Anti-social media list building
Published: Sun, 07/07/19
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How do you build a list without the visibility of social media ?
Just to clarify my background, I am about to turn 51, and I’ve been a pharmacist for 30 years. I’m burned out and have been following you for about 2 months. I was trying to figure out how to build a list by using social media, and now this advice
You told me recently not to sign up for email players til I had an offer. I still got nothing.
Props for your Villians book. Have actually been giving some “life” advice to my 21 year old son based on some of your observations.
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You can still build a list using social media.
I just don’t personally mess with it anymore.
Mainly because of its incessant thought-policing, politically-motivated de-platforming, blatant privacy abuse, and their data-sharing/leaking schemes... plus there have been many unintended marketing benefits I wasn’t expecting such as the massive increase in productivity, clarity of thinking, freed up time, less accessibility (which has resulted in more demand for my attention i.e. buying what I sell, a nice side benefit...), etc.
But I would never say not to use paid social media ads if you want to use them.
I have used paid ads from Facebook, Twitter, and Google to build my list in the past.
And, I have gotten many leads doing so.
And while you can scale those leads, the quality paled in comparison to the leads I get now. Plus, I don’t have to follow all these sites’ goofy ever-changing rules, either.
The trade off is, I don’t get as many leads.
But, since I’m a 4 quarters vs 100 pennies kinda guy, that suits me just fine.
Plus, it's rare for a long-term customer to have found me via a Facebook or Google ad. Almost all have come from referral-based leads. And, I can “siphon” away the best quality leads from the above platforms, free, now in some ways and cases.
How?
By using a couple ways I talked a little bit about in my new “Email Players List Swell” book.
It’s on sale for half off the price listed on the sales page until midnight EDT tonight.
But, a word of warning:
This methods inside can help someone build a list from scratch.
And, the leads will very likely be high quality.
Certainly higher quality than random social media leads.
But, all my methods take time and they take patience, and in some cases you will need some kind of network (even if it's small). And I don’t recommend someone who has no list or presence in their chosen market subscribe thinking this is going to be the magic list building method that liberates them from the 9-5 world.
It’s but a tool for the toolbox.
We’re almost to the deadline to get this book at half off.
Here is the link:
http://www.EmailPlayers.com/list
Ben Settle
P.S. This book is made up primarily of the 3 “Email Players” issues I’ve written just on the subject (April 2016, February 2019, and March 2019 issues — which will never be available as back issues even if I do decide to offer back issues again some day to Email Players subscribers), plus every article I’ve written on the subject in various other issues over the past 8 years since 2011, along with any bonus trainings included in many issues with various traffic experts.
If you have those 3 main issues, you don’t need this book.
If you have one or two of them, you’ll have to determine whether it’s worth buying or not.