The craft of Listing

Owning a list is the most profitable online marketing tool out there today.
As an affiliate marketer, you are going to have to get used to listing. In fact, there's
not a time when you can send out your mailing to the A+ Marketplace where you
won’t make $300.00. You can build your list with little to no effort to over 6,800
subscribers within five months and have over 35,000 subscribers by using some highly
effective tactics. Let’s take a look at some of those tactics now.


This method is 10x as easy to get once you visit the Opt In Lightning site or any other
site that Opt In Lightning is installed on. When you do this, you'll notice that it
captures the visitor's email address without the visitor having to fill out a form when
they sign on for it. They just have to click “OK.” Instead. This is commonly known as
Auto Info Capture, and makes it 10x easier for people to subscribe to your mailing list.
The basic principle here is that the easier you make it for people to subscribe the
quicker your list grows.

When you use Optin Lightning programs, you can nab any email address from the
visitor's client browser. The number of Hotmail and Yahoo addresses is that you can
pick up is practically zero. The few Hotmail or Yahoo addresses you do capture are
those that they configured in their browser, and will go right into their main inbox
anyway instead of them having to retrieve them over the 'net.
This is commonly referred to as your "Pull Ratio."

When you use a regular or "traditional" subscribe box, what you are doing is subject
your list to what can be called pollution. What I mean by this is that, nothing is
stopping people from populating your list with FFA confirmation email addresses, Auto
Responders etc. If you ever decide to sell ads, your advertising clients are going to get
very angry as your list grows because they will expect that their own ads that they
paid good money for to pull more.

Using the old method over an extended period of time will eventually hurt your
business. This is why Internet Marketing experts all agree that Ezines that get larger
lose all or most of their pull. Now you know why. Someone using the traditional
subscribe method can put all their friends etc. on your list, and force you to deal with
spam complaints. This is called "List Bombing" and by using Popup Email Capture only,
you will be able to avoid this completely.
If you can avoid these problems from the start, you'll slowly and steadily grow a solid
clientele hungry for your products and services.

Personalizing email
You should always personalize each and every email that you send out because this
gives people who are on the list a feeling that you’re not just another newsletter
editor, but their friend and that you truly care about their success. Doing this can
increase your sales by at least 200%. You have to think like a marketer as well as a
consumer. If you start to think like a salesman, you will loose customers. The
competition here is fierce but if you work on it, you will succeed. You want to shoot
for the feeling where you actually become one with your list. By personalizing your
emails, I mean that you can write as if you were sending a note to your friend. That's
when you know for a fact that you will have a following.

Send Emails on Friday
I always send my newsletter on Friday at noon because it reaches the
East Coast at 3:00 p.m. This way your readers will have the entire weekend
to read it, when they are relaxed and comfortable. During the week, your consumers
have to work, deal with family and home matters etc. They simply do not have the
time to really give your emails much thought. When you wait till the weekend to send
the mails, you can take the weekend off and come back Monday to find a stack of
orders just waiting for you.

Offer Incentives
Offering incentives like free bonuses just for subscribing with no obligation to remain
a subscriber can really boost your orders. Doing this builds a level of trust with new
people who don't know you. You see when you start by offering freebies, you will
attract a whole new crowd of consumers.

Follow up your Emails
By using an AutoResponder you can deliver your follow-ups without effort. Each follow
up should be a sales letter to a residual income product you’re selling, an MLM
program you’re promoting or a product you’re selling. There should not be any free
content and these sales letters don't beat around the bush. I make thousands per
month using email follow up alone. You can get an occasional flame and some
unsubscribes, but this is exactly what you should want.
You want to be building up your client list and the follow-ups actually WEED OUT
people who aren't ready to make some kind of monetary commitment which will make
your job a great deal easier.

No free content
Do not offer any free content because this gives the reader nowhere to go. They
either get involved with what you’re doing or they get off the list. Besides when you
are offering free content, all that you are really accomplishing is you owing more
money and having less bandwidth to work with.

Don't accept any form of paid advertising
By accepting paid advertising, you only succeed in polluting your list and
This takes attention away from whatever your newsletter's main theme is. You want
to keep your readers informed of MLM and Residual Income
Programs because this just another way of building and keeping their trust in you.

Don't put copyright on it
Some lists add copyright information and I really don't know why. It is best to simply
forward this information to anyone that might be interested. It's a lot easier than
using a script and it's been working for me. In any case, most people generally don’t
care anyway.

Purchase Subscribers
Every email address that you could possibly get is like potential gold to you so if you
are going to purchase any email addresses from the many lists that are available for
purchase, however, you have to be very specific in who you choose to buy from so
watch out. You can purchase 1,000 subscribers for as little as $197.00 with some
companies. It helps to be on the lookout.

Talk about yourself a bit
This may sound a bit strange, but people like to do business with people
they know and trust. When you include SOME personal information about yourself,
people will get to know you as a person. This helps break the ice and makes it a lot
easier to do business with people. I don’t know about you, but I always respond better
to a business person that is willing to be a bit more friendly and personal with me.


Courtesy:  Christopher Bankole
https://digitalproductsstore.selz.com
http://chrisban.savingshighway.com