Optin Lists

There are many things you need to know when it comes to list building.There are many different techniques for building a list, and I will try to show the best and most used.

Building a list of subscribers has proven to be the most important thing in internet marketing! The quality/quantity of your list and your relationship with it will determine the level of your success.

Every "guru" has a list:-)

And you gotta have one too:-)

I'll show you the how's right now...you can thank me later!

The first and most important thing you have to do is to get a quality autoreponder!



What is an autoresponder?



An autoresponder
is computer software that delivers pre-written e-mails and broadcasts
to your subscribers. Subscribers can be added manually or they can be
added through an opt-in page on your website.



Online marketing wouldn't succeed today without auto responders.
These handy tools allow marketers to contact their prospects, customers and
affiliates effortlessly.

If you want to keep in touch with your customers and subscribers the
best way to do so is by using a paid and professional responder service.



The 3 best autoresponders online are GetResponse, Aweber and Royal-Responder.
They are effective, affordable and used by the best online marketers.



How does it work?



When someone subscribes at your site or squeeze page(I'll get to that in
just a minute) they receive a confirmation e-mail in their in-box which
they have to confirm and they begin to receive messages from you,
delivered automatically by your auto-responder.



You can have as many pre-written e-mails as you like and you also have an option of
sending broadcasts to your subscribers informing them of the latest offers or free info.



And now, it's time to build a list!

#1

You must have a subscriber box on every page of your website. Period.

#2

You must have and promote a squeeze page that offers something of value in content as well as in the bonuses.

#3

You must have unique content in your ezine or newsletter if you want to keep your list and profit from it!

1. If you have a website or a blog, you can add a subscriber box in a
visible, high-profile place offering your visitors tips, resources and
free stuff in exchange for their name and e-mail address. They can
unsubscribe at any time just by a click on a link.



2. The best
way of capturing your visitor's name an e-mail address is by setting up
a squeeze page and advertising it. See example here here



A squeeze page is basically a landing page created to obtain opt-in email addresses from prospective subscribers by offering them a free ebook, free report or simply a helpful newsletter.



The squeeze page should be
minimalistic in design and short and concise in the description of
value that the potential subscriber can receive if he or she signs up
for your newsletter/ezine/sales pitch:-)

Traffic exchanges are an excellent place to advertise your squeeze page
because you get targeted visitors that surf other people's sites so
that they can earn credits to have their own sites visited by others.



The reason that traffic exchanges
work so well for squeeze pages is because people stay on a specific
site for 10-20 seconds and if they find interest in your offer, it's
easy for them to sign up and continue surfing.

#1 Build a list using MySpace!

You can add a subscriber box to your MySpace page. Place as high on your page as you can or right above the comments section. Anyone who visits you page will see the subscriber box. Offer value and you'll get subscribers!

#2 Write a blog and build a list at the same time!

Write a blog using Blogger or Wordpress and place a subscriber box in a high profile place on your blog.

#3 Use joint ventures to build a list!

If you have a product or a newsletter that are high quality, you can offer them to others to use as free bonuses alongside their own products. Make sure the costumer has to become a subscriber to receive the products.

#4 Use Squidoo!

Make a quality lens about a subject that involves your niche and link to a place where people can subscribe to your ezine!

#5 Use online forums!

You can contribute to discussions on forums and online groups and by adding a link to your squeeze page in the sig file, your signature, you can gain a lot of subscribers.

I am testing out a new system. A new sneaky system.. And I must say that the result of this secret system testing has brought a big smile on my face.

I've been toying with the idea of a system that can hack the gruesome procedure of creating a product, building a list, getting traffic, marketing and all those hard manual work in internet marketing. And after doing little tweaks here and there, I'm proud to present you guys with my new system, the Profit Hacking System.

It may sound absurd if I tell you that you can create your product, build a list and generate profits in under 3 hours! Sounds like a scam?

These are just some of the Clickbank results from implementing the new system.

(pics)

Alright, I know it's not much of a proof in the 5-figure range like those you see in product launches but I'm sure this would wet your appetite enough to try out this new system. So let's get down to business%u2026

What I am going to teach you in this post is how to gather resources from different places and create a product that gives value to people who need them.

(Correction! It should be "WANT" instead. Since most people buy stuffs based on WANT momentarily rather than NEED. Just recall all things you have bought that are left unused, lying around, weaving cobwebs in your garage) .

This system is made simple and easy so you can sell a product, make quick cash and with as little effort as possible and at the same time, you can also build your mailing list.

I'm gonna break it down into details in order to let you guys understand better on how to use this system to its fullest potential.

Step 1: Finding Your Niche

Before creating your product, it is common sense that you need to know which niche market you want to target.

When researching for a suitable niche, you do not have to spend hours over-analyzing. This is a deadly mistake many internet marketers make. They over analyze. All you simply need to do, is to identify a market that has proven to be profitable and move in on it. It really is that simple.

For example, if you are targeting golfers, go to places where golfers "hang out" like forums, blogs or alternatively, you can also flip through magazines or books of your niche. These are "gold mines" where you can dig for ideas to come up with new products.

From these sources, you can identify the problems people are facing in their niche and from there, you can create a product that will help solve their problems.

Remember, the more specific you target a niche, the higher the conversion rate, the fatter the profits you earn.

