Most people working online realize that to successfully market and sell products you need a list of customers. These customers are usually people you have built a relationship with over time, people who have learned to trust you and who you can feel free to contact again on a regular basis.
The biggest problem on how to build a mailing list from scratch is that it takes time to build. Added to this is the difficulty in knowing where to start. You can obtain all the advice on getting started easily enough, but how to successfully put it all in to practice? How to build a mailing list easily? Not an easy task for complete newbie list-builders, for example.
You can purchase ready-made lists, but because you don’t know anyone on these lists personally you could be accused of spamming when you eventually make contact. The other thing is: how many others have access to these lists and won’t the people on the lists be fed up being inundated with all the opportunities being offered?
In my search to getting started with building a mailing list – or downline building – I wanted to be sure that I could build a mailing list quickly and that I would be dealing with double-optin customers. (A double optin email list works this way: a subscriber signs up, then receives a confirmation email which he/she must respond to in order to be added to the list). Also, I wanted the best possible scenario to building a relationship with my customers.
In my search also, I was looking for a quality freebie I could give away as an enticement on a squeeze page I would be using to attract people to my list.
In my research I had a good look at various strategies currently being used in downline building. Co-registration, for example, is a lesser known method of list building where you can post a newsletter or an ad on a website that offers various other publications. In this system you pay for everyone who clicks on your ad and completes their information, with the information being sent to you as a lead.
It’s possible with co-registration to quickly build up your list in just a few days. Of course with these leads you don’t really know them, so you need to build trust and contact them with a few messages along friendship lines without trying to sell them anything. After you have sent them a few messages, you can try a soft-sell approach by writing a review for your affiliate product or for whatever you are selling.
Paid co-registration can be very effective, but should be avoided by beginner marketers because of the large, needed upfront investment. Best to stick with free co-registration, it seems.
Free co-registration can involve members embedding a piece of code into their website. This code shows up as a form showing several publisher newsletters with their subscriber links. Marketers can leverage their existing lists to gain credits that are converted into targeted traffic.
Joint ventures can result in almost instant huge sign-ups. Here, you have an agreement between a publisher and JV partner where the JV partner agrees to promote the publisher’s product in exchange for a commission. It is not uncommon for marketers to gain thousands of subscribers in a joint venture arrangement.
Joint Ventures are a great way to get something for free. You could, for example, contact an ezine publisher and offer him a free copy of your product if he’ll promote your product with his subscribers. The important thing is to offer something of value to both your JV partner and his subscribers.
I am happy to say that I have found the ideal partner to help me start building my list quickly with double-optin customers, and who, at the same time, gives me a high quality freebie with complete rebranding rights that I can give away to help me sign up people on my list. Co-registration is also an added feature of this business.
The emphasis with the methods used by this company is on building your list quickly, while at the same time building relationships with your subscribers.
Because of my partner set-up, I can email people in my personal matrix and I have the opportunity to send ads to people outside my downline via a special random system. This is what I call first class downline building.
I could have just joined this partner as a free member for great benefits, but I opted to join at the discounted upgrade level so I would have the ability for greater mailing frequency to the different 1000 or so members I will have access to from one week to the next. This is only one of several advantages for upgraded members.
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here is one way to start making money online. It's obviously not the only way. And you can modify it to suit your specific talents and experiences. I wrote it for my friend who is very comfortable online, but who has never used the internet to generate income.
Here's the JoeMack plan:
1. Go to www.clickbank.com and look up products that you have some interest, passion or experience in. Ideally you want to focus on a niche that fulfills all three of those requirements.
2. Pick three affiliate products to promote in the same niche (and sign up as a Clickbank member if you haven't already - it's free). So if you want to focus on the golf niche, choose the three best golf related affiliate products. I usually visit all the salespage and see which ones affects me the most.
3. Register a domain name in your chosen niche. There are plenty of domain name registrars to choose from. EDIT: www.GoDaddy.com and www.register.com are two bigger companies.
I now recommend and use www.namecheap.com. They are incredibly easy to use and I really like their user admin screen. END OF EDIT
It's going to cost you about 9 bucks ($8.88), but you have it registered for the entire next 12 months. Also, remember to use your niche in your domain name. So in our example, we will register www.golfmastery.com.
