Thursday, July 12, 2007

Building your list

Every Internet Marketer talks about "building your list". Every beginning Internet Marketer knows that you have to "build your list".

What the mainstream IMs and the Gurus never tell you is HOW to build the list. Sure, they supply you with all manner of Traffic Schemes, Internet Explorer toolbars, ad rotators and the like, but many of them simply don't work. The people who end up seeing your ads are other people just like you. Most of them are not interested in buying what you're selling - they're only interested in selling their product to you.

So how do you build your list?

Well, how many lists are you on? How did you get on those lists?
I was on hundreds of lists until I had a blitz on them and pared the m down to the most useful ones. I got on most of those lists by being invited to a free eBook and software blowout Joint Venture.
Basically, one IM (the initiator) sets up the blowout by inviting other IMs to offer a free product for visitors to download. They supply the product and the download page, and the initiator adds a link to his blowout page. The links mainly go to signup pages, and once a visitor has signed up, they get their free gift.

The IMs then invite everyone on their own lists to visit the blowout. The visitors sign up for products that they want, so the owner of that product gets a new person on their list.

So basically it's a way of getting a group of IMs to share their lists with each other, but it's the visitors who determine whether they want to join your list or not.

A few days ago, I was invited to participate in one of these blowouts and submit a free gift, which I have now done.
Everyone on my list will be invited to go and download anything they want, and the other IMs will do the same. So I should pick up some people from the lists of other IMs.

As a result, my list grows and I have a larger target audience for my other products. And when there's another blowout, I get to invite more people, and my list will grow bigger, and so on.

If you would like to get involved with the blowout, act quickly because it opens tonight. There's still time to get your freebie in there though.
Just go here to sign up. It's free.