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Soren Jordansen just released a great free ebook called “Internet Marketing Success Formula”.  You can download it for free here:

http://www.gettingstartedonlinefast.com/imsf/download.html

In addition to providing some great step-by-step instructions, he shares some really interesting survey results (such as over 50% of the people who responded to his survey are not making a single cent online). 

One of my personal goals is to help as many people as possible to start building a list and make that first sale.  As a result, I have teamed up with a friend of mine (Lance T.) and we are currently creating a course that will help people do just that. 

It is going to include step-by-step instructions, videos, and even teleseminars, and for a limited time we are planning to give it away for FREE (we really want to help people and are willing to provide the training for free in exchange for your testimonials and feedback).  Does that sound fair? 

Anyway, this is going to be a limited opportunity since we want to make sure we have enough time to help everyone who signs up, but I just want to confirm that this is something my readers and subscribers would be interested in.

Please leave a comment below to let me know and if there is enough interest I will let you know how you can sign up for FREE and get started!

To your success!

Jit Uppal

P.S. Don’t forget to download Internet Marketing Success Formula here:

http://www.gettingstartedonlinefast.com/imsf/download.html

As you may know, I recently interviewed Lee McIntyre and one of the questions I asked him during our interview together was “Since you’re well known for having a very responsive list, can you please share with us some tips on how you would recommend building one from scratch?”

As I’m sure you can guess, Lee revealed some awesome tips which I have included below.  

Lee McIntyre:  “Okay. Unlike a lot of the gurus and so-called experts out there, I’m not actually going to give you any theory now. I’m going to take a step back and I’m going to tell you about how I built my list. It’s almost exactly a year ago that I had zero subscribers in the Internet Marketing niche. I created a product that was called Auction Profits Unleashed. I drove traffic to that product using affiliates.

I went out there, recruited affiliates, gave them an incentive to promote my product for me, and as they promoted my product, those customers who bought the product joined my list. I didn’t have any contacts at the time. I didn’t have any JV partners. I just did it completely from scratch.

After two weeks of selling that product completely from scratch with no contacts and no JV partners, I built a list of 602 people. I then took part in an e-mail promotion for John Thornhill’s launch. I ended up being the number three affiliate with just a list of 603 people. People below me in the affiliate ladder had lists of 50,000 to 80,000 people! It’s just incredible when you think about it.

I want to share with you how that works. By the end of the month, I had a list of 1200 people. It might surprise you to know that up until week two, when I had a list of 600, I didn’t have a squeeze page. I didn’t have an opt-in form on my blog. All I had was a product that I was selling.

Undoubtedly, if you want to start by building a responsive list, you need to focus on getting buyers into your funnel. You can still concentrate on getting free subscribers from giveaways and from your blog. That should be part of your marketing process. The primary focus when you first get started to build a responsive list should be to create a high-value product that is actually low priced so that you sell that product in volume. As people buy that product, they’ll join your list.

I only had a list of 600 people after two weeks. It was 600 buyers, though. There are people out there with a list of 30,000 who won’t have 600 buyers on their list. They’ll have about 100 buyers potentially. That’s where the responsiveness comes in. I would rather have a list of 600 buyers than a list of 100 buyers and a list of 29,900 freebie seekers. There’s nothing wrong with that either, but I’m just telling you my personal perspective.

That’s what I did. I created a product and I recruited affiliates. I gave affiliates a powerful reason to promote my product for me. That is completely how I would build a list. That’s how I built a list from scratch.

The second element of that is there is no use having a list if you can’t build relationships with it. You need to be able to cultivate and maintain relationships with your subscribers. The best advice I can give people on that particular topic in terms of how to do that is to treat your subscribers like individuals. By that, I mean don’t just treat them as a number on a balance sheet. Don’t just treat them as something to sell things to. Treat them as you would members of your own family.

You need to be aware that if you just try to sell them stuff all the time and you just treat them as numbers on a balance sheet, they will become unresponsive or less responsive to the offers you send. If you actually give good value, create content and send them content for free, for no expectation of anything in return, then they will respond to your offers.”

By the way, if you are interested in purchasing my entire interview with Lee, it is currently available for only $10 at http://www.gettingstartedonlinefast.com/lminterview/

To your success!

Jit Uppal

www.GettingStartedOnlineFast.com
www.MustHaveInternetMarketingTips.com

Hi there,

I just wanted to share with you a case study that Lee McIntyre did based on the interview I did with him recently.  The purpose of the case study is to show people how easy it is to create their own info product.  I hope you find this video useful and if you have any questions about how to create your own, please do not hesitate to ask.

To your success,

Jit Uppal

www.GettingStartedOnlineFast.com

There’s no doubt that somewhere along the way you’ve heard someone say, “The money is in the list.” Am I right? And today might be the day when you have finally come to realize that you need an opt-in list. So you started your pursuit by reading articles, did a little online searching, and maybe you have even been reading posts on your favorite forum. But maybe you’re not brand new to list building, maybe you started 6 months ago, 12 months ago maybe even a few years ago and you are paying monthly for that online account, but you’re just not satisfied with the results that you’re getting from your opt-in list.

Today’s blog post will address both of these things. You can accept this fact as truth: people have made small fortunes with their opt-in lists. And finally today you are probably in a place, in your heart and mind, where you’re ready to dedicate some of your time, money and resources  to growing your own opt-in list.

It might be said that your list is the most important marketing tool, and whether that’s true or not - if you don’t have one you are not achieving anywhere near your income potential.

While a large list of subscribers is important, the quality of that list is even more important. Your emails need to be opened, read and hopefully links are clicked on. The best way to achieve this result is to begin with that end goal in mind. You want your customers to trust you and your products, so begin by writing articles in your area of expertise. Post them not only in forums, but article directory sites. This is the beginning phase of building credibility, your online identity and your brand.

Always link back to your site, so the readers are able to see what your online business is all about, and what products you are offering. Even if you’re promoting other’s products, it’s truly hard for someone to trust and believe your recommendation if they haven’t first developed a relationship with you - that’s your goal and purpose.

The next thing is to keep a common theme in the material that you send to your list. For example, if you are building a list of pet owners there’s likely no point in mailing out an offer for a new weight loss product. Since it will just confuse your readers. Keep your e-courses, product offers and other material to a common thread or theme. Again, you are building rapport and credibility with your subscribers.  Third is to keep in touch with those on your list. In the past I built lists, and many months would go by between mailings. So, when  I finally did launch a new product and sent a mailing to my list, it was ineffective. Why? They didn’t remember who I was. Now how often you should mail your list will vary. Personally, I think that daily is just a bit too frequent, but I also subscribe to lists that the sender mails his subscribers, typically, twice daily.

The final point today is to make sure that when you build this list, you are using a reliable online service. The small monthly fee is very worthwhile, and you will be able to make that back in profits many times over.

I use and highly recommend AWeber.  They are known for having top notch email deliverability as well as excellent customer support, which are both very important. If you don’t have an autoresponder yet or you aren’t pleased with your current one, you can click here to learn more about AWeber:
http://www.gettingstartedonlinefast.com/recommends/bestautoresponder

Just remember, it’s never too late to start focusing some of your resources on building your opt-in list. So why not start today?

To your success,

Jit Uppal

www.GettingStartedOnlineFast.com
www.MustHaveInternetMarketingTips.com