Listbuilding 101

Email list building is one of the TOUGHEST things to do out there. BUT- it comes with excellent results. I’m sure you’ve heard the old saying:

“The Money is the List.”

It’s a VERY common saying in ANY niche you are. BUT it is up to you to keep your list responsiveness and keeping them happy by giving them material that you provide that list on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. (like I do for you!)

Now before we get into any more of this, lets go back to the basics and we’ll come back to these topics later on in our “list building” sessions.

Here’s the deal, the reason why EVERYONE says the “money is in the list,” is this. It’s more of a scenario. Let’s imagine, whatever your doing on the internet is HIGHLY successful already. Your doing PPC ads, Facebook, or even blogging! Now.. lets say something happens overnight, such as the “Google Panda” comes and slaps your site or your ads are shutdown on Facebook!

Now what do you do? The thing about having a list, you can NEVER ‘be shut down’ as long as your not abusing that list and giving valuable information along with solid recommendations to products you find that will help a person succeed.

So how do you start?

Well.. that’s like the million dollar question. Pay CLOSE attention, book mark this page and take notes!

NOTE: This is not the ONLY way to get to subscribers fast, but it’s one of them and it’s basically full-proof. It WILL work, you just need to make it work.

There’s a Few Things You’ll Need:
(yes it costs you a few bucks to start..)

• A domain name…(Keep it short, memorable and to the point!)
• Aweber or iContact account or any other mailing service
• A simple opt-in page
• Something COOL to give-away for those who opt-in (Free report or video, etc…) – Even if it’s a solid 10 page report with good information, that’s more than enough!
• A “report cover” for your give-away…an image.
• A good affiliate program to promote…
• 30 minutes a day (for marketing)
• Writing some articles (yes, get over it, you’ll have to write a bit)…

Now, for the SIMPLE FORMULA:

Step 1: Grab your Domain Name..

I suggest using NameCheap.com but you can use any one you use. (I do NOT recommend Godaddy though ..)

Step 2: Get your opt-in page done, up and running.

If you need help getting it designed on the cheap, the best place I can recommend for fast, quality and inexpensive work is http://www.Scriptlance.com

Step 3: Your Free Give-Away

Take a few days and put together a FREE report. I can get into strategies on how to make these reports later, but for now, write a quick outline and just WRITE (or outsource it) Or just grab a well written PLR report, you can find those all over the internet for a cheap price!

Step 4: Get The Free Report Cover Designed

Again, the easiest place to get this done “on the cheap” is Scriptlance.com or you can do it yourself (if you know how) – there are even some free software that do this, but they turn out ugly.
I say spend the $20 and get a nice one designed, it’ll help in your conversions.

Step 5: Grab Your Aweber/iContact/Get Response Account or other mailing program

Okay- so this is touchy. You have to be careful that the mailing company ALLOWS affiliate marketing if you plan to promote. That is why i recommended Aweber, iContact, or Get Reponse. There are probably others, but these are the 3 major players.

Step 6: A Good Affiliate Program To Promote

When your creating your auto-responder emails you’ll need to start sprinkling your promotions in. Why? Well, think about it. You need to slowly monetize, you don’t want to hit them every day or all the time, but once or twice in a 7-14 day period is good start.

Step 7: Test Your Opt-In Page

Opt-in yourself and make sure it’s working well!

Step 8: Time To Start Driving Traffic!

I’m really going to keep this SIMPLE for you. Many will argue with me till their blue in the face that there are EASIER ways to get traffic (they may be right). But, for now, this is ONE way and I KNOW (100% guaranteed) that it’ll work…

But, before that, accept the following:
1. It won’t happen over-night, it’ll take some time to build.
2. You’ll need to invest at LEAST 30 minutes a day (if not more).
3. It’ll start slow (is kind of demoralizing initially) and then it’ll build up faster and faster, but you gotta stick to it.

And.. Here’s Your Traffic Plan to Get Subscribers

Just for the first subscribers, you can do it easily (with a bit of time), using just the following techniques (yes, you can do a LOT more too, but for now this will do):

Free Traffic Techniques: (Yes, I said FREE!)

Article Marketing – it’s tedious, BUT it still works.

I want you to submit at LEAST 1 article a day for the next 30 days to the top 10 directories out there (as a minimum).

Forum Marketing

Find the top 5 forums in your market/niche (ACTIVE ones) and start making at least 5-10 posts to each one every day. Also try to start a NEW thread in each one, once a day.

But, DON’T SPAM – actually participate in the group and make valuable contributions. When you start a thread, start a good topic that will get following.

Put a link (with a catchy phrase) to your opt-in page in your SIGNATURE file, this will stick around forever and get a lot of traffic.
** I made my first few hundred dollars online using just Forum Marketing!

Blog Commenting - but only comment on BIG high traffic blogs…

This one can be a bit tricky, not all niches will have blogs that are ACTIVE enough to matter. But, find the TOP blogs in your space that get a LOT of traffic and TONS of comments.

Subscribe to their RSS feed and be sure to be one of the FIRST to comment on their posts every time they make a new post.
TRICK Here: When the comment field asks for your “name” – don’t put in your NAME – put in a catchy phrase that will catch someone’s attention.

Because it’s the “name” field that they link to your URL (which will be your opt-in page)
In some niches, I’ve been able to get 100-200 visitors a DAY just from blog commenting, in others I could barely get 10…

Ok…if you JUST do those 3 free techniques, you’ll be way ahead of the crowd. But, if you insist on speeding things up, you can try “SOLO ADS” – newsletter advertising.

I don’t want to get into crazy details here on how to do a good SOLO AD, I can do that later, but if you want to learn more about this, go to: http://www.ezines-r-us.com/

Paid Traffic Technique:

Solo Ads – these WORK – they just require a few bucks to invest. You can find tons of solo -ad directories out there to help you do so!

Running solo ads may cost you up to $300-$400, but you should be able to build that 1,000 subscriber list FAST (real fast) – maybe in a week or so!

So, there you have it. It’s not rocket science. I JUST gave you a formula to get your list building started…. So what are you waiting for?

Remember, LEAVE A COMMENT and let me know what you think!

Guest Post By Jimmy Kim

http://successmarketingsource.com