One major asset that every internet or affiliate marketer needs is a big email list. There is a saying in the marketing world that states that “the money is in the list”. This is very true because the bigger the list, the greater the potential income. But a common concern amongst many people marketing online is:
“How can I grow a huge guru-type email list and how long will it take?”
What many of us know in the internet marketing world is that it can take a very long time to build a list of 10,000 subscribers. And building a list to this size is a lot more complicated than sending hundreds of visitors to your website. I currently have a website that averages over 500 visitors a day. Out of those 500 visits, I will be lucky to get at least 15 subscribers per day to my list. With these statistics it will take me about 2 years to build an email list to 10,000 subscribers.
So what can you do in order to get 10,000 subscribers very quickly?
Well, the focus of this article is to show you how to easily build a 50,000 subscriber opt in list in less than 90 days. What I am about to show you really works, and if you follow these steps precisely, you will see tremendous results.
Step 1: Get a Virus To Build Your List
In order for you to build a 50k opt in email list in 90 days, you need to spread your marketing message over the internet like a wild fire. The method that is best capable of doing this is known as viral marketing. Viral marketing, in its simplest meaning, is getting others to market your product or service for you and spreading it to others so that they can do the same also. I also call this wild fire marketing because as soon as your marketing message starts, it will be very difficult to stop it and to keep it from spreading across the internet like a wild forest fire. This is the type of response you want when you begin to grow your email list. And the only way for you to generate this type of response is to partner up with hundreds of other marketers that will help you promote your email list in return for something. This is known as joint venturing and it is one of the better strategies for building a huge email list. Located below is a free service that will help you combine the viral marketing component with the joint venture marketing component in order to rapidly grow your email opt in list.
=> http://www.workingonyourown.com/traffictool3.html
Step 2: Start Promoting Your Viral List Building Machine
The next step is to promote your viral list builder so that you generate a minimum of 50 partners and fellow subscribers. There are multiple ways of promoting your viral list tool, but the easiest way to do this is through ezine solo ads. I know from experience that sending solo ads is a sure way to jumpstart any internet business. Just one solo ad mailing to a good newsletter or ezine can easily generate up to 85 partners and fellow subscribers that will help you promote your email list. Listed below is a series of ezines that provide excellent results every time I use them.
1.) http://www.probiztips.com/advertising.html
2.) http://directprofit.net
3.) http://ultimatetrafficsystem.com/advertise.php
4.) http://www.superpromo.com/optadorder.html
5.) http://www.theaffiliatereview.com/advertising.php
6.) http://www.christiantimesnesletter.com/advertising/
7.) http://www.hitoverload.com/advertising.html
As soon as you receive your 50 partners that will help promote your email list for you, you will slowly begin to see your list virally grow on its own. But the growth that will be taking place is not rapid enough to generate the 50k subscribers in 90 days. You need to create tremendous momentum in the beginning in order to see rapid, exponential growth of your email list. This is where step 3 comes in.
Step 3: The KEY To It All
The last and final step for creating a large email list in a short amount of time is the most important step out of all the 3 steps. In this step, it is crucial that you motivate and train your partners/subscribers to do the very same things you are doing to build your email list. Out of all the people marketing on the internet, less than 3% of them know how to market properly and build a nice subscriber base. The key to getting around this problem is to show them the exact steps you took to promote your very own list. This is known as duplication. This concept is so powerful that it is the key for experiencing exponential growth with any online business. The reason why most online businesses fail is because they do not know how to train their partners to market effectively online. If you do this, you will gain the trust of your partners and you will grow your list exponentially.
