So how do you build your List Fast

I agree with al.

You cannot hope to have a top quality list that was built fast.

The only way to gain subscribers faster is to attract massive numbers of people with great content that they can't get anywhere else.

Build a funnel that is profitable, and buy traffic.

If it's profitable? You've struck gold; continue buying traffic & building your list.

If it's not profitable? Change it until it is.

And even if it's not immediately profitable? You still build your list & get bigger every time, all the while collecting data.

Track traffic sources every step of the way.

^million dollar lesson.

As the "king of traffic" maybe YOU should be teaching US how to build a list fast

You give real value that no one else is offering and just ask for their email. That and Safe Swaps...

Build a solid squeeze page and sale funnel, then drive traffic via solo ads.

I am not getting which type of list you want to build

You need to make your landing page go viral with some unique gift or content for people who opt in. Viral traffic is fast and cheap but you need to think about how to make your page viral...

I also think free list building is not that good. 3k paid subscriber list is far more valuable than 100k freebie seekers.

Buying bulk, spammy list of email names is a waste of time - they're usually full of expired, dead or non existent emails - those that are real probably aren't interested..
You've got to get people who want to be on your list for them to be any use to you later.
To get them interested, you need to offer them something they're interested in.
Give people something interesting and useful for free and they'll be keen to join your list.
Just have to get the offer seen by enough people to start with...

Do you mean free traffic sources?

* you can make videos yourself and publish them to youtube
* you can participate in forum discussions, provide value and advertise via signatures
* you can try guest posts, and find niche blogs and ask to write for them and advertise via author bio


For low cost traffic, you can try PPV.

If you want a FAST method, simply head over to 7 search and offer your free product.

You'll get thousands of subscribers in a matter of hours for just 5-7 bucks. But, don't expect to profit from that list by offering paid products!!

If you want "FAST" and Quality try solo ads. They'd cost you more but it's worth it (given the solo ad subscriber list is good) .

If you want to do it slow and steady...there are a bunch of methods - some already mentioned by fellow warriors in this very thread.

Good Luck.

Why not read the post you wrote on your blog today about how to advertise to over 2 million LinkedIn members, then take action on what you wrote.

You gotta get a big list out of that lot :rolleyes:

You are in Vancouver, right? Become friends with John Chow, hang out and implement his ideas.

1. Solo ads.
2. Twitter (actually a great source of converting traffic).
3. PPC (kinda a small fortune).
4. YT vids.
5. Free incentive that's actually good.

Combine free marketing with paid advertising. In particular, start running some ads on related websites in your niche.

The easiest way to do this, is by creating great, highly converting sales funnel, and then send as much traffic as you can..the money you will pay for solo ads will return from the sales you make..giving you almost free subscribers+ buyers list..

If you want to build really high targetted responsive list, you should go for social media ads, solo ads in you niche, adwords, and if you don't want to spend big money you can do blog commenting, forum marketing, traffic exchange.

Have you tried with solo ads? It's a really targeted and fast way to build a good list.


If you have time (or money to outsource the work) you can try to get traffic from youtube.

I don't normally post on here but I feel like I have to clear this up.

I know a lot of guys who are making 8 and 9 figures and this is how they build their list...

Joint Ventures!

Eben Pagan, Frank Kern, Ryan Deiss, all these guys build their business from joint-ventures.

You can't build a massive business on your own.

And the best way to get JVs are to attend events.

Spend most of the time in building your content and sales funnel, then testing testing testing and doing modification, once you find good combination it is time to buy clicks or even advertise through LP's this is the best way to go for fast track list building

Include social sharing buttons on your blog, give something away for free for new subscribers, hold a contest, and do what you do well.

I did mine using Solo ads

I haven't tried it yet, but this looks promising. I hope it helps.

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ce-online.html

You could start here--->

King of Traffic
King of Traffic

Okay, smartass answer out of my system...

It's like the sign in the repair shop:

> Good
> Fast
> Cheap

Pick two out of three.

Okay, now it's out of my system...

The thing to remember is, unless you are selling solo ads without a conscience, you don't just want a list. You want a responsive list, one that looks forward to your emails rather than ignoring them until they're annoyed enough to unsubscribe or hit the spam button.

That can happen relatively quickly (the 'building the list' part), but you have to be smart about it. Yes, giving stuff away has become the accepted means of getting people to cough up an email, but there's a whole cult of people who will never pay for anything but will accept anything for free. Those people just bloat your list and run up your service bills.

You may not even want A list. You may want several lists.

Let's take the book in my sig for example, since that sig is the only promotion I'm doing for it (I wanted to see what would happen as a baseline for when/if I do decide to actively promote it).

I could try to build a list of anyone interested in email marketing in any way shape or form. Give away a generic lite version or prequel, maybe a couple of specific tips that could apply to any situation. And end up with a lot of "why should I buy the book when I can get all the info I need for free on the Internet" types.

Or, closer to what I would actually do, especially if I ever decided to build a proper funnel around it, I could build a series of lists. Each would target a more specific part of the overall "email marketing" niche. One for info producers, one for brick and mortar retailers, one for consultants, etc. Each with a targeted freebie that would both entice the right people and filter out the wrong ones.

That's how you build lists of responsive buyers. Show them that you can relate to their specific needs, wants and desires. Provide value. Be visible where they hang out - be it on social media, YouTube, in ezines, on blogs, etc. Paid advertising can put your message in front of large numbers of targeted prospects. Entice them to your landing page (I hate the term "driving traffic" - these are people, not sheep or cattle). If you're a War Room member, Warrior Retced has an excellent thread on the death of the squeeze page that outlines an alternative that is tailor made for this approach - demonstrating real value and offering more of the same in exchange for a simple email address.

The best method is giving out real useful things.

You're looking for a magic bullet that doesn't exist.

If you build fast and cheap you'll end up sacrificing quality....

if you want to build a high quality responsive list then slow and steady is the only way.

Once you build a responsive list of several thousand and your subscribers look forward to opening and reading your messages because they've grown accustomed to knowing you provide real value to them and not just one sales pitch after another, then doing ad swaps with other list owners is a good free way to grow your list.

Free in the sense that you wont have to pay in cash, but you will still pay in time and effort.

Once you know your conversion numbers then paid traffic will produce your fastest and cheapest results.

If you know that every $1 invested into buying a click returns $1.20 to you how many clicks would you buy?

At that rate you could buy 1,000 clicks everyday and make a $200 daily profit. How long would it take in time and effort to get 1,000 new clicks per day without paying for them?

Cheers,
Steve Ski

have an opt-in list instead of putting manually addresses and at the end you will have only the 1/4 of those. subscribe plugin/content, good content to make people subscribe, offers, email marketing ...

Paid solo ads give me the best bang for my buck.

Using Co-reg would be the fastest then use ad swaps to scale that list.

Irresistible sticky content - tease them with FREE but great value content and then offer more content in steps (e.g. 8 week course etc) so they need to signup to get the next portion of the information. People hate missing out or missing "part" of something, offering them something in parts is a good way to build desire for more information.

Quality and value is the key