Friday, July 4, 2008

Want to Increase Your Subscribers, You Should Try Building a List

By Markku Saastamoinen

Unfortunately, most people are unlikely to revisit your web page without a compelling reason. After all, we all behave rather impulsively on the Internet, so much so that we can easily forget where we were 10 web pages ago. As any good webmaster realizes, if 1,000 visitors visit your site and never come back, they take all the potential revenue they could spend with them.

For example, if you have 1,000 visitors visit your website in a day, you will likely never see them - or their potential spending money - again. A good website owner would be able to make some of those visitors into customers. Still, if you want your customer to comeback, you need to convince them to join your mailing list!

Many argue that unique web content will translate into repeat business, but this is not the case. The real, long-term solution lies in converting your visitors into subscribers of your mailing list. Before your visitor leaves, he or she should be enticed to join your mailing list through a simple opt-in. You'll need both the visitor's name and the email address to be gathered on the opt-in form.

If your visitor signs up to be on your mailing list, you can continue to follow up with him or her through email. You should use these as a tool to attempt to get the visitor to consider your product again, or to attempt to get them to consider a new product. This should be an easy way to get visitors to your website to repeat their experience and put money in your pocket.

Something that many people use as a tactic to increase their subscribers is writing articles. Quite simply, you write and submit your articles on your topic of expertise or business nature to popular article directories where eZine publishers and readers are looking for the information you provide.

As many can attest to, article writing is a great way to practice viral marketing. All customers want to do business with knowledgeable people, and these articles will allow you to prove that you have that skill.

You'll build your mailing list through the resource box you attack to the articles. Also called a bio box, this tool lets you include brief details about you and your website, along with your site's URL. As the point of the article was to get more subscribers to your mailing list, your URL should point to the landing page where new visitors can subscribe to the mailing list.

If well written, the publishers of the eZine directors will share the articles, and their resource boxes. As a result, you have a successful viral marketing without much effort on your part. The simplicity of including your details with every article you write is also a very effective one.

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