List Building Automation – How To Increase Online Sales On Autopilot With Aweber!

List building automation and email marketing is my preferred ways to increase my sales and profits online…

I was looking at my online sales in my Aweber autoresponder today, and I saw something I really like…I just noticed that one of my two years old subscribers bought one of my products.  I track many metrics in my online business, and for me, knowing what happens in my sales funnel is crucial…

I really love list building, and let me tell you something. If you don’t build your list to increase your online sales yet, you’d better start right now because you are leaving a lot of money on the table.

Many marketers say that “the money is in the list”, this is somewhat true, except I’d rather say that “the money is in the RELATIONSHIP with the list”… This is true for both products owners and affiliate marketers. Many beginners think that they don’t need to communicate with their visitors, but my experience shows that building a list and actually make your visitors trust you will increase your affiliate commissions dramatically…

I’ll talk about this in another post, but right now, let me show you why I love list building so much. The reason is because sales happens on autopilot.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not into these hyped “Autopilot Commissions” or “Automatic Income” type of products…however, your online sales will ultimately start to pour in in autopilot (yes, this does happens), but before this happens, you really have to work hard (and smart like those who get an Internet marketing Coach?) to get your online business out of the ground. And since this does not happen in one week, many beginners quit before they even start…Anyone?

List building automation is great because sales are closed for you over and over, even if you are not in front of your computer. You might be sleeping, or at the gym, but your autoresponder is making the closing for you. I find that so great, do you?

Here is how list building automation works…

1. A visitor let’s call him John from now) stumble on your site (obviously, you did something right to drive traffic to your site.)

2. John sees your amazing, irresistible, preferably huge – like in my sidebar – optin box with your “give me your email freebie”.

3. John says “wow, I can get this for free?” (You say: “it’s not really free, give that email first!?”.)

4. John gives you his email…

5. John is automatically added on  your list, lands on your thank you page, and receive your confirmation email (or welcome email if you chose to use single optin.)

6. John clicks (or don’t even bother) the confirmation link and receive your first email

Now, the first email is pretty important. If you do this wrong, John may unsubscribe right away, and even if he stays on your list, he may never open your emails again.

Quick tip: This welcome email should be simple and straightforward. You just welcome John and give his a link to download his freebie. You also tell him to whitelist your email address (like this your email will not end up in his trash folder). And if you have your own product, you add a link to your sales page. As an affiliate, you can also add a link to your affiliate program, but it works better with your own products.

Now, a real life example of the power of list building automation with aweber…

I made a sale a couple of minutes ago, and you don’t know this yet, but I like to know what happens in my sales funnel.

When someone buy one of my products, I want to know a couple of metrics:

1. Where did this sale come from? From my home page, or from my list? If it came from my list, from which one (yes, I have many lists)?

2. When did he join my list?

3. What else did he buy? (from my products and other affiliate programs)

4. A couple of other advanced things (that help me to know if he is a hot buyer)

Let me show you how I do this in aweber…

1. I get my customer email and login to aweber

2. I perform a search in my list with my customer email, and see when he subscribed

I want to know where my subscribers come from

3. I click ‘go’, and then, I know exactly where he came from…

This is pretty cool because I don’t need to search manually through all my lists…

John signed up in 2009, and bought my product in 2012 - That's two years later!

 

 

 

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As you can see on the image above, John signed up on my list on the in 2009, then he bought 2 yearslater in January 2012!?

How cool is that?

And here is a weird thing… John also bought another of my product in 2009. The reason it’s not appearing on the image above is that in 2009, I didn’t set up aweber automation rule that adds John to my “buyers autoresponder”. So instead of being added to my “customer list” he stayed on my “freebie – potential buyer list” for two years!?

I know, I know…it’s not a smart move…but this shows you that list building still works, even if you make mistakes down the road.

By the way, if you look at the image above (under ad tracking), you can see that John signed up to my list via the pop up that appears on my home page.  I’m upset at many of these crazy gurus because I was fool enough to believe what they said (a couple of years ago, not now…).

These gurus used to say that pop ups don’t work. But once I decided that I needed to test this for myself, I quickly realized that building your list with pop up still works. And yes, pop ups and other unblockable pop overs will add buyers to your list. There is an art to use pop up, and when you do this well, it works like wonders!

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Franck Silvestre shows you how you can increase your online profits with his proven and tested list building and traffic generation strategies. If you want to build a real profitable Internet business and build a list of thousands of raving fans ready to buy whatever you promote, here is the first step: Click Here to get your Aweber autoresponder.

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