Quick Guide to List Building

Monday, March 31, 2014
List building is a tedious and time-consuming process. For online businesses that have been in the online world for a long time, they know that building a list is an important factor to make money.

For businesses starting to go online, it is important to build your list as early as possible to introduce your business to a market that shows interest in your products and service.

Here are steps on how you can quickly build your list.
  1. Lure customers with the details of your products. Online users have become smarter on choices of what to read and what to buy.
  2. Since they only see pictures of the product, they often research about details of the product to keep them well-informed.
  3. Let the clients know what the purpose of your products is and what your intentions of communicating with them are.
  4. Build a list with potential prospects. Remember to narrow down your list to potential clients whom you know will stay with you and will buy your products and services.
  5. The number of traffic in your website will not determine your number of sales.
  6. You should stick to your list and constantly communicate with your clients.
  7. Don't ask too much information. It is annoying for any person to be asked about a lot of personal information. That can be a waste of time for some people.
  8. It is important to narrow down the information that you will ask. Ask only the most important questions to build up your list like name and email address.
  9. Remember that your purpose is to build connection and not to collect people's CVs.
  10. Add a confirmation feature to your website. After a visitor register to your site, send a link to their emails to confirm that the email address is correct.
  11. That way you can be sure that you are sending to proper email addresses and will not be considered a spam. Once they have confirmed through your link, then they become part of your opt-in list.
  12. Give your clients a token for giving you their contact information. You can give a free gift or a coupon or you can allocate a gift that has a dollar value.
  13. Make sure that your target market will be pleased with your gift to keep them interested. Send informative articles which have links to your site.