3 Ways to Build Your List Plus One

In this post we will be discussing 3 ways (plus 1) ways to build your lists.  We all know the importance of building your lists so we won’t get into that, but instead well get right to the point.  The 3 methods discussed here will be
1.  Building your Lists with Articles
2.  Building your list using Free Reports
3.  Building Your List with Give Away Ventures
Plus 1

Building Your List with Articles

You can build your list simply by writing articles, whether you have thought of it or not. You may even promote your primary business with this method.

Quite simply, you write and submit your articles on your topic of interest or niche to popular article directories where eZine publishers and readers are looking for the [SPIN]topics|information[/SPIN] you provide.

Getting others to spread the word (leveraging) your viral efforts on article writing can be rewarding, if done right. In the real sense, you are actually adding value by demonstrating your expertise about your niche through the articles you write.

By utilizing the resource box you attach to your articles, you have an opportunity to build your list.  In it you include a brief detail about yourself and your business along with with the URL.

I personally recommend that your resource box URL links to your mailing list’s landing page where you can capture your visitor’s name and email address, which will in turn help you build your mailing list for free.

If your articles are found worth sharing, eZine publishers will republish your articles together with your resource box for their readers and subscribers. This is viral marketing without effort on your part (except for writing the article itself).

You can start by writing and submitting your articles to trusted article submitter sites.

Using Free Reports to Build Your List

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

This is because if you are unable to pre-sell, let alone sell, with the products and services featured in your free report, at least you got to collect their names and email addresses. I don’t even try to convert the first time reader into a buyer. My main focus is to find a way to help them.  “If you help enough people get what they want, you will get what you want.” Zig Ziglar

In that manner, you can still follow up with your reader on future offers and have a chance at converting him or her into your customer, preferably lifetime.  Continue to offer them content they can use.  Don’t barage them with ads.  Everyone sees too many of those. Let them develop trust in you, then when you do send a recommendation, they’ll be more likely to heed.

One of the few success factors in viral marketing of your free report is quality. If your readers find your information worth sharing, and you encourage them to share it by giving them the right to give your report away for free, you will be able to have your name, status and links within the report passed around without any effort on your part – simply because others are willing to do so for you!

Building Your List with Bonus Ventures

This Internet Marketing trend which was started just a couple of years ago for the mutual benefits of all Internet Marketers and mailing list owners.

This method is more recognized as a “starting a Give Away venture”.

In a real sense, a Give Away event is much like a big time version of ad exchanges.  A group of mailing list owners partner together and pool in their individual gifts in one limited-time event.

Each participating partner contributes a gift to the event. The gift can be a free product, no charge membership upgrade or a product he is already selling but willing to give it away for a limited time.

The participating partner prepares a Lead Capture Page where he gives the gift in exchange for the subscriber’s email address. In other words, in order for a visitor to download the digital gift, he must opt in and subscribe to your mailing list.

When the gifts are pooled together into one event (site), every partner will then recommendthe Give Away event to their own mailing lists.

This means there are lots of visitors to one event as a collective effort of several participating partners!

With so many visitors downloading gifts from one focused event, it is a true win-win situation. This is because the visitors get to download several free gifts for their own use and every partner gets to build their own mailing list!

You can easily get notified about a Give Away event in the making by communicating with other Internet Marketers often or participating in Internet Marketing forums and Joint Venture boards. I personally have never tried this approach.  I would love to hear from those who have and let me know what happened to them!

In conclusion, by using any or all of these methods, you can be certain your list will grow.  It is to these people you can promote your primary business to. These folks are much more targeted and receptive to your offer.