5 Simple steps to building a massive opt-in list.Written by Gerardo Flores
Hi and thank you for taking your time to read this article. I am sure you will find this information valuable and at same time profitable. You’ll be learning how with five simple steps you can take can build you a massive opt-in list. I’m sure you’ve heard it over and over again and you’ll hear it from me too, “A business without a list is like mashed potatoes without gravy”. Your opt-in list is heart that pumps life into your business. These people have learned to like you and trust you. So when you have a big enough list responses to your offers can be pretty amazing, well, depending on your product of-course. Anyway lets get started! There are literally hundreds of ways to building your list. Some are free, which I’ll discussing, some can take a small investment, and some require quite an investment. I’ll be going over five most tried and proved methods, which are also cheapest. Not to say you’re a cheapskate! I was considering fact that a lot of people like free advertising including myself. So here we go. *1 Give away free stuff. I know, I know, ”I don’t have anything to give away” right? Wrong! Everybody has something free to give away. Be it free shipping, free tips, free information, free e-books, free jokes, etc. You can do a little research and find a lot of things you can give away, especially e-books. Of-course don’t forget to collect their e-mail address! *2 Writing articles. What? I can already hear you, “But I’m not a writer!” Well sure you are, everybody is a writer, you just have to bring out writer in you. You can write a short article about products you sell, or some simple know how’s, like, “How to make your baby stop farting” if you sell baby products. Or, “How to decorate your home for under a hundred bucks”. This doesn’t only make you an expert in your field, you also get free advertising because at end of your article you write a short bio about yourself and that will give you some free traffic, (check my bio for example) so make sure you have something free to give away to your prospects when they visit your website. After you have your article ready, submit it to as many article directories as you possibly can this gives you massive exposure, which in can turn into massive sales.
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Golden Rules For New Writers - Things you need to know before you begin.Rules govern everything we do in life; even if those rules are of unwritten kind we abide by them and expect other people to do same. Why should writing be any different? It shouldn’t be and it isn’t. The following rules are basis for good writing. If anyone tries to tell you that rules are made to be broken, remember that you have to learn those rules before you try to bend them or break them otherwise you are just being sloppy, not radical. The following rules are essential if you want people to take you seriously. Be yourself Know your subject Be interested Punctuate proudly Respect apostrophe Get great grammar Spell well Keep to point Read and revise Sleep on it Pay attention to detail Be yourself Write from heart or head or gut, depending upon type of writing you are doing. You can let your heart pour passion into a love letter but your head is better for contents of a business letter and gut feeling should never be ignored. Never try to imitate somebody else’s style, no matter how much you might admire it, you will always appear fake. Find your own unique style, your own voice. Know Your Subject Write on topics you know about. Although that sounds obvious you don’t have to look very far to find masses of people publishing articles when it is clear that they have very little idea about their subject matter. This type of writing appears thin, limp and unconvincing even to untrained eye. You should aim for writing which has substance; a rounded, healthy thing with a life of its own. If, for some reason, you are obliged to write about a topic which is alien to you, make effort to research it. If you can’t get to library, there is always internet. There is no excuse for ignorance. There is no excuse for trying to foist a poorly researched article on your readers. Do you want your readers to point you out as someone who does not know what s/he is talking about? Be interested Write about things which interest you. If you are not interested in your subject matter, you have little hope of catching interest of your reader. If you are in a situation where you simply have to write about a subject which holds no real interest for you, try at least to find an original angle; this could stimulate you as well as your reader. If you cannot spark even faint interest in your subject, your writing will be flat and boring. Punctuate proudly Don’t be one of those people who pretend they don’t think punctuation matters: it does. Ask your self this: if these people really believe that, why do they bother to punctuate at all? Why don’t they just write on and on without any dots or commas? That, surely, is more logical than putting in dots and commas in wrong places. The truth is, they are too lazy to learn rules of punctuation and think they can get away with this by brushing punctuation off as unimportant. Punctuation has had a very bad time over last forty years or so but I believe it is about to undergo a revival. These things go in cycles and it seems that punctuation is about to have its day at last. Correct punctuation could be new black. If you don’t believe this, how do you explain why so many thousands of people bought "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"? Even if you have no interest in creating elegant prose, you should learn about punctuation . Without it your writing will at best be difficult to read and at worst not make sense. You will be left wondering why people are laughing at your serious work.
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