How to build a list of 1000 subscribers in about 30 days

You can ask any experienced online marketer, and they will tell you that the most important thing you can do when building an online business is build email lists.

It’s the start, every name on your list should be considered a lead, but once you know how to “work” that list right, you’ll quickly start converting some of those leads into customers.

Building a large, strong list is important for at least three reasons;

– You can attract new visitors to your website
– You will get repeat visitors to your website
– Many of the repeat visitors to your list will be loyal and repeat customers.

You need to build a good solid targeted list with list members who trust you as a source for what they are looking for. Once you’ve established yourself as a good source, your members will come back again and again, sometimes to browse and other times to make a purchase.

The first thing you’ll need is a product or service you want to sell and a way for these potential customers to engage with you. By commitment, I mean they give you their contact information and permission to be contacted in the future.

Will need;

– A valuable product to give as a gift.
– A Squeeze Page with your free offer
– A web server to host your Squeeze Page
– A signup form on that Squeeze page that asks for your contact information in exchange for your free offer
– An automated email system that will help you build relationships and strengthen communications with your list.
– Targeted web traffic to your Squeeze Page

I’ll give you a basic description and some instructions on each one, and when I’m done, you’ll be on your way to creating that list.

Let’s say you already have a product or service to sell and just need to find something of value to give away for free. I believe in making your own products because you keep 100% of the profits and if they are informational products you can build credibility.

However, there is a lightning-fast way to create a free product to give away as a snippet to potential list members to join your list;

You are going to create a unique, market-oriented eBook using other people’s work in a way that is legitimate and ethical.

Go to EzineArticles.com and find about 10-20 articles that are relevant to your target audience. Copy the articles and paste each of them into a Word document.

Write an introduction for your eBook (remember to include your website details and contact information) and add it as the first page of the book.

Give the book a title; Something like; “Top 20 Second Income Secrets Revealed”and make sure the format looks professional. Each article should start on a new page with the original author’s information still included, and so on.

Finally, use a free PDF creation program like PDF995 to turn everything into a secure and professional PDF document.

For less than an hour of work, you will have a unique specific eBook that your visitors can only get by signing up for your mailing list. This is another very effective tactic to build your mailing list very quickly.

Next, you’ll need to create a Squeeze Page to allow potential customers to access your freebie. A Squeeze Page is basically a web page that contains your freebie offer. Somewhere on this page you should have a subscription form for people to sign up to receive your freebie and join your list.

Once you have all the text for your free offer, you simply need to create the page. To do this, simply download a WYSIWYG, editor (What you see is what you get) and format your page however you want. A good free WYSIWYG editor is Kompozer.

Once your Squeeze Page is properly formatted, you’ll want to add your signup form. For around $19 per month, Aweber is the best service for an Op-in form. AWeber is also the service you will use to set up your automated email campaigns.

To place your signup form on your Squeeze page, there are more detailed instructions, but I won’t cover those at this time. If you need instructions or details on this, please contact me personally by email. My contact information is at the end of this lesson.

Your next step is to upload your finished Squeeze Page to a web server so that people can find it on the Internet. I usually networksolutions.com but others recommend HostGator.com as a good cheap hosting service.

If you don’t know how to do this, you can consult any of the services for instructions on how to upload your Squeeze Page.

You should also purchase a domain name as the base for all web pages, Squeeze Pages, or websites you intend to create. I usually CheapDomainName.com but there are many others and they are very affordable.

Ok, at this point, your Squeeze Page is now online with a subscription form active and you’re good to go. Now is the time to build your list by driving targeted traffic to that page.

If you use a combination of the methods I’m about to share with you, you can quickly grow your list over the course of about 30 days. Just remember to stay focused on your focus. This just means staying in your target market or niche.

5 solid-free methods;

– Regular posts on Twitter.com
– Submission of articles
– Joint venture partnerships
– A regularly updated blog
– Share YouTube videos

Regular posts on Twitter.com:
You’ve probably heard some of these techniques before, but that’s just because they work. Posting regularly on Twitter.com is a tried and true method of driving traffic to your Squeeze Page.

A healthy and effective way to post on Twitter is to post your tweets in bundles. By this I mean posting between four and eight messages at a time. Of course, you want to post content that is relevant to your niche and follow people who are likely to be interested in what you offer.

I recommend posting 4 to 8 tweets at a time about 2 1/2 to 5 hours apart. This way, when your followers check your Twitter feed, they are likely to see one of your posts. If you are going to post 4-8 messages at a time, make sure that 3/4 of your messages are about interesting content and that the last message in the tweet set has a link to your landing page and special offer.

Shipping items:

It can take hours to write, but submitting articles to article directories is a powerful way to generate not only backlinks, but lots of traffic as well. You can write unique articles on topics in your niche and submit them to EzineArticles.com and various other article directories, including a link to your landing page in each submission. This is a great method because your article can rank number one on Google literally within hours and will drive traffic to your capture page for months, even years after your submission. The more articles you write and submit, the more traffic you will get.

Joint Venture Partnerships:

You can partner with other marketers in your niche and agree with them to promote each other. You can find someone who has a list that is compatible with the size of your list and agree to promote the other’s offer on the other’s list. This way you are sharing your customers. This is another very powerful way to build your list if you stay consistent in finding several good partners. Don’t stop at just one, you can maximize this by partnering with several.

A regularly updated blog:
You can create a blog and keep it constantly updated with new content in your niche. This is also a great way to establish yourself as a good and credible source of information. On your blog you can also have a signup form for your free offer. If you can’t add a subscription form to your blog, chances are you can still add a link to your landing page. The best free blog sources are WordPress and Blogger.

YouTube Video Sharing:
You can record a series of videos with great information in your niche. This is very easy to do. If you write a detailed article on an interesting topic that your niche would enjoy, you can use a service like Jing, Camtasia, or Cam Studio. All it takes is a PowerPoint summary of your article and a USB microphone so you can record your voice as you deliver your presentation.

Once the video is complete, simply submit it to YouTube.com. Don’t forget about the other video sharing websites too. Just do a Google search to find them.