Putting My WordPress List On Anabolic Steroids

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Remember how easy it was back in the days when you could add "Subscribe now" or "Free Newsletter" on a free site and get a drove of visitors join in? Today you can't approach list building the same way like 5, 6 or 7 years ago! You need to have a vision and plan a strategy because people are now more reluctant to join your list than ever.
It is NOT because they're afraid of SPAM. Although you should clearly have an anti-spam policy on your blog.
It is NOT because they're "I know you'll sell my email!" paranoid.
It is NOT because they don't know you.
It is more because they're AFRAID. Afraid of not receiving what you promise. Afraid of receiving too many emails than you promised. Afraid of receiving emails that are not highly-relevant to what you promise on the blog, and so on.
The biggest reason why visitors won't join your list though it is because you promise the same old stuff that we're seeing on all the other blogs. For example, how many times did you see an opt-in form saying... "Free Blog Updates"?. It is so common these days.
And how many times did you see a 'PDF report' offer? Less often! The point I'm trying to drive home here is this and listen closely because your blogging success depends on it:
And if you want to make lots of money from a combination of blogging and email marketing, then here's what you need to do:
Step #1. Talk with fellow bloggers [I suggest you contact bloggers outside your niche too] who are already successful list builders and interview them on SKYPE, by phone or via email. This way you'll learn some good shortcuts and some "secrets" that will help you get where you want to go, faster, easier, better than any other method out there.
Step #2. Implement the tips you gather from your conversation with these pro bloggers. Have one bloggers as your mentor. Learning from different sources might do more harm than good, and actually confuse you.
Step #3. Start building your list. Never postpone. Do not wait for anything to be perfect. Start getting your first subscriber and strategize for making your first sale. The rest will follow.
And now, if you have a wordpress blog and want to put your list building on steriods, you should check out this plugin - Subscribers Magnet - it's proven to rapidly build your email list by using the technology in some unconventional and unique way. It’s unobtrusive and highly impactful. Watch the video on the page to see it in action.
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Failing To Draw A Crowd

Drawing a Crowd

The picture above shows a cluster or gaggle of folks waiting to get inside a venue somewhere. Looks to be somewhere in Vancouver, British Columbia that is hosting an event for the Asian community. If I cold have the heads in that line to visit my site via Google, Bing or even Ask, I would be happy. Stretching around the corner and in a nice tightly compacted group, all of those different opinions looking to share what they think and feel about a particular subject is appealing to me.

Having the means to pay for a marketing campaign via the usual suspect of Google Adwords is completely out of my scope right now. Many people that visit here are simply looking and not supporting bloggers. For this reason alone, I tend to stay within a small circle of friends that sally comment or may even ask me a question or two via the contact form.

Commenting and adding my two cents helps me to vent my frustrations. It’s good to see that on other’s sites they have the same issues that I do. Presently, I have no paid campaigns for advertisements going on. This has hurt traffic quite a bit. But a good lesson is being learned.

Do you se any unconventional marketing methods if you have no budget for marketing your site? Drop a few comments below and let me know your thoughts.

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Below is a list of some of the great sponsors and writers of the contest that I am writing this post about. At the majority of these sites that belong to the sponsors yo can find very unique and well written techniques for publishers like ourselves. The many that take on blogging as either a hobby or way to earn residual income have come to greet these contests with a warm eye or a cold shoulder. This contest for me looks like it will be one of the hugest ever seen on the web.

Sure, I tried my hand at a small contest and got a dribble of feedback but nothing on the scale of what is brewing here for this one. I'm jst glad to find like minded individuals of which i can share my thoughts and opinions with. But my own post, Streamlining And Tweeting For Your Comments, will hopefully bring me some much needed exposure and traffic on my first go around.

What I find truly fascinating in this bunch of people is the down to Earth way they write their posts and techniques for some of the advanced types of tools used for blogging.

Take a look around and comment and visit on some of the sponsor's blogs to get an idea for what I'm talking about. Yo won't be left wanting at all.

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