List-Building: Some Common Questions About Starting a List

Since people generally ask me the same questionsTellman: You will hear conflicting information from
about list building all the time, I thought maybe you'ddifferent people. I have four or five different
like know...autoresponders I use that I have tested and tried
Q: When I am buying domain names, is buying ".com"for different things. What I am giving you with My
all I need to buy?First List is a complete system that will all integrate
Tellman: Personally, I very rarely buy .net, .biz, etc.. Itogether easily, so you don't have to think about it
normally only buy .coms. The reason is because Iwhen you are starting your first list building system.
come up with all sorts of other ideas as time goesThat doesn't mean it is the best for everything. But
on. If you have an unlimited budget, buy all of them.what it does mean is it's the best to get started
You can redirect the other ones to your main .com,right now, today. The reason I am telling you to go
just in case someone types in .org or .net. But thatto is because, if at some point, there is a better
does not happen too often. Most of the time, ifautoresponder to get started, I am going to change
someone is just typing a domain in, they are going tothat redirect to something else. I will change it to
type it in as .com first, if they're just trying to hit onsomething else that is more appropriate for someone
something. Stick to .com and you'll get more hits.list building for the first time. Right now, the easiest,
Q: I am one of those people with a million ideas, andquickest way for you to get started is to get what
I have a lot of domain names already that I boughtyou see at Don't think about the rest of the other
when I got the idea. How do I decide which is thestuff until you have your first list growing. Go and do
right one for list building?it now, don't wait another moment!
Tellman: Here is what I would like you to do: PickQ: If you have a product or a service, where do you
one, not because it is the best. If you have kids thatget the information to plug into the autoresponder to
have ever been on a sports team, you know thatsend out to your list? Are there any tools that will
they sometimes screw up in practice. Be a kid! Ihelp you do that?
want you to go out and screw up. Remember, whenTellman: To answer your question, you go to the
you're talking about online business, it is completelycompany that provides the product and you ask
fluid, it's like water or air. You can change itthem for stock emails. The other thing is that in My
instantaneously. Even if you completely screw it up, itFirst List, I teach you some methods I use to come
doesn't matter, because you can change it.up with ideas for emails to put into the
Just start list building, and don't worry about whetherautoresponder. Right now, you don't need to think
it is right or wrong. Just do it for fun. It will cost youabout that. For now, all you need to do is worry
a little bit, but you will get a massive amount ofabout getting the autoresponder set up so it is
knowledge. You will be a million times ahead offunctional. Lay the foundation first. Then, start list
everyone else out there, just like you, who has beenbuilding. That's all you have to do.
sitting around with way too many ideas in their headThe biggest concept here is that you need to start
and no list. Once you get your own list building, youlist building. Don't let anything stop you. You will make
can do anything, but until you start to take the firstmistakes, and through them, you will learn. Just start
steps toward list building, you will remain paralyzed.list building, and only concentrate on sending traffic to
Q: There are different types of autoresponders, asyour list building squeeze page. Until you have done
far as features and functions go. Is one better thanthat, until you have built a massive list, don't do
the other to service a list?anything else.