Building and Maintaining A Large List

James Veach — 1205001000

Youve heard it time and again, the monees in the list. Just about anybody with a list will tell you that. If you have your own list, you know it. The monee is in the list.

But how do you build a big list?

There are many ways to build a list, and if your just starting out I recommend using as many methods as you can, until you master a couple of methods.

When taking massive action a magical thing seems to happen. A special force seems to take over when massive action is applied.

For an example of massive action lets say you take 2-3 articles and submit them to 50-100 directories. This is massive action.

Then the next day we will go and sign up to 50-100 forums, answering as many questions as we can. This too is massive action.

You can see with these two examples what massive action is all about. Taking massive action like this everyday will explode your list and grow at an enormous rate.

I want to go over something very important here, and that is tracking. If you are using multiple methods of list building, it is advised to track vigorously.

Your not just tracking traffic, you want to track source specific sign-ups and sales. You may discover one of your lists gives you 5 times the number of sign-ups, which is absolutly great.

You must track deep enough to see that the majority of your sales may be coming from another list. This is just a little tip I wanted you to keep in mind.

Below I've listed a couple of stages I use when building my lists...

(1.) Preparation;

The first and probably the two most important things to start with is getting a squeeze page and an autoresponder sequence up and running.

Maybe you're going to be offering a free e-book or maybe a free e-course, the squeeze page is used to briefly introduce your e-course or e-book, trying to get folks to opt-in to your mailing list.

At the bottom of the squeeze page we will have a form box we get from our auto resoponder service. This form box collects names from people signing up for out e-book or e-course.

You will use your autoresponder service to keep in touch with your sign-ups. You will want to keep in touch with these folks at a minimum of 1 time a week. It wouldn't be bad idea to check in a couple times weekly.

If you go for a month or two with sending them something they forget about you and may consider your message spam, not remembering who you are.

You have to give your readers quality information that will solve a problem or help in some way. Just keep in touch with useful information and you will have these readers for a long time to come.

(2.) Finding Qualified Subscribers;

When building your list you want to be carefull and not just go after any Tom, Dick, or Janes name. You need to find quality highly targeted names for your list.

There are lots of people out there today that will sign-up to anybodys list just hopeing to get freebies. You do not want these types of people on your list. 99% of the time they will never buy a thing.

You need to find people that want to improve themselves or their business. It is really easy to help these people if you know what they may need.

Give high quality content that may solve a problem. Help them anyway possible. Offer a free gift now and again along with the info they maybe looking for and you will have a cusomer for a long time to come.

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Building and Maintaining A Large List