Build Up a Mailing List by Attracting Web Traffic
Posted 12-14-2008 at 04:49 PM by Robert Plank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OB5WZXCUJc
You send traffic to a squeeze page and people opt-in to a list. Then you send them more free info over time to build trust, and eventually start hitting them with offers related to that niche.
How the heck do you get traffic to that list?
Method 1: Join forums in that niche and post real content. Don't mention your site, don't try to sell people on anything, just participate in conversations and get people to recognize you. After you get 25 posts, edit your profile and place a link to that squeeze page in your forum signature.
Method 2: Create a blog and when news hits in your niche, write a blog entry about it, and add your link at the end. For example if a local news story about a cat massager business hits the news, talk about it and link to your squeeze page at the end. Locally hosted blogs like WordPress will "blog and ping" ... so your posts will hit the search engines in seconds. You can also get free accounts on services like Blogger.
Method 3: Article marketing. Write some articles and post them to those same article directories with a linkback to your squeeze page. If these get you lots of opt-ins, consider hiring freelance article writers to write these articles in bulk for you. Then guess what? You can post some of those articles to forums and post them to your own sites as blogs.
Method 4: Social networking. Join MySpace groups and post MySpace blog posts to your profiles with your articles. Get Camtasia Recorder, create PowerPoint presentations of your articles and record those videos. Then post them to video sites like YouTube and Revver, with your squeeze page URL watermarked right in and your URL in the video description.
Method 5: Create a free, lead-in product. Write your own articles and package them as a product, or hire someone to write articles and assemble those into a PDF yourself. Make sure the URL to that squeeze page is prominently displayed on every page. Then sell resale rights to a select number of people, or offer your product on giveaway sites.
Method 6: AdWords. That's probably the hardest method of them all, but what you can do is look at the ads that appear on the right hand side of Google searches that stay listed over time, and try to model those ads. Worried about paying too much per click? Look at the top 10 search results, choose to only show your ads in the content network, and say you only want your ads to appear on those top 10 pages.
If you don't know where to begin, I recommend you dedicate an entire week to doing nothing but method #1. Then dedicate the next week to method #2. All the way to method 5 (only try method 6 if you know what you're doing) and build up that mailing list.
Get the exact step by step formula to write a sales letter in five minutes or less, complete with easy to use worksheets and plug-n-play headlines, offers, stories, and guarantees... http://www.fiveminutecopywriting.com
You send traffic to a squeeze page and people opt-in to a list. Then you send them more free info over time to build trust, and eventually start hitting them with offers related to that niche.
How the heck do you get traffic to that list?
Method 1: Join forums in that niche and post real content. Don't mention your site, don't try to sell people on anything, just participate in conversations and get people to recognize you. After you get 25 posts, edit your profile and place a link to that squeeze page in your forum signature.
Method 2: Create a blog and when news hits in your niche, write a blog entry about it, and add your link at the end. For example if a local news story about a cat massager business hits the news, talk about it and link to your squeeze page at the end. Locally hosted blogs like WordPress will "blog and ping" ... so your posts will hit the search engines in seconds. You can also get free accounts on services like Blogger.
Method 3: Article marketing. Write some articles and post them to those same article directories with a linkback to your squeeze page. If these get you lots of opt-ins, consider hiring freelance article writers to write these articles in bulk for you. Then guess what? You can post some of those articles to forums and post them to your own sites as blogs.
Method 4: Social networking. Join MySpace groups and post MySpace blog posts to your profiles with your articles. Get Camtasia Recorder, create PowerPoint presentations of your articles and record those videos. Then post them to video sites like YouTube and Revver, with your squeeze page URL watermarked right in and your URL in the video description.
Method 5: Create a free, lead-in product. Write your own articles and package them as a product, or hire someone to write articles and assemble those into a PDF yourself. Make sure the URL to that squeeze page is prominently displayed on every page. Then sell resale rights to a select number of people, or offer your product on giveaway sites.
Method 6: AdWords. That's probably the hardest method of them all, but what you can do is look at the ads that appear on the right hand side of Google searches that stay listed over time, and try to model those ads. Worried about paying too much per click? Look at the top 10 search results, choose to only show your ads in the content network, and say you only want your ads to appear on those top 10 pages.
If you don't know where to begin, I recommend you dedicate an entire week to doing nothing but method #1. Then dedicate the next week to method #2. All the way to method 5 (only try method 6 if you know what you're doing) and build up that mailing list.
Get the exact step by step formula to write a sales letter in five minutes or less, complete with easy to use worksheets and plug-n-play headlines, offers, stories, and guarantees... http://www.fiveminutecopywriting.com
Total Comments 7
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Thanks Robert!
If I may ask; is there a way we can this done automatically?
Thanks,
Phil.Posted 12-14-2008 at 07:20 PM by Zeal4Life
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Hi
robert
Great Article. Content rich and that's always welcome.Posted 12-14-2008 at 11:58 PM by adrianasalmon
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Robert:
Solid...
http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/ro...b-traffic.html
Better than 95% of the blog postings I've read on the WF.
~ JohnPosted 12-15-2008 at 08:13 PM by John S. Rhodes 
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Phil:
AdWords is automatic once you have a campaign setup (until you need to tweak it or something knocks you down the ladder)
I have blogging and article marketing pretty much automated, I crank out a bunch of content at once and schedule it for later.
I have a big pile of draft articles always sitting in my EzineArticles account, takes me 30 seconds a day to go in and approve the latest.
Got videos posting to video sites and social networking on a timer (Traffic Geyser) and blog posts scheduled, plus autoresponder emails scheduled as well send traffic to the blog from my list.Posted 12-16-2008 at 11:10 AM by Robert Plank
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Great article! I've been told to post as little as 3 or as much as 5 post in 5 forums per day. I've notice that when I post 2 out of the possible 5 in one forum, the I'm at a lost for what to write about. Suggestion! I'm posting in forums where I want to become a authority!Posted 12-22-2008 at 04:37 PM by moneycometh
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Excellent column! Its good to see people give genuine support to those who need it. keep up the awsome work.
Best wishes to everyone in the new year.
Phillip OlssonPosted 01-04-2009 at 08:08 PM by PhillipOlsson
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Thanks Phillip that means a lot... are there any marketing questions on your mind you want me to answer here?Posted 01-14-2009 at 02:43 PM by Robert Plank
