How to Build an Email List

List Building Tips - Referrals

In this third installment of my series on list building, I want to discuss referrals. Admittedly, this is not something I do a lot of and shame on me for it because when I actually DO it, it works. Why does it work and why should YOU consider it for your list building efforts? Keep reading and you'll find out.

Let's start with the premise of our list in the first place. Why are we building it? Well, there could be several reasons actually. But one of the most common is to get a whole bunch of people in one virtual place so that you can send them your message all at once in the hope that MAYBE they'll take some kind of action on that message itself, whether it be checking out an article, watching a video or buying a product. Unless you just like sending out emails for no reason, I'm going to assume that your list has a purpose similar to that in mind.

Now, given the purpose of your list, the one thing you'd like to have above all else is a subscriber who DOES take action. In other words, they read your message and do what you want them to do. And the reason they do it (and this is the key) is because they trust you and trust what you have to say. Somewhere along the line, you've earned that trust through the content that you've sent to them. The bottom line, however, is that you HAVE that trust.

So, let me ask you a question. If you were write to somebody you know who ALREADY trusts you and gets value out of being on your list, and asked them to refer your newsletter to others with similar interests, don't you think that they would gladly tell those in their immediate circle that your newsletter is probably something that they would want to read?

If your skeptical about this, let's take an example from real life that maybe you can relate to a little better.

Your at a bar with your best friend. He's just seen the latest, oh let's say, Batman movie and he says to you, "Man, I just saw that new Batman movie. It was FANTASTIC. You have GOT to see it."

Now think about this. He's your best friend. You value his opinion probably more than anybody else on the subject of movies because throughout your lives together you've always seemed to have the same taste. Don't you think you're going to go see that movie the first chance you get? Conversely, if he said it was horrible, you'd probably skip it.

Referrals are powerful coming from a third party with no divested interest. Of course we could throw a monkey wrench into the works to completely change this (offer a free e-course in exchange for that referral) but let's keep this simple for now. Just ask people who already trust you to recommend your newsletter to others.

If each person on your list who already trusts you and responds to your offer (let's say it's 100 people) gets just ONE person to sign up, that's 100 more people who are likely to end up trusting you as well if for no other reason than the referral that came from somebody who they ALREADY trust.

It's such an underused tactic. I myself don't use it as much as I should. But trust me, when you do use it and use it correctly (and adding incentives just makes it explode) it can really turn your list into a monster.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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List Building Tips - Using Your Affiliates To The Fullest

In this first in a series of list building tips, I want to start off with one of the sneakiest ways to not only build your list but possibly make affiliate sales in the process.

List building, while not the only way, is one of the best ways of generating a full time income. The reason is simple. By building a responsive list (and responsive is the key) you give yourself the chance to have a number of prospects and/or potential customers that will buy products from you on a regular basis.

Granted, if you only have one product to sell, then building a list for this purpose is probably sub optimal. Still, you're going to want to build it for no other reason than to be able to follow up with those who haven't yet purchased that one product.

Not everybody purchases on first sight of a sales page. Some people need to think it over. By getting them onto your list, you give them something to think about with each follow up. A very simple way is by making each follow up an issue that outlines or details certain features and benefits of the product. The more benefits you give them, the more likely they are to purchase.

Okay, but what does any of this have to do with your affiliates? Well, if you have affiliates, you certainly want them to promote your product, right? What's one way of getting them to do this? Well, what if you were to run some sort of random script that sent a prospect to a particular affiliate's page rather than directly to your sales page?

This gives them more of an opportunity to make a sale without them having to do any additional work on their own. What affiliate wouldn't like that?

Great, but how does this build your list? What you do is you offer the person going to the affiliate site a special bonus IF they sign up for your newsletter.

Here is where this gets interesting.

Let's say you had an affiliate who was promoting one product of yours but you wanted to build a list for another product that was related. By offering this incentive, you have the possibility of making the sale from the one product that you're directly sending the prospect to (the affiliate page) while giving yourself the opportunity to make a sale off of the related product.

