We have arrived at the final installment in my series on effective list building – although this certainly is not the last word on the subject of how to build a subscriber list. What I have provided for you is a simple road map to build a responsive double opt- in or double opt-in list.

Here are the other post in this series:

Part 1: Ten-Actions-to-Build-Your-Subscriber-List-Now

Part 2: List-Building-is-a-Numbers-Game-But-Quality-Matters-Most

Part 3: How-to-Build-Your-Subscriber-List-with-Relative-Ease

Part 4: Provide-Maximum-Value-First-for-Your-Subscribers

Part 5: Create-a-Free-e-Book-and-Give-It-Away

Part 6: E-Zine-Ad-Marketing-and-Ad-Swaps

Part 7: Invest-in-Relationships-to-Explode-Your-List

Part 8: How-to-Leverage-Social-Bookmarking-Sites

Part 9: Use-Pop-Ups-to-Capture-Exiting-Visitors-to-Your-Site

Today, I am concluding the series by giving you a list of the same viral tools I use to explode my personal list and add value to my subscribers on an ongoing basis. My recommendation is to carefully ready and implement the strategies covered in the prior 9 post in this series and then leverage your efforts with the tools listed here.

Viral URL: I use Viral URL to Cloak my affiliate links and to track my affiliate campaigns. In addition to the link cloaking features in Viral URL, they also have a solo ad and safe-list mailing feature that allows you to mail to thousands of fellow members. Using solo ads and safe-list to mail your promotions is critical for newer marketers who do not have their own subscriber list.

Visit Viral URL: Free Viral URL Account

List Hero: The brainchild of list building guru Tellman Knudson, List Hero is a all in one solution to help you build a viral opt-in list.

Visit List Hero: Free List Hero Account

Super Sign Up System: I use my Super Sign Up System to add new subscribers to my list every day by giving away 12 high value e-books followed by a series of helpful follow up letters delivered by email auto-responder.  For a small one-time charge, I will give you the entire system including a sales page, 12 e-books for you to give away for instant download and a follow-up responder series for you to copy and paste for your list.

To learn more follow the link below and opt in to receive all twelve e-books and to review the Super Sign Up Series. After you have provided your name and email address you will be redirected to download your books and review the entire system

Visit My Super Sign Up System: James’ Free Give Way

AWeber Auto-Responder: I actually use three different auto-responder services in my business – more on this another time. If I was forced to only use one email auto-responder service it would be AWeber, which is the top choice by the majority of online marketers. Aweber has a variety of features such as opt-in form templates, post to blog features, and unlimited list on a single account.

To learn more about auto-responders in general and AWeber specifically, simply follow the link that follows and sign up for a free test drive.

Vist AWeber: The AWeber Test Drive

I encourage you to take action and begin building your list today. I have heard it said and agree with the thought that building a responsive subscriber list is essential to creating a successful online business. Through this series of post, I have given you everything you need to effectively build your list… so take action today.

Please be sure to leave a comment and share your thoughts on list building – let us know what is working for you or tell me your biggest challenge with list building.

I am here to help you succeed online and achieve your ideal Internet lifestyle!

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List building is largely a numbers game but many marketers forget that quality matters when it comes to earning revenue with your list. If you want to monetize your subscriber list you must first provide real value for your members for free and then within your funnel convert those subscribers to buyers.

The basic formula that I teach to achieve our objective is simply offering visitors to your websites and blog sites a high value item free as a reward for opting in, I refer to this as an ethical bribe. Keep in mind that this is a reflection on your brand and for your future customers it is their first sample of the quality and value you provide. As a result you want to give away some of your BEST information. If you give your new subscribers cheap or low value products and information, they have no reason to pay for what they will perceive to be more of the same. When you provide high value information as a free gift and continue to provide quality content through your auto-responder messages, you begin to build trust by establishing your expertise and you create a desire in your subscriber to obtain more of your content and a willingness to pay for the value they receive.