Conclusion:
Building a 50,000 subscriber opt in email list can take a very long time if you do not know what you are doing. As revealed, you can actually generate a 50k email list in less than 90 days by following steps 1 - 3. Step 1 explains how you must build your list virally by allowing hundreds of other marketers to help you build your list. Step 2 shows you a very easy way to get your first 50 partners/subscribers to help you build your email list for you. This is done through solo email ads. The final and most critical step is to motivate and train your partners to actively do the very same steps you are doing to build your email list. If you follow these steps precisely, you will build a 50k subscriber email list in less than 3 months. So you should really start on this as soon as possible. Here is a free resource that will help you get started:
=> http://www.workingonyourown.com/traffictool3.html
Melvin Perry is an internet entrepreneur whose been marketing online since mid 2002. During his marketing journey online, he has created various ways of sending tons of targeted traffic to websites. To find out more about his traffic generation methods, visit http://www.workingonyourown.com/real.html
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Melvin_Perry
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
How To Make $1000's Of Dollars With Your Mailing List
We've heard that the money is in the list and that having a mailing list is the best way to earn a living online. People with list's estimate that each person that they have on there is worth $1 per month. So say you have a list of 5,000 people that is $5,000 a month!
Well imagine if you have multiple lists. The problem that some people have with their list is they don't know how often to e-mail their list products to buy. They don't want to e-mail their list products to buy too much because they don't want to drive their list away. If you have multiple lists, you really don't have to worry about that, as much.
Maybe you want to e-mail your list a product to buy once a month. Well if you have say three lists then you can mail out a product three times in a month, instead of just one. That is increasing your profit by three times.
Techniques for Building a List
I'm going to show you a few different techniques for building a list and the best ways to implement them. Then I'm going to show you the best way to build a list.
The first technique that I'm going to talk about is using what is called a squeeze page. This is simply a page where you try and capture visitor's e-mail addresses. It's kind of like a sales page, except it usually isn't as long and you would be offering them an incentive to get people to sign up to be on your list.
You will be offering something like a free newsletter or an e-course or a free report or e-book. This gets people to sign up for your list because people love to get things for free. All they have to do if give you their e-mail address and sign up for your list.
Just remember that the better quality product that you offer, the more people will sign up. Even if you're making them an offer, the better that offer the more people will listen and you will get more people to sign up. Don't try and pawn off a low quality product, put some work into it, it will be worth it.
Another technique also involves a web site, but this is a more conventional web site. It's always a good idea to have a web site in the market that you want to build a list in. It makes you look more professional and gives you an opportunity to capture more people's e-mail addresses and get more sign ups to your list.
What you do is after you have your site up and running after you have filled it with useful information, you just place an ad where they can sign up for your list. Always make sure that it is at the top of the home page. You want the visitor to see this ad right when they enter your site.
You could say all kinds of different things in the ad., depending on your offer. You want to keep it short and to the point. Usually just a sentence or two and a place where they can they put their first name and e-mail address, it's as simple as that.
Tell them in one sentence what they are going to learn from your offer or what problem they are going to solve. Then tell them what they are getting when they sign up. Don't forget to have FREE in all caps.
You can do a lot of things with a web site. Sell products, have affiliate products on your web site, have adsense etc. This is another thing that you can do with a web site and let me tell you that having this ad on your web site can be the most valuable.
It's a good idea to have this ad in several different parts of your web site. Don't just have it on your home page. Have it on all of your pages and in strategic spots. Another thing that you can do is place your ad in a pop-up box that comes up automatically when someone enters your site.
The bad thing about doing this is that people might think it's just a pop-up advertisement and close it right away. The good thing about it is it gets people's attention and they see it right away. You're going to have to do some testing yourself to see what works best.
There are methods that can be used to get more people to see your sign up ads. Obviously getting more traffic to your web site or squeeze page is a good way to get more people to join your list, but there are other methods.
One is to go to forums in your market and tell people that you will give them whatever you're offering for free. Usually, people that are on forums in your market are serious about this market, so they should have an interest in your product.
Another good method is to write articles. You write articles about your market and in the bio box you leave a link to your free product and have them sign up for your list that way.
Article Directories:
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
Another way to get people to see your sign up add is to put a link to your free offer in the signature line of your profile. Start posting good insightful posts at forums in your market and watch the people sign up.
The Best Way to Build a List
The techniques that I just talked about are great for getting a lot of people to sign up for your list, but there is a better method. The method I'm talking about is selling your own product. You simple set up a page where they are redirected to after they make a purchase.
On this page is your sign up forum. Simply say that in order to get the product that they bought, simply leave your name and e-mail address. Just make sure to give them an option to get your product without signing up for your list.