And even if you only have the one product, by getting them to sign up to your list through your ethical bribe, you give yourself the chance to follow up with the prospect in case they haven't purchased yet. This gives you more opportunity to close the sale AND the affiliate still gets credit.

Think your affiliates won't love you for that?

This is just one of many ways to drive traffic to your opt in page, build your list and make more sales.

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See you soon with more.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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List Building Tips - 404 Pages

In this next installment of list building tips, I'm going to cover an area that almost nobody takes advantage of - 404 pages. For those of you who don't know what they are, I'll explain them. For those of you who do and might be wondering how you could ever build a list off of a 404 page, you might just want to keep reading. I promise you that it WILL be a real eye opener.

Let's start off with exactly what a 404 page is for those of you who don't know. A 404 page is one that a visitor will see when they don't get the page of your domain that they're looking for. Now, there can be a number of reasons why this could happen, such as you deleting it without realizing it. Maybe you changed the permalink structure of a site. I could go on for days about what causes 404 errors but the bottom line is this. A visitor tried to access a page on your site, couldn't, and was greeted by an ugly "page could not be found" error which causes them to just move on to something else.

That's a GREAT way to lose prospects.

Okay, so what CAN we do about 404 pages? Well, we can't completely avoid them popping up. Even if we've done nothing wrong and the visitor simply typed in the wrong URL of the page they were looking for (yes, it happens) they're still going to get those errors. However, what we CAN do is customize our 404 pages so that when a visitor DOES get one to pop up, they have the chance to do more than just go away.

How do we do this?

A simple message that says, "Sorry, the page you're looking for doesn't seem to be here. Maybe you'd like to sign up for my free newsletter below... " just might get somebody who would have normally just moved on to do something else, to sign up for your newsletter. It certainly can't hurt to try and what does it cost you? A few minutes of your time to design a page?

Yes, you SHOULD try to make the 404 page as eye catching as possible. Make it humorous even. After all, the visitor isn't finding what he's looking for and is therefore probably at least a little annoyed. A cute little graphic of maybe some guy scratching his head wondering where the page went to just might get a chuckle or two.

For those of you who don't know how to create and setup your hosting to handle a 404 page, it's really very simple.

Step One - Create the page and save it with an obvious name. Something like 404.html will do fine.

Step Two - Edit your,htaccess file by adding the following line:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

And that's it. That's all there is to it.

This way, if a visitor to your site doesn't get the page they're looking for, they at least get a page that might have some meaning to them and JUST might get you another list member.

Try it. You might JUST be surprised by the results.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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Call to Action - 5 Creations to Get Your Visitors to Subscribe

Now, your visitors have arrived at your squeeze page. What you want them to do next? Subscribe, duh! Sounds simple, huh? However, getting your visitors' names and emails does not sound as easy as you think. That is why we need to tell them what to do using a strong call to action which we will be discussing in a short while. I've dissected a call to action into 5 parts - the 5 C's so that we can discuss each part in details.

Part 1: Create curiosity

Arouse their curiosity by telling them that you just discovered something recently or by asking them questions which make them want to know more. Try something like "Do you know why 95% of internet marketers fail to make a living online?" This rhetorical question stimulates their brain to start thinking and will be eager to find the answer.

Part 2: Create values

Next, instill values from the product you are about to offer them, regardless of whether your product is free or paid. The best value that you can provide them is the testimonials from your previous customers or subscribers that your product actually works! For example, "My friend has recently shared with me the system he used to generate a consistent 5-figure income, monthly"

Part 3: Create exclusiveness

This will be the answer to a multi dollar question that visitors always ask, "What's so special about your product?" Stress that this product isn't their buy 2 free 1 groceries they can get from every mini market. So, write something like "He told me that he spent a total of 4 years to perfect this system and I'm the first to know this"

Part 4: Create branding

When you heard somebody says "Just do it!" what do you think of? This is exactly what you want to do with your product. Give your product a brand by telling them "This Niagara Cash Flow exactly describes the perfected system which suddenly makes the money flows into his pocket like a Niagara Waterfall and it is unstoppable!"