Join me for this informative topic covered in depth on my Internet Business Blueprint Podcost. Here are the show details:

Show: The Internet Business Blueprint Podcast

When: Friday July 2nd at 1:00 PM EST

Web-Host: Blog Talk Radio

Show Page: http://www.JamesHolmesRadio.com

Call In Number: 1 (646) 727-3058

Chat Room Open: Yes

Listeners of the program will be given an invitation to subscribe for a free copy of my soon to be released book on list building – this will no a “free” offer as a reward to my loyal listeners. I hope you will join me for one of all of these special session.

I am here to help you succeed online and achieve your ideal Internet lifestyle!

Be sure to visit the Blog Talk Radio Site: http://blog.blogtalkradio.com

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From time to time I will share with you what is working now in my business now. Today, I want to provide a short review and recommendations for my top 5 viral list builders. I am actively using each of these in my business and have done the home work to prove they actually do work. To make it super simple for you to get startied building your list, I have included a link for a free account at each website.

#1. The Prosperity Marketing System

By using a self-funded proposal system you can greatly enhance your list building effort and often earn income even when a subscriber says no to your primary product, program or service. This is achieved when you offer extreme value typically using a well priced e-book, audio, or self directed training. Your prospect may eventually say no to your primary offer yet take advantage of what you have to offer on the front end.

The Prosperity Marketing System is a turnkey solution which provides your prospect with a free account included a video making the case for Internet marketing and access to select areas within the membership site. The system issues a series of  emails illustrating the value of a small upgrade of $27.95  (one-time) to gain full access to a three module training series and the ability to earn commissions by referring others to the system. The final step is complete ownership upgrade of $19.95 (monthly) and a license to band your primary offer within the system itself.

The system is truly turnkey – I have earned commissions and completed enrollments in  one of my primary programs (GVO) within the first week of using the system and have continued to do so to this day.

Claim Your Free Account Here: The Prosperity Marketing System

#2. Build A Subscriber List

This is my newest website and I literally give away a couple of hundred dollars in free e-books just for subscribing. The best part of this system is that it is set up for you to duplicate 100% in order to likewise giveaway these same quality e-books and build your own list. I even offer support to help you customize the website, brand it with your picture and get it online quickly!

This system converts very well because are constantly looking to learn how to make money with Internet Marketing and the e-books that you get for free and will then pass along to your subscribers are have been carefully chosen to provide the more value than any other free offer I have seen. This is worth subscribing to and considering for use in your own business.

#3. The Viral Secret

How would you like to place your face and brand image next to these powerful marketers? The Viral Secret is designed to leverage the brand of wildly successful marketers and build your list by offering a set of free newsletters to those who opt into your list. The Viral Secret is a free list building tool created by Internet marketing guru Russell Brunson.

This system is truly unique and branded specifically to you!

Mike Filsaime: Power Marketing Newsletter
Million Dollar Marketing Strategies!

Tellman Knudson’s Listbuilding
Experimental Marketing

Ewen Chia: Profitable Internet Business
Secrets To A Profitable Internet Business!

Jeff Dedrick: Internet Marketing News
Internet Marketing News And Bonuses

Damian Benko: Turn-Key Marketing
4 Step Systm for Online Wealth

James Holmes: Viral Blueprint
Internet Marketing Newsletter

You can sign up for a free account, upload your photo, integrate your auto-responder account and start building your list. Your photo and name will appear alongside of many of the leading marketers in the world as noted above.

Claim Your Free Account Here: The Viral Secret

#4. Get Referrals Fast

If you are feeling stuck this may be the answer for you. This system is brand new, so the market is not flooded with affiliate links for this program and you have a real opportunity to leverage your list building activities with this free program.

You just fill out a few forms and you have everything you need to build your list.

Claim Your Free Account Here: Get Referrals Fast

#5. TE Reports

This site was created by my friend John Guanzon in partnership with Brett Phillips and it is a winner! Everyone likes to receive free information and this allows you to download and giveaway 12 powerful e-books from many of the foremost authorities on the effective use of traffic exchanges and safe-list.

Here are the titles that you will receive to download re-brand with your affiliate link and giveaway.

