List Building Do’s and Don’ts

Posted by admin | Posted in Building A List | Posted on 25-08-2011

If you are into internet business, you should know that list building is crucial to the success of your online venture.  If you don’t already know, list building is the collection of the names and emails of subscribers who are interested in what you’re offering on your website.

Any visitor that arrives at your site is a potential customer. But once they leave your site, it’s a possibility that they might never come back again. So the most obvious thing to do is to get their names and email addresses so you can followup with them in the future. Once you have a new product or information, you’ll be able to inform these people and have a higher chance of sale.

Some hints to build a successful list:

1.    Place a subscription form on your website – this is usually done on the top right corner of your website, so that it’s easily visible to your web visitors.

2.    Provide free reports or guide on your subscription form so that there’s an incentive for visitors to subscribe to your list.

3.    You can also offer free courses to your visitors.

Doing Affiliate Marketing Using an Optin List

Posted by admin | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Building A List | Posted on 20-08-2011

Building a responsive optin list and affiliate marketing go hand-in-hand with each other. Once you’ve establish a relationship a list which is highly relevant to your affiliate product, making money is a piece of cake.

Different people have different ways of building a list and doing affiliate marketing. The very first thing to do is to identify your targeted market and audience.

Once the target market is identified, the list building and affiliate marketing campaign can then be conceptualized to suit this particular pool of audience. There are a few ways to attract these visitors to sign up for your list:

1. Provide free reports

2. Provide free consultation

3. Provide discount coupon to a service or product that you own

By offering incentives, you’ll be able to get signed on subscribers much easily. Once you’ve gotten a sizable list of subscribers, you can start provide them with free information related to your niche. Be advised that sending them offers of affiliate product immediately would destroy the trust the list have in you and reduce the responsiveness of your list. So remember to always treat your subscribers well and they will bring in more money for you.