{"id":117,"date":"2024-04-02T10:09:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/?p=117"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T14:12:46","slug":"the-truth-about-list-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/the-truth-about-list-building\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about list building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fortune is in the follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to building an email list, you&#8217;ll receive far better results emailing your list everyday, then if you were emailing your list once every blue moon.<\/p>\n<p>Think of list building as your back-end monetization method.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what that means?<\/p>\n<p>Expect to lose money on the front-end unless you are spending thousands of dollars on traffic every week.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I mean:-<\/p>\n<p>If you go out and buy a 200 click solo ad right now.<\/p>\n<p>And get 100 subscribers on your email list.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of you making any money back immediately are extremely low.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking like 1 &#8211; 2% at least.<\/p>\n<p>But as you continue to follow-up with those subscribers 30, 60, 90 plus days from now those numbers begin to improve.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had subscribers who didn&#8217;t buy a thing from me for 30+ days but ended up buying products I was selling for $97 later on.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers on my list who didn&#8217;t buy anything for 6 months and then ended up grabbing one of my services for $697, $797, $897 and higher.<\/p>\n<p>List building isn&#8217;t the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>List building is the guy\/gal training to reach or maintain their top spot in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>It is a long term game-plan.<\/p>\n<p>I recently mentioned this to a client who yelled:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it could take weeks,<\/p>\n<p>months, years before you recoup<\/p>\n<p>your investment basically.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t sound appealing for<\/p>\n<p>newbies&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is true, though it won&#8217;t take weeks to recoup an investment (at least that isn&#8217;t the case for me).<\/p>\n<p>And if a &#8220;newbie&#8221; can&#8217;t stomach that, they are best off with getting a jobby job.<\/p>\n<p>Now you will see wildcards in the game, where you take action so fast &#8211; that results come your way just as fast.<\/p>\n<p>I recall a time where I bought like $700 in ads in 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>And in that same week I made close to $3,600 in sales from that same $700 ad spend which only went up as the month progressed.<\/p>\n<p>So the speed at which we do things can have a direct impact on the results we get.<\/p>\n<p>Two questions for you:<\/p>\n<p>How fast are you moving?<\/p>\n<p>(fast as in taking action with building your business)<\/p>\n<p>And are you moving with power?<\/p>\n<p>(moving with power, big actions not small ones)<\/p>\n<p>Okay enough.<\/p>\n<p>The Feb issue of the Isaiah Jackson Letter is a pretty powerful, where I share with you exactly how I have this particular email bidniz laid out and how you can begin to do the same for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>To include, the squeeze pages being used, how to fully maximize the thank you page (if you have one), and a whole bunch more.<\/p>\n<p>You can get your hands on it at the link below:<\/p>\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.IsaiahJackson.com\/innercircle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.IsaiahJackson.com\/innercircle<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Jackson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fortune is in the follow-up. When it comes to building an email list, you&#8217;ll receive far better results emailing your list everyday, then if you were emailing your list once every blue moon. Think of list building as your back-end monetization method. And you know what that means? 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