Completely New To List Building, Many Questions

Hi

Depending in the model you choose, you can do this different ways.

You can have a content site and capture email on it. The goal would be to attract visitors and then capture emails.

Or you could have just a squeeze page with with some kind of free or non-free offer on it. And not much other content.

Each strategy is quite different. Which one seems like the one you want to pursue?

In general, I think "enthusiasts' niches" are a much better proposition than "problem-solving niches". This post explains why: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9408026 .

I think it very often is a better option. (I've found it so, anyway, whenever I've split-tested).

The key concept to appreciate is that the biggest list (which you'll typically build via a squeeze page) isn't normally also going to be the list that produces the most income (which you'll typically build with a prominently incentivized opt-in on a content-rich blog/site). This post - and several others linked to inside it - explain why: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7939758 .


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This a Newbie way to look at this. The fact is people will optin in to a free report and even pay for a product for convenience purposes. It does not matter if it could be found elsewhere on the Web ( even for free).

Time is money for people. If someone has lower back pain and they see you have a Report giving 5 Surefire ways to combat lower back pain then they will optin ( if your optin copy is strong and persuasive)


- Robert Andrew

Hey I suggest u build ur list with a free report or ebook but before ask for their email so u can email them and have a opt in or capture page. Works like a charm!

Personally I use a paid offer because I want to set their expectations right from the start that they will receive promotions.

Ok I'm glad you realized your strategy was all wrong. But I gotta commend you for never giving up and continuing to move on and ask for help. What you should be doing is building a list from the start. What you need is landing page specifically designed to collect emails and emails only. What you need to do is offer a free gift or something of value. Go into a niche that is in demand but also evergreen and hungry. After you collect their email you can offer a related offer to them or something that you believe will help them. Once they are on your list you want to help them and provide value and not pitch to them all the time. Having a blog is a good way of generating organic traffic and collecting emails provide unique helpful content for your visitors and naturally search engines will crawl your website, on your blog you can have squeeze pages throughout your website to collect emails or after every article published. Another way of generating traffic to your offer for free is by posting in forums related to your niche, you can also do video marketing which is also powerful as well as guest blogging. Paid traffic methods include PPC, Banner Ads, Solo Ads, and such. Don't invest in paid traffic unless you know your offer converts. The number one thing is to stay focused and to never give up, you never know how close you are to success if you quit.

A squeeze page is a website that is made of just 1 page (excluding contact us, terms, etc), and that 1 page has 1 goal which is to capture the name/email of a prospect.

They don't work hand-in-hand as you're thinking. If you're planning to sell only affiliate products a blog can be a tool to add content to it and affiliate links - so instead of having just a list you'll have a list and a blog. But just start with a squeeze page at first, perhaps start a blog later.

That's a good way to get started with something quite easy as that. Then only later perhaps explore other things like adding a blog, etc. Remember the ecourse content and affiliate products you promote has to be related, go hand-in-hand with each other as closely as possible. You're right then focus on learning a bit copywriting to improve the squeeze page conversions.

You're right, that's why you have to create exclusive content for your list, so they can only get it if they subscribe. If finding content ideas is an issue, then create a special report for them to get by optin in - then via email the only thing they receive is a notification whenever you post something new on the blog (you still build a list you can contact too anytime). You can use Aweber blog broadcast feature to do that.

Yes, though start one traffic method at a time, focus on one until it's completely working in best possible way. I would avoid SEO however, it's not for beginners who doesn't have an established business yet. Avoid it. I would try more reliable methods that work faster.

There are many places you can put your optin box.

Popup, side bar, ...

Remember to have a sweet gift to give away and put your optin box above the fold.

Straight off the bat I have learned that you only make money when people 'buy' something from you. What exactly are you selling?

Building a list is great but what are you building a list for? If you fail to answer this question then what happens is that once people join your list you have little to offer them and so it should come as no surprise that they unsubscribe or ignore any other emails from you or worse they label it as spam.

Building a list is really building up warm traffic. The more traffic you are able to warm up, the more sales you stand to make. Thing is people don't just buy stuff because you put up a website so the real question is 'what are you selling?'

Don't forget that you made money from your previous endeavour but had trouble scaling it. Analyse what you did and see what worked and what didn't.

The way I see it is that if you had built x10 sites you would have been making 300/month OR you could have tweaked the $30/month site until it made you $300/month. I hope this makes sense.

I think there is hardly any niche where people do not spend money these days. You really have to find out what their problems/challenges are as this is what they will spend money on. No one really wants to pay for gas/petrol but we just have to. The question then is ...what are people spending money on? Can we supply it?

I found that people who read my articles were great prospects for my list. They obviously liked to some extent what they read in my article and then clicked on the link at the bottom of it to learn more or get the freebie I offered. Once they joined my list I built a relationship with them then asked what else I could help them with. I then created that product for them.


But where would you put the squeeze page on your site?......

Most blogs have their opt in box to the top right of the blog. Most people are used to seeing it here.

You could also use an exit pop up on your website so that those who were about to leave without taking the action you wanted can receive a gift from you so you can then establish a relationship with them and...find out what they need help with and provide it.

You can also consider a standalone squeeze page. I use this nowadays mainly for solo ad traffic. It focuses peoples minds on joining or leaving empty handed.

You could simply offer something for free and use any of the traffic sources you mentioned. The main thing is to then test and see which source got you the most opt ins then concentrate more on that.

This is the place for questions and after that it's time to take action based on ll that has been said. All the best.

Will D

Since you already made a list before you know how to do it, just repeat your steps. And test, test, test and test again

There are a lot of possible ways where to put your opt-in forms, a lot of different call-to-actions to use and copywriting too. Just start delivering the best content you possibly can, be consistent, over-deliver everytime possible and your subscribers will love you. If your free stuff is amazing there's a lot bigger chance they will buy any paid stuff you recommend to.

As for the traffic, yeah, social media is great (facebook, twitter, reddit), but don't forget blogs and forums too. It is also important to connect with the best people (experts) in your niche and get them to share your content.

Try to hit on a few of the following points when making a squeeze page:

• Keep it simple
• Spark curiosity
• Benefit
• Time Frame
• Call to Action
• Unique Words

You also want to make sure you are heading the squeeze page in a way that it you only get opt-ins from people who will be interested in what you're promoting. A list is useless if you have people interested in learning SEO and your course is all about Facebook PPC.

Heres all you need to do to make money in this business.

1.) Pick/generate a hot converting offer

2.) Stick with that offer until you make it successful.

3.) Drive traffic (blog, videomarketing, paid traffic....) to a squeeze page and build your list.

4.) Build relationship with that list, market to it, share helpful tips and focus on 80% value 20% promotions.

5.) Take profits, reinvest, scale up

Thats it!!

Make it simple and don't complicate too much...

You can master process or outsource anything (copywriting, webinars, technical stuff) you hate doing along the way.

First and foremost you have to create your optin or squeeze page. Start building your list.
I usually send traffic to my optin page. Your main focus and effort should be in generating new leads in a daily basis and building your list.
As a bribe, get a PLR report related to your niche. Modify the content and give it away. Once they sign in into your squeeze page, send them to an affiliate offer.
Do not complicate the process.
First, create an optin page. Then offer the free gift to get their emails and build your list.Then send them to the affiliate product you are promoting
Hope this helps.
Best of luck,
Gloria