<\/div>Hi there,\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nIn this Blog post I am going to talk a little about the importance of building a list in your online business.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nSure, there are many ways these days to build and connect with your audience and there are a dozen courses being released every week for each and every platform claiming to teach you how to do so while making 1000\u2019s of dollars while you are at it. Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat etc.\r\n\r\nAm I saying none of these work?….Of course not\u2026but ask yourself this\u2026.\r\n\r\nHow are the people promoting these courses promoting them to you?\r\n\r\nYes, I thought so\u2026more than likely by email, right?\r\n\r\nYou see\u2026.most of the people promoting these courses are not using these methods themselves. The ones that are, are using these platforms to funnel traffic to a squeeze page to capture their details on an email list. You see what is happening here?\r\n\r\nSo\u2026don\u2019t do as these people say but do as they do if you want to see real success.\r\n\r\nOne other point about basing a business on a single or even a few social platforms is that you are completely at their mercy. If they choose they can shut you down in an instant and you will have no comeback. Your business could die overnight. Also, trends change and the social platform which was flavor of the month last month may not be so in several months time. Anyone remember MySpace ??\r\n\r\n
<\/a>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nThe fact is that following this approach will allow you to build a list of like minded people and even raving fans who will be much more likely to open your emails when you send them, and even buy your product recommendations.\r\n\r\nSure, not everyone is going to like your style and you can except people to unsubscribe on a daily basis. This is normal and you should never take it personally. Not everyone is going to like everyone, that\u2019s life. Also, you should not try and be everything to everyone either. That will make your message wishy washy and you will actually connect with fewer people by trying to do that.\r\n\r\nHowever, taking this approach will lead you to having a solid fan\/customer base which you can depend on. Subscribers like this are more likely to end up on your list for years to come, as opposed to months or even just weeks.\r\n\r\nDid you know?…..It is possible to have a 6 figure a year business with just 1000 loyal fans on your list.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nIt is important also to point out that if you are promoting products and services to your loyal list to always do due diligence on the product you are promoting first. Preferably buy the product yourself and check it out. It takes a while to build that know like and trust relationship with your subscribers. However, promoting one single crap product can destroy that trust in an instant.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nIn conclusion I would strongly recommend that anyone planning on starting an online business should be building a list from day one. I would also highly recommend that you give serious consideration to which method you use to build and maintain your list of subscribers. I think it is obvious which approach I think is best.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nI will be writing many more posts on the topics of list building and email marketing as these are large niches within the Online Marketing niche.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nSo on that note I will sign off for now.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nPeace, Love and Success,\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nDonal.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi there, \u00a0 In this Blog post I am going to talk a little about the importance of building a list in your online business. \u00a0 Sure, there are many ways these days to build and connect with your audience and there are a dozen courses being released every week for each and every platform …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}