Importance of a List?

Why build an opt in list?

1. Those who subscribe to your optin list are already showing an interest in your product or service
2. Those who show an interest provide a much better conversion rate.
3. You have their permission to market to them until or unless they optout so you are not spamming.

How can a list help you make more money?

1. An optin list gives you the opportunity to target those that are the most apt to purchase
from you.
2. An optin list provides you with additional chances to sell to those who did not make a purchase when you emailed them your initial affiliate promotions.
3. With an impressive opt in list you will be better able to attract joint venture partners.
4. Reputation is a vital part of Internet marketing and credibility is vital. You have the opportunity
to establish a good reputation and your credibility when you build a list and provide valuable, problem solving content for them.

Those who build solid responsive opt in lists make long term, reliable income and those who do not will most likely join the growing number internet marketer who've failed to make money online, because they have not put forth the time and effort required to build a profitable opt in list.

Two good reasons:

1. Most people don't buy right away. They go off, maybe, "to think about it" ... and forget all about you. A series of autoresponder message (most say the magic number is 7) can get more sales.

2. With a list, people gradually get to know you better. Most prefer to buy from someone they know. Without a list you have a hobby, not a business.

You aren't "selling physical products from Amazon", you're selling advertising space to Amazon. This is what confuses some people. If you're an affiliate you aren't selling the product, like vacuum cleaners or cameras, you're selling advertising space that's, hopefully, attracting serious buyers.

You can use a list to bring in this traffic or you can use SEO or PPC. Just always keep in mind that you're selling advertising space and buying traffic to the retailer and you're not selling the product you're advertising to consumers.

As for list building in general on these type of sites, I don't do it myself. First of all, many of the big players don't look favorably on email sourced direct traffic (especially Adsense and eBay EPN, the bulk of my niche sites). Secondly, trying to collect email addresses works against my goal of quickly moving the targeted visitor toward a buying opportunity.

I do collect emails on my non-IM related product sales sites though and I only use emails to promote my own related products, not affiliate offers.

I think it is a wrong question. everyone on the forum will answer you, very important.

the reasons may vary, but, if everyone say so, do you really want to know why?

david

A list is extremely important for a couple of different reasons. For one, many consumers don't buy a product on their first introduction to it. Many of these folks can be a buyer but they have to see it 2 or 3 times first. When they are on your list you have a chance to put that product in front of them again. Secondly, as your list grows you gain a large group of targeted people who are interested in the products and services that you offer. You can simply send an email promoting a product/service and make affiliate sales over and over again.

Building your list is one of the most important parts of being successful with IM. Once you have interested customers on your list, you will be able to market and promote products/services to them.

Without a list, you will always be searching for new customers. Thus wasting alot of valuable time, effort and money.

I wish I had started building a list when I first started IM, Email marketing is vital.

No matter how you drive visitors to your website via paid or SEO.

If your traffic stream stops for any reason, you can still earn from your list of people who have gone out of thier way to request information from you.

The biggest reason is that you keep the TRAFFIC you generate.

If you have not figured this out thus far, to be successful in IM, you need traffic. Whats the point of sending traffic to any platform only hoping they'll purchase something?

Rather keep them forever!

Just look at all the guru's: you think they have niche websites, or whatever other platform? They have gigantic lists.

IMO, having a list itself is not as important as the purpose of the list. A list lets you maintain regular contact with your prospects. Is that an integral part of your business? If so then yes it is important to have a list, and the size of it will grow with your business, however the most important thing is to put out high quality content and provide your list with worthwhile updates.

important.....

ok sound advice for the most part, however, how can someone who "promotes" physical products benefit from having a list and building relationships with said buyers?

how would you even get people just looking for say "turkey fryers" signed up for an email distro? "say include email for updates of future cooking products?"

it seems to me the majority of answers seemed geared to the e-book, sell information style. am i just hearing it all wrong?

It depends on your business model. If you have an Adsense empire, not so important. If you sell your own products/services, you're foolish not to build a list.

How many businesses in the "real" world do you know that rely entirely on a steady flow of one-time, "in-and-out again" traffic? Not many that last very long. What companies with longevity absolutely depend on is loyal, repeat customers. That base is their bread-and-butter. That's precisely what your list represents.

So, again, if you're building the kind of business where you want the same people to buy from you over and over again, build a list. If not, don't.

John

just go and build a list in any niche and give value and build relation..

later you can find lots and lots of quality stuff to promote to them, irrespective of any niche..

so start to build a list with whatever content you have to give away.. today..

thank you.