This is absolutely - without a doubt - the most vital and necessary tool for your business! It is so EXTREMELY important to have a mailing list that entire websites, e-books and courses have been written on the subject. This is your ULTIMATE tool for your success. You've probably heard the phrase... "The Money Is In The List". Trust me... No words are truer! You need to have a mailing list and keep in touch with your website visitors to bring in new business. Be creative and find ways, whatever it takes, to get customers to sign up to your list. Once a customer is on your mailing list, they're a prospect (and hopefully a new customer) for life! Repeat sales will be the lifeblood for your business. Offer a freebie... ANYTHING... Your first born child (just kidding)... something of value - something to persuade your visitors to sign up to your list.
You're not wrong. I didnt start my list until 9 months after i launched my site, but it is definitely a great thing to have.
Building a list from people who are attracted to you and your message is the key to any online business. http://ezinearticles.com/?E-Mail-List-Building---How-To-Build-Your-First-List&id=5014001
List is the holy grail, even if everything is taken from you and your business goes dead due to some reason, you can start immediately and get successful if you have your list with you. Everyone should build a list in some niches that they are working in if they want to be successful internet marketers.
I agree with you 100%, but very few people actually teach how to build that list, or more importantly how to manage it once you've got it. I've built small list before, but never was able to market well enough to build list of any size greater than 21 people, or so. To build a big list you have to know how to drive massive amounts of traffic to your opt in page, and that's NOT an easy thing to do. List will eventually disappear if you don't know how to manage them effectively, making sure they are always up to date, know what to send to them, or how often to send them messages. If you can't manage your list well it will either become unresponsive, or just dwindle down to nothing via attrition. I always offer great free products to people who will opt in to my list, but very few will do so if your landing page isn't getting many visitors to it. If you have a big list what methods do you use to build your list fast, keep your list members responsive/current/happy, and drive traffic to your pages? Please share with us. Thanks!
Mailing lists are extremely valuable for any business. These lists have key information to potential clients and returning clients. These lists need to be updated and managed all the time in order for them to be effective.
Creating a database is not an easy task. First, most squeeze pages are lacking of specific fields that should be present when targeting a list. A list without a target is worth nothing. Second, it's important to refresh and renew your database, the life span of a database is quite short.
Building a list is one of the most effective ways to earn a decent income from your website. It's very simple to setup, you can just create a Squeeze Page to promote your product. The strategy is to offer them a freebie that they can't resist. An ebook that will solve their problem for example. Once you have the list, you can now continually send them newsletters and occasionally sell them your product. Recent studies show that email marketing still has the highest conversion rate. Here's a nice article about squeeze pages for you to get started... http://speedsqueezepages.com/blog/what-is-squeeze-page/
I wish I would have started building a list a lot sooner. Once a visitor visits your site and leaves, they are probably gone forever. By having a list, you have more chances to sell them your offer.
yeah... there are many components to this strategy. I still sell things to people that have been on my list for 3 years. So the relationship is definitely important. Its hard work creating new and valuable content that they will appreciate. I take small pieces of articles I write and break them into some of the content I use to send out in my email list. I also occasionally make exclusive content that I don't post anywhere else but in the emails my list receives and I tell them that.
Without a shadow of a doubt. Having a list is the corner stone of any successful business on or offline. Being able to sell to the same customers over and over again is where you can skyrocket your profits. It's also important not to bombard them with lots of selling all the time too! You've gotta build the relationship with them and make sure you give them plenty of free, useful information. I like to use the 80-20 rule for this. 80% give, give, give for free and 20% special offers. Treat your customers as you'd like to be treated when you subscribe to a list.
List building is for generating customers passively on long run if you started newly, you have target audience which are customers interested in your product. Sending quality newsletters will convert them from subscribers to customers.
Nice tip, a mailing list is a like a regular customer that you bring offers to again and again, if they like your offers they are more likely to sign up for other offers, it's like the relationship between the customer and the local grocery store, sure the customer knows there are other grocery stores about but old habits are hard to kill
That's true, the money is in the list, but the REAL money is in other people's list. Once you create something viral that get people to promote to their list, everything changes
You are absolutely correct! Building a list of active prospects is the lifeblood of your entire business. I always tell everyone that contacts me or finds me online somewhere, that before you do ANYTHING else, you need to start building a list. Having your own list of active subscribers is what allows you to make money online and will also allow you to pull in more people into any programs that you are getting engaged with. There are a few very important things needed to start out to begin this quest, and a quest it is. This is not something that will just build up on it's own, you must actively promote it whenever you can, wherever you can. Here's what you need to start: A niche product, or program that you are going to promote. You can find them on clickbank.com or if you are specifically promoting another type of affiliate program. A domain, you can buy them from namecheap.com. I don't really recommend Godaddy, simply because if they receive a spam complaint they immediately take your domain offline leaving your business helpless and not producing any income. Create a domain very similar to the product you are promoting as it will allow you to rank well when and if you choose to do any type of SEO work. An LC, or lead capture page. Once you have the product that you want to promote, you are going to need to create ad copy that catches the interest of your prospect. Starting with the header of your ad. It needs to be a good size, normally red in color and the use of the font called Tahoma and then make your header as catchy as you can that grabs the readers attention. Your ad copy needs to address a problem that which your visitors in the specific niche are in. Once you address this issue, you must follow up with a solution to their problem and keep their attention ready and wanting more information from you. The main goal is not get them to join the program you want them on this LC page. You want to capture their details and pull them into your autoresponder system. Then next thing you will need in your LC page is a call to action. You need to direct them on what to do next, ie. "Sign Up Now To Get Your Free Gift & Report On ... " The autoresponder system. This is key, because without this you can't build a list of subscribers. You can use paid services like aweber, getresponse, or you can go the much cheaper route and purchase a php based autoresponder system that will allow you to customize it the way you want, and you don't have to pay any monthly fees. Nor will you have to worry about when your list size gets to a certain number will you start having to pay more money every month, and this does happen with services like aweber, and several others. After you've decided on your autoresponder system, it's a very good idea to start creating your message sequences. The first message obviously needs to be a welcome message, explaining to them the reasons why they opted-in to your list and that you are going to offer them a solution to their problem. This is a great time to offer them a free gift if you decide to offer them one on your LC page. Your signup ratio will accumulate even more if you are offering prospects a free gift. At this point, you need to start creating followup messages and building your relationship with them. The is the main step to creating an active list of subscribers and you must stay in contact with your subscribers or they will in fact forget who you are, regardless of how well known you are. So when you finally decide to send them an email, there's a good chance you'll lose them as a subscriber as they've already forgotten that they opted-in to your "solution to their problem" and some will even report you as spam to their ISP. The best way to market to your list is by offering them good quality content and then weaving in a product that you want to recommend to them. They will be more receptive once you've built a reputation with your subscribers. There's many other things that you can do to integrate into your lists, it's all about being creative. If nothing else when you are marketing, always thing about building your list first.
i agree with that statement but the big question in my mind how can i get my first mailing list? anyone can helps me to show the way
Sarah, read my post above. I pretty much explained how you create your first mailing list. The only thing you will need from there is traffic
I found a GREAT way to build a new mailing list is to run a competition and try and get people to publish it or publish it on forums - I am currently running a competition to win a Nintendo DSi and have had over 2,000 entries. The auto responder gives people the chance to opt out of future marketing messages by emailing "unsubscribe". Another useful option is to split the competition into different urls based on what you want the target audience to be, for example I have competitions in certain gaming magazines with unique url's based such as /NGamer or /Xbox360, that way I know that those competition entries (to an extent) have come from someone with an interest in a particular area.