List Building – The Most Frustrating Stumbling Block To New Marketers

So, you want to make money online. Perhaps you’ve looked into some of those well-known internet marketing products like Product Launch Formula… or even NanoContinuity (which I was promoting recently).

But, tell me if this sounds familiar….

You buy the product because the stuff they say makes sense. So, you get it and you’re all excited. You’re thinking, “This is it. I’m finally going to be able to put into place the missing piece of this big puzzle and make some money.”

So, you delve in and you digest the information energetically. Until…

… You realize you need an email list. And pretty much everything they’re talking about depends on having an email list of reasonable size.

Well, dammit! What now?

Honestly, you feel a bit screwed. You might think a few not-so-kind thoughts about the person you bought the course from… because you feel like they weren’t upfront about the fact that…

YOU NEED AN EMAIL LIST.

But, Tell Me If This Sounds Familiar…

Perhaps you’ve had this realization already… so you put some work into building your list.

So, you slap an opt-in form up on your site. You do the best you can (considering limited tech skills) and hope it works.

… And you wait….. and wait…. and wait….

A couple months later, your subscriber count is still a single-digit number.

W. T. F!

Unfortunately, this is all too common. Not only that, it often leads to people simply throwing their hands up in the air in frustration. It leads people to ignore their lists and essentially never email the people who have signed up. You think a list of so few people isn’t even worth bothering with.

… And so you shoot yourself in the foot before you get the ball rolling.

Let’s Try Something Different

Internet business is a lot easier when you have an email list. All of a sudden, those strategies and tactics you pick up here and there can actually do something for you. That’s because you have enough inertia that you can build up something.

It is all about getting over that little tipping point.

I know most of my readers have had a real difficulty in building their lists. Honestly, it is one of the most common frustrations in the entire world of internet marketing.

So, I decided to do something to help. I’m pretty good at keeping my ear to the ground and knowing what’s going through people’s minds. So, I think I know exactly where most of you are at with your list building efforts.

Some people have come up with huge $2K courses on the subject. That’s great… more power to them…. but unfortunately they forget that most people who need such a course are nowhere NEAR the point of spending 2-grand on it.

So, what I’m doing instead is delivering a LIVE workshop series on the subject. And the price…. well, it isn’t anywhere near $2K. In fact, rather than 4 digits in the price tag, I’m going to have only TWO digits. :)

I’m calling it Master Your List. Click here to learn more about it. And you’ll need to sign up before April 11th because that’s when I’ll be cutting signups off so I can get on with the live class.

I’ll see you over there. And… I’m going to show you everything I know about list building… AND what to do with your list (i.e. what to say and how to say it) once you’ve got some people on there.

Cuz that’s how I roll. ;)

Learn More About “Master Your List”…. before I shut down signups.

P.S. There is a special bonus over there – but ONLY for the first 25 people to enroll in the class.

UPDATE: 4/5 9:30AM
There are 8 more slots left to get into the first 25 group. For the first 25, I’m providing access to a video breakdown and swipe file of an email promotion I ran which brought in $12,000 while I was on vacation. You can learn the take-aways from my analysis, and use it to model some of your own marketing campaigns. :)

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  • http://trafficcoleman.com/blog/official-black-seo-guy/ Black Seo Guy

    The email list is still important if your looking to really get your sales up. You have to be able to contact people on a 2nd or 3rd time to real them in..

    “Black Seo Guy “Signing Off”

  • http://davidrisley.com David Risley

    You’re always a dependable first commenter. :-)

    Yeah, you’re right. As I’ve said before, without a list, your blog is just reactionary and all you can do is sit back and cross your fingers that people come to your site. With a list, you have a way to reach out and proactively get their attention. Makes all the difference in the world.

  • http://Mazzastick.com Justin

    You just described my newsletter experience to a tee. I need to switch over to AWeber real soon because the Chimp isn’t cutting it anymore.

  • http://davidrisley.com David Risley

    Yeah, Aweber is better.

    Just so you know, though, when it comes to list building and things like that, that all transcends which system you use. :-)

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  • http://hpshappyhomebusiness.blogspot.com Hpvanduuren

    Yes, it sounds familiar,

    That’s why currently my main focus is still on showing you my Automatic-One-Click-Bookmarking and aiming to write posts that suck visitors in, you now can discover the new ‘Catch Phrase’ that I do think better represents what my Blog is all about, making it easier for you to Instantly
    to become a Raving Fan!

    (and THAN cross my fingers hoping you will come back :) )

    Anyway, currently I don’t (yet) want to do Listbuilding anymore,
    Because somehow I wasn’t writing emails for the people on my list, and
    although I do like to write emails, to write both on my Blog(s) and write emails
    for my List(s) would be something that I wouldn’t longer be able to enjoy doing in
    the way I have things organised now. So I do think I need to
    re-think possibly re-position my Business Model (if I have any)

    Only since I don’t want to dissapoint all the Raving Fans of my Blog(s) :)
    for now people can use the Automatic-One-Click Bookmarking.
    So if you want to Bookmark a nice – Business Blogspot – you can
    easily do it with only just – One Click –

    (because looking at my ‘Tracking’ – that’s one of the search terms
    that some people used to find and get to my blog).

    All the Best,
    To your Happy – Home Business – Inspiration,
    HP

    P.S. you are welcome to write your comments on blogposts because when, I see a huge amount of – Raving Fans – writing many Comments, I might consider to consider it as FAN MAIL and than I might speed up the process of doing Listbuilding :)

  • Stylerinc

    Dave! I posted this on another one of your blog posts, but this seemed more appropriate;

    I am marketing an online teleseminar w/ several JV partners, each sending out pre-event emails to their respective lists.

    The prospect will register for the event through OUR squeeze page and infusion soft webform. The challenge is that as part of the deal with the JV partners, we will need to share the registration list with them so everyone benefits from the list building.

    Is there a way that when the prospect registers for the event that they can be put into the JV partners lists’ as well? Or is the only option- to export the list and send to the JV’s for importing?

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