List building is a method to collect targeted prospects who are visiting your site by offering them a decent quality information in exchange for their contact details such as email, first name, last name and their phone numbers, this is also known as laser targeted, responsive subscribers list that eventually becoming the key element to your success.
When the subscriber has confirmed his email subscription on your list, you can then start to send them the follow up emails in conjunction with relevant and useful content based on your product or services.
Affiliate marketers or any business owner are using different style of squeeze pages and opt-in forms combination on their site to capture potential prospects. You are able to generate the web opt-in forms from the autoresponder provider user dashboard and it is used for embedding into your squeeze page template either as a javascript or HTML codes.
Every moment when a visitor enters their name and email address into your squeeze page opt-in form, they are instantly being added to your mailing list system and instantly become an active subscriber you can follow up with them later on.
With the method of list building, you can potentially transform the confirmed subscribers into buyers, since once your potential prospect has been added to your mailing list, you are able to establish a relationship with them, that will encourage sales as well as repeating sales (which will add up more sales profit for long run).
The Gadgets You Need
Building a profitable email list building campaign is not to be exempted this day. To get started, you will need to make sure that you have the entire gadgets ready; as such you need the following:
1. Professional Autoresponder Account (Hosted Services or Owned Version)
The most top 2 recommended autoresponder services which are from http://www.GetResponse.com and http://www.Aweber.com, by using their services, you are able to set up an unlimited number of mailing lists, each of them provides an easy customization options to fit into your opt-in form for your squeeze page codes.
2. Squeeze Page
A squeeze page consist of your opt-in form with the details to present to the potential prospects being able to find you on the web, by evaluating what you are offering them in exchange for their contact information and making the decision to become an active subscriber of your list.
3. Giveaway (Incentive)
Your giveaway is essentially, the most important element on your squeeze page. If your offer doesn't motivate visitors into subscribing, all of your marketing efforts will be lost. This means that you need your offer to be of interest to the majority of your target market, rather than to a small group of subscribers. The higher the quality of your giveaway as well as the more relevant your offer is to your market, the easier it will be to recruit new subscribers.
4. Domain And Hosting Accounts
There are many different domain registrars available to choose from. Personally, I use http://www.NameCheap.com and http://www.Godaddy.com. However, one thing to keep in mind is that you should have done a research as to the niche or market that you are intending to target on before registering your domain name.
