How to Build Your List – 7 Powerful Strategies

Written by Trent Brownrigg


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How to Build Your List – 7 Powerful Strategies

If you have been an internet marketer, or had any type of online home based business, for more than a few days, then you will no doubt have heard someone say, "if you want to make money online, you have to build an opt-in list."

Take that advice very seriously, because it’s true! It took me a long time to finally letrepparttar 124679 list building advice sink in, so I didn’t start doing it until I had my home business for quite a while. However, once I started building my list, I realized just how important it truly is. My only regret now is that I didn’t start a lot sooner.

There are numerous ways to build an opt-in list. However, some are much more effective than others. So, I decided to share seven ofrepparttar 124680 most powerful strategies to build a targetted opt-in list.

Here are seven tips for building your opt-in list, in no particular order:

1) Free Newsletter – Offering a free newsletter from your website is one ofrepparttar 124681 most common, and effective ways to build an opt-in list. It is also one ofrepparttar 124682 best strategies for building trusting relationships with your list.

Pack your newsletter full of useful information, free resources, tips, tools, and anything else your subscriber list will be interested in. Also, be sure to make it fun and add your personality to it. Then your subscribers will enjoy reading it and get to know you atrepparttar 124683 same time.

2) Make It Easy to Subscribe – To maximize your newsletter sign-ups, you must also have a quick and easy way for people to subscribe to it. The best way to do this is to put a simple form onrepparttar 124684 top part ofrepparttar 124685 left hand column of your websites home page, and all other pages, if possible.

Put a quick sentence or two telling them why your newsletter would benefit them (i.e. freebies, resources, tips, tools, etc…) then have a way for them to add their email address and name below it. This simple form will bring in a lot of your subscriber list.

3) Quality Content – Packing your website full of quality content will bring in a lot of visitors. Many of these visitors will then subscribe to your newsletter. Your list will grow naturally and so will your search engine rankings, which will bring even more visitors who can join your list. It will eventually turn into a list building, money making cycle.

4) Forums – There are literally thousands of forums and discussion boards onrepparttar 124686 internet where people go to discuss all sorts of things and ask questions. All you have to do is find forums related to your particular business and particpate inrepparttar 124687 discussion.

5 Instant Tips for More Online Sales

Written by Mark Jarmel


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5 Instant Tips for More Online Sales

- by Mark Jarmel

(c) Mark Jarmel - All Rights reserved www.4-targeted-web-site-traffic.com =====================================

Even after you've managed to bring traffic to your site you may be losing sales because of problems with your sites usability. What's “usability”?

Usability is how easily people are actually able to use your site. And you may be surprised at how much money you may be losing because your site has usability problems.

Just because you think your site is easy to use, doesn't mean your average customer does.

Instant Tip # 1: Have someone you know who hasrepparttar same computer skills as an “average user” for your site check it out.

Have them to do something specific, like purchase a product, sign up for your newsletter or log into an account. Watch what they do, and ask them to speak their thoughts out loud.

Make sure you let them do it on their own. You won't be there to give your potential customer any directions. If your “tester” finds what they're looking for, that's great. If they have trouble, that's important for you to know.

Once you've seen how an "average user" actually uses your website, you can change things to make your site easier to use.

Instant Tip # 2: Use “Web Conventions”. People expect to see things a certain way onrepparttar 124677 web. When they don't see them, they get confused.

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