subject: Building Your Email List With Free Reports Still Works [print this page] Building Your Email List With Free Reports Still Works
Building your email list should be your primary focus of using free reports. Many people use free reports to sell affiliate products as well. This is a good idea after you have your contacts name and email address.I have personally found giving away a useful free report to be a great way to add subscribers on a consistent basis. You do not want to try and sell someone before they are ready.It is interesting that the strategy of list building has been talked about for over 10 years. When I got started part time with Internet marketing in 2002 the so called gurus were talking about the money being in the list.That really has not changed in my opinion. It may be a little harder to get someone to give you their name and email addess then it used to be in the past. People have become accustomed to all of the free offers online.However, most people do understand that anything they subscribe to they can just as easily unsubscribe from. So, if you have an offer that is enticing enough you can get just about anybody to subscribe to it.However that is the key point. You must focus on making yourself different from what your competition is doing. There are a couple of simple ways to do this.1. Subscribe to their e-mail newsletters.2. Visit the websites of your top competitors.When you subscribe to your competitors newsletter you can see exactly what they are promoting in it. This should give you some email newsletter content ideas.Visiting your competitors website allows you to view what freebies they are offering to their list subscribers. You do not want to copy them, but this can be a great source of potential ideas.Ultimately you will want to go back and unsubscribe from some email newsletters. If you subscribe to too many newsletters you can waste a lot of time reading all of the email messages. In my case after several years of being online I have just a handful of regular email newsletters I still like to read.Any Internet marketer can build their list using free reports. Your goal should be to make this a focus on all of your website and blog pages. The report needs to provide unique content and useful information that will be enticing enough to get your website visitor to subscribe to them.
