Help me Build a LIST !

Briefly, you are looking at two considerably popular options:

(i). Create a product of your own and place it on a squeeze page. Attract traffic to the squeeze page however you see fit (SEO, JVs, etc.) and allow access to your free report only after an opt-in is completed.

(ii). Secondly, you could create the same product and sell it. You could sell it, for example, on the Warrior Forum as a WSO and use Warrior+ to automatically capture the leads of those people who purchase off of you.

... whichever route you decide to embark on, you need to remember that the money is not "in the list;" the money is in a "well-treated list." Shower them with positive and high-quality information. Provide free products when you can. Do not ... and I mean it ... send out nothing but affiliate offers to your list. I've been on a few of those (run by people who are Warriors) and I've unsubscribed and lost respect for those people so fast that it would have made your head spin.

Again, those are just two options (briefly covered) on how to go about building a list for the first time.

Money is definitely in listbuilding. If you run any type of service where return customers are a must - listbuilding is your friend.

I always try to offer something free in exchange for joining my list.

Do keyword research to find a good niche.

Get Domain name.

Get hosting.

Put up a high converting squeeze page.

Set up your auto responder.

Add optin box to the squeeze page.

Set up follow up emails in auto responder.

Get traffic.

Make sure to offer lots of value without promoting too much stuff right away to keep your list from unsubscribing.

If you want more details, there are free courses available that take you through list building step by step.

Good luck.

BTW, I tried a lot of other things and list building has worked the best for me.

Once I got it down to a system, I get one niche going, it takes about a month, then I go and start on another niche and do it all over again.

The EASIEST way to build a list is offer something valuable up front for free. Don't just do it to get them on your list.

Provide something valuable that they will actually enjoy first, and then try to see if they'd like a more advanced guide/report/etc.

As TiffLee stated.

"Do not ... and I mean it ... send out nothing but affiliate offers to your list"

Read that about 3 times.

Now you want to take care of your list. Treat them like you would treat your mother. Give them gifts and keep them all happy. Then down the line maybe pop in a offer from your own products or a affiliate. But that is after you gain all there trust and they love you for all the awesome information you send them.

If you are one of those marketers that send 1-3 emails a day online trying to sell sell sell most people will do what I do. Unsubscribe.

Wish you luck on your list building journey!

It seems like we are all on the same page, give value and respect your subscribers.

I also give a bit of an overview of what to expect in the first email I send out.

And make sure that whatever you offer on the squeeze page, you actually deliver.

I manage a list of 600+ subs and I send them a email once a week mostly on Sunday evening and get nice results !!

I mostly give them a FREEBIE..

I builded my list by a simple SQUEEZE page offering them a report written by me

Use Squeeze Pages and Blogs to build a list is the norm.

Here is another creative way to build a list FAST. I did not come up with this by the way it is a Lee McIntyre method used by many.

Build a ultra high quality, ultra high value product worth more than $497. The product really HAS to have a $497 value or more. You need to way over deliver on this one. A membership site with a ton of high value content might work for this. I know this is a lot of work but you said you wanted to build a list you didn't say you didn't want to have to do some work for it.

Put it on clickbank for $47 and give 80% of the commission to the affiliates. If the product really is worth $497 you should do well at $47.

If it is a membership site the buyer has to create an account which will give you their email and contact information. An optin form for future FREE upgrades would also work.

If you wanted to be real crazy you might be able to do part of this product as a WSO and use the whole product as the up-sale.

If you give the Affiliate 100% of the WSO and 80% or a large amount of the $47 up-sale you would have more motivated Affiliates.

Your goal is to build your list of "BUYERS" and not loose money on this offer. Making money on the offer is not the goal. Building a big list of "buyers" fast is the goal.

Hope this helps,
Anthony.

PPV traffic rules for list building.

You're paying $0.015 per view, get a 20% sign up rate and you're looking at under 10 cents per email.

Useful tips here - thanks very much.

Andy

PPV can be very costly for a newbie without a lot of experience. It is not something I would recommend unless you really know what you are doing.

Lots of free ways that are just as or more effective to get targetted traffic and sign ups to build your list.

I would check those out first.

If you want to build your list FAST, you have to pay for traffic. Solo ads are an excellent way to jumpstart your list. You find someone who has a list in the same niche you are in, and pay them a certain amount to send their traffic to your squeeze page to start building your list. This is targeted traffic, but be sure that the person you contact has a list that is responsive.

Sign up for high volume forums that relate to your niche and make valuable posts with your site in the sig.

Write quality articles and post original, never before published articles on qondio.com and ideamarketers.com. When they get syndicated, you get good backlinks and immediate targetted traffic. Make sure you are specific with what solution you are to people's problems in the bio without sounding too commercial.

