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    What Works Best Now In List-Building?
    Copyright 2004, Willie Crawford

    We all know the saying, "The Money's In The List."  We
    can appreciate the truth of that saying.  If you're in business
    on-line, to make sales you must  drive targeted traffic to your
    websites. More importantly, you must drive REPEAT traffic
    to your websites. A list is a great way to do this.
    
    Conducting an on-line business is all about building
    relationships and developing long-term customers. People
    buy from people that they know, like and trust. Repeat
    contact with your subscribers through your lists allows 
    them time to get to know, like and trust you. Having them
    visit your website repeatedly, allows them to get to know
    like and trust you.  Your list and your website should work
    synergistically but you DO need to build that list.
    
    The fact is, that list-building, like all other business
    strategies evolves over time. What worked just a few years
    ago, perhaps only MONTHS ago, may no longer work. So if
    you're using outdated techniques, you may be "swimming
    against the current" and not even know it.
    
    If you're an Internet marketer, and you offer free ebooks
    as a list building incentive, you may have missed some
    signals.  Ebooks often aren't 1/10th as effective as they use
    to be at getting people to join your list.
    
    Internet marketers caused the ebook to be less effective as
    an incentive for list building. How?  We taught "everybody and
    his brother," that giving away an ebook was the perfect way
    to incentivize potential subscribers.  So everybody decided
    to create an ebook just for this purpose. They also often
    hoped that the ebook would go viral, get passed around, and
    generate lots of website traffic.
    
    The real problem started when many people apparently stopped
    caring about the quality of information in those ebooks they were
    giving away. They started compiling collections of completely
    out-dated, rehashed, inaccurate JUNK.   Some of the people
    putting these ebooks together probably didn't even realize just
    how bad their products were. They also probably didn't realize
    that the advice they passed along in these ebooks actually
    SEVERELY damaged the businesses of those who followed
    their terrible advice.
    
    The market of potential subscribers soon caught on though.
    After downloading dozens of completely worthless ebooks,
    potential subscribers soon began to think that most free
    ebooks would probably be like that!  They simply concluded
    that their time was too valuable to waste sifting through all
    of the clutter for a few gems. Those who haven't yet figured
    this out, can't be achieving any real business success yet.
    They are wasting too much time reading too many ebooks
    that can't teach them anything useful.
    
    So what's the solution to this dilemma?  What do you offer
    potential subscribers to get them to join your list?  Give
    them something with a much higher perceived value than
    an ebook. Give them useful software.  You can get the
    master resale rights to some excellent software very
    inexpensively. Use that as your new, much more enticing
    incentive.
    
    One objection you may have against giving away
    software instead of ebooks  is that you could also often
    build backend sales into the free ebooks.  You branded them
    with your affiliate links prior to giving them away.
    
    You can do that with many pieces of software too. In fact,
    I'll GIVE you a free piece of software that you can brand
    and use to build 20 income stream at once. The software allows
    your subscribers to build a no-cost, content-rich,
    search engine-friendly, 75-page website automatically. They
    will love the software, use it, and pass it around. Offer this
    as a signup bonus!
    
    There are two secrets behind the software above that makes it
    pull double duty for you.  The first secret is that if those
    downloading the software aren't affiliates for the programs
    in the software, they can sign up and become YOUR
    sub-affiliates. They brand the software, and in the process
    start earning you a stream of second-tier commissions.
    
    If for some unimaginable reason, they choose
    not to become affiliates for a given product, your
    affiliate link stays in that part of the software. So, in that
    case, they are earning you first-tier commissions by
    passing along a great piece of software as a list-building
    incentive.
    
    Grab and brand a complimentary copy of this software from:
    http://www.pluginprofitsite.com/main-621/mega.html
    I know you'll love it and so will the stream of new subscribers
    you generate.
    
    There are many other great pieces of software that you
    can use as incentives.  I offer a ton to members of my
    private membership site at: http://TheRealSecrets.com/private/
    
    
    You can also get an inexpensive programmer, located
    through a site such as Elance.com, to create a custom piece
    of software if desired.  Create it, brand-it, and then send it
    viral. A good piece of software has the potential to generate
    100 times more subscribers than any ebook did.  There's
    simply more incentive to continue passing the software on.
    
    So, there you have the latest in what's actually working to
    build a responsive mailing list.  My personal lists number in
    the hundreds of thousands. YES, you read that right, hundreds
    of thousands.  These are list built for varying purposes, and
    using different tools. The most powerful tool that I've used
    lately is the very one I just revealed to you.  All you need
    to do is start using it too. 
    

    Willie Crawford has been teaching others how to build successful on-line businesses since late 1996. Frequently featured in radio, magazine and newspaper articles and interviews, Willie shares exclusive teleseminar recordings, brainstorming sessions, and useful ebooks and software at his exclusive membership site. Grab these resources now at: http://TheRealSecrets.com/private/




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