When you do not have a plan for building your list, you are not taking the time every day for list building activities. As a result, you are not attracting enough of your perfect clients to your business, and your business suffers.

When you do not have a plan for building your list, you are doing a disservice to your potential clients as well. Because you are not participating in your list building activities on a regular basis, you are not letting your potential clients know about your business. If they don’t know about your business, they can’t use your services to help them improve their lives.

Join me for a no charge call, Five Steps To Creating Your List Building Plan, to learn how to create a plan for building your list. Here is what you will learn:

- One mind shift you must make when it comes to building your list. This one shift will help you add hundreds more subscribers to your list.

- Top three strategies for getting more newsletter subscribers. You will get hundreds of new subscribers if you apply just one of these strategies!

- Easy plan that you can put into motion right now that will help you attract more people you always wanted to work with to your list.

- How to build your list, even if you don’t have a lot of time to do it. I will share with you secrets for building your list in just 45 minutes a day!

And much, much more!

Register for the call now at http://www.avocadoconsulting.com/lb/

What exactly is a free gift? A free gift is a high-value gift (a special report, an audio recording, an ecourse, etc), that you are giving away to your new newsletter subscribers in exchange for their subscribing to your newsletter.

Here is something to keep in mind: if the topic of your free gift is of REAL interest to the people you want to attract to your list, more people will join your list. If not, then many fewer will join.

I have seen so many service professionals failing at creating an effective free gift, because the topic they chose was not an effective topic. A lot of time service professionals create free gifts on the topics they are interested in, when what they should do is create free gifts on topics that their potential clients are interested in.

What is an effective topic for your free gift? An effective topic for your free gift is the topic that your target market really wants to know about. It is a question that your target market really wants answered, or it is a solution to an issue that your target market is experiencing. Your free gift HAS to be something that your target market really wants.

As soon as your target market learns about your free gift, you want them to say: “I REALLY Want This Gift!” and immediately sign up to get the free gift and get on your list.

And I have seen this happen many times. A service professional creates a free gift on a topic that she THINKS is a good topic, and starts promoting it. She spends hundreds of hours promoting this free gift, but since the topic is not of interest to the people she is inviting to get the gift, very few people request it and very few people get on her list.

If this is happening to you, if very few people are ever requesting your free gift, chances are they don’t really want it, which means you haven’t found a good topic for your free gift yet.

The good news is finding an effective topic for your free gift is not hard. What you are looking for is a topic that your target market is interested in, so how do you find it? Here are three different ways of doing just:

- You work with people who are in your target market. So what questions do they ask you? What do they want to know?

- Social Networking Web Sites, Facebook, Twitter – what do people in your target market talk about on those social networking web sites?

- Survey people who already are on your list to see what kind of topics they are interested in.

Once you find a topic that your people are really interested in, you will be able to create a product on that topic – a report, an ebook, an audio recording, and ecourse. And then, you will need to create a special page, called squeeze page, to outline the benefits of the free gift, give it away and have people sign up for it and get on your list.

Learn more about create a gift to attract more people to your list during the FREE call, How To Create Your List Building Plan, register for it at http://www.avocadoconsulting.com/lb/

One of my products, How To Build Your List With Your Facebook Fan Page Home Study Guide has inspired many service professionals to improve their Facebook presence so that they can attract more people to their lists, promote their businesses better and get more clients.

My articles have helped thousands of service professionals use Internet marketing to get more web site traffic and attract more clients.

And I have inspired many people to cook better with easy recipes I share on Twitter and Facebook.

As you can see, you can help people improve their lives when you share information, ideas and tips. Read my article, How To Make A Difference for tips on how you can help people in your target market do something better and improve their lives.

And post a comment and share with us - how do you make a difference in your people’s lives?

I have great news for you! You can use marketing to make a difference for people in your target market. When you market effectively and authentically, both you and the people in your target market benefit! Marketing does not have to be a you-win, and they-lose situation. When you apply online marketing techniques authentically and effectively, you turn your marketing into a win-win. You win and people in your target market win! Here is how:

- Make A Difference With Article Marketing. When you are writing articles to submit to article directories, ask yourself — “how can I write effective articles that make a difference in my clients’ lives and at the same time demonstrate my knowledge and expertise?”

Share information that people need and you will help them, while demonstrating your expertise and knowledge at the same time.

- Make A Difference With Your Blog. Why do people come to your blog? They want to learn from you, and yes, they want to learn something that will help them improve their lives.

Use your blog to share tips and information that help people in your target market to improve their lives and reach their goals.

- Make A Difference With Social Networking Web Sites. This is one of the easiest methods to share and to help people in your target market. Use social networking web sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, to connect with people in your target market and to share your tips with them.

Bonus: since you are already writing articles and blogging, share your articles and blog posts on social networking web sites. That way you will share your expertise and help more people at the same time.

- Make A Difference With Your Products And Programs. When you create products and programs, create products and programs that are of the most value to the people in your target market and that help them improve their lives and reach their goals. Learn how to create programs and products that make a difference to people in your target market during this Thursday call,
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What is article marketing? Article marketing is the process of writing articles and submitting them to article directories. When you write articles that are of interest to your target market, people in your target market will read them, and then follow the link in the Resource Box back to your web site.

