Comments on: How to Overcome the Fear Of Creating Your First List & Banish Bullies From Your Life Forever

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:29:01 +0000

I got a refund for my webbymail lol. The website has been down for the past day. Dumb of me. Back to aweber lol.

I just went and checked on the stats for the 10 articles I submitted a couple of weeks ago. None of them have more than 20 views lol.

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Maybe I need to start building some links to them or something. Unless the guitar niche sucks? 11 views on average per article in 2 weeks just seems terrible for me. Does it normally take a month or two for the views to come in? They’re in the guitar niche.

By: ian

ian — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:00:53 +0000

Thanks, Jeff – no I don’t know anything about webbymail….I use aweber and think they are probably the most reliable solution.

Don’t worry about what the form looks like…..for a blog – I like to use an image of a form – and a big button – and link to a dedicated opt in form that has more space to cover benefits, etc – but the one you reference above is good – and easy to do – good graphical display of what you’re getting (ebook, etc) helps as well. (some niches seem to respond better to “pretty” forms – others, like IM – are more accosutomed to bare bones sorts of opt in’s and worrying too much about “looks’ can be a un-neccessary time suck!)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:31:38 +0000

Hey Ian, man I feel so late coming in on the blog party here and reading these a year late. Then again, I just started free traffic methods a couple months ago….

Nonetheless, it’s all lovely stuff and I am enjoying it (along with your facebook status updates. Yes, I totally creeped your profile. It’s a bad habit of mine that won’t end soon.)

I took the jump to signing up for an autoresponder today. I went with Webby Mail. It’s a $49 one-time fee for unlimited lists, contacts, responders, etc. So I hope it works out. If you’ve heard about it, do you have opinions? I have 15 days to try it out so if it sucks, I can bail.

I was also wondering if you have a preferred type of opt-in form. Like some are the basic pop over, others are on the sidebars at the top, some have a fancy graphic with a big button. I want to make sure I start off strong. An opt-in form that I am interested in trying is one at www getgooglesniper com (trying to not link or endorse the site, sorry.)

Can you check his out and let me know what you think? I promise to not comment for 36 minutes.

By: ian

ian — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:03:27 +0000

Thanks Ron – I appreciate it!

By: ron

ron — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:58:24 +0000

Thanks again Ian. You have quickly become my web-marketing guru of choice. I look forward to your posts.
-and to building a list of my own.

By: ian

ian — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:38:03 +0000

Thanks, Alejandro!

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:11:28 +0000

Great post!..i like the way you write …definitely build a list is so important and i have to do it.I have been working in blogs english\spanish and i’ve to build a list…basta de vagancia.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:45:47 +0000

Ian,

I need a punch in the face or something, haha – You’ve told me that CJ offers convert better than clickbank products, but I’m still too afraid to make the jump.. I don’t know why

I guess I have more experience marketing ebooks and stuff. Either that or im just frightened of CJ’s “complexity”