List Building How Can I Make My List Building Efforts Viral?

I am going to go against the grain here and say that I think it is very difficult to make your list building efforts viral, if you are just building a list for yourself.

There are two things that traditionally are considered to be viral list building efforts, and I will begin with the second of the two, and then go to the first one.

The second method of viral list building is to use a viral listbuilder software that allows others to also build on the same list they can email the people they bring into the viral list builder and you can email all of them. I do not like them because response rates tend to get very low (have you ever subscribed to one of them and gotten 10 or 15 emails in a week from them), and I do not like them because the only person who really owns the leads is the person who owns the viral list builder.

The first method, which is actually quite effective, takes a little bit more work. Some people make it sound really easy to do and the upfront work is really easy, but the backend is harder. This involves writing an ebook, embedding it with a link to your squeeze page, and then letting people give it away free. The problem with that is that it has to be a very good book to get much traffic out of it. There are probably hundreds of thousands of good ebooks out there to give away free why should someone give away yours?

And many times, once someone builds a decent sized list, then they write their own ebook and leave yours out of the loop.

So, yes, it can be done but, honestly, I think it is better to just spend the time to build a big list with articles, and then nurture that list, and send it through a profitable sales funnel.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 900 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.

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