Teach Something

A great way to continue building your list is to teach something to your referrals.

Is there something you know a lot about within the marketing or online money-making fields? Do you know some simple computer techniques that you can share and explain to others in a very detailed way?

Even if it's something you think most others already know, such as "How to organize your browser bookmarks efficiently," there will likely be some people who have not considered the way that YOU organize your browser bookmarks/folders. Perhaps you have a way to organize which keeps you very clutter-free and allows you to stay focused, instead of searching for sites, trying to sort out random pages in your browser 'favorites' 'folders' and 'bookmarks.'

For the example above, if you can sit down, plan, and execute 3-7 "Lessons" surrounding the topic of "Bookmarking Organization," these lessons may well turn into something valuable that you can load up in your autoresponder and send out to your mailing list.

If your mailing list is quite small or you're struggling with starting a responsive mailing list, then build a page or blog post around an advertisement for your "Bookmarking Organization" lessons (or call them 'tutorials'). Make a special blog post for this - or a 'splashpage' on one of your sites - and simply insert your autoresponder 'sign up' form.

VOILA!

This will be a way to grab new email list members, while your 'lessons' also go out from your autoresponder - to your present mailing list members!

Inside each lesson, include reasonable and useful links - particularly if you sell or promote a product that has something to do with 'browsers,' 'keeping organized,' or a related topic.

Don't go sending out your eBay link for selling some sort of heart-shaped pendant or an Amazon link for potpourri burners from the 'gifts' area of Amazon...but DO go ahead and include a link to, say, some sort of 'affiliate data organizer,' or a link to some article you've published online that relates to organization or browsers (Such as "How to set IE7 Security Settings For Safer Browsing Online" - you get the picture, right?), and remember that 'free is best' at this point.

Nobody is going to get upset with you inserting something additionally helpful and free inside your new 'lessons' or 'tutorials.'

Doing something like 'lessons' for your mailing list will quickly establish you as an expert, and someone who pays attention to detail - particularly if you have tackled a 'simple' topic like 'browser organization' and have created very detailed, easy to follow instructions and tips in your lessons.

The nice thing about 'teaching something' and creating a lesson/tutorial 'set,' is that you can take your time doing this. I suggest putting something of 3-7 lesson length together in as many days. Take a day to prepare each lesson, including time for proofreading and eliminating typos and spelling mistakes. A day per lesson created will also give you time to 'test out' a lesson on a friend before you go ahead and load up your autoresponder! Email it to a friend or print out the lesson page and have a friend, spouse, child (if your child is old enough to be interested in and understand the topic) or co-worker read it and give you feeback on it.

If you're seeking additional ways to make money with your 'tutorial,' set it up - or a 2nd version of it - on one of the paid-to-write sites, such as Helium, or some other article-membership site.

Build Your List By Offering Free Reports

A main purpose of your free viral report should be to build your mailing list.

If you are unable to pre-sell or sell affiliate items or other products contained in the report, you will have still collected leads. If your reader does not immediately convert into a 'buyer' or purchasing client, then perhaps you can still convert the person to be a long-time subscriber to whatever newsletter, pod-cast, or other subscription content that you are updating regularly. Sometime down the line, most subscribers purchase SOMETHING - otherwise they simply unsubscribe and are not the focus of your attention anymore.

Offering free reports allows a follow-up with your reader for all the future offers you'll be sending and creating. It is quite conceivable that if you offer great and worthwhile materials for FREE, you can hold on to many subscribers for a lifetime. In the least, if these people stay subscribed but don't purchase items from you or don't purchase often, they are still quite likely to pass "you" on to their friends and associates. By this, they stay subscribed because they appreciate the quality of your services and spread the word about your great free reports, leading you to more potential subscribers!

A particular tactic you can use to ensure the longevity of your readers is offer (and stay on top of this!) a "lifetime update" of one or two selected and appropriate free reports.

One of biggest success elements in the viral marketing of your free report is, of course, "QUALITY." Be absolutely sure to circulate a decent report of high quality, so that your information is worth sharing.

Quality first!

Subscribers will result.

Don't Let The Size Fool You

This is going to be a short post, so don't let the size or length fool you!

No flashy banners, no fanfare. Just a link.

Today I'm keeping it simple because what I'm offering is all set up to speak for itself, and show you how to use 1-2-3 Simple steps about increasing your downline through a new social and marketing contact site that promises to help you make building your social network QUICK, EASY, and FREE.