“Tracking Your Way to Profits” by Mike Paetzold

“List Recon” by Solomon Huey

“Internet Marketing Success Formula” by Soren Jordansen

“Viral Reports Revealed” by Jay Hines

“Pizza Plan” by Jon Olson

“TE List Building” by John Guanzon & Winter Perkins

“Affiliate Jumpstart” by Ryan Hogan

“Daily Niche Idea” by Cindy Battye

“Traffic Exchange Solutions” by Tony Tezak

“13 Deadly Traffic Exchange Tragedies” by William Brant

“All About Traffic Exchanges” by Sunny Suggs

“Safelist Marketing Tactics” by Jerry Iannucci

This is a very simple website to set up and you will literally be able to begin building your list in 30 minutes. Once you sign up follow these 4 simple steps.

1. Fill in your affiliate id’s.

2. Add your name & picture.

3. Add your auto-reponder code.

4. Click Submit.

Just create a squeeze page (or opt in for the pre-made pages in the system) that let’s you give away 12 lazer targeted affiliate commission exploding gifts while building your list.

Claim Your Free Account Here: TE Reports

Bonus Site Prosperity Rising

Two of my partners at GVO Keith Carberry and Peter Marshall have authored the Prosperity Rising System, which includes a rebrandable e-book for net work marketers and a complete membership site with list builders and integrated multiple income streams. The is system is unique and pays referral commissions based on your membership level, which are free, platinum, diamond, and elite.

This is a funnel system with a high value e-book leading into a complete viral marketing system with these benefits:

* You will increase your traffic and advertising, guaranteed

* It will work for you regardless of what niche you actively market within

* Reach open minded prospects who want to see your offers

* The traffic and advertising you gain will increase the longer you use it

In addition to the front end lead funnel, Prosperity Rising has extensive training ad other resources to help you build your primary network marketing program.

Claim Your Free Account Here: Prosperity Rising

These list builders really do work and you should seriously consider the modest upgrade that will be offered to you during the sign up process. I am personally an upgraded member in four of these accounts and the outright owner in one – this allows me to maximize the results from each website.

I would love to read your feedback and any recommendations for list building sites that you have used successfully – share with me what is working for you. If you are an action taker and test one or more of these sites in your business, be sure to come back and leave a comment and let me know how they worked for you.

Remember I am here to help you succeed and share only what I know works.

Have a blessed day!

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I’m Sharing 7 Essential Steps to Building a Viral List live on Thursday April 15, 2010 during an interview on”Smokin Hot PR” on Blog Talk Radio. I will be the guest of host Tatyana Gann for a interview and interactive conversation on the subject of viral list building.

Here are the 7 Essential Steps to Building a Viral List I will be sharing:

1. Understand the power of viral marketing

2. The tools every viral marketer must have

3. How to structure your viral list building funnel

4. How to use PLR to quickly build your list

5. Free and low cost methods to drive traffic

6. How to convert subscribers into buyers

7. How to convert buyers into your viral army

Here is what you need to do to join us:

Go to: SmokinHotPR

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/smokinhotpr

Date and Time: April 15, 2010 at 2:00 PM EST, 1:00 PM CST, Noon MST, 11:00 PST

Call-in Number: (646) 716-8501

Tatyana will have the chat room open and we encourage you to call in with your questions and comments. I also encourage you to take notes and choose one of the seven strategies that you want to master and take action.

As a bonus, I will be giving away 10 copies of my new book “James Holmes List Building Secrets for Internet Marketers” and you will have a chance to be among the first to own a copy.

It doesn’t matter if you are a direct seller, network marketer, affiliate marketer, or information product marketer, you need a list. The best way to create leverage in your list building activities is to go viral. I am going to teach you exactly how to do just that. Join us!

I wish for you every blessing on your success journey!

P.S. The best 10 bucks you can spend today:

http://www.lovemylist.com/

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Effective List Building Part 2

List building is largely a numbers game but many marketers forget that quality matters when it comes to earning revenue with your list. If you want to monetize your subscriber list you must first provide real value for your members for free and then within your funnel convert those subscribers to buyers.

