2. When you ask for a visitor's email address, ask for their name, also. You will then be able to personalize follow-up. Personlization builds trust and will get email opened much more than a canned response message with no personalization.

3. Have your prospects sign up for a FREE email course that follows up at least 7 times (more if possible). If you give something of value like an email course, you will greatly increase your chances of getting your email read.

The next day I received a very nice reply. "The Internet is HUGE", they said. "We predict it will be five years before market is saturated with our product. And long before that, we will have introduced our next product." They were right, of course. The problem was not with market (the Internet is huge). Nor was problem with their product. The problem was in way I was presenting it.

Since then, my affiliate sales have soared. Why? Because I learnt a few secrets to winning affiliate game. Here they are:

1. Choose affiliate programs that relate very closely to theme of your website. Let me give you an example. Of three affiliate products I sell from my web site, one that does best by a long way is an eBook that shows people how to generate free Ezine advertising. Why does it do so well? Because my website is a directory of ezines and most of my visitors are already interested in Ezine Advertising before they even arrive at my website - I don't have to persuade them very much.

2. Buy product yourself! Research across dozens of affiliate programs shows that at least 70% of sales in any affiliate program are made by small percentage of affiliates who actually buy product they're selling. It makes sense doesn't it (how can you recommend something you've never used)?