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Outsourced Email List Building
Interested in strongly accelerating your email list building results?
Follow along as I show you how a Virtual Assistant can help you bring you traffic and subscribers.
Why is an email list important?
Building an email list is the most important step of truly getting successful with your online business.
- Get ahead of your competition by starting your online business with the right set of tools.
- As you “capture” interested people in your email list, you can start building a relationship with them. This way, it will be most effective when you really want to recommend a product to them.
Having a responsive, growing list is crucial for your success.
Getting traffic to your websites is the first step for building your list.
How a Virtual Assistant can help you with tasks within your email marketing service
I tested different email delivery services and without question, Aweber is the best one. It has extensive training materials available. This makes it very easy even for an inexperienced (and possibly lower cost) Virtual Assistant to get trained without much effort from the side of you, the employer.
Some tasks that are time consuming that can be effectively outsourced to a VA:
- Set up emails from a word file in the Aweber interface. Especially if you use advanced designs, colors etc
- Moving email autoresponders that you have set up in the past with the classic autoresponder to the more flexible and modern campaign builder. This can be very time consuming to do on your own if you have long autoresponders or many lists
- Setting up lists if you segment your audience. This means that you send one set of messages to visitors interested in one aspect of your business and another one to other groups of your visitors. This allows for much better conversion rates.
- Your VA can review reports, analytics from the Aweber interface and point out actionable informations for you, so that you don’t have to review the analytics yourself. Checking on analytics daily is a very pointless and ineffective, but easy to fall in time consuming activity. Just leave it to your VA who will focus on just the right things.
Put to work an email list building ebook with a VA
Your email list building efforts should all start with a comprehensive list building blueprint.
The overall blueprint involves a lot of work. Just to be honest with you.
The work needed for these strategies to work is more time consuming than hard, actually. And that’s exactly the right moment to leverage your time using outsourcing.
You can turn the hard work into more easy list building by getting one trustworthy Virtual Assistant to help you.
What are some steps to start?
First, it’s important to understand the concept of a viral list builder.
Warning:
If you don’t stay focused and jump right in, you risk losing lots of time and even money, as these services try really hard to upgrade you from free to paying members!
Three proven services that work
Here are three services (from a choice of many dozen services – don’t get sucked into it too fast!) that you can check out to generate quite a bit of traffic.
- Inform yourself about the email service Viralinbox to keep the emails in your personal email account manageable. This is especially useful when you start using multiple viral list builders!
- Protect all your “viral affiliate links” that you will use in this email list building project with ViralURL.
- Ready to effectively generate traffic? To start, I recommend the State-of-the-Art-Mailer (SOTAM) from personal experience (including a free ebook with step-by-step instructions!).
No need to do all at once (even if all these services will try to convince you to sign up everywhere).
Stay calm and focused, and work with your VA on each service until you get the traffic and results you need. Don’t invest any money (except in your assistant, of course), before you don’t see any subscriptions.
State Of The Art Mailer – An Insider Look About Traffic Generations
In my opinion, State of the Art Mailer (or SOTAM) is effective and, more importantly, fun safelist to start with.
A combination of the most effective list mailers is the best way to generate substantial traffic. Using SOTAM for traffic generation is a solid starting point.
State Of The Art Mailer In A Nutshell
Traffic generated with a free account (real statistics):
300-350 visits per month with less than 5 min per day of work- You’ll receive ~50 mails per day in your inbox (and you can learn here how you can still keep your inbox clean from all these emails)
- Solid and proven traffic generation in comparison to other list mailers; visitors interested in the IM niche
- Diverse advantages of safelists, including downline building explained
- Perfect for outsourcing traffic generation (traffic for 0,6 US cents CPC!)
- Step-by-step instructions to give away to your assistant (or for your own use)
Your Main Goals:
- Generate traffic using the safelist State of the Art Mailer (or SOTAM).
- Sent that traffic to a landing page where you can gain real subscribers (once they sign-up)
- Market your message to your subscribers (ideally relevant to the internet marketing niche)
How Much Traffic Will You Be Able To Generate?
From my experience over more than a year, you can generate 300 visits per month with the State of the Art Mailer. That’s for the free account. If you go premium, you can get more visits, but I didn’t test that.
