Newbie Friendly List Building Secrets: 12 Free & Dirt Cheap (but Proven Effective) Ways to Quickly Build a Responsive Email List

My entire business is based on the classics of direct response, studying guys like John Carlton, Dan Kennedy, Gary Bencivenga, and anyone else.

one of the mistakes that I see people making is really trying to go for volume. In other words, they’re just trying to build up their list as big as possible. Of course, having a large tribe or a large audience of folks that pay attention to you is extremely powerful, but what I’m referring to is trying to increase those numbers as fast as possible

The giveaway that I did was very specific to my audience. Only programmers who use this one tool would even care about this giveaway at all.

When you create an open loop, basically what happens is you simultaneously create tension and desire in your prospect’s brain, and that is like a lethal combination of neurotransmitters that is like the optimal situation that you want to create in your prospect’s brain.

I’ve found that the best way is to drive people online using direct mail, using an over-sized postcard or what I call a 4-page self-mailer. I send out almost 300 mailings a year and about 100 of those are doing exactly that. They’re driving people online. They’re building their herd. They’re getting email addresses and they’re getting people from o

So you wanted to know has your list bought other courses on search engine optimization. Again, this is counterintuitive. If somebody has already bought a course on search engine optimization, someone who doesn’t understand psychology would think, “Oh, they probably don’t need another one.” That’s wrong. They probably want to buy another one and ano

A solo ad is a single email to someone’s list that is within the same area of interest as your offer is. If you’re promoting an offer about making money as an affiliate marketer, you can get a solo ad where a guy who owns a list that is interested in that will email the list, and you will pay only per click delivered.

It all has to do with this concept that is actually a term in Japanese business called kaizen. It’s the idea that big changes occur not through big actions but through the accumulation of hundreds and thousands of tiny little actions. This idea of kaizen really appealed to me. It was this idea that change doesn’t occur all at once, but if you can s

You can use open loops to cause the release of dopamine and adrenaline. The catch is that flood of neurotransmitters only lasts for a finite period of time. You get a big spike and it roughly corresponds to about a 20-minute spike. You’ve got all these chemicals floating around in your prospect’s mind and you’ve got about a 20-minute window to take