If you’re new to my subscription and wondering what is a “Sunday Email”, it’s an email full of my rants, personal tips and opinions on marketing especially in the “internet marketing” niche. Sometimes, opinions on life. Whatever it is… I hope it’ll give you value after spending time reading it. To make sure you won’t miss any future issue, subscriber for free at www.sundayemail.com. You know– sometimes my Sunday Emails can be harsh. But come on, they’re my rants. If I want to keep everyone happy and write about the colorful rainbow, birds chirping, flowers blooming, etc then I should just opens up a nursery home and take care of children.

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Today’s Sunday Email is about ‘waking you up’.

Recently, I saw a forum posted by a guy asking who the 5 most respected internet marketers (aka Gurus) are. Personally, I have my own list of those who I respect but when I saw the names in the post, I automatically knew why these people are following Gurus blindly.

I’m not sure whether I should say this to you because it’ll splinter your original perception on these gurus – most of them don’t know INTERNET MARKETING. They’re categorized as how successfully or respected based on how much money they make by selling their internet marketing widgets.

And here comes the drumroll…

The only thing they have is their mailing lists in the internet marketing niche. Because with that, not only that they can continue to make money here, but it gives them the leverage to joint venture with others.

Dude, wake up for a while.

How can an internet marketer’s success be categorized based on if he (or she) has a list or not? That’s bizarre.

Ponder on that fact for a few seconds… so it means that any newbie can be a guru as long as he has a huge list and can get people to buy stuff by throwing gazillion of bonuses or something? Hmm.

It’s like saying the best taste burger in town must belongs to the restaurant that has the most patrons.

Of course this rant is a little bit “expanded”. Yes, they might have some marketing skill and if they do, it’s mainly how to build a list very well (which I’ll give you an idea shortly) and selling their widgets.

You see, the fact is, they just can’t survive OUT of the internet marketing (IM) niche. They’ll say they want to go into a different niche market, build a Facebook or something, but ultimately, you’ll see them back in this niche. What’s annoying is, saying that as an excuse to sell their widgets and we supported them. It’s so obvious they’re surviving based on their IM list and IM promotion buddies. You rub my shoulder, I rub your shoulder… but who’s rubbing your shoulder?

Yes, some internet marketers do have internet businesses OUTSIDE of the internet marketing niche, that’s why they have my respect for them.

Why do I rant about this, since I build mailing list in the internet marketing niche and also do joint ventures? Hey, there’s nothing to hide that I’m marketing in the IM niche. If you don’t like that fact, I’m sorry. Then, you should subscribe to my self improvement list that has nothing to do with IM.

Going back to the reason of today’s rant, it’s because the wrong Guru idolization has to stop. It clouds your mind. Most of the time, whenever a Guru launch some stuff, it sells well because of the bonuses, joint venture promotions and all kinds of bells and whistles but the product probably doesn’t work or meet half of its claim. Why? Because slimy Gurus do not DO what are taught in the product. Gotcha.

The second reason why I wrote this post is because I want you to help you by informing you the truth of how to make money online — I’ve already spelled it out so clearly to you where the money is.

Speaking of building a list through joint ventures, you don’t need to just think of the Gurus for promotions. Let me explain in one sentence – the IM niche is SUPER huge. There are thousands of marketers out there who you can be doing JVs with; why in the world are you so fixate about one particular Guru to promote your stuff?

Yeah, I know the advantages of how it can gives you a lot of publicity, social proof and all those stuff you’ve been taught in those ebooks… but… if you must treat this Guru like a royal or something, wouldn’t it be better to just work with others who are more friendly, respectful and receptive?

To elaborate a point, I’ve just joined Safe Swaps this month and I’m already getting proposals to swap every week… without even lifting a finger. There are just so many marketers out there, wanting and willingly to work with you. By the way, don’t join if you don’t have a list to begin with you, you can’t swap if you have nothing to swap yet.

I wish I have something to sell to you related to list building. But not today, maybe some other days.