4. Find a company to host your domain name. There are lots of different options. Being that this site is support by Host4Profit, I suggest considering them. If not them, there are plenty of hosting companies that offer low monthly ($5 per month) and annual ($18 per year) packages. Read all of the introductory emails carefully so that you correctly redirect your nameservers.
5. Download a copy of Nvu at www.nvu.com. It's a free html editor that you will need to create and edit your web pages.
6. Create a squeeze page. The goal of this page is to capture the names and email addresses of your website visitors. There are many templates for sale that you can simply modify to your niche. In your copy, tell the visitor that they can sign up free for your 5 part eCourse.
7. Create your five part eCourse. You can either do this from scratch, hire a ghostwriter from www.rentacoder.com or www.elance.com, or use PLR (private label rights) material to develop your eCourse. Again, this is a niche that you are interested, passionate or have experience in. Can be as simple as 5 ways to do something better in that niche. So for our example, it would be "5 Ways To Add Distance To Your Drives."
8. Using nvu and a template, create your eCourse in html format (a single page for each lesson) and upload it to your website. Include Adsense ads at the top, bottom (and center if the particular lesson is long enough). Also, you will be promoting one affilate product per lesson, rotating thru your chosen 3. (So Lesson 1 promotes Product 1, Lesson 2 promotes Product 2, 3 promotes 3, 4 promotes 1 again, and 5 promotes 2 again). I usually put a statement like: "Third Party Advertisement" followed by a quick marketing blurb about the affiliate product. I include just enough info to get them to click on the affiliate link for more details.
9. Sign up for an autoresponder service. I use and recommend Getresponse, but you should also consider Aweber and EmailAces. I highly recommend that you don't go the free route when getting an autoresponder.
There are two reasons why:
Firstly, because of the rampant use of using free autoresponders for spam activities, many free autoresponders are blacklisted. What this means to you is that your delivery rates will suck. The only free autoresponder that I know of that still has decent delivery rates is Getresponse's free account.
And secondly, when you get do get tired of your horrible delivery rates and want to go to a paid autoresponder, you will have to get all of your current subscribers to double opt in AGAIN to your new list. And as many people who have done it have found out, you will lose a large percentage of your mailing list.
Again, I don't recommend going the free way, but if you are set on doing it anyway, at least do it with Getresponse. Why? Well, because of their higher delivery rates and because when you do decide to upgrade to a paid version with Getresponse, you won't have to your subscribers double opt in again, so you won't lose any subscribers needlessly.
But remember that just like the free versions of other autoresponders, the free version of GR also places ads in all of your messages. Incidently, the free version allows you to create one list and send up to five follow up messages. This will work with this blueprint.
However, as soon as you can, upgrade to the paid version so that you can create unlimited lists, with unlimited follow ups, and the ability to send broadcasts to your entire list.
10. Set up your autoresponder. You will not be sending the lessons of the ecourse directly to the subscriber by email. Instead, you will write a short teaser email about the lesson that urges the reader to click on the link to view the lesson on your website. We want them to go to the site because of Adsense revenue.
11. Set up your Confirmation in Process page. This is the web page that the visitor gets sent to when they submit their name and email address. Create and upload a web page to your site that says something like, "Thank you for submitting your name and address. Your subscription request is being processed and you will receive a confirmation email in a few minutes. In the meantime, let me tell you about this golf product that I recently found that you may be interested in. It's called "Playing Golf Like a Tour Pro" and you can find out more here..." You will set the destination of this page in your autoresponder set up.
12. Set up your Subscription Confirmed page. This is the web page that your subscribers will be sent to when they click on the confirmation link in the email they received. I wouldn't try to sell them again. Simply thank them for subscribing to your mailing list and give them a brief overview of the eCourse. I also include Adsense ads at the top and bottom. Once the subscriber reads the intro and overview, they have no direction to go in but they have the niche in mind. Having those Adsense ads there works perfectly for me.
13. Go to your autoresponder and get the html code for a subscription box. Insert this html in the appropriate place on your squeeze page.
14. Test out your system. Go to your squeeze page and make sure that it looks ok. Enter your name and email address in the html form. Make sure that your automatic set up is working correctly (meaning that you are being sent to the appropriate pages throughout the process). Make sure all of the pages look good, and that your Adsense ads are showing up. Also, click on ALL of your affiliate links to make sure that they are active and working. It will be a shame to find out two months down the road that you had a typo in an affiliate link and it has been giving your subscribers an error page the whole time.
