Building An Email List – Investment or Expense?

Igor Kheifets: I’m Igor Kheifets and this is the List Building Lifestyle, a podcast
for those who want to build a large profitable email list and make six figures from
anywhere in the world. If you would like to get rich by building a large email list
while helping people, this podcast is for you. I also invite you to attend a free web
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hundred-thirty-one thousand-six-hundred-and-fifty-six email subscribers at a profit.
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Welcome back to another
edition of the list building lifestyle, with your host Igor Kheifets.
I’ve got this friend, he’s an internet marketer. He’s been around just
as long as I have and you he got his start in ClickBank just like I did
and a lot of things that were very, very similar. Now at some point, I
ventured into silhouette [00:01:13] business and my friend went into
starting his own business opportunity or maybe like a coaching program
where he taught people how to make my online and give them a sales
funnel and everything.

And over the years, he was very successful. He
actually won one of those big awards that they give out on click funnels
and he’s just a very smart marketer. Now at some point in his business,
my friend had to completely rearrange it. There were things happening in
the industry that made him decide to kind of scale down and rebuild
completely.

And so when a business does that, when a business goes
from a proven way of operation, from selling one or two products in a
profitable way and when you have to scale down and operations change and
your profits go down and money stops coming in, businesses typically
die. And I’ve seen people do it all the time.

I’ve seen people who
own opportunities and people who own big affiliate businesses kind of
change things around and all of a sudden, they lose all of their success
because they, for lack of a better word, fuck with a proven system. So
that’s one of the things that I always was afraid to do.

You know
why? One of the principles that I operate by is if it ain’t broken,
don’t fix it. But my friend is a very smart guy and he saw the writing
on the wall. He needed to change it and I think he actually done right
to do so. And anyway, he spend the next two years changing the business,
completely revamping the whole operation, changing their product line
and everything. Again, when you do that, businesses typically suffer and
fail, but he survived. Now how did he actually survive?

How do you
survive if you no longer have your flagship product that you go to,
right? How do you actually survive when the very thing that used to make
you the most money is no longer available for you to use. Well, the way
survive is by having a list.

And so I was chatting with him the other
day and he shared with me that the only reason their business survived
and now is back on track to have one of their best years yet is because
for those two years, they literally lived off of their big list. Because
all they needed to do, anytime they needed a cashflow injection, was to
come up with an offer, a temporary offer or a small offer for their
existing customers. Or they could sell one of their older offers. But
instead of going public with it, they only sold it to their immediate
customers, the people who already knew them and trusted them. And
because their list was pretty big, substantial, they were able to not
only survive but keep things up operating and keep their head above
water.

Now my friend, I don’t think he took out any salary in those
two years, pretty sure he didn’t. I’m pretty sure he put everything back
into the business. But he was able to make payroll. He was able to pay
for all operation costs and I think that’s big because I see people go
through these transitions and their businesses die and my friend’s
business did not die.

And I think aside from him being very smart, I
think that list building was the key to that. So the reason I’m telling
you … I’m sharing this story with you is because a lot of times what I
do is I help people build their list. It’s one of my primary things that
I do because I believe that having your own email list is the single
most important, the single most … well the best thing you can do for
yourself, your life and your business.

Having a list of people who
like you and trust you, having a list of people who know your brand
value and the brand story. Having a list of people who are opening,
reading your emails and listening to your opinion is probably one of the
most bulletproof ways to cement your financial position in this world.
Because you’ll always have a tribe of people you can go to offer them
something, exchange value for money, make a great living, help them out
as to solve their problem and just overall have a great experience. This
is your income security.

And a lot of times what I’m seeing is when
I’m helping people build their email list, is they see it as an expense.
And this is a very common mistake, especially the beginners make. They
look at the cost per subscriber, they look at the cost per click or they
look how much does it cost to convert one person. Listen, they’re
thinking, “Oh my God, that’s such a big expense. Maybe I should go and I
should try a different method instead that doesn’t cost as much.”

