How To Build A List – How to Build A Buyers List

So you know how to write… Now, how do you make money with it?

A lot of people find themselves in the same boat, they know how to write, they can write easily, but they don’t know how to make money with all that.

After all, writing is important, but if the main ingredients: marketing is missing, you won’t make any money with your writing.

So what can you do if you don’t know much any marketing, but you want to write and you want to make money?

1. Freelancing.

Freelancing, i.e. trading your time/skill for money is the easiest and fastest way to turn your skill of writing into money. But how shold you do it, where should you do it, and how long should you do it. Those are the questions you should be asking of yourself.

After all, your ultimate purpose should be to get off the time for money treadmill, and onto the leveraged ways to make money through skillful marketing.

You want to learn as you earn, so you want to take jobs that allow you to glean ideas and methodologies from successful marketers.

How do you do that? One way to do that is to offer free samples of your writing to marketers that you respect, and consider yourself an apprentice, so charge accordingly.

Other ways are to sign up with the many “lancer” websites, including odesk.com, scriptlance.com, guru.com and and bid on jobs.

Your chances to learn anything useful are dim, unless you are lucky, and the competition is fierce.

2. Article Marketing combined with Affiliate Marketing

There is article marketing and then there is Article Marketing.

I have learned a lot about it, and there is only one method I believe is a good return on the time invested.

Four parts to the method:

a. Have a “template” that makes writing the articles fast
b. Do your search engine optimization taking advantage of the new search engine capabilities that are able to recognize related terms.
c. Distribute and promote your articles by linking to them from many sites.
d. Have a method in setting up your resource box that makes clicking on your links irresistible.

3. Write short 7-20 page reports and start building a buyers list. Sell them more on the back end.

A well researched, well written report that gives people a useful but incomplete picture of your topic is the best entry point for a future customer.

If the information they buy at a low price is useful, they will be interested in filling the gaps and buying the complete information.

These three methods are the fastest way to making money with your writing.

In subsequent blog posts I will write in detail about each of them. Want to be notified when the posts come out?

Please comment below and you’ll be notified so you can start making money with your invaluable skill.

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I have been blogging for a while, but whenever I didn’t promote directly my blog, the blog traffic died.

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Result? I have people coming to my blog, reading my posts, commenting, and signing up to my list.

Then I can market to them. These people are higher quality than my other prospects, and they eventually spend money with me.

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Article Writing: Most people have a hard time writing… even more have a problem writing well.

One of my mentors just posted an article on his blog on how to get from a blank screen to something to a ready article, and instead of posting this as a comment, I decided to make it an article on its own right…

He says that all article writing is rewriting, which many of us know.

He says: dictate your article, if you must and then have it transcribed… and then edit it.

He says: have someone read it out loud so you can catch what needs editing.

He says: read the last paragraph first and then the second to last, etc… and you’ll detect structural errors in your text that way…

It is all designed to create distance between yourself and your writing.

I am dyslexic, and I use a free software, FreeNaturalReader to read my writing back to me.

I set it to 1.5x speed, sometimes even 1.8x to make it read faster, so I can hear, instead of individual words, whole sentences and the relationships between them.

The other reason is that when you wrote something, you seem to know what’s there, and you read what is supposed to be there, instead of what is.

One of my friends makes that mistake in everything he writes.

Just like 99% of the room in a Landmark seminar when the leader instructs us all to close our eyes, writes something on the chalk-board and then asks one participant, randomly picked, to read what is on the board.

The person reads: Paris in the spring… the room murmurs in agreement. The leader asks the person to move closer to the board, read again, and move closer and read again and again, until he asks him to touch every word on the board. That’s when the person and everyone in the room notices the second the… Paris in the the spring… We were all blind to it, because it didn’t make sense… and neither does your writing, for the most part… lol

Having a machine/software read it is a great wake-up call…

How To Build A Responsive List From Scratch?

Here are your 7 point… it is not a mix and match: all 7 need to be present to make your list responsive.

1. Know exactly who is your prospect. Build by attraction not by promotion.

If you want to build a responsive list, a list that knows who you are, knows what you have to offer, respects you and listens to you, you better start the relationship that way from the get-go.

But how do you do that. That is the topic of this article. So keep reading.

2. Have a consistent publishing schedule. I say publishing, because if you want your list to be responsive, you need to do more than just send an email here and email there, no rhyme and rhythm… Promoting other people’s products, etc.

That way of randomness will put you in the same category as the spammers, and that is not good for relationship: your emails won’t be opened, or if opened, they won’t be read.

3. Consider that you are competing for mindshare with about 100-150 other emails in a person’s inbox, and if you don’t have a relationship with the recipient, or if you don’t have a reputation and track record with them that you provide value, they will not open your email… you’ll be last in their mindshare priority order.

4. If you have a regular mailing schedule, you decide how often and what mix of offers and teaching you’ll have, your crowd will made space for it… if they really like what you are doing.

