One of the most important factors to online success is list
building. No matter what goals you're pursuing with your
online activities, building a good healthy contact list is
vital for a successful outcome.
List building plays a major role in developing good
relationships with your site's customers, clients and
visitors. It can be used to get more traffic, leads and
sales for your site or business.
For these reasons contact building should be high on your
list of priorities when you're marketing or promoting on
the web. Fortunately, list building is an easy process that
any site or webmaster can quickly set-up as long as you
understand two simple, yet well-proven principles of list
building.
To be really successful, your list building must
incorporate these two key elements. Without these two main
ingredients you will probably find building your contact
list difficult and slow going. So it is worth your while to
fully understand and utilize these two factors in your list
building.
Any list should have these two key elements:
1. Value -
Your list should have value. It should offer something
valuable to the one subscribing. It should offer important
information, quality content, special deals/discounts, and
more importantly, it should offer a valuable relationship
or connection to an expert in the subject area of the list.
Subscribers join a list for the benefits it will bring
them, whether it be valuable content, special deals or a
connection to an expert in their area of interest; your
list must have value for the subscribers. They must benefit
from joining your list.
If you're building a list, just write down all the benefits
someone would receive from joining your site or list.
- receive important information
- get special valuable content
- receive special deals/discounts
- get training videos/workshops
- get timely announcements or news
Make these benefits your main selling points when you're
building your list. Don't forget there may also be a
psychological reason for joining your list - many people
like being part of a group or membership site. It's human
nature, we all want to be emotionally involved with certain
topics or causes, so don't ignore this aspect when building
your list. Everybody likes to feel included - lists can
fulfil this emotional need.
Simply give your subscribers something of value and you
will build your list quickly and easily.
2. Free
Whatever you offer - make sure it is Free. The quickest way
to build any list is to give away free valuable content,
information, videos, reports, ebooks, discounts, prizes...
everybody loves a free gift. Just make them an offer they
can't refuse.
Some marketers argue that giving away free items will
attract the "wrong kind" of customer or subscriber - people
that will never buy anything because they will expect it to
be free. But this has more to do with the nature of your
gift and the kind of contacts you're building - giving away
free buying guides on how to purchase real estate, fast
cars, LCD TVs, laptops... will definitely attract the right
"buying customer". If you're into selling, you just have to
adjust your marketing to incorporate the free element
correctly.
Besides, giving away something free is the first step in
starting an ongoing relationship with your subscribers. It
gets the ball rolling. It is one of the most effective ways
to build your list quickly and easily. Just make sure
you're giving away something of value to the person
receiving it and they will turn to you, time and time
again, to find what they're looking for on the web.
So the next time you're building a contact list make these
two key elements the center of your activities. Just
remember "give them value and make it free" and you should
have no problems with list building.
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The author is a full-time online marketer and has used list
building to produce a very comfortable online income. 2008
Titus Hoskins.This article may be freely distributed if
this resource box stays attached.
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