- Internet Marketing And List Building: You Owe Yourself 9 Continuous Hours
Still confused about list building? You may have all the knowledge you need to get a good Internet marketing niche list up and running, but you don't know where to start. That's not unusual. We all get tons of mail in our inboxes, day after day. You may just be so overwhelmed by all the advice that you just shut down and don't do anything. Well, I have a very powerful way for you to make list building work for you and to get your Internet marketing business jump started.
T... - List Building: Are You Sending The Right Message?
The Internet is full of sound and color, isn't it? You have dynamic content, flash, video, and on and on. And when you start list building, you're setting up your autoresponder messages and may think that HTML is the way to go. But is it? Remember, you shouldn't be as concerned with look as you are with conversion. Which type of email works best? It's a toss up, but here are a few things to consider:
How do we communicate with one another, offline, list building aside? We ... - List Building In 7 Steps
One question that people often ask me is, "Tellman, I want start list building like you suggest, but I don't know where to start." OK. Let me give you the 7 simple steps to follow:
1. Find your niche: Everyone has something that really turns them on. Maybe it's chess or even NASCAR, acting or quilting. It really doesn't matter as long as there are enough people searching for keywords in that niche each month. So, in case the first idea doesn't have enough interest, maybe p... - Sending Traffic To Your List Building Page: Part 4, Podcasting Your Heart Out
In our traffic series of articles, we've already covered the writing forms of advertising for traffic--blogging and articles. This time, let's go on to a way to get traffic without the need to write--podcasting, a great alternative.
Your first piece of equipment will be your headset and microphone. Be sure that the product you choose is comfortable to wear and that the sound it produces is clear. Most of them will probably work OK, but you have to decide which one is right... - Sending Traffic To Your List Building Page: Part 3, Got Article, Where Travel?
In many previous articles, I have written about how to write articles--what to write about, how to focus, etc. But I don't think I've ever written about what to do with them, once they're written. OK, so...
When you're done, guess what? You get to rewrite the article all over again. Yep. Paragraph by paragraph. Rewrite it completely. Think about what it says, and just use different words, like this
**Can list building be the most important thing that an Internet markete... - Sending Traffic To Your List Building Page. Part One: Blogging
It took a long time getting your squeeze page built just the way you wanted it, right? Now, how can you get traffic? It's the lifeblood of the Internet according to some. So, how do you go about getting it?
There are several ways to get traffic, actually, but not all of them may be right for you. Let's explore the different ways of getting traffic in a series of articles.
The first will be about blogging.
Blogging! You're probably thinking, I can't write. Well, yes y... - List Building? Know Thine List
If you're selling more than one product, you probably work in more than one niche. How well do you know the niche you're building a list around? If your list is very big, you probably don't know each and every person on it on a personal level, but how much do you know about the niche itself? Like, what words do they use? Where do they hang out?
These are important considerations when maintaining your niche list. The people on it aren't mindless electrons in cyberspace... T... - Zen And The Art Of List Maintenance
Do you have a decent-size list of a few thousand people or more, and are you asking yourself, "Why aren't they buying?" Well, how did you acquire them? From free advertising or from paid advertising? What do they want? Do you even know that? Are you sure you're selling them the right products? These questions are very important.
Let's discuss them in order.
How did you come by the people in your list? If they came from free advertising, they're probably not going to be ... - Writing Your Way Into List Building Nirvana
You may be saying to yourself, "How can you build a list from just words?" You need a squeeze page, an opt-in box, all those other things that list builders use to get names and email addresses into their autoresponders, right? There is a way to build your list using words, though, and you do it by writing articles.
If you think starting an article is tough, it's not really. You just have to think about what turns you on. It's a little like choosing your niche that we talk... - My People Are Duds!
Marketers are always concerned with one thing--the size of their lists. I mean, don't you check your stats every single day? Let me tell you, when it comes to list building, size definitely matters, but there's one thing that matters much, much more. How responsive is your list?
