Posted by Kathy Jackson in Affiliate Marketing Monday, 8 February 2010 11:43 9 Comments
Remember the Wendy’s commercials with that little old “Where’s the beef?” lady who was served a burger that was all bun and almost no meat?
Since then, that slogan has been used by almost everyone to question the value of almost everything. Now let’s talk about affiliate marketing.
So where IS the “beef” (money) in Affiliate Marketing? “The money is in the list!” That’s what every affiliate marketing guru in the industry says. Supper Affiliate and Lurn CEO Anik Singal, the driving force behind Affiliate Classroom, says “each name on your opt in list represents one dollar ($1) of income for you per month.”
Do the math — 500 names on your opt-in list are worth $500 in monthly income to YOU!
The next obvious questions are: Where do I get an opt-in list? Who sells opt-in lists? How much do opt-in lists cost?
Those are the questions that we’ll answer in the upcoming five part series, “Building Your Affiliate Marketing Opt-In List”.
• Part one: Choosing an Autoresponder Service
• Part two: Finding Your Free Opt-In Offer
• Part Three: 3 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Opt-In Form
• Part Four: 3 More Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Opt-In Form
• Part Five: Opt-In Marketing Best Practices
We’re going to teach you how to build a list, convince visitors to opt-in, drive traffic to your opt-in form and then how to treat your list once you have one. Get ready to earn!
• NOTE: Even though Lurn, Inc. receives compensation for products and services promoted in our blog posts, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences about those products and services.


Your site is great!
Sounds like very useful info. I look forward to it.
Brad Smith
I always insist that there is beef in my burgers and I know that this course will be all beef.
beef is always good in a product!! sounds like some good info.
I look forward to this series. Let’s rock and roll.
The money is indeed in the list. It’s about building that customer relationship and offering the right products for their consumption.
Five lessons is like kindergarten is to college. Let’s get started. I need the beef.
Well, finally one ot the gurus is obeying the new FTC regulations. I noticed that you mention receiving compensation for your recommendations. Good job!
Not only should you be commended for making honest reccomendations, but you should be commended at being one of the very few IM gurus who is even trying to run their business above board and not just thumbing your nose at the FTC. ;D
Beef? I know there’s wood in my cows, just have a peek at them.
With an all beef tutorial I see a bright future ahead for the many stale internet marketers. Whilst it amazes me how we made money without a list, it just hit me how much cash we left on the table by not collecting addresses and building a list. Sure it takes precious time and some effort to set-up and automate, but the rewards are spectacular. Thank you for poking my brain and opening my eyes. Henryb.