List Building with Socrates How to get 1000+ Subscribers your first month and how to leverage them to grow your list to 100,000 in less than 1 year
Who am I? Currently live in Southern California Run 100% of my business from my laptop bag Built multiple OPT IN email lists of hundreds of thousands of people from scratch Made 7 figure in sales Regularly in the top 5 of Affiliate contests Won numerous list building competitions
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List building But I don t want to waste my time or yours showing you pictures today SO Let s get to the point!
What you are going to learn My promise to you By the end of this video you will have a SIMPLE step by step method to get your first 1000 subscribers in 30 days You will also know where the money is in list building so that you can get paid at the same time In addition, you will know how to leverage your new list for free to add thousands more subscribers to your list AND dollars to your pocket every month
List building Free methods Start blogging to get people to your blog so they can opt in to your list Create free videos on youtube that direct people to your website where they can opt in to your list Write articles hoping they will get published and get you traffic to your squeeze page Participate in forums and use a link in your signature so when people click through, they can opt in Use social media (facebook, twitter etc) And a lot more
List building Free methods Start blogging to get people to your blog so they can opt in to your list Create free videos on youtube that direct people to your website where they can opt in to your list Write articles hoping they will get published and get you traffic to your squeeze page Participate in forums and use a link in your signature so when people click through, they can opt in Use social media (facebook, twitter etc) And a lot more
The #1 List Building Method Get other people who have the list you want, tell their subscribers to join your list! Who does that??? The most successful product launches in the world used this Virtually every top marketer uses this one way or another Every viral social media had their members bring all their friends
The #1 List Building Method Why is this the best method? It has the HIGHEST conversion rates (I ve seen up to 80% CR) It is the most targeted It is the FASTEST You can start TODAY and have hundreds of subscribers tomorrow Even if you screw up, you will get subscribers
About 700 of the 1,046 subscribers who opted in yesterday came with this method
The #1 List Building Method In our industry we call this method Adswaps It s where someone agrees to email their list and tell them to opt into your list in exchange of you doing the same thing for them. So if you have 1000 subscribers, you can swap a mailing with another list of the same size Say, you got 200 new clicks, 50% opted in, you got 100 new people on your list Do this a few times in 2 weeks and you double your list to 2000 Then you can swap with bigger lists and in a couple of weeks you double it again to 4000 And keep doubling up your subscribers using this method
The #1 List Building Method Doing ad swaps is VERY simple but there is a BIG PROBLEM If you don t have 1000 subscribers to begin with How do you get them?
The #1 List Building Method To get the first 1000 subscribers we are going to use a variation of the adswap method called SOLO ADS It is where the partner agrees to email their list for you, just like in adswapping, but instead of you sending for them, you just give them a little bit of money (hint: I said a little bit )
The #1 List Building Method For about $100 you can get 300 500 GUARANTEED clicks to your squeeze page If 50% opt in you get 150 250 NEW subscribers to your list within a DAY This is by FAR some of the cheapest quality clicks for list building you will find anywhere BUT, you can make more than your money back almost instantly. You will learn how in a moment. Why is it really CRUCIAL to get your first 1000 seed subscribers asap?
Growing by just 10% each week Week Subs Week Subs Week Subs Week Subs Week Subs 1 1,000 12 2,853 23 8,140 34 23,225 45 66,264 2 1,100 13 3,138 24 8,954 35 25,548 46 72,890 3 1,210 14 3,452 25 9,850 36 28,102 47 80,180 4 1,331 15 3,797 26 10,835 37 30,913 48 88,197 5 1,464 16 4,177 27 11,918 38 34,004 49 97,017 6 1,611 17 4,595 28 13,110 39 37,404 50 106,719 7 1,772 18 5,054 29 14,421 40 41,145 51 117,391 8 1,949 19 5,560 30 15,863 41 45,259 52 129,130 9 2,144 20 6,116 31 17,449 42 49,785 10 2,358 21 6,727 32 19,194 43 54,764 11 2,594 22 7,400 33 21,114 44 60,240
Now that I got your attention Here is how to do this You are going to need: 1. A product to give away a resell rights/plr product will do just great (ResellRightsFortune.com) 2. An autoresponder/list management account (aweber.com) 3. A squeeze page (to capture the subscribers) 4. A funnel / upsell offers (to monetize) 5. List owners to send for you (swap partners)
Here is an example of a squeeze page (hint: converts at ~50% on adswaps)
Some real stats
Very Simple process List owner sends an email with a link to your squeeze page and recommends to opt in 400 visitors People Opt in ~200 subscribers added to your list
Monetizing 400 visitors 200 people People Opt in @4% CR ~200 subscribers added to your list 8 Sales X 27 = $216
Monetizing (Simple Funnel) 400 visitors 200 people 6 people People Opt in ~200 subscribers added to your list @4% CR 8 Sales X 27 = $216 @35% CR ~2.8 Sales X 67 = $187 Gross Income: $216 + $187= $403 (or ~$1 per visitor) Spent: $100 Profit: $303 ( about $0.76 per visitor or about $1.50 per subscriber)
So, How do I find these partners? The easiest place to find them when you are starting out is internet marketing forums. Why? You can contact them one on one You can read reviews There is plenty of them to choose from
So, How do I find these partners? Live Demo Warrior forum WarriorForum.com
Tips Between 20 and 50 cents per guaranteed unique click (the more clicks, the cheapest) Agree on what will happen if you get less clicks (ask for a resend, or portion of money back) List size is not important. Number or clicks IS. If you are sure you can deliver 500 clicks with a 1000 list, then find a partner that can send 500 to swap with If you couldn t match your partner's clicks the first time, send again for them ask the partner for available dates make sure it fits your schedule/timeframe If you can t Private Message on the forum, post a reply and request they contact YOU with the details Once you get your list going, promote some affiliate products to see the response. When your list gets stronger, and you can make great sales as an affiliate, ask the product owners to reciprocate
Tips Track Begin developing relationships Create a rolodex Setup recurring swaps Buy more and save + do's and don'ts don'ts don t go buy an email ad for $15 for 500,000 subscribers don t just buy a solo ad off of a website unless you KNOW the person dos email the partner to nail down the details ask for guaranteed minimum clicks
More ways to make money Add more offers to your sales process (funnel) higher priced upsells downsells exit pop Autoresponder Followup 100 days 35 messages
Recap We learned: how to have other list owners send us their best subscribers how to get 1000 subscribers to our list FAST using solo ads then leverage those people using adswaps to build 100,000 subscribers in a year for free. how to monetize the subscribers the moment they join our list using upsells
Monetizing (Simple Funnel) 400 visitors 200 people 6 people People Opt in ~200 subscribers added to your list @4% CR 8 Sales X 27 = $216 @35% CR ~2.8 Sales X 67 = $187 Gross Income: $216 + $187= $403 (or ~$1 per visitor) Spent: $100 Profit: $303 ( about $0.76 per visitor or about $1.50 per subscriber)
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