List Building - Building Your List Quickly

In the first two articles I wrote about why you need a list and why your list needs to be qualified. I also touched on how to take care of your list properly, providing value to your customers while giving them opportunities to purchase excellent products from you.

But how do you go about actually getting people to sign up to your list? We talked about encouraging your prospective list members to sign up by offering them a valuable report, e-book or software. But you still have to get that offer in front of them, and let’s face it, setting up a page on the internet with a valuable offer and actually getting people to go look at it are two different animals. Now you’re talking about a whole new problem, you’re now faced with how to get traffic to your offer.

Traffic tends to be one of the biggest problems that all businesses face, whether they’re internet businesses or offline businesses. Setting up a page on the internet and not doing anything to drive traffic to that page is a lot like opening up a store in the desert 5 miles from the freeway and not putting up any signs. Nobody knows your store (web page) exists. There’s lots of different ways to drive traffic and we’ll talk about a bunch of them but as a newbie you need to get some folks signing up quickly. Chances are that you don’t have a lot of cash since you’re just starting out and that means paid traffic is out of the question.

The solution? Giveaways! Yes, that’s right, you need to join a giveaway event. A giveaway is an online event where a bunch of contributors (that’s you and folks like you) list products that they are willing to give away for free. People that are interested in downloading free products (usually e-books, reports, sometimes software) sign into to your opt-in page and download your product for free. And when they sign into your opt-in page they have just joined your mailing list! Giveaways get lots of traffic so there’s a constant stream of people seeing your product.

There are generally a few things that you have to do as a contributor in order to list your product, the main one being that you have to try to push people towards the giveaway. If you already have a few people on your list then you just send them a broadcast email telling them about the giveaway and providing them with a link. If you’re just starting and you have a list of zero then you need to put a couple of ads into a traffic exchange and advertise the giveaway that way. As a general rule, most giveaways have special offers and one time offers that you can sign up to be a part of for a small fee, this gives you the opportunity to even make some money while you’re building your list.

So… what are you waiting for? Get on that search engine and search for giveaways! Sign up for one and start building your list. It’s one of the quickest ways around to build you list. You can thank me later!

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