It’s clear you need more traffic.
You can achieve more traffic by scaling up to more similar list mailer services. Once you understand the principle you are about to learn here, you can reproduce that with any list mailers!
The process:
We made a series of trial and error runs, and found the most time-effective way of using SOTAM.
Who is “we”?
I outsourced the credit generation for SOTAM to several Virtual Assistants who did not have any previous experience about that topic. I made sure to teach them exactly how to generate traffic most effectively.
Now, I am going to show you an…
Effective Step By Step Guide To Using Sotam
1. Create A Simple Signup-Page
Since list mailers send traffic from all sort of sources, I kept things “clean” for my site and created a very basic landing page using blogger (totally free)
Important elements of your landing page:
- The title (most important element of the whole page)
- A few bullet points with your advantages for the subscriber
- Your personal voice – there are too many gurus out there
2. Equip Squeeze Page With An Aweber Signup Form
You will gather subscribers with SOTAM traffic (and from other list mailers for more effectiveness) here. With AWeber you can split test the best variations of your sign-up call-to-action. This will maximize your conversion rate.
AWeber has an excellent built-in split-test feature to optimize your conversion rate
3. Generate Credits With The Help Of A Virtual Assistant!
With the free State of the Art Mailer membership account, you can mail up to 3000 members every 5 days from your previous email.
Before in sending your email template to 3000 members, you should maximize your credits to 3000 credits for maximum traffic.
You can spend the time clicking away to gain credits yourself. It may sound easy, just clicking away, but it can be very dragging and tedious work…
Tips:
- You should use a separate email or Viralinbox account only for SOTAM and other viral mailers.
- You can open multiple windows from your email account (CTRL+left click) to “claim credits”. This is not possible from within the SOTAM account website because they allow only one window at a time.
The time waiting and clicking will probably just burn out all your energy (my VA Jomvie can attest to that!).
Easier Solution:
These credits can be generated with the help of a virtual assistant.
This information is all you need to start outsourcing traffic generation today!
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4. Create A Catchy Email With A Bit.Ly Shortened Link For Link Tracking
Before spending our credits, you should create a catchy email body and title that will be used to introduce your landing site. It needs to be catchy because you only have a few seconds to get the attention of the SOTAM user clicking through your email.
In our case, since my website talks about OUTSOURCING, we have created a catchy and inviting title.
To be able to monitor and track the traffic, we used bit.ly’s shortened link to track all updates.
Create your own bit.ly account (or use ViralURL for more synergyzing effects). Its sole purpose is to track and monitor your visitors (and potential subscribers!) clicks.
5. TIME TO SEND YOUR FREE EMAIL TEMPLATE TO 3000 MEMBERS!
After all these crucial steps, you can now send your email using SOTAM’s smart emailing system. To illustrate, in our case, we insert our:
- Subject/title
- Final draft email (body of email)
- Shortened link
6. Now Your Email Readers Will Sign Up To Your Aweber List!
The reason why you need your squeeze page with an AWeber signup form is to expand or increase your list with the help of State of the Art Mailer traffic.
Once they open our email and click the embedded shortened link, they will then be redirected to your landing page. And with the help of a catchy title and email, they will now register using your sign-up form and join your list.
With your list expanding with the free (or, if outsourced, dirt-cheap) list mailer traffic, you can market to your list and get direct and returning traffic.
More Good-To-Know Facts
How Many Mails Will You Receive Per Day?
You will get an average of 50 emails a day. Each email ad consists of 12-15 credits, which mean you can get more than 650 credits a day.
(Rememember our tip to use a separate email account or a ViralInbox account)
Solid and proven traffic generation in comparison to other list mailers; visitors interested in the IM niche.
Traffic Quality Is Very Good – Mainly From High Cpc Countries
Using tracker links, we analyzed the traffic quality of State of the Art Mailer traffic. The results:
Solid quality traffic mostly from high cost per click english speaking countries (USA, UK and Canada).
Conclusion
The State of the Art Mailer is a recommended safelist generates solid traffic for you. This process is
- stable,
- reproducible,
- easy to outsource for maximum ROI.
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