A Free-Reprint Article Written by: Willie Crawford Article Title: What's Your Excuse For Still Not Having A List?
See TERMS OF REPRINT to the end of the article. Article Description: One of the excuses we hear most often from struggling online marketers is that they don't make more sales because they don't have a list. We even hear that excuse from marketers who have been online three, or even five years. My question to them is always, "What are you waiting for?" "Why not start a massive list-building effort today?" 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Copyright (c) 2009 Willie Crawford Willie Crawford Incorporated http://WillieCrawford.com/ezine.html One of the excuses we hear most often from struggling online marketers is that they don't make more sales because they don't have a list. We even hear that excuse from marketers who have been online three, or even five years. My question to them is always, "What are you waiting for?" "Why not start a massive list-building effort today?" When I look at how I built my database, I used only a few primary methods. Here are the most effective ones that I used: 1) On many of my content websites, in many niches, I simply have an opt-in form in a prominent location on practically every page. That opt-in form is usually in the upper right corner of the page. I typically offer the potential subscribers a gift as an enticement to join my list -- perhaps a PDF special report or an audio recording. I also assure the potential subscriber that I will protect their data and only send them appropriate email. I also tell them that there is a handy one-click link in every email that I send that makes it super easy for them to remove themselves from my list if they ever get tired of my communications. This has worked beautifully for me for more than a dozen year, and steadily grows my lists. 2) I have numerous affiliate programs. Many of these affiliate programs sell inexpensive products and pay the affiliates 100% commission on the front end product. The real purpose of those affiliate programs is to build a list of proven buyers interested in a specific topic. The commissions incentivize others to go out and send me traffic AND build my lists. I most often use a script called Rapid Action Profits, which allows me to pay affiliate instantly, depositing the payments directly into their PayPal accounts. This is so powerful because affiliates often need the funds TODAY, and don't want to wait 30 - 60 days for their commissions. When they can sell one of my inexpensive products, that are almost impulse buys for their customers, and get those funds instantly, they trip over themselves sending me customer... and building my lists. 3) I often participate in quality list-building giveaways. In these events, numerous marketers ban together to drive traffic to a centralize website where gifts from each of the marketers are listed. In order to download a specific gift, the website visitor must typically visit the site of the marketer offering the gift and join his list. If you offer truly useful gifts, thousands of new subscribers can sometimes be gained from just one of these free giveaways. I usually offer PDF ebooks (transcripts from interviews that I conduct), MP3's or inexpensive but useful software. I often announce free giveaways that are looking for contributors on my blog, and to my Twitter followers. 4) Software that displays your subscribe box on other's site, and automatically builds your list for you. There is software that allows you to participate in a cooperative effort, where partners display the boxes on each others' webpages. This is a good way to share the wealth since your website visitors are joining others' lists anyway. You may as well send your traffic to someone who is reciprocating. There is also newer software that allows you to display your subscribe box superimposed on affiliate websites, social networking sites, etc. You still tell your visitors to go to sites such as YouTube, Clickbank, Amazon or Ebay, but the software shows them a subscribe box and asks them to join your list BEFORE doing anything else. This is very powerful, and is largely hands free. For example, I can mention affiliate sites, or perhaps my profile page on one of the social networking sites, and build a list in the process of just spreading the word. With so many easy ways to grow your list, there really is no excuse for anyone who's been online for more than a few months not to be aggressively building a list. You do need that list to inexpensively spread the word about your business. Now that you see how REALLY simple and easy it is, get started building your list today! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Willie Crawford has been teaching online marketers to build their email lists since 1996. Since that time he has built a database of over 800,000. One of his favorite list-building tools allows you to automatically build a list from traffic visiting someone else's domain. 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