List Building Success Formula Created By: Mike Tansey FreeReportProfit.com
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Table of Contents Introduction... 5 Why Own A List?... 7 Choosing An Autoresponder... 9 Building A List From Your Websites... 13 List Building With Co-Registration... 16 List Building With Giveaways... 18 List Building With Pay Per Lead... 20 What To Send To Your List... 22 Building Relationships With Your List... 24 Finding Content... 26 Summary... 29 Resources... 31
Introduction A list is a very valuable resource and something that every Internet Marketer should have. If you are not building a list then you are effectively losing money. Many marketers make more money from a single email to their lists than they do from sales from their sites. A list consists of people who have requested information from you. They will have typically visited one of your websites and filled in a form requesting information. It will contain people from all over the world of vastly different levels of experience and in all likelihood will contain a competitor or two checking out what you are doing. Once they are on your list, you can market to them and earn as they buy the products you recommend. There are a lot of anti-spam laws that you need to comply with if you are going to use email marketing. If you use a hosted autoresponder service then they will ensure you comply with these anti-spam laws. One of the best ways to protect yourself is to use double opt in. This means that your subscribers have to click on a link in an email to confirm that they subscribed to your list. This protects you from spam accusations because you can prove that someone subscribed at a certain date and time. Some marketers though say that single opt in is better. This is because they don t lose subscribers because the confirmation email either never arrives or
isn t clicked on. You can lose as many as 50% of your subscribers because they haven t clicked the link to opt in to your list. The marketers who claim single opt in is the best option have bigger lists but do run the risk of falling foul of the anti-spam laws. Which you choose is up to you and depends on what your objective in business is. You need to ensure that the autoresponder you decide to use allows you to use single opt in, if that is your choice. All autoresponders support double opt in. This membership program has been specially created to help you to understand how a list works and how to build your own profitable list. The video tutorials, for the upgraded members, work in conjunction with this book. This ebook will teach you all about list building from why you want it to helping you choose an autoresponder. You will also be shown various ways to build a list that if you use properly can build you a big list rapidly. You will learn what a list wants and why it is important to build a relationship with your list. This can make a big difference in your earnings and can seriously boost your income. You will also learn where to find content for your list and what to provide them. Bombarding your list with sales messages will do one thing turn them off, unless that is what they want. This ebook will teach you not only about building a list but how to manage your list and work with them by building a solid relationship with your list.
Why Own A List? The first question people ask is why bother having a list. You will be surprised the number of marketers who either don t bother building a list or never market to their list. It is an astonishingly high figure. Your list is a very valuable resource and there are many marketers who make more money from a single email to their lists than they do from all their product sales. This is why a list is so valuable. With a responsive list it is not unknown for people to earn tens of thousands of dollars from a single email. Effectively, it puts money on tap, with you being able to earn almost whenever you want just by sending an email. It is an incredible resource to have because it gives you a degree of flexibility that marketers without lists don t have. It means that when you release a new product, you have a list of buyers ready and waiting to buy it; no waiting around for organic search engine rankings or finding JV partners straight off. It means that if a new product is released you can sell it as an affiliate to your list and you can earn from it almost immediately. You need to be building a list in every niche you work in, as the list is where the money is an often repeated mantra. When you are marketing to your list you only send them related information. You wouldn t send a group of Internet Marketers offers and information on parrot keeping. When you start sending them information that they are not interested in you will see the unsubscribe rate jump up.
One of the biggest benefits of having a list is that you can test the market for products and services. You can email your list and gauge their responsiveness to your offer, which will help you understand what the market wants. A list is a great place to carry out surveys to understand what the market wants and to get feedback and testimonials on your products. All of this is only possible if you have built a relationship with your list based on trust. We will discuss how you do this later on, but when you have done this, you will find that your list becomes an even more valuable resource. Getting testimonials is often the hardest thing for marketers to do, and with a responsive list you can get that feedback almost immediately. Plus, you can ask them questions so that you understand what the market wants and create products that precisely meet their needs. A list is a vital component of Internet Marketing that far too many people ignore as they feel it is too much trouble. Your list is where you will earn the majority of your money from and so you need to make sure everything you do online is focused around list building. As you build a bigger list you can start running ad swaps with other marketers and build your list even bigger. From this you can run bigger and bigger ad swaps until your list is substantial and earning you a lot of money. With the information in this program, you will be able to work closely with your list, build a great relationship with them and enjoy an additional stream of income for your business.