Part 5: Create a sense of urgency

This is where you "force" your visitors to take action, by creating a sense of urgency. Give them a limited amount of time to think and they will act much faster. Tell them that "My friend wanted to start selling this system to help more people achieving success in online business. Now, he's asking me a favor to help him obtain feedback from 25 people who seriously want to implement his system, if you are interested... "

Each of these 5 parts is crucial to establish a strong call to action. Leaving any out will adversely affect the conversion rate of your visitors.

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The Benefits of Building and Using a List

Big enterprises and companies hire people to create email lists of their own in order to keep track of their clients. These firms do this so as to alert the said clients when they launch new products/services and even keep these clients updated with news from the firm.

Why Build and Use a List?

Now if you had taken down their email and that of another, then you will increase a likelihood of profiting from the same customer once again by emailing them an advert carrying your new product or even a discount offer that you are having.

In doing so (Building a list) you shall be benefiting your business from the following

: Reaching a wider audience on social networking sites such as: Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

Increased Sales: Getting an expert to help you build your list of potential clients will help you generate more sales. This simply means that when someone joins your mailing list, you now have the opportunity to market your products to them for quite sometime (week, month, years).

Repeat Customers: With a mailing list, you will have the advantage and privilege of getting repeat buyers and this will only happen if you are respectable and extend the said clients some courtesy. Any great list builder knows that repeat customers form the backbone of a business for they will generate sales time and again.

Additional Traffic: When you publish your online store, most visitors only peruse for a few minutes and they move on to the next. By getting these people to enroll in your list, you'll be in the best position to do some follow-up marketing as you will be getting these people to visit your site more often thus increasing traffic to your site.

Wider Niche: It's a known fact that when someone joins your mailing list, is a person that is more than interested in your products or services. This translates into a target niche to a wider and more appropriate clientele.

Support and Team Work: In the days that we are living in, you need to think outside the box and treat your list more as a community not just mere prospects or numbers. Ensure that you build a great relationship with your subscribers; this will help create a sense of team work where both the customer and you can benefit for the long haul.

Gathering Info: List building helps you accrue valuable information from your list in the form of feedback and surveys. Get this you can use your list to try new products allowing you the platform to test your web content.

NB: If you have a website or are thinking of owning one, you should consider building a list. This is an awesome marketing strategy that will see you overtime automatically growing your contacts as well as increasing clients that will help you reap great benefits. Try it and you will never have a reason to regret!

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List Building Tips - Forum Blogs

This is the second in a series of list building tips that I hope you'll find informative. In this installment, I'm going to be discussing list building and forum blogs. I'll go over why they're good to post to, what benefits you'll get from doing so, how to go about doing it and when you should. Put all of that together and you should end up with a relatively effective method for driving traffic to your squeeze page and increasing the number of subscribers on your list. Ready? Let's begin.

Let's start with why forum blogs are good to post to. Let me preface this by saying that not ALL forum blogs are good. Some won't help you at all. Some, may even be more helpful than posting to your own blog. But why? The answer is authority.

If you take the Warrior Forum as an example, if you do a search through Google for just about any topic related to Internet marketing, more often than not, you'll find the Warrior Forum pages at or near the top of the search results. The reason is because of their authority as recognized by Google in this area.

Having said that, the problem with forums, as far as using their authority to your advantage, is that most of them, if not all, do not allow you to use the forum for advertising purposes. Certainly the main sections of most forum have a no advertising policy, as does the Warrior Forum.

But - and this is where you can take advantage of their authority - the Warrior Forum DOES have a blog that each member can use to post content that can be a little more promotional as long as the bulk of the content is informational in nature. No, you can't post a sales letter on your blog, but you can talk about a subject at length and then make a pitch for a product at the end. If the content is good, the small promotion at the end will be acceptable. In the case of building a list, this is a perfect vehicle. At the end of your content, you simply put "For more info, sign up to my newsletter."

You will find that you may actually get more subscribers from doing this than from posting articles to your own blog simply because the forum in question has more authority than you do. In other words, you're piggy backing off of somebody else's success. Hey, if they allow you to do it, take advantage of it. Just make sure you post relevant information that isn't a blatant sales pitch.

