The True Internal Simplicity of Email Marketing Programs

List building is simple, as are all effective email marketing programs. It takes some work, but it's also really pretty easy. A lot of times people complicate it all because they feel like it has to be this complicated process. After all, if it were simple, they would have figured it out already, right? Then they jump from complicated system to complicated system, and never end up building much of a list for themselves. Well, I'm going to break down the list building process for you right now, and you'll see how simple effective email marketing programs really are.

There are just a few things that you need to have and few things you need to do to build a list for your email marketing program...

First, you need to have qualified traffic. Some people make the mistake of just thinking that you need traffic. General traffic isn't going to do; you need what we call qualified traffic if you are going to succeed at direct email marketing. Basically speaking, traffic is qualified when it is composed of people who are interested in what you are offering. Simple right?

Next, you need a web site that is capable of building a list for you and your email marketing program. This is a site that is designed around capturing the email addresses of the qualified traffic you are sending to it.Generally that means that the site is built around getting people to fill out an email form that you place on it. Generally you bribe them into doing this by giving them some sort of free offer, like a small free ebook or the like, if the give you their email address for your direct email marketing.

And that's it. There are only two steps to this process. Find qualified traffic, and drive it to your site that is capable of building your list. It's true that there are a number of different ways to go about finding and driving traffic to your site.

It's also true that there are a number of different ways you can design the site that's going to succeed at getting people to give you their email addresses. These are both true, but there's no need to complicated the overall process more than you need to. In fact, it's generally better to keep these processes as simple as possible for your email marketing campaign. Simple is better. Simplicity breeds success.