There is a good chance that you may be letting potential subscribers to your email list slip through your fingers. It has nothing to do with your copy writing skills or the way your squeeze pages look. It is because of the popularity that Firefox web browser has gained and one of it's most widely used add ons.
This may or may not effect you depending on which autoresponder you use and how you add your autoresponder code to your squeeze page. I use Aweber as do a great majority of the Internet marketers that I know. When you create a web form in Aweber you click on a link to get the html code to put on your site.
The page defaults to a "Javascript Snippet" which is recommended. The reason for this is because you can make changes to the form and you don't have to make any changes on your website. The other option is the "Raw HTML Version". This code is easily customizable. You can change the look and feel of the optin form to better match your website.
I think that most people go with the recommended "Javascript Snippet" which can be a very costly error. Let me explain why. Firefox has become very popular and I would say that it is more popular amongst Internet marketers than IE. The number 1 downloaded add on for Firefox is called "AdBlockPlus".
This cool little add on blocks all kinds of advertisements which slow down your browsing. It blocks banners as well as javascripts that power a lot of advertisements. It will also block out your opt in form. Your squeeze page will show up with everything except for the little boxes where people enter their name and email address.
When I discovered this little tidbit, I realized that I had lost hundreds of potential subscribers to my list. (Thanks go to Rodger Hyatt for pointing this out to me.) I have always used the javascript code for all of my squeeze pages. If you are too, you need to get off your butt and change them right now because you are losing subscribers.
I am curious to know how many of you have fallen into this trap. Please leave a comment and tell me about your experiences with this. Maybe I'm the only dummy who has been doing this.
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I have been using JV Giveaways to build my list ever since I first downloaded the Profit Pulling Platform that Alex Jeffreys gave all his students back in December of 2008. The ebook that came with it, "List Building With Alex", is all about how Alex used JV Giveaways to build his list when he first started out.
I have been using giveaways ever since and added 2000 subscribers to my list since then. There have been a few developements on the JV Giveaway scene that have caused more and more people to use JV Giveaways. There are also a lot of people who are hosting there own giveaways then before.
That is good news for me and you because we have more list building opportunities. I myself am going to host my own giveaway the end of this month and also have one in the works with some of my fellow students that we are going to co-host.
Hosting my own giveaway event should make my list swell up considerably. What I have found is that now that I actually have a list of sorts, I have an asset that I can use as levereage to add even more subscribers to my list. I use my list to send traffic to other people and get paid for it.
Now I can actually get paid cash, (already had a couple offers) but I would rather get paid in subscribers. What I am talking about is ad swaps. This is where I send your email to my list and you send my email to your list. Very simple, but very effective. This is something that you don't here the guru's talk about much but it is going on in the background all the time.
When I was at Alex's workshop in Vegas, I met Jit Uppal and Lance Tamashiro. Both of them were telling me about how they were having great success using ad awaps to build there list. They told me about a site called IMadswaps where you can find other internet marketers who are looking for ad swap partners.
This is a great way to diversify your list building strategy and to meet other Internet marketers. Making contact and doing a successful ad swap can open the door to many other joint venture partnership possibilities.
One thing I have seen is that the internet marketers, that are making big paydays, are doing it with traffic from JV partners. They are not submitting articles, using traffic exchanges, safelists, press relaeases and social media. Ok, well they are in the pre launch phases to cause a buzz but the server crushing traffic on launch day is coming from joint venture partners mailing to their lists.
That is why you keep hearing over and over and over again, "the money is in the list". My mentor Alex Jeffreys told me that if I only had one thing that I must do, it is build a list. List building takes precedent over all the other things in my online business right now.
Your email list is not only your greatest asset, it is the same as having currency that you can leverage with other Internet marketers. Another thing that Alex told me, "look for ways to leverage everything you do".
So if you aren't building your list yet, then get off your ass and start doing it now! If you don't know how, download my ebook, read it and start using JV Giveaways. That is by far the easiest way for a beginner to start building your list. Once you have a list of a couple hundred, you can start doing adswaps with other people and your list will grow even faster.
If you have any questions please leave a comment and I will respond. I would love to hear your thoughts on this subject and I am always open to new ideas. If you leave a comment I will respond within a day so be patient. I don't do this full time yet so I am at work 8 hours a day.
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I have seen a lot of my fellow students needing help with the whole JV Giveaway thing. I have built more than a few blogs and websites, so things like setting up a thank you page or a squeeze page are pretty much routine for me.