The benefits from doing this are clear as day. You reach more people because your blog entry has a better chance of being seen than if you made it on your own blog, unless of course your blog has equal authority with Google and other search engines. Good luck with that.

Since I've already covered basically how to do this, the last item on the list is the "when" or "how often." That is going to greatly depend on the forum and what you're trying to accomplish. Personally, I wouldn't make more than one blog post per day. You really don't want to make it look like you're just there for the free lunch. Contribute to the regular discussions as well. Be a regular forum member as far as participation and you'll find that even making one blog post a day won't be seen as excessive.

Bottom line is simple. If you're posting at a forum that has good authority, you'll reach more people with your blog posts and in the process drive more traffic to your opt in page.

It's a simple tactic but one very few people really take advantage of because they think it's not worth the effort.

Trust me - it is.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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Why Should I Focus On Quality Before Quantity In List Building?

In any type of internet marketing, your list is the key factor that determines your success. A lot of people have a wrong perception that huge email lists equal success. Unless your lists are highly targeted and willing to buy from you, you are wasting your time, effort and most importantly money. Let's discuss the three main reasons why list quality is more important than list quantity.

1. Protect your investment

Part of your investment in internet marketing includes buying domain, hosting services, autoresponder, PLRs, sales page, ghostwriters and designer to name a few. Among all these, autoresponder will be your most expensive investment if you have huge lists. All the freebie seeker emails sitting on your lists doing nothing can easily deplete your investment in autoresponder alone by more than 50%!

And you, hoping to earn a couple of bucks from them, continue to send emails that they hardly open. So, do not waste time and money sending emails to people who will not buy products from you.

2. Generate higher returns

Which one would you prefer; a list of 100,000 emails generating $100,000 or a list of 50,000 emails generating $100,000? The former generates a return of $1 per subscriber, which is pretty decent but the latter is generating $2 per subscriber. This can only be achieved if your lists contain quality leads and well-built relationship. A quality list needs time to build and nurture to become loyal customers.

Although it takes time to build a high quality and targeted list, it is easier to sell to these people again and again rather than focusing on building a huge list and selling to new prospects.

3. Leverage your credibility

There may be times where people would want to joint venture with you to sell some new products. If you send emails to high quality lists promoting the products and you performed beyond the expectation of your partners, you will have more leverage. They will look at you as a person who can be trusted to do a joint venture. Nothing spreads faster than word of mouth. Your name will be well known as a person who is dependable to start a joint venture with.

With the leverage and your quality list combined, you can generate a higher amount of sales and eventually generating more income online. In a nutshell, your main focus in list building should always be quantity of quality leads.

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List Building - Why Do I Need To Build My Own List?

Do you know that it is very much harder to sell to a new customer than to an existing customer? This point alone is enough for you to stop reading and get started with building your own email database. Having said that, I do not mean that you need to hard sell more and more products to them because your subscribers may feel annoyed. But, do you know that an email list can do much more than that?

Global Branding

With an email list, you are in full control of your subscribers. You can establish a meaningful relationship with them by consistently providing them with useful guides and information in their area of interest. After some time, you will be perceived as an expert or professional in the niche. What your subscribers will do when they come across someone who is having problem in your area of expertise? That is the power of branding.

Source of Information

You can continue learning with your lists. Through the use of survey forms or blogs, you can interact with your subscribers to collect feedbacks regarding the latest traffic software or generate ideas for your new products, just to name a few. As internet marketing is a constantly evolving, we need to continue learning in order to stay competitive in the market.

For instance, you have an idea in your mind and you decided to make a product out of it. You can always ask your existing subscribers for their comments on whether they need such a product, what are the features that can be added to make the product more marketable or is it user friendly.

Additional Revenue

Not all the visitors to your website will subscribe. Similarly, not all your subscribers will buy products from you the first time. Therefore, if you can keep their contact information, primarily emails, you can slowly turn more of them into your loyal customers by promoting different products later on. As I've mentioned at the beginning of this article, it is much easier to sell to your existing list of subscribers than it is to new prospects as they have recognized you as an expert.

