Creating an opt in list of subscribers is critical to online success. It isnt that hard if you know a couple of thesetips but most important of all is to just to do it! The biggest reason for affiliates and others seeking web income is lack of ACTION!
OK, so youre buring with desire to get started. Heres what to do to start building your money-producing opt in list.
I have found that I build a list very fast with a quality report, e-course or newsletter.
So you say, but Im not a writer
You need to write what people are interested in.
Not 5 Ways To Murder Your Mother-In-Law. OOPs thatis not nice of me to think of that :o)
Or How To Make Dandlelion Wine. OK, maybe you areinterested in that...:o)
But you get the idea. Write what is a hot topic thateveryone is talking about or asking about. If its about murder, go somewhere else :o)
Dont know what they are looking for Ask them. Askyour friends or family what they would like to knowmore about in your subject field. Or if its marketingput up a survey or poll form on your website or sendemails to your contacts.
Browse hot forums and see what everyone is talkingabout. The messages with the most views or postsare the hot topics.
See what are the top keywords or keyword phrases atwww.wordtracker.com This is an excellent place to visitfor optimizing your website, mini-site pages for thesearch engines! Get the trial version and if its wortha few bucks subscribe.
Here are a few report ideas:
1. Tips/Ways
This is the easiest to create as all you need are ahandful of themed tips with 3-7 sentence explanations.Presto! You have a free report!
2. Tutorial (step by step)
This is probably the report most people want. Find ahot topic and provide step by step tutorial on solvinga problem or do something and you will become verypopular...overnight!
3. Resources
This is the EASIEST of all free reports to write. Heckmy granddaughter, Kylie, could probably write one :o)
Might take some time doing research but its supereasy.
10 Ways To Link You Website 8 Tools Every Webmaster Should Have In Their Toolbox
You get the idea.
4. Interviews
This is another easy one because someone else does all thewriting for you!
Develop a list of burning questions to ask theexpert.
Send the expert your list with a good reason to answerthem. At least a nice bio with a link to their websiteand the right to distribute the report in anyway theywant.
What is probably the most important step in creatingyour free report The HEADLINE! As with ads, unlessyou capture the attention of the reader in the first1-2 seconds you wont have many subscribers.
Here are a few headlines:
7 Quick Tips To Overnight Profits
7 Quick Tips
7 Quick Tips I Made $650 With
Which one would you pick The first In my humbleopinion it would be the last. It has two eye catchingfactors. 7 and $650. People will know its not a longdrawn-out report but 7 quickie type tips and everyonewould like to make $650 by knowing these tips.
Bottom line. Remember the old worn out by dont everyforget the famous radio station, WIIFM or WHATS IN ITFOR ME. Keep that in mind every time you write aheadline and you will see 100s or even 1,000ssubscribing to your free report.
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The other day a friend of mine received a rather strange Email Marketing message. What made it even more odd was that this was the second time he had received the identical type of message in just a few weeks.
When he told what the Email message said the hair on the back of my neck started to crawl. I got a little freaked out. Was something from the metaphysical trying to send a message to my friend via these emails
What else could be the reason for such a strange Email Marketing message
I, being the Internet snoopy pants that all my friends know me to be, decided I had to find out. Like all good Internet detectives I started from the beginning.
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation Step One:
I had to know if my friend subscribed to these Email lists. Thinking the answer would surely be no based on the oddity of the email messages, I was shocked to find out he had indeed subscribed to these lists.
So, my case of the Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing message had a beginning - Opt In Email Marketing.
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation Step Two:
I thought it would be prudent to find out who owned these Email Marketing lists. I pondered the possibility that there might just be some connection to the metaphysical with the Email list owners. Who knows - maybe the late Cory Rudl had decided heaven was too boring without an Internet and decided to return and was starting out by sending my friend these messages.
-The first Email list belonged to a person who claimed to know everything in the known universe about Pinging Blogs.
-The other list belonged to a person who is quite well known in the informational Internet marketing community. (Translation selling e-books, online courses and other related stuff like that.)
Well, I found no sign of Cory Rudl trying to send my friend a message. There did not seem to be a connection with the owners and the metaphysical. I moved on.
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation Step Three:
Since I did not receive the Email Marketing messages myself I knew I needed to see them just to make sure my friend was relating the information to me correctly. Who knows maybe his new pair of glasses had the wrong prescription in them or something. I had to make sure what he told me was actually true.
This is where I still get a little freaked out, even after having had intense hypno-therapy, with the nature of these Email Marketing messages.
Two separate Email Marketing messages from two separate list owners told my friend to:
Get off his ass
Just so you believe me here is an excerpt from one of the Email Marketing messages:
I want to encourage you to: get out of your house, get out of your head, get out of your chair, get off your ass
and get out from in front of the screen and see what the real millionaires in this business are really up to.
OK, so both the emails actually said get off your ass. I concluded the reference was not to a farmer who was sitting on a donkey.
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation Step Four:
I thought long and hard about the implications of two un-related Email Marketing messages, from two separate Email list owners, sending the same message.
Could these Email Marketing messages be a sign of direction from a metaphysical being who thought my friend was lazy Were these messages an attempt to encourage my friend to, well, get off his ass and seek another activity
Since I had already found no direct link with the list owners and the metaphysical I knew I needed help. Having no connection myself to any such metaphysical element I determined a psychic would probably be the best bet for an answer.
Madame Emael was, well, a little unconventional in her approach.
1. I told her my story.
2. She got out her crystal ball chanted a few things that sounded a lot like Buy Google Stock and then burst into gales of laughter.
3. She invited me to stay for the rest of the day and meditate with her.
4. Because I really cared about my friend and knew I was getting close to the answer I agreed to stay.
5. I found out her version of meditating was scoping around the Internet via Google until my eyes were swollen and hanging out of their sockets. Regardless, I do think that after 10 hours of surfing I was definitely in the alpha state.
Madame Emael told me tales of wonder and awe that day as we zipped around the Internet. I also solved the case of the Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message.
Were beings from the metaphysical sending my friend the message to - get off his ass because he was lazy
Madame Emael let me in on a secret.
My friend had experienced what is becoming quite common - Receiving offensive Email Marketing messages that cross the line. Is there a lesson to be learned here
Get off your ass
Is something you tell your lazy brother in law who thinks helping you move means drinking beer and flirting with the moving truck driver.
You dont give your Email list members the message that they are lazy.
I got back to my friend and told him his near metaphysical experience was a hoax. He told me he was considering un-subscribing from the Blog and Ping guys Email Marketing list as he was rather offended by the ass email incident. He has decided to give the other list owner another chance.
I guess that is what happens when someone crosses the line with Email Marketing - we take out our crystal ball and chant something that sounds a lot like
did that guy just say I was...
And ask the metaphysical gods if we should press the unsubscribe button.
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Copyright Joan Pasay - 2005