When people find your blog or optin page, they will leave their name and email address in exchange for your free giveaway. Usually this is in a form of a short report on your topic. This report can be several pages in length or longer if you choose. The most important thing is to include […]
Always Think About Growing Your List
Even though you can be extremely profitable with a tiny list, growing your list should be a goal that you think about regularly. In fact, everything you do must work towards list building. This is all new to most of us, so it takes some time to get used to. When I started out I […]
Create A Teleseminar Workshop To Share What You Know
You can plan a teleseminar where you can teach others what you are learning. I first did this in 2006, when I taught people what I knew about blogging and article marketing. Even though I wasn’t an expert in either area, I had learned enough to share my knowledge with others who were just getting […]
Why The First Email You Send To Your List Is The Most Important One
When someone signs up to be on your list by leaving their name and email address, they are expecting to receive the report or recording that you have promised them. It is up to you to deliver fully on that promise to begin establishing trust between the two of you. Many people are cautious before […]
Build Rapport With Your List By Responding To Emails
Yes, you read that correctly. I actually respond to everyone who emails me. I started doing this back in 2006 when my list was less than fifty people, and I continue to do it now that my list is over 2,000. I believe this builds rapport between you and the people who have graciously agreed […]
Include Your Twitter Followers In Whatever You Do Online
Even though your followers on Twitter are not are your list, many of them are your prospects. Include them in what you are doing online by tweeting about it regularly. Be sure to let them know where they can sign up for your upcoming teleseminars, newsletter, internet radio show, or latest e-course. This allows you […]
Promote An Affiliate Product
Even when my list consisted of fewer than one hundred people, I still promoted affiliate products and services to them on a regular basis. I made sure that what I was recommending to them was a fit with my niche, so that it would make sense to them. For example, I was teaching them how […]
Storytelling – A Powerful Way To Keep Your Market Interested
Once I had about ten people on my list I began to email them once or twice each week to stay in touch with them. I didn’t have anything to sell yet, and I was only promoting a few affiliate products at that time, so I had to figure out what exactly to write to them.
Without even knowing it, I stumbled onto to one of the best ways to keep my market interested in me and what I was doing. This was through
Create An Event on Facebook and Invite Everyone
When Alex Mandossian challenged me to double my list in ten days last October, I imediately thought about creating an event on Facebook. I planned a teleseminar on one of my more popular topics, affiliate marketing, about a week later, and then spent many hours inviting all 4,000 of my friends to opt in to be […]
Huge Profits From An E-Course
Right now I am in the middle of writing my newest e-course. It will contain five lessons and be delivered by email over a 10 day period. Each lesson will teach one aspect of getting started online, and will include links to some of my programs and home study courses, as well as to affiliate […]