Send A Email A Day

One thing I always stress is that if you’re looking for success, the best, most important thing you can do is to follow a proven system. Trying to figure stuff out on your own is tough. Now and then, you’ll be right about the direction you should take, but mostly, you’ll be wrong because you just don’t understand how things work yet.

So, what can you do? Find a mentor and follow what they tell you works for them. Do it blindly. Don’t substitute ingredients. Just do what the system dictates and at the end of it all, you will find success.

The most important thing you can do is to start with lead generation. Here are the 5 steps you must take to make it work well for you:

1. Buy a domain

Consider buying a domain with a keyword for your niche in it. Domains are cheap, under $10 a year, but having one is essential.

2. Get an autoresponder account

An autoresponder will allow you to create a form to collect names and email addresses. It will also house the data for you, and handle confirmations and unsubscribes. This is extremely important, as you don’t want to break any SPAM laws. Plus, it’s just more efficient. This will cost you between $20 and $50 a month, depending on the company you choose.

3. Create a giveaway offer

You can use articles about your niche that you gather from one of the online directories, as long as you maintain the author’s information. In other words, you have to give the authors full credit for the articles, but you can add an introduction, as an editor, and give the report away in exchange for people’s names and email addresses.

4. Create a squeeze page

A squeeze page is nothing more than a headline, 3 – 5 bullet points that outline the benefits of your giveaway report, and an opt-in box, where people enter their names and email addresses.

5. Drive traffic to your squeeze page

There are many different ways that you can drive traffic to any page online. Blogging, writing and posting articles in directories, podcasting, search engine optimization, and Web 2.0 sources, like Facebook, Squidoo, and Twitter are only a few. Send as much traffic as you can to your squeeze page and build your list as quickly as you can.