Not only that, if your list is of high quality, targeted subscribers who are willing to pay to learn more, you can generate more profits by selling solo ads to others. With an email list, you can also perform adswaps with others for free which may generate you even more subscribers and more sales.

Your list will be the most important asset in your whole internet marketing business. Invest more in building your own list and they will be your ATM in the future.

Knowing that J.O.B. is NOT going to fulfill my dreams financially, I started attending workshops and have finally COMPLETED a cash flow system that automatically RESTORES my bank account no matter how many times I withdraw my money.

This idiot-proof Inbox Auto-Restoring ATM system is written such that you have NO CHANCE to miss any step and it WILL deliver its promise as long as you have faith in it.

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List Segmentation Strategies

I often run free online marketing strategy sessions with other small business owners. During these sessions we focus on a particular issue they have in their business and I help them work out the best approach to tackle the problem. Following a conversation within one such session, it presented these questions:

Building a list on an email/newsletter programme, what strategy can you use to best handle various access points and their ensuing lists?

What can be done to ensure that lists do not produce cross-over where clients may receive information that is no longer relevant to them as they move on in the marketing chain?

My advice is, and it would also be relevant to any business owner who creates a lot of access points into their marketing: e-books, webinars, seminars, downloads, events, newsletters, special offers and product purchases, to use a tried and tested email/newsletter programme to look after the lists and use to cater to the demands of a multiple access point market.

The great feature of email/newsletter programmes are their list management functionality. You won't annoy members on your lists, if you are sending a newsletter to more than one list at a time, they will ensure that each person received the newsletter only once, even if they are members of multiple lists, provided they signed up for all lists with the same email address. So for example, you could be a member of e-book list and tele-summit list but you will receive the newsletter only once if you send it at the same time to both lists.

Indeed it's better to have lists separated for all different products, seminars, offers, events you will run. The key is to keep a separate log of why you created that list, what members signed up for, when, how this list is linked to and related to all other lists. After 6 or more months it won't be easy to remember without this log when you've got 10 lists on the system with abbreviated names!

The benefit of having lists separated is that you could then create very targeted campaigns and follow ups based on what subscribers were initially interested in: e-book, webinar, strategy session. If you bought a webinar recording, you could then promote a follow-up webinar, an e-course on the same subject and strategically up-sell on other services and products you have. If you have all your subscribers in one list you won't be able to segment and target them in the same manner.

For each new list you can have separate auto-responders' series and you can send newsletters to go out to each list individually using separate templates. What's even better, you can set up different business details for each list.

Email/newsletter programmes show you your list totals on the dashboard so you will see how many people in total you have across all lists, as well as how many active/inactive subscribers per each list. Finally, you can set up list automation,signing up for a free e-book (free-ebook list) will also get automatically added to other lists (free-teleclass, newsletter, promotions). However, if you buy a coaching session (you become a member of coaching-clients list), you'll be automatically removed from promotions list as you are now a client, rather than a prospect. This keeps your lists targeted to most relevant prospects and ensures that clients won't get bombarded with promotional messages for products or services they've already bought.

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3 Tips To Make Your Squeeze Page Convert 50% More!

The squeeze page is simply a sales page but not one for selling your products. Rather, it is a web page built with only one intention - to "squeeze" out the email addresses, and not money, out of visitors to your website. It can therefore, be regarded as the gateway to your entire business. As such it should be handled and crafted with utmost care. It is in this wise that these three tips are given in this article to enhance its conversion rate.

Tip # 1:

Design a Proper Squeeze Page.

The squeeze page will reflect whether your business is a lousy or a serious one which visitors could willingly release their well guarded email addresses to. It should be well crafted with all the essentials of a sales letter.

A Great Headline - the headline is perhaps the most important part of your squeeze page. A proper headline should grab the attention and force people to read the rest of your message.Convincing Bullet Points - here, give the premise of your service, and a little bit of pre--Ã¢Âï¿½Âï¿½selling.A Clean, Professional Design that makes it not only visually appealing but also displays the opt-in box prominently visible to visitors.Above the Fold, which means the opt-in box can be seen without excessive scrolling. Above all,Give a Free and Irresistible Offer of considerable value and quality upfront.

