Don't Make These 13 List Building Mistakes

Been back from ski-ing for a while now, where did the time go?
With the weather here being unusually pleasant I have been taking my stepmum on a variety of local walks and discovering places on my doorstep, whose existence I have missed after a lifetime of living in or visiting the area. Rather mind blowing, I think.

Anyway back to making money.

If you're a serious marketer, you will be trying to build a list.
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Like me you can give this book away, to your list, via squeeze pages etc. and also have
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I Jumped To The Top

That’s right I managed to jump to the top of the list at ListJumper.
That means that when I did my-every three days-random mailing, to those below me, most of the deliveries would go to people I hadn’t reached before, especially as there are new members coming in all the time.
OK this isn’t the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me, but it gives me an excuse to put up the dolphin picture. Hope you like it.

Both the Listjumper and TheListauction bring in sign ups every time I post, and as I use the squeeze pages from instantmlmsqueezepages, rather than the generic sales pages from the opportunities I am promoting, I get new members to that program as well as the main opportunity, and sometimes both.

One feature of Thelistauction is that gold members can place ads at the top of random letters sent out by other members. This is in the form of a text ad and a url.
Now, the gold members tend to be the more experienced and professional marketers and one thing that stands out is that they almost all use Viralurl to cloak their links.

Regular readers will know that I have done a couple of posts about Viralurl, and I cannot understand why anyone would promote a long ugly website address, or expose their affiliate link to the possibility of being hacked off, when there is an excellent free program like this, to solve the problem.
Not only does it tidy up your urls, but you can put a small ad on the Viralurl bar that shows at the top of web pages that have been cloaked, and others look at when clicking on to your links.

Viralurl do a series of videos explaining the system, one of which is a review and can be watched HERE.



Lastly, here is another downline type program that has GDI among the various ones in it’s list. It is called The3cashmachine and is reputed to be an excellent money building set up in it’s own right.
Paul at affiliatecurve, who is my sponsor and does very well with GDI, says that The3cashmachine and Hits2u, are his main sources of referrals for that program.
You may also want to look at GDIincometeam which I have only just come across, and obviously does the same job.

Squeeze Into This

Most affiliate programs provide you with an all bells and whistles sales site with which to advertise their program, and get yourself referrals.
These are usually very professional and include a long written message from the program owner, proof of payments received photos, glowing testimonials and bullets listing the various features and advantages. There is often a video to watch as well.

This is all well and good, but stick this on your traffic exchanges etc and nobody will give them more than a glance. To regular surfers these sites all look the same, besides which, these people already have their own program to sell, they’re not looking for another one.
However, if you use a squeeze page, instead of the take all day to read sales page, you will get some interest.
This is because squeeze pages just give enough small snippets of information, to raise people’s curiosity, then ask them to fill in their details to find out more. These can then link to the regular sales page, which they might read on this occasion, and possibly sign up.
If they don’t you have their email address and can send them a follow up message and add it to your list. Some programs will do this for you automatically.

Luckily the two programs that I have talked about on this blog both provide their own squeeze pages, as well as the regular sales ones.
You can see Acme’s by clicking HERE, and one of GDI’s HERE.

This brings me to the main point of this post.
I have joined a program called InstantMLMSqueezePages.
The idea is you are provided with squeeze pages to promote any MLM/affiliate/networking program.
These squeeze pages actually advertise a free report, such as---How To Get Rich Building A Lazy Downline--which is packed with information which is invaluable to any internet marketer, and is valued at around $97. Click HERE to see what this looks like.
As I said previously, surfers aren’t looking for a new business, but they are interested in anything that might help them promote the one they’ve already got. So, they sign up for the free report.

What’s in it for us then?
Well, firstly the report is rebranded with your Instantmlmsqueezepages ID, which is a lucrative affiliate program in itself, and also has a link to your main business, which people are also encouraged to look at.
So you see you are killing two birds with one stone, as sign ups to either program should see you in the money.
Plus, you will get the information from the people who fill the form in, and can add them to your list for follow up messages, even if they don’t immediately become active.
More experienced marketers who sign up for the platinum level of membership have the opportunity to transfer these signees, automatically to their Aweber autoresponder.

Where do you promote these squeeze pages?
Just go back to my “traffic” posts and there’s plenty there to get you going.

Incidentally, as I said previously InstantMLMsqueezepages is a worthwhile affiliate program in it’s own right, and this also applies to most of the list builders that are out there.
I think you could make money promoting these various programs on each other, especially as you know the people involved there, have already bought a similar product.