subject: The Importance Of Building A List-I Wish I Knew This Earlier! [print this page] Building a list should be your main aim if you intend to create a profitable online business. The money is in the list and the sooner you grasp this concept, the closer you will be to successfully achieving financial freedom.
A list allows you to promote your products and services to a specific group of people who are not only interested in your products, but who are also hungry and ready to spend to money to get it.
To be able to understand the importance of building a list, you have to know how to create a webform that allows you to build your list. A webform is the tool on many websites that you see asking visitors for their name and email address in exchange for a give away which is usually something free like a report or an ebook.
So what you need to do to get this function on your website, is to register with one of the many companies that offer email marketing services.A few examples are Aweber and Get response. Yes, you will have to part with some money a few dollars however, it is nothing compared to the service you will receive. In fact, their insanely low prices are a steal.
Aweber for example offers its subscribers a $1 trial monthly fee for them to have a feel of their services. Once you have subscribed to any of these companies, they will give you a step by step process on how to design, publish and write a welcome message for your webform.
Ok, so now that we know what a list is, its functions, and how to get one, we move onto the core matter of this article, the importance of a list. To put this in perspective, i will use the analogy of a being a teenager.Lets say you are a teenager-for those who are not, imagine you are a teen.
What do teens like? Going for parties, hanging out with friends, playing video games and the biggest of them all, being popular. Teens want to be popular more than anything else at their age and it is easy to understand why.
The most popular kids get invited to the best parties, they are the ones who are asked out more often, they have influence of their peers and they have the most friends-or at least it seems like they do. The popular kids are the ones with hundreds if not thousands of friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace.
Now if these kids were to post a tweet or update their profile to 'party at my place Saturday night', you can be sure that a good number will turn up. So it is with having a list for your business. The more people you have on your list, the more money you can make. Consider your mailing list an open source directory for clients or customers who are ready to spend money on your products.
The really successful marketers have made fortunes simply by promoting products to their subscribers. As well as it providing you with a source of income, you list can be used to gauge your success.
Now it would not be fair for me to ell you the importance of having a list without telling you the easiest way to do it. So since you have stuck with this far, i want to give you a little tip that will increase your opt in rates greatly. In fact you would not even believe how simple this is.
