Building Traffic To Build A List

So you are trying to sell to guys like us, by asking us how to get more of us to visit your page?

Hi Ronak,

Just so I understand this correctly...

You are asking about how to get traffic, so that you can build a list. And that email list that you are creating, will be teaching other people how to build their own email lists?

If thats right, it sounds like to me, you are trying to teach people how to do something you are still learning about? If I was in your position and doing that, I'd find it very difficult coming up with ideas and content to give to that list, and I would constantly question whether the advice I was giving was actually helpful or harmful to my subscriber's lives and businesses.

I am not trying to be critical or overly negative, but I do think you might be making things harder on yourself through trying to teach something you are still a new student of yourself. I'd usually recommend starting building a list in a niche/topic area that you understand and are a bit of an expert in. I think that makes the process easier, more enjoyable, and also more beneficial to your subscribers.

But thats just my opinion. I am going to answer your questions now and try and help you with the traffic element of list building.

There are three broad approaches I would take, depending on your circumstances.

Approach 1: Article Marketing

If I didn't have any money to spend on traffic, but I had quite a bit of time, then I would initially generate traffic using article marketing. I have been using that traffic source lately and it has been doing okay for me in the last couple of months. It does take a fair amount of your time though, and I think it is important to be consistent with it (which I haven't been!).

Approach 2: Paid Traffic

If I had some money to invest, I'd spend it on buying some traffic. I'd probably be likely to use the Google Display network, PPV and MSN Adcenter to buy this traffic. I'd stick to one paid traffic source, get comfortable with it, improve my skills and then move on to other traffic sources.

Approach 3: Affiliate Model

If I was limited in terms of time and money, or if I just wanted to take a longer term approach to my business, I'd look to try and sell a product and encourage affiliates to drive traffic to it.

I'd make a great product, list it some where like Clickbank, and make sure it is very attractive to affiliates. Good conversions, good product, good commissions etc. I'd actively recruit affiliates, be very responsive to their emails and questions and bend over backwards to help them.

This approach takes some time, but the difference is, I think you get a bigger return on investment of your time with this approach than you do writing articles or doing exclusively paid traffic. There are also residual benefits to approach 3, in that you are creating business contacts and relationships with people who you might be able to help, or be helped by in future.

So broadly speaking, those would be my three approaches.

As a bonus approach; I'd join a relevant forum, drop a link in my signature link to the squeeze page and make sure I used some good anchor text with a strong call to action.

All the best with it.

It's not fast, but then I don't think speed is the biggest priority with list building. You want quality subscribers. Trust me on this - you can make as much or more money from 500 quality subscribers than you can from 10,000 freebie seekers on your list. That's what I would teach about it. But if you're going for the numbers approach, then you want to try ad swaps and buying solo ads. Especially in the IM niche. There are a lot of people with IM lists who will sell you an ad or be open to swapping emails to their list. You can grow a list very quickly if you aggressively go after that approach.

Just remember - with ad swaps and solo ads, you're adding subscribers who are on a lot of other IM lists. And you're giving away your own subscribers to other IM lists (with ad swaps). Is that really what you want?

John

you can use youtube too, its a good method

how many of you have ever built a list of 10000 subscribers in 30/60/90 days flat?

Create a product you could sell for $100.

Sell it for $50 and pay 100% commission.

Contact affiliates.

Profit.

Some people tells just create an articles with strong density keyword then submitting to ezinearticles, but that way works for an autoblog player.

Solo ads is one of the fastest and greatest way to build your list, so even if you don't want to do adswaps, make sure to invest in solo ads to speed up the process.

Plus with solo ads, your name and product will be seen on other marketers list. You'll become an "expert" on your subject by association, so I think that this shouldn't be neglected.

If you don't have the money now, make sure to reinvest whatever you earn. Plus Andy's method is another excellent way (if not the best), to grow a list of buyers at light speed. You don't even have to pay anything upfront, so I would go with this one.

Franck