How To Make An Email List!

I can also create and embed custom messages and images and integrate them with my optin forms.

I can put the exact message I want.

I even add customized message windows into my PDF's which work when the reader tries to close the PDF. So when they close it, they are then automatically redirected to any website I choose.

Its' the exact opposite to what you're saying in fact..

With the conventional 'squeeze page' model, you're trying to get your prospect to optin BEFORE they can download the free whatever you're offering ( a report etc).

Think about the whole psychology of that for a minute from the prospects point of view....

You're asking a complete stranger who has just landed on your 'squeeze page' for the first time to give you their valuable contact details in exchange for a free whatever.

What would they do that?

Why should they even trust you?

You haven't done one thing to gain their trust in the first place.

They don't know you from Adam, and for all they know you could be the biggest scam artist on the internet ready to bombard them with endless scam emails.

With my strategy, the prospect can download my free report, no strings attached, no optin required. Nothing.

So immediately I've done what I promised,....I've let them download my 'free whatever' no strings attached.

So straight away, I've created some trust in their mind, so now their guard is lowered.

As I see it, so many marketers are hung up on the 'squeeze page' way, that they have blinders on to thinking outside the square.

The fact is you can't just rely on only one strategy as being the be-all-end-all to building your lists, because it's not.

Sure the 'squeeze page' will always work. But it's just one strategy

"Sneaky" is indeed the ideal word to describe this trick.

Glen, in your follow up post, you talk about building trust by delivering what you promised - a no-strings download. It's the exact truth. Good for you...

Now, when I want to see the content of the download - the reason I downloaded the file in the first place - I get the opt-in form your offer told me I wasn't going to see. Do you still think my trust level is all that high? Or if I do opt in, am I going to be watching for the next "sneaky trick"?

It reminds me of then-President Bill Clinton looking dead-on into a TV camera, wagging his finger at the whole country, and proclaiming "I did not have sex with that woman..." The exact truth, if your define "have sex" with coitus.

Slick Willie survived that scandal, but his main legacy is always going to be his 'inappropriate relationship' with an intern and a cigar.

You can still be truthful and up front with them. Saying something like, "need info in book to read", on your front page. Something like that, I would have to think about it. Then all they will see is a download button.

I'm thinking on the fact that people would definitely hit that button to download with out an opt-in first. Then your opt-in is on their computer.

It depends how you use the power you are granted with. If your truthful and up front with them, I see no problem with this.

Everyone is thinking on being sneaky with this. That is not the point. I could have in big red text, "You Need To Provide Name And Email On Cover Of eBook In Order To Read It". Your opt-in rates still would be higher. People have a problem giving info up front. Thinking they might not get the download. If you give them the download first, they will trust you that much more, giving you their info on the cover to read it. There is nothing sneaky about this.