9 Ways of How to Build an Email List

 

9 Ways of How to Build an Email List

By: Matt Bacak

Email marketing is one of the best ways to build a stable online income. Successful email marketing requires that you make a high quality email list. That being said, the following are a few ways to direct your efforts into building the best email list.

1.    Use eye catching sign up forms

You have to make sign up forms that people notice immediately when they visit any page of your website. Adding animations and a variety of color schemes will ensure that your email marketing list grows exponentially.

2.    Giveaways

Building a list entails enticing people to willingly give you a valid email address. Giving away something relevant like a gift card is one of the best ways to do this. Just make sure you stick to a regular schedule e.g. once a fortnight.

3.    Affiliate marketing

You can create an affiliate program and let affiliate marketers create a viable email marketing list for you. This method entails that you spend money but the upside is that you’ll get a very large number of high quality email addresses within a relatively short time.

 4.    Use social media

Fan pages for your business or website on major social networks will really help when building a good quality email marketing list. This is because you can easily create a conversation about a relevant topic and therefore entice your followers to submit email addresses in order to get more information. Most professional email marketers agree that this is one of the best ways of how to build an email list.

5.    Use Surveys

Creating a relevant survey and having a large number of respondents of one of the most effective ways of building a list. You can have people answer a few questions and design the survey in such a way that they have to get the results by email. This will mean that they have to provide valid email addresses. You have to make sure that the questions in the survey create eagerness in the respondents.

6.    High quality content

Websites that are very effective in building an email marketing list usually have very high quality content. This content causes readers to subconsciously subscribe in a bid to get more information. This means that you should spend a lot of time researching and developing good content and adding email subscription boxes at the bottom of the articles.

7.    Use relevant plugins 

This is an effective way of how to build a mailing list on autopilot. There are a variety of free and premium plugins available that ask visitors to a website to submit the email addresses in order to get premium content, enter a contest etc. Installing these plugins on your sites gives you more time to spend on more profitable email marketing list building ventures.

8.    Create trust

You have to create a relationship with your subscribers by providing high quality content in the emails, creating interesting conversations, marketing only quality products and the like. This trust will cause your respondents to forward your emails to their friends effectively building a list.

9.    Use other marketers

Contact other email marketers in your field and ask them to write about your website on their sites and you can do the same for them. This ad swap is usually beneficial for both parties.

In a nutshell, building a list requires quite a lot of effort but the benefits of a high online income is usually well worth it.

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5 Rebel Marketing Strategies You Can Use for Your Home-Based Business

5 Rebel Marketing Strategies

You Can Use for Your

Home-Based Business

By: Matt Bacak

Many entrepreneurs start with a vision. This vision begins as a seedling that grows when nurtured. Entrepreneurs are good listeners; they listen to consumers’ wants and set about to fill a void, a missed opportunity or a need for a specific product or service. They brainstorm options as they lay out the dynamics of a product (or service), the design, and the solution to consumers problem. While many entrepreneurs are good at developing home business ideas, they struggle with ways in which to market their product or service needed to help it grow.

1. Make sure you have a website – a place where potential customers can find you

Perception is everything. In 2011, Google and Intuit teamed up to provide small businesses with a free website for one year. WordPress and Blogger have also made it relatively easy to create a website in as little time as thirty minutes. A few home-based business owners believe that they don’t need a website especially if they have a Facebook page or a Squidoo lens in lieu of a website. A website never sleeps; it serves as a marketing tool 24/7. As you begin to build a customer base and drive traffic to your website, customers should feel confident and safe in doing business with you. Having your own website and showing what you offer is the first step in professional presentation.

2. Know your target audience inside and out.

Be as specific as possible, and write down exactly the type of person you want as a customer. This profile will go a long way in narrowing your marketing opportunities. Who are they? What are their demographics? What is their problem? Where do they hang out, shop or go in their spare time? By identifying your ideal customer ahead of time you won’t be wasting marketing dollars going after a group that doesn’t need or want your product. For example, you are a personal trainer who works with new moms to help lose their last ten pounds of post pregnancy baby fat. Your ideal customers are women in their mid-twenties to early forties, who recently gave birth; they work full-time jobs and have very little free time to themselves. This information will be useful in marketing to this group of women as you will see in the next step.

 

3. Market to one specific group – not one size fits all

Rather than trying to offer your product or service to a vast audience “one size fits all” campaign, you have zeroed in on a specific target market – women who recently gave birth. All of your marketing efforts will be focused on new moms who are trying to lose that last ten pounds of post pregnancy fat. While your service may work with other groups, such as college students and women over 40 who haven’t recently given birth, all of your marketing materials will carry the same message because your ideal customers have something in common – they are carrying ten extra pounds of post pregnancy baby fat. You don’t have to dilute your marketing message to a broader audience such as new moms, college students and women over 40. These three groups of women have different needs, different lifestyles and different goals which means they have different marketing messages.

