List Building Services

List building is the process of adding new subscribers to your mailing list. This subscriber gives you their email address in exchange for receiving certain information, a special offer, or a free gift. You can do this online via your website, or you can do it offline using manual or automated data collection tactics. There are various tactics you can use to increase how fast you build your list, and how large your mailing list ends up being.

Online programs referred to as “list builders” are a modified form of Safelists where you must build a downline and at the same time only get emails from your own upline. They are usually free to join but have 2 or three upgrade packages where the more you’re paying for your monthly membership, the more emails you can send out.

eBooks - (A subset of List Building)

So, you wondered why I didn’t try to sell all the valuable information in this eBook, did you? The fact is that eBooks almost can’t be sold anymore, because every marketer and their uncle has penned at least one eBook lately and given it away!

Why would we do this? Well, it’s the same principle as Article Marketing, except that it builds more brand recognition and is much more dynamic. For instance, you’ve probably noticed an affiliate link or two throughout this PDF document. Some authors write these eBook just as a way to spread their Affiliate links alone. Some even pay a team of ghost-writers to crank out a bunch of eBooks for them to do just that, on a larger scale!

The most common use of eBooks nowadays and one that still works wonderfully for most niches outside of Internet Marketers, however, is offering a free eBook in exchange for your visitor’s eMail address. Like eBay, it’s a great source of targeted traffic. That’s it - you basically just bribe people to get on your list.

eBay (A subset of List Building)

eBay? Free Advertising?

Ok, so technically an auction listings cost 35 cents… But one sale can easily make you a profit, and

you’re allowed to sell nine of the same product in one auction at that price… So this is one exception I’m going to keep in this book because it’s really BETTER than free, all things considered.

So where does the Advertising part come in?

Simply place an information package of some kind, even if it’s just an article on your niche, and sell that infoproduct in an extremely cheap auction listing. Most people sell these things for 1 penny, although the difference between 1 cent and 35 cents really isn’t that much of a difference to the buyers looking for this information.

Naturally there are no other costs like shipping or insurance, because delivery is a simple digital download. Further advertising is up to you, and it is always a matter of just giving eBay some additional fees to make your listing stand out more. If your listing is profiting, try starting the next listing as a “Gallery item” for another 35 cents, and go up from there until you’ve reached a point of maximum returns.

Desktop Direct Messaging - (List building)

A little like a Trafficbar, Desktop Messaging is a way to send ads via an email-sized communication directly to the desktop of people you’ve talked into loading the software program.

Although this sounds like an impossible way to build traffic, it does have the very handy side-effect of being completely free of spam filters, so when using this as a way to send newsletters to your list or downline, you get 100% delivery, instantly.

It’s more like a messenger service than an email program though, and convincing a downline to sign up to hear your thoughts each week, at the cost of them hearing 13 other’s thoughts as well, sounds like an impossible task. (You only receive 1 message a week from each of the 14 people in your upline.)