Comments on: how to integrate a blog and an email list to market affiliate offers?

By: sydnee_1996

sydnee_1996 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:46:23 +0000

Provide content about your affiliates on your blog. Give a free product away for signing up through for your list. Send periodic emails to your list to bring them back to your blog, like a monthly email with an article you wrote that they may be interested in to bring them back to your blog. Don’t send them emails everyday about your affiliate product.

By: copeapod

copeapod — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:04:00 +0000

building a list BY using your blog is actually a great way, one of many, to build your list. mark hit the nail on the head, if your using wordpress just use their plugin.

if not, just use an opt in template, found everywhere online for free, and upload it to your page, most likely the public_html directory of your server.

you have the right idea though and no, its not over complicating things.

best of luck, hope that helps.

courtney

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By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:10:31 +0000

Obviously your content will be king, however there are email marketing tools like autoresponder and GetResponse that will allow you to integrate the html into your blog. Also Wordpress has an email marketing plugin. Getresponse has a free account, but it is very limited.

By: Jakester

Jakester — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:53:53 +0000

Seems like the standard is to make a useful non-commercial looking blog with search ranking to attract visitors to a soft sell opt-in. Once their in the list employ standard marketing techniques mixed with alerts for important additions to the blog.

By: geomark

geomark — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:46:15 +0000

Sure, on your blog offer something extra that is only available to email subscribers. Try to make it something that will be updated regularly to encourage them to stay subscribed instead of signing up to receive the extra and then unscubscribing right away.