David Fiske Affiliate marketing & web development musings from Fiske Towers

Articles About List Building

25/10/07 - Thanks For My Free DVD

I received a free DVD a few days ago and got round to watching it yesterday.

It was an educational DVD but quite interesting nevertheless.

What was it about? More

03/01/07 - The Power of a Newsletter

I don't know about you but when I go shopping, I look around for the cheapest option. I hate paying pull price and will use discount vouchers or take advantage of sales if it means what I am looking for can be sourced cheaper.

The majority of my visitors are looking for the same thing.

They are looking to find a satellite navigation system for the least amount of cash. They land on my site, find a system and look for the cheapest price. They then go to the cheapest retailer and place an order.

Nice theory but it is not like this is practise. More

20/12/06 - The Money Is In The List

I have an email address I use for spam messages. If I sign up for freebies on the Internet or sign up to download documents, I use this email address.

After 3 days, I had 1,000 emails. There is no way I am reading 1,000 emails so I selected all and deleted.

Most emails that I get are from Internet marketers. The ones that claim not to be guru's just very knowledgeable. They obviously cannot be that knowledgeable if several send exactly the same messages as each other.

These messages invariably contain 'My friend [insert name] has just released a new product'. I don't know about you but that is a sure fire way of getting me to press delete on the keyboard.

Mind you, some of these are interesting reads. I usually sign up for freebies and 99% of the time never buy the e-product (usually priced at $79, $97, or $997). I have bought two e-books before and felt ripped off. You pay $97 for a document that tells you to buy another $200 worth of materials. Why? I paid $97 for the information! More