Build Optin List

You can also use Craigslist to build your list. Actually this may be the best of all the ways to profit using Craigslist! Why? Well we have all heard the saying, “the money is in the list” and it’s very true.

Sit back and think about this for a minute… if a person clicks on your affiliate link in your Craigslist ad and then doesn't buy the product, you have most likely lost them forever and you make no money off them.

However, if that same person were to opt-in to your list in before they see the sales page or product you get to email them over and over. You could email them weekly or even daily. Make sure you provide some good information so they will stay on your list, but you can recommend affiliate products to them every once in a while.

This drastically increases your chances of making money from your Craigslist ad and it might not be just one sale. If someone buys a product you recommend and is satisfied, there is a strong chance they will buy from you again.

Building a list using Craigslist is a great way to build a long-term income stream for your business. After a while you can post far fewer ads yet still be making more and more money off of all the people already on your list. It’s a pretty sweet deal if you ask me!

One great way to profit from your list while making it even easier on yourself is to pre-load an e-course into an autoresponder so when they opt-in to your list the messages automatically go out to them at set intervals. That way you don’t have to remember to email them or take the time to manually do the emailing.

Make sure each message in the series provides valuable information that your readers would be interested in and can actually use. But you can also put an affiliate link to a recommended product in each message.

This is a very good way to build a strong relationship with your list because you are providing them with a valuable e-course for free. And it’s a great way to make affiliate profits. Everyone wins!

Ok now that we have talked about some of the reasons why you should build your list. Let’s get into a couple ways you can use Craigslist to do it…

First off, in order for this method to work you will need an autoresponder. There are a lot of different autoresponder services out there but only a few of them are good and worth using. I recommend Aweber. I have used them for the past three years and they are great. Aweber also happens to be one of the most highly recommended autoresponders by internet marketers.

Now, after you have an autoresponder, you need to input your messages that you want to go out automatically after someone opts-in to your list. I won’t go into detail on how to do that in here but if you have any trouble just let me know and I will be happy to help. As long as you have Aweber I can certainly help you, but if you have a different autoresponder service I will try but not sure I will be able to help.

You can set up unlimited lists in Aweber so you can write an e-course for as many different niches as you want. You might set up separate ones for debt help, making money online, real estate, home business, investing, pets, crafts, or anything else you decide to promote on Craigslist.

Just remember to give them valuable information and teach them something in the e-course plus add a recommended product with your affiliate link to it so you can profit from the e-course.

You might be thinking that you don’t know enough about these topics to write a course about them. That’s ok. Just do a little research and you will be cranking them out in no time. They don’t have to be very long, just a few paragraphs for each message.

Once you have your series of emails in your autoresponder all you have to do is place ads on Craigslist in the same way described earlier in this ebook. However, this time instead of putting your affiliate link in the ad you will put a link to the autoresponder series you have set up for that topic.

Here is a sample ad you might use:

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Free E-course Reveals How You Can Take Control of Your Debt!

Are you drowning in debt and need to find a way to get out?

Our free e-course will give you 7 tips for becoming debt free.

To get it just send a blank email to:
[your autoresponder address here]

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Another way to build your list using Craigslist is to set up a squeeze page on your website and put a link to that page in your ad. This is a good way to pre-sell them even more to increase the chances of them opting-in and then purchasing.

You just need to put an opt-in form (easily created in Aweber) on the page and give them some benefits and reasons they need to join your list. It doesn’t have to be anything too fancy. Simple can be better sometimes.

This will also cut down heavily on the number of spam email addresses you get joining your list because they have to opt-in to a form.

When you just put the autoresponder address for your list in the ad it will get mailed automatically by spam-bots. This doesn’t really hurt you but it’s a little annoying having hundreds of fake people trying to join your list every day.

You could use the same as in the sample above but instead of putting your autoresponder email address you would put the link to your squeeze page.

That’s about all there is to building your list using Craigslist. Simple but effective!