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......
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.......
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......
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 curiosityArouse their curiosity by telling them that you just discovered something recently or by asking them questions which make them want to know more. Try......
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......
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......
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 investmentPart 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......
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 BrandingWith 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......
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......
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......
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......
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.StarterCreate your ethical bribe with the end in mind. The happy ending that all marketers......
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 aboutb) The correct website link for the advertisement seller to forward their contacts to - sounds trivial but if you......
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.......
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......