Choosing An Autoresponder Choosing your autoresponder is vital if you want to succeed with your list. There are many different types of autoresponder with varying costs and features. In order to pick an autoresponder, you need to understand your requirements for one. Do you want single as well as double opt in options? What level of reporting do you want? What level of segmentation of your list do you want? What is your budget? Do you want to host it yourself or buy a managed service? How many lists do you want to have? How many emails do you want send every day? These are just some of the questions you need to have answers to. For example, some webhosts restrict the number of emails you can send per day from their hosting accounts. This may not be a problem if you have a small list, but if your list grows bigger, then you have a serious problem as it could take days for a mailing to go out due to this restriction. This delay could cost you a lot of money and ruin your attempts to earn from your list, particularly when you are sending out time sensitive offers. Some auto-responders limit the number of lists you are allowed to run, or charge you more if you go over a certain number of lists or subscribers.
Different autoresponders offer different features for reporting, ranging from basic to advanced and in depth reports. It depends on your need for reporting as to which you go for. There are many different autoresponders on the market including: AWeber GetResponse TrafficWave And more advanced business contact systems such as: InfusionSoft icontact Constant Contact The advanced systems offer many more features and detailed reporting. These typically cost more as they are aiming for the corporate and big marketer market segments. Typically when you are hosting your own autoresponder software you pay a one time fee for the software whereas a hosted service tends to be a monthly or yearly payment. Hosting your own brings with it a whole host of issues that you may or may not want to deal with. Firstly, you have to install the script yourself and configure it, which may be difficult if you are not technically adept. Then you have to take care of security and ensure the script is kept up to date to avoid security problems and to provide the latest functionality. On top of this you may find people who spoof your domain, that is they send emails pretending to be from your domain. This is a big problem as it can result in your domain being blacklisted and your emails being put straight into the junk
or spam folders. This is serious as it means your open rate will drop massively because most people don t look in these folders for useful emails. Hosted services don t tend to have this sort of problem because they have people who work with the ISP companies to ensure the emails get through. Plus they usually have better measures in place to stop spoofing and other issues that could cause blacklisting. When hosting your own autoresponder you have complete control of your list and can do whatever you want with it. You can email them when you like, email them what you like, import users and so on. With a hosted solution you don t have complete control. Your list is in the hands of the autoresponder company. Some of these companies will allow you to backup your list so you have a copy of it. If by chance Murphy's Law shows up at your doorstep in the future, having a hard copy of your list is definitely something to consider when making your choice of autoresponder services. You must remember that the hosted companies rely on their reputation in order for emails to get through so they are very watchful on what their users do and will shut your account down if you have too many spam complaints. They don t tend to let you import users into your account, or if they do, not very many at a time. You need to consider the deliverability rate of the autoresponder you choose. Does it have a high rate or does it have problems with emails going straight to the junk/spam folder? You need to ensure that whatever solution you choose is compliant with antispam regulations. Depending on the location of your webhost, if you get too many complaints you could find your hosting account shut down without notice, which could ruin your business. If you get too many spam complaints against your hosted autoresponder account, you may end up with that being shut down too, so you need to be careful.
