It’s really important if you are an affiliate marketer to have your own website with ability to collect e-mail addresses. I’m sure you will have heard that money is in list. If you have no list your unlikely to make much money.

If you can offer visitors to your website a free newsletter, ebook or training course, if they sign-up to your list, you should be able to build that list of prospects without too much difficulty. But you have to sell opt-in as much as you would a product as people are much more wary of handing over their e-mail addresses these days. So make sure you offer something of good value to earn trust of your prospect and build your credibility.

In ebook or newsletter you can include or recommend products with which you are affiliated with. So instead of sending prospect directly to your affiliate webpage, you send them to your website, where you collect e-mail addresses; this allows you to follow-up and recommend products and related products which you believe they would be interested in.

Therefore you can make multiple sales from one prospect, whereas before you may have made one if you were lucky or simply lost prospect forever.

Provide good content in your newsletters and ebooks, give honest recommendations on products for your prospects and they are much more likely to trust you and buy from you.

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It is enough to know that with rising of sun, you must run. And you must run faster than you did yesterday or you will die.

This is race of life." –African Proverb

Which one would you choose to be? I would choose to be lion, because Lion can afford to fail repeatedly. There is always another opportunity to catch gazelle another day, lion can learn and try new tricks and techniques for hunting gazelle, all it needs is to find one successful technique and it won't go hungry.

The gazelle on other hand, if it fails to elude capture will die! No second chances here I'm afraid.

You can apply same principles to home business and internet marketing. View yourself as Lion, if you fail with something, try, try again, all it takes is one successful method which you can repeat to get on road to success.

There are many excellent tracking tools on internet which allow you to track your prospects and sales. This will allow you to test new ideas or advertisements and know exactly whether changes you are testing have been beneficial or unsuccessful.

Test, test and test again, until you find that winning formula and then try to beat it!

"If all else fails, perseverance prevails". --unknown

Don't treat your home business as a hobby or you will never achieve real success. Treat each day as a potentially life or death situation, it is in these moments that we have greatest insight, motivation and determination to be successful and to succeed.

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