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By the time you  read this, I will be on a flight from Pittsburgh, to Kansas City to pick up my 5 year old granddaughter and we will be flying back to Pittsburgh together.  She is coming to stay with “Granny and Grandad” for the next 3 weeks.  As you can probably guess I am extremely excited.

I loved being a mom, but nothing compares with being a grandmother.  That is the one thing I love about my Internet Marketing business.  I can pick up and leave to fly to Kansas and not have to ask my boss if it’s okay to take the day off. 

Today we’re going to talk about list building.  I don’t know about you, but this is one of the area’s of my business that I struggled with.  So I have a surprise for you.  I have one of  THE guys who practically invented online list building.    Jimmy D. Brown .  Jimmy has agreed to let me post an excerpt of his  List Profit System to share with you all, while I’m busy flapping my wings. 

In this course Jimmy teaches the difference between having a list and having a profitable list.  This is a fantastic course for beginners, and in my opinion should be recommended reading for anyone starting an online business. 

Ater you read this excerpt, make sure you go grab Jimmy’s FREE report “Six Steps To Six Figures With List Marketing” at this site .

But first here’s a few pages of the actual paid course:

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Excerpt from List PROFIT System
by Jimmy D. Brown

PART 3: Seven Opt-in Triggers That Get Subscribers Like Crazy

You can have all the right “ingredients” to an opt-in page (the things we just talked about in the previous section) and still not get great results. It’s how you put everything together that counts.

So, that’s what I want to share with you now.

You’re about to get the benefit of results from more than five years of tweaking and testing (and tweaking and testing some more!) the opt-in process. I don’t know if there’s anyone who’s been doing THIS longer than I have. I was using a mini-site to get subscribers since back in 1999 – back when list-building pretty much meant having a link on your site that said, “To join my list, click here.”

While there are a gazillion variations and distinctions, there are some basic “triggers” that I’ve found really do dramatically improve your opt-in rate.

There are seven of them…

Note: The first three are very basic, but I’ll be revealing some ideas that you’ve probably not considered before…so read them anyway. The final four are more “advanced” in nature. You’ll find that only those “in the know” are using them. Add your name to the list.

1. Offer Real Perceived Value. Years ago I went to the late Corey Rudl’s web site and he was giving away a free subscription (like everyone else) to his newsletter. What made his different than the rest? It had a simple notice near the subscription form reading, “$197.00 value”.

Instant perceived value at the time. (That’s not the case now with everyone putting inflated “values” on their free offers).

The point is this…you can CREATE perceived value. Here’s how.

- UNIQUENESS. One way to do this is through your own “unique” approach to your free offer. You can say the same thing as someone else in a totally different way and see a marked difference in responses.

For example: “$600 cash back” is NOT the same as “A year’s worth of free gas” to someone about to buy a car. (Especially today with gas prices rocketing skyward in leaps and bounds!) “A year’s worth of free gas” has a much higher “perceived” value even though its monetary value is the same.

What makes your list unique?

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I hope you enjoyed this excerpt of Jimmy’s List Profit System  .  I’ll be back tomarrow, one tired but happy granny, with more insights into Affiliate Marketing. 

Be sure to grab your copy of Jimmy’s Free Report “Six Steps To Six Figures With List Marketing“.  You’ll be very glad you did.

Stay tuned there will be a bunch more freebies coming your way shortly.