What Does the Free Gift mean?

The problem is that you're trying to sell a product about doing something that you don't actually know how to do at this time.

What you offer in exchange for your subscribers' email addresses is of crucial importance. It's the biggest single factor that determines whether the open-rate for your subsequent email series (the monetization we're discussing, here!) is 15% or 85%. I mean this literally: people who "get this part right" can easily be earning 5 or 6 times as much from their lists as people who use PLR/MMR material instead (that's missing out on a huge opportunity and seriously undermining the purpose and benefit of list-building).

I use the "free report" to offer something I hope will perceived as "information/secrets of great value", and it's really just a little PDF specifically designed and created to be part of my continuity-process and to do all these things ...

• Brand myself and my site
• Fulfil the promise of offering information/secrets of great value
• Set my subscribers' expectations
• Ensure that the subsequent email series gets the maximum possible open-rate and attention (this is perhaps the one that most determines whether or not you make a living)
• Continue the process of establishing credibility and trust already commenced on my site
• Provide content able to interest and impress subscribers enough to grab their attention and make sure they "stay with me" so that out of all the other lists they're also on (let's not pretend they're not!) mine is the link through which they effectively choose to buy

In other words, just like almost everything else that determines people's success/failure in internet marketing, it's almost all about quality and relevance.

Why?

When you don't seem to know how to do this yourself?

Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude to you, but what are you doing in this niche, advising other people how to build lists, and recommending a product to them on that subject, when you need to post asking for help on how to build lists?! You must, surely, see that there's "something not quite right", there, to put it mildly?!

It's not April 1st already, is it?

Anyway, let's offer something constructive, here - this thread may help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

List building is incredibly important and Alexa hit the nail on the head for you. Instead of cutting your teeth selling IM products about something you don't have a good track record in - what about selling information in a niche that you do know about or can become a great journalist in?

For instance, you could use the techniques in list building here to build a large list in the weight loss or dating industry (or swords, gaming or whatever interests you) and THEN come back here and sell your tips and tricks about building a list in a market.

You'd start out making money in the niche and then can generate more money selling your information to others who want to build that great big beautiful list.