{"id":4905,"date":"2011-09-27T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2011-09-27T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T13:00:20","slug":"the-most-profitable-list-building-secret-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-most-profitable-list-building-secret-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Profitable List Building Secret In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a timely question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Ben, what&#8217;s your best list building tactic?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good question.<\/p>\n<p>In my humble (and always <em>accurate<\/em>) opinion, it&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p>Building a list of PROSPECTS not SUSPECTS.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a big list of SUSPECTS is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Just do some free ad swaps and sweepstakes and other gimmicks and you get thousands of email addresses in your database very quickly for little or no money.<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t make jack from it.<\/p>\n<p>But by thunder &#8212; you&#8217;ll have a big list!<\/p>\n<p>Building a list of PROSPECTS is different.<\/p>\n<p>These are people in need of what you sell, and are in the mindset where they&#8217;re &#8220;pre sold&#8221; on you, and seeking your website out.Then, when they get there, actively search for your opt-in form so they can join your list as fast a humanely possible.<\/p>\n<p>Now you&#8217;re in bid&#8217;nis!<\/p>\n<p>I mean, let&#8217;s face it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can&#8217;t hardly lose like that, can you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well guess what?<\/p>\n<p>This is what the next &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue is all about:<\/p>\n<p>Building a list of prospects (not suspects).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also including a PILE of bonus&#8217;s too.<\/p>\n<p>These bonuses include ways to build your list using email&#8230; YouTube&#8230; an ordinary ball (yes, a ball)&#8230; your local news media&#8230; the telephone (gasp!)&#8230; and even a 74 minute audio training (on a CD) showing you ways to tweak your website to make people far more likely to give up the goods (i.e. their email address) and eagerly join your list.<\/p>\n<p>This next issue is THICK with information.<\/p>\n<p>But time is short.<\/p>\n<p>It goes to the printer Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe today (while there&#8217;s time) at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a timely question: &#8220;Ben, what&#8217;s your best list building tactic?&#8221; Good question. 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