Tip # 2:

No Videos On The Page:

Video or audio are no doubt good media that could make your site unique and convince visitors to spend a little more time considering your offer, but the simple fact is that a greater number of the people who visit your squeeze page are rather impulsive; that is to say, they are not exactly patient enough for anything to load if they are not sure they want it. So, keeping your squeeze pages free of videos will allow them to load fast and cleanly. Your visitors, without any waiting, can read the salient points right away, and immediately decide to opt in while their attentions are aflame. Therefore the simple rule of thumb is that, "skip the video or visitors will skip you."

Tip # 3:

No Heavyweight Effects On Your Squeeze Page:

It is not only videos that you should skip on your squeeze page; avoid also any medium that will consume high bandwidths like Music and Sounds, because they will hold up the loading process. And so are images. Take note that smarter users have the ability to block any media from untrusted sources.

My advice in this wise is that, "if you do not want them to block you, just stick to text and graphics."

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Internet Marketers - Want To Build An Email List And Don't Know How?

To be a successful internet marketer you need to make money, and to make money online you need a list of prospective buyers. If you have a website and no list then your traffic is dependent upon the whims of the search engines or you take up paid advertising. A secure way is to build a database of all the customers who bought from you in the past. This database is pure gold because these people are the ones who are likely to respond to your offers in the future.

The basics of creating a list are quite simple; you need a website, an autoresponder service and something to offer, usually free. An autoresponder will store all your email leads and be able to send out scheduled messages, newsletters or latest offers to all or just some of your subscribers. When you think that a marketing list can contain 10,000 subscribers or more, then you see that an efficient autoresponder service is essential and one called Aweber is probably the best.

You will want a targeted list of subscribers to market your offers to. For example, you will get a poor response offering beauty products to a list of subscribers in the soccer niche! Each niche will need a separate list and some internet marketers may have 20 or so different lists! Don't worry though, you'll only be starting off with 1 or 2 lists as a beginner and the autopresponder service can take care of 1 or 20+ lists just as efficiently.

If you are a total newbie when it comes to internet marketing, then you are going to have to learn how to get a webpage or blog up and running so you can offer something of value to your visitors. Try a free blog at Blogspot.com (owned by Google) which is pretty straightforward to setup and has a user friendly backend where you carry out admin tasks. The other more involved option is to buy a domain name with hosting where you can set up your webpage. GoDaddy.com is quite good at hand-holding the beginner and walking you through the various steps, but beware they will try and sell you different 'bells and whistles' options at each step so do some research first about basic things you'll need for a simple website.

Now you have a hosted webpage or free blog at Blogspot with your offer on a 'squeeze page' [designed to let the visitor access your free offer or product only after they entered their email address first]. Your squeeze page must include a web form with a link back to your autoresponder service to put your subscribers onto a list. There are paid email marketing solutions provided by the likes of Aweber and Getresponse but there are also free solutions like MailChimp.com. If you are serious about internet marketing to develop it into a full time income, which is certainly possible, start off with a good paid service like Aweber.

To be honest, speaking from experience, it can be a bit tricky getting these things set up if you are a complete beginner when it comes to list building, and mistakes are bound to be made. As you progress along the learning curve your skills will increase but in the initial stages it's possible to make a big error that can be difficult to recover from and may try your patience to the point of wanting to give up. That would be a shame because, as I mentioned before, the potential to make good income is there and it's oft been said by internet marketers 'the money is in the list'

There is another way for those without technical skills to begin building a marketing list without the need of a blog, webpage, squeeze page, domain name or hosting. 5iphon.com (I think they refer to themselves as 'Siphon') who will provide you with a totally free hosted webpage that will virally build you a list on autopilot. Another service is Instant Cash Machine that also provide a ready made hosted squeeze page for a one off payment, they also provide you with an in house autoresponder service although you may opt to use Aweber. You will still need a separate autoresponder service for either Aweber or Getresponse if you use 5iphon.com, but Aweber in particular has some very good video tutorials for beginners to help set up your first list. May I wish you every success in your email marketing career!

