Yep. Only 1% of affiliate marketers make it!

Now, that’s not what we say, not what we think. After all there are only the two of us running ANC and we do internet marketing full time. So, that’s…errr… one hundred percent.

But a new ANC member dropped us a note this morning. Here it is:-

Hey Guys,

I just signed up.

Getting traffic to your list is obviously critical but you now have a secret weapon. Your list itself! Or at least, what you created to tempt people to sign up to your list.

You now have a bonus!

It doesn’t matter whether you have created just a simple tip sheet or a full 5 week course. You now have, in effect, a mini-product of your own!

LOL! I’ve been playing around again.

You know I love those natty ‘rhyming’ titles for our ANC niche reports, bonuses and stuff? Well, I thought I’d better come up with one for the forthcoming free ‘List Building‘ bonus guide.

And I have! But I’ve gone one better and designed a proper ebook cover for it. Here it is…

I think it’s cool! (Now that I’ve figured out how to add a background pic.)

Using a Broadcast messages is a powerful way to quickly get a message out to your list. If something topical or if a special offer comes up relating to your niche…use a broadcast!

Broadcast messages are ‘one off’ messages. They are not part of your mail message follow-up series and can be sent out at any time to all or just part of your list.

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As some of you may have already seen, there’s a bunch of chatter right now about a new Adwords slap targeting affiliate review sites. One of the main posts being referenced is this one by Perry Marshall.

We think some of the severity and scariness is kind of getting pretty overblown and we haven’t seen any problems with our own campaigns, but we know some people are very concerned or affected with this recent update so we felt it was important to talk about.

Ho Hum… well you know I’m not keen on all this follow thousands on Twitter to get thousands to follow you, right?

Seems pretty pointless to me.

Anyway, I’ve just set up a Twitter account for one of our non-IM niches.

I’m not going to show you it or anything just yet but I’m gonna use this account to test whether Twitter has any real marketing value or not.

Your mail message series is what list building is all about. You must build a relationship with your list by providing value but there’s more to it than that…

Let’s start with your first mail. This one should be fairly easy. A simple welcome message that includes your bonus (the one you created to get people to opt-in in the first place) and a thank you for signing up. And that’s it! I wouldn’t put any links or sales pitches in this mail at all.

Gave away free tips or a free guide to get people to opt-in to your list. It’s that simple!

It is crucial for you to offer your potential customers an incentive for them to opt-in to your list. This is taken as read in the IM niche and IMers are almost immune to it. Nonetheless you pretty much have to do it.

I thought I’d ‘interrupt’ the ‘List Building‘ series of posts and briefly talk about the mental rather than the mechanical aspects.

With hindsight I probably should have done this post first, although I did touch upon it in the introductory post.

It occurs to me that a lot of people have something of a mental block when it comes to list building. So, what I want to do on this post is help you over that hurdle, or at least open the matter for discussion.

Ya know, I was getting all tongue-tied and twisted with this one, a touch of writer’s block even. Unlike me! LOL!

Thing is, I was gonna start putting up screen shots of how you set up a list and an opt-in form using Aweber… the usual thing you see.