Building a list?

Also, I'm curious as to what a good size list was. Thank you for any answers.

Just sent you an PM.

the thing about building a list is branding yourself at the same time

what ever you give away to people it needs to be high quality but more importantly YOU have to have done it because your not going to build much credibility building a list giving them someone elses free report, this defeats the whole object of building a list

theres no rule to say you cant give away someone elses free report or info but i highly recommend you give something away that you have created

its not something you can set up in 5 minutes it does take time but its certainly worth it in the long run

paul

Here's a tip to learn about building a list..

Join lists.

That's it.

Pick your niche, then look for sites that seem to be ranking well, and join their lists - see how they do it. Take notes!

Okay I just posted something on the forum and that's about the earning power of listbuilding and how you can turn that into a $1k/day business.

Here's the link
http://www.warriorforum.com/articles...ml#post6260078

If it should interest you the summary of the method posted there involves both free and paid methods of list building. Starting this way gives you a much higher leverage above your competitors.

Dann

Hey When I started out, I couldn't get a lead if my life depended on it.
iv been tyring to build list for awhile and it was pritty dismal to be
honest
Yesterday i found a site where you can link up to your aweber,gresponse
and get free leads I got more than 20 leads already! might not be great
load of optins for more advanced but i was pritty chuffed when
I got my 20 leads i actualy have some people i can promote products too Ect
. well let's just say this thing is working for me at the moment
and may work for you!
take alook
http://internetmarketingleprechaun.com/freeleads

Regards
Ian

I have found out that in order to generate some sales from your list,
Your subscribers need to know you, they need to like you.(Branding)

Rapport and Connection needs to be established at first.
You accomplish those two with building value and Trust.

have a great funnel...solo ads....

Building a list is all about getting targeted traffic to a high converting squeeze page.

Getting your list to actually ever buy anything from you is all about value and not being too promotional.

I general add the "if you want more information immediate check this out" in the P.S.

BTW, I make most of my income from niches that are totally unrelated to making money online or internet marketing, but since it took me so long to find all that data, I do provide a free course on how to create a list from the very basic to more advance information as a share.

Hello OP,

List building is a great way to do well online, but like everything else, can be a tough road without proper planning and action. List building is always my number one recommendation to people when they ask what they should do at the beginning of their IM career because depending on your skills and budget, it is one of the fastest ways to earn substantial and sustained income online. Even without any budget and little knowledge, it's still totally solid.

For you, with knowledge and experience, it would hopefully just be another few extra steps on top of what you are already doing.

Depending on the niche you are interested in, there are many ways to go about it but the basic idea is the same as it is for IM in general:

Traffic ==> Product ==> Sales/Conversions

But with list building, your initial product may not be a paid product. Here is what I personally feel is important for list building:

- Create your own free product to give away, you can use PLR, but I would do you own unless your in a hurry. Branding helps tremendously and being the creator of a product is a step in this direction
- Drive traffic to your landing/opt-in page. If you are in the IM niche and want to get fast results, this can be done using solo ads with extremely powerful results. If not in IM niche, solos are a bit harder to come by, but possible. Additional traffic sources are the usual suspects.
- Test, test, and test again. See how your landing page converts, and if you have a product or OTO to sell, do the same for that. Test Test Test and adjust until the front end of the funnel is streamlined.
- In your autoreponsder sequences, continue to brand and build trust and personal repoire by providing valuable and relative content. Help people and then help them again. Go above and beyond and/or provide them info that they need to succeed. Only promote when you believe in and know the product you are promoting fairly well. When you promote something, you are putting your brand behind it.

There is obviously a lot more to it, but these are good basic starting points. Things like JV'ing, bulk traffic buys, more product creation, ad swaps, and more will help to build the list further. Additionally, there are many psychological aspects that can come into play when interacting with your list. I tend to operate on the quality, not quantity side of things, but everyone does it differently.

Check out (search) products from Jamison Palmer, David Eisner, and Rob Jones. There are tons of great resources on the WF, but these three really provide solid products with little fluff and proven methods ~

I'm also just starting out and trying to build a list. Some of the information just in this thread alone has been excellent, so thanks to all.