It's really unethical not to give people that option. They bought your product, but they still must be able to get your product without signing up for your list. Some people are repeat customers and they are already signed up for your list. They need a way to buy and not sign up for the list again, an error will come up if they give you the same e-mail address twice.
Now on to the reasons why this is the best method to use to build a mailing list. One is that you're making money selling your product, while building your list. Some people don't like to put in the time to build a list because they get sick of writing all these free products and giving them away, in order to, build their list. Everyone needs to support themselves while they are building their list.
Another reason and probably the most important reason is the quality of the list that you build with this technique. It doesn't do any good to have a huge list of people that won't buy from you. You can boast a 10,000 person list, but if you only get a hand full of sales from it, it doesn't matter how big it is.
Building a list this way ensures you that you have some buyers on your hands, not just freebie seekers. More importantly, you have people that have bought from you in the past and will probably buy from you in the future. Repeat business is hugely important to anyone that wants to be successful selling their own products.
Another reason why it's so good is because if you create your own products, you're going to sell them anyways. Why not kill two birds with one stone? You can sell and build your list at the same time with no extra effort given to build your list.
The quality of the product and the price are going to be vitally important. Let me first say that whatever you price your products at, always give them this option to sign up to your list.
The best thing to do is create this great product and sales page. Then completely over-deliver, remember that you're building a list and if you over-deliver it's going to really pay off in the long-run. You must always look to the future and keep the end result in mind at all times. They are going to be much more willing to buy from you over and over again in the future.
I've had customers tell me that they will buy anything that I release. I have always provided great products and great value to my customers and they certainly remember your name and products the next time you release one.
Conclusion
Alright, you now have the information to go out and build several massive lists. I still use the techniques that I talked about earlier before the Best Way to Build a List section, to supplement my main method.
I do this because it helps add a lot more people to my list. There may be some better buyers that you get for free, but for the most part the buyers are far better than the freebie seekers.
It is now up to you to take action. I see way too many people who fail online; they just simply don't take action. It sounds simple, but I had this problem when I first got started online and I know countless others that have had this problem, so get to work!
Alison G. Teaching you to Invest Wiser
Recommended Resources
http://www.aweber.com/ - Paid auto responder service, it's worth it
http://www.getresponse.com/ - Free service, not as many options
http://www.hostgator.com/ - The best web host that I have found by far
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alison_Guriani
Well imagine if you have multiple lists. The problem that some people have with their list is they don't know how often to e-mail their list products to buy. They don't want to e-mail their list products to buy too much because they don't want to drive their list away. If you have multiple lists, you really don't have to worry about that, as much.
Maybe you want to e-mail your list a product to buy once a month. Well if you have say three lists then you can mail out a product three times in a month, instead of just one. That is increasing your profit by three times.
Techniques for Building a List
I'm going to show you a few different techniques for building a list and the best ways to implement them. Then I'm going to show you the best way to build a list.
The first technique that I'm going to talk about is using what is called a squeeze page. This is simply a page where you try and capture visitor's e-mail addresses. It's kind of like a sales page, except it usually isn't as long and you would be offering them an incentive to get people to sign up to be on your list.
You will be offering something like a free newsletter or an e-course or a free report or e-book. This gets people to sign up for your list because people love to get things for free. All they have to do if give you their e-mail address and sign up for your list.
Just remember that the better quality product that you offer, the more people will sign up. Even if you're making them an offer, the better that offer the more people will listen and you will get more people to sign up. Don't try and pawn off a low quality product, put some work into it, it will be worth it.
Another technique also involves a web site, but this is a more conventional web site. It's always a good idea to have a web site in the market that you want to build a list in. It makes you look more professional and gives you an opportunity to capture more people's e-mail addresses and get more sign ups to your list.
What you do is after you have your site up and running after you have filled it with useful information, you just place an ad where they can sign up for your list. Always make sure that it is at the top of the home page. You want the visitor to see this ad right when they enter your site.
You could say all kinds of different things in the ad., depending on your offer. You want to keep it short and to the point. Usually just a sentence or two and a place where they can they put their first name and e-mail address, it's as simple as that.