When you're gauging your responsivity rate, decide how many people from your list buy the products or sign up for programs you recommend. As an example, imagine that you have a 20,000 person list. ... - List Building: Getting To The Right People
Tell me, does this describe you? You're new to Internet Marketing, and you're sitting in front of the computer screen, trying to learn how to be successful. Right? Well, when I first came online, I didn't know anything. I didn't know HTML or how to build a web site. I had no idea about how to get traffic. I had about $50 and didn't know anyone at all!
So, what could I do? I went out and tried to find the most successful people online. I needed to understand what made them ... - List Building - Have A Good Article Foundation
Why do I write articles?
Hmm... I have 3 good reasons, actually.
The first one is because I like to help people. I do have a coaching program that's very expensive. Yet, I still like to give back some of what I've learned. When I was just starting out, I wanted the best people to teach me about list building, so I interviewed the people with the biggest lists I could find and I learned all I need to know to build a million-dollar business. This is proven information.
... - List Building | Using Keywords Efficiently
I talk a lot about articles and how they can drive traffic to your list building page. This is a very important idea. Driving traffic to your squeeze page is the most important thing you can do. Without traffic... NO subscribers. So, let's talk a bit more about using articles to send traffic to your list building page.
How can you make articles "search engine friendly"? Getting your page to the top of the search engine results pages increased your list building power expon... - List Building: Emails... To Sell Or Not To Sell, That Is The Question
When you're writing emails to your list, at first, you're probably worried about how people will react when you try to sell them something. But you shouldn't just blast emails out to people that are all sales pitch. You want a delicate balance of story and offer.
I personally like to always have a link where list members can go and buy something, just so people get used to it. What I’ve found is if you have too much stuff that is strictly content without any link for peopl... - List Building Via PPC
Pay-per-click is something you should know about. Pay-per-click isn’t something you absolutely have to know about immediately, but it's definitely something you should learn. But how do list building and PPC work together?
Starting your list building strategy with co-reg and JV deals are really the quickest, best, and least expensive ways that take the least amount of brain power for automatic list building. You’re really looking to build your list to several thousand as q... - List Building: Don't Dupe
So, you're building a list, right? And in return for people's names and addresses, you want to give something away.
OK...
If you can write and you know your topic very well, then you can write a short report, an email series to put into your autoresponder, or even a short ebook. But how do you go about that, if you hate to or can't write?
Well, you can buy Private Label Rights (PLR) articles or ebooks and adapt them to suit the topic of your list. Let's talk about th... - List Building | Blogging For Traffic And List Building?
The hottest marketing technique today is blogging. Why? you may wonder. What does blogging have to do with list building?
Blogs are very search engine friendly because search engine spiders don't have to deal with java script or flash, or too many images, usually, and they don't get hung up on the crawl. And besides that, a blog is constantly updating with fresh content. That's what search engines love best.
So, what happens?
Your blog, which you've updated daily, wi... - List Building | Your Sales Funnel
You have probably heard different Internet marketers use the words "sales funnel." Do you know what that means?
A sales funnel really involves all the things you need to do to make a sale before the customer clicks that link to buy. But where is he when he's clicking that link? He's opting in to your newsletter, getting a free report, or just finding out more information about something interesting to them. They're joining your list!
If your list is about signing up for... - List Building | Drive Traffic To Your Squeeze
So, you've got this great squeeze page sitting out there in cyberworld, and it's all ready for list building in your particular niche. But think about this: At last count, Google indexed something like 8 billion pages! With all that competition for eyeballs, will your site ever be seen?
You need traffic.
One way, a really great way to get people to your list building page, is by writing articles, and they're great for several reasons. First, when you have an article pub... - List Building | Make Money With Affiliate Products And Your List
Once you have a list building, there’s no question that you can make a lot of money selling other people’s products. And there are a couple of good places where you can find the products to fit the niche where you've built your list. These services are great for sellers because the hard work of managing affiliates and creating a sales system are removed and handled by the online vending system, and they're great for affiliates for the same reasons.
