Where do I start building my list?
The easiest and fastest place to start is with:
LIST BUILDER PROGRAMS
The first thing one discovers when starting an online business is that “the money is in your list”. Virtually every service and product available online has some form of referral plan or incentive attached to it and by working together with other marketers you can turn what would normally be business overheads into profit centers or rebates on your advertising costs.
This is why it is ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE that you don’t even start advertising until you know what to advertise! Firstly, NEVER advertise your primary business upfront. You may as well flush your the money you’re planning on using for that down the toilet right now! You’ll also need to be using effective subject lines and good email ads which you will have access to if you’re using a good marketing system.
You must be advertising a lead capture page that leads into your marketing funnel that will build your list. If you don’t have a marketing funnel yet then please take a look at The Worlds Fastest Lead Generating System Here.
Branding YOU and Building your LIST of subscribers must be your # 1 priority.
Okay….now that we have that out the way, lets get back to the fastest way to get visitors to your Marketing System lead capture page.
There are so many ways to drive traffic but the fastest and easiest method for a brand new marketer is to rent someone else’s list and start moving people from their list to yours. The more lists you can rent the better and faster you’ll build your own list of contacts. There are many excellent lists you can “rent” and I will point you to a place you can find many of the best ones to get started with.
Using these lists is one of the very best methods of getting highly targeted visitors to your website. This is permission based emailing to people already working online and therefore exactly the type of people you want to network with. The beauty of starting with list builders is that this is a method of advertising that is very easy to learn, it is very effective and produces immediate results. For these reasons this is what I recommend as the very first marketing skill to learn for anyone starting an online business.
List Builder programs work on the basis of “I’ll look at what you’ve got if you’ll look at what I’ve got!” In essence, you are agreeing to view other marketer’s advertisements which earns you credits that then allow you to email your offers to a certain number of members every so many days.
As you join these programs you will always be offered deals by the list owners and you must consider their offers carefully as you can build huge mailing power very cost effectively by taking advantage of their one time offers. Typically as a free member you will only be able to mail once a week and you will earn less credits per ad view than an upgraded member. You are going to need to spend a lot of time each day opening emails in order to build up enough credits to make a worthwhile mailing at the end of the week. Multiply this effort 10 times if you join 10 lists and you’ll soon realize why you need to seriously consider the “One Time Offers (OTO)” as you join these lists.
What you are doing is buying and building your mailing power. For example, you might accept a “one time offer that buys you an annual membership mailing 3,000 members every 3 days for $197. Then check out the referral plan and work out how many referrals you need to get your money back. Do the same thing at 10 sites and now you are mailing 30,000 people every 3 days for FREE once you have referred a certain number of people to each list builder you join. Now that is a big targeted audience. Join 20 sites and you’ll be driving some serious traffic to your websites!
This is the answer to the easiest, most cost effective and targetted traffic you can generate in the fastest time possible. The other HUGE advantage of starting in List Builder programs is that it is the perfect testing ground to experiment and refine your emailing skills. Here you can test different subject lines and messages and see what generates the best results before spending money on SoloAds. If you have ever spent $100 on a SoloAd and had zero response you’ll know what I mean! It is very easy to BLOW $200 on SoloAds that don’t produce anything. It is a very sickening feeling and this is why you’re better off, certainly as a newbie, to buy a $197 annual membership in a List Builder program rather than risk a SoloAd before you know what you’re doing. If you blow a once in 3 days 3000 member mailing with a bad subject line or by sending people to a bad landing page or, heaven forbid, a replicated company website then it’s no train smash and you won’t be PAYING for each mistake!! So my advice is before you start spending your advertising budget on SoloAds buy mailing power in the list builders. Refine your email marketing skills working with List Builder programs and then start using SoloAds with proven subject lines and ad copy that send your prospects to a capture page that you already know works.
Bottom line is that LIST BUILDERS are the easiest, most cost effective and fastest way of driving targetted traffic to your website but they also soon start to pose another problem that needs resolving………….
Managing multiple List Builder memberships requires a lot of work. You need to know when you can login next and send your email depending on what frequency your membership level allows. All sites are laid out slightly differently and may have different personalization codes so you have to concentrate and make sure you’re getting them right and not sending out email messages starting with “Hi [first_name], ……!!” You want to join as many lists as possible in order to build your traffic and list as fast as possible and the more you join the more time consuming this becomes.
PLUS this is only ONE method of advertising. As you build your marketing skillset you need time to manage your SoloAds, Traffic Exchanges, Safelists, Classified Ads, Articles, Press Releases, Blog, Video, Social Networking and so forth. Therefore you need to be using whatever technology or services you can find to help you manage your time better.
Fortunately there is an awesome solution to this problem. In the past I managed each list builder program individually with an Excel Daily Task List. I now only have one line on my Daily Task List which manages all of my List Builder programs in one simple action in just minutes a day.
Furthermore, this service will automatically refer people to your list builder programs and do the same for all your team meaning you’re all getting cash back on your advertising expenditure. It also makes sure you stay up to date and get first notice of the best performing lists. For the best List Builder programs and the best solution to managing these programs efficiently this is the answer:
To Your Total Success
Rory S White
