3 Ways Your Blog Can Help You Build Relationships

Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 8:56 am

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Building your list is one, if not the best, way to grow your affiliate marketing business. If you are an affiliate marketer the majority of your time and effort should be spent doing just that. There is a reason you always hear the money is in the list even though those of us that have been around a while know it is the relationship with the list that is the real money maker.

Here are 3 ways that a blog can help you build that relationship.

The first way to build that relationship is to offer good content to your subscribers. The problem can come up though when you do not
have a call to action in your content and sometimes it just does not fit.

It is important to get your subscribers in the habit of taking action and clicking on links. The easy way to do that is to put your quality content on your blog. Send out a teaser email and link to the content. Your subscriber gets in the habit of clicking your links.

This can be the ultimate leverage of your content. You are providing it to your subscribers but you have put on your blog allowing others that aren’t on your list to access and want more from you.

Email deliverability can be a problem at times. Even when you use a quality autoresponder like Aweber with the spam filters it is very easy to get tripped up using words like free, make money, etc in your emails. If your email doesn’t get delivered and ends up in the spam filter it won’t make you any money.

Here is where a blog can help you.

Put your promotion on your blog. Here you can use the power words like free, automated money maker, etc that will get action from the reader but won’t make it through the spam filters to your subscribers inbox.

Just send a teaser email with a link to your blog post and you can get it past the spam filters and still have a powerful promotion.

The third way is that your content on a blog is drawing additional readers. It is much easier to get permission to continue to contact them when they have already sampled and liked your content style.

Add a way to opt in to your email list on your blog and take advantage of that fact.

For more ways to improve your affiliate marketing using a blog check out Profitable Blog Steps.