I hope today’s post shed some light about thinking again of your favourite Gurus. If you want to defend them and appear like a shining knight riding on a white horse, let me know by leaving your comment – afterall, this is the Internet with no boundaries. I promise not to take it personally.

Also, free to leave your comment below (I read all of them personally) if you like what you read or find value in it.

You “Chan” Do It!

Patric Chan

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The idea of making money with building a list is very simple – you drive traffic to your website where you offer something valuable such as a free report or subscription to your newsletter in exchange for your visitors’ contact details. Then you have the ‘permission’ to send promotion to your mailing list.

It looks like a concept that is guaranteed to ensure profit. After all, the people who gave you their contact details understand that they are giving you the permission to send them emails directly.

Or is it?

There are people with huge optin lists that hardly garner a sale. Could it be that there is more to the concept of email marketing that meets the eye?

The answer is a resounding “yes”.

There is definitely more at work behind the scenes when it comes to email marketing to not only remind your subscribers who you are but to make them eager to hear from you again and again and buy from you.

Countless strategies are conceptualized all the time by experts to ensure that optin lists continue to not only grow but remain responsive.

If you haven’t started implementing email marketing in your business yet, you definitely should because it could become an important income stream for you.

In the Building A Profitable List, you’ll discover:

* What are the four crucial things you need to do to build your list

* How to get your opt in subscribers to trust you quickly

* The secret to grabbing your reader’s attention with your subject

* And many more!

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Slightly over 24 hours ago, I’ve sent out an email apologizing for not providing as much content as I should to my subscribers, but instead, been sending promotions most of the time. If you’ve missed, read the full story by clicking here.

I’m releasing this video how to be profitable in affiliate marketing in a ‘small’ niche that pays out high commission.

This is not teaser content to a bigger course and there’s nothing for you to buy after watching it. It’s one of “Inside-My-Business Case Study” video from my Chan Do Chartered Membership.

Click the video below to watch it:

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If you find value in this course, I would appreciate your comment or feedback below. This is the best way for me to know that the content given to my subscribers are being consumed and motivates me to share more in the future.

Patric Chan

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With the awareness of the importance of list building, comes a recent Internet Marketing trend which was started just a couple of years ago for the mutual benefits of all Internet Marketers and mailing list owners.

This method is more recognized as a “starting a Give Away venture”.

In a real sense, a Give Away event is much like a big time version of ad swaps. In a nutshell, a group of mailing list owners partner together and pool in their individual gifts in one limited-time event.

Each participating partner contributes a gift to the event. The gift can be a free product, membership pass or a product he is already selling (if he is kind enough to offer into the event).

The participating partner prepares a Lead Capture Page where he gives the gift in exchange for the subscriber’s email address. In other words, in order for a visitor to download the digital gift, he must opt in and subscribe to your mailing list.

When the gifts are pooled together into one event (site), every partner will then endorse the Give Away event to their own mailing lists.

The result: lots of visitors to one event as a collective effort of several participating partners!

With so many visitors downloading gifts from one focused event, it is a true win-win situation. This is because the visitors get to download several free gifts for their own use and every partner gets to build their own mailing list!

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If you’re new to my subscription and wondering what is a “Sunday Email”, it’s an email full of my rants, personal tips and opinions on marketing especially in the “internet marketing” niche. Sometimes, opinions on life. Whatever it is… it’ll give you value after spending time reading it. To make sure you won’t miss any future issue, subscriber for free at www.sundayemail.com. You can still read the archive at my old blog.

You know– sometimes my Sunday Emails can be harsh. Cuts through like a ninja’s blade. But come on, they’re my rants. If I want to keep everyone happy and write about the colorful rainbow, birds chirping, flowers blooming, etc then I should just opens up a nursery home and take care of children.

So if you can relate to what I wrote when reading it– good because I know it had just served the purpose of helping people.

Re: The Story Of My List

In 2003, I discovered the most important thing that I have to do in order to make money online consistently - it’s none other than building a mailing list.

Back then, I was nobody and don’t even have a product of my own. My first product, which is a personal development ebook, was only created in middle of 2004.

