How can I turn a list of 250 into 1000 quickly?

Hi Jo

It looks as if you really are starting to get some momentum. I would suggest that you do what you have already suggested in your post, and start Adswapping.

You will find that people will start swapping at the sort of levels you are at. You could also start negotiating deals with more advanced Warriors (in list building terms!) to swap with just part of their list.

Which ever way you go I wish you the best with your list building activities and I'm sure it won't be long before you are at that 1000 mark.

All the best

Andy

Ad swaps is a good one.

Also, can you come up with something that goes viral? That's an option. Give something away to your list that is worth sharing and let them know it's free to share. See what happens.

The number of people on your list is not as important
as their behavior:

Are they freebie seekers or are they buyers?

I'd choose a list of 100 buyers instead of a list of 1,000
freebie seekers any day of the week.

Be careful not to give away so much free stuff to your
list that you end up conditioning them to receive great
information for free.

Focus on building a list of buyers instead.

Dedicated to your success,

Shaun

250 is not exactly low. If your list is responsive, you can always go for an adswap with someone with a similar list. Check out the JV Section here, there are a lot of adswap requests...

There's no reason you can't start ad swapping now. I see several people with lists under 250 looking for swaps in the JV forum.

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John

Jo,

If funding is not a problem, you can run a contest
and give away let's say, a $1 per lead or something.

I guarantee you'll be at 1000 at no time!

Igor

use things that can promote ur website like facebook, twitter, blogs and advertisements! facebook twitter and blogs are like free stuff to get ur name out there and it works cause u can also build some back links through blogs! ads will obviously cost u some money but its an investment worth doing sometimes!

Create a free report that is highly valuable, and related to the giveaway in your autoresponder. I use articles that I have syndicated to build up traffic tomy autoresponder for this. i try to make it 15-20 pages of high quality infromation that is helpfull, yet compelling to learn more. at the end, send them to your opt in page to get more info.

Then, take this report. if you do it right, you can give it to other people in your niche to share with their list, rather than going to them and saying i want you to send your list to me, you can say, I want to help you add value to your list by giving them a free report.

if it is high quality, many people will do this, because it helps build their reputation with their own list, and is better than just a short email that tells them to get your freebie.

Also, take that report and put it up on slideshare. Link to it from youtube, facebook, and everywhere you hang out. its a totally free giveaway.

so you have free giveaway>>optin for free giveaway>> valuable emails on the same topic with product offer>>bonus to buyers>>buyer list..

Give it to the list you already have as well.

now in the head of the email where the normal disclaimers go. it should read something like

you do not have the right to alter this report in any way. however you do have the right to redistribute this report freely. please share it with your friends, family, and coworkers, or anyone else who you know may be affected by [insert problem here].

although i agree with building a list of buyers, that is part of the funnel. ignore the freebie seekers all you want. that leaves the door wide open for me to build a relationship with them and make a fortune.

Use Google AdWords Display Network with banners. This way you will be able to add at least 100 per week. Create banners, put 2000 keywords in your campaign and set a price around 0,05 per click. It works great.

Also, do not stop what you are doing already. Article marketing is really powerful.

Hi,

If you have a budget have a look at the directory of ezines. Also you could try contacting product owners and ask if they will include a link to your squeeze on thier download page.

You could also consider outsourcing some of the tasks your already doing.

Good luck

Hi guys

I have started creating a list and am upto about 270.

The niche I am targeting is overcoming Public speaking fear, so if anyone would like to do an adswap get intouch.

This list is less than a week old and has been targeted using banner ads, and costing as mentioned elsewhere in the thread around on average .03-.05p per click. So in response to the topic of this thread banner ads maybe the way to go....

I will get around to other ways of driving traffic however just had to get this thing moving.


Chan

The quickest way I grew my list in an old niche was to record and hour long audio MP3 then offer it to my list for free if they refered 3 people to my landing page.

It worked pretty well so I actually made it my verification page on initial sign up and was constantly looking to turn one sign up into 4

Congrats for taking action :-) Adswaps is probably the best bet.

My only recommendation would be to make a sub list of all your subscribers you've got from adswaps. Because SOMETIMES there are people who do adswaps 7 times/week with their list.

- Ishan

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Aditya