Should Building A List be your FIRST Target when first starting out in IM?

I agree almost 100%. A list is the most important thing to making good money online. However, I believe that FIRST you should make sure that you have plenty of content & products to provide to your subscribers. What I'm working on now is having 60 days of content prepared ahead of time. This way once subscribers start coming, they will always have useful content to read (not just affiliate offers!) and I won't have to worry about my list going cold.

Yes building a list is huge! In fact as things progress you need to build 2 types of lists now.. email AND mobile. So I tell everyone add the (optional) mobile phone number field to your list because open rates for mobile are way higher and there's no such thing as a "junk" mobile number unless your rich or put in a fake one which shouldn't be a problem if its optional.

A good list is vitally important. Studies have shown that the vast majority of people do not respond to an offer and buy something the first time they see it. They have to develop a rapport with the person involved and get to trust him/her. Then when the offer is made, the customer will be much more inclined to do the deal. It takes time to do this and the way to build rapport and trust is through largely informational emails. The first thing your website should do is to collect names for follow-up ... and then follow-up on a non pressuresome and informational basis. So the long answer (and my opinion to this) is that absolutely a good email list is vital. It's like gold and many sites and businesses achieve most of their value from their subscriber/email list.

Yes, list building is a top priority.

Just create 5 to 10 emails to get started and go from there. You can always revise and add content as you go.

What if you were to wait 60 days while you prepared content? Sure, you'd have some content... but how many subscribers would that cost you?

I think very few people who are really earning a good living from it are going to dispute that.

I don't think you need nearly as much as 60-days' content ready before you start moving forward, though. I start off each new niche with about 5 days' content ready. Having a few people opting in soon encourages me to produce some more quickly enough.

hey ebusiness champ

a email list is very important but before you start to build a list you first need something of value to give away

i had this problem for a while not knowing what to give away for free to build my list because i wanted to make sure i wasnt just peddling the same garbage as most people (an ebook) lol

so i give away 5 free affiliate marketing and adsense videos which people love

videos are what people are used to because of youtube and facebook etc

remember though the Money is NOT IN THE LIST

the money is in your buyers list and in the relationship that you have with your list

hope this has given you something to think about

paul

Yes, building a list is the most important part.

How?

Very easy: Build a product and sell it as a WSO with 100% commission.

That is the fastest and cheapest and most profitable way to get a list.

What product or what type of product?
Look under "the hood" by going to warriorplus.com and see which WSOs sell like hot cakes. Then buy a bunch of them and study them. You will come up with ideas in a short period of time.

For example you buy 3 WSOs that talk about "how newbie made x amount of dollars in y amount of time". You note the niches and the approach and then you find something similar. Lets say one WSO talked about how to make money with Clickbank products.

You then pick a rapbank product and show how to make money with that and document your journey. Even if you only make a few hundred dollars people will be very interested to learn from you.

You might say "Yes, sounds good but I have no clue how to make the sales letter etc.". No problem: there are many advanced warriors (me included) that are more than happy to partner with you on your first WSO or first WSOs. Just come up with an idea and get your stuff together for a case study and you are in business.

HP

A list is most important, just make sure you have lot of good content for your subscribers.. and they will be loyal to you.

so you guys build a website example "dogtraining" you make the website be populated and keep it alive with backlinks etc etc say your website ranks 3rd forth place in google search ...you build a list of people that joined your website (different methods to nuld it ,offering something special etc etc whatever _and then after you reach some good amount of people ..email them ..saying i suggest you to go visit this website "the dogtrainingbook" (the vendor website.
I usually was doing a blog with 4 5 posts as a review or personal story and redirecting them to the vendor website without any listing ,are they 2 different methods?You build your package of potential clients before redirect them to the vendor website?

The money is in the list brotha. Without a list, your life will be much harder.

Here's a few tips:

If you're marketing to the marketing crowd, you need to figure out what skills you have that you can help other people learn or optimize their business structure, and use those skills in a manner to compile a set of information that is crucially important to marketers, then either give it away, or sell it for really cheap (< $5)

Then, continue doing this, until your list grows. Think of new and impressive ways to build your list, do them, take the results, compile the results into a free report, then give that away for free (for optin). Soon, your list will be a few thousand.

Or for example, if you're in a certain niche, write a niche important guide that is something that is very important (top 10 tips to train a dog), and give it away on a dog training website that you have ranking.

Get your list funnel in place, then you can set up autoresponders to sell your list other products in the dog training (or whatever niche) you're in.

Autopilot income, from no list, to list, to giving info away, to selling the list, then the list is continually building and you only have to work on more funnels leading in, and more offers going out to them.

Hope this helps in the slightest bit, best I could do between cups of coffee

- Brenden

for what i can see there are 2 different ways to make money(if to make any) option1 build 10 different website that give you 100$ a month and make 1000$ a month, or option2 build only one big website that gives you $1000 a month. Am i right ?

im nothing in this business and i dont want to teach anything to anyone
my reply is related to the list because the list is something absorbing time and if you have 50 websites is gonna be a real mess to manage all those lists

I would definitely start building a list.

One of the sites I started ran for a year with great traffic before I ever got around to building a list - big mistake. That was thousands of people that I missed out on.

However, there are some benefits of starting it later because you could build up your content to fill up your autoresponder message. Likewise, you could have more pages ready to go to get people to opt-in. Finally, you'd know what people want out of your list based on the information you've gained from people interacting on your site.

Don't stress too hard about it but definitely set aside time and knock it out.

lol yes of course but for what i can see make $1000 from a single website is hard can you imagine for 10000

Building a list is critical in any niche, not just IM. But before building the list I like to create some good valuable content first so that once the list is built you can develop a relationship with that list.

I regretted not building a list sooner (I only started building my list 1 year after I got into IM full-time)... I'm up to almost 10,000 subscribers now... Imagine if I had started building my list from the start!

No, absolutely not. Your first move should always be to find a hot niche, then a good, solid product to sell in that niche.

Then find a good give-a-way and start your list building, up-selling on the back side of the free offer to your new niche/product.

Although it's important to build a list, but I notice can't build a list if you don't have traffic coming to your site to sign up. Chicken n egg issue. No traffic, no list, OR no list no traffic. So SEO I feel is most important to kick start your list building, without SEO to drive traffic to your site, you aint going to get any subscriber.

I'm sure that a large enough list does work in most niches, but I'm reluctant to do it, because I am signed up to lists myself, and I never buy anything from them, they seem annoying, and I just cant be bothered taking the time to unsubscribe. I would prefer to bulid up my list on social sites, and get people to come back to the site as return visitors because I'm teaching them something, offering the best information. Then again, I'm not making much money.

Many people do say a list is the way to go, but what if you don't know what sort of niche you want to build a list in? If you try going down one path, and you then realize it isn't working in that niche, you have then limited yourself to only sending that list messages about one subject, where if you have a general list of social connections, you can promote anything, if it has widespread appeal. I've gotten hundreds of thousands of views from my social followers this year, and while they aren't very targeted views, I think thats better than what I could have achieved from the same amount of time building an email list. My other site is selling touch pens for the iPad and iPhone, but how would I get people to sign up to that list, and would it make that much of a difference? If they wanted a stylus, they'd either buy from me, or get one from Amazon. I think if you're gonna build an email list, you have to have that in mind before you come up with the product idea.