It’s common knowledge that building large and responsive email lists is one of the easiest ways to profit from your blog. Unfortunately, this can be a slow and arduous process for many bloggers.
Even with a blog rich with high quality content and a free giveaway to incentivize people to join your email list, it can be frustrating watching the number of subscribers increase at a snail’s pace.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way you could quickly and easily add interested subscribers to your newsletter without having to wait months for them to come naturally?
Luckily, there is a way to accomphish this, without resorting to spam or other shady black-hat tactics. Using a technique called list swaps, you can easily add hundreds of new targeted subscribers to your email list overnight!
How do List Swaps Work?
Imagine you and a friend both have blogs on a similar topic. You each know that having a large, responsive email list is one of the best ways to profit from your blog, so you have each been building email lists since you started. Let’s say that you each have about 300 subscribers on your list.
One day you and your friend are hanging out and you start comparing email lists. You notice that almost all the names on his list are different than yours, despite each of your newsletters being about the exact same topic! You both realize how great it would be if you could just add each other’s lists to yours.
Of course just taking the emails from each others lists would be a poor decision; nobody wants to recieve a newsletter they didn’t opt in to. Many people would consider these emails spam, and some would probably report you. Having a profitable email list depends on having a good relationship with your readers, so giving away their emails to anyone else without their permission will hurt you in the long run.
List swaps are similar to trading email lists with a friend, but in a way which lets readers of the other list decide whether or not to opt in. When you and another list owner decide to perform a list swap, each of you send out an email to your lists advertising the other person’s squeeze page. Not everyone will sign up of course, but assuming both of you have lists on similar subjects you should get a decent amount of new subscribers.
How to Perform List Swaps
There are a number of different web sites which help people interested in doing link swaps meet up. These sites often list different categories which allow people with similar email lists to easily find each other. Simply make an account and browse different listings until you find one which seems like a good fit.
Many of these sites have ranking systems in order to track the size and responsiveness of their user’s lists. This allows you to only do business with people who have large and converting email lists. This cuts both ways of course, if most of your list doesn’t even open your emails other people won’t be very likely to want to work with you.
If you can build up a small but enthusiastic list of subscribers, you can then use list swaps with other high rated people to quickly build a powerful and well converting list.
Leveraging a Large List
Once you’ve built a large list, and hopefully a good rating on one or two different list swap sites, you can really start to profit from your list. For example, if you sell an ebook you can have someone advertise it on their list in return for you running an ad on yours.
The larger your list, the larger the lists of the people who will run your ad on them. If you can get ads for your ebook on a few large relevant lists you could easily sell hundreds of copies overnight.
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Twitter: infotech20
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hmm nice idea.List swappping can do miracles i think.I haven’t started building email list but now thinking to swap subscribers from my friends email list :p
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The list swaps process seems very simple and handy.. I need to seriously do this today.. I have a heap of address to swap. Great info buddy.
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Creating a valuable email list is one of the daunting task to be performed on the part of the blogger. List swap seems to be an enticing method for creating an efficient list of subscribers. The post throws light on each and every aspect of list swap. Thanks for sharing this valuable chunk of information.
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Creating a valuable email list is one of the daunting task to be performed on the part of the blogger. List swap seems to be an enticing method for creating an efficient list of subscribers. The post throws light on each and every aspect of list swap. Thanks for sharing this valuable chunk of information.
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Building a good email list is one of critical things for a website to succeed. What you suggested is really new and would possibly work. Nice strategy.
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Great advice. Yet to start my emailing list for our new iPad case related site. Obviously something every blogger and business should invest time in though.
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Awesome guide! But I personally think that viewers will naturally become subscribers if your blog is really worth it. So I struggle to keep my content fresh, useful and share-worthy :)
Is it possible to make 100 new email subscriber? I am also using adswap. Okay will follow your instuction. Let’s see what happend……….
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we all struggle to add new subscribers to our mailing list, thanks for sharing these tips…they are really helpful and can go a long way in helping to expand the mailing list….
Thanks for this great guide, Andrew.
Great Info!!! i have been looking for a way to reduce the stress in adding email on my List. thanks a lot
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I have to agree with Andrew. Most of those that may find using an email list useful is if they are offering something on their blog, whether it’s a product that they are promoting or a service that they are offering. Right now, I’m doing neither. Perhaps in the future, I’ll give this a try when I do have something to offer to them.
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I like this idea of sharing our e-mail lists, we all need to stick together in the faceof adversity (google panda) i can see a win/win situation looming here…brilliant idea!!!
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its very helpful post for every bloggers. thanks for sharing.
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Sharing two Email list together with friend is a very great way to increase both of your email list and that will be a great way to earning a lot through your list. thanks for sharing
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Twitter: GabeJohansson
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I’ve personally used ad swaps, or list swaps, in the past and had some decent success with them.
The problem is that I did way too many of them. It’s a great strategy for quick growth, but no more than 3 per month. It’s not so much about the number of subscribers as the number of people who click the links inside your email.
This definitely isn’t beneficial to every blog, but for Internet marketing, blogging, make money online, and other topics like that it works great!
Safe-Swaps is the only ad swap site that I recommend. The others are not really active.
Thanks a bunch,
-Gabe
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You have a good idea, but I am sure it would require finding someone who is interested in doing this. There is hardly an incentive for another blogger to get involved. It is not black hat but deceptive on merits.
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Hi Andrew,
Would you happen to have a list of examples on websites that allows swapping of email lists?
Thanks in advance.
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I can see how this might work but I also see potential problems with it. I think most people, when asked to opt-in on you friend’s squeeze page, wont be too excited to sign up to something that is completely new to them.
Twitter: bennixville
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My problem with my email subscribers is the unverified ones, I have no time to follow them to make them verified…
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Useful tips has shared in this post. Really thanks for sharing this article with us.
Cheers
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Hey Andrew!
Personally, I have found email subscribers hurt my blog in most cases.
(1) They didn’t bother checking in when they could read the feed…
(2) When I changed it so that only a few “teaser” lines appeared in the reader, they came back for just a minute, until G-Mail’s built-in reader appeared, which overrides my rules and conveys the full article (or most of it) and again, my blog loses when it comes to traffic count and impressions… and of course, ADS don’t come through on the RSS end
(3) In 2012, unless you’re SELLING stuff via your blog, email subscribers are really not necessary.
I rest my keyboard.
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I always thought about this. And how people actually just read it through their email boxes – so i agree unless you’re selling something it’s not useful.