First 500 subscribers on your list..How did you do it ?

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I am in the process of building a new subscriber list and wanted to know from those who have done it.

What method or methods did you use to get your 1st 500 subscribers ?

Was it through JV or using paid advertising or something else ? What kind of incentive did you (or do you) offer to get people to sign up for your list ?

Thanks in advance for your responses.
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  • Profile picture of the author jbode
    There are several ways...

    if you want quick results (which you should), paid advertising is the way to go such as buying WSOs, PPC & Paid Upgrade in JV giveaways, Buy Solo Ads from other list owners

    Free methods: article marketing, viral PDFs, YouTube, Blog Commenting
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    • Profile picture of the author clint48
      I wrote a free e-book on how to get a lot of followers on Twitter. Every time I got a new follower on Twitter I offered them my free e-book for following me, all they had to do was sign up to my autoresponder. I can't remember exactly, but I think it was less than 2 months and I had over 500 subscribers in my autoresponder.

      Clint
      P.S. I doubt it would work now, there are so many auto tools to get followers now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arun Pal Singh
    I built them on my blog. That is a slow process. The better way is to build squeeze page and bring your visitors there by different methods.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Brock
      Well first of all you probably wont be able to get a JV without a decent sized list unless you hit the lottery and catch one of the big boys on a good day.

      What I did was just build products and sell them.

      I'd much rather have a paid opt in list than all freebie.

      But now Im working on my freebie list in the IM niche - have been getting 50-100 opt ins per day for the past almost week now.

      All through free content mostly.

      Regards,
      Daniel
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    • Profile picture of the author scottgallagher
      Originally Posted by Arun Pal Singh View Post

      I built them on my blog. That is a slow process. The better way is to build squeeze page and bring your visitors there by different methods.
      yeah, likewise, I did it through my blog. It took time but the readership value is high and when we lauched the first product the conversion was great for a high valued course.

      i believe while this method is likely the longest and most difficult, it offers a very high quality interactive list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sara Young
    In the IM niche - doing a free WSO

    In other niches - offering something for free on my sites
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    • Profile picture of the author yesacpow
      Firstly, you squeeze page must be compelling enough to get someone to sign up. That means you have to have a real good offer that is irrisistible.

      Next drive traffic to it with every method you know:

      Articles
      Videos
      Social Media
      PPC
      etc etc
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Bauthues
    I used paid advertising.

    Solo ads in Ezines work best for me. Once you get a good solo ad you can just send it out to list after list. This is how I build my lists quick. There are other ways to do it but you can't beat sending out a solo ad each day. It takes less than 10 minutes.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Brock
      Originally Posted by Adam Bauthues View Post

      I used paid advertising.

      Solo ads in Ezines work best for me. Once you get a good solo ad you can just send it out to list after list. This is how I build my lists quick. There are other ways to do it but you can't beat sending out a solo ad each day. It takes less than 10 minutes.
      Can you expand on the Ezine thing?

      I have heard people talking about Ezines, but I am still not exactly sure what they are. Pretty sad because I have been doing this MMO stuff for awhile now lol.

      Are they just like newsletters that get sent out where you can purchase advertising spots on?

      Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisJamesG
    I used PPC.

    1) Set up a squeeze page offering a 'how-to' mini course and a bunch of related freebies.

    2) Use the mini course to advertise a clickbank product - this way you get your money back you paid on adwords.

    Done properly you'll build your list while making a profit.

    Cheers,
    Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author John Atkins
    500 subs is very simple actually... just create a report and set up an optin
    page. Then offer it as a freebie on webmaster/IM forums. You can start it out
    by listing it in the classified section on this forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author nksurf
    Traffic Exchange, Promote promote promote.
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    Thank you

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