[This is part 5 in a series – You can get the previous articles here: http://www.All-In-One-Business.com/sap]

In this series I am detailing how I put together an affiliate promotion in just 3 days and made over $5,000 in sales—and how anyone can imitate these same techniques.

Super Affiliate Promotions are all about preparation. To be successful you have to put together a combination of a unique, killer offer; a large list of targeted prospects and great sales offers.

Typically, this takes a few weeks of lead time to come together. In my case I “got the ball rolling” with plenty of time (about 6 weeks), but then got very ill.

In fact, I lost 20 pounds and went through a huge number of tests before they found out what was wrong with me.

During that time I did the bare minimum—including not putting together the mailers, materials and preparation I should have to make this thing a success.

I had a deadline of February 26th. I had advertised it and I couldn’t change it, but as of February 23rd I had done almost no preparation.

UGH!

Here’s what I did to make it a success:

I called in some help.

I made a few phone calls to people who had large lists and asked them to promote a free teleseminar with Marlon. It was a win-win situation since they were able to give a valuable free gift to their email lists, and I was able to get free access to their list.

As a result, in just 3 days we registered 1,987 people for the teleseminar.

Now I want to point something out here—about ˝ of these people not already on my list. Almost 1,000 of these people came into my list simply through this teleseminar promotion.

That’s powerful.

Those 1,000 people were people who heard of, knew and probably respected Marlon, but they ended up on MY list. People who were ready to buy products not only from Marlon, but also (in the future) from me.

If I had known this technique when I was first starting out, I would have been able to catapult my list into the tens of thousands in just a few months. It’s one of the best ways to build a list.

In my next installment I will cover how the teleseminar went and how we did the follow-up.