If you're reading this article right now then I'm sure you are interested in making money on the net. I decided to write this to save you the pains I suffered sometime ago.

Yes, I made a silly mistake at the start of my online marketing career and I paid dearly for it. Now as I said I'll want you to avoid it. So if you're really interested in making your living from the net, spare some time and read this through.

Here is my story.

When I started, being the newbie I was, (I think I'm still - frankly) and wanting to make some quick buck in affiliate programs, I picked on some well paying ones and with every ounce of zeal I could muster, I steadily promoted them. My expectations were high. I knew I was doing fine with my promotions. And why wouldn't I deserve the rewards?

But how disappointed I was when the stats came in.

"Something must be wrong," I cried; for that was all I could really say at the time.

And of course something was wrong. But it was not with the program. It was something I was doing. This, I was to learn was my #1 silly mistake, which has cost me a whole lot of bucks.

Now if you're promoting some affiliate program, you may be making this mistake also.

Don't believe me? Okay think about this.

While promoting the affiliate program do you have access to the list of prospects? Let's assume while promoting your assigned link, your efforts yielded 600 visitors to the affiliate website. Out of these 42 made a purchase. That is just 7%! So you receive your commission checks for those 42 persons who purchased. But what about the 558 who did not buy at first contact? Is there any way you can bring them again to make that purchase?

Is it possible for you to promote other profitable programs or products to them?

Remember that is 93% of your effort. Is that wasted effort?

Now that was the #1 Silly mistake that cost me thousands of dollars in profit. In almost, if not every case, by promoting my assigned affiliate link, I LOSE MY LEAD. And may I inform you that by doing the same you're losing yours.

You must understand that, "WEALTH BUILDING is equal to LIST BUILDING!"

So what is the solution; build your list - now!. With a list you're able to promote not just one but as many programs as you deem fit.

I'm sure the scales have fallen from your eyes. :)

So let's take some steps of creating a list of your own.

Step 1: Give away some free content - This could be anything from free reports, to free ebooks. When you provide valuable information you would soon turn browsers to buyers.

Step 2: Pull for traffic - Now ensure that there is a continuous flow of traffic to your free content. Whether this is to be gotten in your website or an email address, go for traffic and plenty of it.

Step 3: Capture the email address of those who receive your free content - of course this is done automatically by your auto responder.

Step 4: Promote your affiliate link - You now have a database to which you can promote again and again. Put before them your affiliate programs. You may have done this in your free content. You can do it continuously until they buy.

Step 5: Your back-end product(s) - take your program to the next level. Have you created your own product? You have all the right to promote this to your list. You can do this as much as you can.

That is it.

If you don't want to lose your hard earned bucks the way I did go and implement my suggestions.

Here for your success,