List Building for Fun AND Profit
We’ve all heard the saying–”The Money Is In the List”–right??
Well, the question for all of us newbies (and yes, I am still considering myself to be a newbie) is, HOW do you go about building that list??
Just having an optin form on your site doesn’t really do it unless you have tons of traffic to your site and an offer that people are drooling over to sign up for….and even then, you have to deal with unsubscribes. Believe me, I know that one!
What I have found in the last month or so is one way to build a list quickly is to participate in giveaway events. Granted, you need an info product to giveway, but it is a good way to build a list rather quickly. I will come back to this ‘problem’ in a moment.
The first giveaway event I participated in, I added almost 75 subscribers to a new list. I thought that was pretty good…..I have now signed up for two more…….you can find one here and the other one here. The nice thing about these giveaways is that you can find thousands of dollars worth of ebooks, software, and scripts for **FREE**.
The people that participate in these giveaways range from the brand newest newbie (is that a real phrase?) to seasoned veterans who are making good money already.
Now, back to the ‘problem’…do you have your own info product? If you have read any other marketers newsletter, blog, article, whatever, the biggest thing you need to do to breakthrough the money making barrier is to have, and be marketing, your own product.
That product can be on just about any subject…a subject that you are passionate about. It can be an original, or something that you have found PLR material for and reworked it to be your own…..If you think you don’t have it in you to come up with something original (problem), I have the answer for you (problem solved)…access to a lot of PLR material.
If I were to guess, I would venture to say that less than 50% of all of the info products out there are really written from scratch by the author who’s name is attached to the product. I am not saying that is wrong or right, I just think it’s a fact that PLR material is easy to come by and can be very good for someone who has a tough time sitting and coming up with a 15-20-30 or more pages of info on one subject (unless you are absolutely passionate about it!)
So….do you have your own product??? Why not?? If you are serious about making money on the internet and doing it the easiest way that you can possibly do it, an ebook info product is the way to go….and don’t write it yourself. Check out the stuff here, put the book together and submit it to one of the many giveaway sites out there and start building your list……remember the beginning of this post…..
The money is in the list!
So go start building that list for fun….and some major profit!
Til next time…….
Ron





July 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Nice post,Ron…good information and some gentle kicks in the butt to take some action. Looks like you are on your way.
Pat
July 11th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Thanks Pat, I appreciate the comment. One of the things that has helped greatly is having someone to bounce ideas off of and having that relationship with Peggy has helped tremendously also…
July 28th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Monday, July 28, 2008 ( 8:38 AM ) CDT
Hi Ron, I’m going to be going through your site in a minute. I still have no website,ebook,list or anything. Basically, I have know idea where to start and it’s getting real frustrating. More or less ( Information O_V_E_R_L_O_A_D ).
I have a question on a different subject matter ( hope you won’t mind?).
I got an email from Yanik Silver quite some time ago about transferring a book into your own with pic’s and just formatting it a little differently. Would you now anything about what I’m talking about? If so,I’d really like to here your thoughts on the matter.
I’ve tried to get ahold of Yanik ( GOOD LUCK ) on that score eh?
I can’t purchase anything online at the moment do to my wallet being stolen and everything in it being compromised, I.D, S.I.N# all my credit cards got maxed out ( now Blocked by the credit card companies ). So now I’m on welfare assistance making a whooping $50.00 a week.
I’ve been on the net for awhile but have know idea where to start and now with absolutely NO money, Life can be a real bitch at times
I’d really like your input on this when you get a moment.
Great Thanks.
William Elliott
elliott146@hotmail.com
Winnipeg, MB. Canada
August 14th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
William,
First off, I apologize for the delay in getting back to you…life has gotten extremely busy in the last couple of weeks and I am finally back to giving some attention to the blog…
It sounds as if you are talking about taking a book (or plr product) and converting it into a pdf document, but I could be wrong.
There are several pdf converters out there that you can pay for, but you can also go to openoffice.org and download their suite which includes a pdf converter built in.
Hope that helps.
Ron