The basic formula that I teach to achieve our objective is simply offering visitors to your websites and blogsites a high value item free as a reward for opting in, I refer to this as an ethical bribe. Keep in mind that this is a reflection on your brand and for your future customers it is their first sample of the quality and value you provide. As a result you want to give away some of your BEST information. If you give your new subscribers cheap or low value products and information, they have no reason to pay for what they will perceive to be more of the same.

When you provide high value information as a free gift and continue to provide quality content through your auto-responder messages, you begin to build trust by establishing your expertise and you create a desire in your subscriber to obtain more of your content and a willingness to pay for the value they receive.

To recap there are three steps in the funnel:

Step 1. Provide a high value opt in gift

Step 2. Use auto-responders to provide high value content through consistent communications with your list

Step 3. Convert subscribers to buyers based on the value you have provided (give them a reason to buy)

Nurturing Quality Leads

People are attracted to join a subscribers list for a variety of reasons, your online presence, perceived level of success, demonstrated expertise and other qualities you have successfully presented through your self promotion and marketing your sites are all valid reasons for a prospect to opt into your list.

Now that you have gotten the attention of your visitor give them value and trust that the most likely buyers will self select and purchase from you as a result of your actions.

Most professional marketers will tell you that their objective is to earn one dollar per month for every name on their list. So, if you have a 500 subscriber list, you would be earning $500 per month, a 5000 subscriber list would earn for you $5,000 per month and so forth. I have found that these number do tend to be valid as an average and you should make this your goal.

As you put together your front in reward (ethical bribe) and subsequent auto-responder messages be mindful of to attract targeted prospects, so your opt in offer must be focused on the products and services you intend to sell. In addition, your follow up messages must likewise be targeted on your niche and continue to offer high value content associated with a link that leads to an offer. It is essential to provide offers early in the process of your communication.

Maintaining your Subscribers list

When a visitor opts into your list they are giving you permission to communicate and market to them as your relationship evolves. However, be careful not to abuse this privilege by spamming your list. There is a delicate balance between communicating too much and not communicating enough to maintain there interest and evolve your relationship.

I recommend that you send a keyword targeted email to your list two or three times per week and include an offer in each of these communications. There are some marketers who email their list everyday, I think this is too frequent and those who market to me with this frequency tend to get their emails opened less often.

In addition to your weekly email messages, I would also recommend that you publish a monthly or bi-weekly e-zine or newsletter. This is were you can add additional value, make bigger ticket recommendations, author reviews, and summarize information previously sent during the preceding weeks. The e-zine format also lends itself to sharing non-business related aspects of your life to further build a relationship with your list.

Knowing What to Give Away

If you are a newer marketer and have not yet created your own products, there are a variety of ways to obtain high value items to give to your list. One of the best resources is membership in “Viral E-Book Explosion,” which will provide you with a large inventory of e-books and audio MP3 files that you can re-brand and give away to your subscribers.

I will share additional ideas concerning the use of private label rights (PLR) and master resell rights (MRR) later in this series, but for most leveraging Viral E-Book Explosion is a perfect solution.

Get Viral E-Book Free Here: Viral E-Book Explosion Offer

Knowing What Your Subscriber Needs

The most effective marketing always if focused on the needs of your subscribers and customers and your ability to provide solutions for those needs.

• What is your niche?
• Who are your customers?
• What do they need from you?
• Why do they need your products and services?
• What is their tipping point that will cause them to buy from you?

If you keep the needs of your subscribers in mind as your first priority and develop a funnel that addresses those needs effectively, you will build a responsive opt in list over time. Once you have received an opt in subscriber you should treat them like gold and recognize that there is a longterm value for every member of your list.

I am here to help you succeed!

(c) Copyright 2008-2009 James A. Holmes. All Rights Reserved.

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Note: I am a Affiliate Marketer and it should be assumed that links provided within the content of this blog and individual blog post are affiliate links from which I may be compensated for sales made at the recommended sites. All products and service recommendations are made as a result of my personal experience with the product or service provider.

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