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List Building with Socrates

How to get 1000+ Subscribers your first month and how to leverage them to grow your list to 100,000 in less than 1 year

Who am I?• Currently live in Southern California• Run 100% of my business from my laptop bag• Built multiple OPT‐IN email lists of hundreds of thousands of people from scratch

• Made 7‐figure in sales• Regularly in the top 5 of Affiliate contests• Won numerous list building competitions

Some proof – 1 of my current aweberaccounts

Some proof – affiliate contests

Some proof – List building contests

From my recent trip to Santorini

List building

But… I don’t want to waste my time or yours showing you pictures today SO…

Let’s get to the point!

What you are going to learnMy promise to you

• By the end of this video you will have a SIMPLE step‐by‐step method to get your first 1000 subscribers in 30 days

• You will also know where the money is in list building so that you can get paid at the same time

• In addition, you will know how to leverage your new list for free to add thousands more subscribers to your list AND dollars to your pocket every month

List building – Free methods

• Start blogging to get people to your blog so they can opt‐in to your list

• Create free videos on youtube that direct people to your website where they can opt‐in to your list

• Write articles hoping they will get published and get you traffic to your squeeze page

• Participate in forums and use a link in your signature so when people click through, they can opt‐in

• Use social media (facebook, twitter etc)• And a lot more…

The #1 List Building Method

• Get other people who have the list you want, tell their subscribers to join your list!– Who does that???

• The most successful product launches in the world used this

• Virtually every top marketer uses this one way or another

• Every viral social media had their members bring all their friends


• Why is this the best method?– It has the HIGHEST conversion rates (I ve seen up to 80% CR)

– It is the most targeted– It is the FASTEST ‐ You can start TODAY and have hundreds of subscribers tomorrow

– Even if you screw up, you will get subscribers

About 700 of the 1,046 subscribers who opted‐in yesterday came with this method

The #1 List Building Method• In our industry we call this method “Adswaps”

– It’s where someone agrees to email their list and tell them to opt into your list in exchange of you doing the same thing for them.

– So if you have 1000 subscribers, you can swap a mailing with another list of the same size

– Say, you got 200 new clicks, 50% opted in, you got 100 new people on your list

– Do this a few times in 2 weeks and you double your list to 2000

– Then you can swap with bigger lists and in a couple of weeks you double it again to 4000

– And keep doubling up your subscribers using this method


• Doing ad‐swaps is VERY simple but there is a BIG PROBLEM

• If you don’t have 1000 subscribers to begin with…How do you get them?


• To get the first 1000 subscribers we are going to use a variation of the adswap method called…

• SOLO ADS

• It is where the partner agrees to email their list for you, just like in adswapping, but instead of you sending for them, you just give them a little bit of money (hint: I said “a little bit”)


• For about $100 you can get 300‐500 GUARANTEED clicks to your squeeze page

• If 50% opt‐in you get 150‐250 NEW subscribers to your list within a DAY

• This is by FAR some of the cheapest quality clicks for list building you will find anywhere

• BUT, you can make more than your money back almost instantly. You will learn how in a moment.

• Why is it really CRUCIAL to get your first 1000 “seed” subscribers asap?

Growing by just 10% each weekWeek Subs Week Subs Week Subs Week Subs Week Subs

1 1,000 12 2,853 23 8,140 34 23,225 45 66,264

2 1,100 13 3,138 24 8,954 35 25,548 46 72,890

3 1,210 14 3,452 25 9,850 36 28,102 47 80,180

4 1,331 15 3,797 26 10,835 37 30,913 48 88,197

5 1,464 16 4,177 27 11,918 38 34,004 49 97,017

6 1,611 17 4,595 28 13,110 39 37,404 50 106,719

7 1,772 18 5,054 29 14,421 40 41,145 51 117,391

8 1,949 19 5,560 30 15,863 41 45,259 52 129,130

9 2,144 20 6,116 31 17,449 42 49,785

10 2,358 21 6,727 32 19,194 43 54,764

11 2,594 22 7,400 33 21,114 44 60,240

Now that I got your attention ☺Here is how to do this

You are going to need:1. A product to give away – a resell rights/plr

product will do just great (ResellRightsFortune.com)

2. An autoresponder/list management account (aweber.com)

3. A squeeze page (to capture the subscribers)4. A funnel / upsell offers (to monetize)5. List owners to send for you (swap partners)

Here is an example of a squeeze page(hint: converts at ~50% on adswaps)

Some real stats

Very Simple process

400 visitorsList owner sends an email with a link to your squeeze page and recommends to opt‐in

PeopleOpt‐in

~200 subscribers added to your list

Monetizing

400 visitors

PeopleOpt‐in


200 people

@4% CR

8 Sales X 27 = $216

Monetizing (Simple Funnel)

400 visitors

PeopleOpt‐in


200 people

@4% CR

8 Sales X 27 = $216

@35% CR

~2.8 Sales X 67 = $187

6 people

Gross Income: $216 + $187= $403 (or ~$1 per visitor)Spent: $100Profit: $303 ( about $0.76 per visitor or about $1.50 per subscriber)

So, How do I find these partners?

• The easiest place to find them when you are starting out is internet marketing forums.Why?

‐ You can contact them one on one‐ You can read reviews‐ There is plenty of them to choose from

So, How do I find these partners?

Live DemoWarrior forumWarriorForum.com

Tips• Between 20 and 50 cents per guaranteed unique click (the more clicks, the

cheapest)• Agree on what will happen if you get less clicks (ask for a resend, or portion of

money back)• List size is not important. Number or clicks IS. If you are sure you can deliver

500 clicks with a 1000 list, then find a partner that can send 500 to swap with• If you couldn’t match your partner's clicks the first time, send again for them• ask the partner for available dates ‐make sure it fits your schedule/timeframe• If you can’t Private Message on the forum, post a reply and request they

contact YOU with the details• Once you get your list going, promote some affiliate products to see the

response.• When your list gets stronger, and you can make great sales as an affiliate, ask

the product owners to reciprocate

Tips• Track• Begin developing relationships• Create a rolodex• Setup recurring swaps• Buy more and save• + do's and don'ts

don'tsdon’t go buy an email ad for $15 for 500,000 subscribersdon’t just buy a solo ad off of a website unless you KNOW the person

dosemail the partner to nail down the detailsask for guaranteed minimum clicks

More ways to make money

• Add more offers to your sales process (funnel)– higher priced upsells– downsells– exit pop

• Autoresponder ‐ Followup– 100 days ‐ 35 messages

Recap We learned:

• how to have other list owners send us their best subscribers

• how to get 1000 subscribers to our list FAST using solo ads then leverage those people using adswaps to build 100,000 subscribers in a year for free.

• how to monetize the subscribers the moment they join our list using upsells

Monetizing (Simple Funnel)

400 visitors

PeopleOpt‐in


200 people

@4% CR

8 Sales X 27 = $216

@35% CR

~2.8 Sales X 67 = $187

6 people

Gross Income: $216 + $187= $403 (or ~$1 per visitor)Spent: $100Profit: $303 ( about $0.76 per visitor or about $1.50 per subscriber)

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