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The Critical Mindsets To Building an Opt In Email List

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by Dennis Stokes

Everyone wants to have a successful business right? There’s always so much to do, but what you do needs to count toward making more money and staying with it for the long-haul. The very best thing you can do for long-term success in any business is building an opt in email list. All the people making it big on the Internet have made building an targeted email list a priority and they have been rewarded richly for it.

You learn all the great information on list building from your research and your ready to give it a go. You start using all the methods like a mad man (or mad woman) and you actually build a list, but then it stops right there. You have the list, but you still can’t monetize it. Everybody says it’s so easy, but you feel like you’re wasting your time.

Frustrated, you might even be losing money because of the expenses to build the list, maintain it and any other cost associated with building an opt in email list.

Well you keep saying to yourself that everybody says, “The money is in the list”, but you are just shaking your head saying this is bull and doesn’t work. So you give up on the idea of building an opt in email list and go on to other things.

Even if you are resisting the idea of trying to build a targeted email list, DON’T. This needs to be a major piece of your business and a vital part of your success. Just be determined to learn it the right way and not give up until you are successfully building and properly monetizing your list. You will look back and really be glad that you did.

So what’s the barrier that keeps you from building an opt in email list that’s holding you back to success? Well, there are many factors involved that need to be implemented to successfully building an opt in email list. I only have room in this article to discuss one ingredient to the recipe, but this is a main ingredient that if you don’t have and add to the mixture you will be pulling your hair out forever. And for some of us like me, without a lot of hair, it’s not something I can afford to do (haha).

Before even starting a list, like building a house, a solid foundation must be laid for the whole structure to stand for years to come. The foundation of building an opt in email list has 3 mindsets. If you apply these in your list building from the get go, you will greatly improve you chances of building an opt in email list the profitable way.

1-It really quality-not quantity.

If you have quality responsive subscribers your list doesn’t have to be that big to really make great profits from that list. So the mindset is to go about adding only quality-targeted subscribers to your list. I was listening to a well-known Internet marketer the other day that said they actually deleted a list of 2 million subscribers! Wow. That would be hard to do, but he said that they were so unresponsive that it was costing more money to maintain and market to that list than the profits they were receiving in return.


But of course building quality requires more effort and expertise than just building an opt in email list with anyone on that list. I’m not going to go into detail of the how’s of building as much as sticking with the foundation or mindset for having a targeted email list.

2-Another mindset is having the approach that you have only ONE person on your list. When building an opt in email list many marketers talk to their list broadcasting to them like a news anchor giving the evening news on TV. Please….Don’t do it!

Talk to each one of your subscribers as though you wrote that email especially for them. You want your prospects to feel a connection with you as though you were talking to them face to face. Most likely they’ve joined your list because you can help them in some way. They need you to support them and guide them along. So building an opt in email list really is about the one person. Never think you are too important or successful to maintain this mindset.

If you do this when building an opt in email list, you’ll be will light years ahead of most businesses.

3-Develop the perfect system to attract the most targeted prospect and then use that system a million times over. Build your squeeze pages, landing pages, marketing and advertising around this thought to build the optimal list.

Take a page from the life of Ray Crock, the founder of McDonalds. You’ve heard of them haven’t you :-). This is a prime example of a man that built a great fast food restaurant. He developed it so he had the optimal experience for customers, hence optimal profits. And only then when he really had it rolling did he franchise it with a system that could be reproduced with the same results over and over.

It’s absolutely a waste of time to just haphazardly pull prospects from anywhere, thinking they will eventually act on your offers. They won’t and you’ll be frustrated. It takes some work to building an opt in email list the right way, but it will be well worth it.

Some concluding thoughts. Building an opt in email list is created with one person at a time. It’s best to focus on the one and do that with everyone on your list. Don’t act like your a huge business. You might well be big and successful, but don’t act so big that your prospects can’t connect with you. You need to always be personable and approachable.

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