1) Having a group of go to people is a very helpful tool. If you build a personal list of people that you stay in contact with you can have a team behind you. Having a close relation with members of your list can prove to be extremely beneficial to your internet endeavors. When you have a question that cannot be answered by internet searching maybe some of the tech savvy individuals on your list may be able to help you with a coding issue your ran into or help you convert a image to the specified needs for a template. No matter what the case is having a close relation with the people on your list will almost never be a disadvantage.
2) Easy marketing crowd. If you build your list of people trying to earn money then you will have that demeanor behind the list. If you build your list with a capture page for saving animals then your list will show the love for animals. Depending what you are promoting is going to determine the type of people you have in your list. Keeping this in mind, If you are promoting more than one product you may want to create different lists for each product/service depending on how alike the products/services are. You can always create a master list of all contacts but keep your sub-lists as well so you can easily shoot emails or promos to that specific list when the opportunity arrives.
3) By having a loyal list you have a solid base for your marketing needs. So when you join your next MLM program you just use your auto-responder and send out hundreds of emails to your list members and instantly gain referrals or signups for the program and start making money fairly quickly. But, you have to make sure that you have a QUALITY list. This means that the people on the list are serious and willing to put out a little money to get some in return. This is probably the hardest part of building a list. You could have a list of one thousand people but if only 15 of them are serious about internet marketing and willing to invest then you are just wasting the other 900 and some odd peoples time by sending them emails that they probably don't even want. With that said do not just use your lead capture page for making your list (yes this works but it is very impersonal and does not turnover as well) talk to the people use Skype or send them personal emails give them a phone call, show these people you care about them and really want to help them succeed in making money online. When you make it personal people will trust you more and your sales and referrals will skyrocket.
Many people neglect the fact that the list is an extremely powerful tool. The list is also considered to be exponential in some ways. For example, you have a list of 87 close people that love internet marketing just as much as you do and you send them your new MLM program you just joined 72 of them join your MLM program now you have 72 people that have lists of hundreds and thousands of leads that you can get commissions from. This just keeps going on down the line and depending on how the MLM program is set up you can go 5, 10, 15 and sometimes 20 levels deep with these referrals, making you tons of money with minimal effort on your part.
How do you use your list?
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