New Site - APSense

4 minutes to watch a presentation
2 minutes to join

This can only HELP your listbuilding blossom and your social contact network bloom!

If you want to build a big list...

Missing Link Report From Denise Hall

Did You Get Your Missing Link Report From Denise Hall Yet?

If not, you'll have to find Denise over at Golden List Secrets.

Denise is someone you want on your side, by the way, and her program is set up to teach you how to build an excellent, responsive list. She keeps in touch with members and sends out some of the BEST, most HELPFUL, beneficial products! Yeah, okay, so if you sign up at Denise's Golden List Secrets, OF COURSE, you'll be on her mailing list and she's going to KEEP EMAILING YOU, trying to get you to buy stuff.

FINE

But here is one internet marketer who sends out awesome FREE STUFF in great amounts, too. No pressures to buy the paid products, I'm serious. And the things that Denise sends to her list are really and truly USEFUL! She must be some kind of freebie fanatic herself, I think, because she really sends out great stuff.

Not to mention the stuff that she already offers to members when they sign up at Golden List Secrets!

Here are a few of the things that you'll have free access to if you get involved with Denise and join
Golden List Secrets:

* The Missing Link Report
* Golden List Secrets
* Top 10 Little Known Secrets To EXPLODE Your Conversion Rates
* How To Cash In On Adio Blogs
* iCop Desktop Directory

Now - these are only a few things - about half of what new members (free members) get when they join Denise Hall's Golden List Secrets, but those are my favorites.

I don't like thinking that I'm getting scammed, so in particular, I love the fact that Denise gives me the iCop Desktop Directory - to everyone who joins her money making program.

Oh yeah - the OBVIOUS...not only can you build your list, but you can make money just from promoting Denise's Golden List Secrets program! 75% Commission. Just for giving her free package away!

How great is this?



Also - there's a really cute little story eBook in the members area - for everyone who joins. It's called "Our Hero Dinglebert." It's really funny. Well, it's mostly really funny. Some of it might not be funny if you identify with "Our Hero Dinglebert" too closely. This is the story of Dinglebert who is trying to be an Internet Marketing Hero, make a lot of money online and quit his regular job. He keeps working SO HARD at Internet Marketing, but he keeps failing because he repeats the same mistakes again and again and again! The story is quite comical in some aspects, but when I first read it, I wasn't too far away from just having had some of the same experiences as Dinglebert does in the story. I remembered doing the same things that are outlined in the story. Though these things are funny now and I enjoy the eBook now, I remember being just like Dinglebert about a half year ago!

Anyhow - check out Denise's Golden List Secrets and start building your list the right way. Dinglebert's story will probably help you out quite a bit, too.





Feed Shark

Your Lucky List Benefits

Your Lucky List has great benefits.

Your Lucky List has a number of 'tools' to help you build a big list fast! Once you sign up with Your Lucky List - even as a free member - you will notice several things in your members area. If you're a total 'newbie,' then you're really going to appreciate the ready-made text tools in your members area.

Free members can email through the Your Lucky List system 1 time per week, while upgraded members can email more often, according to whichever upgrade option they have selected.

You'll find a page in your members area that provides the text for placing the Your Lucky List signature onto all of your outgoing emails, not just emails that you're going to mail through the Your Lucky List system to other members. The little 'slogans' are already written up - little phrases that have already been proven to be effective when you put these as signatures in all of your emails. Just copy and paste from the members area into your emails and then hit 'send.'

In your members area, Your Lucky List also equips you with a number of small newsletter ads that you can use if you gain, trade, or buy space in someone's online of offline newsletter. These are 4 or 5 line ready-to-go ads, so they're really easy to use. You can also make up your own short, 4-5 line ads yourself, if you're clever with things like this - make sure you remember your referral link within the 4-5 lines and away you go!

There are 'Top Sponsor' ads in your members' area, too. These are ads used successfully by top promoters at Your Lucky List. These, you are welcome to use, as whichever members wrote them, originally, have allowed them to be placed at the site for all members to use. It's definitely a good idea to use these "Tops Sponsor" ads once in a while - not everytime you're planning on promoting Your Lucky List - but some of the time.

