List Building - List Building Basics for the Beginning List Builder VII

List building it is not simply the process of setting up an opt in page, giving away a free gift, and getting a bunch of people on your e-mail list. What are you going to do with the people you put on your e-mail list when you get than that? I tell you this, if you put a bunch of people in e-mail list, and you don't do anything with them, you simply have been wasting your time. Yes, you may think that it is something cool that you can generate hundred subscribers today, but if you are not making $500 per day on those hundred subscribers per day, I frankly don't think that you are doing very much to speak of in your list building. Use the list building as part of a greater plan, and that is to fulfill your mission statement. What is your mission statement? Your mission statement might be to make money, your mission statement might be to bring together parents of autistic children, your mission statement might be to educate about the dangers of different types of foods ....

List Building for Money and Time and Leverage

List Building for me is about money and time and leverage. Why money? Because my list, with whom I have developed a relationship - spends money with me. Why time? Because my list, with whom I have developed trust – allows...

List Building - What is the Best List Building Web Business Model?

This is one of the most hotly contested questions online today. There are a number of different internet business models online today, including the content model, the affiliate model, the single product model, multiple product model, catalogue model, list based model, and the sales funnel model. List building can be incorporated...

List Building Web Models - How the Various Models Interact II

One particular note about the content based model: I do not believe that the content based model continues to have relevance to any but a few of the larger and more established web sites online. The continuing changing nature of the search landscape makes it increasing more difficult for a new entrant in the content based arena to become successful. On the contrary, I think that...

The Sales Funnel - List Building Model (My Favorite) II

The other mechanism by which this method works is that often when a subscriber reads a sales page for a much more expensive product, they see the lower priced product as a higher value, as function of the comparison of prices. However, once someone...

List Building - Outline of Steps to Create a Squeeze Page

In creating a successful squeeze page, there are a number of elements that must be present to generate a high conversion rate or opt ins. Each one of these elements should be present on just about any squeeze page you create – much as specific elements are required when you create a sales page. In fact, when you look at this list...

List Building - Write a Headline for Your Squeeze Page I

Your headline is perhaps the most important part of your squeeze page, except for maybe the call to action - but if they don't get past the headline they will never read the call to action. The headline has to...

List Building - Create a Compelling Opt In Call to Action For Your Squeeze Page

Now that you have told the visitor some of the wonderful things they will gain from your free gift, you have to spur him to action. No matter how exciting the free gift sounds, if he doesn't move to download it, he will not get it. And you will not get a subscriber. So you have to have a call to action. Here are some examples of calls to action...

List Building - Create or Buy a GiveAway Product for Your Squeeze Page II

Although this digital product is short in length, it should be packed with good information. Subscribers will evaluate the strength and value of your paid products by the strength and value of your free product. Generally they will assume that if your short give away product does not deliver strong value, your paid product may not also. Think of your free give away product...

List Building - How to Test a Squeeze Page III

If you do use a tracking service that uses tracking links, instead send your visitors to a page hosted on your web domain, and redirect them to the tracking link. That way...

List Building - How to Test a Squeeze Page II

If you were to send all of your traffic to one squeeze page, and try to maximize or optimize that squeeze page across all traffic, you might have some traffic that converts at 50% and others that converts at 10% - but you will only show a 30% conversion rate, for example. By isolating each traffic source...

List Building With Joint Ventures

List building is one of those things that gets easier with time - there is a kind of exponential action that happens with list building. One of the things that I did when I had between 1500 and about 4500 subscribers was joint venture email exchanges. Joint ventures are pretty straight forward - generally you offer a commission to them for promoting your product, and vice versa....

List Building – The Beginner's Guide To List Building Part 2 of 5

New marketers will come across people telling them that the money is in the list. But what is a list and how do you build one? This series of articles covers list building basics for beginners.

List Building – The Beginner's Guide To List Building Part 5 of 5

New marketers will come across people telling them that the money is in the list. But what is a list and how do you build one? This series of articles covers list building basics for beginners.