Join the War Room and get this
http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...-networks.html

There are some of the ways.

Hi Sam;-)

You have gotten some great advice from TiffLee, Top Dog Marketer, TopKat22, RyanLB, sbias, imdomination, marcuslim and keepgoin. Listen to what they say.

…and I do cling to the phrase: the money is in the list,
but I'd like to dive into it and probably add some more Sam.


You have several questions Sam:

1. Help me Build a LIST ! (your forum post headline)
2. Tell me the best way to build a list
3. Tell me the easiest way to build a list
4. Prove the "myth" so I can believe it

Answers:

0. List?
I have been around for a while (not in Warrior forum but the IM space/offline space) and believe me: I have done alot of mistakes Sam. My worst mistake has been this: Using the word list (for myself). No one actually want to be on a list "a list number". We are individual human beings on our way to solve our own specific "problem" to get a "better life". The day I Changed the word "list" to: How can I best help my sister or brother to solve what She or He wants to solve as fast as possible, things changed. I had to be sure what my brothers real problem was. When I knew that, I could point out or give him the exact solution to solve his problem.


1. Help me build a LIST
The first thing I could do is to sign up on your list. Where do I sign up?
I'm not kidding. Tell me where it is Sam, and you have gotten one more on your list.
Since you are you, YOU have your eyes and view on great stuff that I might miss: Tell me about it, an why I should
take a closer look. Let me get to know you. Let your personality show in your e-mail to me.
1+1+1+1+1…

2. Tell me the best way to build a list
You have started, send me to the list Sam.

The best way to build a list is to believe that you actually know something that some people actually do not know and that they would like to know just that.
Life is a "journey". We learn. I'm sure that a lot of the people you personally know, know nothing about all the things you know. The next time you meet one of them, ask:
What is your greatest Challenge, right now? Watch this persons face, body language and words. What does this person say? Continue after a while with this question: If this "problem/challenge" was solved, how would your life have been then? Listen. If I could have helped you solving your problem, what would this have been worth to you?
Listen to the answer. "Hand over that solution".

List, Internett, Long distance. I'm on several great peoples lists because they make my life more rich. I'm on several peoples lists because they tell me about something
that I might have missed if they had not told me about it. When you are you, true to your self and think of me as a person that you'd love to help and I feel it – you got a fan,
a person that would listen to what you have to say.

3. Tell me the easiest way to build a list
I'd like to add (fastest way). The fastest way to build a list is, right now, to tell me where to sign up and why.
The second best way is: Adwords, Facbook ad (a specific ad to a specific Landing page with a autoresponder form). I could have said: squeeze page, but I know that Google and alot of those (companies) out there does not like it anymore. The so called Gurus, do not mention ads that much, but they use it all of the time. Why? Because
ranking on the first page of Google takes time (and google change all the time). Ad = costs money as you know. Build 1 + 1+ 1+1 over a week, watch results, stay on budget (don't spend alot of money). It's all a numbers game: How much is a person "listening to me" worth (long term/long term).

4. Prove the "myth" so I can believe it
Send me to your optin page. Tell me why I should sign up. Build a relationship with me. Follow up with stuff you would have appreciated to have received yourself.
Build the relationship. Use your uniqe voice (world view). Do not sell crap. Consider the affiliate product you tell me about before you send it. If you send an e-mail just to earn a quick buck, I'll understand. If you send me to an offer you think is worth for me spending my time on viewing because it is great, do so. Remember. It's hard to know me if you don't know me. The more you know about how I feel and are at – the more success you'll have. If you can earn $1, you can earn $10, $100 and so on…Focus on 1 thing at the time.

The money is given to you because the people you care about listen to what you have to say and take action.
The money is Not in the list! The money is a result of the value you provide. No value = No money. People opt out. Pay attention to why. Why did they first sign up? Why did they stay? Why did they leave?

Some marketers - actually do not care if people leave (In my opinion: the day I do not care, people dont care). Balance your promotions/info. I'm sure you'll have great success Sam, and start today, right now (pay attention to "your friend I mentioned in #2)

Hope some of this was usefull Sam

Wish you great succes,

sofus

Hi Sofus,

Thanks a lot for your advice. You really went to the core of my concerns and pointed out nice points

Although Loved your way

I would be happy if you could tell me some FREE WAYS to get targeted traffic too

PS: Just dont mention forum marketing,article marketing,etc

If possible then explain the method too

Regards
~Sam~

Some great advice here on this thread! Most important thing is research fully before starting. A good list needs to be done right. If you try to build too fast you may be wasting your time! Check everything is set up and tested before you start driving traffic to your squeeze page. Finally, someone mentioned buyimg a list! DON'T! If anyone has a good list then why sell? It's not like your list is major time consuming! People only sell lists because its unresponsive, a good list is a great commodity you wouldn't sell!
Good luck

Building a list is not enough. You may have a huge list but no results.