Tell them in one sentence what they are going to learn from your offer or what problem they are going to solve. Then tell them what they are getting when they sign up. Don't forget to have FREE in all caps.
You can do a lot of things with a web site. Sell products, have affiliate products on your web site, have adsense etc. This is another thing that you can do with a web site and let me tell you that having this ad on your web site can be the most valuable.
It's a good idea to have this ad in several different parts of your web site. Don't just have it on your home page. Have it on all of your pages and in strategic spots. Another thing that you can do is place your ad in a pop-up box that comes up automatically when someone enters your site.
The bad thing about doing this is that people might think it's just a pop-up advertisement and close it right away. The good thing about it is it gets people's attention and they see it right away. You're going to have to do some testing yourself to see what works best.
There are methods that can be used to get more people to see your sign up ads. Obviously getting more traffic to your web site or squeeze page is a good way to get more people to join your list, but there are other methods.
One is to go to forums in your market and tell people that you will give them whatever you're offering for free. Usually, people that are on forums in your market are serious about this market, so they should have an interest in your product.
Another good method is to write articles. You write articles about your market and in the bio box you leave a link to your free product and have them sign up for your list that way.
Article Directories:
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
Another way to get people to see your sign up add is to put a link to your free offer in the signature line of your profile. Start posting good insightful posts at forums in your market and watch the people sign up.
The Best Way to Build a List
The techniques that I just talked about are great for getting a lot of people to sign up for your list, but there is a better method. The method I'm talking about is selling your own product. You simple set up a page where they are redirected to after they make a purchase.
On this page is your sign up forum. Simply say that in order to get the product that they bought, simply leave your name and e-mail address. Just make sure to give them an option to get your product without signing up for your list.
It's really unethical not to give people that option. They bought your product, but they still must be able to get your product without signing up for your list. Some people are repeat customers and they are already signed up for your list. They need a way to buy and not sign up for the list again, an error will come up if they give you the same e-mail address twice.
Now on to the reasons why this is the best method to use to build a mailing list. One is that you're making money selling your product, while building your list. Some people don't like to put in the time to build a list because they get sick of writing all these free products and giving them away, in order to, build their list. Everyone needs to support themselves while they are building their list.
Another reason and probably the most important reason is the quality of the list that you build with this technique. It doesn't do any good to have a huge list of people that won't buy from you. You can boast a 10,000 person list, but if you only get a hand full of sales from it, it doesn't matter how big it is.
Building a list this way ensures you that you have some buyers on your hands, not just freebie seekers. More importantly, you have people that have bought from you in the past and will probably buy from you in the future. Repeat business is hugely important to anyone that wants to be successful selling their own products.
Another reason why it's so good is because if you create your own products, you're going to sell them anyways. Why not kill two birds with one stone? You can sell and build your list at the same time with no extra effort given to build your list.
The quality of the product and the price are going to be vitally important. Let me first say that whatever you price your products at, always give them this option to sign up to your list.
The best thing to do is create this great product and sales page. Then completely over-deliver, remember that you're building a list and if you over-deliver it's going to really pay off in the long-run. You must always look to the future and keep the end result in mind at all times. They are going to be much more willing to buy from you over and over again in the future.
I've had customers tell me that they will buy anything that I release. I have always provided great products and great value to my customers and they certainly remember your name and products the next time you release one.
Conclusion
Alright, you now have the information to go out and build several massive lists. I still use the techniques that I talked about earlier before the Best Way to Build a List section, to supplement my main method.
I do this because it helps add a lot more people to my list. There may be some better buyers that you get for free, but for the most part the buyers are far better than the freebie seekers.
It is now up to you to take action. I see way too many people who fail online; they just simply don't take action. It sounds simple, but I had this problem when I first got started online and I know countless others that have had this problem, so get to work!
