The Power of the Auto Responder List

How many times have your heard… BUILD A LIST?

When I first got involved with Internet Marketing, the phase that I kept hearing over and over was “BUILD A LIST”, the “list” is critical, get people on your list, etc.  I was like sure, this is just another way to get me to spend another $30 per month on some Internet Marketing over-hyped non-sense.

I was dead WRONG.

Let me just say that I’ve found this advice to be invaluable and I’m going to repeat the same thing here in case you were mistaken as I admit I was above.  It works!

Don’t sweat the small monthly price of using a professional auto responder company as the benefits will greatly outweigh the cost.  I like to do things the lazy way and put things on “auto-pilot”. I can load up 10 to 50 auto responder messages and never think about it again.

One of the reason’s I appreciate the list or “auto responder” is that I can track exactly how effective I am with getting people’s attention and pushing the right buttons to get them to act.

I’ve experimented with a lot of subject lines and opening sentences and these tend to vary by product or service so there’s no hard and fast rule that works across industry.

In the Internet Marketing world, the phrases that I see have the highest open rate include “Please read this…”, “Thank You for…”, “IMPORTANT” and other little sneaky things you can do to make your messages stand out like including brackets “[“ around your subject.  This helps to separate your message from the noise.

What have you found to be the most effective things to put in the Subject Line to get people to open or notice your messages?

Chris

Starting a Meetup on Internet Marketing

In the past I’ve found myself being more of a consumer of other peoples information, tips and services and putting those to practice use for my own specific purposes.  I’m certainly grateful for all the useful and practice information that I’ve received.

I feel that now is the time for me to start contributing and helping others. So much has been given to me that I think it’s time that I start giving back. I talked about this in an earlier posted about ‘Giving vs. Receiving‘ if you want to see my thoughts on that.

With that as one of my goals for this year and challenge to myself,
I’ve formed a local Meetup in Georgia about Internet Marketing

I’m Optimistic

I’m optimistic about the group and its potential success.

My primary goal will be to give people the tools and knowledge to help with their confidence knowing that they have what it takes to be successful online.  This does not necessarily have to include making huge amounts of money.

Measure Your Success by Your RESULTS

My experience with success is that it should not be measured solely by the amount of money you make.  Know why?  Because that is always relative.  Someone is always going to be making more than you and some will be making less.

Measure you success against yourself, against your accomplishments and feel good based on your personal results.

I plan to maintain an ongoing update on the progress and results of the Meetup.

Have you taken a step out of your comfort zone lately and done something that stretches you to be a better person?

Share your stories (oh yea, wish me luck)

Chris