List Building Strategies

by the Blog Tyrant 83 comments

6 Little-Known Factors That Are Reducing Your Email Opt-ins

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The whole point of big traffic is to grow a massively engaged email list.

It’s those email subscribers that allow you to build a sustainable blogging income that lasts for many years.

You need them badly.

But there are so many subtle forces at play on your blog. Things that affect how many people sign up to your [...]

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by Faissal Alhaithami 51 comments

How to Build Your Email List Using Facebook Landing Tab

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Not the kind of facebook we are talking about…

When you create your Facebook Page, you should probably have some sort of goal in mind aside from attracting fans.

While large brands are not as focused on turning Facebook fans into direct leads or sales, smaller businesses should be definitely be focused more on lead conversion [...]

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by Leo Dimilo 39 comments

How to Build Your List the Way No One Else Does It

Sometimes being different can work in your favor..

Most bloggers (and marketers with blogs) who use list building as a way to interact with their audience use the same approach.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before:

Create an opt-in form;
Give away a bonus (like a free e-book to show how crazy cool and knowledgeable you are);
Place [...]

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by Ana Hoffman 65 comments

How My Optin Email Marketing List Got Cut Down in Half in One Day

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Cleaning at any cost…

I know, I was shocked myself.

Here’s the scoop: I usually do regular cleaning of my Aweber optin email marketing list.

About once a month I would say.

I currently have 4 lists and each one of them has people who at some point unsubscribed or entered wrong email addresses, usually hoping that I [...]

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by Pat Flynn 27 comments

Think Outside the Blog: External Ways to Explode Your List

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I told Pat not to tell you…

In every aspect of successful blogging, there are two sides to the coin: the stuff you do on your blog, and the stuff you do outside of your blog.

For example, with search engine optimization, you have on-page SEO (keyword optimization, metadata, internal linking structures, etc.), [...]

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by Ana Hoffman 30 comments

List Building: When I Want Your Opinion, I’ll Ask for It… Asking Now

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This is one of those times…

Sooo… List Building.

No, I am not going to talk about it today. It’s not the time yet.

As a matter of fact, next week won’t be list building week either.

You know why?

Because I am lining up some great bloggers who ‘ve been there, ‘ve done that, and they [...]

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by Ana Hoffman 42 comments

Why All Your Make Money Blogging Efforts Will Fail Without This

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Yes, blogging is a business for most of us.

However, only a few will succeed. In making money blogging that is.

I truly believe that there is one cornerstone principle that will make or break your aspiration of becoming a professional blogger.

Some of you are making the effort to do it, but don’t really know [...]

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