For this case study, we will be targeting golfers who wants a stronger and more accurate swing.

Researching a niche shouldn't take more than half an hour for this system. It is easy to create product with this system, and you can even come up with multiple products today. So, there isn't really a need to be afraid of not doing enough research and targeting the wrong niche.

Step 2: Sneaky Product Creation

How To Legally Swipe Valuable Videos To Instantly Create Your Own Instant Profit Bursting Products In Under An Hour%u2026

Now that you know what niche you want to target, you can use the google search engine to help create your product.

Search for videos on the niche you want to target.

For this case, we would be searching for videos that teaches people how to execute a stronger and more accurate golf swing.

YouTube, Google Videos, MetaCafe, Expert Village and Video Jug are all excellent sites to search for how-to videos. Take note of the ones which have high number of views (hint: there is high demand for such an info product).

These are good leads to what people are searching for and even if it doesn't concern your target niche, you can take note of it and use it as your next product.

After you have found a video that you think is suitable, copy and paste the url into a word document file and hyperlink it. This will save your buyers the trouble of having to copy and paste the url onto their browsers in order to view the videos and I would recommend you to get at least 10 videos for your product.

After you have done so, you can add a report to your product to provide your buyers with more details on the videos. You need not write a whole article. A 200 words report would be sufficient. Do a basic write up and maybe throw in some fun facts or interesting stats to let your buyers understand more about your products and videos.

Although this might seem like simple "cut and paste" procedures which might kid you into thinking why would anybody want to pay for this piece of information when they can get it free?

That is because you are giving them exactly what they want and not just 1 or 2 videos, but 10 or more videos. People would pay for instant gratification on information they want to consume right now.

But more importantly, rather than having to search for hours all over the net to find what they need, you have already organized what they want in one valuable information product.

Here's the biggie -> Most information products you have ever bought are likely to be just an aggregation of information the author has gathered or re-packaged.

Also, you do not want to put very high price for your product. I would recommend you to price it anything below $10 dollars, depending on how much information you are providing. Selling it at such a price might not bring you much profit but, what we can potentially gain much more with what I'll be teaching you next.

Step 3: The Cash Generator

This is the most important part of your product creation.

Now, I'm sure you have bought into books and magazines that are filled with recommendations on related products.

This is the same concept we are going to apply here in the system. Let's say a golfer bought our information e-book on how to develop a more accurate and powerful swing. And in this e-book, we can also recommend golf clubs that help golfers to improve their swing. I'm certain a percentage of the readers would be interested in these products as well.

After you have added the how to videos links and description, you can go to any other affiliate sites to look for products that are similar to what you are selling.

You can go to either Click Bank, PayDotCom or Commission Junction which are really good affiliates sites and search for relevant products to sell in your e-book as well. Search for multiple products that you think are worthy to promote, instead of one single product.

This ensures a higher chance of buyers purchasing a back-end affiliate product you are promoting. In fact, you stand a higher chance of profiting more from this product you have created.

Remember to keep in mind what kind of buyers you are targeting. For golfers who are looking at improving their swing power and accuracy, you can also sell them relevant golfing materials that can help them improve the mechanics of their golf game.

Now, the trick here is to be as precise as possible. Selling a basketball shoe in a golf niche is like feeding a lion with vegetables - they would barely even touch it.

Make sure that you are "feeding" your buyers with the right products. Think in your buyer's shoes and naturally, your conversion will skyrocket.

Remember that I mentioned previously that you should price your product less than $10. This is because we are actually attracting customer who have cash and are willing to spend on the product instead of freebie seekers. Most likely they would also purchase another affiliate product that is related.

This way, you are building up a mailing list of customers instead of a list of normal subscribers. Your ultimate goal is not to have a big list of subscribers but a big list of customers. Makes lots of sense, doesn't it?

And although we might be earning very little up front, we have crafted a product that can potentially earn us much more profits in the back-end.

May I also remind you that some buyers are willing to buy more than one product from you over a lifetime as your customer!

Summing It Up

In a gist, what I'm teaching you in this post is to target a niche, find videos and an affiliate product to recommend back-end related products. It sounds simple because it really is that simple!

It wasn't until I put this system to test that I realize simple stuff like this does work. I do not know why, but humans find joy in believing in complications. I guess it's the "If this can make money then it has to be complicated" syndrome.

I've put this system to work out of curiosity and when I woke up the next day to check on my Click Bank account, little did I know I was in for a surprise.

The reason why this "cookie cutter" system works so wonderfully is because people buy a product for its value (value lies in the benefits of what the reader can achieve with the information)!

Although we are using resources from someone who has experience, we are still creating and providing value to people who wants them. Even magazines or books or any source of information, there is a good chance that they are written based on experience from others and not the author themselves%u2026

It's a few simple steps to execute and your product is hot out of the oven and ready to sell. All you need is a maximum of a couple of hours to come up a single product. Even if you sleep twenty hours a day(although not recommended), you still have the time to create a couple of products to sell per day.

I hope you've learnt much from this post but this is only the first part of the system that I'm sharing with you. So remember to stay tuned folks, for the next few juicy posts I'm gonna teach you how to put this piece of profit hacking system into place and start generating profits for you, instantly!

Cheers to a good year ahead!