Best Way to Build a List of Buyers

A list of buyers is always MUCH more valuable and responsive than a list of freebie seekers, that's a given.

If you're goal is to build a list of buyers, I'd recommend you to offer 100% affiliate commission in your front end ebook.

Short answer...

It depends on how you manage that list.

If it sits there, and you don't contact them regularly, keeping them warm - any list is next to useless.

A list of proven buyers, generally has more worth to your business than a list built off the back of a free gift. But they BOTH have potential to be great lists.

I'd think about how you perceive "freebie seekers" though - I know it's an easy label to attach, but those "freebie seekers" clearly want something from you, so maybe they're "potential customers".

Kindest regards,
Karl.

Yes, The first, most important and most on-going task of every Internet marketer is to build an opt-in list.

There are basically three kinds of lists and all of them are not created equally.
First there are lists that are bought... these are just about worthless.
Second there are lists of potential customers. Potential customer lists are valuable because they are lists of people who have opted in to a mailing list and may well buy something at some point but they haven’t as yet.

The third kind of list is the ‘paid customers list’. The paid customers list is the one that is very, very, very valuable. This is a list of people who have actually bought a product or service. They have already proven that they will spend money. Most importantly, the paid customer list is one of the factors that potential Joint Venture partners will base their decision of whether to Joint Venture with you or not will base their decision upon.

The secret to building a big list very fast is to concentrate on building a paid customer list. This is the number one task for an Internet marketer. In order to build a paid customer list, you may well have to give something away. One of the best ways to build a paid customer list is to offer a product that is relatively inexpensive... say one that will sell for $9.95 or even $19.95... to Joint Venture partners and allow them to keep all of the profits from the sale. That’s right. Give them 100% of the profit... the whole $9.95 or $19.95 that the product sells for.

This way, others will build your buyers list for you.

Dann

I think you know the answer to this but would you consider a customer that purchases $100 e-book Ecorse, heck, anything compared to someone that purchases a $17 offer more valuable? Of course Juergen the value the customer that is able to put up more funds than the one that is not so. I think the answer is pretty obvious compared to a free versus paid offer.

But of course this is only looking at the cash value.

Yes. A buyer list is always more profitable than a "freebie" list.

Seems like a good idea to collect both visitors' and buyers' email addresses. Besides, you will always have a lot more visitors than buyers, right?

You may have heard the saying "the money's in the list." However, it's more true to say that "the money is in the relationship with the list." When building an online business a list is essential - it's your biggest asset. If you build it right, you'll have it for life. Start with your free offer, that way you are instantly giving value to your prospective customers. Then when your customers know, like & trust you they WILL buy. They will value your advice & product recommendations. Good luck!

The best way to do this in my opinion is to build a list of JV's and then offer them 100% on your product. When they send their list to your product they will take 100% of your sales, but you will capture the buyers which will give you a solid buyers list.

I would recommend selling a low front end product think as low as you can

It would be to sell something to them.

That way you know they are willing to actually make purchases. But like someone stated above you can easily turn these subscribers quickly in to paid vs non-paid.

Even then you can turn these 'non-paid' subscribers in to paid, if you know what you're doing.

IMO a $17 ebook is a little too much to sell to a prospect because the first thing you need to do before anything else is find out if your prospect has "the ability to pay"

if you offer them a very cheap product then you will find out much faster and not congest your email list up full of people that dont have the ability to pay

i usually charge between $5 - $7 for my first product and if you present an offer which is high in value as well your conversions will be good as well

once you find out if they have the ability to pay you can then offer them more expensive products

there are plenty of ways to build a list of buyers

solo ads (using a high value low price OTO to find out who has the ability to pay)

WSO

affiliate program giving people 100% commission on your products

what ever you do you will attract prospects that may turn into great customers but just may not purchase the first time they see your offer, so dont disregard your prospects, you have to build that trust and credibility

hope this helps

pau

I make about 6k in one of our niches, by writing and producing good products and giving away 100% commissions to affiliates and other marketers on my list.

If the product you release is good, you sit back while other people build a list of buyers for you.

I cant believe I just gave that away, but is one of my secrets that has made me alot of money over the years. Once you actually realise the power of this, and have no worries handing over 100% commisions (as there is a massive benefit) then you will have a lot of leverage and also a list of buyers you can sell too over and over again. Just do it.