I recently had a wake up call and was reminded of the benefit of having an email list when a fellow Nichechopper showed us his Clickbank stats following a recent product launch, he made over $1700 in a matter of hours!

Everytime a new product is launched properly on Clickbank the Publisher provides emails and prelaunch materials to send out to your list.  I always kick myself because I don’t have a list.

So now I am taking action and setting up a list.  Stage 1, creating a free product to encourage people to opt in, is underway.  I am writing a guide which will be in the form of a pdf ebook which can be downloaded, I may try breaking it down into a 5 part email course as an autoresponder.  (This may work better for retaining people on the list and making them comfortable about my emails hitting their inbox)

Stage 2 will be to set up an email capture form on my niche sites and Stage 3 will be to set up a squeeze landing page specifically set up to gather email addresses.

I have tried free autoresponders before, but I think it is now time I spent some money and went for aweber, or one of their cheaper white label versions such as http://clients.xmailpro.com/pricing.htm  $19.95 for 10,000 subsccribers.  This is not a recommendation as I have not tried it yet.  Will let you know how I get on.

Off to finish the guide now.