Summary

The article provides strategies for growing an online business by effectively building a responsive and profitable email list.

Abstract

The article "The Perfect Cure for When Your List Community Is Too Small" emphasizes the importance of profitable list building for a thriving online business. It addresses common misconceptions about list size and highlights that responsiveness is as crucial as the number of subscribers. The author offers three key tips: creating an irresistible offer that provides value to prospects, setting a goal to double the list size through targeted strategies, and leveraging joint ventures and affiliates to tap into larger audiences. A bonus tip encourages early collaboration with peers for list growth. The article also promotes the use of surveys to understand prospect desires and suggests regular content creation as a method for list expansion. The author concludes by offering a free guide on creating profitable content using Genius Templates.

Opinions

The author believes that the responsiveness of an email list is just as important, if not more so, than its size.
It is suggested that offering an irresistible incentive, tailored to prospect interests, is vital for list building.
The article advocates for setting ambitious goals to double the list size, regardless of the starting point.
Collaborating with other businesses through JVs and affiliate marketing is seen as an effective way to grow a list community.
The author regrets not utilizing joint

Profitable List Building

The Perfect Cure for When Your List Community Is Too Small

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Profitable List Building is one of the key skills to building a thriving online business. And building a thriving online business is the reason you are reading this article, yes?

I’ve got some great tips for you here, especially the Bonus Tip, where I share one of my biggest mistakes when I first started online.

But first…

Unfortunately there’s a lot of confusion out there about the importance of the size of your list community and how to grow your list community.

A little mindset “psychological edge” training…

While size does matter, responsiveness is just as important as size, if not more so. You would rather have a highly responsive list of one thousand than a non-responsive list of ten thousand.

The Perfect Cure (in 3 parts) for Growing Your List Community

So here are 3 tips that make up the perfect cure for a small list (not that there’s anything wrong with a small list):

List Building Tip #1 — An Irresistible Offer

So of course you are going to offer your prospect something of value in exchange for their email address, right? The challenge is making sure it’s irresistible to your prospect, not just to you.

What would make it a total no brainer for your prospect to grab your offer? If you don’t know, or are not sure, ask. Seriously, ask a few prospects what they would want. Use SurveyMonkey.com and ask a few good questions to find out.

I really can’t stress this enough. Don’t just take your own word for it, ask your prospects!

Once you know what they want, be sure to ask how they want it delivered too. There’s a good example later on in this article of an irresistible offer that you can check out. But first you’ve got 2 more tips coming your way.

List Building Tip #2 — Double Your List

Challenge yourself with a goal to double the size of your list community. It you’re just getting started and have 20, your goal is 40 then 80 then 160 and so on.

If you have a large list of 8,000 you can still set the goal to double it. If you double to 16,000 by your target date then great, and if you fall short you’ve still grown your list community.

List Building Tip #3 — JVs and Affiliates —

Create a live cast or webinar presentation that you can give to the list communities of like minded colleagues in your niche. You set up the opt-in page and your host sends the traffic. You do the presentation and everyone that signed up becomes a part of your list community.

Bonus Tip — The only thing I don’t like about Tip #3 is that I didn’t use it earlier to build my list community. Don’t make the same mistake. If you’ve got a list of only 50, look for others who have a list around 50 and partner with them.

And yet another great way to build your list community is to create great content on a regular basis, just like I’ve done in this article.

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