If you’ve been a subscriber of mine for a while you’ll know that I always say building a list of subscribers is hands down the easiest and fastest way to make money from the internet.
That’s because, well, quite honestly, it is!
But here’s the thing: Not all subscribers are created equal.
In fact, there are 2 kinds of subscribers:
- Freebie seekers
- Proven buyers
Freebie seekers are typically people who have signed up for a free gift you have offered (usually an eBook or free report PDF). This type of subscriber is certainly valuable and well worth having as they may well become customers of yours later on (when you promote them an affiliate product or a product of your own).
But then again, they might just stay on your subscriber list and never buy anything.
The second type of subscriber, a proven buyer is far more valuable. This is because they have proven that they are willing to spend money by already purchasing a product.
How To Get Proven Buyers Passively And For Free
The easiest answer to this is to create a product and sell it. These customers will go onto your list and statistics show that they will be far more likely to purchase from you again in the future.
But if you’re starting out in internet marketing this can be pretty tricky: You have to create the product, marketing and find traffic before you can make any sales at all.
Having done this myself I can undoubtedly confirm that this is a LOT of work!
So here’s a much easier way that works in any niche. I’ve been using it myself for several months now to great effect.
What you do is to create a some very simple content and offer it for free to another marketer already has a successful product.
Let’s break this down…
1. Create your content
Let’s say you are in the Indoor Organic Gardening niche. You can create an eBook called “7 Steps To Start Indoor Organic Gardening Today!”
If you don’t like writing, create some Camtasia screen-cast videos and do a presentation of the information that way.
If you don’t like writing or creating videos, go and interview another gardener on Skype and ask them their top tips on the subject.
There are many ways of creating content – just choose a format that suits you and get it done!
This part should take no longer than a couple of days to complete. I’ve done it several times and this is a conservative estimate.
2. Create a squeeze page for your content
You can do this yourself using free tools, use a WordPress theme which is designed to do it, adapt a free PLR squeeze page or pay someone on fiverr.com or oDesk to do it for you.
Either way this step is critical because in order to get your free content, people must subscribe to your list first! (Do you see where this is going yet?!)
3. Email other marketers and offer your content as a free bonus to their product
This is exactly what I’ve been doing and it works like a charm 🙂
You can find products on Clickbank, from other blogs or just by searching Google. Then just contact the product owners by email and suggest that they add a link to your squeeze page inside their product.
Of course, it doesn’t always work but in my experience more often than not it does – they will be happy to accept your bonus simply because it really adds value to their product so they make more sales and have lower refunds.
So they make more money and you get proven buyers onto your list!
Let’s recap the benefits of this:
1. You get proven buyers onto your list
2. The content you create is extremely quick to create (just a 1 hour audio interview is perfect for example)
3. The traffic is 100% passive – once you set this up you’ll never have to do any more work
4. You can massively leverage this: Once you’ve done this once it’s just a matter of emailing more product owners to increase your traffic flow
The only other thing you need to make this work for you is ACTION – this is the simple but secret sauce which will really make you money this year!
What do you think? Anything here you think you couldn’t do? Honestly? Please do click LIKE if you liked this and drop a comment below.
P.S. If you really want to take action and discover lots more simple strategies like this that can make you money in 2012 please click here.
Hi Rob,
That looks a fairly straightforward way of building a list up. Can it be that easy?
Really enjoyed the Magic webinar replay – I missed the main thing because we were lolling around in Norfolk for a few days.
Keep smiling.
Colin (bercolini)
Hi Colin,
Yep, very straightforward and yes it is that easy!
Like I mentioned not everyone will say yes but send 10 emails out and you’ll definitely get several quality bites.
Glad you enjoyed the Magic webinar in the members area, more niches and strategies to come shortly 🙂
Rob
Hello Rob …
strategically looks a good move to make … all part of the ‘RC’ learning curve … and I’ll be taking it onboard a little further down the line …
Like Colin, I enjoyed the Magic webinar … some useful tips gained !
Hope you ate your spinach before you left for the gym?
Speak soon … Andrew
Hi Andrew,
All good, thanks for your comments!
No spinach I’m afraid, may I should try that to improve my results 😉
Rob
Hi Rob
Sounds really good! Am I correct in thinking that all these blogs are collected together on the Members’ Site, so that it isn’t necessary to keep looking back through the e-mails!
I am becoming increasingly aware of the need for action! It’s a discipline and what takes a person beyond the border of theory!
Peter
Hey Peter,
Nice to hear from you.
No actually, this site is completely separate from the GainHigherGroundMembership.Com so I’m afraid yes, you’ll have to scroll back through the archives to find all the good free stuff here!
Rob
P.S. Completely true on the action point – don’t be afraid to make mistakes either. Just get stuck in!
Hey Rob,
Love the Skype idea buddy. Personally I would go with the video because its in
such in High Demand right now and after seeing a product on creating videos
where a Virtual Agent does All the talking for you IT IS SWEET ! Anyways , Drink
your Protein Man…see ya Later.
Thanks Napoles – glad you enjoyed this one!
Yep – video is still very popular so well worth pursuing that if it’s your thing 🙂
Cheers – Rob
Hi Rob,
I can see that this could work well.
Since I haven’t got a clue how to put video on my site I’ve got to to go down the written pdf path.
Several products which I want to promote as an affiliate provide excellent resources including videos which should be just a matter of copy/paste some html code. Since this never works for me like I’m always being told That windows can’t open it, I am still going round in circles.
You say ‘get on and do things’ but for me nothing seems to work. Today I’m going to investigate what FLV stands for then hopefully ‘right click and save target as’………?
Anyway we all have our problems
Stay fit
Ken
Hi Ken,
Thanks for you comment – great to see you here back on the blog 🙂
Sorry to hear you’ve been wrestling with video and html – that’s no fun at all.
It’s actually very simple to do this, you just need to learn the steps. Some thoughts that might help you:
1. Have you considered changing your website to WordPress? This will make it a LOT simpler to adjust the design and add different kinds of content such as video or audio.
2. Written PDF is a very popular form of content. You can still use this strategy to great effect using text.
3. FLV is just a Flash video which is a popular kind of video format on the web. I have no clue what the technical details are and neither do you need to know! Don’t worry about the technicalities just learn the steps to get the job done. Not sure what you mean by “right click and save as…”?
4. To learn more about video you can watch this tutorial from my free Kick Start Profits training: https://www.gainhigherground.com/ksp9addvideos/
5. If you would like to learn more about video marketing then I highly recommend you study it. You’ll find it very straightforward once you have spend some time learning from quality training. I’m not trying to pitch GHG Membership to you here but we cover all of that there. There are many other great video courses around too. And of course you can learn from YouTube tutorials for free as well.
Hope this helps a bit Ken, we all run into roadblocks now and again. Don’t worry, just keep plugging away and you’ll get there in the end!
Kind regards,
Rob
Awesome Idea. Really, you always place something new with “simplicity”.
Thanks a lot.
Hi Any,
You’re welcome thanks for dropping a comment here and letting me know!
Hope all is well with you 🙂
Rob