What Is Stopping You From Building Your List?

I don't have a good incentive to join. On youtube there are some great video's for building jour list example search: Joel Christopher

Nothing is stopping me now, however i never used to know how important the "LIST" was to my online ventures. I used to chase every next big thing expecting miracles . I wasted about a year ,hour after hour until i finally listened to a friend of mine who kept telling me to build a highly targeted responsive list. I'm due him a good few beers .

If i can help in your quest of building your list let me know.

Best wishes

Mine are similar:

1. Finding...narrowing down a good niche. One where there are people looking for and spending money on things.
2. What to give them? Well, I always hear, "Give them really great stuff...your best stuff." That's my problem...if I keep giving them all of my best stuff, I'll have nothing left for the e-book or whatever my end product is. That is the problem of what to give them to join the list and what to "sell" them later.
3. Getting traffic to an Opt-In page that is unranked in Google (at least initially) in a fairly competitive market. I don't want to spend a fortune in PPC to get a list.

Cheers,
Magic

my number 1 problem i have(apart from getting around to getting an aweber account)
is deciding whether to focus on 1 list in 1 niche only or spread myself over several niches.

Hey Marcus,

as you mentioned in your post, the thing that was
stopping you is YOU. Therefore, nothing else is stopping
everyone else from building their lists but themselves.

Igor

Also you must respect your list , don't bombard them with offer after offer.

Well - the real issue is getting people on the list in
a context that makes them likely to view you as a
friendly, welcome presence in their inbox instead of
an annoyance.

You can build a list faster if all you want is names on
it - there are literally millions of people who live in
poverty who are looking for freebies, especially ways
to make money online. Many have no bank accounts
and struggle with English - so while they are eager to
subscribe their lifetime customer value is pretty darn
low.

I don't write this to be mean or discriminatory - I got an
email the other day from one of my subscribers reading
"no spech english" from which I infer that the guy
has no idea what my stuff is about and has no clue
why he subscribed the first place.

So - let's qualify the list-building thing and say we want
subscribers who can understand our communication
efforts and have the basic ability to spend money
online.

I've been building lists for a few years - but I coach people
and I know for a fact that a lot of people will sit around
for months or years researching and trying things out and
not spend $20 a month for a good autoresponder. That's
likely not a problem with anybody here - but in the niche
of people who want to "make money" it's actually a pretty
big factor that keeps people from getting anywhere -
not getting started, basically.

Now the other factor is the CARROT or goodie you offer in
exchange for the signup. Free crap is so abundant these
days it's actually a little tricky because most people
won't even read your ebook or whatever - even if it's
really good we must realize that most of our material
just doesn't get any kind of focused attention from
subscribers - so the process of winning them over is
not done in the free ebook or video course, but over the
course of time in email and drip-fed content.

These days I think it is best to offer something of
high perceived value - and ironically you really need to
go to WORK with your copy and salesmanship to get
people to even accept your free Goodie -

... pay attention here, because this is relevant and
if you don't consider it carefully you could be really
shooting yourself in the foot:

Today the issue is selling prospects on entering into
your lead-funnel at all - not selling your products -
just getting their permission.

And it will get more competitive to get that permission
from enough people to build a responsive list fast enough
to succeed in the marketplace of tomorrow.

Building a profitable opt-in list Won't just happen overnight. There are many preparations and effort to do. Opt-in lists are built from scratch, as your list grows, you should also maintain the quality of your list.

Keep it organized and manageable. Get help if need be, just make sure that your subscribers are happy and satisfied and they will be willing to buy from you.

Its hard to lose interest as everyday can focus your attention on a new challenge or problem to solve............ In a few years when i do this full time i will look back at this first 2 yrs as my schooling for Internet Marketing.

The list building can seem quite scary but really once you have a few angles it all starts to gel together.
A good tip for securing that subscriber is: Use the P.S to its full extenet.
Too many people slip up and miss a great selling chance.
Think about it by the time someone gets to your P.S they have already made an opinion on your product/site......... Use this last chance to hit them with a new point about the item your email is talking about. This is your last chance to secure the subscription on this email.

Whatever niche you choose should be one where you can keep offering content over time. If it's a very narrow niche with not much happening in it, you're pretty much boxed in about what kind of content you can supply them. So factor in the longevity of your niche, so that you can continue to build relationships with them over time and provide value all along the way, along with great offers for niche-related products and services your niche craves.

The big challenge is picking which of the 20-30 methods of list building to focus on. Sometimes it just takes people months to settle into 1-2-3 methods that fit their style.

This will answer your questions and also give you some free bait . I don't even ask for an opt in .

The no opt in list building report

Your list, as in email marketing list. Is that what your getting at.

Well the first question is the hardest? Where do I find people. As with everything quality takes time. To get a quality list you have to offer quality. You can use social networking, articles, affiliates, jv partners etc. to get the list.

You have to offer them something they want in order to get them on your list. Free quality stuff works best.

You then need to mix offers with valuable content. You can't just send them offers and expect them to stay on your list. You also can't just send them free stuff all of the time because you'll be training them to expect that.

Nothing is stopping me from building my lists, but I think some people tend to complicate it. Preparing an irresistible offer for people hungry for it and getting it in front of them is all it takes. For those who may have been asking where do I find them? That's not a dead-end, but it's a clue to guide you on your research.

While you're doing that research, you'll also find additional info on more ways
to sweeten your offer and so forth. Since you asked for info regarding how to
make your offer more 'quality', the more congruent you can make it, the more
you solve the pains and problems while satisfying the desires, the more irresistible
your offer becomes and the more responsive people are to it.

Edit:Again, you can identify what those pains, problems, desires, 'hot-buttons' are for
creating the most irrestible offers by doing research on your market. They'll tell you
if you listen. For instance, there seems to be quite a demand currently for people
wanting to build their own lists.

For me, I am kind of scared how I can keep communicating and maintain good relationship with them even if they joined my list

"I don't want to waste it" mentality is holding me back...