You are looking for a reliable and established service that has been around for a while and will be around for the foreseeable future. GetResponse is well known for being reliable and having a long established presence in the marketplace. Owning the list is fairly important. Can you export it so that if the worst happens, you still have a copy of the list you ve built? Depending on your business plan you may want to choose single opt in for your list and you need to be sure that the autoresponder you choose will allow you to do this. Finally, it needs to be easy to use. Some of the self-hosted software can be a little counter intuitive for you. Once you have built a big list you are pretty much stuck with your autoresponder for life as moving autoresponders is a nightmare when you have a list. Most don t allow you to import email addresses and those that do require the subscriber to opt in again. This means you lose a lot of subscribers, unless you move to your own hosted solution, which opens a whole other can of worms. Choosing an autoresponder is a very important decision and you really need to get it right the first time, so spend some time considering the above and then pick the autoresponder that works for you. AWeber.com GetResponse.com TrafficWave.net
Building A List From Your Websites Your websites are going to be one of the primary places where you build a list. Whether these are website you own or web 2.0 sites such as Blogs, FaceBook, MySpace, Squidoo, Hubpages, etc. doesn t matter. Every website you create needs to be focused on building a list. Every webpage you own should have a method for the visitor to subscribe to your list. This means that no matter where someone enters your web empire, there is a way for you to get them on your list so you can market to them in the future. It takes effort to get someone to your website and once they have arrived there is a high degree of probability that they won t come back again. Therefore, you need to have a way of capturing their email address so you can market to them at your leisure. Every niche market you are in really needs to have a separate autoresponder list. For example, you would have separate lists for stop smoking, debt consolidation, potty training a child, internet marketing and camping tips. You may have a generic list for a broad niche, e.g. health tips or internet marketing, though this can be problematic in some cases. This separation of lists allows you to focus your marketing efforts. Each list gets sent offers that are of interest to them and because they are a tightly focused list you get a higher conversion rate. For example, you send your camping tips list a template for a camping gear checklist and your stop smoking list information and products about smoking cessation. The generic list tends to be a bit broad for a high conversion rate. Health, for example, is very broad and some of your list may want to know about fitness,
some about dieting, some about vitamins. Unless you have segmented your list into the different niches, how do you know which people are interested in which subjects? This segmentation means people are only seeing offers that they are interested in and so you are more likely to make sales. You can increase your opt in rate to your list by offering a gift for people that sign up. This may be a free special report, a course via email or other product of value to your potential subscriber. This will encourage them to part with their email address and give you a chance to build a relationship with them by proving you can and do provide quality information. Make sure you don t give away the farm with this though, if you give too much away, there is no need for them to buy any of your products. The product you give away to your new subscribers should focus either on selling the product they were interested in, or providing valuable information with links to either your other products or to affiliate products. By doing this, you are effectively earning regardless of whether they return to your website or not. So long as they read the report and click on the links inside you can earn from the free report that you just gave them. Once you have traffic to your website, you need to experiment with different text on your subscribe form, pop ups / hover ads coming in at different times and different gifts to see which gets the highest response rate from your readers. Testing like this will ensure you maximize your sign up rate. When you are selling a product you need to have two different lists. The first is for your prospective customers; the people who come to your website and just give you their email address in return for information. The second is for your customers who have made a purchase. When someone buys the product they need to be removed from the pre-sales list to ensure they don t get confused with the wrong sales messages.
This separation allows you to focus your marketing to each segment of your list. The pre-sales subscribers are sold your product and the occasional affiliate program. The customers are sold your backend products and other affiliate products. Working like this will maximize your profits because you are able to target your marketing specifically to your list. If your customers get messages selling them the product they have already bought, it s going to confuse them! Make sure any autoresponder you pick allows for this level of automation as it will make a huge difference in your earnings and your level of professionalism perceived by your subscribers. HostGator Web Hosting Service
List Building With Co-Registration Co-registration is a very popular form of list building and will allow you to get some very targeted and responsive subscribers. The basic premise of this is that your autoresponder sign up form appears on someone else s thank you page and vice versa. So that when someone has subscribed to a newsletter and are specifically looking for information they are presented with some other newsletters that they may be interested in. You can do this manually by approaching people with lists in your niche and offering to do this with them or you can use one of the many co-registration services that are out there. You have to make sure that your autoresponder service allows you to use co-registration. Many of them don t and some are very fussy about which co-registration services they use. Depending on how heavily you are planning on using co-registration, this can influence your choice of autoresponder. Co-registration isn t necessary for building a list, but is a good way to add subscribers quickly. Some of the most popular co-registration sites include: AdvertisingKnowHow.com ListCrew.com GetResponse Power Leads These all offer co-registration and so it is worth checking them out to find which ones work with the autoresponders you are considering.
