When it comes to building a list, the internet is amazing.
One of the best tools is PayPal. You know eBay owns PayPal so it has millions of sellers on eBay, it has tens of thousands of power sellers who have thousands and thousands of transactions on eBay and all of those transactions are done through PayPal so you can search a company that sells, let’s say, I don’t know, cushion covers on eBay at a cheap price in the United States and you can look at their eBay reviews and they can be a purple star and you can see that they have 60,000 transactions and that they have been on eBay since early 1990s.
You will know that those 60,000 transactions, a good majority or even more, are all in PayPal because PayPal is the shopping cart for those eBay transactions and did you know that the owner of that eBay store can go into their PayPal account and download a file Excel? File each of your clients’ names, email address, postal address because if they are sending those mattress covers to their clients, they have all the data that is already entered.
So you can approach someone on eBay or through PayPal and even shop at PayPal stores and find huge lists of specific products and services and approach them for joint ventures.
You can approach them and ask them to allow you to interview them about their mattress cover business. You can do as an Ask campaign. Go find these big name interviewers to run an Ask campaign. So for example, the way I did it, you go to AskMichaelSenoff now, since I’m the expert, I’m going to go to my bartering expert next month. I created an Ask campaign called AskDonahueSilves and it’s already set up and he owns nine of the high-tech brokers, which is a retail barter exchange.
He has a list that he’s been emailing and I created an email and I created this whole question campaign and I said, “Donahue, I’m going to help you promote your retail barter membership.” And we already did the interview and he is going to mail to his list and they will come to send his question, if you had a chance to ask bartering expert Donahue Silves something about how to save money using bartering, enter your question now. They will enter their question, that name comes through my Ask campaign and goes to my AWeb or autoresponder, so I have set up an autoresponder account just for him. I can capture those names and they are on my autoresponder service so I have control over it and have an agreement with him that I can use those names to help his existing barter clients learn more about business and by providing them my audio interviews.
So you will mail your list that that list or a part of that list will become my list. So that’s a joint venture. I’m helping him by creating a great audio interview to promote his bartering service, and in return I get some of the names that will become future clients of mine, I hope, which I think should work.
So these are some of the ways that anyone can create their list. But building it yourself can be time consuming, but if you think smart and have a good strategy and use joint ventures, you can definitely shorten the process.