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HI warriors
I'm just wondering - is it worthwhile to use PPC for only list-building? I'm just getting started on a project and I'm new this.

I started my autoresponder 18 days ago. Right now, I have 139 subscribers. I am sending out every 2 days with a free item, and an offer for an affiliate offer or a CPA offer. So far, no nibbles on anything that pays! Very few clicks to the offers, as a matter of fact.

My thought in the beginning was to use Adwords to get traffic, build the list, then sell to them. Am I right? wrong?

I paused my Adwords campaign for a couple of days, for curiosity, and the number of subscribers dropped (which I thought would happen). So the Adwords IS helping to build my list, but...... my list isn't working so far... :confused:

Any thoughts? advice?

Thanks in advance!
#build #list #ppc
  • Profile picture of the author tazsolmarketing
    The only question is how exactly do you build a list? Well, there are several ways, article marketing, joint ventures with other online marketers, and pay per click. Although by far the most expensive way, pay per click might easily be the quickest way to build a list that will pay you dividends month after month. Let's talk about how to make this happen.The first thing you need to do is to figure out your niche. You might already be working in a niche, or you might not have a niche, but if you're building a list, one thing you want to consider is your ability to sell your customers more than one product.
    You see lists serve two purposes in internet marketing. One, they let you get your message to your customers more than once, so that hopefully, they'll buy on the fifth, sixth, or seventh advertising message. Two, (and this is the more important of the two), they let you sell your customers other products and more expensive products.
    A prospect is in the best mood to buy when they've got the old credit card out and they've just input their number into your web form. That's actually the single best time to hit them with a complementary product (called a cross-sell), or a more expensive product (called an up-sell). Now, you can do this without a list, but the list only makes it work better!
    It's five times less expensive to sell something else to a satisfied customer than it is to find a new customer!
    So, your best bet for selling your more expensive products is to your already satisfied customers. This is, of course, assuming you have satisfied customers. So, you'd better not sell them junk the first go around!
    A list, or in this case, lists, allow you to keep track of who bought what and lets you sell folks who've bought your introductory product more expensive products. Designing products that grow in price, completeness, and complexity is called creating a product funnel. If you really want to make money out of your list, you'd better give a lot of thought to this idea of a product funnel.
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    • Profile picture of the author twinmom
      Thanks for the input - I'm studying it word by word.

      As for my niche - I don't know, that could be the problem. A little background - for my first IM project, I decided (at the advice of the folks on this forum) to concentrate on a market I had some knowledge in. I've had a successful website for 10 years, but it's selling physical product, and that is product that I create (by hand). I have very high customer satisfaction with this business. Now, I know this is a declining market - I've seen it over time, but I had hoped it would be a good one to at least learn some IM strategies. So that's why I am unsure if my lack of sales is something I am doing wrong, or if it's the customer base.

      As far as how I am building my list, I have a site with a few freebies, and I have an opt-in box to receive more free items and special offers. I guess they just want the freebies.

      The PPC isn't costing me a lot - most of my keywords are at 0.07 each, and I end up getting about half of that back in Adsense. LOL

      Does this background info help any?
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      • Profile picture of the author preethy
        Hey you are right Lets Say you have Offers for products at your site and you show the information then PPC will not be a good ROI for you but if you are selling Products like Laptops then the PPC will help you as the ROI of it will be good. So competing against Big player for a keyword has to be checked before you get in bidding for it and more importantly the key word CTR will get you a cheaper PPC
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