I'm surrounded by freebie seekers - help!

When you are building an email list for the purposes of making money, it is never the case whether or not your email list are freebie seekers or not. It depends on the way you approach the people interested in signing up to your list.

For example,

Around 4 years back, when I was just getting started online, trying to make money, I bumped into a landing page that ended up making more money than it should have off of me.

This landing page, told me it was going to give me one video that showed me how to make money combining youtube marketing and real estate. It was a complete course. The video did not leave anything out. Then, the landing page went on to give me two more examples in entirely different niches that I can implement to make money. I was reviewing these videos and I remember getting excited. All of a sudden, that excitement transformed into a craving for more information. The first email he sent was an email about a membership website that taught a system that would trump all three methods he had originally shown me for free. I bought it within 3 hours of reading the email.

I never used any of the methods and yet I was satisfied with just buying it. Why? Because it satisfied my curiosity. The list then went on to sell one more thing which I ended up buying.

Looking back, I now know that it was not the freebies, but the way this person approached me. It was the copy that he had written and presented to me in video format. The three videos he had given me in the beginning were all pre-sells. At the time I could not see this.

The way this person's system was setup focused on marketing to people at an emotional level. It played with people's emotions.

That is the key to a successful email marketing campaign. You have to setup a system that will get your viewers to want to subscribe and then want to find out more. In non-IM niches, it is harder, but if you get it, it is far more lucrative.

Selling to a targeted audience will always work better that selling to a list of freebie seekers. You could try selling a different product to your current list to improve results, or recruit a list of leads more focused to your current product.

Rather than giving "freebies" in the sense of an ebook or recording or software or whatever, what I give are "lessons."


This way people who are interested in information sign-up for my list (because I sell information, after all...) and they actually open my emails.


(If they never open my emails, I just delete them from my lists)

Try this and you should be able to make some money.

I was checking a competitors site and noticed he's getting lots of comments saying the same things. He also has comments that say "I would buy your info but i can't afford it right now"

This guy has a huge liist and is JVing with guys at the top of his niche so all those thankful people will stay on his list for a while but everyone has to do listclraning at some point.

I would do the $1 report or mini ebook. Make sure the sales copy kills them. If they can't or won't spend a dollar, they're off the list.

I think normally the problem is that you haven't figured out what they want to buy.

I've sold things to the crustiest lists pulled from the worst sources and I'll tell you that everybody buys things... You just have to find out what they'll pay for.

Maybe send them an I Need Your Help email, tell them you need their help by them telling you what they need, and now you have some data.

Now either go find offers that match it or create offers that match that data.

Sell them something.

Stop giving stuff away to get people on your list. Sell them something. Put up a sales page, stick a buy button on it, and add the people who BUY to your list.

Buyers buy things. Sell them something, and whoever buys is a buyer.

The problem nearly everyone faces at one point hen building a list is they concentrate on numbers more than quality.

This is the mistake that can lead you to accumulate large numbers of freebie seekers or un-targeted subscribers which will only rack up your auto-responder bills.

The best way to accumulate proven buying subscribers is to sell FIRST and then collect subscribers from people who have already bought your product (no matter how small it is).

This allows you to market to people who are willing to purchase products online AND who already have a TRUST in you and your recommendations.

This trust is the single best thing you can rely on in order to steadily build a profitable list.

Dave

You need segmented lists and products that relate to prospects. Free is good if that's your thing and you're giving away your best stuff, but upsell in the 1st autoresponder. Once they buy, put them on your buyers list for that product and leave the freetards on the free list for that product.

You'll notice lots of folks putting everyone on one list. It don't work that way. You gotta have a list management system and move prospects around, pre-frame them and upsell. If some one signs up to your list you can sell them if the timing is right.

Ok, enough non-arguing arguing with you guys lol

I'm just putting in my 2 cents that come from experience... Just trying to help. Take it or leave it. Most people leave it. Oh well.

Happy new year.

Off to play Skyrim.

I like to separate out my buyers into a separate list. Then market to that list with different products.

Have your free list and the buyer list.

do a test, your freebie seekers will make you money.

But if you have a list of buyers that is like having gold hidden in your backyard, to hold in your hands, it take 1 minute to dig up. So you need to keep trying to get buyers.

Even sell something and give your affiliates 100% commision, and then once they buy they go on your list, and download. Then you can market to them over and over.

I know someone who's been very successful with selling to his list. he says you have to train the list to expect commercial messages. If you send lots of content, they come to expect more and more content. Then you send a sales message and it's out of the norm and can cause lots of unsubscribes. He says better to sell them from Day One.

You know slowly but surely I am coming to realize the samething. Its nice to have a big list but its not effective if they don't respond to you. So I rather take a small list which you have an established connection with any day.