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How and why to build an email list

October 1, 2010

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times. The big money is in online list building. List building is one of the most effective ways to generate online home based business success. You can’t afford to ignore this powerful approach.

Why it works

Most people won’t open their wallets after seeing a marketing message only once. Putting a message in front of an individual on multiple occasions is more likely to result in a sale. You have the chance to share your messages repeatedly with those who are a part of your list.

People are also more likely to buy from those with whom the feel a trusting connection. You can use emails to your list to forge a personal connection. Making those connections will boost your trustworthiness, encouraging additional sales.

How to do it

Internet marketing is a proven winning home based business for women or men when you implement a simple squeeze page. A squeeze page exists to do one thing and one thing only. It should persuade the reader to become part of your list. Everything else is irrelevant.

Most of the time, people encourage sign ups by offering a free gift to new subscribers. This is a proven strategy that you can use to spur the success of your business.

Having a quality inducement won’t automatically make your squeeze page a success, though. It’s also critical to put together a squeeze page in the right manner. We know that specific squeeze page techniques generate optimal results. You should adopt those winning strategies. That will involve closely following three important guidelines.

Squeeze page basics

Initially, there should be no outgoing links on your squeeze page. You want your squeeze page to inspire sign ups, not to provide guests with an avenue to move on to other sites or pages.

Additionally, your squeeze page should have a concise, strong message. You want people to take advantage of your inducement and to become a subscriber, not to complicate the situation. Don’t forget that your squeeze page only has one purpose – to build a list. Every word on the page should serve that function.

Finally, you should handle the sign up procedure as if it’s a sale – you should work to close the transaction. Thus, your squeeze page’s sign up form needs to include an extremely strong call to action. Make it clear to readers that they’ll benefit from the simple, free act of filling out your subscriber form.

Instant Squeeze Page Generator is a great free resource for creating squeeze page’s and offers a wide selection of gifts that you may offer to your subscribers. They even host the gifts and handle the downloads too.

Summary

If you follow those three recommendations and offer an attractive freebie, you’ll be well on your way to building a list. That will give you the opportunity to develop an effective relationship with prospects. You’ll also be able to put your message in front of subscribers repeatedly.

You will take your Internet marketing efforts to the next level if you learn how to build an email list. The best marketers in the business rely on list building for a reason. The money really is in the list!


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  1. Ramiro RodriguezNo Gravatar says:
    May 23, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    Hi John,

    I was doing research on email list building and you came up on Google’s first page! Good article.

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