List building is the life-blood of Internet Marketing

One of the most valuable things that you can do to
receive long-term income is to capture the contact
information of those people who have shown an
interest in whatever product or service you are
offering.

You see, one of the mistakes individuals make and which
really hurts their ability to make money is when you have an
offer that directs the prospect immediately to the
offer page. Let’s say you are selling an ebook, and
perhaps you’ll use pay per click advertising or maybe
something else, and you send the prospect directly to
the website offering the ebook.

That’s a mistake, as if they do not buy, then
guess what — you’ll lose the opportunity to plant
and build a good relationship with them to buy it later
on from you. That’s a big deficit!

This is why lead generation is so important. You
must generate leads therefore that you can contact people
many times. After all, even the best websites merely
have a 3% toward 5% conversion rate — and that is the
really high end; it has been reported that most sites have an abandonment
rate of 95% to 98%.

If you are not getting people’s information such that
you have numerous opportunities to impact them with
your message, to get them interested, and to compel
them to believe from you — your profits will never be
what you hope for.

So you need to start making plans now for how you
are going to get people to give you their information.
This is very important. What you need to do is
create valuable information which is going to assist your prospects
in getting something done, and then you can offer
them the content absolutely free in exchange,
minimally, for their name and email address.

This is clearly one the most powerful things you can
do when you advertise.

So start planning today at how you are going to
get your prospects’ names and email addresses, at a
minimum. Do this effectively and you’ll be able to
generate income steadily ad infinitum!




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2 Responses to “List building is the life-blood of Internet Marketing”

  1. Matt Hanson Says:

    Good writing. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed my Google News Reader..

    Matt Hanson

  2. laurbHabrap Says:

    Thanks !

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