List Building - 7 Ways to Grow a Kick-Butt List
Tellman Knudson asked:
If you’re been list building a while, you may not be getting many subscribers every day, if you keep up the same old tactics. Here are some new ideas for you:
* Whenever you send out a message to your list, put a short paragraph at the end that asks them to pass the newsletter along to a friend. Or, tell your friends that they can subscribe, and give them the email address to your autoresponder.
* Use list building boxes on all your sites and blogs, at the very top of the page. Then, no one will miss them. When people read your blog and like it, they’ll subscribe to your list.
* Articles are very popular as a traffic tool, too. Use your main keyword at least 2-7% of the time, and use them to send people to your list building page or your blog, where the opt-in box is the first thing they see.
* Write or develop a product to give away and join some of the free giveaways that are always going on. Just be sure that you’re able to have people sign up directly for your autoresponder. Don’t make your getting someone’s name and email address a condition of how many people you recruit. Those ****. Free giveaways where you actually put in your list building opt-in box code or your autoresponder email address, for whichever list you are building, are the only way to go with those.
* Do a joint venture with someone. Say, “I’ll put one message about your product or service into my autresponder series, if you put one message about my product or service into yours.” That way, you’re promote each other’s stuff forever, and as you get better at list building and as your partner’s business grows, so will both of your lists.
* Find a good co-registration program, like List Hero, where your offering is listed with others and people can subscribe to a number of lists at once. These can bring very quick results.
* Have you ever been in direct sales and heard the term ABC, for Always Be Closing? In the Internet Marketing world, you might see, ABT, or Always Be Testing. But here’s what I think before anything else: ABL, Always Be List Building. If you want to succeed online, it’s really all about the list.
If you’re been list building a while, you may not be getting many subscribers every day, if you keep up the same old tactics. Here are some new ideas for you:
* Whenever you send out a message to your list, put a short paragraph at the end that asks them to pass the newsletter along to a friend. Or, tell your friends that they can subscribe, and give them the email address to your autoresponder.
* Use list building boxes on all your sites and blogs, at the very top of the page. Then, no one will miss them. When people read your blog and like it, they’ll subscribe to your list.
* Articles are very popular as a traffic tool, too. Use your main keyword at least 2-7% of the time, and use them to send people to your list building page or your blog, where the opt-in box is the first thing they see.
* Write or develop a product to give away and join some of the free giveaways that are always going on. Just be sure that you’re able to have people sign up directly for your autoresponder. Don’t make your getting someone’s name and email address a condition of how many people you recruit. Those ****. Free giveaways where you actually put in your list building opt-in box code or your autoresponder email address, for whichever list you are building, are the only way to go with those.
* Do a joint venture with someone. Say, “I’ll put one message about your product or service into my autresponder series, if you put one message about my product or service into yours.” That way, you’re promote each other’s stuff forever, and as you get better at list building and as your partner’s business grows, so will both of your lists.
* Find a good co-registration program, like List Hero, where your offering is listed with others and people can subscribe to a number of lists at once. These can bring very quick results.
* Have you ever been in direct sales and heard the term ABC, for Always Be Closing? In the Internet Marketing world, you might see, ABT, or Always Be Testing. But here’s what I think before anything else: ABL, Always Be List Building. If you want to succeed online, it’s really all about the list.