You’ve heard the saying “the money is in the list”, right? Well it’s true. If you are trying to promote or sell anything, your list will be your most targeted customers. After all, they did sign up for more information from you in the first place. It’s not hard or expensive to build a list using your Wordpress blog. In fact, you can start building your list for free with this autoresponder plugin.
After you have downloaded the autoresponder plugin and uploaded it to your /plugins directory, you will need to activate it. Once activated you will notice an extra tab at the top of your Wordpress dashboard titled ” [GWA Autoresponder]“. Click on it and you should see a screen like this (click to enlarge):
Take a look at the html code on this page because this is what we will need to put on your blog. Usually the best place to put this code is in the sidebar, above the fold, where it will get noticed. The next step is to copy and paste the code into a “text” widget in your sidebar.
Click on your “design ” tab at the top of your Wordpress dashboard and choose “widgets”. Scroll down until you find the text widget and click on “add”. Your text widget should now appear on the right hand side of your page. Click on “edit” and paste in your code, and then click “save changes”. Now when you visit your blog you will see something like this:
That sign up form looks pretty plain doesn’t it? So what we need to do next is give your blog visitors a reason to sign up to your mailing list. Why not give them something for free? A free report or ebook specific to your niche usually does the trick.
There are plenty of places online where you can find cheap or even free PLR ebooks that you can give away. All you need to do is google it. Once you have found a good ebook that you know your blog visitors will love, it’s time to add it to your autoresponder.
First thing you need to do is add the image of the ebook above the autoresponder and add some text, so your visitors know what they are going to get when they sign up to your list. To do this you need to upload the image in one of your posts by using the “add media” function. But instead of adding the image to your post you need to copy and paste the “link url” into your text widget above your autorsponder code. If you are unsure how to do this click on the screenshot below to see exactly how I added the image to the sidebar.
Now when we take a look at the front page of your blog you should see something like this:
Now you are able to start building your list with your Wordpress blog.
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