One way to cause this is to take them off email and send them to a particularly valuable blog-post you have… something that they would normally consider something they should pay for, an advice that is priceless.

That leads us to point 5 in building a responsive list:

5. Create a must have resource, both when they sign up, and later.

Now, if you noticed, this is the point where “the boys and the men” are separated. A must have resource cannot really be something that they can get from another marketer: this resource has to be unique, and has to be so valuable, that it’s shocking for the recipient that you give it away for free.

If you succeed in creating such a resource, expect it to go…

6. Create something that people want to share… i.e. it’s viral.

Experiment. Know your crowd. Ask them what they want to know or have. Eventually you’ll be able to come up with something that people do want to share… i.e. email to their friends, tweet about, and then your valuable resource, carrying your message, will start to have a life of its own.

7. Last, but the foundation of everything above: Your focus needs to go from “I am building a list for me, for my purposes, for me to make money with” to helping people.

Unless you manage to pull away your focus from what’s in it for you, to what’s in it for them… you’ll never be able to build a responsive list. Your crooked focus will come out in your wording, in your message, in your timing, in everything.

But I am sure, had I put this first… you would have said… of course, and do nothing. And you would not build a responsive list.

In my 2-day intensives I’ll teach you how to build a list in 2 days, how to build a 5K strong Facebook fanpage, and much much more.

There are plenty of fine, relatively new products coming to the marketplace every week. A few of these are very promising, worth another look. Some of these have distinguished themselves amongst their users, are now being spoken well of on the forums , and they are growing rapidly in user acceptance. Among those that are looking good inside the product category of Traffic Generation, is one called Unreal Web Traffic: Get A Million Free Visitors To Your Site.

The developer for this useful system is Richard Pickett. The interesting thing about Richard is that during the earthquake in Haiti he left his business for 6 months to be part of the rescue team and to adopt three Haitian orphans.

He was sure that he would have to rebuild his business from scratch, but instead his business doubled while he didn’t even have a computer to attend to it.

This system, the Million Free Visitors to your site was a part of the secret that his online business didn’t tank while he was away.

“Unreal web traffic: get a million free visitors to your site” is a kind of chain letter and pyramid scheme combination. The basis of it is that you sign up and indicate what url you want the traffic to go.

Then you are instructed to visit 6 websites, hang out there for about 20 seconds, and then you are done.

Now, I looked at those sites, and maybe because the trash hasn’t caught up to this system yet, they were all good sites, and I actually read what was there… except one, where the video didn’t work.

Once I completed the requirements for membership, I got a promotion link: after all the traffic comes from people who you invite, and in turn some signs up, and then they invite their friends/subscribers, twitter followers, facebook friends, etc. The more people you get to invite the more chances you have for the million visitors.

You may get lucky, and you only know one person, but that person knows a lot of other people, and you get a lot of visitors… but it all begins with you being willing to promote that special link you get.

Now, please be clear, if you are stingy, then don’t sign up. You need to be willing to cause success to get success.

I have heard that what you want most is what you need to give away most. You want books? Give away books. You want money? Give away money. You want traffic? Give away traffic.

It is both selfish and unselfish, calculating and trusting. But it definitely activates something in the Universe on your behalf.

This system is opportunity to earn something with a one-time investment of mailing/tweeting to your “crowd”. Of course, if you repeat this step, you’ll increase the likelihood of good response, no doubt..

Three features of unreal web traffic: get a million free visitors to your site

1. The script is easy, it is automatic., 2. You can’t cheat. The script checks that you, in fact, visited those sites. and 3. At this stage, the sites to visit are classy.

Let’s not be too optimistic though, eventually the “traffic exchange” crowd with their bag of tricks could take over this site… but those that enter now have a distinct advantage of the early adapters.

The visitors of your site will come from people who are interested in getting traffic to their sites. So if what you are selling appeals to this crowd, you may actually get something out of your traffic, not just extra bandwidth charges from your isp.

The biggest problem with unreal web traffic: get a million free visitors to your site is the fact that most people will dutifully visit your site, but won’t even look at your offer. Most likely the principal disadvantage of the unreal web traffic: get a million free visitors to your site is the speed at which the black hatters will dominate the system… unless Richard watches out.

I think I have signed up at the right time… and I probably will get a few subscribers out of this deal, a few new readers to my blog… and I will be happy with that..

All-in-all, unreal web traffic: get a million free visitors to your site is worth your while: you could give it an honest try and potentially gain more than your “fair share.”

After all, in comparison, if you sent out an email for another marketer, like in an ad-swap deal, you may get 20 bottom feeder, freebie seeker subscribers that will complain that you send out training emails, or want to sell something.

Instead: you could send out a promotion or two to this offer, and potentially build a huge list… which is a better deal?

It is really worth your time to take a closer look at it, maybe try it out. You’ll find full details at http://www.x8x9.com/million

Get a free visitors to your site and  to your squeeze page and build a subscriber list that will buy, and buy and buy.