4. Social media

Studies show 97 percent of people search online before they make a purchase. Therefore, it is important that you have a social media presence as these internet surfers may be potential customers. While all social media sites are used to build relationships, there are ways to market your product by offering interactive polls, posting questions and offering contests. Also, be sure to include your website and all of your social media addresses on all correspondence such as email signatures, letterhead, business cards, advertisements, invoices and receipts.

5. Tie in your product or service with headline news

There are two types of news: planned and headline. Assignment editors plan out news stories months in advance. Regardless of the length of time, all media put their planned stories on hold when breaking headline news happens. This is a perfect opportunity for you to tie in your product or service with the headline news. For example, a major network recently broadcast several shows on “Made in America” products. Hundreds of small businesses reached out to the network to let them know their products were “Made in America”. As a result, dozens of companies were interviewed for the series (and received free exposure on national news).

Marketing is a work in progress. It is something that you continuously do with the understanding your marketing strategies may change as a result of advances in technology and innovation. Two years ago, a small group of people visited Pinterest. Today the number of unique visitors to Pinterest has grown 20X in the last six months.

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Hey there,

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Ways to Market your Work at Home Businesses on the Web

 

Ways to Market your Work at

Home Businesses on the Web

 

By: Matt Bacak

If you are looking for home-based business opportunities, you first need to see which one is the most marketable. Without customers, any business will fail, no matter what kind of great idea it was based on. Take your home businesses ideas and think about how they would work on the internet. The internet is a growing tool that can help you market your business effectively so that you can reach the most people possible.

  1. Research the marketplace and know what your customers really want. In the same way, take a look at your competitor’s website and check for an open forum about problems that people have had with this company. Learn from those mistakes and do better than all of your competition by not only meeting the standards of your customers but exceeding the expectations of customers that are currently using another company’s service that they are unsatisfied with.
  2. Keep in touch with the users and customers of your work at home businesses. They want to feel noticed, so show that you’re listening to them and have considered all of their needs. Start a blog where you can write what is happening in your business and keep your customers informed. You can even do video blogs so that people can see your face and become more familiar with the person who is selling them the products.
  3. Some at home business ideas are too stuck in the past. Make sure that your idea is not based on something that was only a trend and is no longer popular. You want a sturdy business that can grow and adapt as the world changes. Even if your products change for a new, younger audience as time goes on, good home-based business opportunities allow your company name to thrive even when your products do not. With good branding, you can survive failure. Allow your name to be known above all else so that, even if one of your services or products is a flop, you can continue getting business because people know your name.
  4. Think about how you could promote your home business ideas online. One of the most important parts of running a business at home is putting your best foot forward and allowing as many people as possible to learn about what you are doing. Work at home businesses mean that your face or storefront aren’t out in the open for people to notice. You’ll need to actively show people who you are and what you are all about. It can take a while to become comfortable doing this, but it is absolutely necessary for the kind of business that you’ll want.
  5. Spread your business marketing across many different platforms. Make sure that you are reaching all of your potential customers by using all kinds of different marketing techniques. Update a personal blog, create a Facebook page, tweet out news, start an RSS feed for high-tech customers, offer a weekly newsletter or email for low-tech customers and frequent forums that allow you to talk about your business freely.
  6. Don’t forget about press releases. Although they might seem scary, press releases are an important thing to think about as you consider home-based business opportunities. What would you write your press releases about? First, you have to have something newsworthy. Think of all of the reasons why a press release would need written up for your company: an all-new opportunity for a niche group, a meet-up, a heavy discount like never before, a problem with an old product that has now been fixed, tie-ins with charity or even more reasons.
  7. Appreciate your customers and the people who help you. Although it might be fun thinking about at home business ideas, it can be difficult to run one effectively. You want to notice all of the people who have made this possible for you and treat them accordingly.  You can send them a free sample of something; offer your thanks publicly on your website or even just give a quick email that shows your appreciation. Customers and friends who feel as though they have been noticed after doing a good job will be more likely to help you or buy something in the future.
  8. Don’t copy other people’s material. You didn’t get into the business to constantly steal somebody else’s work; you want to do your own! Besides that, people don’t want to see the same stuff rehashed multiple times. Good work at home businesses offer something that no other business in the industry can, so demonstrate to your audience that you can provide them with reading material and research. That will show them that you can also be trusted to give them unique products and services.
  9. Associate yourself with others in your industry, especially if they are doing well. You can ride on their coattails for a little while when you first get started in order to get more visibility. Do some positive or helpful critiques of what they do, but also mention that they have inspired you to start your own business as well. Don’t ever be afraid to link yourself with someone who is doing a little better than you are, but also mention about how your business is different from theirs.

