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Or, how I added 301 people to my list last week.online-business-growing-your-list-wrong-1

I just did a survey of my subscribers.

(If you didn’t take it, please do so here and then come back, because it’s a way for me to know what’s important to you. And you can ask questions and I might answer them in a blog post. I’ve already done that twice.)

In the survey I ask what’s important to you. Here are some of the results so far:

  • Grow my subscriber & social media lists: 70% say this is Very Important, the highest percentage of any of the options
  • Learn how to hold events (such as webinars): 46% say this is Very Important
  • Learn how to partner with others: 28% say this is Very Important,, the lowest percentage of any of the options

What’s wrong here?

What’s wrong is that events and partnerships are the best way to grow your list. So if you think that growing your list is important, then you should think that events and partnerships are just as important.

And if you don’t, that’s probably why you’re probably trying to do it all wrong.

It’s possible that the people who think list building is so important already know how to hold events and partner with others, my guess is that they just don’t realize how important those activities are.

How I added 301 people to my list last week

online-business-growing-your-list-wrong-1My coach, David Perdew, promoted a free product of mine yesterday. He has a fairly large list, but not huge. But it’s very responsive because he knows how to create a real community.

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Why a free product? It has 5 autoresponders behind it that promote related products. And hopefully I’ll make sales and he’ll get a commission for all of those.

As you can see from the screenshot at the top, 552 people clicked and 301 people became referrals, which means that they completed the opt-in form and became my subscriber.

That’s the power of partnerships!

Similarly, you can do a webinar and invite others to promote it to their list. I once gained 800 new subscribers in a week that way. (No, it doesn’t happen every day and you need to reciprocate.)

If you want to see what so many people downloaded, you can find out here.

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So what are you going to do to partner with others to grow your list? What events are you organizing? If you need help, contact me. I can coach you through the process of partnering and creating events.

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    1 Response to "Want to grow your list? Here’s why you might be doing it all wrong"

    • Youlande

      I think I need to really work on creating a real community, so my list will grow. Thanks for the post.

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