The implications of this are huge! When you write effective articles, you can bring a ton of traffic to your web site and convert this traffic into newsletter subscribers! In fact, here are four ways to get traffic from just one article:

1. Traffic From Article Directories

What happens after you write articles? You submit your articles to article directories, of course! Article directories are places where you can share articles that you write, so that you can get more exposure for your business.

When you write an article and submit it to article directories, you are now sharing your expertise in article directories as well. Then, when people in your target market read your articles on article directory web sites, they will follow the link in your Resource Box and visit your web site!

2. Traffic From The Reprints Of Your Articles

When you write articles that are of interest to your target market, great things happen. Not only do people in your target market read them and follow the links to your web site, but others want to reprint your articles as well!

Many people are looking for content for their blogs and newsletters. And when they need content, they look at article directories. And if they like your article and they feel that reading your article will benefit their readers, they will reprint your article and share it with their readers!

What this means to you is that you are going to get more exposure for your business, and more traffic to your web site! When your article is reprinted, your Resource Box is also reprinted. So when people read your article in someone’s newsletter or on someone’s blog, and they like it, they will follow the link to your web site and you will get more traffic.

3. Traffic From Social Networking Web Sites, Such As Facebook and Twitter

Once you write an article, don’t keep it to yourself! Submitting it to article directories is a great first step, but in addition to doing that you should also share your article on social networking web sites.

Your articles contains lots of tips for people in your target market. Since you are connected with people in your target market on Twitter and Facebook, share your article with them, and they will benefit from all the tips you are sharing!

4. Traffic From Search Engines

When you are writing your article, make sure to optimize it for search engines.

When you optimize your articles, you are also going to bring people from search engines to your articles. When someone uses search engines to find information that you wrote about in your article, they will be able to find your article and read it. Then, they will be able to follow the link in your Resource Box and go to your web site!

To learn more about how to use article marketing to get more web site traffic and build your list, register for the How To Build Your List With Article Marketing Teleseminar at http://www.avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/zarticles

More Blog Posts On Article Marketing:

- Does Article Marketing Only Work For B2B Businesses?

- Top Three Strategies To Grow Your List

- How To Create A Marketing Plan For Your Business

B2B businesses are businesses that work with other businesses, not consumers. Examples of B2B businesses include business coaches, marketing coaches, etc.

Truth is, though, article marketing works for all kinds of business owners, including the ones that work with consumers. For example, the Easy Recipes Blog is a blog that shares easy recipes with those who don’t have a lot of time to cook, but still want to make tasty food. There are a ton of recipes on this blog, including Pasta With Italian Sausage and Broccoli, Green Beans and Tomato Salad, Potato Salad Recipe Without Mayo and many more.

I have written some articles that have been posted online:

Potato Salad Recipes Without Mayonnaise - What to Add to Your Potato Salad to Make it Delicious

Summer Salads - Two Favorite Summer Salad Recipes

and more. These and other articles help bring traffic to the Easy Recipes Blog, and more traffic means more newsletter subscribers!

As you can see, you can get more newsletter subscribers and traffic with article marketing, even if you are not a B2B business. All you need to do is:

1. Write articles that are of interest to people in your target market.

2. Create an effective Resource Box for your articles.

3. Submit your articles to article directories.

I will show you how to do all of this during the How To Build Your List With Article Marketing Teleseminar. Register for the call and you will learn how to easily attract more people to your list using article marketing!

Thing is, squeeze pages are still extremely effective, and they work for bringing more newsletter subscribers to your list. Here is why:

Squeeze Pages Are Extremely Effective

Squeeze pages are extremely effective because of what they are. Squeeze pages only give you one option, one offer to register for. And because of this one option only rule they are very effective.

When you give your web site visitors many different options for what they can do on your web site, they get confused and they leave your web site. This is exactly opposite of what you want them to do, right? You want them to stay on your web site for some time, and share their email address with you, so that you can keep in touch with them and build relationships with them. This is why regular web pages don’t work that well for getting newsletter subscribers.

So what should you do so that your web site visitors don’t leave your web site before they subscribe to your newsletter? You give your web site visitors just one option. With just one option your web site visitors are much more likely to subscribe to your newsletter. And this is exactly what squeeze pages do - they give a web site visitor just one option for doing something.

Squeeze Pages Are Easy To Create

Because squeeze pages only need to include text and a subscription box, they don’t require extensive design.

In fact, you should not include interesting web site design elements in your squeeze page, because these elements will take your web site visitors’ attention from subscribing to your newsletter, exactly what you DO NOT want to do.

For an even easier way to create your own squeeze pages you can get the Effective Squeeze Pages Quick Start Guide.

Squeeze Pages Are Very Versatile

There are lots of things that you can promote with squeeze pages:

- Free Teelseminar. Are you teaching a free teleseminar? A squeeze page will be great for inviting people in your target market register for your free teleseminar.

