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You read countless articles and heard the advice from the “experts” and you realized that you are leaving money on the table by not having a opt-in list. Now you will finally decide to create that popup window and the squeeze page for your website. Then it happens, you were under the impression that you knew everything about email marketing because you followed advice, just to later discover you were not making a profit.
You have worked on your list and have done what is possible to give them a fantastic value to get them to buy. After several months you can look at your stats and realize that you have actually lost money.
You may be wondering what you have done differently because others have found success that you have not found yet. Then you start to question that maybe you have chosen the wrong topic or not a very popular topic. Do not get down on yourself or start to question everything. Follow the tips below to help you get your list going, or to rejuvenate a list you already have.
~*~ Building Trust With Your List Subscribers Old And New
* First and foremost you must be able to build a foundation of trust with your readers and any possible new subscribers. Customers need to know that they can trust a business so trust should be a part of any business model. When you build your list, your customers will want to know that you are an expert of the subject.
Join article directories and then write or outsource 30 or 40 articles on your topic and get them submitted. Do not submit them all in a day, spread them out over a time period of several weeks. Make sure that you have a filled out author profile and that you utilize the author resource box.
Join forums based on your chosen topic, and then join the conversations and offer sound advice. Be helpful to others and help them in areas that you are equipped to help. On forums remember to be kind to others and provide information about yourself in your profile and/or signature file. Do not try to hide anything on forums, tell them your name and how old you are and the state you live in.
* Have others review your products or services and post testimonials on your site. Testimonials should be authentic and no editing should take place, also make sure you link to the persons website. If you have a good reputation on different forums, you can ask your fellow friends to provide a review of your products.
~*~ Find The Proper Fix For Your Customer Problems
Find a product or create a product that can be beneficials to others. If you know your topic very well then you should have no problems in creating a product for that topic. Searching through Google will reveal decent affiliate programs on your topic and will also give you the ability to research some great products on your topic.
* Make sure that you do your research, even if you already know about the topic you have chosen. You can use places like Yahoo Answers to get ideas on what people are looking for and what solutions they need to fix what problems they have. Investing your time in doing research could pay you back 10 fold.
~*~ Find Friends In Other Opt-In List Owners
* This would be greatly beneficial to you and your business, especially if the list owners already have launched a successful list. Experienced list owners will already have knowledge in the venture and experience is the best teacher. There are many things that experienced list owners could help you with since they have already been through the ups and downs.
* Making friends with list owners can also be beneficial because you could develop a joint venture with them. Once a joint venture is in place, the products are promoted to the lists and the commissions are split between the owners. This will prove to be helpful when the list owners are using the same niches that you are using.
Building lists is not going to happen overnight, so have patiences. There is much research and time that needs to go into it and the prepartions need to be properly done. As your opt-in list grows make sure to maintain quality and treat your subscribers very well. Be sure to keep everything very organized and if you need help feel free to ask your list owner friends. Just make sure that your subscribers are happy and satisfied and they will be willing to buy from you.
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