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[URGENT] I need help regarding List Building

by SamirSM
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Hi fellow Warriors!

Hope you are having a great new year
I am just starting out with List Building and need some urgent advice.

The following questions are based on the SEO niche.

Q1.What is the single most effective way to build an Email List?
(In my opinion it is SEO, since most of the list members would be interested in related products and services. Please post your opinions.)

Q2.How long and how frequent emails would be optimum for keeping the list interested?

Q3.If I build the list by offering free products and services, what price range would be optimum for the Premium products and services?
#building #list #urgent
  • Profile picture of the author Roy Carter
    Well, IMHO the answer to Q1. What is the single most effective way to build an Email List?, is to get JV partners.

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    • Profile picture of the author SamirSM
      Originally Posted by Roy Carter View Post

      Well, IMHO the answer to Q1. What is the single most effective way to build an Email List?, is to get JV partners.

      My sig will help you with that
      Well I did think of JVs, but then since I'm a total noob in list building, I'd almost given up on it. If your product stands true to its name, I'm sure it'll help me a LOT!

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Shane N
    Here's my answer to Q1:

    I think the most effective way to build your list is to COMBINE several marketing techniques together, such as: SEO, article marketing, press release(s), forum advertising, WSO, classified ad, local advertising, social media, etc.

    Why put all of your "eggs" in ONE basket? Who says you are limited to only ONE effective method? I know you are looking for the MOST effective... But I think that varies from person to person. Someone might have great results with article marketing, while another might do well with SEO or forum marketing. The best, most effective way is to combine them all or at least a few of them.

    Best,
    Shane
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    • Profile picture of the author SamirSM
      Originally Posted by Shane Natan View Post

      Here's my answer to Q1:

      I think the most effective way to build your list is to COMBINE several marketing techniques together, such as: SEO, article marketing, press release(s), forum advertising, WSO, classified ad, local advertising, social media, etc.

      Why put all of your "eggs" in ONE basket? Who says you are limited to only ONE effective method? I know you are looking for the MOST effective... But I think that varies from person to person. Someone might have great results with article marketing, while another might do well with SEO or forum marketing. The best, most effective way is to combine them all or at least a few of them.

      Best,
      Shane

      I guess you are right. The only problem is that I really don't have a lot of time, since I am a full-time College student.
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  • Profile picture of the author BloggerDeen
    Originally Posted by indihow View Post

    Hi fellow Warriors!

    Hope you are having a great new year
    I am just starting out with List Building and need some urgent advice.

    The following questions are based on the SEO niche.

    Q1.What is the single most effective way to build an Email List?
    (In my opinion it is SEO, since most of the list members would be interested in related products and services. Please post your opinions.)

    Q2.How long and how frequent emails would be optimum for keeping the list interested?

    Q3.If I build the list by offering free products and services, what price range would be optimum for the Premium products and services?
    1. Seo is good if you have patience, otherwise ppc is best.
    2. 3 emails per week, it actually depends on niche too. for example in case of seo people are happy to receive daily emails.
    3. Now this completely depends on your list if you have list related to finance then even high ticket are easier as most of the time your list will have people with much more money than average so even 500$ could be just start. If your list is related with things like marketing etc then start with 30$ -100$ range and then if you build enough rapport then go for big big ones.
    In short a lot depends on niche and loyalty of your list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Fletcher
    Originally Posted by indihow View Post

    Hi fellow Warriors!

    Hope you are having a great new year
    I am just starting out with List Building and need some urgent advice.

    The following questions are based on the SEO niche.

    Q1.What is the single most effective way to build an Email List?
    (In my opinion it is SEO, since most of the list members would be interested in related products and services. Please post your opinions.)
    Create something worth $100, sell it for $30-50 and pay 100% commission.

    Make the sales page convert like mad.

    Recruit affiliates.

    Profit.

    Q2.How long and how frequent emails would be optimum for keeping the list interested?
    As often as you can provide something they want to read about.

    Q3.If I build the list by offering free products and services, what price range would be optimum for the Premium products and services?
    There is no optimum point, you need to have a funnel.

    Free -> $7 -> $47 -> $97 -> $497 -> $4997 etc

    Just a random set of numbers, it could be anything.

