List Building How To

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.

You could avoid using email subject lines, like “here is your free download” and still have your emails opened by your subscribers, even the ones you got from ad-swaps and JV giveaways. Plenty of people have argued with me about this. Some have tried it. Most others have gotten bogged down with the negatives somewhere and never got started.

Let’s consider this. Listed below are 3 reasons why you should avoid email subject lines, like “here is your free download”.

1. I would point out that it is not how many people you have on your subscriber list, but your relationship with them that matters, when you look at the income potential of a list.

On the “Con” side, and I agree that you’ve a valid point when you say that when you send an email with a subject line anything other than “free download” or something similar, your open rate is dismal, and your spam complaints go through the roof.

But I’d like to point out that most marketers that “give in” to the demands of their freebie seeker crowd never make a penny on their list building and email marketing efforts.

2. Second reason is, you should consider that it is possible to give gifts to people and never say that in your subject line. The hardcore freebie seekers will unsubscribe, and good riddance: you didn’t need them to begin with. Also, in every giveaway and every swap list there are some people who honestly want to learn, and if you teach them, instead of just sending them to other people’s free offers, they’ll return the favor in spades.

They, the responsive ones, respond best to interesting and teaching email subject lines, though they also open the giveaway type ones, so you can spoil them and corrupt them with your misguided efforts.

3. And third reason is, you have people on your list that already know you, who have been learning from you, and they get confused about what internet marketing is, and what you are about.

This means that if you need to choose who to cater to in your emails, your best bet is to cater to the subscribers that will buy your stuff, down the line, not the freebie seekers, that may be the bulk of your list at the moment. And on top of that, when you do cater to the freebie seekers, you reduce your whole crowd to freebie seeker and, like the boy who cried wolf, when you have something valuable to offer, your buying crowd won’t listen to you any more!

Now you have 3 good reasons to avoid email subject lines, like “here is your free download” and treat your list as potential buyers, not who they probably are, freebie seekers. After all you always intended to build a buyers list, am I right about that? What’s your opinion?

O.K. After taking a look at all that info, what do you think now? Isn’t that a strong case in favor to avoid that subject line? What if you, actually, could avoid email subject lines, like “here is your free download” and start training your list to expect real value from you, not behave like the usual ad-swap crowd: promoting other wannabees?

Find out some great ways to build and train your list by going to our List Building How to blog site at listbuildinghowto.com.

Unlike many other marketers, I like to talk to my subscribers. That means you…

Yesterday I talked to quite a few of you, because I received a lot of answers to my call for help to create a successful headline for my upcoming new internet marketing training.

Some of those conversations really proved to me that the training is very much needed: see if you can relate to these guys/gals:

One of my students (since May 5) wrote to me: I am done procrastinating, how do I start? I invited him to a 1-on-1 webinar. In the conversation I found out that he is a full time, well trained computer programmer, fully versed in html, php, and yet, he has never figured out how to fit the puzzle pieces together with regards to internet marketing.

I assured him, that I was the same way, until, back in January, I had an enlightenment experience and it all clicked.

Another person, after spending thousands of dollars on her training, is doing a gig with the Census: she could not pass up the money.

A third one, after more than 10K invested in his training, asked me to check why his image isn’t showing on his squeeze page…

A fourth confessed to me that list building is not what “they” made him believe… I concur.

What am I trying to say? That if we do a little math exercise and add up what you are spending (time and money) on your intenet marketing training, and take it off from what you are making, most of you will have a negative number as a result. Yearly.

Why? Because most trainings suck. To tell the truth. And, most of us suck at sticking with instructions, and following through, too.

That is the current situation.

How is YOUR internet marketing training going?

If you add up what you’ve made and compare it with what you’ve spent, will you get a positive or a negative number?

Would you let me know that number? I’d like to add them up to see the current state of training effectiveness…

Would you help me do that? Please?

Thank you. Just email me at here

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