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Tips for Creating a Mailing List for Selling Sites
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on March 3, 2010
If you’re trying to set up a website flipping business, creating a mailing list is an effective way to gain more notice. Just like any online business, you’re going to have competition and standing out is important. Having a website makes you look like a dedicated pro in the business and might get you some subscribers who are interested in knowing what sites you’re currently offering for sale or working on.
So what really is a mailing list and how does it work? You start off with having your own page and then it’s all a matter of offering a mailing list to those who drop by your page. If someone opts to subscribe to your feeds, they will be added to the list and will then get emails on your current offerings, and will be updated on any projects you’re working on. Everything is automatic so once the system is set up, you won’t even need to do anything else.
Creating a mailing list is quite easy, but it does require you to make your own page. The page should be easily accessible, so keep the name short and sweet. You also want to have a professional looking page so potential subscribers aren’t turned off. If you keep the site simple, you can just have one landing page with all your information and a mailing list sign up right there on page one. If you want to add a section about you or a section about you previous sales, that is a great idea as well.
Having a mailing list may seem like an unnecessary move to those who have not experienced firsthand the advantages of having one. However, as you go along and find yourself making more sales and interacting with more clients, you’ll find that a mailing list may just be the thing to boost your website flipping business even more. Take for example if you have a business that was able to purchase a site from you before. If the transaction went without a hitch, and if that company was satisfied with what they got for their money, wouldn’t you be the first source they would turn to if they think of another site again? Keeping them updated with what sites you have to offer would ensure that you would stay on top of their list of sources.
If you’re just looking to make a few dollars every month, then having a mailing list wouldn’t be worth all that trouble. But if you want to make a mark in this business, you would want to use every marketing strategy you can. You’ll want to establish yourself as a credible player, and having a solid client base is the first step in doing that. By creating a mailing list, you can upgrade your reliability as a source, bringing you closer to the big league and consequently, ringing in more sales for you.
Internet Marketing – the Vital Ingredient!
Posted by Pedro in Internet Marketing on January 15, 2010
Having created a wonderful website in order to sell your product, you now need the means to entice your visitors to actually buy. For this, you need two vital things. Firstly, you need to capture the names and email addresses of visitors to your website and, secondly, you need to be able to communicate with them. Make sure you have a mechanism in place for this before you start promoting anything online. Research has shown that it takes 7 visits to your sites, or communications with, a potential customer before they will be tempted to buy something from you. Without the means to do this, you will have missed a golden opportunity to make money. Building up a mailing list is vital to your new business. The essential tool required is an autoresponder. The autoresponder will capture names and email addresses from your website (the start of your mailing list) and then allow you to send targeted emails out to those people. It manages your database of potential customers. A section on the autoresponder can generate the HTML code for a sign-up form to place on your website, which then directs those visitors?names and email addresses to a particular campaign in your autoresponder. You can have several campaigns running at the same time if you wish. However, you may ask, who would just give you their name and email address? By giving away something free and of value on your website, such as a report, eBook, or mini-course, people will be tempted to subscribe. Giving away free information really works.
Within your autoresponder, you can set up pre-programmed messages to send to your potential customer, such as an initial and instant message and a link to a page where they can download their free report or get more information. Then follow up with further email messages with extra and more persuasive information at different intervals, 2 days later perhaps, then 5 days after that, and so on, and all will be dispatched automatically by your autoresponder. In this way, you can send out emails for a planned marketing campaign to entice them to buy your product. And because your customers have voluntarily signed up, your emails will not be considered as spam, but value their privacy and don’t pass their names and addresses to anyone else. As you build up your mailing list of names and email addresses from your website visitors, and the number grows, why not send out a broadcast email from your autoresponder when you release a new product? Many of those who bought your first product may well buy from you again. You can sell to your list over and over again, but don't overdo the frequency, and give enough of an interval between products, otherwise you will turn your customers off!
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