List Building Intermediate Techniques

List building is one of the easiest things you can do online to make a profit, once you know what you are doing. Until then, list building is really difficult.

The nice thing about list building is that you can track your progress – and you can generally be assured that if you do something one way 100 times and get one response, you will get a similar response the next 100 times. That gives you the ability to easily test emails and responses on small numbers of emails.

When you first begin building your list, your goal is NOT to sell anyone anything, simply to build a relationship and build yourself up as an expert in their eyes. You see, no matter how much you know about your niche market, until they get to know you and see that you understand their field better than they do, they do not perceive you as an expert. An email sequence like this helps you do just that. And you want to be perceived as an expert.

Once you have mailed 3-5 emails, you can begin alternating between sending recommendation letters and informative letters. Notice that I say recommendation letters, not sales letters. You see, your goal when sending emails is to get your subscribers to click on the sales page link in the email, not to sell them. The sales page should do the selling, not your email. You should remain the expert, not the salesman, in your emails.

I recommend that you join at least 10 mailing lists yourself and read all the emails. Study them. What do you like about them? Which emails inspire you to click through to the links within and buy something? What characteristics of emails make you want to unsubscribe? Your subscribers will have much of the same response to emails as you do—if you like something you see in an email campaign, imitate it. Note I say imitate. Don’t copy---but imitate. If you see something you don’t like, something that inspires you to unsubscribe, decide you will never do that in your campaign. Your subscribers will appreciate it, and they will reward you with purchases from you and your affiliate products. Learn everything you can about your competition.

List building really can be fun, profitable, and predictable – you just have to make it that way!

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