List Building for Newbies - How and Why?

You don'y have anything to sell? How about offering services on your niche? Just try to take sometime to get killer sales funnel for your list building efforts.

if you don't have anything to sell how do you plan to make money?

If you continue to just let traffic go to your site without
building a list, then you will make sales from people who
are ready to buy TODAY.

However, most people who visit your site are not ready
to buy today. So, rather than letting just leave and
rely on them pro-actively coming back to your site, get
them onto a list.

That way, you build a list of prospects that you can
continue to communicate with over time to give them
useful content and multiple reasons to buy.

This means that you'll get more people to buy (when
they are ready) and you'll build a bigger buyer's list.

You'll not be totally dependent on external traffic sources
to your site because you'll have your own traffic source
(your list) that you control.

Dedicated to mutual success,

Shaun

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First list building would also help retain the traffic on your sites by simple emailing them when you have a new post up which you think will be interesting to them. You can also always find digital products from many sources to promote to your lists depending on your niche. Check out clickbank, jvzoo etc and promote other peoples products to your lists and earn the commissions.

The list building idea is simply that someone who visits your website, likely forgets about it, but if you capture their e-mail then you can keep on presenting your information to them.

There are always things to sell. Think bout directly related and complimentary products, there's definitely stuff out there. Take a look at your competitors and see what they do, then if you like it copy it

Type List Building or List Building Strategies on Google. You will come up with lots of information about list building and it's advantage (in case you haven't found the answer yet from the replies you get from here.)

One thing - it can be quite tough to get people opening your e-mails at first - you need to learn how to appeal to to what your subscribers are looking for. You need to be person with all the answers to the questions they are asking.

I say it can be hard because most e-mails are ignored, as so many are sent, which makes it harder to stand out and to appeal to your readers...

If you just have a big list, but nobody reads your e-mails it is just a cost, you need to get people opening your mails, and clicking on your links to sell...

Hey CupCakeMonster ...

Even if you don't have anything to sell right now, it's a good idea to get their info for now until you have something.

In the mean time simply follow up with them and offer value. At least this will be build a relationship with them and gain your trust

-Shawn

First, that can change.

Secondly, it doesn't matter much anyway, because one of the primary purposes of communicating with subscribers is to keep them returning to your site, so that you can make that initial sale to a wider range of people.

Even if you had only one item, it would be worth building a list. Very few people buy anything at their first visit to sites where it's for sale, and communicating with subscribers is (among other things) a way of increasing the proportion of visitors who return.

It's also a way of encouraging them - by earning their respect over a longer period - to trust you. People buy from/through people they trust.

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Suppose: Someone visits your site by chance in the search engines. To get them to visit your site again you have to rely on the chance that they get to see your site.

But: if you offer them something great for free and they sign up to your list you can now send them to your site in your email campaign - you are no longer dependent on chance. You get to keep that visitor. Can you see why building a list is so important?

I've heard a number of big names in this industry say their #1 regret is not building a list when first starting out.

Keep communicating with your list with good content and you will keep a majority of your subscribers. As for the second part...how to monetize? Well. guess what? You do not have too! May be you are not in this for Internet Marketing (IM) purposes and that is fine. Keep in mind, in IM there is always a new flavor of the month when it comes to monetizing a website, a list, a blog, etc. There is affiliate marketing, adsense, CPA, webinars, sicial media, etc., all which have brought a great deal of money to those who create courses with the intent of helping people monetize something! If you like your current approach and have a high level of satisfaction...there is nothing wrong with not trying to monetize your list!

According to Edwards Demming, profit in business comes from repeat customers.

Rather of thinking of what to "sell" them, think of how you can add greater value to their lives with more of your products or services?

if you go into list building then you have to look at it as a business instead of just making a few extra bucks like you would with something like adsense or cpa offers etc

before you start building your list you do have think about the niche you are in and if it's viable to build a list and if people in that niche are already spending lots of money and buying products

i have found that most of the people that get into list building are the ones that have already spent a lot of time messing around and trying lots of different methods to make money. This is how i got inot list building because i was fed up relying on google for traffic and relying on affiliate programs to pay me

paul

Here's the step-by-step version...

