My Top 5 list-building secrets...

GREAT :-) Glad you like the course Paul...Put as much of it into action as you can mate :-)

Getting affilliates to promote is actually easy than you think it is buddy... Most people are too scared to ask. My best advice is to focus on smaller affilliates first as the big names are less likely to promote you (until you get big, that is). Make sure your EPCs (earnings per click) are nice and high (ideally over a dollar per click) and most smaller affiliates in your niche will be keen to promote you. (upsells, high converting sales copy and bonuses should help the EPC. Oh and obviously a kick ass product with loads of good reviews :-) )

The JV forum on here is a good place to make friends and meet people, plus also don't be shy of promoting for other people and then asking them
if they'll return the favour. Then treat your affiliates like gold and grow from there. Also don't be shy of asking affiliates to recommend other friends of theirs to you... once you get networking it gets easier :-)

Best advice I can give you is focus on making the deal as good as you can for your affs and your customers :-) Always look at everything from their point of view :-) You should be the LEAST important person in your business (I come last in mine!)

Solo ads are harder to find outside of the IM niche, but if you contact ezine or newsletter directories they offer a similar service in all sorts of niches. Plus.. ask around.. many IMers do have lists in other niches :-)

Ahh, I'm glad the old VIP giveaway caught your attention... 'tis truly a fabulous method of listbuilding :-)

You know the big jv giveaway events? The ones where hundreds of people contribute free gifts? Well, they work well and the organisers of those can make 1000s of new subs by holding one... BUT the software is expensive and they take A LOT of time to organise and moderate.

VIP giveaways are mini-versions with no software and very little organisation required.

Imagine you get 4 big list owners to each agree to send 100 clicks to your VIP giveaway event. You tell them the date and time to start sending the clicks and everyone agrees to start sending clicks within an agreed time limit and also to ensure that ALL clicks are sent by a second time limit (typically with in a few hours to start sending clicks and within a week to send all clicks)

Ok, so this now means that these 4 people will be sending a total of 400 clicks to your event. But what is your event? Well basically, a squeeze page telling people to sign up and join the event to claim their free gifts... they sign up, get on your list and are then taken to a thank you page upon which the 4 jv partners gifts are offered... obviously the attendees then sign up for whatever gifts they like and everyone wins :-)

Typically, in a 4 or 5 way event people will get back an extra 25% clicks back for the ones they send... so in this event they could expect 125 clicks back in return for sending 100... so its better for them than a normal adswap. Very often they can do even better than this.

It's brilliant for you because you get ALL the clicks, your only job is to organise the event and to ensure everyone delivers the clicks (that's pretty much the only thing that can go wrong)

Some event organisers incentivise things by offering cash prizes or free mail outs to the list after the event... all this stuff helps too

So in other words, you don't need a list yourself, or a gift (cos your "gift" is access to the event) or any financial investment :-)

Hope that helps, pm me if you need it explaining any better :-)

Peace and Lemon Meringue Pie

Phil Ainsworth