Using Free Reports to Build Your List

Aside from pre-selling your products and affiliated offers, the other purpose of your free viral report should be to build your mailing list.

This is because if you are unable to sell the products and services featured in your free report, the last ditch effort should be to collect leads. In short, if you cannot convert the reader into a ready buyer, you should then attempt to convert him or her into your subscriber.

In that manner, you can still follow up with your reader on future offers and have a chance at converting him or her into your customer, preferably lifetime.

You can do so by offering a lifetime update to your report or a unique notification list your reader will be interested in subscribing to, which leads to having him or her subscribed to your mailing list.

One of the few success factors in viral marketing of your free report is quality. If your readers find your information worth sharing, and you encourage them to do so by giving them the right to give your report away for free, you will be able to have your name, status and links within the report passed around without any effort on your part – simply because others are willing to do so for you!

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#1 rrusdy on 01.01.08 at 5:03 am

Report and Ebook can be found a plenty in the internet. Some might be new as claimed but quite a number are old and outdated report that has beeen around for years. Most topic discussed are on the same data with some alteration and a new writer’s name.

I might be wrong to state that most report are given with the sole intention of getting takers into their list. True to the statement that there are MONEY IN THE LIST. Whatever you do get them on the list. The report don’t make buyers but repeat emailing WILL. Some make money and disapear behind the machine. Worst still their web site are scraped by Clickbank due to term infringement.

Autoresponder has been the most loyal slave of the internet marketers. Post a series of letters and in between sent out the free goodies. It will get to work on the word click and it never failed to perform.

With thousands on the list, the marketers don’t have the time to find out who are on the list and as long as the autoresponder are funtioning there is nothing to worry. JUST CHECK THE BANK ACCOUNT. Some don’t even care to answer question but refer all questions to a QNA data where it’s being taken care of. Is the business so busy that human touch is no more important, all are done by machine. Where are the personal relation?

Most claimed that every guestion are answered personally but the truth is it does not. If answers are cold, you cannot hide the coldness of a machine with an artificial warmness.

The fact is, don’t let the autoresponder do all the work for you, be personal and be concerned who are those that join the list. I hope someone don’t join the list repeatedly just to get the free report or ebook, even though it is sometime difficult to be one. How are we to know when Joe Pro Knowledge -> Ist Promotion -> Profit Mart -> The ClickBank Guru -> Affiliatr Program -> Marketing Resources and -> Search Clone are the same, when it’s leads to a different autoresponder or same autoresponder different campaign.

Sharing report is another problem of duplication of reports. Giving a different name to a report had misled hopeful to getting a new report but infect a duplication. How many time must a reader be faced with this kind of situation. Sometime a report is being brokendown into small bits and pieces so as easy to consume, but still it is a same report, only written with a different approach.

What are most popular report or ebook in circulation. Lets list afew 1. List building, 2. Viral money machine, 3. Search Engine Opimization, 4. Affiliate Marketing, 5.Pay Per Click and 6. Success on the Net.

Please don’t take this as a hate blog. Being new I think I am looking this matter at a negative understanding. Feel free to corect me.

PS: I normally check my file before downloading or even buying product, for fear it is the same or partly the same.