As we’ve all heard a million times by now I’m sure from Internet marketers everywhere: “The money is in the list” and the reason why we hear it so often is because it’s true. Having a targeted hungry list of buyers can take your online home business to the next level in the world of Internet marketing.
For example, if you have a list of 10,000 people and you can believe what Internet business owners say that they earn $1.00 per month per member then you can earn $10,000.00 per month each and every month from your list. These statistics alone should help convince you to start building your list of subscribers immediately and here are 5 critical components of a targeted, successful directory of customers and prospects to help get you started:
1. The first and perhaps most vital part of your system is a profitable niche. I like to use Click Bank to help chose my product and market because you have no issues with customer service with all of your merchandise being digital in nature and immediately available for download by your customers.
This also satisfies their need for immediate satisfaction. When using this marketplace I try to choose a product with a gravity score of at least 100 or more that has multiple affiliates promoting it and already making sales.
2. Next, you need a high quality freebie to give away on your squeeze page in exchange for your prospects contact information. Creating a free report that solves their problem or at the very least satisfies their craving for more information on a certain topic should do the trick by persuading them to give you their email address.
3. Now you need an effective squeeze page to give away your free gift and to collect their names and email addresses. This should be a simple page with a definite call to action stating exactly what they should do to get their free report.
4. After they subscribe you need a good follow-up sequence of email messages that provide valuable content by addressing the needs of your prospects. The main idea behind this follow-up is to build a trusting relationship with your subscribers by giving away valuable information while occasionally inserting a promotional message advertising one of your products.
5. The final piece of your list building strategy is attracting targeted traffic to your squeeze page via various free and paid traffic generation techniques available online. For example, you can write articles, post comments on related forums and bulletin boards and use pay per click to draw the people you need to your offer.
There you have it; a targeted list building strategy in 5 easy steps. Now all you need to do is implement each stage into your overall online home business Internet marketing strategy to help ensure the long term viability of your Internet enterprise on the Web.
