Willie Crawford Teaches REAL Internet Marketing  

What's Your Excuse For Still Not Having A List?
Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

One of the excuses we hear most often from struggling online
marketers is that they don't make more sales because they
don't have a list. We even hear that excuse from marketers
who have been online three, or even five years.

My question to them is always, "What are you waiting for?"  "Why
not start a massive list-building effort today?"

When I look at how I built my database, I used only a few
primary methods. Here are the most effective ones that I used:

1) On many of my content websites, in many niches, I simply have
an opt-in form in a prominent location on practically every
page.  That opt-in form is usually in the upper right corner of
the  page. I typically offer the potential subscribers a gift as
an enticement to join my list -- perhaps a PDF special report or
an audio recording.

I also assure the potential subscriber that I will protect their
data and only send them appropriate email.  I also tell them
that there is a handy one-click link in every email that I send
that makes it super easy for them to remove themselves from my
list if they ever get tired of my communications.

This has worked beautifully for me for more than a dozen year,
and steadily grows my lists.


2) I have numerous affiliate programs. Many of these affiliate
programs sell inexpensive products and pay the affiliates 100%
commission on the front end product.  The real purpose of those
affiliate programs is to build a list of proven buyers
interested in a specific topic.  The commissions incentivize
others to go out and send me traffic AND build my lists.

I most often use a script called Rapid Action Profits, which
allows me to pay affiliate instantly, depositing the payments
directly into their PayPal accounts.  This is so powerful
because affiliates often need the funds TODAY, and don't want
to wait 30 - 60 days for their commissions. When they can sell
one of my inexpensive products, that are almost impulse buys
for their customers, and get those funds instantly, they
trip over themselves sending me customer... and building my
lists.

3) I often participate in quality list-building giveaways. In
these events, numerous marketers ban together to drive traffic
to a centralize website where gifts from each of the marketers
are listed. In order to download a specific gift, the website
visitor must typically visit the site of the marketer offering
the gift and join his list.

If you offer truly useful gifts, thousands of new subscribers
can sometimes be gained from just one of these free giveaways.  
I usually offer PDF ebooks (transcripts from interviews that
I conduct), MP3's or inexpensive but useful software.

I often announce free giveaways that are looking for
contributors on my blog, and to my Twitter followers.

4) Software that displays your subscribe box on other's site,
and automatically builds your list for you. There is software
that allows  you to participate in a cooperative effort, where
partners display the boxes on each others' webpages. This is a
good way to share the wealth since your website visitors are
joining others' lists anyway. You may as well send your traffic
to someone who is reciprocating.

There is also newer software that allows you to display your
subscribe box superimposed on affiliate websites, social
networking sites, etc.  You still tell your visitors to go to
sites such as YouTube, Clickbank, Amazon or Ebay, but the
software shows them a subscribe box and asks them to join your
list BEFORE doing anything else. This is very powerful, and is
largely hands free.

For example, I can mention affiliate sites, or perhaps my
profile page on one of the social networking sites, and build
a list in the process of just spreading the word.

With so many easy ways to grow your list, there really is no
excuse for anyone who's been online for more than a few months
not to be aggressively building a list.  You do need that list
to inexpensively spread the word about your business.

Now that you see how REALLY simple and easy it is, get started
building your list today!

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Willie Crawford has been teaching online marketers to build
their email lists since 1996. Since that time he has built a
database of  over 800,000.  One of his favorite list-building
tools allows you to automatically build a list from traffic
visiting  someone else's domain.  Get this amazing software
at:  http://AutomaticallyBuildYourList.com