Saturday, February 26, 2005

How To Profit From Your Opt-in Email List

By Barrington Paige

You have heard the theme "The money is in the list".

There are several ways to start your list both free and paid.
The fastest way to acquire an email list for your ezine or email marketing is just to buy one from a respectable co-registration provider.

Some things you must require of a lead generation company.
  • They collect email addresses ethically and responsively from people that have given their permission and 100% opted-in.
  • Leads you purchase are targeted to your market
  • They should be able to give you an IP address and a time stamp of the subscriber.

This will help to verify permission was received when occasionally your subscribers get amnesia and accuse you of spam.

Always remember when you buy leads that nobody wants to be hard-sold by a virtual or complete stranger. The goal of your opt-in list is to build relationships with prospects and turn them into customers and friends.

The current trend online is to participate in a free contest. The marketing gurus and successful online publishers are using this strategy to gain thousand of subscribers quickly and easily.

Another trend is to give away free software in exchange for their email address. See an example here.

-------> http://lists.alltheprofitsecrets.com

This is cheaper and it takes longer, but you'll be better off because you know your opt-in list is targeted. While having large subscriber numbers is an ego stroke, it doesn't pay the bills.

Responsive subscribers are the key to a profitable list. Make it a goal to educate and inform and the money will come. The relationship you build with your subscribers will determine your success.

Profit Tip: The last two weeks using RSS feeds and pingomatic.com service. I have average 5 to 20 new subscribers daily to my new blog “Little Known Ways To Make Money" at http://www.blog.moneypaige.com

By pinging the blog, which is notifying the specialized blog search engines and RSS aggregators of an update, the blog reaches a huge audience including media outlets.

No matter what niche you're in or what you're selling,whether you have two-dozen products or an affiliate promoting other people's products, building a list should be a priority.

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