This is the most important list and it is your very own
personal contact list. This list, you should be constantly
building, seeking ways to add more eager people to learn
what you have to offer.
I am a huge believer in, you get the contact first, you get
to keep the details of everyone you get interested in
whatever program you are promoting.
It doesn't matter what program your are involved with, many
of them say they give you an autoresponder and have the
messages all ready to go out to your prospects. Sounds
easy, then you go about promoting.
Well, this all sounds fine and dandy when you are new to
marketing and learning, but think about it.
You do the work to get the prospect and with many programs
you never get the prospects information, it stays with the
owner of the program.
There was one program I had paid to be a member of and I
entered my own details, not the email address I had with
the program and according to the blurb, I should have
gotten the details. I didn*t.
Guess what, everything I received about that program had
the owner's name attached to it, my name or ID never showed
up. All the AR messages were from the owner, not me, as I
was told would happen.
Of course I queried all this and was told there must have
been a glitch in the system. So being fairly new, new that
is, not stupid, I tried it all again, different name,
different email and guess what, same thing happened.
How many people I had gained for him I have no idea. But it
taught me a good lesson, find out how I get the contacts
first.
Now that required my own webform and autoresponder and my
own incentive to entice people to receive my information.
Incentives are easy, there are some great e-books, courses
and software that you don*t have to purchase, some you are
able to rebrand with your links embedded. Important note,
make sure what you offer has value.
The webform is easy too, and even the autoresponder and all
can be done for no cost to you, just your time. Try it all
the no cost way and when you find out how well it is
working for you, you may need an unlimited Autoresponder
and List Manager.
With the fr*ee website, you can have seven pages up and
running for no cost, but even if you decide you need more
the cost is very reasonable.
With your autoresponder you receive a code in HTML for the
form for your prospects to fill out, this code you add to
your sign-up page on your FreeWebs website.
So when someone signs up, they go into your autoresponder
and start receiving your messages.
Now here*s what you need to do.
Sign up for a fr*ee website with FreeWebs.com
Apply for a fr*ee Starter autoresponder with A1ebiz.com or
FreeAutobot.com
All the details about setting up your AR are there for you
and the code for the sign up form which you will put on
your webpage.
This is in HTML and you don*t even have to know HTML
FreeWebs have a HTML paragraph editor, so all you do it
enter it there in your site manager and click done and it
will appear on your web page.
There is a great tutorial with FreeWebs, for setting up
your web pages.
Have a look at how others have set up their opt-in forms,
check out the wording and their offers and then you will
have a good idea of what you have to do for yours. Make
sure you include the privacy statement.
Big, Big thing, before you direct anyone to your sign-up
page, you need your messages entered into your
Autoresponder. This is very important, if the messages go
in after the sign-up is directed to your AR, they will
never see the message.
So write your messages telling about your great offer,
enter them in your AR and you are set to start getting
prospects. Your messages in your AR can then direct your
prospects to your great opportunity.
*Important note*, now YOU have the contact details for
follow-up with all your opportunities.
Once you have all that organised, you need to get the word
out and get people opting in to receive your information.
All types of advertising can be used to get your word out,
no spamming of course. With your Personal Contact List you
must always have the disclaimers in place in your emails.
Most ARs have a disclaimer, but it doesn't hurt to have one
at the start of your message, like
*You agreed to receive information about business
opportunities when you signed up with {name} and {email}.
However, if this is not correct, removal instructions are at
the end of this message*
Autoresponders have codes you insert for things like names,
emails, etc., to personalise the messages.
As they say, your list is your all on the Net, look after
it and keep buiding it every day. These are the people who
will learn to trust you and in many cases, look on you as
their friend. So take good care of them.
Best of success to you and happy list building
Copyright © 2005 CTBaird
Carmel Baird is editor of the Challis Street Chronicles
newsletter published at
http://www.ctbmarketing-Australia.com where opportunities,
resources and tools for operating an efficient online
business are reviewed.
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