Going through catch 22 problem.

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Hi I'm in the process of building an email list but I have no idea how. A method I wanted to do was offer a free ebook to help prepare to sell a product. The problem is I have no idea how to get people to see my free ebook. I've recently created 3 social media accounts (fb page, instagram, and twitter) so barely any followers. I'm thinking about boosting a post on my fb page cause there seems to be about 150,000 people that are interested in this niche. There are small amount of groups but has a good number of active members (which i've joined). I also want to sell my ebook on the amazon platform cause there are really REALLY crap ebooks on this niche for the price they're asking for and reviews show it. I'm thinking I can kill two birds with one stone and obtain the facebook and amazon audience to build my brand with this ebook. Before I just put my eBook on amazon for free and promote the hell out of it, I want to gather emails to let some people know and review as soon as it gets put out on the amazon market. What's the most effective way to go about this?
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  • Profile picture of the author mark toughill
    I think you should stick with the idea of creating a free ebook to help prepare to sell your product. You should then focus all your efforts in creating a squeeze page built around that free ebook and entice people to opt in. You could create a signature link in the warrior forum linking to that squeeze page and send them to your website if you like. You could also put your squeeze page in the Warrior forum classified ads section and get traffic.

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    • Profile picture of the author eagle3y3
      How would I go about leading people to the squeeze page? The niche I'm in doesn't involve getting money fast or anything so I don't think it will attract anyone on this forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author leilani
    Start with a squeeze page that offers your Free Book for Download.

    When they opt-in, 2 things happen
    1st their email goes into an auto responder and an email is automatically sent out to their email.
    Simultaneously, they are directed to a Thank You Page that thanks them and have them check their email for the download. You could also offer a product for sale here if you choose..

    The main thing is the capture of the email. Now you are building your email list. The autoresponder can send out additional emails automatically to promote products. You could in addition, send out email broadcasts too.

    The main thing here is to drive traffic to your squeeze page.

    Hope this helps.

    Leilani
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  • Profile picture of the author askmarcus
    it seems that there are 2 things that you need... an autoresponder and a squeezepage /landing page...
    squeeze page to take down your visitors email addresses, autoresponders are used to store it as a database of your list and later can be used to send emails to them, either to promote products or give them content emails...
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Yunker
    Hey Eagle Eye,

    Have you checked out a thing called "Solo Ads"?

    This is where you get in touch with someone who already has a giant responsive list and pay them and they'll write and ad for you promoting your landing page and you're free offer.

    You sound like you got everything right so far, the problem is just marketing.

    Just make sure 1) His/Her list is responsive and real. Make sure they're legit. How? Best way is to ask around people in your niche and get reccommendations. 2) Make sure what you are paying this person is less than what you are making in sales.

    Ex: If you pay him $100 for 100 clicks make sure this makes you $100+ in sales

    Hope this helps

    It's one of the most effective ways to grow your list if you can find a good provider.

    Take care, Adam
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    You can use the "reverse funnel" idea, where your pdf is out there on the page...and then after they read it, and know your content is valuable, they sign up to your autoresponder.

    You'll likely get fewer signups, but they'll be better qualified.
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    Originally Posted by eagle3y3 View Post

    Hi I'm in the process of building an email list but I have no idea how. A method I wanted to do was offer a free ebook to help prepare to sell a product. The problem is I have no idea how to get people to see my free ebook. I've recently created 3 social media accounts (fb page, instagram, and twitter) so barely any followers. I'm thinking about boosting a post on my fb page cause there seems to be about 150,000 people that are interested in this niche. There are small amount of groups but has a good number of active members (which i've joined). I also want to sell my ebook on the amazon platform cause there are really REALLY crap ebooks on this niche for the price they're asking for and reviews show it. I'm thinking I can kill two birds with one stone and obtain the facebook and amazon audience to build my brand with this ebook. Before I just put my eBook on amazon for free and promote the hell out of it, I want to gather emails to let some people know and review as soon as it gets put out on the amazon market. What's the most effective way to go about this?
    I think the Fb fan page route can be very beneficial in building a List and a Following.

    Its relatively cheap with advertising PPE or hits to Website.


    Definitely something to test and monitor


    - Robert Andrew
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