How to Earn From Building a List

The thing is that to make money on the internet you need information. Right? So where are you going to get this information. On the internet, of course.

You do not need to go too far to find plenty of schemes to help you on your journey to achieve wealth. But, which ones will work for you and which ones won't? Perhaps you will buy the schemes that seem most plausible to you.

After trying a few, spending your money and not making any significant income, you may, like many others, think that there has to be a better way.

Well, instead of searching and hoping that you will hit pay dirt you could go on a different tack. Every self-help book that you have ever read has it writ large. It says that if you want what the successful guy has, you have to do what the successful guy does. It's pretty obvious. Right?

So what does the successful guy do? Well first of all he doesn't go buying up all the products that he can find on the internet. Instead he has his own product that he sells on the internet. Although you may not have your own product initially, you must still have something to offer. In the first instance it may not be unique. Perhaps you can make an offer as an affiliate for someone else. It doesn't matter. You must move from being a consumer to being a provider.

You will need a website to make an offer. A good move is to create a dynamic report that has lots of good content and offer it for free. You can place a sign-up form on your site; customers fill it out, and click send. Or, have a pop-up appear when a person enters you site, they just complete the form. Your auto responder sends a thank you at once and you have a name and address added to your mailing list.

The mailing list is now your prospect list and you can let them know of any and all products or affiliate offers that have or can find. You may wish to use some software that can temporarily remove purchasers from your list whilst you resend for any particular offer.

You may be a one man band but you must do exactly what the big boys do. You must be sending good quality stuff, because you want your customers to trust you! Build relationships with those valuable people on your mailing list. Send updates on projects that you are doing; include customers in special incentives, and offers. The people on your list will come to value you and the products or services that you recommend.

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List Building Tips - Social Sites

In this installment of List Building Tips, I'm going to discuss social sites. Unless you've been living in a cave, you've become a member of at least one of these. After reading this article, you're going to know how to take advantage of them in order to build your list WITHOUT getting people all ticked off.

I hope you paid careful attention to that last line because it's very important. When you're dealing with social sites like Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube, you're getting into an area where you have direct contact with the people using that same media. Well, as direct as possible online. Certainly it's more personal than putting up a squeeze page that some random prospect lands on.

With social media, you have to be VERY careful. You're building a more intimate relationship. At least I hope you are. So let's begin with that.

Unlike that squeeze pages where you're just trying to get some targeted traffic to sign up with your list, with social media you're looking to build actual relationships even BEFORE these people get onto your list.

For example, let's say your interest is music. You're going to invite people to your Facebook or Twitter page who are interested in music. You're then going to discuss the topic at hand. The conversations are going to be casual and friendly. In essence, you're making friends. It is important that you understand this.

After the relationship has solidified itself somewhat, you can then start to "recommend" things to these friends. Maybe you'll recommend a video for them to watch or a CD to purchase. It doesn't have to be anything that is personally yours. In fact, at the beginning, it's a good idea to recommend OTHER people's things. This way you don't come off as a salesperson.

As the relationship grows, you can start recommending things that are more your own, including your list. Let's say you have a list that notifies people of the latest music releases. You can let your Facebook followers know about it. Anybody interested in what you have to share will probably join your list. After all, you've already earned their trust by being a good friend.

From there, as long as you are professional about it and make it clear up front that you could be recommending musical related items that they could purchase, you can send little promotions to your list. Maybe you really liked the latest CD by XYZ band. You can send them your review of it with an Amazon link at the end of it.

The key to making this whole process work is to build a relationship FIRST. Let these people get to know you. Let them see that you're not just trying to sell them stuff. Remember, this is a relationship FIRST and an opportunity to build a list SECOND.

If you do that, building a list off of social media can be very rewarding and profitable at the same time.

And who knows? You just might make some really neat friends in the process.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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List Building, a Simple Thing for You to Do or a Big Problem to Solve?

What is the big deal about List Building when it comes to an Online business? Do you really need a list of subscribers to your specific niche? What is your chance of success without a subscriber's list? Like it or not, these are questions that you need to find some answers if you want to take your online business to the next level.

There are ways of building your list. Each of them requires a fair amount of effort to do. In some cases it demands technical knowledge. And some is less complicated but requires more effort and your physical presence.

Let us walk through some of the ways together and discuss them in some details:

1. The free-talk and presentation attendance

If you read newspapers, you will surely see advertisements for a free and no obligation talks. Normally, you will attend this type of talk to listen what the presenter has to say. The good thing about free-talks like this is that, you are in a group sharing the same interest as you are. In other words, your target audience. So during break times, make use of the opportunity to introduce your products to some attendees. Do not be shy to give your business card to them and get their information in return. So when attending talks, always bring more business cards to give.

2. The training opportunities

The same scenario applies if you are attending related training. You can use the same techniques to have more subscribers. The break times are your golden opportunities that you should take advantage of. While gaining some knowledge during the training, you will also benefit by building your list and knowing your co-trainees.

