When it comes to building your list, the Internet is amazing.
One of the best tools is PayPal. You know eBay owns PayPal, so you have millions of sellers on eBay, you have tens of thousands of powerful sellers who have millions and thousands of transactions on eBay, and all of those transactions are through PayPal, so you might look for a company that sells let’s say, I don’t know, mattress covers on eBay for low cost in the United States and you can look at their eBay feedback and they may be a purple star and you can see they have 60,000 transactions and they’ve been on eBay since the early 1990’s.
You know that those 60,000 transactions, a good majority or even more, are all in PayPal because PayPal is the shopping cart for those eBay transactions and did you know that the owner of that eBay store can go into their PayPal account and download an Excel ? File each and every name, email address, and postal address of your customers because if they’re shipping those mattress covers to their customers, they have all the data already entered.
So you can approach someone on eBay or through PayPal and even shop at PayPal stores and find large lists of specific products and services and approach them for joint ventures.
You can approach them and ask them to allow you to interview them about your mattress cover business. You can do as an Ask campaign. Go find these big-name interview guys to do an Ask campaign. So, for example, the way I did, go to AskMichaelSenoff now, since I’m the expert. I’m going to my barter expert next month. I created an Ask campaign called AskDonahueSilves and it’s already set up and he owns nine of the high tech brokers which is a retail barter exchange.
He has a list that he’s been mailing to and I’ve created an email and I’ve created this whole question campaign and I’m like, “Donahue, I’m going to help you promote your barter retail membership.” And we already did the interview and he’s going to send an email to his list and they’re going to send his question, if you had a chance to ask bartering expert Donahue Silves anything about saving money using barter, enter the question of him now. They will enter his question, that name comes through my Ask campaign and goes to my AWeb or autoresponder, so I set up an autoresponder account just for him. I can capture those names and they are in my autoresponder service so I have control over them and I have an agreement with him that I can use those names to help his existing barter customers learn more about business and by providing them with my interviews. audio.
So I will be mailing to your list that that list or a part of that list will become my list. So that’s a joint venture. I am helping him by creating a great audio interview to promote his bartering service and in return I am getting some of the names that will become future clients of mine, I hope, which I think should work.
These are some of the ways anyone can build their list. But building it yourself can be slow, but if you think smart and have a good strategy and use joint ventures, you can definitely shorten the process.