57 Email List Building Tips - Blackhatx.com

Terry Wygal

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57 Email List Building Tips

What is a List?

The Money is in the List

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Traditional Mailing Lists versus Email Lists

It�’s easy

It�’s more cost effective

It has a wider reach

It�’s faster

It�’s interactive

It�’s more personalized

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It�’s more engaging and interesting

It�’s easier to target

It�’s highly trackable

It�’s not time restrained

Email List Building Tips

The Basics

Tip #1 �– Create a well crafted lead capture page

Tip #2 �– Include a link to your privacy policy on your lead capture page.

Tip #3 �– Use an autoresponder service.

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Tip #4 Write the copy for your lead capture page with your prospects�’ point ofview in mind.

Tip #5 �– Don�’t make it difficult for your prospects.

Tip #6 �– Give away something of value.

Tip #7 �– Provide a preview of what people will receive once they sign up to yourlist.

Tip #8 �– Make sure you have a confirmation/thank you page.

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Tip #9 �– Provide an easy way out.

Gaining People�’s Trust

Tip #10 �– Don�’t sell (at least not while trying to get people to sign up to yourlist).

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Tip #11 �– Be yourself.

Tip #12 �– Show your audience/subscribers that you care and that youunderstand their needs.

Tip #13 �– Be an expert in your field.

Tip #14 Be true to your customers.

Tip #15 �– Create your own social networking site.

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Tip #16 �– Exchange links with similar sites

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Driving Traffic

Tip #17 �– Get your site/lead generation page to rank high in the search engineresults pages (SERP).

Tip #18 �– Leverage the virality of video sharing sites.

Tip #19 �– Respond through video.

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Tip #20 �– Make your presence known on social networking sites

Tip #21 �– Create a blog on various free blogging platforms

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Tip #22 �– Make the most out of your blogs�’ RSS feed.

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Tip #23 �– Submit your blog(s) to blog directories.

Tip #24 �– Comment on other people�’s blog

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Tip #25 �– Do a guest post on other people�’s blog

Tip #26 �– Create a podcast.

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Tip #27 �– Participate in forums.

Tip #28 �– Do some pay per click advertising.

Tip #29 �– Cost per action (CPA)/cost per lead (CPL) advertising.

Tip #30 �– Advertise on ezines.

Tip #31 �– Submit press releases to PR sites

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Tip #32 �– Create your Lenses and

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Tip #33 �– Harness the power of free online classifieds.

Tip #34 �– Join traffic exchange sites.

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Tip #35 �– Bookmark your site/page on social bookmarking sites.

Tip #36 �– Post your free ebook/report/software on torrent sites.

Tip #37 �– Make use of Q&A sites

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Tip #38 �– Submit your site to Web directories

Tip #39 �– Submit slide presentations and PDFs to content authority sites.

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Maintaining Your List

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Tip #40 �– Keep an eye out for unsuccessful sends.

Tip #41 �– Do not include pornographic, controversial, and other offensivecontent in your newsletters.

Tip #42 �– Make your promotional materials interesting and fun.

Tip #43 �– Find out what people in your niche are interested in.

Tip #44 �– Segment your list and send them the most targeted and relevantemails possible.

Tip #45 �– Don�’t let your subscribers forget you.

Tip #46 �– Don�’t waste your subscribers�’ time.

Tip #47 �– Whenever applicable, educate your customers/subscribers about theproducts they purchased from you.

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Tip #48 �– Gauge your subscribers�’ satisfaction.

Going Offline

Tip #49 �– Distribute flyers.

Tip #50 �– Use QR Code and 2d Barcode.

Tip #51 �– Become a sponsor.

Tip #52 �– Radio advertisements.

Tip #53 �– Newspaper/magazine advertisements.

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Don�’ts

Tip #54 �– Never spam your subscribers.

Tip #55 �– Avoid pop ups as much as possible.

Tip #56 �– Do not flood your subscribers with too much information.

Tip #57 �– Never buy email lists from other people.

Autoresponders

An autoresponder is a computer program that automatically answers email sent to it. They can be very simple or quite complex.

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Autoresponders are often used as e mail marketing tools, to immediatelyprovide information to their prospective customers and then follow upwith them at preset time intervals.

AWeber ( )

Getresponse ( )

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iContact ( )

Infusionsoft ( )

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1ShoppingCart (URL: )

Constant Contact ( )

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MailChimp ( )

StreamSend ( )

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Build Your List Now

Top Article Submission Sites

Suite101 EzineArticles

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Helium ArticleBase

WebProNews Buzzle

Isnare American Chronicle

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TheWhir SelfGrowth

ArticleDashboard SearchWarp

ArticleCity IdeaMarketers

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Site Reference Article Alley

Article Snatch GoArticles

Articles Factory Amazines

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Top FreeWeb Directories

DMOZ So Much

Pegasus Directory RoAsk

viesearch Wikidweb

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Autowebdir Pedster's Planet

Net Insert Link Centre

Jayde Exact Seek

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Top Bookmarking Sites

Google bookmarks Digg

Slashdot Mixx

Mister Wong Jumptags

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Bibsonomy Diigo

A1Webmarks BuddyMarks

PR Sites

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PR Newswire All Business

PRWeb MarketWire

PRLog PR.com

24 7 Press Release ThomasNET

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Newswire Today PR Inside

PR Leap Press Release Point

Q & A Sites

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Askville Yahoo Answers

AnswerBag Fluther

FunAdvice AOL Answers

Dizzay Rediff Q & A

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The Answer Bank LinkedIn Answers

GirlsAskGuys Simply Explained

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