But it's important to st... - List-building: Setting Up A Synergistic List-building System
Getting started with any project is the most important thing, and we don't always do it right. For instance, here is where people lose a lot of money, so this is really important.
If you're doing a teleseminar series, drive traffic, including your own list members to your squeeze page and build a master list of people who might be interested in the calls.
This is a great opportunity to monetize the thank you page, after people have joined the list, via the "homework" ... - List-Building: Your First Web Host
All of the steps we've discussed in other articles need to be done in preparation for building your list. But there’s one more thing you’re going to need to do. It's something you can do this afternoon. Get your first web host.
A web host is kind of like the computer that stores your website. It’s not your home computer; it’s a server that’s usually somewhere else and what is does is host the new domain name that you just registered and makes it accessible to the World Wid... - List-Building; List Training
I would rather promote a squeeze page than a sales page any day. A lot of other big list owners get all wimpy, and say, “I don’t want to promote to a squeeze page and give everybody my list.” Basically that’s what you call whussy thinking.
What they're saying is, “There are not enough subscribers out there for me to make money, so I don’t want to give mine away by promoting you.”
Then why the heck are you doing affiliate marketing anyway if you’re not going to properly ... - List-Building: How To Become Top Dog In Any Environment
Here is an interesting idea: Once you learn to think like a marketer and you train your brain to look at things from this new perspective, what ends up happening is the tools almost become irrelevant. You can be in literally any situation and you can end up being the top dog in that environment.
That can mean all of a sudden you find yourself in Ghana, with no food and hopefully just a little bit of clothing, and you’re completely down and out. You certainly don’t have a c... - List-Building: How To Exploit A Teleseminar To Its Fullest Potential
What topic are you thinking about working in? What if you get four people to agree to do teleseminars with you?
For instance, if you're into real estate renting, find the top four people whom you can get your hands on who are experts in speaking about owning rental properties. Or, if you're into health and wellness, find the top four people in that.
Undoubtedly, they probably all have lists, and they're probably big lists. That's great because they can advertise to thei... - List-building: Keep It Simple
Here's a question, I get often:
"When you’re just starting out, do you concentrate on building just one list and one set of products or do you just go ahead and expand into doing a list for many different niches?"
Here's my answer:
I think when you’re starting out you should just focus on building one list, monetizing that list, and doing a really, really kick-butt job of that because when you start dividing your efforts, what ends up happening is that your profits g... - List-Building: Start Where?
When I tell people, "The most important thing you can do right now is to build your list," they ask me, "What do I build a list about? Where do I start building this list?" That's pretty simple, actually.
Number one is pick a topic. This is as simple as taking a hobby, an interest, something that you like or enjoy. You can then think about and work on whether or not you make money on it from the start. Play to your hobby or interest when you’re first getting started.
Do... - List-Building: The Mindset Factor
Let's talk about realizing what kind of list you're building. This is a very, very important consideration. You have to realize what mindset your list members are in.
So, maybe you're gathering an audience for a teleseminar about health and wealth product of some kind, the people you attract will be interested in health and wealth. They probably won't be interested in nonsense. They're not interested in wasting time. Of course, there's no doubt going to be some crossover.
... - List-Building: Do You Love What You're Doing? If Not, Why Build A List?
I would be very hesitant to put any time, effort or energy into building a list for anything that you’re not absolutely passionate about.
If you spend time on a thing that you’re not really into, you’re training your brain to allow yourself to spend time on other things that you’re not absolutely passionate about. But... If you make the decision that you’re only going to be doing things in your life that you’re absolutely passionate about and you’re going to make vast amou... - List-Building: Get Your Squeeze Page Up And Start Building Your List!
When you run into a technical stumbling block, when working on a squeeze page for building your list, what do you do? Do you sit there and think you can't do it and just walk away, or do you try to find an answer? I mean when you're thinking about adding sound to your site or you just want to highlight a line of text and aren't clear about the HTML tag. Do you just forget things that might help your conversion because you don't know how to do these things, or do you look for ... - List-Building: Two Caveats For New Marketers
When you're new to online marketing, the availability of information and the dazzle of get-rich-quick schemes thrown at you can be overwhelming. But really, what you need to do can be distilled down to two very important actions--build a list and decide what you want to do before going off in all different directions.