Whereas you do not have to use co-registration, if you are planning on building a list quickly, this is one of the best ways to get yourself a good list. The subscribers you get from co-registration are usually very responsive and are highly targeted, which makes them valuable to you. Some of the co-registration services, such as AdvertisingKnowHow and ListCrew allow you to buy additional credits. All of the services rely on providing you with credits to show your sign up form every time you display someone else s form on your page. Being able to buy credits allows you to side step this process and to get your sign up form displayed a lot so you get a lot of subscribers very quickly. All in all, co-registration is a very good way of building a list, but make sure that you can use co-registration leads with your autoresponder. GetResponse AutoResponder Service
List Building With Giveaways As an Internet marketer you are bound to have heard of giveaway events. These are big events where lots of marketers get together to give away products for free in order to build their lists. These are uncommon outside of the Internet marketing niche, but need to be mentioned as they are an excellent way to build your list if you are operating in the niche the giveaway is targeting. Here is a webpage that has a current list (updated frequently) of GiveAway Events in the Internet Marketing niche. If you are interested in this concept to assist in building your list, bookmarking this page would be an excellent idea. Profit-Unlimited's GiveAway Announcer In order to do well in the giveaway you have to do two things. Firstly, you have to contribute something that is valuable to give away. Ideally this needs to be something people can only get from you. You also really want to make sure your pages are set up properly and that everything works. You would also set up a one time offer to show your new subscribers after they have joined your list. This can often convert quite well and provides an additional boost of income, plus starts to condition your new subscribers to buying from you. Most giveaways rely on you sending traffic to the event, which is the second thing you need to do. If you don t have a list this can be a bit tricky, particularly as some of these giveaways will relegate your gift to the lower echelons of the listings if you don t send enough traffic. Worse still, some of them will remove your gift completely
if you haven t sent the requisite number of visitors by the deadline they have given you. There are a reasonable number of giveaways going on, particularly around any of the holiday seasons, so if you pay attention to your mailbox you are bound to hear of them. Or Profit-Unlimited's GiveAway Announcer Sign up to as many as possible and you will get subscribers from them. You will get a lot of people who just want the free gift and will unsubscribe just as soon as they have downloaded your gift. That is a part of what you can expect during a giveaway. For the subscribers that stay you need to spend some time building a relationship with them and warming them up. The jury is out on how effective giveaways are. Sure, you can get subscribers but many of them are literally just there for the freebies and signing up for the lists is a necessary evil. Some people swear that giveaways are great, others say they are useless. It s up to you to decide for yourself by trying one or two, giving away a good gift and driving traffic to them. By warming up your new subscribers properly and spending time building a relationship with them this method will pay off and you will get positive results. Just don t expect them to buy straight away unless you have really wowed them!
List Building With Pay Per Lead Pay per lead is another way for you to build your list, though with this method you pay for each and every lead that comes your way. This could be anything from a few cents up to tens of dollars, depending on the quality and freshness of the lead. The better quality the lead, the higher price you can expect to pay. There are service companies that will sell you leads and you can often get leads through CPA networks, both of which will cost you a decent amount of money, but the leads are high quality. Alternatively, there are shifty men in raincoats who will meet you at midnight in a back alley somewhere to hand you leads. These are the ones to stay well away from. You can buy a million email addresses for a hundred bucks! A million not bad eh? An instant list for a hundred bucks, bet you could make a fortune from that. Wrong. Very Wrong. These email addresses will have been scraped and harvested without their owner s permission. This means that any email you send to them is most definitely spam, (I'm not sure just how much more unsolicited it could get) and you could find yourself shut down at the drop of a hat, any hat. The reputable autoresponder services wouldn t allow you to use this type of lead anyway as you wouldn t be able to import them into your account.