Alison G. Teaching you to Invest Wiser
Recommended Resources
http://www.aweber.com/ - Paid auto responder service, it's worth it
http://www.getresponse.com/ - Free service, not as many options
http://www.hostgator.com/ - The best web host that I have found by far
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alison_Guriani
Email Marketing - How to Grow Your Email List with Wordpress and Feedburner for Free
A big email list is like a big pile of diamonds just waiting to be polished. If you aren't collecting email addresses from your website or blog, you are tossing unpolished diamonds to your competitors.
I'm going to tell you the best way to use free tools to build an email list and it's going to take you about 10 minutes to implement this on your site.
Couple Wordpress (free blogging platform) and Feedburner (free RSS and email management) and build your list easily.
First, you need to get your website or blog up and running. You'll need to go and download Wordpress Blogging Platform and get it all set-up on your server. Wordpress is famous for the "5 Minute Install" so this should be pretty easy.
Once that is set-up (or if you already have a Wordpress blog) go to Feedburner.com and sign-up for your free account. You'll claim your blog and can go into the options and allow people to sign-up for email delivery.
While you are on the Feedburner website, you can get the code to insert a box on your website that people can use to subscribe to your updates. Copy and Paste that code.
Now, take that cody and go into your Wordpress Theme Presentation folder in your Wordpress Dashboard and insert that code at the bottom of the posts. This part is a bit complicated for novices, but if you have a problem you can always email me. You'll want the code at the bottom of the post because it's AFTER a user reads and trusts you that they'll want to sign up.
Once a user signs up, Feedburner manages their email addresses and emails everyone a copy of each new post you do so you don't even have to write extra! If you ever want to send a pitch to your email list, you have access to all of their email addresses in the Feedburner back-end.
It's easy and fast to get more people involved in your blog or website. Take the time to set-up this feature on YOUR site now.
You don't have to get a PhD to get better internet sales. But having one working for you sure helps.
Great internet marketers know that the line between success and failure can be very thin. Let the cumulative research of over 5 years of Usability Studies, Information Architechture, Eye Monitoring, Click-Thru Studies, and Academic Internet User Research work for you.
Discover the most Ugly Wordpress Theme you've ever seen at UglyTheme.com
Leave the glitz to the Graphic Designers. Leave your competitors in the dust as they struggle to find the prettiest look. Pretty doesn't sell. But the Ugly Theme does.
Get Ugly Today.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Bradley_Spencer
I'm going to tell you the best way to use free tools to build an email list and it's going to take you about 10 minutes to implement this on your site.
Couple Wordpress (free blogging platform) and Feedburner (free RSS and email management) and build your list easily.
First, you need to get your website or blog up and running. You'll need to go and download Wordpress Blogging Platform and get it all set-up on your server. Wordpress is famous for the "5 Minute Install" so this should be pretty easy.
Once that is set-up (or if you already have a Wordpress blog) go to Feedburner.com and sign-up for your free account. You'll claim your blog and can go into the options and allow people to sign-up for email delivery.
While you are on the Feedburner website, you can get the code to insert a box on your website that people can use to subscribe to your updates. Copy and Paste that code.
Now, take that cody and go into your Wordpress Theme Presentation folder in your Wordpress Dashboard and insert that code at the bottom of the posts. This part is a bit complicated for novices, but if you have a problem you can always email me. You'll want the code at the bottom of the post because it's AFTER a user reads and trusts you that they'll want to sign up.
Once a user signs up, Feedburner manages their email addresses and emails everyone a copy of each new post you do so you don't even have to write extra! If you ever want to send a pitch to your email list, you have access to all of their email addresses in the Feedburner back-end.
It's easy and fast to get more people involved in your blog or website. Take the time to set-up this feature on YOUR site now.
You don't have to get a PhD to get better internet sales. But having one working for you sure helps.
Great internet marketers know that the line between success and failure can be very thin. Let the cumulative research of over 5 years of Usability Studies, Information Architechture, Eye Monitoring, Click-Thru Studies, and Academic Internet User Research work for you.
Discover the most Ugly Wordpress Theme you've ever seen at UglyTheme.com
Leave the glitz to the Graphic Designers. Leave your competitors in the dust as they struggle to find the prettiest look. Pretty doesn't sell. But the Ugly Theme does.
Get Ugly Today.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Bradley_Spencer
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