Back in 2003 I was contacted by a guy who wanted me to build his web site for him, we became good friends although we have never met in person.

His name is Bob and he’s a smart man who reads non-stop. I have learned a lot from Bob but have not always applied what I learned. Man my skull can be thick some times. I think I got that from my grandfather.

Anyways, Bob advised me years ago to collect names and emails instead of just making sales, but did I listen. Well I heard what he said but was too busy doing my own thing and just went on doing what I was doing.

I was never looking to make millions and in my mind people that collected names and emails were out to make millions and would probably being spamming those poor people. Was I on the wrong pathway of thinking or what?

I couldn’t begin to tell you how many people I let slide through my fingers. Even the ones that purchased from me were gone after the purchase. No back-end sales for me.

Well after learning more from The Affiliate Code video training I am now willing to admit I was wrong, so sorry Bob.

Start Building Your List of Niche Related Buyers NOW

Taking the time to setup an autoresponder and a series of follow ups takes time but it’s time that is well spent. I didn’t feel I needed to do that because I was making sales.

I use Aweber for all my autoresponder series now. It just makes good sense to save those people that are interested in what you have to offer, so collect those names and emails but make sure you keep them in the niche they signed up for so you aren’t spamming them.

Hind site is 20/20 they say and now I can see clearly just how much money I have flushed because of NOT collecting names and emails.

I really couldn’t begin to tell you how many people I have let slip through my fingers because I thought it was going to be too much work getting an autoresponder system up and running.

It took me about 3 minutes to sign-up to Aweber and I even got my first month for just $1.00. Setting up my autoresponder was an easy step by step process Aweber guided me through.

All the months and years I ignored autoresponders just because I was afraid I couldn’t do it. Sad isn’t it, well don’t be like that, it’s a whole lot easier than one might think.

No sense crying over spilt milk. I am just happy that I finally saw the light that is autoresponders and am now collecting names.

Maybe They Won’t Buy Today But…

This part is really cool. I have had far more people not buy from me as my conversion rate was only about 1-3% but now that I use forms and squeeze pages to collect names I am making far more money.

When I send my lists emails for products I am sending to lists where people actually requested to join the list so they are very targeted and that has done wonders for my conversion rate.

So, don’t do as I did but instead do as I say and get started collecting names and emails my friend and you can come back here and leave me a comment telling me how it’s working for you.

Get over to Aweber and check it out.

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