If you don't have anything to sell now, don't worry. Think of your list as something that will be very handy in the future.

Start by sending out interesting emails that say something useful. Quick tips for doing things related to your niche.

Once you have a product to promote, do a series of emails that start out saying useful things, but hinting there's a better way. By email 4 or 5, introduce the product and include your affiliate link.

It doesn't matter if it's the same product as the one on your site... actually, that's better, since the people on your list may already be familiar with that product.

You build a list so you can sell to them. The most effective way I've found is:

1) Create a YouTube video providing value. If it's the "make money online" niche then give them a free tip to make $xxx/day. If it's "weight loss" then give them a tip to lose weight (make sure you know what you're talking about and provide proof).

2) Once you grab the visitor's attention, you can funnel them onto your squeeze page or opt-in box and capture their email address. Tell them something like "for more great tips join my newsletter/mailing group/<insert>".

3) Send the visitor more free tips/services and start building trust (this is most important. DO NOT SKIP). Once you have a relationship established, start sending them paid goods/services. I normally send out 4 or 5 more free tips or services usually once a week before sending out affiliate offers.

4) Rinse & repeat.

This might not be the most efficient method around but I've found that the leads you generate are very responsive and will buy from you. This is a LONG-TERM strategy so don't expect results overnight.

Hi,

What niche are you in?

Does the niche your in have the capacity to be able to build
a profitable list around it?

If you're in the big 3 niche areas then you should have
plenty of areas/topics you can cover and then add these
to your email sequence.

What kind of questions do you see your target audience
asking?

What are their needs?

Can you provide a service or product that can cater to those needs?

You can capture their email address and then direct them to your
site(s) and then they get to know you as a marketer, they can get to
trust you and some (not all) will keep going back to your site and
will eventually buy one or some of your products.

This is the power of email marketing!

You get to build relationships, send updates to your list of when you
have added something of value to your site/blog etc and direct there.

I do this regularly and I have seen opt ins, sales and have built
great relationships this way!

How do I know this?

Because I track where all my sales are coming from, I have
received and continue to receive emails from my subscribers
whether it be questions or thank you's for helping them with a
particular questions or concerns etc etc.

Learn as much as you can on this subject you are in the right
place to learn all there is to know about list building.

Hope this has helped!

And good luck!

Regards
Gavin

After you collect the emails via your autoresponder, continue to market them via email. You dont have to email everyday... consider mailing out every 3-4 days. If you dont have anything to sell, go to Clickbank, Commission Junction, etc to find some affiliate products to promote. You'll more than likely experience more sales and higher conversion rates if you build up an email list - as opposed to leading people directly to your sales page.

Whenever I go into a new niche, launch a new website, or work
with a client doing one of the above, the first thing that we do
is research WHO we are going to serve.

What are their needs, wants, fears, concerns, dreams, etc.

Once we know those things, we ask which of those can we
address, and should we.

We look at what products/services we can provide and if
we see obvious things that the customer demographic would
need/buy and we can't provide it we look for affiliate and
joint venture relationships.

With that information we map out (flowchat) a rough funnel.

With that rough funnel, we can look at touch points... places
and ways that we can get them on our lists and into our tribe.
Once you start flowing it out, it becomes fairly easy to plan a
series of autoresponder messages with VERY specific purposes.

Having an email list allows you to preplan your email sequence,
but also drop in unplanned communications from time to time,
as conditions change.

To me it is all about knowing WHO is on your lists and
developing relationships with them, meeting their actual
needs on many different levels.

With some of my lists I know subscribers name, email,
gender, age, location, interests, rough income levels,
educational levels, etc.

That data is all very useful in making sure that you communicate
with your list members about things that they care about :-)

Talk to them about things that they care about and there is
a natural bond, and they do open and respond to your emails.

Willie

A great way to find out more about what your current traffic may find valuable is to start a dialogue with them. Either way, at least get them onto your email list. You can email several of them personally and ask what can help bring more value into their lives within that niche.

The best thing about a real running business is that you don't necessarily have to think of the ideas, you just have to extract the ideas from your industry

Good luck!