Lucrative list building is, for me, the art of list building in lucrative, or money making, manner.
Make no bones about it, I am in this online thing for the purpose of making money. Now don't get me wrong, I am willing to give you and everyone else who is on my list, maximum value in exchange for the money, but I am in this to make money.
Now, the route I have chosen is to build a list, and monetize that list, so I have focused on the techniques necessary to build a big list and monetize it.
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So how do I do it$%:
1) I have strong traffic sources, having achieved an alexa rank of around 50,000 and most weeks it is far above that. I primarily use articles and article marketing for my traffic building; in fact, about 75% of all of my subscribers come from having read an article and subscribed to my list after reading that article.
2) I am very aggressive with my list, sending out multiple free gifts, books, software, and tools subscribers can use to build their list. I also send out a pretty extensive email course in two of my autoresponders. And I encourage my list to ask me questions and I do everything I can to answer their questions, either in a mailbag approach or personally if the question warrants it.
3) I have created 5 of my own books - I have found that my own books sell better to my list than third party books, and that makes sense since my subscribers have built a relationship with me - they are eager to read more of my material, especially since they have been able to evaluate me by reading so much of my material for free.
4) I have two price points: $10 and $47 - this allows subscribers to test me out with a low cost product, and then buy my more intense products once they have tried me out and find they like my style.