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Thursday, January 8, 2009

4 Ways To Get Your Opt In Subscribers To Trust You Quickly

While the rest of the world have developed many barriers and protections to keep their e-mail accounts spam-free, there are also those that subscribe to mails that promotes their products, services and their site. This is mainly because these subscribes wants to know more about what these sites are offering and can be beneficial for them. They expect to get be kept posted on what they are interested in and what are new in the market or field they have chosen.

Businesses would be so lucky to have these kinds of customers; the basic element needed to get these types of people is trust. When your customers trust you they will reward you with their loyalty. Many internet users have gone to great lengths in protecting their email accounts from spam mail. Some free-mail internet providers and internet service providers offer spam protection while there are also some internet based companies that screen your mails for you.

With an opt-in mail list, the mails you send containing your promotional materials such as newsletters, catalogs and marketing media will go through. Your intended recipient will be able to read and view what you have sent making it a successful transfer of information. To be able to be allowed to do so, you will need permission from your recipient, to get this permission; you need to be able to get their trust. With the great lack of disregard for privacy in the internet, getting the trust of an internet user you don’t personally know is a big achievement.

To build a good opt-in list you need people to trust you, for a faster and quicker build up, you need to get your opt-in subscribers to trust you quickly. The faster you build your opt-in list the faster word about your site and company gets to be spread. The bigger the scope of your opt-in list the more traffic you get spelling more profits. Its easy math if you thin about it. Getting the numbers is not that simple though, or maybe it is?

• Getting the trust of your clientele shouldn’t be so hard especially if you do have a legitimate business. Getting your customers trust should be based upon your expertise. People rely on other people who know what they are talking about. Garner all the knowledge and information about your business. Ell, frankly if you decide to go into a business most probably you have an interest in it. Like how many basketball payers become coaches, you don’t really venture into something you don’t have any interest in.

• Show your clients that you know what you are talking about. Provide them with helpful hints and guidelines that pertain to what you are selling. Talk about how to install a roof if your into hardware products or provide articles on insurance settlements if you’re a settlement lawyer. You don’t have to be a big corporation to make use of an opt-in list. If your customers see you as someone who knows what he is doing and saying, they will trust you quickly.

• Be true to your customers, if you want to hype up your products and services, provide guarantees. The more satisfied customers you get, the bigger probability there is that they will recommend you. Generally, people will trust someone they know, when that someone recommends you then you’re a shoo-in. They will go to your site and check it for themselves and be given a chance to experience what the other shave experienced from you, so make sure to be consistent in the service you provide.

• Another tip in getting a customer to trust you quickly is to provide them an escape hatch. Show them that you are not there to trap them. Keep a clean list that would enable them to unsubscribe anytime they want. Elaborate your web form by providing information on how to unsubscribe from the list. Guarantee them that they can let go of the service when ever they want to. Many are wary that they may be stuck for life and would have to abandon their email accounts when they get pestered with spam.

Remember that when you get the trust of your clients don’t lose that trust. Because if you do anything with their email addresses like sell them or give them out, you will lose many members of your list as ell as potential members. The true quickest way to gain the trust of your subscribers is when you are recommended by someone they trust.

If you wanna learn more about building a profitable mailing list, I highly suggest INSIDE THE LIST. It's a book I've been recommending ever since it was first released, and it's still a trusted guide for building a profitable mailing list online.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Affiliates with banners are getting hoodwinked ...

Hey readers. T.M. Harris here...


Are you an affiliate marketer? Do you go around promoting other
people's products?

Well, if you do, most of the time when you decide to sign up or
decide to promote an affiliate program, they'll give you affiliate
tools, like emails, pay-per-click ads, banners, etc.

There is one thing though...

If you promote someone's banner links...9 times out of 10 you're
being hoodwinked, even robbed.

Read more about it HERE

What you see and hear might just shock and amaze you, especially if
you're new to the whole affiliate marketing thing.

Take heed of my warning, and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Be safe,

T.M. Harris

tmharris.net / timharriswebsites.com

P.S. - If you promote someone's banner links, CLICK HERE.

Friday, January 2, 2009

REVIEW: Wild SEO Unleashed ebook - For real?

Hey readers!

As you know, I’m supposed to provide reviews and such for internet marketing products.

This one I haven’t reviewed yet, but I believe I can get the picture, just from being in the game for 4 years now.

*clears throat*

It looks like a very good ‘angle’ to sell an over-hyped ebook about SEO (search engine optimization). It’s funny, I had a question today about SEO. Good thing I’m talking about it now…

Anywho, SEO is delicious. There’s no other word to describe it. Depending on how hard you work, you can siphon a lot of traffic to your websites, absolutely free, because of back links and your popularity amongst several search engines.

I love SEO, and I continue to use it everyday to help get more traffic to my websites, and obtain rankings when people search for my niches.

So, if you’re into another Clickbank ebook about SEO…be my guest.

CLICK HERE to check out Wild Seo Unleashed

Cya later readers! :)

T.M.