    Most importantly, start at whatever price point you know you can sell at. Then build cheaper stuff in front to generate leads and more expensive stuff behind it to maximise profits.
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    • Profile picture of the author SamirSM
      Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher View Post

      Create something worth $100, sell it for $30-50 and pay 100% commission.

      Make the sales page convert like mad.

      Recruit affiliates.

      Profit.



      As often as you can provide something they want to read about.



      There is no optimum point, you need to have a funnel.

      Free -> $7 -> $47 -> $97 -> $497 -> $4997 etc

      Just a random set of numbers, it could be anything.

      Most importantly, start at whatever price point you know you can sell at. Then build cheaper stuff in front to generate leads and more expensive stuff behind it to maximise profits.
      I don't really have any premium products right now. I'm just looking forward to building a big email list for the future, and possibly affiliate products.
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      • Profile picture of the author Andy Fletcher
        Originally Posted by indihow View Post

        I don't really have any premium products right now. I'm just looking forward to building a big email list for the future, and possibly affiliate products.
        Creating the premium product is how you build the list.

        In any market there will be well connected people that can drive more traffic to your site than you can cope with. And these leads will be from buying customers, not cheap social media clicks.

        Creating something of high value and letting affiliates take all the money is a super easy way to tap into it and will build you a profitable list faster than anything else (imo).
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        • Profile picture of the author SamirSM
          Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher View Post

          Creating the premium product is how you build the list.

          In any market there will be well connected people that can drive more traffic to your site than you can cope with. And these leads will be from buying customers, not cheap social media clicks.

          Creating something of high value and letting affiliates take all the money is a super easy way to tap into it and will build you a profitable list faster than anything else (imo).
          Well this seems perfectly logical. Will give it a shot. Thanks!
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        • Profile picture of the author SamirSM
          Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher View Post

          Creating the premium product is how you build the list.

          In any market there will be well connected people that can drive more traffic to your site than you can cope with. And these leads will be from buying customers, not cheap social media clicks.

          Creating something of high value and letting affiliates take all the money is a super easy way to tap into it and will build you a profitable list faster than anything else (imo).
          For the time being I think I'll have to stick to SEO and forum marketing. But once I get more leisure time, I'll begin Article Marketing and Affiliate Marketing too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Internet_Corporation
    Answer to Q1, the single most effective way has to be building a product and service which works, and is in demand, which in turns leads to word of mouth advertising.

    SEO is just too long winded ...
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  • Profile picture of the author rmoore
    You can do the whole JV thing, but then you are getting people who are already on a list (possibly many lists). It works, but it really isn't that difficult to get opt-in from scratch.

    If you are just trying to build a massive list, write articles over on EZA and point to your opt-in page...make Squidoo pages that point to your opt-in page, etc. Get your EZA and Squidoo lenses ranked high in Google by doing a little link building towards those properties.

    Make your opt-in compelling (aim for 25-35% opt-in rate).

    Keep writing articles until you reach your target daily goal of opt-ins. I think a good number to shoot for is 100 opt-ins per day. You can get there in 6 months if you work this hard enough.

    That will be a list of over 30,000 per year. In a few years you will have a great list that didn't require any JV's.

    Note: I would be careful with this list. I have slightly over 50,000 people and it is rare that I will do a JV.

    -Rusty
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    • Profile picture of the author SamirSM
      Originally Posted by rmoore View Post

      You can do the whole JV thing, but then you are getting people who are already on a list (possibly many lists). It works, but it really isn't that difficult to get opt-in from scratch.

      If you are just trying to build a massive list, write articles over on EZA and point to your opt-in page...make Squidoo pages that point to your opt-in page, etc. Get your EZA and Squidoo lenses ranked high in Google by doing a little link building towards those properties.

      Make your opt-in compelling (aim for 25-35% opt-in rate).

      Keep writing articles until you reach your target daily goal of opt-ins. I think a good number to shoot for is 100 opt-ins per day. You can get there in 6 months if you work this hard enough.

      That will be a list of over 30,000 per year. In a few years you will have a great list that didn't require any JV's.

      Note: I would be careful with this list. I have slightly over 50,000 people and it is rare that I will do a JV.

      -Rusty
      I think chasing a JV is too risky if time is considered. So, probably I'll go with Article Marketing and SEO.
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