So, when you're building your list, the first thing to remember is--no matter what--never let things slow you down.
Every single highly-successful person ... - List-Building: Put Some Teeth In The Back End
People often ask, “We’re going to be giving away some ebooks—what’s the best way to monetize that?”
Ultimately, you want to monetize this by building a list. That’s the simple answer. If you’re not doing that, you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
But I would do two more things:
Number one is that I would do as much as I could to force the opt-in to your list before they get the ebook.
Number two is that I would assume that people are going to spread the ebook any... - List-building: Help Others To Help Yourself
One great way to build a super list in a hurry is by doing free teleseminars. People call in and hear a competent guest speaker talk about something that's important to the people who sign up. And every one who does sign up becomes part of your list.
The interview shouldn't be pure sales pitch. Nobody wants to call in (often long-distance) just to hear something about the next wonderful info product or whatever. They want to learn something. Then, at the end of the call, y... - List-building: Building Seminar Relationships Can Increase Your List
When you go to a live seminar, you may not be going with the intention of building your list, but you should be. You'll meet people who have much larger lists than you do, and if you can strike up a relationship, your list can grow almost overnight.
But at first, you’re not going to know a lot of people, which basically means at some point you might be a little uncomfortable. That’s the way it works with everyone when they start going to seminars. You’re standing around, y... - List-Building: Start With Your Passion; The List Will Follow
People new to Internet Marketing often ask me, "What’s the best way to start in Internet marketing?"
I’m going to tell you a story about myself as a case study.
When I started, I had no HTML experience, and I couldn’t put up a decent web page. I sucked at writing copy and I didn’t know how to edit audio. I didn’t know what an autoresponder series was, I didn’t know how to make a redirect, and I didn’t know how to approach people properly for a joint venture. I had no id... - List-Building: How-To Explode Your List
Focus on building a list of people who care about the same thing as you do, whether it's Internet Marketing or pet grooming. Then, write a blog every single day, in order to get search engine traffic, and put together press releases to spread the word about the news about what’s happening in the world of pet grooming. Keep on top of it.
Write one press release a day. Do one blog entry a day. In the meantime, build a list of people who care. Monetize the whole thing with so... - List Building: One Sure Way To Become A Successful Entrepreneur
I have an extremely important point to share with you today. I'm successful online, but I had to learn, just as you may be learning now. I did a few things that didn't work. I had no list, couldn't build a list, and then, I made a decision.
Here’s the way it worked for me, and I’ll leave it up to you as to whether or not you want to apply this. However, I had the exact same issues as you may be having now. It was, “Okay, what should I do first, what should I do second? Who... - List-Building: Why Sites Come Last And Lists Come First
People often ask me, "I bought a website, but it’s not really what I want it to be. Where do I go to find someone to help me get it right? "
"Whoa!" I say, "Back up." Finding a web designer is very easy. But should you even begin looking?
The problem is that when most people start out, they say, “I want a website and I think I want it to look like this.” They might pick out five or six different websites (by the way, I’ve done this). When I was first starting out, I hir... - List Building: Gain Massive Opt-Ins Through Headline Testing
Coming up with five headlines is the first thing you need to do before you think about anything else. Headlines are really the most important part of any squeeze page, which is key to list building.
If you want to be lazy about it, you could have a headline and an opt-in box and if your headline was good enough, you would get subscribers for your list, without any bullet points or anything else. You could have a headline and your first name and email, and you could get peo... - List Building: Developing Awesome Squeeze Pages
A squeeze page or an opt-in page is one that you drive traffic to, with the aim of getting visitor's name and email address, optimally in exchange for something of value. Use squeeze pages to build a strong, responsive list.
The first and most important thing about any squeeze page you design to build your list with is testing. Even testing two different headlines can make all the difference in the world.
Start split-testing your squeeze pages and you can do that easily...
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