How do you build a targeted list quickly and free?

You can build a squeeze page and offer some free report there. Of course you`ll have to rank that page. I rather pay some $ per month for that than do the ranking myself.

I think that your opt-in form doesn`t stand out enough. Make it more visible

The trick is "perceived value".... they have to see value in giving up their name and email...There are tons of free e-books and it is hard to just say "sign up and get your free e-book".... you must convince them that your book will be beneficial and they can't live without it!

Ad value to the sign up process...free stuff, bonuses, etc.

Create An IFO (Irrasitable Free Offer) Then Create A Squeeze Page Modify The squeeze pages Headlines and create 3 pages. Hook the pages on to Google Optimizer To See which converts best.

If you use a opt-in on your website. Make sure its on all pages. Test have shown that best place to put an optin box is the right side ABOVE. Very Important that you do this. Also make sure that you use graphics for the optin box. Show them a picture of your free report.

Last but bot least. You offer has to be of great content or otherwise you will lose them in the backend. Take some time and create a good report.

Reports are maximum 15 pages and make sure that everything is easy to understand. Teach the propesct the What and Why of what you are offering but not the HOW.

As for Traffic: The best ways are Article Marketing, Uploading Free reports to pdf sharing sites, Video Marketing. All the free ways work.

If you need more information you can send me a PM

I've just learned to use Filezilla to upload html pages directly to my server, I'm thinking of using Open Office to design the squeeze pages, is that OK for SEO? Is it OK to have pages on your site which aren't linked to the main part in any way? Is there a better way to get free squeeze page templates, or a better free html editor for a Mac?

If I made a squeeze page on Open Office, or some other text editor, I couldn't use the All in one seo pack to add a description, and tags, so what I'd really like is a blank sales page template with only a title, and nothing else, which I could use as a seperate theme on my site, using the page theme plugin. Would it be hard to make such a template myself, by editing an existing sales page template and uploading it as a zip file? Or would it be easier to learn how to imitate the source code of my other pages in my html file to have a description and tags?

You can join forums related to your niche and post a link to the squeeze page in your signature. That's one of many ways to get free traffic.

what are you using for your site?..wordpress?

One word? FBLeadGeneration - lol

Okay, that's like 3 words all mashed up into one.

Here's the thing I learned after building a mobile+email list now approaching 100,00 (combined).

There are (2) things that affect how targeted your list is:
1) Traffic, yes
2) The opt in gift!!!

Many people - perhaps only the top 1-5% of list owners - get this.

People initially get on your list so that they can get your opt in bribe.

Well if you do your thinking ahead of time, you will create a bribe that is more likely to put a buyer on there than a browser!

This is so important - I hope anyone struggling with this gets it!!

You want sale and you want them now right?!

Well create an optin incentive that gets people on your list who are in "buying heat" - this is the next best thing to a buyer's list.

Also, you can increase your sales by getting to know who's already on your list.

Are they male or female?
Young or Old?
In the USA, UK, Canada, NZ or someplace else?
Are they popular - do they have alot of social influence?

Once you know that you can start sending people information they actually want to read!
And, ultimately offers that they're interested in and they will buy.

I mean if you send a woman an offer on men's golfing shoes, chances are she won't be interested will she? lol

Or, if you send a group of older subscribers offers on say a teenie bopper pink ipad deal, chances are they will look over to that delete button and maybe down at the bottom of that page and hit "unsubscribe..."

Bottom line is once you find out who your audience is you can market to them in a target, personalized way which means HIGHER LIFETIME VALUE.

That means in "plain speak" more repeat sales and overall profits.

Hope that helps - think and grow your list!

ok so let me first explain this, if it is free then it wont be quickly, if you dont spend money, you spend time, the best way i know and that i actually use to generate free traffic is facebook, but if you also want to know a way to get people on a list spending some money... then the best way is with solo ads.

Hi rowanman28,
I will start with telling you to make sure you opt-in box is "above the fold" (meaning you can see it immediately on your page, you don't have to move the courser.) Next you can do some article marketing (Ezine and Article Base) to build some free traffic. Make sure your links in the article point back to your squeezepage. After that, take some of the content from the articles and submit it to Press release sites. (Pr.com, Prweb and Prleap) Or create new content if you link and submit, either or. Lastly, take the articles and turn them into videos and use tube-mogul to submit to a targeted audience. You can also use Traffic Geyser if you like to do the same thing but to save cash use TubeMogul (Follow TubeMogul guidelines or get banned.)
You should see results in about 3-8 weeks, (average for me) sometimes faster, depends on your writing skills and luck; if you will, lol :-) Hope this helps.

remember its not the size of your list but the quality in the list that matters...If you have 10,000 that barely opens your email then whats the point...JUst as much as you focus on getting them also set up a strategy for retention and management..

A lot of people don't think of using mobile. You can have people text a specific keyword to a short code and then provide an incentive if they text in their email address. That way you've just created a quick list of mobile numbers and email addresses.

OK, lots of ideas here. I was thinking of putting a squeeze page on a traffic exchange, and clicking the button on my iPad in bed. I got a free html squeeze page which I edited, and uploaded to my server directly, and so I want to promote that. I think it looks pretty good. I guess I do need to add more value to the auto-responder. I don't know about paying for traffic, as I haven't got any money just yet, and it may take me a long time to learn how to sell to a list effectively.

On top of everything that's been said, I would recommend PopUp Domination. A lot of warriors disagree with having popups on your site but I personally don't mind an opt-in popup. Besides, they work!

OK, so I don't really have the money to pay anything to get subscribers. I have 15,000 Twitter followers, I guess I could make a really good squeeze page, or ten, and schedule recurring tweets, while paying a little for a weekly subscription of seeds from Twiends. I have two subscribers now. I know traffic exchanges don't work well, but I have signed up to a couple of lists there myself. I think I'll try the SEO route as well, and make the subscription form look more appealing.

Graphics play a great role in inducing the visitor to get into. Are your graphics catchy?

The another thing is value. Look at your website as a visitor, not the owner. Will YOU enter your email address out of curiousty to get the free ebook?

Are there similar e-books on the internet which can be downloaded free of cost WITHOUT signing up? If yes, then people would avoid signing up on your website and would prefer downloading straight!

- Steve

Granted social media traffic is completely targeted, more and more webmasters are now making a shift to using services like stumbleupon.

Get a squeeze page, offer something for free, stumble it in the appropriate category and you might get some traffic and quick opt ins.

building a proper list is going to cost money bro. Unles you can find a pool of free traffic it look likes you might be buying it. Traffic exchanges are the last place to do it. Try looking at facebook or twitter traffic for starters.

Yeah, I have gotten tons of views from my Twitter followers, and from StumbleUpon, and I'm starting to do better in Google. I have gotten over a million views over the last two years on articles and blogs. Now that I have my own site, I can hopefully hang on to my visitors. I've made a couple of squeeze pages, not much content on them, will it be hard to get those to do well in a Google search? Still don't know if the question is fully answered, I need traffic from Google and other free places, or really cheap, and then I need advice on what to sell or how long after offering value and building trust that I wait to sell, and then what do I sell? Any ideas on affiliate products, I don't know much about cpa, it's all fairly new to me, but I got three subscribers now.

You have to be creative, if possible look for other incentives.

Ebooks seem overdone,

nonetheless, they still do work.

Also consider a sqeeze page. The main focus of such page would be to gather info.


GoodLuck!!

This is what I bene wondering as well lately, I guess an effective squeeze page will do the job but also, try to use popup domination from micheal dunlop