Today, I want to share with you the pivotal point of how I get to where I am and I think if you absorb the lessons behind the story, you’ll accelerate your internet success. No kidding.

You see, when I first started out, I don’t know any ‘advance’ tactics or strategies to get traffic.

It all started with an opt-in page.

Not a website or a blog and so on, but just a single page that does nothing else than asking the website visitors to subscribe. That webpage is still active today, eSuccessMastery.com, although the design have changed since the first time it was published.

The way how I built my list at that time was by offering a free ebook for anyone subscribing to my list. Once they subscribed for free, they’ll get my free ebook. Now, this tactic might not be very effective anymore today - remember, this was used 6 YEARS AGO.

But the concept is still evergreen - it might not be an ebook, it could be an audio course or a video tutorial to make the offer more attractive.

Understand this list building mechanism: You will get subscribers if you give a GOOD REASON for your website visitors to subscribe and if it’s totally risk-free (they can unsubscribe anytime they want) for them. That’s it. There’s no real ‘magic’ to list building, the rest are just the elaborations, tactics and technicality. No offer, no opt-in. No opt-in, no list. Got it? Good.

Just think it this way– if you give enough value, people will be willing to ‘trade’ their email for that. But at the same time, you cannot give over-value because it’ll look ‘desperate’ or too-good-to-be-true.

Now, I won’t get into the details of how the opt-page should look like or what is the content of your free gift to be valuable for the trade. You got to do your own reading on copywriting and product creation. I’ve got the Chan Do Internet Success System Version 2009 to show you how to do that and I’m proud to sell you to buy right now because it’s the BEST VALUE course I’ve ever sold, period.

The only missing ingredient to build a list is traffic.

And I’ll tell you how I get my traffic when I first started out in 2003…

My free ebook was distributed for free at www.free-ebooks.net. Not only that, it was on its main page as ‘top download’. This website is ranked on page #1 of Google for the keyword called, ‘free ebook’ and gets traffic from many other sources.

Now, inside my ebook, it has a link back to my opt-in page and many of the readers actually end up going to my webpage to find out more of what I have to offer. Then they subscribe.

I could spend 6 months trying to learn about search engines and still fail miserably. Or I could spend my time to build a relationship. This is why, I’ve published the “The Internet Marketing ‘Secret’ That Gurus Don’t Tell” article the other day to stress the true secret of internet success. My friend, FOCUS ON RELATIONSHIP.

This goes without saying that I’ll be forever grateful to Eva Almeida (owner of free-ebooks.net at that time) for helping me. Today, if she asks any favor from me, I’ll definitely say ‘yes’without even thinking twice (see how relationship takes effect again?). Now, at that time, I could present the best offer possible and she might still say no. This is why it’s critical to build a relationship first before anything else.

I’ve read comments on my blog saying that it’s hard to get joint venture partners to promote their products because they can’t promote the joint partner’s products without having a list.

That’s true.

But I disagree.

Because you’re not thinking creative enough or willing to work harder. I know it sounded harsh and if you feel the pinch, then I think I’ve done my job to wake you up. Stop reading if you don’t like the ‘pinch’ or to face the truth. I couldn’t care less because I want to give my attention on people who have a passion to be successful – they’re much easier to show them how to reach there.

If you don’t have a list, doesn’t that just remind you that you need to build one? Otherwise, you’ll still have this lame reason next year. Note this: Everyone started with NO LIST.

Don’t want to build one YET?

Fine. Then take out some money from your pocket and buy PPC/Google Adwords traffic or newsletter ads (you can find a directory of newsletters that are selling ads everyday at www.direzines.com).

Don’t have the money to buy ads? Well, then start saving your money to invest for your business. Enough said.

Summary - two keys to your internet success, your list and your relationship with other people.

If you’ve find value in what you read today, please leave a Comment or feedback? Needless to say, I will definitely appreciate it because I read all Comments personally and gotten the chance to know you at the same time.

