How to build an email list without a website or a blog?

CyberAlchemist · Jan 26, 2016

Hi everyone,
I would like to start working on building a list in my chosen niche. It is possible to build an email list without a website? if so how to do?

Developer · Jan 26, 2016

Absolutely, however, a bit more tricky. Most email campaign companies offer
"hosted" forms. You could simply lead people to the "hosted" form rather than
your own website. I have to admit, I am kind of curious, but feel free to tell
me NUNYA (as in NUN of YA business) but why would you not have a website
as it would make everything so much easier, even if only to post the landing
pages at the very least.

nesito29 · Jan 26, 2016

Yes, there are many ways to build an email list without having your own website or blog.

For example, you could use Lead Pages to create your opt-in page and capture leads.

Also, many autoresponders give you the ability to create landing pages right there and they host them for you (some may charge you extra, so be careful).

After that, it's just a matter of driving targeted traffic to your landing page and start getting subscribers.

For example:

You can drive traffic from YouTube making helpful but very insightful videos about a specific topic.
You can run Facebook Ads, however, you need to learn how to do proper targeting or your ads will be very expensive.
Another great way to do it is with Solo Ads which is paying people that already have an email list to broadcast your "bribe" (your pdf, cheatsheet, ecourse, video, etc.) to their email subscribers.

Those are the most common ones and easiest to use

rrodica6 · Jan 27, 2016

You can use free services from mailchimp com i use this one and is working very well for email marketing

HCFGrizzly · Jan 27, 2016

CyberAlchemist said:
Hi everyone,
I would like to start working on building a list in my chosen niche. It is possible to build an email list without a website? if so how to do?

As RD told you, yes you can. (was that an Obama quote? :ertery

But why would you do that? Why do you want to complicate your life?
What are you planing to do with that email list? I suppose you have an IM angle in this. If so, if you are indeed interested in IM why aren`t you willing to invest a few dollars in your business?

Developer · Jan 27, 2016

rrodica6 said:
You can use free services from mailchimp com i use this one and is working very well for email marketing

Thank you for your input Rrodica6. You are correct, you could definitely use MailChimp, however, the downfall is that if you receive just 1 complaint, MC has been known to shut you down instantly. They're not known for being too IM/AM friendly.

HCFGrizzly said:
As RD told you, yes you can. (was that an Obama quote? :ertery But why would you do that? Why do you want to complicate your life?
What are you planing to do with that email list? I suppose you have an IM angle in this. If so, if you are indeed interested in IM why aren`t you willing to invest a few dollars in your business?

No one said he wasn't willing, however, there are many factors which may be in play. Since we do not know his current situation, we can not simply assume that he can afford even just a few bucks each month. (Please understand I am not barking at of flaming you in any way. I am simply saying there could be a plethora of reasons he may not be able to invest even the smallest of amounts at this time.)

HCFGrizzly · Jan 28, 2016

Developer said:
No one said he wasn't willing, however, there are many factors which may be in play. Since we do not know his current situation, we can not simply assume that he can afford even just a few bucks each month. (Please understand I am not barking at of flaming you in any way. I am simply saying there could be a plethora of reasons he may not be able to invest even the smallest of amounts at this time.)

HCFGrizzly said:
But why would you do that?

I asked him why would he do that, before stating my opinion.
I know you aren`t flaming me, and I don`t want to sound arrogant, but shouldn`t he be searching for a 9 to 6 job first if he is in such a poor financial situation that he doesn`t afford a 2$ a month hosting?
When I started with IM, I had a 9 to 6 job and I worked at night and in the weekends to learn everything that I could.
Again, not trying to be arrogant or anything, this is a honest advice: If OP doesn`t have 2$ a month to invest in IM he should first find a 9 to 6 job and after that he should be going into IM.

jeffhowell · Jan 30, 2016

You can do email swaps - a pretty popular thing used by email marketers...

Ron Killian · Feb 3, 2016

As always mentioned, yes there are ways, but here is something important to think about... what if you spend all this time and effort building traffic and links to something you don't own or control, and then something happens? All that work down the drain. A waste of your time. Maybe they shut you off, delete your account, or you just want to, or need to move to another provider?

If you have your own website, hosting your own squeeze page or landing pages, you are in control and you can easily switch things out if you need to. All that marketing and promotion will always be going to your website, a website you control.

Same reason's it's not a good idea to use free hosting. Too risky and you are not in control, they are.

Just a thought

rrodica6 · Feb 12, 2016

Is no need to be so obsessed in sending daily .........let say 1 millions emails... you are allowed to have 2000 subscribers , and to send daily emails.. i forgot how many you can send ... but anyway is need more sources for sending emails for your business marketing to have success . Is very hard work.. but if you do have a good product to sell.... be sure you can succeed ...... i use my internet provider telus to can send 500 daily.. gmail.. yahoo email.... and others... but you need to do manual most of them ....... to don't get spam is very important

rrodica6 · Feb 13, 2016

Arclab MailList Controller eXtreme that i purchase for $200 but like i said ... i can not send to many email using a list .. is missing something ........ that they write me on the ticket support answer :

"' I recommend to talk to your mail administrator and use an account from your own domain instead this should have less limitations as the free gmail account. You don't need full access to the domain you just need the email account data. Please contact your mail administrator and ask for the account data, like mail server, user name, password, email address and the required authentication/encryption.""

"" so telus wont give me i suppose theirs accept .... wont let me and the rest of them like you said they can spam me... and i don't want that .. what to do to can use the software ?

Ron Killian · Feb 13, 2016

Am I missing something? They told you exactly what you need, your own domain. I must not be understanding. Just like what has already been said, and they confirmed it, that you can't use something like a free gmail account.

Buy a domain for $10 a year and you could be in business.

rrodica6 · Feb 17, 2016

Can you please help telling me a good Professional Autoresponder Service to can use it ?? Thanks

Developer · Feb 17, 2016

Aweber.com and GetResponse.com are going to be 2 of your best bets...

They are comparable in pricing and features.

GetResponse offers a FREE month, I believe, and Aweber offers your first month for just $1.

Ron Killian · Feb 17, 2016

I put in another vote for Getresponse, more features and options. Aweber is still good, but not as feature packed.

Course these are mid-level services, you can get even better services, but the price goes up accordingly.

Julzwriter · Feb 27, 2016

I can give an example of a situation where one may have
a mailing list but no website. I am currently working on a newsletter
project belonging to some missionaries. They do not want a website
but they want to send out newsletters regularly to their donors. They
have just set up a list with mail chimp. The major problem I see with their
list is that it is not possible for people to unsubscribe from the newsletters if they wanted to.

entrepreneurjay · Mar 4, 2016

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That may help a few people

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