5 List Building Tips You Can Use Now
Hi Pete Moore here…I work with Neil and Neil and every now and then they let me loose!
Here are 5 simple list building tips you can use to add more subscribers to your email list.
List Building Tip 1 – Add More Email Optin Boxes To Your Website
Sounds simple enough, but few people actually do it. If you have a 100 page website, you should have 100 newsletter subscribe boxes on your website.
You can integrate a subscribe box just about anywhere on a website or add a pop up window (still very effective.) You could add one just before an article starts, in the middle of an article or even at the end of the article.
As long as you have good content on your website, you won’t have a problem getting people to subscribe to your newsletter or free report offering etc.
List Building Tip 2 - Offer A Useful Hard To Resist Gift
I’ve have a bit of a problem with offering freebies to get people to subscribe to a list, but I also know it does work well if the free offer is something that will help or be useful to the visitor.
Why do I have a problem with it? Well I really want buying subscribers not freebie seekers to be signing up for my newsletter.
The best way to offer a freebie is to create one yourself and not something you have reprint rights to with 500 other people. You want it to be unique, and you want it to be something that compliments your newsletters topic PLR is fine because you can make it unique.
Do you know what makes a good bonus? Back issues of your newsletter!
List Building Tip 3 – Use Free Viral Ebooks To Get New Subscribers
Want to get lots of new subscribers for your ezine without spending a penny on advertising?
You can create an ebook as a free product for everyone, or just give the book to other website owners in your niche with reprint rights to the product so they can sell your product while making 100% commission in the process.
I prefer the reprint right route because people are more likely to read and value a book they have paid for. Just make sure your details are all over the ebook and that its in pdf format so it can’t be changed.
The goal really isn’t to make money from the book, it’s to get more exposure and subscribers for your website.
So find a group of publishers in your market, let them know you created a new ebook with sales letter that they can use and plug straight into their website and give them a mailing promotion to use and tell them they can have the book for free and that they can either sell the book or give the book to their customers as a bonus etc.
List Building Tip 4 – Do Audio Interviews With Experts In Your Market
Audio interviews is a great idea to get more subscribers in non internet marketing circles.
I’m not going to get into how to create audio products but interviewing experts over the phone and recording it will get your newsletter splashed all over the Internet.
When you take marketing tactics from the Internet marketing arena and apply them into other niche markets where they have never been seen before, you will get noticed.
Most things have been done to death in Internet marketing, we are all immune to even the most brilliant marketing tactics as we see them almost everyday, but other niche markets eat these things up.
Do you know how to find experts in any field almost instantly? Just go to the top article directories such as ezinearticles.com, find the category related to the niche your in and take some time to research the writers of the top rated articles.
Some may have their own websites so contact them via their website contact details and tell them you want to interview them because you’ve read an article they’ve written and it was great and you think your subscribers would benefit from their knowledge.
Most will do this without charging you a penny if you are outside the marketing area, they will just get a thrill out of being interviewed.
Once you have these interviews, tell all the publishers you’ve been in contact with from tip 3, that you have this great set of mp3′s just completed and you want to offer them for free to their lists.
Setup a page on your website with the download link to these mp3′s and also put a subscribe form near them for your newsletter and you will be surprised how many people will sign up before and after they listen to your mp3s.
Don’t make it so these people have to sign up for your newsletter before they get the mp3s.
List Building Tip 5 – Archive Your Newsletter Copies On Your Website
Sometimes people are hesitant to give any sort of information away over the Internet, especially their email address even if what you are offering is free.
But if you allow people to read your back issues without having to signup for your newsletter, this will show them what type of content you write and will make them want to join.
You would think having your newsletter issues archived would cut back on subscribers wanting to subscribe because they can get it without giving their email address away, but this is not true.
What you do is tell them on the website that newsletter subscribers get each issue 1 month before it is published on the website for non subscribers.
If the information is especially time sensitive they will definitely want to subscribe.
Hope you enjoyed the tips….now Neil wants be back to work!
Pete Moore (The Tech Guy for the Two Neils! 
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Comments
Hi Pete
This is a good overview of some solid techniques. the last one is particularly effort frendly as it retasks all your hard work. Cutting out extra effort like this is something that a lot of online seller miss!
Ian
List building tip 5 I really like and I will put it into action immediately
Good post and tips for a tech guy! I especially like and agree with the tip about archiving your newsletter back issues. This not only encourages people to subscribe to your newsletter if they like what you write, it also creates good and regular content which will help your search engine ranking.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the Article tips. But I think I can do well with your suggestions.
I wish Niel’s enjoying himself. Just please say hello to him.
Kind Regards
Josephine.
Hi Pete
Some good tips here for List Building but not so easy when you are in a specialised niche.
After nearly 40 years of owning German Shepherd Dogs – I guess I’m an expert? – should I interview myself? (LOL)
regards
Graham in UK
Thanks really useful advice- simple but effective tips that can be easily implemented. Common sense too!
Hi Ian,
Yes it is always good when you can reuse your content that’s the beauty of the internet.
Pete
Hi Nigel,
Glad you found some use from the article.
Pete
Hi Nahid,
Yes not not bad for a tech guy
Very true it does help with search engines, quality fresh content is what they want.
Pete
Hi Josephine,
You’re welcome.
I will say hello to Neil for you.
Pete
Hi Graham,
It doesn’t matter what niche you are in.
You could get someone to interview you, if that’s not an option just record some tips yourself.
If you get some questions from visitors answer those questions using audio or do some research their must be forums, discussion boards in your niche find out what those common questions are and answer them.
Pete
Hi Eamon,
Yes we like to keep things simple here
Pete
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