Advice for starting a email list?

kerry3280

12 years ago

I am not sure how you intend to build a list without a website?

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Zack Sprague 12 years ago

Originally Posted by kerry3280

I am not sure how you intend to build a list without a website?

Yeah me either I will look into it though!
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davejug1

12 years ago

You can build a list on a leech site like wordpress for example. You need to provide good content to give your visitors reason to subscribe. You should look to getting yourself a domain and hosting ASAP though.

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Zack Sprague

12 years ago

Originally Posted by davejug1

You can build a list on a leech site like wordpress for example. You need to provide good content to give your visitors reason to subscribe. You should look to getting yourself a domain and hosting ASAP though.

I do have hosting and I do not know how I'm going to get myself a website with no money to investment at the momment.

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kerry3280

12 years ago

Originally Posted by flatbro94

I do have hosting and I do not know how I'm going to get myself a website with no money to investment at the momment.

You can pick up a domain name cheap at godaddy and then get cheap hosting from somewhere like hostgator and then load wordpress onto it from the hostgator control panel. You can then tweak it so it's just how you want it. Provide killer content, free giveaway for signing up and you will start to build a list.

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Zack Sprague

12 years ago

Originally Posted by kerry3280

You can pick up a domain name cheap at godaddy and then get cheap hosting from somewhere like hostgator and then load wordpress onto it from the hostgator control panel. You can then tweak it so it's just how you want it. Provide killer content, free giveaway for signing up and you will start to build a list.

I think I will try that hopefully soon.

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smadronia 12 years ago

Originally Posted by flatbro94

I do have hosting and I do not know how I'm going to get myself a website with no money to investment at the momment.

Get a .info domain. They're cheap, like $3.

Don't have $3? Post a gig you can do on Fiverr, get one person to buy it, and wait for the money to get int your Paypal account. you only get $4, but it will get you enough for a .info domain, it just takes a few weeks.

For hosting, if you want to do it really, REALLY cheap and you have $5 (again, do a fiverr gig),you can sign up at nearlyfreespeech.net. You can throw a 1 page webpage up (look for a free mini site template) and paste your code in there, to go wit hyour free autoresponder.

NFS is super cheap hosting, if you have a small website without a lot of content. It's like $1 per gigabyte of transfer, $0.01 per megabyte stored on their servers for a month, and $0.10 per month for a static website. So, you could conceivably host on NFS speech for 6 months with $5, provided you have a simple website and not a lot of files stored.

I dont' advise trying to install Wordpress on their sites, as you have to do it manually, and it's not something newbies should attempt. But a 1 page mini site should be enough.
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- Zack Sprague 12 years ago
  
  I got a wordpress site up using a subdomain, I will build a squeeze page out that and go from there .
  
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  RizNicolas 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by flatbro94
  
  I got a wordpress site up using a subdomain, I will build a squeeze page out that and go from there .
  
  After you build your squeeze page, the next step is to test it by driving a lot of targeted traffic to it. Depending on the niche and type of traffic, you should target an opt-in rate to your squeeze page of at least 30% minimum. But being able to drive lots of targeted traffic is THE KEY.
  
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salegurus

12 years ago

Originally Posted by flatbro94

I do have hosting and I do not know how I'm going to get myself a website with no money to investment at the momment.

You have been quoted as saying that you have bought a domain, now you don't have a site but you do have hosting?
Furthermore you have had no money to invest for months, you have already been outed on another thread.

Before wasting time with more questions follow the advice you have already been given. Like others have told you, get some funds together which you can use to start your online business.

We all know you are broke, do something about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Zack Sprague

12 years ago

Originally Posted by salegurus

You have been quoted as saying that you have bought a domain, now you don't have a site but you do have hosting?
Furthermore you have had no money to invest for months, you have already been outed on another thread.

Before wasting time with more questions follow the advice you have already been given. Like others have told you, get some funds together which you can use to start your online business.

We all know you are broke, do something about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for bashin on me bro! >.<! Fine im broke you happy!!!!! Im not doing Fiverr either as im not going with paypal!

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davejug1

12 years ago

If you have control panel within your website they should have either site builders, or scripts that can install blogging code like wordpress. This should make it easier for you, although what I would suggest is to learn something about internet marketing before you start to build a list

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Zack Sprague

12 years ago

Originally Posted by davejug1

If you have control panel within your website they should have either site builders, or scripts that can install blogging code like wordpress. This should make it easier for you, although what I would suggest is to learn something about internet marketing before you start to build a list

Should I use a subdomain maybe?

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Christines Dream

12 years ago

Hi. I don't use free website sites however Weebly states under their "other features" that:

Power users have full control over the HTML and CSS used in the website theme. This means that you can completely customize the look and feel of the site, while also taking advantage of the Weebly drag & drop editor to create the website content.

So, having full control over the HTML code should (you may want to contact them first to confirm) allow you to insert your optin forum code from your autoresponder.

I would also make sure you know what you need to do to be a "Power user". Is that their pro version? -- don't know.

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Zack Sprague

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Christines Dream

Hi. I don't use free website sites however Weebly states under their "other features" that:
So, having full control over the HTML code should (you may want to contact them first to confirm) allow you to insert your optin forum code from your autoresponder.

I would also make sure you know what you need to do to be a "Power user". Is that their pro version? -- don't know.

Power user I guess it might be pro, because I have not really created a website with Weebly at all.

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davejug1

12 years ago

Do you know what a subdomain is and the reason for using one? If not I would suggest you don't, if you do you will already know the answer to your question.

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Zack Sprague 12 years ago

Originally Posted by davejug1

Do you know what a subdomain is and the reason for using one? If not I would suggest you don't, if you do you will already know the answer to your question.

So the answer would be yes?
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Detangled

12 years ago

Why not create a site with wordpress and just use a squeeze page theme? It's pretttttttty simple.

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Zack Sprague 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Detangled

Why not create a site with wordpress and just use a squeeze page theme? It's pretttttttty simple.

Like a wordpress subdomain website with a squeeze page theme? If you mean that then sure I would get right on it!
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- Griffin Smith 12 years ago
  
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JasonGrimes

12 years ago

Just a quick tip, providing a freebie should hopefully encourage your visitors to subscribe.

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sureshots

12 years ago

I recommend purchasing a domain name and getting web hosting first. I'm familiar with Listwire it's a good option for beginners if you're using YouTube or some sort of video marketing to promote yourself or your business you might not even need hosting I've known several people who've used YouTube to generate leads without a website.

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paul_1

12 years ago

You need to have a website or at least a free blog so you can install an autoresponder's script on to your site... The autoresponder script is the one that collects the emails and builds the list for you...

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Randall Magwood

12 years ago

Get a website so that you can create a squeeze page. Then position your opt-in box on your page so that you can collect the opt-in. With no website though... you won't get pretty far in your internet marketing efforts. Your traffic sources will be limited if you don't have a website.

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