If youre new to making money online, undoubtedly you have heard that building a list of email addresses is key to your success.
Once you have a list, you can use it to your advantage in many ways. First, and most obvious, you can market goods and services to your list. You can use your email list to promote your initial offering, plus backend sales, upsales and newly launched versions of your product.
Selling is not the only way you benefit by building a list, however. You can use a list to conduct surveys to discover what products your subscribers want and how much they will pay for it. You can use your list for market research. You can solicit testimonials for your website and other marketing materials. You can use your list to beta test a new product. You can use your list to seek joint venture partners.
If you are new to making money online, the question going through your mind is probably, Fine. But how do I go about building this list that everyone says I need?
There are many approaches to list building. Participating in a joint venture giveaway is one way.
In a joint venture giveaway, the host invites other Internet marketers to donate a gift. This gift can be an electronic document such as an ebook or report, a subscription to a membership web site, audio files, video files, a software application, free graphics or anything else that can be provided online.
If you dont have a product or service to donate, visit eBay and search for ebooks. You will find an array of items that come with PLR rights (Private Label Rights). PLR rights allow you to resell or give away the documents. You can even rewrite PLR documents and add your name as the writer. Check out the rights information on the product to be double sure you can give the product away before purchasing it.
Items in the public domain also make good free gifts. Being in the public domain means that the item is copyright free and you can give it away. You cannot claim to be the writer, however. To locate, run a search for public domain ebooks.
Back to the joint venture giveaway. The gift-givers are called joint venture partners. Each joint venture partner invites other people to visit the giveaway and take as many free gifts as they want. If you dont have an email list to find members, perhaps you can invite some friends or notify the members of an email group or forum. (Be sure the rules permit this before you post).
So how does this help you with building a list? When joint venture members click through your link on the giveaway page to collect the gift, they arrive at a squeeze page. A squeeze page is a page that asks for a visitors email address before receiving the information to collect the gift. You set this up using a form and an autoresponder. If you dont have an autoresponder, run a search for autoresponder and you will find many offerings.
After submitting the form with the email address, the visitor is taken to a page where they receive information about the gift and the download. You might also include a sales letter for another product or service on this page. Place the download information at the bottom, below the sales letter so the visitor will view your letter first.
Youre on your way to building a list. Be sure to treat your list members with respect. They are a valuable resource that you want to nurture and maintain.
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