August 04, 2008
How To Get Your First 1000 Subscribers - Personally Taught By Willie Crawford - Free - August 5th, 2008
On my Blog Talk Radio Show, on August 5th, at 1-2pm CST,
I'll share a simple step-by-step strategy for building
your email list to 1000, or to adding another 1000
subscribers, if you already have an email list.
I'll have a free PDF handout for you to download during
the show too. I'll announce the direct download link
at the beginning of the show.
After tomorrows radio show, if you don't start building
a list... and have one of at least 1000 subscribers within
a month, it's NOT because you don't know how.
Tune in tomorrow at:
http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford/
Be sure to mark the show as a "Favorite" when visiting
the url above.
Yes - if you can't make the show, you will be able to
access the recording later. It will also be posted at:
http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford/ about 10 minutes
after the show ends :-)
Thanks,
Willie
Posted by Willie Crawford at 07:00 PM | Comments (0)
July 28, 2008
Free Audio Interview - Secrets Of Building Your List Using Free Giveaways
Here's an audio interview where Willie Crawford,
Odinn Sorensen, and David Schwartz, host of the
Viral Rebrandable Money Machines Giveaway, tell
you what they've discovered to be essential to
getting the most success out of a free list-building
giveaway.
To register as a contributor to the free
listbuilding giveaway, please click here.
For the software to create rebrandable ebook,
please visit Viral Document Toolkit.
Posted by Willie Crawford at 08:47 PM | Comments (0)
July 26, 2008
Grow Your List Massively By Joining This Free List-Building Giveaway Featuring All Rebrandable Items
In conjunction with David Schwartz and Odinn Sorensen, I'm gathering
contributors for a very unique free list-building giveaway.
The giveaway will be all rebrandable items. That means that in order
to contribute, you have to offer a rebrandable ebook, audio, video,
software, etc.
This is a true JV in that you offer a product, all of the JV partners/
contributors promote the event, and drive lots of traffic to the site.
Visitors arriving to the site will join to get not just free items but
items containing affiliate links that they can change to their affiliate
links, or software that they can rename and sell, etc.
Unlike many free giveaways where people just download the items and
let them sit on their harddrives, since these have built-in profit
generators, the members downloading them will be more likely to
pass them on.
If you structure an ebook so that it contains lots of really great
information AND offers the possibility to earn commissions, then
those downloading them have TWICE the incentive to pass them on.
Contributors build their lists when members wanting to download the
gifts have to visit their sites and subscribe in order to get them.
Those members also have the option of paying a small fee and then
downloading the gifts from direct download links (without having
to visit any contributors' sites). In that case, the contributors
don't get a subscriber, but they can earn a commission if they
referred the subscribe who upgraded.
There are a lot of "twists" to this giveaway which will run from
August 12th - August 26th. Currently, we are only accepting Contributors
/JV partners.
Registering as a contributor is 100% free here:
http://www.viralrebrandablemoneymachines.com/contributor.php?id=4
Contributors are even offered the option to upgrade, as
explained at the link above. Basically, upgrading as a contributor
allows you to:
1. Get your gift displayed on the new member signup page AND at
the top of the gift download pages (you get extra points and gifts
are displayed based upon a ranking system as explained on the site).
2. Add one of your products to a rotation on a page shown to all
members and contributors each time that they log in. This product will
be sold via the system paying the product owner 50%, the referrer
25%, and site admins 25%. The product MUST be approved by the
admins who have final say on what is and isn't acceptable.
Everything is explained on the site, but since we are still working
on a FAQ, feel free to ask questions too.
This is an easy way to add some quality subscriber to your list,
gain exposure for your product, and earn some nice commissions.
Willie
By the way,if you want to see how easy it is to create
a rebrandable ebook, check out the video here:
http://ViralDocumentToolkits.com
You can easily turn a Word document into a rebrandable
ebook in 10 minutes using this software!
Posted by Willie Crawford at 05:00 PM | Comments (0)
June 17, 2008
An Email List Of 600,000 Plus...
When my friend Thea Swafford shared that she had a database
of over 600,000 at a Michael Penland seminar long ago, it
was amazing to watch all of the marketers swarm over her at
the next break :-)
I quietly waited, called here later, and got her to share with
me her secret. The recording from that call is now in my
inner circle site... if I remember correctly.
Anyway, I adopted her techniques plus those of a LOT of others
to build a very respectable database myself... well over half
a million (being deliberately vague).
This database is a lot of different lists in a lot of different
niches, with MOST of them being outside of Internet marketing. I'm
very protective, and secretive, about some of these niches/lists.
However, I thought that I'd share one of my simplier list
building secrets with my fellow Warriors.
I find out about big name authors who are doing book releases,
and then in exchange for helping to publicize the release, I
get to include a gift on a page full of bonuses.
Typically, my gift is an ebook or perhaps an MP3 somehow
related to the topic of the book.
If I don't have an appropriate bonus, I create one, or outsource
one... although reworked/retitled PLR material is generally
suitable.
One of my insider contacts for advance notice of these book
launches is Warren Whitlock... whom I chat with regularly at
Internet marketing seminars.
I'll be interviewing Warren on this very topic... "Building
Your List On The Backs of Book Launches" on Tuesday, June
17th, at 6-7pm CST.
