List Building Techniques

List + Sales = Business

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The formula for online business success is simple.

• Build a List.
• Make Sales. 

 How To Build a List?

Pick a niche

Create something valuable to offer prospects as a gift.Invite them to join your list to collect the gift - FREE. Put up a registration form that adds them to the list.

Your List Building Process Sign up with a service like Aweber.
Generate the code for an opt-in form (it's easy). Your form will look like this:

Offer Your Gift

Try and come up with a gift that's a digital download. Post it on your website, with details on how to collect it. Send the web address of this page in your first email to
new subscribers. This way, they need to opt-in and confirm their registration to get it.

               1. You have a list of subscribers.

               2. Each subscriber has a free gift of value.

               3. You have their goodwill and trust.

               4. They look forward to more value from you.

               That's the seed of a potentially successful business.


Now, Make Sales

Choose something to sell your prospects. Be sure it is valuable, worth the price, and useful to them. Ideally, it should solve a problem or relieve pain theyare feeling.
Promote that product to your prospects. Some of them WILL buy. You'll have sales.

How To Make Sales?

Start off by selling other people's products, for a commission.
Affiliate marketing networks like Clickbank and Commission Junction list many.
Use their tested and proven promotional material like banners, ads, email copy etc.
Carefully check your affiliate links, so you get paid forsales you generate.
Let's talk about how and when to sell next.


How And When To Sell?

1. Sell prospects at first contact. Yes, as soon as they hit your website, even before they opt-in to your list, if you like.

2. Soon after they join your list. Your opt-in form will redirect subscribers to another page. Host the ad or banner on that page, with an invitation to buy.
Like this...

3. Make an offer in your welcome email. The one in which you send them the link to download their free gift, remember? Yes, that one!

4. Repeat the offer on the gift download page. After they've picked up the gift, tell them where to go (the sales page), and what to do there (buy).

5. Sell again within the 'gift'. No reason why you cannot include a pitch for a valuable product or service within your freebie, right?

6. Keep selling in your follow up communication. Each email you send your prospects in the future is another sales opportunity. Make use of it.

List + Sales =

So... you've got a list of subscribers. You're making them offers - and some subscribers will buy.

You can keep reminding them about it - and more will buy.

You can find other things to sell them - and more people will buy.

You can sell them subscriptions or memberships - and they'll keep paying you every month, or every week.

That's when you have a BUSINESS.

But...What's Missing?

It looks so very simple when it's explained this way, right? Surely something is missing!
Well, yes. You see, to first start building your list, you need to find prospects who are interested in the field you are entering. Traffic (targeted, eager, hungry human traffic)
is the lifeblood of any Internet business. Let's talk about a simple way to get a lot of it... next!

Simple, Fast Traffic

What if...

* you could run an ad on a service

* get it seen by thousands of people

* have some of them click on the ad to visit your site

* attract these visitors to join your list

* and have this all run automatically, for as long as you want?

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