I do remember how much I struggled with tasks like this in the beginning so I totally understand people having problems with this. Just because you have detailed instructions or even a step by step video, it can still be a daunting undertaking for a newbie. For me, in the beginning, it was mostly very frustrating and time consuming.
I have come up with a solution for those of you who are struggling and want to get started with your list building. Here is what I propose.
I will set up the following for you at no cost.
- a squeeze page for the product that you want to give away.
- a thank you page that will alert your subscribers that they must check their email and confirm.
- a download page that your subscribers will be taken to after they confirm their opt in.
- I will set up your first follow up message in Aweber (must be Aweber)
- a video that will show you how to set all of this up yourself.
- a video that will show you how to take these same pages and make them work for other giveaways, simply by changing the information in a config file.
- I will show you some ways to promote your JV giveaway links at no cost.
This will let you go ahead and get started with your list building while you learn. I will not charge you anything for this but do expect a few things in return. This will make it a win win for all of us.
Here is what I will require from you:
- You must sign up for my JV Giveaway notification list at http://marketersmantras.com/giveaways
- When ever you join a JV giveaway, you will join from that page through my referral links. (you have to join through some one's link, it might as well be mine)
- You have to promise to participate! Please don't waste my time. My time is limited so I will not be able to help everyone. This will be on a first come first serve and I will work down the list as I can.
- If you don't have a product, hosting, auto responder or any of the necessary tools to participate in a JV Giveaway, you will join through my affiliate links.
I hope this sounds fair to you. If it doesn't…tough titty. That is the deal. I get paid around $40 per hour at my regular job and my time off is worth waaaay more than that to me. I am doing this because I remember how hard it was when I first got involved with internet marketing. I also realize that the majority of the visitors to this blog are fellow students of Alex Jeffreys coaching program.
I can knock out these web pages fairly quickly but I will only be able to do a few per day. Depending on how many people sign up for this, I will try and designate an hour or 2 on the weekends where we can talk or chat via Skype if you have any questions.
If you are interested, then leave a comment and email me here: giveawayhelp at jtmartin.net
I wrote out at because those f—-n spammers use software to harvest email addresses and the software looks for the @ symbol. I am going to play this by ear and see how it goes. I can't promise anything except that I will do my best to get you set up and show you how to do it your self so you will no longer need my help.
PS – Now is the time to start building your list. Ever since Jason James launched his Giveaway Riches product, new JV Giveaway events are popping up all over the place. There have been over 6 new ones announced just in the last week. Lots of list building opportunities. Don't miss out. I will help you.
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I finally got my new ebook up on the blog with an opt in form and it is now available at several JV giveaway events. Between the ebook and my computer having a total melt down, I haven't made a blog post in almost a month.
Shame on me, but some times your life just gets in the way of what you are trying to accomplish. All you can do is go with the flow and do what you can. I am not one to make excuses so I won't.
Things are almost back to normal. I have most of my software re-installed and have my email accounts set up in Outlook again. My computer has finally auto-downloaded all the updates that it had accumulated over the last 2 years and is up to snuff once again.
Now that my ebook is done, I have 2 major projects that I am working on.
The first is to finalize the details of the JV Giveaway that I am hosting, along with fellow Fortune 500'ers Gary Simpson, Garry Parkes, and Carl Barton. We will be announcing a launch date shortly and it looks like we may have some special deals for our fellow students.
Make sure you are subscribed to my RSS feed so you don't miss out on that. I have some really cool stuff planned besides these 2 projects.
The second major project is to finish something that I was working on before I got involved in the Alex Jeffreys coaching program. I was putting together a membership site based around my viral list building system that I call Traffic Hits Multiplier.
I was using it to build my list before Alex Jeffreys made me a believer in JV giveaways. The web site is still under construction but you can join for free (there is no paid membership, yet). Check out the "Quick Start" and you will discover some killer free programs that you can use to promote your JV Giveaways.
The system is designed for newbie marketers and for people on a very low budget. It shows you how to use traffic exchanges, safe lists, and other free viral programs to drive traffic and build your list at the same time at little or no cost.
I will keep you updated on both. The Giveaway is my number one priority right now. Plus I have already started getting a lot of responses about my ebook. It seems like it is going to be a hit.
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This past Friday I was able to meet my new coach and mentor, Alex Jeffreys, in person. Until now, we have only communicated via webinar and email. He lives in the UK but was here in Florida attending an event that Rich Schefren was holding for his students. Saturday and Sunday were full for him so I took off work on Friday and met him at his hotel.