At this point, you have set up your system and have made sure that everything is working. Now, you are going to start marketing. I know that this is a little more involved then say the Bum Marketing method, but you will be growing your list plus having the opportunity to generate affiliate and Adsense income.
15. Find ten long tail keywords that you think will be effective in article marketing. I use two criteria: having a low amount of optimized results in Google and also having greater than 300 searches per month.
The term "optimized results" is simply the Google results you get when you place the long tail keyword in quotation marks in Google's search engine. The lower the number the better.
But we also want long tail keywords that are being searched for. What use is having optimized results of 200 results when the keyword phrase is only getting searched 10 times per month? That's less than one potential reader per day. And not everyone who reads your article will go on to click on the link in your author resource box. I choose phrases that have at least 300 searches per month.
So in our golf example, here is a possibility:
"super golf swing"
Doing a little research, I discover that it only has 605 optimizied results. Not bad. But hold on a minute. Using my keyword research tool, I see that "super golf swing" (not in quotes) was searched 2,066 times last month on Google.
Do you see why I like this keyword phrase? It has low competition but high search requests.
Repeat this process until you have 10 long tail keywords that you are going to target that you are confident will be responsive.
16. Write up an awesome author resource/bio box. This is an incredibly crucial part of the system that you need to spend some time on. Don't waste the efforts of your article writing by slapping down an ineffective bio box like, "Joe Schmo is an expert in golf. Click here to find out more info on golf--> www.golfmastery.com"
Consider the author resource box like an ultra-small salespage where your one goal is to get that reader to click on your link. You only have a few sentences to hook the reader with curiosity and then give him a powerful reason why he should click on your link.
In our example, I would probably use something similar to the follow:
"Joe Schmo is a golfing expert who recently developed an eCourse that details a step by step process for adding greater distance to your long drives. If you are interested in learning more about his "5 Ways To Add Distance To Your Drives" eCourse and shedding strokes of your game, please go here: http://www.golfmastery.com"
17. Pick your first long tail keyword, and write an article about it. Be sure to include the keyword phrase in the title. Writing articles is a pretty basic action. You start of by saying what the article is about (using your keyword phrase). Then you talk about the importance of the keyword phrase and how to improve on it. And then you end with a paragraph summarizing what you just wrote about.
An easy solution is to create "tips" articles. So in our example, the article would be: "The Super Golf Swing: What Is It And How Can You Develop It."
18. Now open up an account at www.ezinearticles.com and www.goarticles.com and submit your first article to both.
19. Repeat this process with the remaining 9 keyword adense articles. Be sure to submit the article when you complete it, before beginning to write the next article. Try to get all 10 written and submitted in one day.
Why so many so quickly? Like I said before, most newbies tend to get discouraged prematurely because they don't see immediate results. By forcing yourself to write and submit the initial 10 in one shot (over 24 hours), you will see big results all at once.
I can write a decent article in about 20 minutes, but most people (I believe) take a little longer. With practice, you'll get much faster.
20. Take a few days off from that topic. Place your focus something totally different. After writing 10 articles, you're going to want to take a break from it. Do this. You need to get refreshed.
21. After a couple of days, you are going to do research on another group of 10 long tail keywords. Use the exact same criteria as before (ie. low competition, high search requests).
22. Every day, make it a habit of writing and submitting at least one new keyword dense article. Somedays you will do two, or three articles, but always make sure you get at least one done. It should take you no more than an hour a day. Whenever you run out of keywords, develop a new group of 10.
After a month's time you will have at least 40 articles floating about (your 10 initial articles plus the minimum of one a day thereafter). You should be getting a fair amount of traffic to your squeeze page. My squeeze pages convert between 15-40% of website visitors. Yours will probably do the same.
You should start to see the gradual increase in daily Adsense income generated. You will also get a growing number of affiliate product sales as your subscribers go through the series of autoresponder messages you are sending them.
At this point, you should have a consistent and growing source of income. If you keep writing and submitting articles the proper way, you should maintain or further grow your monthly income.
