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Building a list is of course the most important thing if you want to make money online.

For that you will need an autoresponder.Trying to work with Outlook will just not work if you want to track conversions and avoid having your emails going straight into your reader’s junk mail folder.

All autorepsonders have a spam check which will which check your email before they go out and give the email a points score .The higher the number the greater the risk of going to the junk folder.

I have found that the quickest way to build a list is to offer a free product,usually an ebook 20 to 30 pages long.

In exchange for the ebook your reader gives you their email address and thus they get added to your list.

The best way I think to offer the ebook is with a lightbox pop up.This is a pop up which appears 10 seconds or so after your sales page is loaded.When it pops up the rest of the page darkens so the reader is compelled to read the pop up.

Keep your message short and tell them to sign up.That is your most wanted response so tell them where to put their email even though to you it’s blindingly obvious.

I would recommend Aweber as it has  great array of webforms which include pop ups that you can customize.

Once you’ve got the form you want,you copy the code and add it to you main sales page.

I would recommend a ten second delay before the pop up appears,this gives your reader time to at least scan your sales page headline before the pop up appears.

Try it and your list will grow quickly.

Best wishes

Andrew
 

PS which is the best autorepsonder for you? leave  your comments below.

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“The money is in the list”

That being so I have started to build said list.I have bought some PLR products from the guru I am following.Cost was $97 for 12 products.They are well put together and relate to the make money on line niche.

I have used one to sell through Paypal and then added a free ebook via a pop-up webform.

So far no one has bought the main product but quite a few are grabbing the ebook  which gets me their email address.

So now the list is starting to build.I have 16 people on the list as I write this.Not many I agree but it is a start.

The important thing to remember is not to use every email you send out as a product pitch.You will get substantial opt outs if you do that.

The process is build a list,build a relationship with that list and then market to that list.

It’s the middle bit most people leave out.They so want to pitch products and make money they forget about building a relationship.The reader will just think “this person does not care about what I want they just want to sell me stuff”.

So give REAL content and give it free.You can introduce affiliate products from time to time but ensure they tie in with what you blog or websites is about.

Have your emails 4 days apart which is the default setting on Aweber the autoresponder I use.

After about 7 emails spread any subsequent emails out to seven days apart.

Follow this strategy and your own list will grow.

Best wishes

Andrew Collinson