Thanks for the kind words

Pat

Definitely test anything anybody tells you. I have tested this myself and the number of people added to my list verses the number of sales I made without the squeeze page didn’t pay. And before you ask yes I am including follow up sales to the people on the list that didn’t purchase. But again test for yourself because there are an infinite number of variables that can change the results including your targeted audience.

Thanks and keep ‘em coming.

Remember there is a distinct difference between building your list and selling a product. If your product is good you will have the best list there is to have a list of targeted, known buyers.

If you are selling your own product you will loose buyers at the cost of getting people on your list that might not ever purchase your product. This means you have to decide which you want buyers or list members. I know for my list I prefer people that like my products and will buy them over people that want every thing for free. This is part of the reason I don’t get involved with a lot of the giveaway sites.

There are people out there that use loss leaders to build their lists. This is where they will actually loose money on either the initial purchase or they will pay their affiliates more then 100% commission. This is good because you are building a list of buyers but you better have an upsell or another backend product or you will go broke quickly.

Again remember that you will loose a lot of JV partners if they have to send their list to a squeeze page that means that you will be paying for most of your traffic one way or another. On the other hand because I have JV partners I make sales every day and I never pay for traffic for most of the sites. I usually only pay for PPC when the site is first starting out after I round up a couple of JV partners the site takes on a life of its own.

Anything that has to do with cats, I definitely like. If you are offering a real nice freebie that you are making available to your visitors, perhaps they think giving you their email address is necessary. If they don’t like your freebie, you may have lost them. Don’t you think it also may have something to do with your copywriting skills and how you exercise them. I am not sure on which side I would vote because I have been brainwashed to just giving up the information and then unsubscribing later. Is that bad? I definitely don’t want to be on everyone’s list.

Also if you want to recruit the JV partners with a big list forget having a squeeze page before the sales page.