3. Paid advertisements

This is the easiest way to publicise your business and get noticed by your potential customers. The downside is the cost involve. A simple small and rectangular ad will already cost you few hundred dollars for 24 Hours duration. In similar way, it will cost you a fortune to buy some air-time for a radio broadcast to advertise your business. The cost is even higher when you use Television broadcast.

4. The hated phone calls

No offence to those using this method to get some leads to build their list. But personally, I suggest to do this as your last resort. Why is that so? It is because this could be a little annoying to your target. Imagine yourself in the midst of something and suddenly you have to stop to answer a phone call. In some cases you do not even know who is the guy calling on you, and how he got your phone number.

5. Leaflet distribution

This is a no-brainer. You need to print an advertisement for your business in a piece of paper and distribute them in some hot pots. The hot pots in this case are places with the most of the people, like shopping malls for as an example. You can just hire somebody to the job of distributing the business leaflets for you.

6. Online opportunities

Unlike the rest of the options, this one has a bigger opportunity. This is my preference for list building! Why? Simply because you have a global reach and your ads are working 7 days a week and 24 hours a day. You can also target your audience based on your niche market. The downside of this option is that you need technical knowledge to do it on your own. If you can not do it, hire somebody to do the job for you.

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3 Criteria To Choose The Best Solo Advertisement For Your List Building

I had been buying solo ads for quite some time and I can attest to this: Best rated solo ads sellers are not necessarily the best and vice versa. There are several criteria that you should consider before getting the solo advertisement of your choice.

Before you go for buying spree, you should have these to stand by:

a) A proven to work opt-in or squeeze page - Your webpage should be good enough to entice someone to subscribe to you. This will be entirely a new article to discuss about

b) The correct website link for the advertisement seller to forward their contacts to - sounds trivial but if you gave the wrong link, the seller is not responsible for your loss

c) Traffic checker and analyzer to make sure that the seller delivers the goods to your website (this is also useful to check whether the solo ads are of good quality or not)

Without further ado, check out these criteria to choose the best solo ad:

1) Quality of the website that trades solo advertisements

This is the easiest to consider. All you have to do is to conduct searches on Google or on internet marketing forums to determine which websites or forums are the best to trade solo ads. Personally, I would recommend websites that purely trades solo advertisements and also advertisement swapping with active members.

2) Review of each member who trades these advertisements

As trading advertisements are based on mutual trust, it is not so easy to determine outright who is honest and who is crooked. Preferably, I love to buy solo advertisements from websites that provide rating systems for members who trade advertisements.

Before you buy, sell and swap with a member, consider by looking at their trading profile first. Information like how long have they joined the website, ratings from other members who had traded with, how active they are and how big is their subscriber list are important considerations to form your decision to trade with them.

3) Ask the seller what kind of niche their subscribers are in

This is one of the more important questions buyers often forgot to ask. Whichever niche you are in to, you should ask the seller what niche their list is focused on before you plunk down the cash.

It is never silly to ask more questions before you consider buying a solo advertisement because once you accidentally paid it, most likely you will end up getting the wrong kind of advertisement and your money will not be refunded.

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List Building Tips - Multi Targeting

In this installment of List Building Tips, I want to talk about multi targeting. This is something that very few people do, which makes it all the more effective if you do it correctly. I'm going to explain what multi targeting is and how to properly do it so that you can build your list in places you never expected.

First of all, what is targeting? Targeting is when you go after a very specific group of people related to your niche. For example, let's say you were into the game of Magic the Gathering, as I am. It's a collectible card game. Now, those first and last words, "collectible" and "game" should right away give you an idea of what multi targeting entails. But let me spell it out.

Let's say I was selling a book on how to play Magic the Gathering, which I actually do, and I was targeting that book at people who actually play the game or want to learn how to play the game. My initial methods would be to focus on the part of the book that teaches the rules and strategies of the game. With me so far? Good! In building my list, I would focus those efforts on the same thing. That would be ONE target market.

However, as I said, this is a "collectible" card game. So, in addition to actually "playing" the game, there are people out there who collect the cards as well or instead of actually playing the game. Yes, some people don't really care about playing and only collect the cards because many of them are worth a lot of money. An Alpha Black Lotus goes for thousands of dollars if you can get your hands on one.

So, what I would do, assuming that my book also covers the collectible aspect of the game, is create another campaign that promotes the "how to get good deals on cards" aspect and build my list accordingly. Naturally, in order to do this, you would have to make sure that your newsletter focuses equally on the collectible aspect of the game as the playable aspect of the game. Otherwise, one target market or the other might feel cheated.

This does two things. One, it gets people onto your list who you might not have gotten had you only targeted either the playing or collectible aspect. Two, it allows you to make sales off of two different markets from just one product, again, assuming that one product has something that will appeal to both markets. This is something you might want to research BEFORE you actually create the product itself. But that's another topic for another time.

And imagine if your particular product could actually appeal to several different markets. If you're selling special edition Monopoly sets, you could be appealing to those who like Monopoly, those who like special edition sets of anything, those who like board games in general and those who like collecting games of any kind. The key is to look at your product and your list and see how many different markets you can appeal to.

Done correctly, this tactic can grow your list faster and bigger than simply focusing on ONE target market.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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