List builders...what do you think of this?

1. Its easier said then done. Concepts are concepts, the real world is something else.

2. Getting targeted lead is sometimes hard, and many times the traffic sources are limited. Sometime you can only spend $250 in a week with your budget set as high as it goes. So simply put spending $10,000 to $50,000 is not an option.

The money is not in the list - the money is in the relationship you build with that list and how responsive they are to your messages asking them to click on the links you supply or purchase the products you recommend.

Building a list of 10,000 people without builidng a rapport with that list is not going to earn you a cent.

List builidng is not per se what you should be focussing on. Creating products of value that offer solutions to people who are in pain is what you need to be focussing on.

Yeah, you can throw down money on ads with the simple goal to make more than what you put in.

You'll find though, that it's probably not as black and white as that rule of thumb suggests since there's going to be many factors inclusive of what you're selling, who you're targetting and how fierce competition is which will reflect your ad bid for exposure.

Daniel

The money is not in the list - the money is in the relationship you build with that list and how responsive they are to your messages asking them to click on the links you supply or purchase the products you recommend.

Building a list of 10,000 people without builidng a rapport with that list is not going to earn you a cent.

List builidng is not per se what you should be focussing on. Creating products of value that offer solutions to people who are in pain is what you need to be focussing on.

It depends on a lot of things, including:

-Your niche
-Your ability to form business relationships
-Your conversion process
-The price point of your product

And quite a bit more. Ideally, you would be able to earn $1 per subscriber per month if you knew exactly what you were doing. Let's do an example with a $97 product that you created:

You have a compelling squeeze page that converts at 30%, 7 well crafted follow up messages packed with value (and your link) and a sales page that converts at 1%.

Let's say that you only convert at 1% by the time each subscriber hits your 7th message. Let's also say you purchased $1000 of solo ads and got 2,000 visitors.

By this example, you would gain about 600 new subscribers, 6 customers, and make about $582.

It really comes down to testing, tracking, and optimizing your entire sales funnel.

One month I was getting a 20% conversion rate on my squeeze page, but by doing 1 single split test I increased that to 40%. Same thing with my sales page, but from 1% to 2%. This was all based on 1000 visitors as well.

Test, track, and optimize everything!

I'm not sure products are the problem for me, it'd just be the day to day content. Or maybe I should only send emails 2-3 times a week to my subscribers. Don't want to annoy them...

If you pay $1 per lead, yeah the subscriber should be worth $1 per every mouth they are on there. To accomplish this you have to sell them something that is worth $12 or have them join a membership site.
If you have $10,000-$50,000, you could be an investor. I hope this was usefully.

yes in theory thats doable, but its not nearly as easy as it seems. you need quality products and a great relationship with your list to earn from it

With that method you have no way to build a relationship with your list and without that they will never open your emails. Building a list is building trust, so once you have a list you need to answer there problems and provide quality information about whatever the reason why they joined your list in the first place over and over.

if your prepared to pay for traffic in order to see results then that is a good thing

however

you can`t just throw money at the wall and hope that some of it will just stick

this is how many marketers lose there shirt when it comes to paid traffic

start off small and start optimizing your campaigns and try to make them as profitable as possible

even if your not making any profit and your just breaking even that is fine because you know that if you spend $1k on traffic and you make back around the same then you would of still gained hundreds of new subscribers

so looking at it that way the campaign was still a success

start off small and then when your getting good results, that is then the time to really scale things up

paul

Yep - that's what I always suggest to folks...

Spend money to get a good sales funnel made (if you can't create one yourself)...

Buy traffic in small amounts to test the funnel...

Tweak sales funnel until break even (or better)...

Then buy more and more traffic...

Once your sales funnel is break even (or better) you are essentially building your list for free and that is a beautiful thing

This is what I did and still do to this day

List building rocks

Money is not in the size of your list,it is in the quality of the list and the relationship you build with those subscribers.

A "buyer" list is at least 10 times more powerful than that made from freebie seekers and with a "buyer" list,you can easily make more than $1/subscriber per month.

Before you start building a list,be sure to properly build a backend funnel.As most of your profits will come in the backend promotions,having a few products that match with your prospects needs and aspirations,will make a big difference to your bottom line.

This is not a good idea.

I don't really think you need to spend so much of money to get the same amount of subscribers. You can start with the paid methods. Get a nice converting squeezepage, get some paid traffic as you have money.

Try different traffic sources as all traffic sources are not same. You can spend 100$ on adwords to get 20 subs, whereas you can get 50 targeted subs with FB for 20$. All depends on your testing. Do what works best and eliminate that doesn't work. There are good paid traffic sources. Solo ads are one to go. I like JV Giveaway events to build my list too.

Once you have good 1000-2000 subs. You can can do adswaps with other list owners and grow your list fast.

Youtube could be good source of free traffic if done properly.