The first strategy to make money online is building a list. This strategy is one of the single most important steps to continue to make money long term. If you do not already have some type of auto responder system you need to get one. Don’t be cheap here either because your entire business will hinge on this one piece of software.

You can build your list many different ways. You can buy leads from reputable list building companies and get them into your auto responder. Most good list building companies will have an option to send an email to your auto responder so you don’t have to manually input the lead’s information.

Another effective way of building your list is from the traffic that visits your website. This step, which is probably the most effective,does require you to have a website in order to implement an opt-in list form. Of course if your Affiliate program does offer a list management service then you can send traffic to the affiliate URL, but I don’t recommend it as you will usually not be able to email the entire list with special offers.

To make the most of your opt-in form and get the most sign ups, you should place it in your sales page text. It should be strategically located in the sales text after you present a problem. The title of your auto-responder email series should address the problem by offering a solution. In the example below we will assume that I am selling a hosting package and I want opt-in subscribers to my email course for back-end sales.you can pay for your site to be show when certain keywords are queried in their search engine.

Example: You can use the pre-built websites or build your own. Many people think that building a website is hard, but I can show you how easy it really is. Take my 10 day email course “Build a Website with Ease”[sign up form here].

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If you have heard it once you have heard it a thousand times-”The Money Is In The List” Having a high converting landing page is one of those elements to any web business that is essential.

Also known as the “name squeeze page” or “lead capture page”, you can build your mailing list by funneling all of your would-be subscribers through the creation of a landing page. Not only do you do the work just once, your traffic driving efforts can be focused onto just one effective method.

The following are tips in creating a successful landing page that converts visitors into subscribers on a very huge percentage.

Success Tip 1: Offer a freebie in exchange for your visitor’s email address. I very much endorse this method of building your mailing list. You can offer a special report or a sample of your paid product to your visitor in exchange for their details such as name and email address.

Success Tip 2: The landing page must be written professionally. When writing your page, treat it as if you are writing a sales letter. While you are not necessarily making a hard sale or try to get someone to buy your product upfront, being able to entice your visitors to give their details to you is just as important as selling.

Success Tip 3: Other than your opt-in form and perhaps important disclaimers and terms, there shouldn’t be any other links on your landing page.

Success Tip 4: Rub in the benefits of the freebie you are offering more than a mere subscription to your newsletter. You should focus most of the attention of the letter on encouraging your prospective visitor to download your free offer. Later, you gently remind your prospect that he or she has nothing to pay but just merely subscribe to your newsletter in exchange for the freebie.

As a final reminder and conclusion, in order to build trust, you can include your hand-written signature or a photo of yourself explaining where you are coming from and how you can help your visitor through your free report on offer.

Today’s resource from Jimmy D Brown’s- List Profit System.

The phrase “make money while you sleep” has been twisted and abused by many a late night TV spot and biz-op sales letter. But it doesn’t matter, cuz there are a still lot of people in the world who really do make money while they sleep. The best way I know of to print money is to have a responsive, well-fed email list. If you have that, then when you need a cash flow surge, you can create one.

Have you ever thought to yourself….

“I know I should cultivate my e-mail list. It’d be really nice to take in a few extra thousand bucks this month so I could afford to buy that new backyard play set for Suzie. It might also be nice to pay off that line of credit. But I’m so busy and I don’t know where to start. I wish writing e-mails and autoresponders wasn’t so intimidating….”

We’ve all had these thoughts. And we’ve all wished that we could easily print a few extra bucks when needed. Last May I put on my first ever E-mail and Autoresponder seminar. This was a no holds barred, down and dirty, $4,000.00 per seat, super meaty seminar where I revealed all of my best kept email and autoresponder secrets andstrategies.

I even assigned a professional copywriter toevery attendee! The enthusiasm for this information was palpable. Andthere was not a single person who told me they’d heard that stuff before.

I realize that a lot of people couldn’t come that wanted to. Some for cost reasons, others because of time constraints. So today I’m offering you a “Reader’s Digest” version of that landmark seminar, in the form of a 10 page special report. This report is a collection of the core concepts and simple principles that de-mystify and super-charge your e-mail and autoresponder marketing (and your sales!) in 2009.

**In it you’ll get my autoresponder strategy broken down into simple, actionable steps.

**I’ll tell you about the one GIANT mistake most marketers make with their lists and how to avoid it.

**You’ll get three methods you can use today to increase the persuasiveness of your copy.

**You’ll discover what to focus on and how to invest your time… to ratchet up your sales and multiply your rofits. (There’s one trick that will save you time and make you lots more money. But it’s probably not what you think… it involves getting RID of lots of people!)

**Plus a myriad of other cool insights and tweaks that get you closer to your sales goals each month.

If you want to work smarter and not harder in 2009, and make headway while others fall behind, this is your ticket.

Dr. Glenn Livingston, who spoke at the seminar, said to me, “Crap, when I go home I’m going to have to change a bunch of things in my marketing funnels, this stuff is just incredible.” He hadn’t seen it before either.

How’s that for an endorsement?

Oh, by the way, this baby won’t set you back $4,000. This is *nowhere near* that expensive. But even if it did, it just might be worth it.

(Why?) Because your list is like a huge printing press that turns out dollar bills. The ink is on the rollers and all it needs is the right paper.

Well, my friend… here’s the paper.Let’s start printing. Click here to find out how… http://www.perrymarshall.com/invisible-streams/

To Your Success,

Perry Marshall

Perry is author of over 20 different products but is best known for his world renowned ebook -The Definitive Guide To Google Adwords. If you would like to check out All of Perrys Products Click Here

One of the most powerful questions I ever asked myself was: “What would happen if you thoroughly applied the 80/20 rule to the care and feeding of your email list?” Most people don’t do this AT ALL.

Here’s the breakdown:

-80% either don’t email their customers, or they don’t have an email list at all

-20% do have one and they do treat all their customers the same

-20% of the 20% (4%) have more than one email list, i.e. one for prospects and one for customers -20% of the 20% of the 20% (0.8% of all marketers) have several email lists and talk to each audience differently

-Only the top 20% of the top 0.8% (0.2%!) properly segment their lists and talk with their customers in exact proportion to their interest, with Autoresponders doing the work for them automatically.

When you have a maze in place that does this, WATCH OUT. When you know how to squeeze every drop of juice out of the email orange, you have the highest trust factor in your market.

I teamed up with Drew Bischof and Rod Brant and created a simple, low-cost, entry-level course for Autoresponder Mastery and it’s called Invisible Streams. It shows you in a very simple, straightforward, step-by-step manner how to segment your list and get maximum value from your customers.

I absolutely believe this is some of the most important material any marketer can have in their hands and for the first time I have assembled this into a course that anyone can afford to purchase and implement.

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