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Question About Building A Specific Type Of List?

by Steve Wells
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I am wanting to build a list BUT the catch is that I want to build the list by having people buy something for like $1.00 and then have them automatically added to my list after payment.

Or someone to do this that requires an opt-in but also allows me to sell something for a $1.00.

I do not want a list of freebie seekers. I have no problem giving things away for free, but I do not want a non-responsive list, I want a list of people who are at least willing to come-off of at least a dollar bill for products that are worth 20, 30 and 40 x's that amount easily.

Is this possible, I just cant seem to wrap my head around how to do this?

Its late or actually early in the morning so please throw out your suggestions if you do not mind.

I have the Imnica email autoresponder but have not put it to use as of yet.

I have been involved with the services side of internet marketing for only a few years, I make the bulk of my money from graphic design services geared towards internet marketers. And some money from websites selling graphics products.

But I want to offer my graphics to a specialized list of people only, that way because its a list, and there will be many on it, I can do the work that may require days of desiging and planning, and sell it for next to nothing to them.

I hope I have clairified what I am trying to do, if not, please fire away and ask me, I will do my best to help you help me with your suggestions.

Happy New Year! & all the best to you and yours,

Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe118
    The way to go about this is to take the prospects thru the following sequence:

    1. Make them pay, e.g. with paypal
    2. At the confirmation, have them visit your squeeze page, with a pitch of "where should I send the product you just bought?"
    3. 90+% will sign up at the squeeze page, and your first message should contain the product.

    I agree, for what it's worth, that a qualified buyer list is 10X better than a list made up of freebie seekers. Feed this list well with useful information and low pressure sales "suggestions" and it'll pay you back for years to come.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
      Originally Posted by Joe118 View Post

      The way to go about this is to take the prospects thru the following sequence:

      1. Make them pay, e.g. with paypal
      2. At the confirmation, have them visit your squeeze page, with a pitch of "where should I send the product you just bought?"
      3. 90+% will sign up at the squeeze page, and your first message should contain the product.

      I agree, for what it's worth, that a qualified buyer list is 10X better than a list made up of freebie seekers. Feed this list well with useful information and low pressure sales "suggestions" and it'll pay you back for years to come.
      When you say at the confirmation, what do you mean?

      Im not familiar I guess with the sequence of the funnel and the pages that I have to have in order to do this?

      Sorry man, if what I am asking seems remedial..... the sales funnel is not really the problem for me.

      Its more of how to incorporate all if this with an opt-in that is confusing me......

      I at times almost need a diagram
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  • Profile picture of the author JanG
    What I would do is the following. You could set up the autoresponder and everything but instead of putting an isolated "Buy Now!" button on your sales page you could insert the optin form instead. Make the PayPal payment site your thank you page so that they get redirected to PayPal upon entering their email address.

    What Joe118 means by confirmation is that after they have made the payment they get redirected to a page where they can't download the product instantly but get presented your opt-in form. Then you tell them something like: "Thank you for your purchase. In order to receive your product please enter your name and email address below." Then it is up to you if you want to let your users confirm the opt-in first and have the first message of your autoresponder contain the download link or if you want to redirect them directly to the download page with still the majority confirming their link later. It's all about customer experience. The faster they get their product the happier they are.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
    Anyone, have any more ideas on how to make this work? I like the suggestions, but I think there may be other ways? Not sure though.
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  • Profile picture of the author ShaneRQR
    Well, it looks to me like you need a product delivery thingy that integrates with an autoresponder.

    It depends on what you $1 offer is, exactly, and how you want to deliver it.

    For relatively simple digital download type of product delivery, I'd suggest you take a look at DLguard.

    I personally deliver all of my products (including free products) in the form of membership sites, where I have my videos, download links, instructions etc. If you want to go in that direction with your product, I recommend a WordPress membership script like Digital Access Pass or Memberwing-x.

    The process works like this: Someone sees your offer and decides to purchase. They click on the order button and are taken to the payment processor (e.g. PayPal), the content delivery system (DLguard, Digital Access Pass, Memberwing) integrates with PayPal and gets the customer data from there, plus passes on the name and e-mail address to your autoresponder.
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    You are just selling a $1 product, so get them to click to buy as usual and have an agree TOS tickbox, the TOS including a clause saying "you will be added to my mailing list", then they checkout and download on return/via email. Just use a shopping cart plugin that records the email addresses from the paypal transaction and you are good to go.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    I don't know about Imnica... but aweber has a "parsing" feature where a buyer's (paypal) email is automatically added to your "buyers list".

    Ask Killian about it...
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      I don't know about Imnica... but aweber has a "parsing" feature where a buyer's (paypal) email is automatically added to your "buyers list".

      Ask Kilian about it...
      Thanks, Istvan...... I will look into that.

      Do you think that it would be hard to set something up like I am wanting to do?

      If I outsourced it, do you think I could get the whole thing set-up for me for a reasonable price?

      What are your suggestions on who to ask to do it for me?

      Basically if I outsourced this project, I was thinking that I would just have them set up dummy pages and I would then replace them with my own, or have them tell me what pages I need to design and give the page URL's to them....

      I think that might work?

      Either way, I do not want to do this on my own, I believe I can, but not in the mode to do it, because I have lots on my plate right now....


      Fire away...........
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