This is the perfect template to use amazing content from other sources for your visitors and building your list.
You can easily plugin any image and headline of any great blog post , article or anything that would have a value to your visitors.
When your visitors want to see your amazing content they optin and while you gather the email address you redirect your visitors to any blog post, article, video that you think they would like.
This just solved all you content creation problems by using other sources for your own optin bait.
Never create another lead magnet , short report or pdf for your visitors but instead use the posts and articles that already are proven hits.
Within 30 seconds you are set to go and build you list.
You could even send an email redirecting to the shown article and use the redirect override to get people to an other affiliate product.
This way you would:
Build your list
make money with the affiliate offer
Sent the content out by email and you know they will open this first mail , because they want the content they signed up for.
So my little advice would be to sent out the content in the second email after you introduced yourself in the first email you sent with your autoresponder.
This way they will still open your second mail because they are expecting the content but you already had the chance to welcome them , tell your story and offer them something to look forward too in your next mail.
When using this strategy this funnel is so much more then just an optin funnel.
It's a lead generating , affiliate product promoting , money earning, cult creating machine !!