Everyone knows that the money is in the list... However it is also in contacting your list, forming a relationship with your list, and ultimately making sales.
3 Steps - Building Your List
Advertising Exchanges
Joint Venture Events
Ad Swaps
1.) The first thing though is building your list. If you don't have any subscribers then you need find away to attract people to your opt-in page.. You will need to signup for a few different ad exchange programs such as gotsafelist.com or viralurl.com. Create a few ads and do every mailing until you run out of credits. Beware though you will get a flood of emails from these services. So open up an extra free email account so you don't bombard your normal email address. You should receive 2 to 5 signups per day. Once you have about 20 or so email addresses move on to step 2.
2.) Next Step is to signup for every Joint Venture out there. This is were you offer a gift in exchange for their email address. You will get a link to send out to your list from step 1 to market the event to. You willl be required to promote the JV event to get your gift ranked higher. You can do a google search for JV events or you can go to http://www.listbuilder123.com/JV.htmlfor a list of current events. These events run all year long.
3.) Once you have a list of at least 100 subscribers. You can start looking for people to do adswaps with. This is one of the fastest ways to build your list and to start your new affiliate marketing career.