If you are on track to start affiliate marketing correctly, you know you need to build an optin list from the beginning. Even a small bit of research in to optin list building will show you that offering a free incentive through a squeeze page technique is the route to go. So now yo need to write that first free document, the free PDF that you will offer to get those targeted marketing leads.

You need to plan carefully when writing a free affiliate marketing document to make sure you accomplish five different tasks with it. First, you need to be sure it is of interest to the exact same individuals who would be most likely to buy the products you'll be promoting in that niche - this is the only way to make sure you get only targeted marketing leads.

Second, you need to make sure the issues you are covering in the document are of sufficiently important concern to that target market that they will pick to opt-in to download the document. That may not appear that hard, but people are much more hesitant to offer up their e-mail address and their permission to market to them than they were a few years ago. much spam and junkmail has gone through their inboxes already; they don't usually make the decision to invite you in that lightly any more.

Your third task may turn out to be the hardest of all, depending on your skillset and knowledge. You need to write the document well that you brand yourself as an professional in the subject and the general niche, a trustable professional who is word they ought to take when it comes to pick which products they will think about purchasing. So not only do you need to be correct in your writing, you need to go beyond what they already know, to bring them answers and solutions they don't already have. Only by overdelivering in your free document will they think you can be of further help to them, that you have advice worth following or at least thinking about on an ongoing basis.

So when writing your first free document for affiliate marketing, plan what you'll cover and then see if your planned document will stand the check of all 3 criteria. If so, go ahead and write your document, then double check to see that the done product does the best you can do in all 3 areas. If your original plan or the done product fail any of those five tests, revise your plan til you have got all 3 covered then return to writing your first free document for affiliate marketing - being sure it is the best short document on the subject you can generate.

A great deal of your success making funds affiliate marketing will be dependent on the size of your optin list, the rapport you build with them from Day One, and how well you have targeted affiliate marketing leads. With all that riding at first on writing your first free document, don't scrimp or cut corners - put your best affiliate marketing foot forward from the beginning!