I seem to see two different sets of marketers on this site: a) People are making consistent sales, and b) People who’s sales are sporadic.

I’m not an expert, but I did some article and PPC marketing, and I must say it’s a lot harder than sending out an email to someone. I see it to be really strange that people are not generating a mailing list. I send out mailings on a daily basis.

Most people get into this because they want “freedom.” I don’t want to work 9-5 and make some other jack**s rich while I toil away at making HIS company successful. No, I want to be successful with my own project.

That’s the first reason. The second reason that I’m personally doing it is because I need a way to finance my lifestyle. There are lots of things that I want to do with my life that will not be possible if I end up in somedead end job.

So here are 2 reasons why your CB sales suck. And I hope this helps people out:

1) You’re not retaining potential clients

Do you really think people buy on the first visit? How many times have you gone to a mall, or store, or looked up a product and said, “Hey! I need this. I’m going to buy it!” Never. I’m not an impulse buyer. I’m really really frugal. But at the same time, I purchase at least one fitness product per month. Why? Because I’m interested in it. Which brings me to my second point -

2) You’re not attracting the right clients

What you want is someone who needs that product. The people that come to my site are people that already workout. I’ve had people buy multiple times from me because I showed them a need through my blogging. I had one guy buy 5 products from me!

So in conclusion, what you need to do is start an opt-in list. Don’t do bum marketing. Instead, write your articles and target keywords that arespecifically for your target market. Make the articles really good so they click on it. The idea is to win their trust as quickly as possible so they sign up to your list.

I had one guy buy from me 2 days after he signed up after my email list. Now that’s how you convert people. Not by sending people to a vendors site and hoping for the best. Yesterday I spent around 6-7 dollars onPPC and didn’t get a single sale.

I realized this morning that I need to what’s working and stop listening to all these people are supposedly experts – but I’m making more sales than they are. I’m officially putting a hold on allppc marketing.

It’s going to be solely about growing my list as quickly as possible with relevant people. Don’t be afraid to send out email everyday. The only people that will unsubscribe are people that will not buy from you.

Hope this helps people out!

I’ve been talking a lot about email marketing since I joined this forum. Frank Kern just put out a great video about how you can use email marketing to make affiliate sales. Check it out here: http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=52

I’m going to start using some of these techniques which hopefully result in a better click through rate.

You guys should try to get on Frank Kern’s mailing list. Even though he does a lot of product promotions, his free videos are worth it.