‘List Legions’ is available now!

Free for ANC members.

List Legions – Our complete guide to list building. Build a genuine relationship with your customers!

Covers all aspects of list building: using an autoresponder; how to capture leads; offering incentives; killer mail messages; getting traffic. Includes a step by step ‘How To’ section.

Guides like this one can cost up to $97.

Creating a good bonus is vital to get people to sign up to your lists and it’s important that you give a great first impression.

One of the best ways to do this is by creating a short PDF guide. It doesn’t need to be huge but it’s important that it looks professional.

First, grab a copy of ‘Open Office‘. It’s free and you can download it here.

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.

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.

We talked about why you should be building a list in your niche on this post. Now, let’s start to deal with the mechanics.

Over the next few days we’ll give you a step by step guide on how should set everything up from the word go!

Firstly though, let’s be clear you cannot build and manage a list of subscribers without automation. It is simply not feasible to handle a mailing list in the same way you would correspondence between 2 or 3 people.