Any Serious Affiliate Marketer Knows These 3 Tools Are a Must

As you have probably heard it is possible to make a decent living as an affiliate marketer. What most people don't realize is in affiliate marketing, like any business, there are certain tools that are required in order to run an efficient business. Although you can earn a little money without them if you want to make it to the top they are a must.

1. Your Own Website to collect visitors information
Your website should serve one purpose--to collect prospects information--names & email addresses. Be sure that you have a specific call to action let prospects clearly know what you want them to do. Offer incentives(free reports, ebooks, ecourses) to encourage your visitors to sign-up.

2. An Autoresponder to Deliver Regular Messages
Your autoresponder will work for you delivering subscribers more information about your niche. You can also use it to inform them of new products, services and special offers.

3. Quality products to recommend for back-end sales
The subscribers on your list are potential customers. Continue building a relationship with them by providing them with valuable content, make back-end sales by recommending related
products.

Of course there are many more tools that you'll need as an affiliate marketer these 3 are just the basics. (As you probably noticed tool #1 & tool #2 will lead to tool #3 and anyone serious about affiliate marketing knows "the money is in the list")