DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG — Super Charged List Building

Your email list is full of people who want to hear from you regarding solving their problems, but your email list is also a great source of information for you too. You can use your direct line to your audience to ask questions, get tips, and come up with topic ideas. In fact, you can use your email list to get unlimited ideas from your subscribers. All you must do is ask. Survey Them  Create a survey using software such as Survay.io (http://survay.io/fe/) or other survey software. Send it to your email list. Use the answers to your questions to...

While creating your own product should certainly be a goal for you, you can make plenty of money as an affiliate recommending quality products to your email list. That way you can focus on creating new products just a few times a year, while you focus on finding products that have already been created the rest of the time. The trick is finding quality products and services to promote. Get to Know the Creator  When you decide to be an affiliate for someone it should come after some thought and consideration. Is the creator an honest, high-quality person? Do you...

Part of building your list is also maintaining your list. If you don’t want people to unsubscribe, or forget about you, then you need to stop worrying about making offers. When they signed up for your email list they knew that you would make offers, provide content about your topic, and mail them information. They are expecting it. If you don’t do it out of fear then you’re making a huge mistake. To lessen the fear, follow these rules of thumb. Create Amazing Content The content you send your subscribers should be just as high quality as the content you...

Growing your list takes several different methods. One method that works well is to run ads marketing your freebie on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and others. How much this will cost is very dependent on how well your ad is targeted as well as understanding what the goal is for your advertisement. There is a way to reduce the cost of your ad spend to zero while trying to build your list with freebies and ads. Use Your Thank You Page The process is simple. Simply use the Thank You Page to offer a paid product to those...

You know that affiliates are great for promoting products, but did you know that affiliates are also happy to promote your email list too? The trick is to offer a good paid upsell with a high commission level so that they can get backend commissions if people convert over the free offer? You can even do this for 100 percent pay out and still get very low cost targeted subscribers through your affiliates’ audiences. Definition of Upselling Upselling means that you encourage your audience to upgrade to a more expensive version of the initial product or service. The initial product...