- Social Networking Landing Pages. Don’t send people from Twitter and Facebook to the main page of your web site, as this will not get you results. Instead, send them to a squeeze page and you will immediately see more results from your social networking efforts!

- Newsletter Subscription Pages. Need more newsletter subscribers? Use a squeeze page for your subscription page and you will convert more of your web site visitors into subscribers.

- Free Reports. Are you giving away free reports to new newsletter subscribers? Use a squeeze page to give them away to get better results.

- Article Marketing Landing Pages. If you want to see results from article marketing, then you must use squeeze pages. With squeeze pages you are going to convert more of your article readers into newsletter subscribers.

As you can see, squeeze pages are very versatile and there are lots of places where you can use them to get better results from your marketing efforts. If you are not getting the results that you are looking for from your marketing efforts, check to make sure that you are directing your traffic from those marketing efforts to a squeeze page.

And to create your own squeeze pages very easily, get the Effective Squeeze Pages Quick Start Guide at http://www.EffectiveSqueezePages.com

First, let’s talk about what squeeze pages are. Squeeze pages are pages that have just one goal - they help you bring more newsletter subscribers to your list.

Because of this one goal they have a very specific design. They don’t include a web site menu. They do not have links pointing to your other web pages, blog or social networking pages. Your squeeze pages have just one goal, and this is what makes them extremely effective.

But the question is, are they effective? What makes a squeeze page much better than a regular web page to get more newsletter subscribers for your list? Here is why squeeze pages are much more effective for getting more newsletter subscribers:

Your Squeeze Pages Have Just One Goal.

Each one of your web pages may have many goals, such as tell people about your services, tell people about your products, tell people about other pages on your web site, etc.

On the other hand, your squeeze pages have just one goal - convert your web site traffic into newsletter subscribers. Having just one goal makes them super effective - when you concentrate on doing just one thing, you get much better results.

Squeeze Pages Focus Attention Of Your Web Site Visitors.

When you ask your web site visitors to do just one thing on a page (in the case of a squeeze page it is to subscribe to your newsletter), 100% of their attention is focused on the action you ask them to take. When you give them just two options, only 50% of their attention is focused on each option. When you give them three options, only 33.3% of their attention is focused on each option.

As you can see, giving your web site visitors just one option ensures that they will pay attention to this option.

Create Different Squeeze Pages For Different Offers.

If you have more than one free gift to offer, make sure to create separate squeeze pages for each free offer. When you have one squeeze page for many offers, you dilute the offer and don’t get too many newsletter subscribers as the result.

On the other hand, when you have one squeeze page for each offer, it will give you a chance to focus your marketing and maximize the number of newsletter subscribers you get with each offer.

Want even more effective squeeze pages? Squeeze pages are easy to create, especially if you use squeeze page templates. You can create many squeeze pages and see which one helps you get more newsletter subscribers.

Another reason you want to use social networking web sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, is because you want to keep in touch with your social networking connections even if you or they leave social networking web sites. The only way to keep in touch with them in that case is if they are subscribers to your list.

Social networking web sites fare great for inviting people to join your list. Here is how to get started:

- Offer a no charge report, ecourse or teleseminar.

- Create an effective squeeze page for it

- Promote the free offer on social networking web sites. You can do that by sharing information yourself, sharing your blog posts, having your affiliates share about it, etc.

- Create a plan and keep marketing. In order to get continuous results you must share information about your free offer continuously.

For more information on how to create squeeze pages that help you build your list on social networking web sites get this FREE audio recording, Five Secrets For Creating An Effective Squeeze Page at http://www.effectivesqueezepages.com/audio/

So why are so many service professionals who use Twitter marketing not able to build their lists? It is because they are not using squeeze pages when doing Twitter marketing! When you are using Twitter and sharing information about your newsletter, your free gifts and your free teleseminars, the links that you are sharing should all be links to squeeze landing pages.

The reason for this is that squeeze pages are extremely effective at helping you build your list. This is because all of your squeeze landing pages only have one goal. The goal of squeeze landing pages is to convert your Twitter traffic into newsletter subscribers. That’s it. When a page has only one goal, it is a very effective landing page.

Ready to use squeeze pages to build your list with Twitter? Here is how to use these pages to get more newsletter subscribers on Twitter:

1. Have A Free Product That People Need

When people sign up for your list you should give them a free gift to thank them for joining. Create a free audio recording, ebook or special report that people in your target market need.

2. Design An Extremely Effective Squeeze Page To Give Away This Product

Having a great free product is not enough. In order to get results by giving away your free product, you must have an extremely effective squeeze page for giving it away. Make sure that your squeeze page is all about giving away your product and nothing else.

Your squeeze page should have just one goal, converting your Twitter traffic into newsletter subscribers.

3. Use Twitter Marketing To Bring People To Your Squeeze Page

Now use Twitter to invite people to visit your squeeze landing page and subscribe to your newsletter.

As you can see, you can build your list on Twitter with effective squeeze pages. Learn how to create extremely effective squeeze page during the FREE Teleseminar, Five Secrets For Creating An Effective Squeeze Page. You can register for it at http://www.avocadoconsulting.com/mt/