How To Extract Their Contact Details Like The Taxman | How To Build A List

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The Taxman wants his money and he is gonna get it one way or another. As a blogger, internet marketer, business owner you should also adapt this mentality when it comes to building your list.

You need to get those contact details one way or another (all legally of course).

Now don’t go out and buy a book about taxes, that won’t help (unless your blog is about taxes). What you need to do is ask yourself “what can I offer the people of my niche in exchange for their contact details?”

There is more than just one answer to this question. Which means you have more than one way of extracting those details.

My friend Philip Dews requested I do a blog about building a list, so here it is.

5 Ways to Grow Your List

1. Content Marketing
2. Social Media
3. PPC
4. Forums
5. Co-branding

Content Marketing | Flood Them With Your Valuable Goods

You can’t get something for nothing and if you do the old saying of “easy come, easy go” springs to mind.

So, you must offer value to your readers, watchers, listeners.

Your on going blog posts, articles and press releases are ways of offering a huge amount of value content.

Content marketing isn’t an instant list building strategy but over time you will find people subscribing to your blog and opting in onto your list.

Content that you have submitted to the net stays there forever. I still get people opt-in onto my list from my first articles.

People like what they read and they want to read more of it. You will eventually get to a point where they want to be the first to read it, comment on it or share it with their community. << That is a great place to be

With content marketing you need to have a strong call to action within the content.

Placement of this call to action can bring you varying results.

For example. If I was to put a call to action here, in the middle of this post.

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Name:

Email:

The interruption of this call to action will get you wanting to download my free report. The placement of my call to action flowed well with the content.

Most call to actions appear at the bottom of your content. This is where your reader has come to the end of your lip licking content and they are now hungry for more. All you have to do is point them in the right direct of where ‘more’ is.

With articles and press releases this will come in the form of a resource box which is placed under the content.

The more value you give away using content marketing, the more opportunity you will have extract your reader’s contact details.

Free Reports | Create One, Then Let The World Know About It

A free report is something that I have recently started doing. I have 3 more reports in the pipelines at the moment and I intend on doing a lot more. Why, cos they work. that’s why.

Free reports have been around for years, you probably have a hard drive full of them by now.

Lets face it, some are sh*t and a complete waste of time and others are amazing. Amazing to the point where you would happily pay for what you just got for free. This is the kind of free report you want to be creating.

If you put out trash, you will get trash in return.

A free report doesn’t have to be long. Anywhere in the region of 10-50 pages is good enough. All your free report has to do is over deliver on the promise in the title.

Once your over delivering, value packed report is ready to go there are many ways in which you can supply it.

My Blogging Minerals Report is a downloadable pdf which you get access to instantly once you sign up for it.

My How To Make Money Blogging Report is a 7 day eCourse which I email to you over the course of 7 days.

Both these strategies gives you instant access to the information you require.

The 7 day eCourse gets you accustom to receiving emails from me. It places me in you inbox for at least 7 days.

As you can see, these reports can be obtained from my header and my sidebar and as I demonstrated earlier I can even give you access to them in the middle of a blog post. << This is why self hosted blogs are so powerful

Make you reports easy to access. You don’t want your readers hunting around your blog looking for it. Cos they wont look!

The taxman gets his hands on the employees wages even before employee does. That what you call EASY ACCESS.

Use a pop-up on your blog to advertise your product/s. I have and its working a treat to build my list.

Building A List Like A Social Butterfly

By now you will know that social media marketing works best when you are sociable with the people you come in contact with.

By being sociable you will soon find out what problems people in your niche want solved. Create a product / piece of content solving their problems and allow them to access it whenever they are ready.

Point them gently in the direction of your capture page.

[NOTE] Spamming your social community only works against you.

Pay For A List

Not as in buy a list, but as in Pay Per Click.

Set up a capture page for your report and use it as the product that people opt-in for when they land on your capture page.

[WARNING] Should you decide to go down this PPC route I would strongly advise that you have an up-sell within your free report or on your thank you page or in your follow-up emails so that you will be able to afford the ongoing PPC cost.

Basically with anything PPC you should have something to sell to the person opting in as soon as possible.

Get PPC right and you will be able to grow your list real quick.

Forum Love To Build A List

Find forums which relate to your niche.

Here is how to find related forums.

Go to Google and insert:

• “Powered by SMF” your keyword
• “Powered by IPB” your keyword
• “MyBB” your keyword
• “Powered by PunBB” your keyword
• “Powered by Phbb” your keyword
• “Powered by vBulletin” your keyword

Register for the forums you find. Play an active, valuable role in which ever forums you join. In your signature on the forum put a link back to your capture page.

There are some huge forums out there which have a massive following. Provide value on these forums and people will want more from you.

Co-branding To Build Your List

A lot of content owners allow you to freely give away their content. As long as you credit them and leave their links intact (if the content is a pdf), then you can share the content with your readership.

Some content owners go as far as to let you co-brand their content with you.

For example with Blogging Minerals you can co-brand this report with me.

I will put your name / logo on the front of the report, you will have a areas where you can put your own links and some text about yourself.

You can then use this co-branded report to capture your readers contact details.

You don’t have the hassle of creating a product yourself and you get to feature with other awesome content makers which benefits all parties involved.

Building A List Is Something You Absolutely Need To Do

From day one online you should be in a position to collect interested parties details.

I highlighted the power of a list in a previous post – How To Feed An Instant Cash Cow – Go check it out.

Over To You

I hope you enjoy my Blogging Minerals Report. Feel free to let me know what you think about it.

Share this post with your community. I know it is a topic people are interested.

Let me know you views, questions and comments in the comment arena.

Chat soon
Dwayne
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