Passively Acquiring New Subscribers by the Boatload

First off, dont be lulled in by the title of this article into believing that anything can be acquired by doing nothing. People are always sending us emails telling us that we can make millions online without any work.

Hogwash.

Stop to think for just a moment about the person who sent you that garbage. How in the world did he send you the email you are reading without first investing work to create the email, and then investing hundreds of hours to send his garbage to the masses?

Every person selling the "sitting on your ass" approach to online success is busting his ass to sell you his garbage. Think about that.

The truth is that success in anything requires hard work. lots of hard work.

Having said this, let me now return to the subject of this article:

"Passively Acquiring New Subscribers by the Boatload"

By using this method, subscribers CAN be acquired by the boatload! However, it must be noted that while these subscribers are coming to you in a passive method, you have in fact done a considerable work to position yourself to take real advantage of this technique.

It is like the people who promise that you can make $5,000 in a week by using a particular method. That may be true, but what they did not tell you was that they had invested as much as 5 years work ahead of the $5,000 per week earnings! Nothing happens overnight, not even on the web.

Everyone has pretty much seen by now the pop-ups that appear on sites you visit on the web. These pop-ups offer all kinds of goods and services to you. A lot of people complain that these pop-up ads are really annoying, but the truth is that they do work.

While it makes sense to offer a pop-up that tries to get your visitor to subscribe to your ezine, it makes even more sense to have this offer made on dozens of other websites. By joining an advertising co-op, you can get your ad to appear in the pop-ups on the sites of other folks, when you agree to do the same for the co-op members.

The kind of pop-up ads I am talking about here is the pop-ups that ask you to subscribe to any of ten ezines listed in the pop-up ad. These pop-ups show a list of ezines with checkboxes in front of them, so readers can pick and choose the ezines that appeal to them for a new subscription.

Now, lets take this concept and apply the multiplication power of MLM to the equation. Imagine a system that lets you advertise the program and anyone who signs up to the program from your site is placed in your downline, permitting you to gain exposure credits from those you recruit to complement the exposure credits you earn from your own sites traffic.

In the old system of pure pop-ups with no matrix program built into the system, your exposures in the program are limited by the amount of traffic you can generate to your site and your site alone. With the matrix built into the program, your credits are determined by the exposures that you produce on your site plus the exposures the pop-ups get on the websites of those you recruit into this free program.

Add to this program cookie technology so that your pop-ups do not serve to annoy your visitors. With the cookie, the pop-up will only repeat itself on the same system after a two hour delay.

This system I speak of lets you attract new subscribers for any opt-in list for absolutely free! You can even begin earning impression credits within a few minutes of signing up to the program. For each exit pop-up page that you show, you get your newsletter subscription box shown 4 times, which in turn will lead to new subscribers through a passive means!

Once you have the ball in motion, this method will pretty much take care of itself. The one thing to keep in mind here is that you earn your advertising credits based on the traffic that you and your downline is capable of generating. With this having been said, let us look back to the $5,000 per week example again.

The more traffic your site generates, the more opportunity you have for your ad to be seen and for you to get new subscribers through the system. This is where the hard work comes from. You need to generate the traffic to improve your ability to be seen.

I loaded this program into my highest producing webpage. The page by itself generates three thousand unique page views each month, and has done so every month for the last three years. I just did some updating to the page to improve even those numbers so that I can gain even more exposure for my ezine.

I am able to log in each day to the page to check my current statistics outlining impressions and new subscriptions to my ezine. My ezine subscriptions had been kind of flat for the last year or so because I had pretty much stopped advertising it. However, with this one method, I am now generating a 2% increase in subscriptions every week!

Now that is what I call Power Marketing!

To sign up for the program yourself, please visit:

http://www.subscriberdrive.com/a/c.cgi?8085

Whether you are earning your credits from the ad impressions that you give the co-op or the ad impressions that your downline gives the co-op does not matter. What matters is that each of these credits go towards helping you expose your ezine to the new subscribers that you are looking to acquire for your ezine.

Copyright © 2002, Bill Platt

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