Well, the thing is that, just like real estate, building a list costs
money.

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Unless you
found a way to drive untold amounts of free traffic to your capture
page. In that case, my hat is off to you and you should monetize that as
much as possible. But for the most part, to build a great list, you need
to invest money into advertising, you need to build a funnel. You need
to go through some of these motions.

And when people think about list
building as an expense, they look at it almost like … Look, when
you’re building wealth, when you’re building anything that’s stable and
is capable of producing money for you month in, month out, it typically
costs money. Again, great example, real estate. It costs money but it
produces consistent revenue over time and it also increases in value.
And so list building is very, very similar.

When you operate your
list correctly, you build that list, you email that list every day and
overtime the list produces more money for you all the time. So my
experience has been the longer the subscriber spends time … the more
time they spend on my list, the more emails they open and read, the more
likely they are to buy, the more likely they are to buy often and the
more likely they are to buy something expensive.

And a great example
to that was when we launched our list building mastermind which you can
find at listbuildinglifestyle.com, it’s only 97 a month. And when we
launched it, we didn’t do a Webinar, we didn’t do a big announcement, we
didn’t do a big contest or anything like that. We just literally sent
out an email to our email list and said, “Hey guys, we’re starting a
mastermind where you going to have access to Igor for $97 a month. If
you want in, get on this early bird list and we’ll notify you when it
opens.”

We had a thousand people get on that list and when we emailed
them, we had 300 people join. That’s a 30% take rate on an offer. That’s
incredible. That is just insane. And when you think about it, the reason
that happened, the reason we were now able to launch a new program to
our audience and experience instant success is because we got all these
people … all these people are waiting just sitting there waiting to
get an email from us.

So list building is definitely not something I
would consider an expense. And anyone who considers list building an
expense or doesn’t see it as a long term investment in their business, I
think is making a critical mistake. And I’ve seen quite a few people who
are very talented, who are really great at recruiting, for example. I
met this individual at a seminar I attended recently and so he made I
think $250,000 in personal recruiting into a new network marketing
opportunity that promotes CBD products. And you know what? That’s
amazing. That’s great. If you make 250 grand in the first year of
promoting something like that, you’re doing really well.

But guess
what? That person is as great as they are, they are not allowed to stop.
They’re not allowed to stop hustling, if you will, because they always
need to be looking for the next prospect. Now, people like us who are
building a list, we don’t have to do that. We can afford to send out a
few emails to our list, launch a program and build out that program and
not have to hustle for the next couple of months.

We can afford,
going on vacation and not take our business with us and for the business
to continuously produce profits. For example, in the same trip that I
went to, I was gone for a week. In that week, I was averaging anywhere
between nine to about $15,000 a day in my business. Why? Because the
emails that I preloaded before I went out to the seminar, were doing all
the marketing for me.

And so my point is this, if you’d like to
achieve passive income, you need to build a list. If you’re not building
a list right now, then you need to start doing it asap. And if you don’t
know how to do that, I highly suggest you visit listlifestyle.com and
grab my quick start guide on how to build a wildly profitable email list
starting from scratch even if you don’t have a product of your own.

And remember if you’re looking to build a business that a year or two
year, three years from now is going to be able to support you with
passive income, is a business that will not require you to be in it for
it to run and operate and continue making you money even when you’re not
working, the email list … building an email list is the single most
effective thing you can do. It’s not building an agency, it’s not a
writing a Facebook ad, it’s always going to be about building your list.

I think that this topic so important that I not only started this
podcast on this topic, I not only devoted my life to it, but I also
recently wrote a book about it with the same name as this podcast, list
building lifestyle. So keep an eye out. We’ll be announcing the release
of this book really soon or it may have already been announced because
you’re probably listening to this after I recorded it.

So anyway,
keep an eye out. And if you want to learn how to build your list, visit
listbuildinglifestyle.com. So with that said, again, remember build your
list because that’s the key to financial freedom. This is Igor Kheifets.
And until next time we chat, I have a good one.

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