21 Powerful List Building Tips Rich Man and Poor Man Style
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21 Powerful List Building Tips Rich Man and Poor Man Style
Rich list builder, poor list builder â which one are you?
Are you in a rush to get your list building of f to a very quick start
and are willing to cough up some money in the process?
Or you donât mind taking your time building your list slowly, but truly,
and with as little upf ront expense as possible?
Or are there ways to do it both quickly and âpoor manâ style?
Weâll get to my list building tips in a moment, but f irst, very brief ly:
The Fantastic Four of List Building
1. Traf f ic
T he more, the merrier, naturally, but your traf f ic HAS T O be targeted enough to want what you have to of f er.
We all could use a little more traf f ic, so head over here to learn how to get some:
T he Ultimate Blueprint to More Prof itable Website Traf f ic
2. Lead Magnet
T hat would be the f reebie you are planning to of f er.
And the stakes are high these days; youâd better make it good.
NOT complicated or lengthy, but value-packed good.
If you donât have anything in the works just yet, itâs no excuse to avoid building a list.
If you cross your heart and promise to keep them intact, f eel f ree to use either my âMommy, Where Does My
Traffic Come From?â traf f ic report or â7 Steps to Complete Search Engine Dominationâ SEO report as a f ree bait
on your blog.
3. Opt -in Form
Eye-catchy, but simple, to the point, and hereâs the tricky part: everywhere, but not intrusive.
4. Monet izat ion
Building a list sounds like a must and all, but trust me, thereâs a reason f or this list building madness: to make
money from your business.
How are you planning on making money of f your list? Your own product, services, af f iliate products, etc.?
Even if you have no idea at the moment, my advice is to start your list anyway.
3. Just goes to prove my pointâŠ
List Building Tip # 3. Buy Ezine Solo Ads
In online marketing terms, ezine is a newsletter sent out to thousands of subscribers.
You can choose to purchase an ad in those newsletters.
However, the only ad really worth considering is whatâs called a âsolo adâ, which means that it would go out all
on its own without any other content surrounding it.
List Building Tip # 4. Google Adwords
Never ventured out into that either.
I actually started my online business just around the time of the f amous âGoogle Slapâ, which is still very much
talked about.
In other words, Google made it very unattractive f or a small f ish like me to even try PPC.
List Building Tip # 5. Facebook Ads
Now T HIS IS something I am going to do, hopef ully soon.
I wouldnât say itâs easy, but itâs f airly easy to master, itâs still f airly inexpensive (in the eyes of the beholder, of
course), and it brings results.
Poor Manâs List Building Tips
4. I am sure there are MANY more ways to build a list when you have money, but as I said, itâs neither my area of
expertise nor of interest.
So letâs get down to the meaty part of this post: what to build a list the poor manâs style.
In no particular order:
List Building Tip # 6. Cross promot ion
Approach other bloggers in your niche with similar size blogs and, hopef ully, lists and agree to send an email to
your list about their newsletter, if they do the same f or you.
List Building Tip # 7. Product bonus
Find someone who sells a product, which compliments your f reebie, and approach them about giving your
f reebie away with their product.
Everybody loves a good bonus, which of course will have links back to your blog.
List Building Tip # 8. St ay above t he f old
Keep your opt-in f orm visible and above the f old, if possible.
List Building Tip # 9. Give an incent ive
Some time back, I saw a post on SocialMouths.com, giving away a blog/social media audit to a random
subscriber to their list.
How brilliant was that!
Francisco gently persuaded his visitors (me including) to subscribe to his list in return f or a chance to win.
List Building Tip # 10. Hold back
Say you write a f reebie with several steps, like my 7 Steps to Complete Search Engine Domination (awesome
SEO report, by the way; comes with my brilliantly clever and usef ul bite-size traf f ic generation tips every once
in a while. You wonât see any of it though, until you subscribe HERE.)
Of f er the f irst 6 steps (or whatever your number is) f or f ree, and leave the last one f or subscribers only.
Since theyâve read most of your f reebie and are dying to get their hands on the last part, they are now very
willing and ready to join your list.
List Building Tip # 11. Creat e PDFs.
I am sure youâve heard of this bef ore, but probably never used it.
T he idea behind this method is simple: create ebooks out of your existing content.
For instance, take all the posts you have on kolibri bird feeding habits and turn it into a PDF f ull of the links to
your blog and various posts on your blog â write it in such a way that the readers HAVE T O come back to your
blog f or more inf ormation.
Send your PDF out to various PDF networks; Scribd.com is my f avorite one f or that.
5. Of course, just uploading your PDF and waiting f or it to be downloaded is not my style; and neither it should be
yours.
Promote it.
Let people know itâs there.
If you donât know how, read Kristi Hinesâ Ultimate Guide to Blog Promotion â itâll have all you need to promote
any kind of content you have.
List Building Tip # 12. Guest post .
Hereâs another one youâve heard of bef ore⊠over⊠and overâŠ: guest posting.
Are you doing it though?⊠T hatâs my point.
When you publish a great guest post, the readers of that blog are already sold on you â all you need to do is
to close the deal.
T hatâs where âprimingâ technique works wonders.
Read more on how to use it in your guest blogging endeavors in this post:
How To Maximize Conversions from Your Guest Post Traffic
And to learn more about making the most of your guest blogging, I highly recommend you check out Danny
Inyâs Write Like Freddy.
List Building Tip # 13. JV Giveaways
Basically, a JV giveaway is an event set up by several bloggers with an intention to build each otherâs lists
through leveraging their own lists and social networks.
T he way it works is each participating member submits one or more f reebies that lead to their squeeze pages.
T hen they agree to send emails to their lists and promote the event via their social networks to bring in as big
of a crowd as possible.
With a good product, itâs possible to generate hundreds of new subscribers per giveaway.
T he last one I participated in, I got over 200 new ones within 2 days.
T he argument, of course, could be that the retention rate f or these subscribers can be low, since all they want
is your f reebie.
However, that can be said f or all your new subscribers and itâs up to YOU whether they stay or go; you and
your brilliant f ollow-up emails you send them.
Here are a couple of sites f or you to take a look at if you are interested in participating in a JV Giveaway:
jvgiveawayblog.com and
newjvgiveaways.com.
T here are plenty more, of course.
6. List Building Tip # 14. Leverage ot her blogs.
With this list building strategy, you round up a f ew bloggers and each of you will write a post promoting each
otherâs newsletter and/or f reebies.
List Building Tip # 15. Your Thank You Page
T here are a couple of ways you can use your T hank You page to generate email subscribers.
1. First of all, make sure your T hank You pages, even if itâs a âT hank You f or Commentingâ page, have optin
f orms.
For example, take a look at my T hank You f or Commenting page.
2. Get a group of bloggers together and recommend subscribing to their lists in your T hank You page and they
will do the same f or you.
3. Read the f ollowing post to learn another great way to get subscribers and/or sales f rom your T hank You
page.
Email List Building Secrets Your Thank You Page is Keeping from You
List Building Tip # 16. Creat e a Forum
A bit time-consuming, but a great way to brand yourself and add quite a f ew new subscribers to your list.
List Building Tip # 17. Sharing is caring
Create a squeeze page with f reebie/newletter opt-in and ask your readers/subscribers to share it with their
team, online f riends, etc.
For instance, hereâs what I do to encourage shares on my f ree SEO report optin page:
Iâve also been successf ully using a plugin called WP Sharely to increase social shares f or my optin pages.
List Building Tip # 18. Forwards
9. missing out big time.
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Youâll have access to all f eatures a paid account is entitled to: unlimited lists, email campaigns, automatic
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