 

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Press On by Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

J. Calvin Coolidge,
30th President of the United States of America

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See you in the mobile world,

Matt Bacak

Surgery Update

Please excuse the errors I’m typing with my left hand.

I would like to thank everyone for the thoughts and prayers.

The best way to explain how things went is from my mom’s recent Facebook post:

“Thank you everyone. Matt is doing good. His friends delivered two recliners last night. (The doc said he has only seen this type break in 2 percent of his patients. He had a break in his shoulder and 1/3 of the ball on rotary cuff was broken. The surgeon and anesthologist were awesome. They said they felt the prayers. “

this is what I look like now… but feel alot better then before surgery.

 

 

Thanks again for all the thoughts and prayers.

Matt Bacak

 

 

my surgery

Please send Thoughts, Prayers and
Energy to my surgeon today.

I’ll be under the knife at 1:45 est.

It’s actually worse then I ever thought…

They are not sure how long it will actually take
because they are worried about the fact I broke
off  50% of socket where arm hits shoulder.

Yea they told me this yesterday. :-(

No wonder it hurts like hell and my arm
keeps coming out of the socket. What sucks
is it’s my right arm, and I’m right handed.

At this moment, the doctor is unsure
if I’ll be able to throw a ball again.

However, I’m confident I’ll figure
a way to do it no matter what.

My Redneck Adventure 2012

Last weekend I invited a bunch of my buddies
to come play out at my land. We drove my 4-wheelers
and ate some AWESOME food. Unfortunately for me,
I was thrown off my 4-Wheeler while trying to avoid
a fallen tree on the path (the reason for the sling)…

Then on Sunday, we all went to Atlanta for the Richard
Petty Driving Experience. I couldn’t drive due to my
shoulder being hurt, so I called one of my friends to
come and replace me. However, I actually did enjoy
watching them on the track even though I wanted to be
out there myself.

Everyone had a blast. A couple of guys enjoyed it so
much, they went for even more laps.

There is nothing like my Redneck Adventures!!

Pictured below is everyone that attended.

Increase Website Traffic

How to Increase Website Traffic?

 

By: Matt Bacak

If you have a website on the internet, your main concern is to generate traffic to increase your websites popularity and thus gain more profits. Website companies are constantly looking for ways to increase their popularity so that they are one step ahead of their competition at all times. You do whatever it takes and spend whatever it costs so that you can maintain your place among your competitors and increase their potential customers. There are many ways that one can increase website traffic. Creative steps should be taken, expensive as they may seem, to make the site more appealing to potential customers and thereby increase profit.

The best and most effective way on how to increase website traffic is search engine optimization. Search engine optimization means to increase the visibility of a website by applying certain creative methods that makes the website more appealing to the public searching the internet. It increases the website’s rank in the search engine so that there is a larger chance that the website will be visited by people searching the internet. Search engine optimization enables website companies to maximize their profit by increasing their popularity in exchange for their investment. It increases the visibility of the webpage thereby increasing its chances of being visited by users.

The more and more a site appears on a general search page, the likelier it is to be visited by people looking for what the site might have to offer. It gives the internet company the opportunity to increase their ranks in the search engine and thus improve their traffic. The more people visit their profile, the more are the chances of increasing their customers. Companies should invest their money in SEOs so that they can reap the benefits and increase their traffic. Search engine optimization is the most popular way to increase website traffic.

There are also other answers to the question on how to increase website traffic. Another way is to build backlinks for your website. These backlinks will ensure that your website is mentioned on other websites, also increase chances of increased traffic. Make sure you offer your visitors something that no other website offers. Make sure you maintain this exclusivity. Add content that is helpful to the visitors and present this information in a presentable manner that is appealing to the eyes of the visitor. Keep your website fresh and keep reinventing it. Offer your visitors special discounts and advantages if your website involves sale of a commodity.

Use the right amount of textures and backgrounds is too much can distract the individual viewing the website. Also, make sure your page is easily navigational so that the visitor does not lose track or get confused. Also see to it that it is fresh and interesting for the visitors so that they come back again.

Search engine optimization is a great way to get all the attention your business has been looking for. All you need to do is research before you invest in it.

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