You need to ensure that any leads that you buy are from genuine sources. You need to double check where they are coming from in order to be sure they are real and valid email addresses. If you decide to use pay per lead, then be prepared to audit your leads regularly to ensure you are getting genuine leads and not fake email addresses. Because these leads haven t directly requested to receive information from you and you have purchased them or got them through a CPA campaign, you need to start off gently with them and build a relationship. They need to get to know and trust you before they will be prepared to buy. If you hit them straight off with a sales offer, the chances are they will unsubscribe and scream spam, loudly. By spending some time establishing yourself as a trusted authority with your new leads you will find that they will respond well to you and start to buy your offers. Your Solution for List Building Success
What To Send To Your List This is, of course the biggest question. What do you send out to your list? Firstly you can send hand written content for every single email. This is the best option available to you, but if you have many lists it is not exactly practical. Secondly, you can load up an autoresponder sequence with content that you have either written yourself, paid someone to write, or bought. The second option is the most feasible because if you are trying to write each email specifically, you are going to be a very... very busy person! The best approach is to use an autoresponder sequence for all your niche lists and then for your main or favorite list you send personally written content. The hand written approach gets the best response from your subscribers, but you can t do it in every niche. Your readers are going to want valuable content. There are people who blast out sales message after sales message every single day, and these are people who end up with a high unsubscribe rate and low open rate. By all means sell to them in every email, but don t just sell and not provide information, particularly in non Internet Marketing lists. They are even less tolerant of constant selling than Internet marketers. Marketers tend to be looking out for hot new products and so are open to sales messages, but outside of this niche they are not as open. You need to condition your subscribers so that they know what to expect from you. Don t be frightened to email them or sell to them. Your best approach is to always provide valuable information and soft sell in every email, but once every 3 or 4 emails do a hard sell or pure sales pitch.
What has been known to work well is to send a free gift prior to sending the sales message, a few days before. This makes them feel grateful towards you and so they view your sales message more favorably. If you don t condition them to expect sales messages from you and all they ever get is information then they are going to be well and truly shocked when they get a sales message and you may find you get a high level of unsubscribes. When writing to your list use their name in the body of the email and in the subject line. Outside of the Internet marketing niche, this amazes people and they think it is a personal email written specifically to them. Write to them as if you are talking to them face to face. That kind of communication works much better than trying to write in a more formal way. It comes across as friendly and puts them at ease. Make sure the subject line is something that intrigues them to open the email without being an outright lie. Subject lines such as You ve got Cash {firstname} or something similar will most assuredly result in a high level of subscribers leaving your list. Be honest in the subject line and let them know what is inside the email. Your list has specifically requested that they receive information from you and so you need to email them. Marketers who have lists and do not email them are losing money by not being in contact with their list. Use your list as a valuable asset but remember there are real people at the end of each email you send. Monitor your open rate and your unsubscribe rate so you can see if a particular email did really well, or really badly. This will help you improve your emails in order to maximize your open rate and minimize your unsubscribe rate.
