Expert Internet Marketing Strategy #1
In the early days of marketing online you didn’t even need a website to be successful.
You just needed an email list to regularly send messages to, plus a product to sell or a product to recommend (affiliate programs). Now it’s pretty easy to find a friend, or friend of a friend, to setup a website for you. But you still need to be building a list.
It’s one of the few assets that if properly maintained will give back to you over time.
In today’s world there is SPAM compliance, double opt-in and everything else to worry about. But still one of the best “cheap” resources you can get to build your online business is an autoresponder.
Ask just about any marketing expert how they make big money…
They’ll tell you that “the money is in the list”. Yes there are other important factors to generating autopilot income online, but one of the first things you should do is start building your list.
There are several top rated autoresponder systems to use. Get Response, Instant Contact, and many others. Personally, I tried out Aweber’s autoresponder service and couldn’t imagine needing anything else.
It’s cheap, easy to use and offers every feature and more that I would need. I guess it’s not surprising that it’s been one of the top 100 most visited websites on the planet.
I really don’t have any complaints about Aweber except an unpleasant experience with one of their “know-it-all” tech guys who I had a “live support” chat with. He basically told me that I was lying about what I was seeing on my computer screen.
What a bone-head!
He got me pretty fired up, but I figure there are morons working at just about any company and besides a couple questions, the experience has been real easy and fun.
Plus if you run multiple websites they offer the ability to setup lists for each site all in one central login.
Once you have your site up and running you need to learn a little bit about listbuilding. Keep an eye out for the high-tech listbuilding product I’ll be putting out soon…
