After years of earning some nice commission checks from about a dozen companies, I’m ready to move my marketing efforts to a new level, and that involves building mailing lists for each of the products I like and recommend.
Instead of having a one-time opportunity to make a sale, I intend to attract people who are interested in the products I promote and persuade them to trade their valuable contact information in exchange for good information about how to put the product to profitable use.
The goal, of course, is to build relationships with new prospects, provide quality information about the product and how they can use it, and to convert a percentage of those prospects into customers – hopefully happy customers.
This takes a lot of work, but email marketing has been proven time and again to be the best way to educate your readers and help some of them make the decision to purchase.
Now, I want this to be top-quality all the way, so I’m only using Aweber to manage my lists and will only send emails to people who have opted-in to the list and confirmed the decision.
I was looking for a simple way to add a subscribe form to a Squidoo lens, but neither the javascript nor the HTML form method provided by Aweber works in a lens.
After scratching my head, I’m testing a sign-up form on my Private Success Team lens.
This isn’t the optimum way to do this, but I have an image of the subscribe form on the lens. When you click the image, it opens a new window (or tab) with one of my splash pages that has a live subscribe form. Eventually, if this works, I’ll open a link to a page with a subscribe form and more information about the product, but the splash page is convenient, for now.
I was thinking that it would be great if Squidoo and Aweber could work together to build a module that makes it easy for us to add a subscribe form to our lens.
Perhaps there is already a way to do this that I don’t know about. If so, I’d really appreciate a link to it.
So, what do you think? Does what I’m currently doing look like a viable option, for now?
Do you know who to contact at Squidoo to suggest such a module?
I look forward to your feedback and opinions.
Act on your dream!
JD
