How to Build a List of 1,000 Subscribers in About 30 DaysYou can ask any experienced online marketer, and they will tell you that the most important thing you can ever do when you are building an online business is to create e-mail mailing lists. Is the beginning, every name on your list should be considered a prospect but once you know how to “work” that list properly, you will quickly begin turning some of those prospects into customers. Building a large and solid list is important for at least three reasons; - You can attract new visitors to your website You need to build a good strong targeted list with list members who trust you as a source for what they’re looking for. Once you have established yourself as a good source, your members will be back again and again, sometimes to browse and other times to make a purchase. The first thing you will need is a product or service you wish to sell and a way for these potential customers to make a commitment to you. By commitment, I mean that they give you their contact information and permission to be contacted in the future. You will need; - A valuable product to give away I’ll give you a basic description and some instructions on each and by the time I’m done, you’ll be on your way to building that list. Let’s assume that you already have a product or service to sell and you just need to come up with something of value to give away for free. I believe in making your own products because you keep 100% of the profits and if they are informational products, you can build credibility. However, there is a lightning fast way to create a free product to give away as a bribe to potential list members so that they’ll join your list; You’re going to create a unique market targeted e-book using other people’s work in a way that is legitimate and ethical. Go to EzineArticles.com and find around 10- 20 articles that are relevant to your target audience. Copy the articles and paste each of them into a Word document. Write an introduction for your e-book (remember to include your website details and contact info), and add it as the first page of the book. Give the book a title; Something like; “20 Top 2nd Income Secrets Revealed”, and make sure that the formatting looks professional. Every article should start on a new page with the original author’s information still included and so on. Finally, use a free PDF creation program like PDF995 to turn the whole thing into a secure, professional PDF document. For less than an hour’s work, you’ll have a unique targeted e-book that your visitors can only obtain by signing up for your mailing list. This is another very effective tactic for building your mailing list very quickly. Next, you will need to create a Squeeze Page in order to give potential customers access to your giveaway. A Squeeze Page is basically just a webpage containing your giveaway offer. Somewhere on this page, you need to have an opt in form for people to sign up to receive your freebie and to join your list. Once you have all of the wording for your free offer, you simply need to create the page. To do this, just download a WYSIWYG, (What You See Is What You Get) editor and format your page as you would like. A good and free WYSIWYG editor is Kompozer. Once your Squeeze Page is properly formatted, you’ll want to add your Opt-in Form. For about $19 per month, Aweber is the best service for an Op-in form. Aweber is also the service you will use to set up your automated e-mail campaigns. In order to place your Opt-in form on your Squeeze Page, there are more detailed instructions but I will not cover that at this time. If you need instructions or details to that extent, please contact me personally via e-mail. My contact information is at the end of this lesson. Your next step is to upload your finished Squeeze Page to a Web server so that people can find it on the Internet. I use NetworkSolutions.com but others recommend HostGator.com as a good inexpensive hosting service. If you don’t know how, you can inquire to either service for directions on uploading your Squeeze Page. You also need to purchase a domain name as a foundation for all of the webpages, Squeeze Pages, or Websites That You Intend to Create. I use CheapDomainName.com but there are many others and they are very affordable. Okay, at this point, your Squeeze Page is now online with a ready-active Opt-in form. Now it’s time to build your list by driving targeted traffic to that page. If you use a combination of the methods that I am about to share with you, then you will realistically be able to grow your list quickly over the course of about 30 days. Just remember to stay targeted in your approach. This just means to stay in your target market or niche. 5 Solid Free Methods; - Regular Posts to Twitter.com Regular Posts to Twitter.com: A healthy and effective way to post to Twitter is to post your tweets in sets. By this, I mean to post between four and eight messages at a time. Of course, you want to post content that is relevant to your niche and follow people who are likely to be interested in what you’re offering. I recommend posting 4-8 tweets at a time approximately 2 1/2 to 5 hours apart. This way, when your followers check their Twitter feed, they’re likely to see one of your posts. If you are going to post 4-8 messages at a time, make sure that 3/4 of your messages have to do with interesting content and that the last message in the tweet set has a link back to your squeeze page and special offer. Submitting Articles: It may take hours of writing but submitting articles to article directories is a powerful way of generating not only back links but a lot of traffic. You can write unique articles about subjects in your niche and submit them to EzineArticles.com and various other article directories including a link to your squeeze page in each submission. This is such a great method because your article can rank number one in Google literally in hours and will generate traffic to your squeeze page for months, even years after your submission. The more articles you write and submit, the more traffic you will get. Joint Venture Partnerships: You can partner with other marketers in your niche and agree with them to promote each other. You may find someone who has a list that is compatible to the size of your list and agree to promote each other’s offer to one another’s list. This way you are sharing your customers. This is another very powerful way to build your list if you stay consistent in finding several good partners. Don’t just stop at one, you can maximize this by partnering with several. A Regularly Updated Blog: YouTube Video Sharing: Once the video is completed, simply submit it to YouTube.com. Don’t forget about the other video sharing websites as well. Simply do a Google search to find them. These 5 solid and free methods really do work in gaining traffic back to your squeeze page. I have only touched on some basic methods and haven’t gone super deep but if you’d like to learn more as well as receive my Brand New Free Guide for Website Traffic Generation Success… Just Download it FREE here: 20 Slick-Shot Traffic Tips
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