How to Make $2,000 to $4,000 Building your Own Opt-In Email List

June 30, 2007 on 6:06 pm | In How to Articles |

Building your own Opt-in Email list is fun and rewarding. There are really only 4 steps required to build your list and make money with it.

1. Setup a page to capture your customers.
2. Drive traffic to that page.
3. Offer your customers quality content.
4. Make available quality products for your customers to purchase.

For steps 1 and 4 you will need a quality autoresponder service to caputre the emails and then in turn to offer your customers good quality content. I can’t stress this enough good quality content will keep your customers wanting to get emails from you.

The autoreponder service you choose is very important. You want to make sure that the service you choose has at a minimum these features:

a) Good Deliverability at least 95%.
b) Follow up messages. So that you can send an on going series of content to your customers.
c) Web Form Generator. This will allow you to generate the html code for the opt-in form.

There are many more features that autoreponders have but these are a must have.

Content is important. Pick a subject that you know alot about. Don’t get fooled by the systems available to generate content. These are good for a quick buck but are not a good long term strategy. As I said before you want to provide your customers with good content. Creating that content yourself is the best method. You could also outsource your articles to a freelance writer as this way you will still get good content.

Once you have a page up with your autoresponder form on it you will need to drive traffic. Traffic is a very big topic. I will be writting many different articles on this very topic. But for the quick version there are many ways to generate traffic. I will list just a few here:

• Article Marketing
• Blogging
• Social Bookmarking
• Forum Marketing
• Ebay Traffic
• Traffic Exchanges
• Pay Per Click

You should choose one method and work on it till you have it mastered and then move on to the next.

One of the big problems we have in Internet Marketing is Attention Deficit Disorder. We all want to make money and we jump from one Internet Wave to the next trying to find that golden egg. But all along it is right in front of you and all you have to do is set a plan and stick to it.

You now have the steps to build a list so how can we make money from it.

Again there are many ways but I will teach you the easiest to get started.

Affiliate Marketing is the easiest method. With affiliate marketing you find good quality products that are a good match for your customers. You offer these to your customers. With affiliate products you will get paid a percent of the product price.

There are many great products available you can find them at places like clickbank or commission junction. You can also purchase Private Label Rights products to offer your customers that will have no affilaite commissions.

How fast you build your list will determine how quickly you will reach the income goal the more traffic you can send the faster the list will grow. You will need to get your list to be at least 2,000 - 4,000 people in order to make $2,000.00 to $4,000.00 a month income.

For each person on your list you should be able to make $1.00 a month.

You now have the knowledge to get started in listbuilding in future articles we will talk about each aspect in more detail so check back frequently. You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or sign up for my newsletter and get a copy of my free List Advice report.

To your success.

Sincerely,
Glen Barnhardt

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