Okay, In this post I`ll show you one of the most powerful list-building technique so get excited!
Today`s post will cover Ad Swapping with other list owners…
Basically, Ad Swap means that you promote other marketer`s ad to your list and they promote your ad to their list.
(And If you`ve been reading this blog and applying the earlier list building techniques, you should have a list already…Otherwise I recommend you click this link to see the earlier techniques that get you started with list building…)
You simply contact other marketers asking if they want to do ad swap with you and discuss about the details like how big is their list compared to yours and when they want to arrange the swap. It shouldn`t be a problem if you contact marketer who has 2000 subscribers and you have only 500 because they can match your list size and send to only 500 subscribers…That can be done with most of autoresponders…
One good techique to find potential ad swap partners is to join JV giveaways and sign up for gifts.
That`s right, you sign up to their list because Once you are on their list, you can contact them and say:
“Hey, I just read through your ____ (e-book, report or ecourse) and It was really cool!
I was wondering if you would you be interested in Ad-swap?
And when you begin to get answers like: “Sure, Let`s do ad swap!” your list building is on FIRE!
Once you get ad swap partner, they will ask for your ad to send and date when to send.
That`s why you should create ad for the swap BEFORE you contact anyone because these things can happen pretty fast sometimes.
It`s really simple to write ad for the swap because I`ve found out that most of the time short ads get best response.
Here`s one example of ad I`ve been using so you`ll get the point:
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Hey {firstname},
This may come as a surprise but money is not in the list anymore!
I was really lucky to read a short report that opened my eyes and
changed the way I`m doing my online business!
(It`s really important info!)
http://www.moneyisnotinthelist.com
This is all about a report called `Money Is Not in the list`
written by my friend Lauri Niskasaari and currently
he is giving it away for free (value $67)
Once you read it you will realize the shocking truth about
making money with email…
Get it NOW before it`s been sold instead!
http://www.moneyisnotinthelist.com
Take Care,
-Yourname
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And that`s it. Few lines of text and link to my squeeze page…
When my ad swap partner asks me to send them my ad, I`ll email this ad (depending what I want to promote) and tell them they can alter the text to fit their writing style.
And after they send me their ad, we both queue the ads to our autoresponder and wait for the ad swap date and watch our lists grow.
If you don`t know how to queue your ad to go out on a specific date, I`ll show you how to do it…
If you use aweber and want the ad to go out on a chosen date, this is what you`ll do:
Click Messages ==> Broadcast ===> Create broadcast message:
After that copy/paste the ad text and as you scroll down you`ll see this:
As you can see, you get to choose the date and time when your email goes out…and all you need to do is fill in the details and save your message…and then all you do is click queue:
Talking about easy stuff, right?
I highly recommend you test send the ad to your email address to see everything is allright…(just click test in aweber)
So, if you want to build your list FAST, I recommend you begin to contact possible ad swap partners. At first you may feel embarassed to contact those other marketers with your ad swap requests…but do it anyway.
Step outta your comfort zone and start contacting those other marketers. You will notice that it`s really easy to get people to ad swap with you…And you can possibly make long time friends and business partners in the process too!
Thanks for reading,
-Lauri
P.S. If you want to know the easiest way to find qualified, reliable marketers to swap with and automate a lot of the boring setting up and track your results, I recommend you click here to see something special…(I use it myself and it`s awesome!)