You'll get 'solo mailing' emails, ready-to-go, in your members' area. These are a few well-written email letters that are reasonably short, to the point, and will be a great aid to the newbie until one is more comfortable with writing promotional emails. You shouldn't rely on only these, but they are really good examples of what you'll want to put in an email when you're promoting your list programs and other items related to your online business.

You definitely want to promote Your Lucky List all on its own as part of your overall business plan. You get benefits from having people sign up to Your Lucky List from your suggestion. This doesn't limit the fact that you can sent information that is not related to Your Lucky List, too. As long as whatever you're promoting is within TOS, you can promote other products, services, traning services like CRAZY with Your Lucky List.

Wait - I'm not quite done explaining the tools and benefits...

You will also get awesome well-written 'Subject Lines' examples in your members area. These beneficial examples will help you come up with catchy one-liners, headings, subject lines that will spark reader interest when people are checking their emails. You need something short, sweet, catchy - or - well, there are many styles of 'grabber' lines designed to grab readers' attention. Your Lucky List has some good ones already in your members area for you to use - to go with the other ready-made items.

My favorite benefits at Your Lucky List are THE SPLASH PAGES!

Here are mine:

This is the 'By Next Monday' Splash Page
Yes I want a bigger opt-in list every Monday!

This is the 'RETRO' Splash Page
It's kind of 'groovy!'

This is the "Cash" Splash Page
I like the stack of cash!

So if you haven't started building your list with Your Lucky List, you are really missing out. You're losing valuable time - even if you don't have your primary business plans all worked out yet. You don't have to have everything set in stone to be able to start building your list.

This is one of the great mistakes that people make when they first get online to try and start up an online business. The first things you need to do is get your list started!

Even if you're uncertain as to exactly what products you'll be dealing with, get your list started so that once you know everything for certain - you'll have people from your list just waiting to see your products, services, information and merchandise!

One Of The Top Questions On The Net

How Do I Build A List?

How Do I Build A Big List? A really, really big list?

This is one of the top questions that people have online as they're starting to make money online and start their own online business.

So how DOES ONE build a list - a really, really big list?

Well - it won't be done fully overnight. Get excited about your new online business and about making money online, but please - PLEASE - be reasonable!

If you're new to internet earning methods, take some time to figure out what you really REALLY want out of your online business.

What are you willing to do - how much time are you willing to spend building your online business? How much money will you put forth to start your online business?

These questions need to be answered.

Meanwhile - luckily, you can begin building your list while you're fine-tuning your business plans and figuring out exactly where you want your business to go along online avenues.

I will put many free resources on this blog, but occasionally, I will definitely state where I think that money might need to be spent. There are slow ways and slower ways to earn money online. Doing everything with freebies is the slower way, but don't be discouraged because many people who do use free resources for many things are still making money online.

Not all free stuff is garbage...just be careful. Not all free stuff is what it's cranked out to be, either.

Well - just so you can get started, I'll post a link from one of the most popular and effective list-building sites out there - and then tell you a little about the program.

Your Lucky List

Now This program, Your Lucky List is free to join and has been around for several years. I don't think the program is going anywhere, either! There are hundreds of thousands of members using Your Lucky List and from working together, they help each other to build HUGE lists!

How do they help each other? Well - partly through the emails they send through the Your Lucky List system. Most people are using Your Lucky List to promote many other money making opportunities, so mailings alone through the Your Lucky List system can be very helpful for all members. Perhaps a netmarketer who is really successful will send you an email through the system once you're a member. This marketer's email may contain excellent information about some product, service, training or tool that you'll need in the near future (or, right away!) for promoting your online business.

Also - Your Lucky List has a built-in forum that you can access from your members area. Even free members can access this forum (warning, non-members simply CAN NOT get in, so don't try if you're not at least a free member!). Anyhow, within the forum, most people are willing to help 'newbies' in all sorts of ways with all kinds of business information and not just list-building. To be sure, as well - the creators of Your Lucky List will naturally be in the forum some of the time, so you might have a chance to ask the creators of Your Lucky List about certain things, too. How great is that?

I'll show you some examples of the special tools that Your Lucky List gives even for free members to use. I'll wait 'til the next post to do that, because I've already made this post long enough and I'm sure many readers are already checking out the site!

(*hint* The site has AWESOME Tools - Ready-made emails, banners, etc. - But enough of this for now).

For now - just check out the site and get to work on finishing up the 'thinking' part that I mentioned at the beginning of this post.

(You know - about - what do you really REALLY want out of your online business?)