Quick and Dirty Guide to Building a List

A few people would like to know how I get my referrals. Right now, I've been focusing entirely on building my list. From that list, I create what is called a sales funnel. (I'll get to that in the next tutorial.) In short, a sales funnel is basically your general list. Over time, they start to trust you and buy things based on your recommendations. (Well, that's my understanding of it)


Step one: Sign up for the following FREE resources: 

Traffic Exchanges:
Safelists:
Optional Tools (These make using the above SO much easier!):

  • TEToolBox - Simple click tracker. Track unique clicks, signups and more.
  • ClickTrackProfit - Cool training program that makes use of the above traffic exchanges. Its fun to collect badges. :D
  • AdKreator - Squeeze Page Creator - Create customer pages that you can use in safelists and traffic exchanges. 
  • TrafficWave - awesome autoreponder. Unlimited mailings and members and also free for the first 30 days!
I usually use one screenname for all of the programs. Mainly because I have a terrible memory.


Here is the quick and dirty plan:

Step Two:
The best way to use traffic exchanges (TEs) and safelists (SLs), you need two things: A good squeeze page and something to give away to the people who sign up to your list.

To get a giveaway, just grab some PLR and whip up something relevant. Make it IM related. Maybe surf the TEs or read some mail from a SL first to get a general idea of what people need. Some ideas include:
  • promoting to a list
  • getting more referrals
  • etc...
You could easily grab a re-brandable ebook. Some include:
These are completely free to use and come with a squeeze page that works well within the TEs and SLs.  The bonus is, this is the beginning of your sales funnel! You get a subscriber and they just may buy completely branding rights from your link! Profit!

If you do not use a rebrandable book, you can always grab some PLR and whip up one for yourself. Then, upload it to mediafire, dropbox or some other hosting place.

Once you have a giveaway, fire up a program that helps make squeeze pages. Or, simply log into Adkreator. Using Adkreator, you can easily make capture pages and squeeze pages. For free, you can just make a clickable squeeze, but that is all you need. Have the link direct the visitor to your list signup link.

Speaking of sign up link...


Step Three:
Sign up for TrafficWave or some other auto responder service. I recommend traffic wave because it allows marketers unlimited use of their service one for price. Unlike a few others that use tiered pricing once your list increases.

Follow their instructions (I'll have a video up soon!) and set up a simple autoresponder. Place a link to your downlown in the first email. Then either the link or code to your Adkreator page. Easy Peasy. :D



Step Four: Surf or Read Emails!
Now, just surf and read emails every day. As a free member you earn credits for pageviews through reading emails or surfing the site everyday. Reinvest these credits into more pageviews and watch your list grow.

Step Five: Recruit
This step could use a tutorial all by itself! Just be a good list maintainer and give your list lots of good info. Soon they will begin to trust you! Don't spam and don't scam.  A good ratio is one offer every 4-5 non-offer email.
 Like I said, this is a very quick and dirty guide. I will be making a video this weekend (4/29) so I'm hoping to make this process so much clearer.

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