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Article #149: List-Building: Put Some Teeth In The Back End

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People often ask, "We're going to be one of those areas instead of all three,
giving away some ebooks-what's the best you can build a crazy home study course
way to monetize that?" on one area. What I'm saying is what
Ultimately, you want to monetize this by would happen if you did the "Your Niche
building a list. That's the simple Handbook"?
answer. If you're not doing that, you're Do a teleseminar, get it recorded, and
shooting yourself in the foot. get it transcribed. Then, immediately do
But I would do two more things: an "Ask" campaign to find out what people
Number one is that I would do as much as on your list want to know about your
I could to force the opt-in to your list niche, and then get more people on your
before they get the ebook. list by promoting the free teleseminar.
Number two is that I would assume that At the end of the free teleseminar, you
people are going to spread the ebook sell the as-yet-to-be-completed home
anyway. They're going to give it to their study course-the three-part live
friends and family anyway, which means teleseminar series.
these new readers are not going to have You can also create an "affiliate
to join your list to get your ebook. product" for people with their own big
So, you want a call to action within the lists. Allow them to brand the ebook and
ebook, too. That call to action can be, give it away to their list members. Allow
"Get your extra bonus here." You can put them to use their affiliate links to the
that in the footer of every page of the back-end product, which are embedded in
ebook. Give them another opportunity to the ebook footer. That way, your
opt in and become part of your list. "affiliate's" list signs up to be on your
Whether you're using a free ebook, to list, the affiliate makes money on the
build buzz and spread the word around back end and everybody is happy.
about a new product launch or you're just At the end of the day all it comes down
giving the book away to build your list, to is...
never neglect to monetize the back end. Free ebook?
What you do is one of two things: You set Get it out there, immediately upsell
up an affiliate program and the affiliate those who opt-in on the thank-you
program is ultimately giving away the page-give them a one-time offer or
free ebook and consequently, selling the something like that, the teleseminar
back end to anyone who opts in to your series, or the course.
list. I would make the back end a However you're doing it, it doesn't
three-part teleseminar series, maybe. really matter. Whoever you're applying
Each part of the series could be one of the information to it doesn't really
three sub-niches. For instance, you may matter-the model is the same. The reason
have an ebook about pets, if that's your I'm telling you to do it this way is
niche. The first teleseminar could be all because when you give people free
about dogs, the second all about cats, information, upsell them to paid
and the third all about fish, or information. That's it-that's all it
whatever. If there's a ton of interest in comes down to.






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