In my earlier days of internet marketing I subscribed to so many lists only to realize that I was bombarded with sales offers.

Now, I am very selective to whom I give my email. You can easily destroy your list.

I see this trend of getting people on the list and then send them everyday emails, promotional, affiliate offers.

Now, I quickly unsubscribe from that list and keep those whom I see genuine, honest and treat you not like another damn buyer but like someone who needs some helpful information, tips, priducts etc...I gladly buy from them.

Can anybody tell me that how can i filter non-buyers or freebie seekers from my list?

Because obviously if a person is a freebie seeker then We dont want him in the list !

How one can tackle that ?

Samrath,

You don't believe the money's in the list????

Your thinking is seriously flawed. No insult intended, but this shows a lack of understanding about how business fundamentally works.

You have a product or service to sell.

Fact: You have to invest time, money and effort in finding qualified prospects to sell to.

Fact: New prospects are less likely to trust you since they don't know you. People buy from people they know, like and trust.

Fact: It's MUCH more expensive to continually look for new prospects to sell to than it is to sell to your EXISTING list of prospects and customers (who presumably already know you, like you and trust you).

I don't know the exact figure, but there IS a multiple of cost to find and sell to new prospects than it is to sell to your EXISTING list. (It's something like 4 or 6 times more expensive to find new prospects and get them to buy from you than it is to get your existing list to buy from you.)

First, you don't have the time and cost of finding new people. Then you don't have to jump the trust hurdle.

Plus, you're FOREVER looking for new customers if you don't have a list.

If your list is big enough and if you have a product (or products) at a high enough price point, you indeed CAN generate six figures JUST from your own list -- either over time (more likely) or all at once.

Once you build a list, you can burrow deep and find more problems you can help solve. Then just create new products and services to help solve their problems. It's a lot easier and you have a lot more credibility with your existing list of people.

If you're NOT building a list and continually chasing NEW prospects and customers, you'll be continually chasing the brass ring with very little stability in your business.

Building a list is just SMART business.

Hope that helps clarify it!

Michelle

All, does this only work if you have your own product? And do you have to give away a free 'product'?

What if you were trying to build a list just to send out your own ezine every week with what's new on your site etc? Would this possibly work?

I am not so concerned with freebie seekers. Give enough valuable quality information and good service to your list (just like to your customers) and you will do ok.

They may purchase something some day or they may just share your site with others because they value the information.

It is a numbers game. Get enough people on your list and you will do fine.

As for giving something away or just having a sign up for the ezine, that is giving something away, the information in your ezine. If you write the squeeze page well and they see the value in subscribing without anything else being given away, then that is fine.

In my lists, in the 3 niches I'm concentrating on right now, I give something away immediately that has real value. After that, I give some real value in the follow up emails, too.

I also do not recommend promoting very much at all.

So yes, the freebie seekers who sign up and then opt out get real value once but they cheat themselves from the future value.

Which is fine. There will always be those people who take and take and take and never give back always afraid they will be duped or taken advantage of (and they usually are because of their belief system and their own actions).

But most people like to give something back or feel like they are offering even exchange. They may buy something. They may promote your site.

However, the main thing in all business, imho, is to serve.

Money always follows service. Maybe not directly from the person served, but nonetheless, from somewhere.

Alot of people are actually moving away from building email lists and into phone number lists. Do you do this?

I know some people are doing text message marketing on cell phones but I don't.

I don't mind having emails sitting in my email box, but a lot of text messages on my phone, how annoying.

Plus, I can say more in an email.

Offer good quality content, preferably something free like an e-book or short report, in exchange for people to get on your list...

List building works. I even dedicated a day per week to list building and email marketing every single week.

If you want to get a lot of subscribers fast, paid traffic is the solution. Think solo ads.

Franck

The BEST way to build a list is to provide offer something valuable to the subscribers. Now, when I say valuable, I mean, REALLY VALUABLE. Something they can't resist. Concentrate on giving quality and value in unique ways and trust me, you'll be surprised to see how curious people would get to be into your list.

Hey TopKat22

I was thinking that you know alot about list building and suddenly saw your sig link lol

You are a ListBuilding GURU man

Thanks for supporting me

Regards
~Sam~

No problem. I am happy to help. But I am NO GURU! ;-)

I stuggled along to begin with and a lot of people helped me out a lot on this forum so I'm just paying it forward.

I like to give away all the stuff that took me what seems like FOREVER to find and implement and I try to simplify it.

And this is what I do. Not just something I've read about.

Thanks for great information.

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

Is about building good relationship with your list that counts.