I wrote this article because I'm seeking for ways to make money online to help me pay some of my monthly bills. I've also started a blog to keep me motivated and hopefully act as a guide to others as well. Everyone says that the 'money is in the list' and to that end I've started to explore email marketing to build a list of subscribers to my newsletters.

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Fine Dining Technique - How to Utilize Your Ethical Bribe for Maximum Conversion in List Building

Every marketer knows that you need to give free offers in exchange for emails. However, it is fatal to think that any free offer will work like charm in converting your visitors to subscribers. Your free offer must be so good that your visitors cannot even resist their desire to grab it! So, the question is how to utilize this ethical bribe to maximize your conversion rate and ultimately making loads of sales? By the way, what does list building has got to do with fine dining? Enjoy the article to find out.

Starter

Create your ethical bribe with the end in mind. The happy ending that all marketers crave for is making sales. Therefore, your free offer must be the introduction of solutions to your visitors' problems which is the first stage of your product funnel. In other words, it is the starter. Well, just like a starter helps to fill part of your stomach, your free offer must also be able to solve at least one of the common problems that your visitors might encounter.

Do not ever think that giving them solutions for free is going to reduce your sales potential. Think from the subscribers' point of view. I opt-in to your squeeze page, I got your free offer and one of my problems is solved! By now your subscribers must be thinking, "Gosh, this person is amazing! What else this person has got to offer?!"? Bravo! You've just positioned yourself as a very dependable expert in your niche, even if you just started.

Appetizer and Main Course

Now is the time to go for the kill. Nonetheless, you must be wary that this is not the step for you to hard sell whatever products you have in mind. Just like a fine dining meal, after starter we will have appetizer followed by main course and lastly dessert. Pushing for sales is also a delicate and well-structured process. Your subsequent product should serves to help them with some of the problems they might be facing next. For instance, after the squeeze page has been set up together with an ethical bribe, the next big obstacle is most probably driving traffic.

Therefore, every step taken to introduce your products must be carefully planned so that it fits to your subscribers' needs. This is undoubtedly a win-win-win situation as it not only helps your subscribers in an orderly manner, it also shows them your expertise in the subject matter and more importantly, it sells.

Dessert

Last but not least, show them your gratitude by giving them another freebie which can help them to achieve better results in your area of expertise. At this point, most of the hard work had been completed and it is time for you to enjoy your dessert too.

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3 Criteria To Choose The Best Solo Advertisement For Your List Building

I had been buying solo ads for quite some time and I can attest to this: Best rated solo ads sellers are not necessarily the best and vice versa. There are several criteria that you should consider before getting the solo advertisement of your choice.

Before you go for buying spree, you should have these to stand by:

a) A proven to work opt-in or squeeze page - Your webpage should be good enough to entice someone to subscribe to you. This will be entirely a new article to discuss about

b) The correct website link for the advertisement seller to forward their contacts to - sounds trivial but if you gave the wrong link, the seller is not responsible for your loss

c) Traffic checker and analyzer to make sure that the seller delivers the goods to your website (this is also useful to check whether the solo ads are of good quality or not)

Without further ado, check out these criteria to choose the best solo ad:

1) Quality of the website that trades solo advertisements

This is the easiest to consider. All you have to do is to conduct searches on Google or on internet marketing forums to determine which websites or forums are the best to trade solo ads. Personally, I would recommend websites that purely trades solo advertisements and also advertisement swapping with active members.

2) Review of each member who trades these advertisements

As trading advertisements are based on mutual trust, it is not so easy to determine outright who is honest and who is crooked. Preferably, I love to buy solo advertisements from websites that provide rating systems for members who trade advertisements.

Before you buy, sell and swap with a member, consider by looking at their trading profile first. Information like how long have they joined the website, ratings from other members who had traded with, how active they are and how big is their subscriber list are important considerations to form your decision to trade with them.

