda

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An exception to this would be if you are offering them a free gift for subscribing to your list. Then they should be added to your list.

Many will ask - Is it alright to email someone that has requested some free information report from you? My position is yes if you do it right way. I followup many times with those that request free reports from us.

In using an autoresponder, you likely will be able to send a number of followups automatically when someone requests initial information. Set your messages up a couple of days apart but insure that you always make a reference in them about their prior request. For instance, if they requested your free report on free we site resources, start followup messages with something like:

"Hi, several days ago you requested our free report on 'Free Web Site Resources'. I hope you found information useful. I have enclosed some additional information...."

You can customize it for whatever you are sending and you should change each subsequent message lead-in appropriately so it makes sense. This way you are reminding them that they had initially requested info and that you are not sending subsequent message out of blue.

3. Use Pop-ups

Many marketers feel that use of pop-ups irritates visitors to their site. Well I agree somewhat with that and I have immediately clicked away from sites and never looked at information I was initially interested in. I have been to some sites where I had to click and close four or five pop-ups and/or pages before I was even able to get to main page that I clicked to. And on top of that when I closed site I was hit with three or four exit popups.

So I would never go to that extent at my own site and wouldn't suggest that you do it that way or to that extent.

I have a single small pop-up on many of my pages that offers a free e-book in exchange for a subscription to my ezine. However, this pop-up coding uses a cookie which only allows it to pop-up once in 24 hours for that visitor. So they will see it only once on their visit. When I installed that particular pop-up our subscriptions had a noticeable increase.

Those are three of most common and probably simplest ways to capture email addresses from your visitors.