subject: How To Build An Email List And Make Money [print this page] Money is in the list! Money is in the list!
You may have heard this phrase before and people say it for a reason. Building an email list is one most important factor that can ensure your online success regardless of the niche you're into. Most people don't do this because they think it's complicated and require a lot of technical work. They couldn't be more wrong. It is a bit time consuming and requires consistent work but it is definitely worth it.
Here's are 3 steps that you need to follow to build an email list and make money with it:
Download Free Ebooks
You can find many ebooks being offered for free on the web. Lot's of these ebooks have redistribution rights, so all you need to do is to find them and download each and every one of them, regardless of the niche they apply to. Start collecting them by downloading them into a folder on your drive everytime you find one. It's doesn't matter what's the niche as long as you think people will be interested in the information they have.
Set up a sqeeze page
The next step is to create a simple web page where people can enter their name and email and in exchange they will receive the ebook's download link. If you don't know how to create a squeeze page, then just hire someone to do it for you for only a few dollars. You can hire people on Digitalpoint.com, FreeLancer.com, Elance.com or even Fiverr.com.
Promote your squeeze page
The easiest way to get the word out about your free ebooks is to become a member of a forum in your niche. Many of these forums have a "Freebies" section, where you can post your offer for the members to take advantage off.
You can also use social networks like Facebook and Myspace to promote your squeeze pages. Blog comments on blogs from your niche work well also. You also might want to consider going with a paid traffic source like PPC (pay per click) because it will help you build your email list a lot faster.
Now, how do you make money with your email list?
To be able to download your free ebook, your visitors will have to enter thir name and email address, and this means they agree to recieve promotional offers from you upon download.
After a few weeks of doing this you will be able to build huge email lists of people that are have a common interest.
The next step would be to sign up to a few affiliate programs and start sending promotional offers to their emails telling them a bit about the product and how it can be helpful for them. Usually, you don't even have to write these promotional offers yourself because many of the vendors provide you with pre-written email messages.
For the email marketing software(web form and list management) i recommend you to go for a paid option like Aweber.com or Getresponse.com. It will make things a lot easiter and they are definitely worth their price.
