bmfinance.comSeven Extremely powerful Ways To Build A List – Email List Building
If you are wondering how you can be a successful Online Marketer like the “gurus”, then you want to first build a list.
List building strategies is crucial, there’s no other way to go. If you do not build a list of your prospects, there’s no way you can communicate with them in future and increase sales of your products or services. An intelligent online marketer always makes sure that there is a good lead capture page preceding any offer pages on the product site. The lead capture page is a simple page with a few important details regarding the product / offer, as well as a simple signup form that asks for a name and email address. By having a nicely built lead capture page, one that is simply in layout but powerful and appealing in the few sentences on it that describe the product, masses who visit the page become more inclined to see what it’s all about and provide their email address so they can be contacted.
This email address that’s captured through the signup form is an astonishing tool. Every online marketer should treat their email leads like gold because it is these same email addresses that you can then send your product description to, offer freebies and other giveaways to, send promotional offers to, send sales offers to, and much much more.
But,
There is always some work to be done before any online marketer can simply go one step further and start exhibiting commodities to a successfully captured lead.
You see, crowd who sign up to obtain everything on the internet, always do so because they are interested in or were drawn by the content of the lead capture page at the time they signed up. So when you email them, they are expecting to hear about the product they saw described on the lead capture page. If you send to them anything that doesn’t relate to what they saw on the lead capture page, they will unsubscribe from your list immediately. So remember to always build a relationship with your subscribers first, and then revamp things further one degree at a time before you advertise everything to them that isn’t directly related to what they saw on your lead capture page.
Building a lead capture page is great, but getting traffic to it is more important.
Here are few insanely powerful techniques to drive traffic to your lead capture page and build a list:
1. Sign up to be a member of forums and mailing lists, and leave a link to your lead capture page in your signature.
2. Set up a Fan Page for your product or service on Facebook, and make sure a link to your web site is visible in the “Info” page of your fan page.
3. Submit your site’s link to Google Buzz where the public as well as your friends can see it.
4. Write articles about your niche (e.g. if you’re into dog training, then write articles about dog training) and unique versions of these articles to as many quality article directories and free submission blogs as you can.
5. Submit your articles as “documents” to document sharing sites like Scribd and Calameo as well. Document Sharing is very extremely powerful and can drive hordes of traffic to your web site very very quickly. Document sharing sites are also very well-liked by Google, so the more documents on these directories there are that contain links to your site, the more rank Google will assign you and give you a chance to show up in Google’s Organic Search results.
6. Writing articles, blogging and document sharing is all about building high PR backlinks to your site. Make sure you also spawn one-way backlinks to your lead capture page from other locations on the web, such as link directories. Google likes to see quality backlinks to your webpage and gives you higher rankings in return, which results in more traffic coming to your site, and someday more and more subscribers signing up to your list.
7. Submit to your lead capture to as many search engines as possible. Your site should be submitted to Google, Yahoo! and Bing at the very least!
There are some more ways to grab traffic to your web site and build your lists, but these would be few of the most powerful ones. So go after them religiously and you will see your lists increase in size by leaps and bounds!