| You probably already know that building a list is a key | | | | you will have many subscribers who are willing to |
| ingredient to earning a substantial long-term income | | | | check out what you are promoting to them. |
| online. You should never stop trying to improve your | | | | And in terms of getting new subscribers, you'll also |
| efforts as well as expand them. The more you try, | | | | know how to push their emotional buttons and tell |
| the better you will get at building your list, and the | | | | them exactly how their problems could be solved |
| more subscribers you will have. Don't overdo yourself | | | | with your offer, allowing you to gain more |
| and try every strategy at once. Learn each one | | | | subscribers in the process. |
| individually, and then implement more and more as | | | | List Building Technique # 3: Send New Subscribers |
| you master each one. Here are some strategies to | | | | Older Emails That Got Great Responses |
| help you build your list quickly and efficiently. | | | | You might have sent some emails that have gotten |
| List Building Technique # 1: Offer an E-book as an | | | | great responses from your subscribers. You might |
| Incentive. | | | | have received boatloads of thanks for giving away |
| E-books are great incentives for anyone to give their | | | | such valuable info. That's certainly nice. But what |
| name and email address away. This is because an | | | | about the new people on your list? Just because |
| e-book has a higher perceived value than a | | | | they opted in later than others doesn't mean they |
| newsletter or e-course, as long as it is presented the | | | | should have to miss out on those awesome emails. |
| right way and is indeed of high quality. | | | | So, after they sign up, a few days later, send them |
| You can easily write a short e-book that you can | | | | those high response emails the rest of your list has |
| give away, pay someone to write one for you, or | | | | gotten. Tell them something like "Even though you |
| use an e-book from the public domain or with | | | | didn't sign up 2 months ago, here are some great tips |
| giveaway rights. Either way you go about it, it's a | | | | my other subscribers have enjoyed." |
| golden nugget to use for your list building. | | | | Or something like that. This will make them feel |
| Be sure your e-book is relevant to your niche and is | | | | included and they won't feel like they have missed |
| truly filled with good information - not a bunch of | | | | out on anything important. You could then ask them |
| fluff or filler. Another good thing about an e-book is | | | | to kindly forward your emails in case they found |
| that it can be passed around, spreading your name | | | | them beneficial or helpful. |
| and website all over the net, making it a viral | | | | List Building Technique # 4: Use Forums to Grow |
| mechanism and giving you massive exposure. | | | | Your List. |
| You can indicate on the first few pages that anyone | | | | When you go into forums in your niche, you can |
| can give away or resell your e-book; so if it's quality | | | | easily identify problems people are having. Once you |
| enough and people like it, you can almost be assured | | | | have determined what their problems are, you can |
| that it will get spread around. Make sure your e-book | | | | begin finding or creating a solution for them. This |
| is worthy of praise, and you will see your list expand | | | | solution could be in the form of an e-book. Once |
| and your name establish credibility. | | | | you've created your e-book, you can create a |
| If you end up with a truly viral e-book, then there's | | | | squeeze page and offer the e-book as an incentive in |
| no end to the amount of people that may sign up | | | | exchange for their emails. Then find other related |
| with you; and if there are any affiliate links in your | | | | forums and promote your squeeze page in the |
| book, then you can have potentially lots of people | | | | signature file of your forum posts. |
| checking out your links. | | | | For example, if your incentive for signing up is an |
| List Building Technique # 2: Send Your List a Survey. | | | | e-book on home remodeling, then you could go into |
| This is great, because it can be used for two things. | | | | some active remodeling forums and post a few tips |
| The first of which is it will allow you to find out what | | | | on the subject. From there, you could have a sign file |
| your subscribers' problems are. | | | | that would say something like: "For 15 more helpful |
| This is huge because you can then solve their | | | | home remodeling tips, click here." Of course you can |
| problems, either by creating a solution for them or | | | | word it how you want to, but the idea is to tease |
| finding the proper one. Either way you're going to | | | | them with a little bit of good information, and offer |
| make them very happy, and a happy subscriber is | | | | bigger and better info for them to sign up. |
| more likely to buy from you. It could also create | | | | Not all forums allow you to post links though, so be |
| response from your list. It will promote activity and | | | | sure to sign up only with the ones that allow them; |
| get your list talking to you and asking you questions. | | | | otherwise, you would be wasting your time. Hope |
| When you know their problems and are able to solve | | | | these 4 list building techniques get you to grow your |
| them, you will gain incredible amounts of trust from | | | | subscribers rapidly and make lots of cash from your |
| your present list. When you've got a responsive list, | | | | emails. |