List Building - Does it work for you?

This. Exactly.

There are a few hundred threads in this forum with titles like "What's The One Thing You'd Do Differently If You Were Starting Again Tomorrow?". Take a look through a small sample of them, and you'll find that one of the things they all have in common is that they're full of replies from long-established, successful Warriors almost all of whom give the same answer: the thing they'd do differently, with what they know now but didn't know when they started, is "start to build a list on day 1". There are reasons for that.

This little thread is worth a look: Without Building a List, How Consistent is Your Income from Affiliate Marketing

Without lists, (a) you can't keep traffic returning to your site (and very few people, typically, will buy anything at their first visit), and (b) you can't effectively make repeated sales to the same customers (which many of us have found is where the bulk of the income is, in internet marketing).

Amit,

This is not the best strategy. Yes, you want to give your subscribers free and great value but you also want to put food on the table.

You should not wait a while to promote something. You should have some kind of an offer on every email that you send out.

Hi There

I'm just start using GetResponse to build my list and i want to know if is there any differences between GR and aweber, what do you think is the best and why?

Thanks

I have built a pretty nice size list in the last 2 years and I love it. It's where 60% of my income comes from.

But like people stated on this thread, you need to build relationships.

Sometimes it is not so easy by just sending them emails so I do other things to show people I am real and wanting to connect with them.

I also don't throw my unsubscribes away like most do. I keep them.

What I do is at the end of each week I take all my subscribers or at least some of them and grab all the email addresses and search fro them on either FB,Google + , Twitter, Linkedin and a few other social networks and look for them there and connect with them.

I just leave them a simple message letting them know I noticed they signed up to my site and want to connect with them and share ideas or whatever you want to say.

I do this with all my unsubscribes as well

Remember alot of people unsubscribe not because they didn't like you but just because they don't know you or they might be on too many lists.

But showing them your real brings in that bond.

About 50% of the emails I go through connect with me.

I don't do this all myself since I bring in 100-300 subscribers daily but you can outsource this for 10 bucks a week and its definitely worth it for all the connections you can make.

Craig

P.S. Leaving a message with your phone number saying call me sometimes works hell of wonders.

I'm sure not everyone has a same view as me. But I personally prefer the GetResponse, as they have many features that are very helpful.
And fast.