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How To Build A List
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How many times have you heard, “The money’s in the list!” It seems impossible to browse an Internet Marketing forum or scan a list of “How To Make Easy Money” articles and ebooks without tripping over that phrase ten times. It happens to be 100% true.
Without a responsive, loyal list, you have no one to directly market to. You already know that, if you just send messages and ads blindly out into virtual space, nothing will happen. You do know that, don’t you?
Your solution to list building involves several steps that you can master and use to start building your own loyal list of customers. When you send emails out, marketing one of your products to your list, quite a few will buy that product. Over time, as more and more learn to trust your credibility, the ones who actually click the Buy Now button will grow.
To start with, you need two different things:
#1…Know who your target market is and
#2…Know how you are going to capture their email addresses.
You can identify your target market by using search engines and keyword tracking tools. You can capture your customer’s email addresses by building an opt-in landing page, commonly called a squeeze page by today’s marketers.
Your goal with those two tasks described above is to drive tons of traffic to your squeeze page so you can capture that traffic’s email address. One way to do this is to write articles on an a regular basis and submit them to article directories with a link back to your squeeze page . Those articles need to be on subjects your desired target market would want to read. Don’t write articles on making enchiladas when your market is interested in how to make money online.
Blogs are a popular way to grab traffic and keep it. Make your posts fresh and directed at your market, and you will soon have a list of loyal readers you can market to. Your readers will expect fresh content all the time, so keep new articles and information changing all the time on your blog. To explode your list, submit your blog to social bookmarking sites like Digg, Yuwie, Stumbleupon, My Space, to name a few. You will have to determine which of the many online are suitable for your purposes.
While the tips listed here on how to build a list are not all-inclusive, they are valid and, if followed, will help you build your first list.
How Not To Build a List
Trying to build a list can become your worst nightmare if you do not take care to do it in the right way. Here’s several ways to destroy your own business while you’re trying to build it.
Your first mistake would be not having a niche, or target market. Do not try to address the entire online world with your list. Instead, focus on a group of people who want the information you have. Why would you send your message out to any others? That would be like standing on a street corner, wearing an advertising “ sandwich board” to promote your products.
Next, if you do not create and nurture an online, personal relationship with your customers you won’t have any customers. People who are hungry to buy your products want to know who they are dealing with…that would be you. There’s so much hype and false claims online today that the average customer doesn’t believe most of what they read. They want to trust you. Give them reason to do that and you will have a customer for life.
If you don’t allow your customers to become part of your virtual world, you will lose them. Ask questions that you want your list to answer. Use surveys. People don’t like it when they feel like they are just bodies with a credit card. They want to believe they are an important part of your business and asking for responses from your customers will have more than one benefit for your business.
The major benefit for you when asking your list members to help you with something…survey or just one or two questions…is that you will probably get multiple answers that will identify exactly what your readers want. Fill that need and you will create major loyalty that translates to sales.
One thing to remember here is to always identify and thank the list member who submitted the question you are addressing. If that happened to you, how would you feel? I would guess the answer to that question is “Special.” It might be a good idea to get permission to use real names, if your customer isn’t using a screen name.
One last way to ruin your business is not to include an unsubscribe link in your emails. People want to know that they can get off your list easily, if they want to. Make sure you respond to that unsubscribe request immediately, without any hesitation, or set it up on an autoresponder. Believe me, you do not want to be branded a spammer, unless you are tired of having a successful business.
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