Thursday, May 29, 2008

Lucrative List Building - Revealed - 6 Turbo Secrets to Jumpstart Your List Building

A targeted e-mail list is one of the best tool that any ebusiness owner must have to establish personal relationship with his customer base and increase his sales potential. The number of email addresses on this list determines the chances of making a sale that is why, the bigger your email database, the better.

Here are the 6 turbo secrets to jumpstart your list building:

1. Make it easier for your visitors to opt in. Uncomplicate the process of signing up by making it hassle-free as much as possible. You can either ask for your visitors email address or present them with a pop-up box that they just need to click if they decide to opt-in.

2. Make it more appealing. Instead of presenting your visitors with plain text about your offerings, use audio streaming and directly tell them why they should not pass on signing up on your email database.

3. Keep the information confidential. Assure your visitors that their information will not be sold nor shared to third party or other companies without their expressed permission.

4. Offer unsubscribing option. Tell your visitors upfront that they can opt-out any time without questions asked! Sometimes, online users are very wary about giving out contact information thinking that they will not be able to get out of the agreement quickly. Break that notion to gain their trust and confidence.

5. Offer freebies and discounts. Online users just love free stuff and some of them will go out of their way to take advantage of it. That is why giving freebies is one of the most effective ways to entice your visitors to leave their email addresses.

6. Give them a reason to subscribe. Aside from freebies, you can also convince your visitors to opt-in by giving them sneak peak of what kind of information they are going to receive once they subscribe. Send them your best newsletter or eBook to showcase your expertise and what you can offer them to either solve their pressing issues or improve the quality of their lives.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.