Stop Buying And Start Building
Over the past few days I have received quite a few emails from good people who read my article on My Lead Company, thanking me for taking the time to do the research and expose this blight on the Internet landscape. I only wish I had been able to get the information out before many of them lost their money.I know that some them might have been discouraged by the experience, and I wanted to encourage them by sharing my own method for obtaining qualified leads. You can build your own highly-profitable list. Here's exactly how I built mine.
1. You must have an autoresponder and email marketing account. I want to say this again: YOU MUST HAVE AN AUTORESPONDER AND EMAIL MARKETING ACCOUNT. Even though I have stressed this here and in other articles you would be surprised at how many people continue to resist this, and they continue to fail.
Is it because they believe an account with someone like AWeber is too expensive? Well, they would be wrong. You can start with $1 and after that it is $19/month for a 500 subscriber list. At some point you have to ask yourself why others are succeeding and you are not. Be honest. How much revenue did you generate this month? It's none of my business, for sure. You know the answer and that's all that matters. The best Internet marketers made money this month, and they did it by email marketing. Have you seen a campaign by John Delavera on APSense? Have you seen Anthony Morrison write a review page? No. I'm not saying that this isn't a worthwhile endeavor. I'm just saying that the pros email market and so should you.
Oh, and forget about reinventing the wheel. You cannot email market from your personal email address or harvest names that aren't opted-in. Oh, you can...but you will get Google-slapped with the quickness and your email account will be gone. Spam is taken very seriously these days.
2. You must build your list on your own.
The only way to get targeted leads, my friends, is the method espoused by the actor John Houseman in an old commercial. To paraphrase, "We get leads the old-fashioned way. We EARN them." Buying leads is always a bad idea
There are a variety of ways to capture opt-in leads. I use several. I give away books on my websites, etc. One method that I am using at the moment which is working very well is HERE. It is not mandatory that you do it my way, but you must do it some way. This method just makes the process easy, especially if you do not have a website.
This is how you begin to build a highly-profitable, converting list. If anyone tells you something majorly different, they are trying to sell you a pocketful of magic beans.
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Comments (4)
Scotty Rushing5
Certified Life/Business Coach
This is great feedback. Yes, it can be a challenge to master the art of using an autoresponder. Just like any new skill it must be learned. However, once one becomes familiar with the setup and functionality the benefits of one's own autoresponder is priceless. @Manali If email marketing is dead, someone forgot to invite me to the funeral.
Roosevelt Evans III10
Home Business Entrepreneur
As necessary as autoreponders are, I HATE THEM! I like programs that have an in built autoresponder system but not many have that. Very informative article, Scotty!
Paula van Dun6
Social Marketing works.
"YOU MUST HAVE AN AUTORESPONDER AND EMAIL MARKETING ACCOUNT". I agree. But it can be a challenge; when your native language is not English the tutorials sometimes are not so easy to understand. Especially not when a auto responder is totally new. When I just started I joined trafficwave. I tried and tried again but never managed to set anything up. Frustrated i cancelled that account. Months later I got another autoreponder account as a gift. So i looked in to it. It was easier to set up and fin
Manali Patel7
SEO firm
Great info you shared with us. But as many says that email marketing has dead so will this method be helpful to all? And what they can do extra with this technique for more better result.