Patric Chan

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One of the powerful tools in online “email” marketing is to build an opt-in mailing list. An opt-in mailing list is a database of peoples’ names and email addresses that have subscribed to an email list via a web form giving that list owner permission to send them periodic emails on the topic they are interested in. The best gift of this powerful tool is the possibility of being able to talk to people who are particularly interested in your product, service or organization.

This gaining popularity of building opt-in mailing list is known as Permission Email Marketing.

There are do’s and don’ts in starting your opt-in mailing list. Here are some of the most important tips worth mentioning:

DO’S

1. Put a subscription form prominently on your website. You can create your own subscription form using a software Sign-Up to’s form builder.
2. Inform people that they can subscribe to your email list on the signature of your normal work emails. This will enable it to link straight through the form on your website.
3. Ask people permission if they do want to be subscribed on your mailing list. As much as possible avoid being suspected for SPAM.
4. Open options for subscription especially during your interactions with them. Always be ready with your subscription cards if you run in on events.
5. Be clear on how people can benefit from subscribing and how often will you contact them. Make them know exactly what they will be receiving.
6. If you can, contact new subscriber as soon as you can. Welcome them with notes and tell them what to expect.

DON’T

1. Add everyone who has ever emailed you to your list. Always ask permission first.
2. Purchase lists that you are not 100% sure that are opt-in. Always have an evidence to prove the legitimacy of the opt-ins.
3. Abuse people’s trust. This is a sure way to ruin your brand and you. Soon enough they will ignore your messages.

Building your opt-in mailing list is cheaper than in sending direct mails. Printing, envelopes and paper used as material further add up to the cost. Here are some ways to effectively start your opt-in mailing list:
1. Free Newsletter. One of the most effective ways to build an opt-in list is to offer your online visitors freebies of value such as newsletter which will contain information that they can relate to such as tips, tools, recipes, travel itineraries and others.
2. Make it Easy to Subscribe. Provide easy steps for subscription so that subscribers may find it easy to do so and would not be discourage. For more subscribers, tell them the exact benefits they can get out of the subscription.
3. Quality Content. Be sure that what is written inside the newsletter, freebies and information found in your website are all of value to increase visitors dropping by your website.
4. Forums. Discussion boards and forums are all over the net. Try to actively participate in these boards especially those in the line of your interest or your business. Try to build your reputation with credibility.
5. Write articles. This makes you an instant expert in your chosen field of interest. You just have to play on it and use it well in your business goal.
6. Co-registration. A very effective way to build a monster list in a very short time.
7. Write an e-book. An excellent freebie for those who visited and subscribe in your mailing list. The e-book does not have to be expensively made or elaborate but it can be a compilation or a collection of best articles, business tips and resources.

In building opt-in mailing lists always keep in mind to offer something of value to your prospects. Remember opt-in lists are the foundations of most profitable internet business so do not miss chances for improvement and developing new strategies.

Having an opt-in list is not easy, it is hardwork but with some relieving advantages too. But to build an opt-in mail list has to be focused and effective in truly capturing the desired target. Take a look at these 10 Quick Easy Steps to Building A Highly Targeted and Responsive Opt-in List.

1. Choose your target market or niche. Remember you are not the only one competing in internet marketing; you have to be sure who your internet marketing is.
2. Be sure that you can reach your target audience online.
3. Do not waste on time on a non-profit investment or spending. Always monitor your spending.
4. Forums and discussion boards are available for maximum use. Find your target market problems.
5. Identify what is keeping your customers from getting what they want and help them get it.
6. Try offering your viewers solving some of their problems.
7. Set up a simple direct response mini-site.
8. Get an auto-responder account. It is important for you to acquire and set this thing up because this is where your visitors will come.
9. Bait your potential customers through giveaways like: ebooks, special reports, mini courses and coupons, etc.
10. Reach out in any way you can to your target market.

Opt-in building is a tedious work but with amazing results. The process of building it takes time and effort but persists. Always treat your “find” as a goldmine so that you will offer them the best deals in the market, those with great quality and value. Doing all these, would earn you credibility and a profitable business on the Internet.Similar Posts:

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