But my recommendation once you have some cash coming in is to get yourself a paid autoresponder service. Again, I can only recommend Getresponse because it's all I have ever used. Once you upgrade your account, you can now have unlimited lists, with unlimited follow ups, and the ability to broadcast.
What does this mean to you?
Well, with the unlimited follow up messages, you can extend your series of follow ups from 5 to 10 or 25 or 52 or 300. The more times you can follow up, the more you will make in the long term.
And with the unlimited lists you can repeat this entire step by step plan in a totally new and different niche. What if you were able to get your first stream to generate $1000 per month? Wouldn't you be confident that you could repeat that amount in a different niche?
This plan can work in any niche. Just follow it and you'll do ok.
Oh, and don't forget about the ability to send broadcasts out.
Say someone who has a new golf product wants to do a joint venture with you. He'll split the profits with you 50/50. So then you send out a broadcast to your list recommending this new golf product.
Because you have developed a relationship with your list, you have created a level of trust with them.
So when you recommend a golf product, many of your subscribers will definitely review the offer. And you will get a fair number of sales for virtually no work other then sending out an email to your list.
Well, that's all I got. I hope this plan helps a few people who just need a step by step plan to follow.
I was going to sell this as WSO, but decided against it. The Warrior Forum has been responsible for so much of my IM education and initial success that have decided to give it to the Warriors as a simple thread.
Top 26 Forums that Help you Make Money Online.
I’ve only included forums which have a decent number of members because a large member base means that a greater amount of potential money making knowledge will be available.
Forums that don’t cover monetization and ways to make money are not included in this list because I want to keep it focused on forums that directly relate to either making money online or working from home.
I’ve also categorized the forums according to their specific niche. So pick the one you like and give it a visit. I highly recommend checking out Digital Point (#1), Wicked Fire (#9) , Earners Forum (#6) and ABest Web (#11) if you don’t have time to visit all of the forums on the list.
Webmaster Forums / Website Monetization / SEO / Marketplaces
1. Digital Point
Digital Point is by far my favorite webmaster forum because of its size. There are over 24,000 active members and the forum offers a great deal of information on topics like Search Engine Optimization, Link building, affiliate marketing, pay-per-click advertising, domain investing and blogging.
Digital Point also has a large and free marketplace for the buying and selling of links, templates, domains and websites. If you’ve only got time for one webmaster forum, Digital Point is the forum you should visit.
2. V7N Forum
V7N is a big and lively forum with lots of newbie and experience webmasters. Their SEO forum sees the most action while other forums on graphic design, marketing and web directories are pretty active as well. Recommended if you want to learn more about webmastering.
3. Sitepoint
A large forum on web design, programming and site promotion. The very popular SitePoint Marketplace is a great place to sell or buy websites, services and site templates.
4. WebmasterWorld
An established forum with information on domain names, webmaster technology, search engines, SEO and link development. Sorta like Digital Point but with less members.
5. SEO Chat
SEO Chat is a forum that focuses more on SEO for webmasters. They offer free site reviews as well as a lot of information on Yahoo, Google and MSN search optimization. There’s also a tiny section on Affiliate Marketing, PPC and keywords.
6. Earners Forum
A fast growing Forum on webmaster topics such as monetization, blogging and freelancing. Has a nice monetization section and How-To section which beginners can ask experts specific questions.
7. High Rankings.com
A search engine optimization forum that specializes in only SEO strategies and troubleshooting. Includes tips on keyword research, link building and online copy writing. Good information on PPC advertising, search engine marketing and branding.
8. Self Starters Weekly Tips
A forum about making money from websites and ebusinesses. Includes info on networking, SEO, Online marketing, PPC advertising, blogging and domain names. Lots of helpful forum members here.
Internet and Affiliate Marketing / Pay per Click Advertising / Adsense Arbitrage
9. Wicked Fire
My second favorite forum after Digital Point. Lots of gritty gray-hat and black-hat SEO and affiliate marketing stuff here and there’s really a lot of learn. Wicked Fire offers a lot of good information on adsense arbitrage and affiliate marketing/ traffic building.
The community is very active and it might be a little intimidating for complete newbies but do a search before you ask any questions and you’ll be fine.
10. Warrior Forum
A forum that specializes on topics such as internet marketing products, Adsense, PPC advertising and search engine optimization. Includes a small free ebook section as well as a self-improvement section. Didn’t like the forum interface but you might find some useful information here.
