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List Building Techniques for Internet Marketers

By Jean Duchamps


Everyone who studies internet marketing eventually learns about several different ways to market their products and services on the internet. You have almost certainly heard of affiliate marketing and selling your own products from your website. Another popular strategy you may know about is marketing your online business offline. E-mail marketing is probably the most well known tactic of all to sell your services, products or affiliate offers. Sending your offers to the people on your list, who have willingly signed up and shown their interest, can be a very profitable way to market online. This leaves you with the issue of how to actually get people to sign up for your e-mail list. This challenge of building your list may be the one thing that stands between you and online success. List building does not have to be hard; just take action on some of these tips.

Collect e-mails from the people who buy your products and services. Make it necessary for customers and clients to have to enter their email address before the buying process can be completed. Believe it or not but internet marketers borrowed this from normal stores. Think of all of the times you are asked for your e-mail address when you buy something from a store. Offline marketing works the same online. Offer an incentive for signing up for your list. One of the best ways to get people to sign up to be a part of your mailing list is to give them something for free as a reward. An easy way to do this is to give away a free report or e-book. This will dramatically increase your number of sign-ups. Offering coupons for your existing products also works well. These also are in widespread use.

Getting emails offline is often overlooked. Any type of networking event that you can think of is perfect for this method. You will want to create a short form to take along with you so you can record emails of interested parties. You could even fill it out for them if they are willing to give you their e-mail address verbally. Offline marketing can boost the amount of your subscribers so give it a try and you might be surprised by the number of people that will ave an interest in being a member of your list. People will be receptive because they are there for more information and contacts so all there is left for you to do is to let them know that your list offers the answers to a lot of their questions and will provides information that they would have a hard time getting from traditional sources. Viola! Another person for your e-mail marketing campaign!

Post a link to your site (that contains a sign up form of course) in the signature that you use on your forum posts. If you post regularly in forums, you'll be attracting attention and meeting people. If you join forums and make regular posts that are relevant and helpful, you'll gradually become part of an online community. This will lead to increased traffic to your website, which is what you need to get more sign-ups for your list! More importantly, this could lead to other forms of profit, like writing articles or contributing paid content to other forum members' publications and websites!

A list is one of the surest ways to be able to sell something to a large group of people quickly. With a list, you know that you are sending your offers to people who are likely to respond and buy from you. These are people who want to buy products from you and hire you for your services. Most advertising is annoying or intrusive, but a list is sent to people who gave you permission to send them your offers. You can think of your list this way, as a group of your own personal customers!

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