Why Is NOBODY Signing Up For Your FREEBIE?
You tried. You followed the instructions. Still no opt-in growth and Zero Money In Your Pocket?
Why Is NOBODY Signing Up For Your FREEBIE?
By Michael Johnson
There is a myth concerning internet marketing a lot of people believe about list building that is holding you back.
It’s been preached by the gurus for as long as the web has been popular. A handful of people speak the truth about it.
The gurus tell you it’s all about building a freebie seeker list by giving away lead magnets. Then email them daily if you want to make money.
You’ve probably tried it several times by now. Didn’t work, did it? Years ago, it did. Not anymore, even the biggest companies out there can’t make the free list work. After spending millions of dollars on ads, they quit doing it.
They have nearly all quit building lists of freebie seekers. Because they found that even IF you can get opt-ins and downloads, they are terrible buyers. The worst.
That should teach you something, because if Agora can’t make it work spending millions on ads to get people on a free list. What hope do you have?
I speak from experience. I’ve tried building opt in lists for 15 years. Not one has worked out and made money. Not one.
So here is my warning to you. Stop building your business around an opt in list. And definitely stop buying ads to promote your freebies.
Your odds are not good. Half the opt-ins wind up being fake emails or bots. Who never even open any of your emails. Who never even download the freebie!!
I’ve had opt-in pages up for ages and watched as 4 or 5 people a month signed up for a great freebie. That’s a good case, typically, not a single sign-up for months.
From what I’ve seen. Opt-ins really only work for warm audiences. And that means you already have to have a big group of people following you. Reading your content or watching your videos.
Then you have a chance. But cold traffic from ads to an opt in is going to cost you a fortune.
The solution as Doberman Dan says is Only Build A List of Your Buyers. In other words, forget the freebie list. Just sell the damn thing and find buyers. Put the buyers on a list.
Because wasting thousands on ads to your squeeze pages and thinking you’re going to make money with a freebie list is dreamin’.
They don’t buy. They wait for more freebies from you, if they are really good email addresses. Most of your freebie seekers use a separate email address for all those opt in mailing lists.
Why in the heck do so many gurus and average marketers preach list building to a squeeze page today?
For the same reason, they’ve always preached it.
It makes them money because surprise, surprise…
Auto responder companies pay big commissions. Monthly recurring commissions. You can’t run your squeeze pages without one. So as you try for years to get opt ins to work, you’ve been paying that auto responder.
In fact a lot of newbies wind up trying several auto responders assuming they must have a bad one. Because everyone says this should be making you money by now.
It gets expensive quickly and you don’t make much money the whole time. Lucky to make just a few dollars a month with your freebie list. So you assume you are doing it wrong.
So now you buy the gurus course on making money with auto responders and opt in lists. Maybe several courses, and they each promote a different auto responder to you. They offer you all kinds of training on how to use them, how to set them up and even give you email automations, DFY. If you sign up for this auto responder with their link, right?
It’s a system for them to make a lot of recurring money over and over. But you keep wondering why nobody opts in to get your freebies. No one buys a thing after reading your emails.
My advice that will save you a fortune is stop wasting any time with freebie lists. If you are going to spend money on ads, send them to landing page that has nothing on it except your free report. Not a PDF download. A free special online report ie. a sales page in disguise that sells a product.
Skip the freebie. Skip the forced opt-in. Let them see your valuable info. It’s a two-part series.
The free ONLINE report doesn’t give it all away.
They must buy the rest of the goodies. The solution is in the product.
The only thing you should be giving away is Step 1 and Step 2. The big step 3 is answered in your product. Lead them to your solution.
It removes the opt-in from the equation. Everyone who clicks on your ad sees your offer. The buyers buy, the freebie seekers leave.
Now everyone on your list is one of your proven buyers. Just keep giving them great offers that help. Serve your buyers list. Ask them what they want. Create it. Sell it to them because they asked for it.
That my friend is how you really make money online. As quickly and inexpensively as possible.
No endless creating freebies or free content.
Just deliver solutions to problems for a price. Any price is better than free.
Not only have you built a list of buyers, but you’ve skipped the 1 year nurture series of emails you would have needed to write for a free list.
Don’t be like me. I wasted years of my life trying to get opt-in lists to work with free stuff. It never worked, it’s just like the old biz opp ads in all the magazines. Fake stories to get you to buy supplies. Like the old gold rush. The people who got rich were the suppliers to dreamers.
See you on the next one.
I’m out o here for now.
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