11. ABest Web
Has a vibrant internet marketing community that’s very friendly. The forum includes a comprehensive section on Commission Junction and Shareasale as well as an affiliate academy for newbies and other experienced marketers. A good forum to visit.
12. 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums
A forum with some decent information on affiliate networks such as Shareasale and AzoogleAds. Also covers RSS Marketing, Adsense and SEO/SEM.
13. Affiliate Programs Forum
Associate Programs has a fair number of users. They have a section for newcomers to affiliate marketing as well as a helpful section on the different affiliate networks. Some SEO information as well.
14. Ewealth
Ewealth has a large affiliate network corner which features the usual affiliate companies like Clickbank, Comission Junction, Linkshare and Shareasale. There’s also a good section on PPC and Paid advertising as well as a small marketplace for the trading of domain names and services.
15. Affiliates4U
A UK affiliate marketing forum that offers UK specific affiliate network information. There are also sections on the website which discuss general website promotion, SEO, web security, PPC and affiliate management.
Get Paid To, AutoSurfs and High Yield Investment Program Forums
16. Get Paid Forum
A very large forum that specializes in Get Paid to Websites which pay you to do surveys, click on ads, read emails or complete offers. There is a very excellent downline builder subsection of the forum which allows you to build you referral downlines for traffic exchanges, affiliate programs and get paid to website.
17. Dream Team Money
A forum that exclusively specializes in High Yield Investment Programs, Autosurfs, Multi level marketing as well as Get Paid to programs. Also includes sections in stocks, forex and properties.
Excellent place to visit when you need information before investing in a specific program. A forum with a very large member base.
18. Whydowork.com
A forum with sections on affiliate marketing, get paid to websites, MLM opportunities, scam reporting as well as reselling & drop shipping. Pretty much a general forum with bits of information on various topics.
19. Goldage
Goldage mainly deals with all matters concerning digital currency investments as well forex and HYIP programs. A very referral friendly forum so visit them if you’ve got a referral program to share.
Work from Home Jobs / Freelancing / Multi Level Marketing
20. Work at Home Forum
A nice forum focusing on areas such as business opportunities, multi level marketing, web design, autosurfs and paid surveys. Most of the members are not part of the webmaster crowd but rather offline marketers and stay at home mums and dads.
21. WAHM.com
Work At Home Mum (WAHM) is a great forum to visit because it has large number of active users that are friendly and helpful. Topics include traditional work from home jobs and businesses such as gift basket and craft selling, as well as basic marketing and get paid to programs. Great forum to share a referral link if you have a program to promote.
22. Talk Freelance
A forum that specializes in all sorts of online freelance jobs such as web design design and programming. A great place to frequent if you are designer programmer looking for a paid assignment.
Domain Name Investing / Domain Marketplaces
23. NamePros
A forum that focuses on domaining and information about monetized domain parking, domain appraisals and other domain name discussions. If you’re new to domaining, check out the domain newbies section. There’s a lot of great tips on how to get started with domaining.
24. DN Forum
A large and active forum that focuses on making money with domains. Sections of the forum include a strong marketplace for anyone who’s planning to sell or buy a domain. Also includes domain name auctions as well as domain brokerage and legal issues concerning domains.
Money Making Scam Busting
25. Scam.com
A forum that specializes in exposing all types of online and offline scams. This is the first place to visit before you start investing serious money and time in the latest High Yield Investment Program or internet career kit. Information about online scams are located in the “Internet Scams” section of the forum. They have an enormous archive with hundreds of threads on the scams.
Blog Forums
26. Blogger Forum
The largest blog forum on the internet. Blogger forum has has information on blog coding, monetization as well as blog promotion.
The forum is fairly active and is a good place to visit when you want to exchange links for your new blog.
And that concludes the list..
Forums are a great way to learn and I suggest that you visit some of them today, if you’re interested in learning how to making money on the internet.
you get paid to click on ads and visit websites. The process is easy! You simply click a link and view a website for 30 seconds to earn money. You can earn even more by referring friends. You'll get paid $0.01 for each website you personally view and $0.01 for each website your referrals view. Payment requests can be made every day and are processed through PayPal. The minimum payout is $10.00. 