Building Relationships With Your List The most important part of having a list is about building a relationship with them. Whether you do this through hand written emails every few days or through an autoresponder sequence doesn t matter, so long as you build that relationship. You need to establish yourself as an authority in the niche you are promoting. The idea is to build trust with the subscriber so that they know you are someone they can buy from safely, someone that isn t going to promote rubbish and someone who will value them. Having a good relationship with your list can massively increase your conversion rate when you send offers to them. It is not unknown for marketers with a good relationship with their list to convert mailings at 5% to 10% and sometimes even higher. Using purchased pre-written autoresponder sequences will make it more difficult to build that most important relationship. If you choose to use purchased messages then you need to re-write them. At the very least you need to add a personalised message to the top or bottom to build a relationship with your list. One thing that will build a relationship with your list is to not jump on every passing bandwagon and try to sell every product released to your list, particularly using the emails the product owners have written. Be careful about what you are going to promote and make sure that it is good quality and of interest to your list. If you do choose to market a particular product then you have to make sure that you write unique emails to promote them. Again, at the very least edit the product owner's emails extensively. Any product release will be accompanied by a deluge of emails from affiliates promoting the product and few, if any, will write their own messages for the
promotion. By doing so, you stand out from the crowd and will build trust, particularly if you point out the faults in a program and tell people not to buy products that are of poor quality. Your messages need to have a personality. This could be your real personality or it could be a personality you have invented for the website. Whatever the personality is, it has to be consistent across the messages and your website. You can t have a nice personality on the sales page and then be arrogant and obnoxious in the autoresponder sequence. Pick one and be consistent. Your personality can help you make sales because people buy from people they know and like. By giving your autoresponder sequences a personality people will get to know you and that will help you to make sales. The relationship you have with your list can make the difference between a list that responds minimally and a list that responds to the max. The difference can be a significant sum of money. Make sure you spend time building up your reputation and becoming a trusted advisor to your list as it will be very beneficial to you in the long run. Articles Bin
Finding Content Content is the key to making sales and building a relationship with your list. You can write the content yourself or you can buy pre-written autoresponder sequences in some niches. These are a great starting point but you really need to re-write them in order for them to be effective. Think about it, when you are searching for information you tend to visit a number of different websites and subscribe to a number of different lists. If you find those lists sending you exactly the same messages, what would you think? It wouldn t be positive now would it? You need to jumble around the sequence of messages and to re-write them to make them yours. Give them a personality and make them something interesting to read. Most pre-written autoresponder sequences tend to be very bland and vanilla flavoured because they have been written for maximum appeal. By customising them you are instantly going to stand out from the crowd and your autoresponder sequence will get more attention. You can also use articles, either those that you have written or from article directories. The latter is not the best option available to you because most article directories insist you include the resource box and details of where the article came from. You can get great content from article directories, but do you really want to be advertising someone else s products and website in your autoresponder series? I'm guessing here, but no is probably the answer.
One thing you can do is invite guest writers into your autoresponder sequence. Find experts in the field (both on and offline) and get them to write you an article. In this case, you don t mind promoting them (usually through an affiliate link) because you are aligning yourself with the expert in the minds of your readers, which can only be a good thing. Product reviews are also very beneficial to use with your list, particularly if you are comparing two products to each other. Product reviews work well if you are honest and point out the negative points of a product, not just the positives. Don t be afraid to say something in your review like, Despite the fact that many other people are peddling this product, I wouldn t recommend you buy it because and then give a good reason why. Then you recommend a product that doesn t have the negative points of the other product. Doing this will help your reputation immensely because your readers will know you are not someone who sells rubbish, but someone who will look out for his/her list and promote only good quality products. You can compare two products with different prices as well. A product price comparison review works well and will give you a higher conversion rate. More people will buy because some will buy the cheaper product and others the more expensive. It gives people two options. With product reviews you have to be honest and accurate. Don t say a product is good if it isn t because you are going to ruin the relationship you have built with your list. You really should review every product personally before you send any kind of recommendation on to your list. You can also use content from your own products or from private label rights (PLR) products that allow you to use the content on the Internet. This is a great way of demonstrating the value of your product. Obviously, you don t give away too much, but enough for them to realize that your product is something they need to have.
You can use your autoresponder to send out a training course as content. This would be a multi-part course teaching people about a subject. Naturally, this is monetized by promoting your own or other affiliate products. This will sell products very well if the content is good and the products you recommend add a lot of value to the training program. Your content is very important for your list, it will help determine how much you earn from them. If you provide poor quality content, you are going to get a poor response from your list and a lot of people will be unsubscribing. Good quality, unique content that provides value to your readers will help you build that relationship with them. Your content is all that they see in order to get to know you, so it has to help in building that relationship of trust. Your content needs to establish you as an expert in the field so you can move into the position of trusted advisor with them. This will help your sales significantly. Either write the content yourself or outsource it to a professional writer, but ensure that it is good quality and that your readers will enjoy it and view you as an expert from it. Focus on building that relationship and it will pay off in the long term. Download Hot New Products Every Single Week -- FREE Membership!
