I was up late last night when the highly anticipated release of Alex Jeffreys latest ebook named Newbies Nightmare occurred. Believe me, all I wanted to do was to go to bed as I was so stinking tired.

But I knew this ebook was coming out and I wanted to read it as soon as I could. The Newbies Nightmare is a short 45 page ebook so I started reading it even though I could barely stay awake. I basically read the whole ebook with one eye closed but I couldn’t stop reading it until I finished. Yes it’s that good.

You have worked very hard to build your opt-in list but don’t think that just because you have a bunch of names and email addresses that it’s going to be a cake walk from here on in. Getting that big list of subscribers was one thing, keeping them will be yet another.

The biggest mistake most newbie affiliate marketers make, and yes veteran affiliate marketers do this too, is that they start bombarding their list with product after product trying to make that fast buck. If you just keep pounding your subscribers trying to sell them stuff they will end up scrolling straight to the bottom of your autoresponder email looking for the unsubscribe link so fast your head will spin.

A lot of Affiliate Marketers are looking for the easy way out. They’re looking to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow the quickest way they can to make that big paycheck. Truth be told it takes good old fashioned hard work and marketing techniques that have been around for years to make a living in affiliate marketing.

Here are four tips that will help an affiliate marketer make it today in this increasingly competitive world of affiliate marketing.

Affiliate Marketing can be a very lucrative business but it will require a lot of work. This is not a get rich quick scheme this is a real business.

But if you’re like most affiliates out there and you make this one huge mistake, you will be dead in the water before you even get started.

So, what is the single biggest mistake most affiliates make? Not having a means to collect people’s personal information such as first name and email address.