3 Titanic List Building Techniques
At times, attracting subscribers to your list can seem
as challenging as finding a puddle of water in the desert.
Having built several lists over the last year in different
market niches – all highly receptive, some in the high
tens of thousands, it’s time to focus on 3 of the most
productive list building techniques.
Before listing them, the other factor to make money with
However, your list is relevant and responsive. You may
you have a list of 100,000 and it may be worth even less to you
than a list of 10,000 based on relevance and responsiveness.
At the end of the day, it’s your revenue per subscriber that
is critical to your business, not just the size of the list.
3 Titanic List Building Techniques
1. Writing articles. The trick here is to spend 90% of your time
in the title of the article (effectively your title) and towards
write compelling articles on a consistent basis. send them to
editors and directories, but always build a strong editor
base that you can return to again and again. some of my best
Articles have been picked up by hundreds of ezines, and have been
seen by millions of eyeballs, resulting in very heavy traffic and
list signs.
For example, my article titled “How to Make Pay-Per-Click
Advertising Reward!” at:
http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/articles/ppcpayoff.html
has been managed by hundreds of online and offline magazines with
Total subscriptions in millions.
Another example in another niche: this very simple article
about low-carb foods has been picked up by hundreds of websites
http://www.rapid-weight-loss.com/1201-low-carb-food-list.html
Learning to write articles that attract attention is the best
way to quickly build your own response list.
2. Use a capture pageoften called Namesqueeze for the first time
traffic. Instead of sending traffic directly to your sales page,
send them to a capture page first and fine direct the page to your
market. For example: http://www.infoproductcreator.com/ebook/issuch
One page. Conversion is well over 40% most days, so as you can see,
any substantial traffic will result in very strong list building
numbers.
3. Joint ventures: You should be looking for at least 2 new joints.
companies each month – some of these can instantly turn out 100’s –
if not thousands of records. Long-term joint ventures can also be
repeated for months and months. Think in terms of joint shipments,
interviews, viral ebooks, articles, special reports, etc… to use as
tools for joint ventures to be successful.
Finally, if you had to list a fourth, of course your own affiliate
The program would be the fourth. It takes a little longer to build momentum,
but when you do, it’s like putting your list on autopilot.
