Your Voice: Community Building

What You Can Learn From Fishing Also Applies to List Building!

One of Mynders’ favorite things to do is  to flyfish. So, it makes sense that his business building metaphors come to him when he’s enjoying nature. When you’re  building a list, it is a lot like fishing. When you go fishing, your goal is to catch fish, right? Just like list-building, where your goal is to [...]

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Are You Substituting Social Marketing for Email Marketing?

It’s almost a given that you should have an email list and do email marketing if you have a business on the internet. You simply must create an email list of customers and prospects. Period. With the advent of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, there are some marketers who are paying [...]

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Segment Your List & Maximize Your Profits

Whether you are using an online system such as an autoresponder to manage your list, or just keep names in an Excel spreadsheet, don’t just settle for a clump of names. If you build your list through a number of avenues, and maybe through different specific interests related to your market, you want to know [...]

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6 Reasons to Fan Your Listbuilding II Take Facebook to The Next Level

You’re familiar with Facebook Fan Pages…and maybe even have one…but are you fully utilizing its power? Fan pages originally were offered by Facebook as a place where its Members could promote their business messages, given that facebook profile pages are intended to be personal in nature. The idea is that your prospect has to make a conscious [...]

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Building An Email List – Should You Rent Names?

When you are just getting started online and your list is made up of 7 people, two of whom are your siblings, it’s really tempting to rent an email list or buy a CD that the seller says is packed full of the email addresses of eager customers. While this may be effective if you [...]

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Is Your Business Email List a Targeted Direct Mail List?

If you have a subscription or opt-in list for your business, then you already have an email list. But if you want to make this an effective business email list, you have to use it like a direct mail list. So how do you turn just any old email list into a business email list? [...]

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Build Your List Easily Using the Right Email Campaign Software

Almost no serious online business owner planning to build a business email list even briefly considers managing that list by hand. Pretty much everyone knows they need to use some sort of email campaign software. There are many different ways to set up and automate email list marketing, however, so how do you determine which [...]

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Build a Business Email List in Your Niche Market

One of the first things you must do when you start an online business is to select your niche, or market. The next thing you will want to do is start to build a business email list in that market or niche. In order to have a powerful and effective list, you must build it [...]

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Leverage Systems In Your Business to Maximize Results

A big goal here is to get maximum results with minimum time and effort. It seems that there is always more to do in a day than you can complete, so you want the time you DO spend on your list-building and business activities to be the ones that generate income. The temptation that often [...]

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Duplicate Your Efforts for Maximum List-Building Results

Are you old enough to remember the commercial that advised you to ‘lather, rinse and repeat’ when you used their shampoo? Even if you didn’t see those commercials live, I’ll bet you have heard of them. Are you asking what the heck shampoo commercials have to do with your list-building efforts? Glad you asked… Congratulations! [...]

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