| when you come and visit my blog, you will notice there is a pop-up screen always appear, and it says subscribe to get a free keyword software. I do it on purpose and this is part of the test on how well this little wordpress plug-in converts you guys to be my subscriber.  So far I don’t have an answer but the purpose of this article is to show you how to build a mailing list by giving away free useful stuffs. |
The key here is useful. If you do it on some crap things but with good headlines, people may still subscribe your list but later on they most likely will unsubscribe it because they are “crap” things, or just junk little software. So what’s the secret about it.
Well, at first you have to know your target audience. For example this blog is about “ways to make money online“
right? The first step to start making money is to find your profitable and comfortable niche, ok. So how do you do this?
One way to find a niche as I pointed early on “Does your niche work” is by conducting a keyword research. Therefore I found a keyword research software somewhere that allows me to give it away and yet have some basic functions of a keyword research tool should behave. ie. gather a list of profitable keywords, find how many competitions there are on
Google, Yahoo and MSN, and let one exporting the data to excel using a so called csv format file.
you can grab the free software here.
But before I started to give it away, there are some important steps that you should take note from:
- Prepare an opt-in page to capture your visitors’ email address,
- set up an autoresponder,
- and prepared a video to show how to use this software recorded in your own voice. (important if you are giving away software)
Every step is important and you miss one of those, you may not have a good result that it should, all right?
Now I am telling something I did wrong 6 months ago. At that time, I had a free give away report on showing how a single person makes $9000 in 3 months for adsense that had absolutely no experience in the past. At that time, I did not set up an autoresponder, nor had an opt-in page, I basically put an ad on a high traffic forum where most audiences want to make some money. The ad did run great, I had about 40 people to ask me to send them the report via email just about 1 day or 2. The things I did was just asking the forums mates to private message me their email address so that I could send them the report. You may say there was nothing wrong but it was time consuming since I had to always check my email and send them report one by one (sometimes bcc or cc) to their email addresses! That time I was just started on internet marketing and didn’t want to buy any autoresponder services and it took me another day to finish sending the report! where I could post more ads on other forums and I can get more subscribers and later I might sell them stuffs that may have interested in!!
So to set up an autoresponder and have the software, report or gifts downloaded to your subscriber inbox it’s important.
But before you set up an auto responder you should have some kind of sales letter like opt-in page about some benefits and feature about this gifts and most importantly the opt-in form. Make sure you change the color of the background of your leads capture form that way your subscriber will know what to do.
I will share more of the secrets when you subscribe to my monthly give away mailing list, the URL or website address is:
http://www.monthlyGiveAway.ws/keyword-buzz.html#signup or simply fill in your name and email address in the pop-up screen above.
Have a good day and see you next time.
