There's a lot of talk about building your own list in order to be successful online. The problem is all list are not equal! It's not just the size of your list that matters but also the quality of the prospects or custormer on your list.

Early in my network marketing experience i built a list using a free lead capture page and prospecting system that was 100% free... I use this system for a year advertising using safe lists and traffic exchanges. I had a list of over 1200 people in my auto responder series. My list although large was composed of people with the wrong mindset. They all join my list because it was free. Because it was free they were looking for something for nothing.

When i sent offers that cost some money the people on the list failed to respond. They only responded to freebies. They would even comment on my blog post because they were only in it to get something for nothing. I had a list but not all lists are equal.

The other mistake i made was not having an email series that was valuable. The email series was just a series of emails with psychological triggers to get people on the list to buy one the affiliate products using the "upsale technique". It really didn't solve their main problem of not understanding how to market products online or offline. The list started shrinking as members kept getting hammered with reasons they should upgrade. All lists you see are not equal.

Not only did my list have people looking for freebies, no value but trying to get my list to buy, but the length of my list was just "seven emails long". What a joke...i hammered the list for 2 weeks and it was over. Yep...that's what the person who give me the "free viral prospecting system" had convinced me what i needed.Guess what...all lists are not equal.

If you want a responsive lists, stay away from free prospecting system, provide value to your list and make sure your list has 6 months to 1 year of emails to give value and build trust. If you don't you would have wasted your time and money to find out the real deal, all lists are not equal.

Keeping it real!

James

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James B Byrd

Here's all you do...

• Create a short ad that promotes your newsletter or ezine
• Add some code to the pages of your website
• ... sit back and watch your list grow.

ListHero helps you generate 1,000's of highly targeted subscribers for free and pays you generous affiliate commissions as your list grows.

I'll let you know what I think of it once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile go grab access to this free viral listbuilding software while it's still free.

Video has become the new must have have, not only for internet marketers but for everyone who has a website. Local Biz Owners who have a website can especially benefit from video. With video, there are new opportunities to get out your message, advertise your business, make video postcards, send video e-mails create how-to the ideas are endless. We website owners however, are thinking gee we want to get in on the video thing, but it is something else we have to learn how to do, another learning curve, and for many of us the idea just sort of fizzles.

I am excited because I don’t have to miss out this time, because I lack the expertise to create and broadcast videos or perhaps I just don’t have the time. I found a unique new software I thought I would check out, to see if I could use it. I was hoping it would be easy to use, to create video and then put it on my website. I also wanted the video to look good, something I wouldn’t mind people watching and/or downloading to pass it around.

Well I couldn’t believe it. This software made it drop dead easy to make videos and to put them on my website. I actually was able to make a quality, professional looking video in less than 5 min. This sounds crazy I know, but I did it. If video is something you have been wanting to do but felt really intimidated by it up to this point, you might want to try this software for yourself, because the best part is you can use the software and it doesn’t cost you anything. That was important to me because I didn’t know if I would be able to use the software, and I didn’t want to pay for something I wasn’t sure I could even use. You can visit the site at http://www.easyvideoproducer.com/clickthru.php?id=1947

James B Byrd

269-290-3263

http://www.networkmarketingsmarts.net

1. Build A List

2. Build A Relationship With The List

3. Market To That List.

Let us look at building a list. Many marketers will build a list using a capture page to gather contact information and an autoresponder to collect the contacts information. Usually you will have to give away an item that has great value to capture the prospects attention and information.

Next you must be able to build a relationship with the list. This is done using your autoresponder  and sending the prospect extremly unique and useful marketing tips or ideas on how to be successful in their business. you can also use newsletters or blog posts once a week to keep in contact with your list. Over time you will build trust.

Now that you have a relationship with your list, you can market to that list and they will trust your advice and judgment and buy products from you. Some will even ask to join your business because in their eyes you also are a leader.

A business plan that is based on chasing your warm market or cold calling can never be successful in list building. Just think,  if your company that you are with went out of business because of the economy, you could always start over because you have a list. Attraction marketing is wonderful but you also need a list. The money is still in the list.