I would like to create my own free eBook, but it's just finding the time to do it. Maybe I'll promote others free stuff to get myself up and running and go from there.

I appreciate all the information! I've actually decided to convert a book that I started writing not too long ago into an ebook. I'm currently working on my squeeze page. And as long as I've been in this, I've never heard of solo ads. Is that just email blasts? Thanks again guys!

Solo-Ads: Are paid email blasts, usually measured by the amount of clicks.
The vendor would usually want to send to a free offer.
You just give them your copy or they would write it for you.

You should look into cheap solo ads to get your list started. Make sure you have a killer freebie to give away that is targeted to the people who will receive the offer. When I first started out I used adf.ly to get 300 initial subscribers for VERY cheap then I moved on to solo ads to build a more targeted list.

You could easily do the same thing. On adf.ly make sure you order the worldwide traffic because they are having a special on it and those subscribers won't be your money makers anyways. You want to graduate from that and move on to solo ads and ad swaps.

Lots of product creation gurus in Warrior Forum are ordering ebooks from me. They order ebooks on the ranges of 15, 20, 30, 50, up to a 100-page ebook.

Some are ordering a 20-page and a 50-page ebook. The first 20-page is a "teaser" for the longer version that has the powerful information. They do this technique for two things. To build their list and to sell their product.

While some are ordering ebooks just to build their list on their chosen niche and later sell a different product based on the requests of their lists.

I hope this helps you out.

I've been building my list for the last couple of months. Solo ads and swaps are the way to go. Make sure your squeeze page has a compelling offer. Most solo ad sellers will only send their subs to free offers. However, you can promote an OTO that can bring in extra income. This stuff is pretty addicting, making money that is.

You definitely have the best resources here on WF.

Best Success,
Rich

Try a JV Giveaway this requires that you have something to bring to the table. Your own list or a product.

And for PLR product, I suggest you not to provide it AS the time you got it. You must do some revisions and also rebranding.

To build your list you have to build a squeeze page with a free incentive to get people to opt in. Put the opt in form above the fold so visitors don't have to scroll down to see it, and make sure you have some compelling copy that really jumps off the page and catches visitors' eye.

Also, K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid). Don't try to impress visitors with your intelligence - just tell them what you have, what it can do for them, and what they should do next.

Wow. Good thing I have experience in internet marketing. Because that is what 75% of these responses are...ads.

You don't need junk traffic from other people's list. You need to create your own list. And nurture a relationship with that list. Junk clicks are just that....junk.

From the sounds of it, you don't have your own product. Otherwise, you would have something to offer subscribers...an entry level free ebook.

So, you must be promoting affiliate products. That's fine. That is what I do a lot of.

Most product owners...the ones you are promoting...have affiliate programs. And in those programs they have tons of tools you can use. One of which will be a free ebook, report, whatever. They give you something that you can give away to subscribers. I recommend you find their affiliate tools page, and use the free products they give you. Then, you don't have to create anything.

So, what next? Now you are growing a list. But, if you hammer them with offer after offer, they will either unsubscribe or delete your emails without even opening them. Why should they? You aren't providing any value to them.

Now we're getting somewhere. You are building a list. You should then set up an autoresponder series. Giving away tons of free content. This builds trust. Once they begin to trust you, they will be willing to buy the products you recommend.

You will get much bigger conversion rates among people who trust you vs. someone else's list. That list doesn't know you. They don't trust you. And unless your 1 email is the best sales letter ever written, you can expect dismal to no conversions.

If spamming email lists were the path to riches, we'd all be doing it. But, that is not the case. People aren't that stupid.

Once you start building trust and rapport with your list, you can start sparingly sending affiliate and CPA offers. But most of what you send them should be good, quality content.

I send at least 5 content emails for every 1 offer I send.

Good luck to you. I hope whatever path you take brings you riches.

PS - Here is the program I went through. It is called AutoResponder Madness by Andre Chaperon. It is one of the best programs I ever went through. And this is not an affiliate link. Autoresponder Madness (Official Site)