Most Important thing for online marketing success

Tonight I did some "revamping" to my home page. Despite having changed every other page in my site COUNTLESS times, I have never really changed the Home Page (at least not the content) - But over the past 2 months I've been REALLY working my butt off to build my list - And it's working - My personal email list is up to over 800 now - and 150 of those are JUST from the past month. When I revamped my Power Traffic Course, I built the new splash page using Synthasite and started heavily promoting it - Also, shot my youtube video and got on twitter....

Off topic :) Point is this - It's become CRYSTAL clear that the most important thing to do is Build My Email List - And that is what i've been working on for 2 months straight now -

I revamped my Power Traffic course THOROUGHLY! I mean from start to finish - now it's a 10 part series that is getting good results. I have over 30 signups for Affiliate Funnel (and even earned some nice commissions there) as well as signups for various exchanges and viral pond etc. I still think I ramble too much - I'm guessing that if it was just 1 email, with my "here is what you do" and 1 program only, I would get more signups...But the truth is that would only help me - My Power Traffic course is really about helping other people -

damnit, again :)

Building my list!

I've got EVERYTHING pointing to me and my home site now - My YouTube Video is on my home page. Even if people just want to shut it off, they go down and see my email subscriber form. This adds signups -

I also am sending Massive traffic to my Power Traffic splash pages - Each day I'm getting 3-5 signups for it just from the Traffic Exchanges.

Since I added the "Follow me on Twitter" link to my home site, I have over 60 new followers in 2 weeks. This adds signups when they click my homepage link -

My YouTube video has been watched over 300 times (granted, I've got it on auto play, embedded in my home website :)

I have now added over 150 people to my PERSONAL email list over March - And continue to get 6-12 new signups on a daily basis (including Power Traffic & my home site)

What does that really DO for me?

Simple - Now when I sign up for a new program, I get signups by sending an email to my list. Last week I checked my Pyrabang stats and had 15 members in my downline, when I did ZERO recruiting or advertising - Real Spillover! I sent it to my list and got nearly a dozen GOLD members -

I sent another email about 3900 Income - got 4 more signups

I sent an email about Teamwork Revolution - Got 9 signups

I sent the update about Free Site Signup - I'm up to over $1100 in "pending" commissions now. I haven't really "unleashed" my real marketing power (PPC) because I'm waiting to get the real check in my hands - Once I do, it's on :)

I'm still trying to find the balance between selling and helping - No doubt it is a fine line. But I had a real eye opening conversation with one of my best online networking friends, Alan C (better not use his full name I guess) - And as much as I am always sitting around "sugar coating" everything, online marketing is about 1 thing: SALES

How do we build income and get sales - That is The Bottom LINE -

Now, yes, I have gone through my share of crappy programs. Yes, I really DO try to help people who are starting in online marketing and YES, I really CAN help people START building their own online business -

But if we aren't making money, then what are we doing here? The bottom line is how to make money -

So how do I really MAKE MONEY?

If I hadn't been burned by so many programs now, I might not have ever bothered to begin building my personal list. Even now, I'm waiting on ANOTHER $2,400 from 3 different programs that i should have been paid from now (not including affiliate junktion!)

I'm learning the real hard way that online marketing programs really do come and go.

But despite all that bad luck and all those shitty programs, I'm STILL able to make money. It's because I haven't attached myself to any 1 program (except GDI I guess - but GDI actually IS solid) -

The only thing I'm really "attached" to is my list - And my list is the most important thing I have.

And anytime I find a new program that I think is really cool, I am able to get instant feedback and signups by sending it to my personal email list -

It's taken me awhile to get here - But now that I'm here, I'm going to work on growing my list even more. I'm starting to use PPC advertising on my home site, AffiliateCurve.com - If for nothing more than to build my email list, it's worth it -

I know that all of my Free Site Signups are from my email list. By continuing to build up my list, I get more people everyday who keep in contact with me - who learn from me - who trust me - and who join my programs.

Yes, the bottom line is making money. But without having my email list, I would just be bouncing around still. Advertising ANOTHER affiliate site on traffic exchanges - Hoping for a miracle. But now that i've done all the "Grunt Work", I really do have some decent online marketing power -

It will still take a couple thousand more people on my list before I can say I'm "accomplished", but it's well worth it to focus ALL my efforts and money into 1 thing - Building my list -

Safelists and Traffic Exchanges and free ads - They are CRAP for selling - A Personal email list is by far WAY more valuable - You should only be using TE's and Safelists in an effort to build your personal email list -

That's where the money is :)

that was SUPER long winded - Sorry, I've got a really bad back so I'm on a bit of pain killers, and it's also past 11pm now - When you have a 2 year old, 11 o'clock feels like 3am USED TO :)