Building An Email List General Overview
To give you a general over view of this method in condensed form. We give free services or items away on freebie sites and forums. Of course when you list a freebie you have to supply a URL were the freebies can be acquired? The URL you will supply for the freebie will be the URL for your splash page. This page will contain your form for collecting your prospects information, things like there e-mail address, names and physical mailing address. With that said, here are a few things you will need to implement into this system.
What This System Will Do For You
When you start submitting your offer on the freebies sites, what will happen is other freebie hunters post your freebie on other forums and freebies sites. This has a snowball effect were more and more people post your offer on more freebie forums. As well owners of other freebie sites will often post your freebie on there site and sometimes publish it in there newsletters. You can see this can become extremely viral in a short time. The real great thing about all this is the back links you acquire, and this situation starts to explode in a very short amount of time.
This is why it is so important to do the onsite optimization of your splash page. Because if you don’t your leaving a huge amount of money on the table. After a while your biggest amount of traffic will not be coming from the forums and freebie sites, but from the search engines. And with the traffic that you have coming to your splash page, you’re looking at a 50% or better sign up rate when building an email list. Because there is no cost to the prospect and they came there with intent, making them very targeted to your offer. So needless to say your list will start out with 20 to 30 sign-ups a day to hundreds in a very short time.
Things You Will Need
You will need a good autoresponder service. You need to setup up your autoresponder for double opt in. If you don’t have an autoresponder you will need to
purchase or find a free autoresponder service somewhere. This is one service you really need to make this system work and receive maximum benefit. You will have to be able to make your own Web Pages or edit existing Web Pages in order to add autoresponder code, tracking code, and links from other websites. An alias persona to use when signing up with forums. You don’t have to have this, but it really helps, as a lot of forums discourage self promotion. An email that is setup under an alias name. A free item or service that you can give away.Autoresponders And Landing Pages
One of the first things you will need to do is setup your autoresponder; you will have to have a form on your splash page to collect your prospects information. With your form you have to make sure that it is going to be collecting all the information needed to send your subscribers there freebie. As well your form should be near the top of your splash page. You need to have a landing page that your subscribers will be sent to immediately after signing up with your list. It’s a good idea to monetize the traffic on your landing page as well as your confirmation page.
These pages could be were you have additional pay per lead offers, that would be free for your subscribers to join and also would pay you a commission per lead. You could also have some Adsense ads on those pages as well, and make some revenue from this traffic.