3) Ask the seller what kind of niche their subscribers are in

This is one of the more important questions buyers often forgot to ask. Whichever niche you are in to, you should ask the seller what niche their list is focused on before you plunk down the cash.

It is never silly to ask more questions before you consider buying a solo advertisement because once you accidentally paid it, most likely you will end up getting the wrong kind of advertisement and your money will not be refunded.

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Forget the Mousetrap, Build a Better List

Maybe you have tried several but have still not yet found the right one. Don't worry you are not alone we have all been there. But, if we have all been there and all had the same experience perhaps the fault does not lie with the method of list building. Perhaps it lies with us.

Almost all experienced internet marketers will have tried several methods before they tell you about the right one. They mean the right one for them, and this will be after they have tried most of the others.

You can save yourself time, trouble and money if you only did what we all should have done. That is to do your research. All the information that you need is available to you to make a balance decision as to which method you should try first. I say try first because if you have done your research and found the method for you, this should not preclude you for doing another method at the same time or later.

You need to ask yourself if you have the aptitude. There is little point trying to stick to article-writing, if you find writing a chore. Do you have the resources? There is little point using pay-per-click, if you don't have the money to see it through.

Once you have decided how you are going to build your list you will of course need to make the list, this will in turn become two distinctly separate lists. One for the enquirers and another for the buyers.

What we all want is a list of buyers. Those people that buy once may be more likely than average to buy again. This then is one of the pieces of advice that you don't see given away too often. Don't spend your time on building a list of people that collect free reports or free e-books. They probably never have and never will buy anything on line. Instead, spend your time creating a good rapport with those on the buyers list. They will soon come to trust you and your advice.

You are looking for those people that would want your product or service. If your initial offer is made for a modest cost you will attract only those people that a genuinely interested. They may not immediately become buyers of your main product or products but they are far more likely to stay with you than the gatherers of free information.

List Building is a science, not an art. You can learn it with a little help. Follow me and quickly get to where you want to be.
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The Squeeze Page: Is It All That Essential In List Building?

The typical Guru will tell you that making money online is easy. They tell you that all you have to do is to create your own in-house list and you are in business. The problem with most people is how to create that list since the gurus keep the "how" to themselves. The building of your list is a serious business and the squeeze page is where it all begins. It is so fundamental that it can be said to be the foundation stone on which you put up your list building super structure.

Really, the squeeze page is the place where the magic begins. All your efforts at driving traffic to your website will fall flat if there is no squeeze page because this is where your visitors are converted into subscribers - thus giving you your own in-house list. With that list you now have the opportunity to transform those who have subscribed into customers and repeat buyers. Also this is where you are able to grow not only your business, but also your brand and your authority in every niche market you choose. That list becomes so powerful that it springboards you to every product launch, and ultimately, the focal point of your entire online business.

The squeeze page is the entry point into your entire business funnel. As such, you need to push your visitors through the doorway with a careful grooming. You need to observe this basic principles in the crafting of your squeeze page.

Attention-Grabbing Headline - your squeeze page is a sales letter and need to be regarded as such. This is where you tell them what is in it for themSpecific, benefit-rich bullet points - Reveal a little more of what they should expect to get. Make sure to focus on the specific targets in your niche.Entice them with an irresistible offer that will motivate your visitors to surrender their names and email addresses in exchange for your offer.Make sure your page is clean and free of all other offers. Give the visitor one and only one choice - to either opt-in or quit.Privacy - Assure your visitors that when their email addresses are given, they will be used only for that purpose. Words like this, "Your email address is safe with us. It will not be lent or sold to any third party" are reassuring and inviting enough.

This is only a glimpse of the answer to the question about the essential nature of the squeeze page. For further details visit http://www.traffichills.com/.

Anthony Kpodo is a Full Time Online Marketer. My interest is to reach out, and fulfil my Mission of educating people so that the complicated task of Traffic Generation and List Building will become a Joyful and Pleasant Activity. As the #1 ingredient that determines how far your online business can reach is Traffic, Traffic and more of it, my Mission is only fulfilled if through my guidance you succeed! Now take this Free Software to build your List

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