All Online Marketers Need to Build a Double Opt-in E-mail List

Building a double opt-in e-mail list should be the number one goal of all online marketers.

To the right side of my blog you can see my sign up page and if you join I will give you a free e-book about online marketing. At the start of all the programs I own I get people to join an e-mail list so I can update them, help them, and recommend things to them.

No matter what business you are trying to build get your prospects onto your list first! People are always changing businesses and not all businesses will appeal to all people. So before someone joins you in a business or buys you may have to show them more then one business.

Having your list is a good way to build trust with people if you give them help all the time. I like to ask people on my list if they need help with their online marketing because that is the demographic I target. I always try to offer help before recommending a program.

Multiple sales can only happen if the customer or prospect is already in your list. I make about 2/3rds of my online money from repeat customers!

The power is in the list IF you have it filled with targeted prospects/customers AND you only recommend related businesses or products. I like to say don't expect a list full of cat lovers to buy dog products!

To build your list you will need a good auto responder. This will cost you some money every month so you need to be ready to pay this for as long as you will be marketing.

I use three different auto responders:

NPN is my favorite auto responder because it's the cheapest at $10.75 per month and you get most of the tools an online marketer needs like ad tracking and splash/capture page creator. NPN also has a great business that's making me over $100 per month on a regular basis.

TrafficWave I have been using because it's integrated into a business I have joined to help with pre-made e-mail messages. It's $17.95 per month but has less tools then NPN. My TrafficWave business has been slowly building and I now make about $40 per month.

Aweber is just an auto responder but it is the best one out there! They have recently improved their service with new capture boxes like the one on the right side of my blog. It is the most expensive at $19 per month and increases according to the size of you list but worth it for the quality. I don't really advertise Aweber because they only pay to the first level of referrals but if you want the quality join!

If you want more help with auto responders and list building feel free to e-mail me at ian@tailgatemoney.com.

Have a great day,
Ian Hopfe

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I keep posting about building your list because it is so important!

Bigger list means long term repeat sales form you affiliate or mlm marketing afforts. You spend so much time trying to get people to your website and what if the don't buy? Or worse what if they buy one time and love what you have to offer but forget about your site so they can't buy again?

Everyone wants to make money online but they have failed over and over. They have spent money advertising a million different products but they don't make any money! I got that same feeling....I JUST WANT TO MAKE MONEY!

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If you join under me through any links on my blog I will help you personaly! Just e-mail me at ian@tailgatemoney.com and I will help!

Happy Marketing!
-Ian

The Demoralized Marketer

I'm going crazy and broke!!!!!!!

I have the skills and I know what to do BUT no one is buying anything I market!

Do you feel like this also?

List building is the bottom line and should be your main goal with any online marketing business.

Get your Aweber account now if you don't have one! Double op-in autorespnder is the backbone of your business no matter what you sell/market. You must build a large list of targeted members or buyers. Building your list will take time...months or more! After you have a large list you could make hundreds of sales in one day from sending one e-mail.

Join PayDotCom.com and ClickBank.com and start marketing products from you market area to you list as it grows. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make extra income without haveing to build your own products.

How do you get people to signup for your list?

Give something away that is directly related to your market area. If you market health drinks give away a healthy eating e-book. Don't give away a car repair manual expecting this group of people will buy a health drink from you next week.

How do I get Traffic to your list capture website?

This is the hard part!

Targetted Traffic = targetted signups = more sales = more money!

1) Get a domain name for your website with keywords for your market in it. If you're marketing to the health drink industy make sure your domain name has health and drink in it. Better for the search engine ratings.

2) You need to fill your website with original content so it will rate higher in the search engines.

3) Make sure you are giving free usefull information and ask people to join your e-mail list for more free info. Try giving away something if they join the list.

4) Join a few social networking sites with a new account if you can. Facebook, Twitter, and maybe MySpace. Be active and talk to poeple every day on these networks. Start a Facebook group for your market and encourage people to visit your site. As your group builds you will be building a second list of targetted members.

5) Start writing 500 word articles about your product or market. Send them to your lists telling people they can repost it if they don't change it and keep the contact/link info. Start your own blog and post your articles there as well as on your own site to build original content. After you have a few article wiritten submit them to an article website. This will cost you money!

6) Search for free forums in your market and join them, at least a few. Don't just spam them with links to your website interact with the groups and just leave your link in your signature file so it is on all your posts people will click the link especialy if you have been around for a long time.

7) Google AdWords - This will cost you a lot of money! If you are not carefull and choose keywords just right you could spend a LOT of money in a short time. If you start making money then think about using AdWords.

8) There is one more major NEW way to get traffic to your site but I will not tell you about that unless you join my e-mail list! After joining and confirming your e-mail just forward the first e-mail of my autorespnder to ian@tailgatemoney.com and I will tell you the secret NEW traffic generation system that most big marketers are keeping for themselves!

In my Trash bin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Traffic Exchanges suck unless you are marketing to people wanting to make BIG FAST money online for free. This is only good to rise your site counter number if you are not in the make money market....and even then its not so good.