You're welcome to join us for free at:
http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford/
You can dial in to the number shown on the site, or you can
listen right over the internet. You can also ask questions
via chat right over the internet.
We're not selling anything on the call... just sharing information,
and also doing a recording.
Join us.
Willie
Posted by Willie Crawford at 12:30 PM | Comments (0)
June 11, 2008
Willie Crawford & Warren Whitlock Discuss Growing Your List Through Book Promotions - June 17th On Blog Talk Radio
Join Warren Whitlock On BlogTalkRadio To Discuss
Zero Cost Listbuilding
Warren Whitlock will be the guest on my BlogTalkRadio show
on Tuesday, June 17th, from 6-8pm CST.
Warren's company helps to orchestrate numerous book launches,
where Internet marketers like you and I help to spread the
word... and get to offer a gift to potentially MILLIONS of
new prospects.
We get to build our email lists on the backs of book launches
by best-selling authors whose names most people readily
recognize.
Here's a blurb from Warren's site at:
http://zerocostpromotions.com/
"In the next few weeks, millions of people will learn about
the new books we promote, and many will decide to buy one
or more of the offers
When you join us as a promotional partner, your business
lead generation 'gift' will be exposed to these qualified
buyers. Those in your target market will choose your offer.
Imagine hundreds or even thousands of people telling you
that they are interested in your business!"
Warren is an expert at lead generation and listbuilding,
and we'll spend a full two hours sharing the secrets with
you.
To join the radio show over the Internet, or to get the
dial-in number visit:
http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford
Posted by Willie Crawford at 01:51 AM | Comments (0)
May 10, 2008
How To Get And Keep More Loyal Ezine Subscribers
How To Get And Keep More Loyal Ezine Subscribers
Copyright 2008 by Willie Crawford
When I noticed an automatically generated note from one of my
email list hosting accounts at ProfitAutomation warning me that
the account was approaching the 200,000 subscriber limit, and
that I needed to increase its size, I realized that I finally
had all of the subscribers that I really "needed." That
account is one of five that I have with ProfitAutomation,
and I also have one with Aweber.
So, while I still have a goal of building my database to over
1 million subscribers before the end of 2008, subconsciously I
have to admit... that's somewhat for "bragging rights."
As I studied list building over the years, I eventually realized
that a more important question than how to grow your list is
"How do you keep loyal subscribers."
Growing a large list is fairly simple... depending upon your
definition of large.
It's as simple as:
- Having a subscribe box on every page of your website
- Having a subscribe box somewhere in the backend of each
sales processes
- Giving people a very specific reason for subscribing (telling
them what benefit they'll gain from being on your list)
- Using testimonials from happy subscribers to prove that
other already enjoy your ezine
- Focusing your ezine on a tightly niched topic that your
audience has a real interest in
There are other things that you can do such as joint ventures,
and finding ways to get in front of other publishers'
audiences, but it all centers around answering the question of
"What's in it for me?" that all of your potential subscribers
have.
Once you get subscribers though, how do you keep them?
My friend Paul Myers, in his ebook, "The Amazing List Machine"
taught me that you simply deliver to your subscribers what you
promised them when they first joined your list.
If your ezine is on affiliate marketing, then your content
teaches them affiliate marketing.
If your ezine is on website traffic generation then your
content teaches them about website traffic generation.
If your ezine is on cooking (as one of mine is) then you teach
them to cook.
Sounds fairly simple doesn't it?
If you give your subscribers what you promised them when you
enticed them to join your list, they should stay on your list,
and read your newsletters, provided their needs don't change.
For many ezine publishers, the tougher question becomes "How do
I monetize my list without driving off subscribers." After all,
isn't that why most of us started a newsletter?
Yes, it's fun writing something that people enjoy reading. It's
nice getting emails telling you how long they've been a
subscriber, and how much of a difference your lessons have made
in their lives.
However, that won't put food on your table. So, how do you
monetize your list?
The answer is that you offer them goods and services directly
related to the topic of your list. If your list is on cooking,
then you offer them cookbooks, and cooking gadgets, and perhaps
cooking videos... or live workshops.
If you ezine is about list-building then you offer them
supplemental courses on list-building. You offer them software
that automates the process more. You offer them case-studies
that show how others are building large, responsive lists.
The whole process is fairly simple when you step back and look
at it. You entice subscribers to join your list by promising
them exactly what they want (that you can deliver). You keep
them by delivering what you promised. Finally, you monetize your
list by selling them things that make it easier for them to get
what they were looking for when they first joined your list.
Take a few minutes now and examine your process. Honestly look
for weak points in your system... and then fix them. Then you
too will one day realize the you no longer need to focus on
growing your list. Then the challenge becomes deepening the
relationship that you have with list members, although you should
have been focused on that all along too :-)
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Willie Crawford has been running an online business, largely
driven by email marketing, since late-1996. He is the author of
the popular ebook "How I Boosted My Ezine Sign-Up Rate By 5200
MORE Subscribers Per Month - Virtually Overnight - And You Can
Too." Get your copy now at http://TheRealSecrets.com/5200/
Posted by Willie Crawford at 10:44 AM | Comments (0)
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