We had some coffee and talked mostly about list building and email marketing. Alex has said from the beginning of the coaching program that building a list and creating a relationship of trust with your subscribers is paramount to your success and was the turning point in his career. When he made list building his number one priority is when he really started to make money online.
There is nothing new about this information! Everyone reading this has heard famous internet marketers repeat over and over again, "the money is in the list". So why is it that there are still thousands of want to be internet marketers out there that are still not building a list? I do not know for sure but for some, I think it has something to do with the fact that it is not that "get rich" button that they are looking for.
I suffered from this syndrone several years ago when I first started my internet marketing journey. I was a program hopper. I joined every matrix based, mlm, and network marketing program that came along tying to find the one that was going to make me independently wealthy in a matter of months. Man, if I had only spent that time building a list. I would have a list of 100,000 or more easily.
About 2 years ago I decided that my problem was that I needed to get out and "rub shoulders" with the gurus and start making some connections and joint venture partnerships. I didn't have a lot of money to spend, but I did manage to make it to 3 different internet marketing events. I got to talk with people like Keith and Jeff Wellman, Bob "the teacher" Jenkins, Mike Filesaime, and Jeff Dedrick, just to name a few.
They all pretty much asked me the same thing. "How are you building your list?" and "Who is your mentor?" I decided that it might just be a good idea to start building my list. I also looked into finding a coach or mentor but quickly decided that the price tag for that was totally out of my reach for the time being. I decided to work on the list building instead.
I had been using traffic exchanges a good bit in the past and had learned how to actually get some results. To this date the only sale I have had promoting the Profit Pulling Platform that Alex gave all of his students came from a subscriber who signed up via a traffic exchange. You can get results from traffic exchanges but there are much better ways.
I created a viral system that I call Traffic Hits Multiplier and I used it to build a list of 100 subscribers in a months time. I was in the process of modifying my viral system into a free membership site when I joined Alex's program. The project has been on hold since, although I do work on it a little bit now and then.
I have done much better with JV Giveaways. I have built a list of over 500 in Jan of this year using JV Giveaways. If you have read List Building With Alex, then you know that giveaways is how Alex started out with his list building. I discussed this at length with Alex and told him that I was going to be hosting my own JV Giveaway in the near future. (subject for another post soon to come)
I am using his friend, Jason James's, new product as a guide. Giveaway Riches is all about how to run your own JV giveaway event based on Jason's own experiences with the 3 Greedy Giveaways that he hosted in the past. The upsell for Giveaway Riches is the software to run your own giveaway along with some case studies and interviews with top JV Giveaway guru's like Mark Hendricks.
I have been really excited about my success with the JV Giveaways so far. It has inspired me to giveaway some PLR products for people to use in giveaways and to create some video tutorials to help you modify those products so you can use them as gifts in a JV giveaway. I am still putting the final touches on my ebook "JV Giveaways Unleashed" which I will be giving away shortly.
I am going to follow the ebook with the JV giveaway event as soon as I can get everything set up and working properly. I discussed my plans with Alex and he gave me a lot of encouragement and basically told me that right now, list building should be my number one priority. I am really stoked and ready to take this to the next level.
You know, it's one thing to read about how you should build your list and to even here big time gurus talk about it. But when I saw the look in Alex's eyes and could sense the genuine excitement in his voice as he told me about the success he had once he built a list of about 2000 subscribers, I knew that he was telling the truth.
He told me that if I keep doing what I am doing with the list building and concentrate on building a relationship with my new subscribers, that I will be able to quit my job by the end of the year. His parting words were "People make this out to be soooo hard, but it's not. It's actually easy if you just know what to do and do it."
That is the reason that I payed for a mentor. I had gotten to the point where it was difficult to put my heart into what I was doing. I wasn't sure that the actions I was taking were what I really needed to be doing. Now I have the advice of someone who is making over $20,000 a month online. I am going to do what he says and concentrate all my efforts into accomplishing the goals I have set.
My list building goals for 2009 are 7500 subscribers by the end of the year. I have over 600 so far this year. I am averaging about 15 to 20 subscribers a day participating in JV Giveaways. I expect that number to increase significantly once I start using my highly targeted ebook as my giveaway gift. I am also going to set up a nice squeeze page and pimp it using my Traffic Hits Multiplier viral system. That should increase my results nicely.
Then I am going to really kick the list building into overdrive by hosting a JV giveaway event of my own. (along with a little help that I will announce later) I don't think that I am going to have any problems at all reaching my goal for this year.
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