When it comes to building your list, the Internet is amazing.
One of the best tools is PayPal. You know eBay owns PayPal so they have millions of sellers on eBay they have tens of thousands of powerful sellers who have millions and thousands of transactions on eBay and all of those transactions are through PayPal so you could look for a company that sells say, I don’t know, mattress covers on eBay cheaply in the United States and you can look at their eBay reviews and they may be a purple star and you can see they have 60,000 transactions and they’ve been on eBay since the early 1990s.
You will know that those 60,000 transactions, a good majority or even more, are all in PayPal because PayPal is the shopping cart for those eBay transactions and did you know that the owner of that eBay store can go into their PayPal account and download an Excel ? file each and every one of their customers’ names, email addresses, and mailing addresses because if they’re shipping those mattress covers to their customers, they have all of that data that’s already entered.
So you can approach someone on eBay or through PayPal and even shop at PayPal stores and search large lists of specific products and services and approach them for joint ventures.
You can approach them and ask them to allow you to interview them about their mattress cover business. You can do as an Ask campaign. Go find these big-name interviewers to do an Ask campaign. So, for example, the way I did it, go to AskMichaelSenoff now, since I’m the expert. I’m going to my barter expert next month. I created an Ask campaign called AskDonahueSilves and it’s already set up and he owns nine of the high tech brokers which is a retail barter exchange.
He has a list that he’s been emailing and I’ve created an email and I’ve created this whole question campaign and I’m like, “Donahue, I’m going to help you promote your barter retail membership.” And we’ve already done the interview and he’s going to send an email to his list and they’re going to send his question, if you had a chance to ask bartering expert Donahue Silves something about how to save money using bartering, enter the question of him now. They’ll enter his question, that name comes through my Ask campaign and goes to my AWeb or autoresponder, so I’ve set up an autoresponder account just for him. I can capture those names and they’re on my auto responder so I have control over them and I have an agreement with him that I can use those names to help his existing barter customers learn more about business and by providing them with my interviews audio.
So you’ll be mailing to your list that that list or a portion of that list will become my list. So that’s a joint venture. I’m helping him by creating a great audio interview to promote his bartering service and in return I get some of the names that will become future clients of mine, I hope, which I think should work.
Here are some of the ways anyone can build their list. But building it yourself can be time consuming, but if you think smart and have a good strategy and use joint ventures you can definitely shorten the process.