Building a list

[david lechner]

Everyone says to give away ebooks or information in exchange for their email address, but most people that sign up are Freebie seekers.

Maybe this is why my list doesn't convert very well.

[Robert Cefail]

How big is your list? I have a very large list and am looking to do swap mailings (reciprocal mailings) promoting our new launch Web Freedom Now (www.webfreedomnow.com).

Bob

[Mohamed Mnafeg]

Hi everyone
I have one advice just train your freebies seekers to be buyers.
give them free trial offers because they are coded with words like"free, gift,.."
with this offers you train them to give you their credit card info
and if it's ok upsell.


Thanks
Mohamed Mnafeg

[JayDeiboldt]

David, you have to "warm up" your subscribers. Give them free stuff, then sell them little by little.

I turned a list of Warriors who are used to buying $7 products, into a list that regularly converts on high-ticket items.

It's all about the relationship you build with them.

They aren't buying your stuff, they are buying you.

[charleskirkland]

The list is never about the money. I know this is strange.

The money is in the list ONLY if they know you, trust you, and buy from you.

But just give you list members insane value and build the trust up first. Never try to sell
them until you have given them so much value until it is insane.

I have a small list of people who bought my PPC video course a few months ago. They just signed up for free and then I sent them a email every days for 3 weeks straight.

I then made them a offer for the course for a discount of only $297 if they got it in the first 48 hours. I sold about 27 seats with a list of less then 300 people. By the way I got that list by running PPC ads. By the way what I did was from a idea I got from Frank Kern, go buy everything he has.

The landing page they went to didn't have a order button, the only thing they could do was sign up for a free course. Thats it. Then I wrote the emails and did the videos based on the feed back I got from the emails that they gave me back.

There was never any time that I even tryed to sell them anything.

Just hard core A** kicking tips that most people have never heard off.

By the end of the 3 weeks they knew me, trusted me, knew what I was telling them worked. And the emails were written just like I would write to a friend.

It's about if they trust what you are telling them and do they trust you.

When you are giving away free content don't hold back.

Now there is no reason anybody dosen't have a list.

Do you have $20 and a paypal account?

If yes then do this.

I went to the Warrior forum and paid $20 via paypal and did a WSO.

What's a WSO? Its just were you give members of the warrior forum a discount to buy your program.

The benfit of this is you get feedback and reviews about your product before you ever launch it.

Check out the feedback I got for my wordpress videos.


http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ank-sales.html


I made the offe so anybody could get the videos for FREE. I made it a point not to charge anything for it. Plus since they could see that I was charging people on my home page that made it even more valuable to the Warrior forum members.

As of a few minutes ago I had over 1,363 page views and 442 people have signed up from that little $20 post.

Plus I'm going to have some great reviews that I can have on my home page.

But back to the list.

Anybody could do the same and builda list very fast from WSO's. But you have to think out of the box. Jonny Andrews has a program coming out in a few more days that is loaded with ways you can get tons of free traffic.

Free traffic that you would build a list from.

Thanks
Charles Kirkland

[atedman]

Brilliant tips as ever from Charles. You can learn so much on this forum.

Has anybody had any experience of buying leads? I know Get Response sell them.

I can see how using the techniques described in earlier posts, that once you have the leads you could build your relationship before trying to sell them anything. But is buying leads an unnecessary expense and to be avoided?

Thanks.

Alan