Wish Me Luck - First Timer

Welcome colomedia1,
Here you will get all the help and co-operation. Wish you success in IM too

People always tell you this: the money's in the list. It seems to be true.

Think how much you can help pregnant women. They'll likely stay on your list for a couple of months to nine months (or even longer) if you offer them advice, tips, affiliate offers about pregnancy, ebooks about mothering, affiliate links to great deals on baby furniture...

Go for the list!

You'll be able to maintain a relationship with your readers and use your list to launch other websites in the future. If you treat your subscribers well (that means no hassling or blatant selling) they'll start to genuinely trust you and take your words as gospel!

There is no sense in letting your visitors float away into thin air without at least capturing their contact info...

I don't know if you're actually aware of it, but a rather high percentage of pregnant women will actually become mothers! So you could use your list to branch off to another demographic or even launch your own discussion board for mothers and start raking in the dough!

It is always a good idea to build your list first. Even if the person doesn't purchase this product, you can still sell her other products. Also, reportedly, it takes people a little while to get to know you before they want to buy. In sending them a regular email that is targeted to their needs and contains lots of good information, you will build trust and they will be more likely to buy from you.

Offer a free report or an email course on a subject that is of interest to pregnant women (hint: babies, pregnancy or labor) to get the signup, then treat that list like gold.

Good luck.

Getting traffic and conversions is usually a lot harder than just uploading Wordpress, making a few posts and crossing your fingers.

Make sure you build lots of backlinks, and paid traffic for affiliate offers can work well too.

Yup.. I would only sell my autoresponder. A customer that comes to your page and leave right away to buy the product.. may never come back, and you won't have a chance to cross promote baby products 9 months later...

While with a list..you can promote them as long as you want.

Always always always capture the lead. On average it takes 7 "touches" or contacts with each lead before they buy. Hoping that they'll buy on the first visit is lofty...not impossible, but lofty.

Awesome action by the way! Dig right in.

There's nothing stopping you from doing both.

Use diffeent parts of the page for different purposes as
some will repond to one thing while others will repsond
to something else.

It's not an "all or nothing" issue.

Your list is your money, Build it the best you can.

Have opt in's on your page in several different spots.

Give a bonus on your opt in forms to entice signups, but don't put the same old regular stuff, make sure it is worth it to them to give you there email for the bonus.

send a link to the bonus, to there email. This way they have to give a real email to get the bonus. and have a thank you page that says " a link to your "bonus" item has been sent to your email.

this way, if they used a fake email, they will more than likely press back, and give a real email.

have a call to action on your opt in form, and secondary link feedback on the submit button.


Maybe a expecting mother newsletter, with a free ebook bonus for signing up " 9 things you must know before having your first baby!" and when they join the newsletter, they also join your lists.

now you just need to think of 9 things lol

just some tips to get you started Best of luck!

Great job taking action. I'll publicly tell you something I usually would only PM in (futile?) efforts that some others would listen.

A) There are a great number of helpful folks making 50K-1m+ on here.
B) Most of the IM's around here suffer from the "one-more-tool" syndrome (much like a gambling habit or perhaps Quixtar et al) and make very little (I think it's like 80% make less than 1k a month online or something crazy like that).
C) Don't listen to anyone more screwed up than you.

...That means: Many 'helpful' people have nothing to offer you. They don't even make 50k online, and some of the ones that do sure don't do it working part time. I wish, I really wish, there was some way to provide audited financials before posting advice. You could get a ranking star (based on $$$). ...that first star shouldn't come until 5k/mo IMO, but maybe 10k/mo would be better. You get the idea.

Amy said the best thing here. Do both.
If a person wants "to learn about being preggers" ...put them on a list.
If a person wants "free shipping on a boppie" ...sell them a #@*ing boppie (and ship it free : )

Different pages for different folks / kinds of traffic. Even on the different pages you still put the ability to "send me money in exchange for loot" on the "get really great reading in exchange for your email address" page and vice versa.

(IMO, grab just the email address... max subs., and that 'name in the email thing' is overrated as an opening trigger according to people who test as well... you can test that too of course in your own market ; )

I noticed you're not a War Room member... become one. Now. Ask things there. Not perfect, but better odds to be sure, of getting good info. And stay the hell out of the main forum when asking advice unless you know the cashflow of whose answering.

Cheers, and good luck. You're already way ahead of most, and you're taking further action. You'll do great.

sharp

I NEVER put an opt in page, on an affiliate offer I am testing.

Only after I see that the page can get sales would I bother to make an optin and build a list.

listbuilding is the priority.
link means short term relationship but list?
meang long term relationship and financial freedom
go..go...go
you can do it

Welcome to the forum!