The 7-Minute Traffic Booster

Posted at October 3, 2009

As an internet marketer who is always seeking knowledge, always opting into people’s lists to find out what new tools or ways they have to share about how to be better. If you aren’t do things like that, shame on you, because you should, you never know what you can learn from another individual, especially when its free. All it costs you is your email address, and some time to read or listen to what they have to say, and if you don’t like it, you can simply opt out of their list.

Well I stumbled across a gentleman by the name of Codrut Turcanu, who spoke on the “7-Minute Traffic Booster.” Who could resist such knowledge, especially when he added his capture title “How to Add Hundreds of Subscribers to Your List “Overnight” in 6 Minutes or Less.” How interesting? He caught my attention, so I opted in to find out more.

The method Turcanu speaks of is solo mailing, ad swapping. In fact there is a really cool article here that explains exactly how to do such. But basically all it is is exchanging mailings with fellow mailing list owners in your niche market or industry. You would of course need a opt-in list or squeeze page as some call it in order to do such. You’d want to do this to build your existing list, or to market to a much larger list the product you are promoting, and on the back end gain new subscribers. For example, maybe you are new to online marketing, and you are an affiliate for XYZ Product. You may have only 100 subscribers to your list or zero, in either case the example doesn’t vary to much. You want to promote your affiliate link to someone who has a list much bigger than yours. Maybe 5000, or more. And you pitch an offer to them. Let them know that you are new, and what your situation is (zero subscribers, or 100) and ask them if they would send out your ad to their list. Now if you have only 100 subscribers, you may have to agree to send out the person you are swapping with, the bigger list person’s ad more than once to accomodate the difference in list size, but that’s only fair. If you don’t have any subscribers at all, then you may want to agree to place a banner on your website/blog for the other person, maybe write some articles, maybe post in forums for them, whatever you guys decide upon, and seal the deal. No money exchanged, just a favor for a favor.

What you will receive in the end, is some sales (hopefully) and with those sales comes new opt in subscribers that you now can add to your list. Turcanu said his best swap brought him in 300 subscribers in 24hours, and 450 in 3 days. That’s not bad for ad swapping, and not costing you any money, just time.

The problem however is its not easy to find someone to swap with you. Its easy to find a person who is successful and has a strong large mailing list to agree to work with you. Its also not easy, if youare just starting out, to craft and create a strong sales letter that converts. Which makes this method a tab bit difficult to do. I love the knowledge that is being shared, however you can do virtually the same thing with e-zines. Which is why I love the Directory of Ezines. With the DOE you can vitually find any e-zine out there that houses the same type of information/product that the people want, and are looking for. Although its not for free like ad swapping, a small fee between $80-150 will allow you to market your product to a list of over 20,000 subscribers or more. You are sure to find results with that amount of folks looking at your ad. If nothing else you will break even, and learn what you need to do to increase your results the next time around. And guess what? The DOE helps you. They have teleseminars, live coaching from the owner himself. You can not fail with ezines. And most importantly, you can not fail with the Directory of E-zines.

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