Summary Lists are a vital part of Internet Marketing. Too many people ignore list building in their hurry to get websites up, not realizing they could make more from a responsive list than they ever could from a website. Build a list and use it! You need to be capturing email addresses on every page of your website. No matter where someone enters your online empire, there needs to be a way for them to join one, or more, of your autoresponder sequences. It takes a lot of effort to get someone to your website, and while they are there you want to maximize the revenue from them, which means capturing their email addresses to market to them in the future. Remember that your lists consist of real people and so you need to value them and work with them. Don t abuse them or take advantage of them because you will find that you get a lot of unsubscribes when you do. You can increase signups to your list by providing valuable gifts that promote your products and affiliate programs while establishing yourself as an expert. Your sign up gift is a part of the relationship building process. Make sure it is unique to you in order to maximize the value of it. Keep your niche lists separate and target emails to each niche. If you are sending broadcasts you will get a much better response rate if you ensure each message is targeted to that list and their needs and problems. A list needs to be conditioned to expect you to sell to them. If you never sell to them they will be surprised when you do. Therefore, sell to them from day one, but balance soft sells with hard sales.
This will help you to build a relationship with them, but will also mean that they will not react badly when you do try to sell to them. Always make sure you provide high quality content as this will help you to build a good relationship with your list. The relationship with your list is what makes the list profitable. The better your relationship, the more sales you will make. Ultimately, you want the position of trusted advisor with your list so that they know you are going to give them good information. The key to success is to take action. You have all the tools you need now to start building a list and earning from it. Pick an autoresponder, write some content for your niche, put your sign up form on all of your pages and start building a list and earning from it. Who knows, maybe you could be one of those people earning thousands of dollars from each mailing. Maybe that can be you... much quicker than you think. Now that you have come to the end of this ebook, don't do what the 98% do and loose this ebook on your hard drive. Be different; join the 2% of Internet Marketers that actually put it to use. Success is waiting for you! Take Action Immediately & Start Building YOUR List! Mike Tansey Profit-Unlimited FreeReportProfit.com
Resources First and foremost List Building Resource is your autoresponder. I am only going to list the top three web-based autoresponder services here for the simple reason that I strongly believe that is your best option for a reliable, and most importantly, a spam-free solution. Click the images below to be taken to the respective website and check them out for yourself. But above all, make your decision and sign-up for the service of your choice. If you are going to build a list An AutoResponder IS an absolute must have tool, in fact, THE must have tool for list building and a successful Internet Marketing business. A lot of the so called Gurus choose this one. AWeber A few extra features but also a bit more expensive. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Grandfather of all online AutoResponders GetResponse My personal choice, mainly because I have used it for more than 5 years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A good AutoResponder service that I also use. TrafficWave Probably has a little better affiliate compensation plan, but, probably the least popular of the three. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Great compliment for your Autoresponder is my 'Complete Follow Up System In A Box.' This system includes 2 squeeze page templates, the ebook, "Follow-Up To Fortunes" an in-depth study of the 'why and how' to following up with your subscribers and customers, and best of all, 101 email templates covering 10 different aspects of your Internet Marketing business. All you need to do is plug-in your variables and the messages are ready to upload into your own AutoResponder and you are ready to build that all important relationship. Check it out at: CompleteFollowUpSystem.com
Your final resource that I would strongly suggest is a system to track all of the links going out in your follow up messages to your new budding list of subscribers. Check out either of these (FREE to Join) affiliate cloaking tools and link tracking systems: Simply click on the images below MyPushButtonTraffic MarketersTrafficVault Both systems have Fabulous Traffic Generation capabilities as well!