One of the best ways to make money online is obviously with a mailing list. We’ve had that pounded into our heads, at least a thousand times. There is a reason for that, it is true.
There are two main secrets to this. The first is to having a converting offer and squeeze page and the second is to follow up correctly. The first thing that you need is something to offer.
Simply a short informative report is always good. You can also have a free newsletter, but always focus on the benefits of signing up. It is free information, so it shouldn’t be a hard sell.
You can have a link on your profile to go to the sign up page and even explain what you’re giving away in your bio box. This way everyone that views your twitter profile will have an opportunity to sign up for your list.
You can also always tweet about your free report, you don’t want to over do it, but you should hopefully be getting more and more followers over time, so you can keep introducing new people to it, over time. Like I said, just don’t over do and post about it all of the time, people are going to stop following you.
There is a courteous ratio on self promoting and using affiliate links. People probably aren’t just following you to buy stuff you promote, so there needs to be a courteous ratio where you aren’t tweeting about that.
The ratio really varies, I think, depending on what niche market the people following you are interested in. Some top people on twitter tell me that they are somewhere around 80% to 90% of their tweets are not about promotion. The other 10% to 20% are promotion. I also think that it depends on how often you tweet, also.
If you’re tweeting all day, almost everyday, you better have a very huge percentage that isn’t promotion or people will get sick of you and unfollow you. No one wants to be just bombarded with offers. Kind of like being on a mailing list, don’t over promote.
Some other things that you can do is twitter when you release a new newsletter and give them a link to sign up for your list. Twitter about a blog that you might have when you make a new blog post and you have a place for them to sign up for your list, on your blog. An indirect promotion of your mailing list.