-Don't use or pay for safelists. They suck! The e-mails they send out are to other people trying to market their own products...why would they buy from you if you ignore the e-mails also?

If you are building a list for people who want to make money online use a list builder were you can export your list members to your AWeber list. This is also a great money making opportunity while building your list of targetted BUYERS. Lots of good stuff with this program for newbies also!

Happy Marketing!
-Ian

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What if you also knew that 100% of those email addresses on your HUGE list were guaranteed to be valid working email addresses and not some s.p.a.m list?

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If you follow the simple instructions on the website that 100,000 will end up looking trivial.

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Happy Marketing,
-Ian

3 Rules to Building Any Online Business

3 Rules to Building Any Online Business

By Ian The Tailgate Marketer Hopfe

This info is good for any online business or program you may be a part of or thinking of joining/starting.

1) If you market something make sure you paid for it first.

People always hate hearing this first rule because they want to make money online for free and that is just not possible you will have to spend some money. How can people take you seriously and trust you if YOU don't even use your own product, service or program. Pay the fees, upgrade your account, and work the system that governs your product, services, or program.

You must build credibility, build trust, and spend money to make money. Most importantly about this is that YOU will know your product, service, or program is real and works because you don't want to find out you have been marketing a scam.

2) Generate as much traffic to your website as you can.

Some of this traffic you can build for free but free traffic is not targeted traffic and you will need a lot more of it to get the same results. Other traffic will cost you a lot of money to generate but it may make you broke in a very short time if it's not quality targeted traffic. Still some traffic will be relatively cheap but take months or longer before it builds. You will need to work on all three types to get the right formula needed to sell your product, service, or program. The main ways of generating traffic are:

Search Engine Paid-per-click (PPC)– This is paying for ads on search engines like Google.

Article Writing and Submitting – These are short 500 word articles written by you about your product, service, program, or anything you want that have info about you and links to your website. You will submit these to article databases, other websites, and e-zines so they have free content.

Traffic Exchanges (TE , Paid to click PTC, Paid to read PTR)– These are free websites were you get paid a few cents to visit other peoples website. Traffic Exchanges attract a lot of people trying get free info and make free money. You will pay to have other people visit your site at up to ten of these websites.

Viral Marketing – This is when you write an original e-book and you have links in the e-book directing people back to your website. Normally, this would be a free giveaway to get people to join your e-mail list.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – This is more technical and it entails having plenty of relevant content on your website not just links to other website (you programs), HTML Meta tags on your webpages that have proper keywords and descriptions, webpages that have proper HTML titles, a lot of traffic, AND links from important/high rated websites to your website.

Forum Posting – Now this isn't just posting random links to your products this is quality participation in the forum. Find a free forum dedicated to the topic of your marketing program and participate on a long term basis. As you help people for free giving advice and making friends you make sure you have a link to your marketing website in your signature file. Every time you make a post you gain trust and people will start clicking your links.

3) Teach the people who buy or join your product, service, or program...AKA List Building and Follow ups.

These people trusted you enough to spend money on you so the least you can do is respect them for that. If you have a program were you recruit people under you in a downline then teach them about the business AND teach them these 3 rules! If the person only bought a product or service off of you follow up with them to make sure they are happy. In both cases make sure they are on your personal marketing list! Building your double-opt-in list is the backbone of building long term continual one time sales and residual income online. If you can you should be driving people to your list before you even try to sell them anything. So if they don't like your product, service, or program then you can still send them e-mails in the future about new things you are trying to market.

You will need to setup an e-mail autoresponder where they signup to your list, their e-mail is verified, you may send them something for free (maybe an e-book), then they get directed to a page of your choice. Send them to your marketing website and if they buy something off of you have them redirected to another one of your marketing websites with a higher priced product, service, or program. Setup your autoresponder to send them a new e-mail every few days giving them free info and links to more of your products, services, or programs.

You can even give them side deals like you will pay them $5 to join a program were you will make $20 of what they buy. When your list is hundreds or thousands of people long you could send out one e-mail to sell a product and make hundreds of dollars in a few minutes! Don't over use your list 1 or 2 e-mails a week is a lot, you don't want people to opt-out because you're e-mailing them 10 times a day. When your list gets large you could start selling ad space on your weekly e-mail to make even more extra money.

To help attract people to your list you should market your product but you can also give something away in your first e-mail to them after joining your list. Write an article or e-book about your product or service and excite them about getting free stuff!

If you don't have anything of your own to give away right now I give you permission to giveaway, reprint, or e-mail this article as long as you give credit where credit is do and do not alter it in any way. It is my belief that the honest person will always win in the end so I'm trusting you to do the right thing. Help me, help you become rich!

If you would like to continue receiving marketing info from Ian “The Tailgate Marketer” Hopfe go to http://www.tailgatemoney.com/free and join his list to get his FREE Online Business & Marketing E-book!

Happy Marketing!
-Ian