I need to seriously grow my list

Have you tried swaps or Solos? They are both very quick ways to grow your list.

Of course Solo Ads cost money but are one of the best ways to get subscribers quickly. You get guaranteed clicks and the traffic is generally very good. Since you already have a list you could go straight into swaps, which essentially cost nothing! I started by doing a few solo ads and then started swapping with a tiny list of just 83 subs. Within a few months I had over 1000 subs and then kept building from there.

A great place to find quality solo's and swaps is safe-swaps. You can join for free if you just want to buy solos or it's around $29 a month for access to unlimited swaps!

Just be careful to mix in quality content with your swaps. If you're not sure what I'm talking about just ask. I can help you build a big list doing this whilst avoiding some of the pitfalls.

Go for paid traffic sources ,PPV traffic,7 search etc.

Yes ... interesting.

I really like your sign-up page very much. It has enormous credibility, and just the right sort of mix of "enthusiastic promotion" and "personal information", I think? And it doesn't look like a "marketer's squeeze page" (and that's a huge plus!). Seriously, I like that a lot, and I think you've done well at putting together a nice, credible, personal opt-in page without looking "promotional". All credit to you. I see that it's exactly the kind of page you need for your intended traffic demographics. You don't want to look like "a professional marketer", and you don't, and that's a really good thing.

Have you thought about maybe offering content (in the form of articles) to "fine arts websites" of various kinds - there are many! - which they publish on their sites with a link to your sign-up page at the end of them? Kind of along article marketing lines? I think it could possibly work for you. It might be quite a lot of research/effort to test it out, this is the problem.

I think your sign-up page is really nice, anyway!

1: Just going to add, remember that quality counts over quantity!

2: Oil paintings is a really cool niche. You should look for all the oil painting/art forums and communities and really sink your teeth there. Have a social media presence and follow all the painters you can find. Good luck!

have you tried seo, to increase your ranking in google and other search engines

it really helps when your website is on the first page of search engines to drive traffic to your website

70% of clicks go to websites on the first page in google

Another great paid method to grow your list extremely fast, is Facebook ads. You can target specific people, and get lazer targeted people visiting your website.

Some people whole business is around Facebook, because if used right -- it is a goldmine!

Worry less about getting more people on it and do more to get the right people, people who are qualified and targeted and WANT to be on your list + work on your conversions.

Bigger does not necessarily mean better or more money.

Solos and Swaps is the way to go! Good luck

The way I see it.. You have two choices.

Choice A - learn to dominate free traffic somehow. It's up to you to find some clever exploitation that will allow mass quantities of traffic. (no blackhat stuff. you'll have to be creative and more innovative than the rest).

Choice B - develop a funnel that is profitable when people optin and interact. Then, get mass quantities of paid traffic. (Developing an optimal funnel is the tricky part. But it's also the key to potentially profitable paid traffic ventures. Right?)



Just my $.02

Is your list responsive?? Can you guarantee a certain amount of clicks??? If so I would very much suggest you get involved with Ad Swaps from safe-swaps or even find JV Partners here on the WF...

If you do have money to spend then solo ads, ppc, ppv, Free WSO's are great ways to gain alot of traffic as well...

I agree with Mitch. Safe-swaps.com is a site i keep hearing about. So they must be doing something great.

Hi,
I agree with Mitch. Solo ads are great, but, make sure you are getting good lists. Paul Counts is a good one to go to for solo ads.
I have not done ad swaps, so really don't know much about them.
My advice is to investigate, investigate, investigate!
Good luck,
Geri Richmond

The first thing that I would do would be to tweak the squeeze page a little bit and improve the opt-in rate as much as possible. I think that you can easily achieve a 50% opt-in rate in your niche with this squeeze page by simply highlighting the top of it and/or moving the optin-form to the right of those bullet points.

If you manage to increase your opt-in rate to 50% (or close) then your work will be twice easier from that point on.

The second thing that I would recommend you to do would be to set-up a blog on your website and use the squeeze page as the home page of your site.

If you can write at least one high quality article a week on your blog and build few backlinks for each, in time it can definitly be a very good traffic source. You can use those articles to establish a "relationship" with your subscribers too - you can direct them to those articles in your follow-up.

A blog is a must in my opinion if you want to build some sort of authority with your subscribers.

Don`t spend to much time with SEO and backlinks ... Just write one article a week build 5-10 backlinks for each after publishing it and nothing more. If your articles are good and you share them with your list in your follow-up then your blog traffic will grow very fast - your subscribers will spread the word. (make sure you`ll use some social icons on your blog so they can share your paintings and articles all around the web).

A fast traffic method would be to contact some small e-commerce websites in your niche (they will have a newsletter list with buyers) and convince them to promote your freebie (book a solo with them) for a small fee. The same thing can be done with other bloggers or clickbank product creators that are in the same niche as you are.

Another very good way (probably the best in your situation) would be to use paid discovery (stumbleupon`s PPC network) and your paintings to grow your list. You can pay 0.05 per click and make your paintings/blog go viral ...

Create a simple yet attractive page with your paintings as the "main attraction" of it, link it with your squeeze page and your "system" will go viral on stumbleupon in no time ... It`s very easy to do this in your niche using your own paintings - stumblers love good pictures.

I recommend you to learn more about this and try it.

I see how the list swap could work out. I looked at safe swap. The thing is, it looks like almost everyone on there is building lists around internet marketing, and not really focusing on any niche. Am I right about this?

I'm going to do some searching and see if I can find related websites that don't really compete with me.

Thanks for all the tips.

Paid method is the best option if you want to grow your list fast. Solos, PPV etc.

There are many methods to grow your list, but the most important thing is how to treat your subscribers.

Spend money - Solo ads. No need to spend money - safe swaps.

Yes, Mitch is right. Register with Safe Swaps, buy solos and do ad swaps. They have hundreds IMs with big lists and their rating system will help you to avoid scammers.

Looking at my stats on YouTube, I really think my list should be growing faster. Most of the traffic to my landing page You can learn how to oil paint with Chad Marshall, ACI is coming from YouTube. My signup forms convert.. somewhat well. Last time I checked I think it was converting 30%.

Last month I got 5000 views on YouTube. I know that's not stellar, but actually better than I thought.

I could change my landing page, but I think I also need to work on getting people to visit my landing page from YouTube.

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