Does Viral List Building Work? - Marketing - Viral Marketing

If you're working in the internet marketing niche you'll know how important it is to build a responsive list. But the question is, How do you do it quickly - without burning said list?

Viral marketing, the natural cousin to social media, looks like an infectiously good answer... And yet, a lot of viral marketing produces but a sneeze in a list owner's growth. The concept's great: give away an ebook, for instance, that has your affiliate links in it, people are bound to click on them and buy Except that's just not the case. People still buy from people they trust, not links.

When it comes to list-building, the viral solution tends to oblige the new member to sign up to receiving lots of crappy emails - more or less spam - in return for having his or her emails read. Or not read - because they are also regarded as spam by all the other people who have signed up to this supposedly fabulous viral system.

So what's the solution to virally adding quality leads to your list?Well, Bryan Winters has come up with one that has received favourable reviews so far - and it's all about the power of 5. With Siphon Hardcore, his ingenious new viral list-building script, you must first refer 5 other members to a Siphon Hardcore squeeze page before the system 'unlocks', allowing every next person who clicks on your link to be added to your autoresponder.

So your siphon website works like a typical squeeze page, but with the crucial difference that everyone coming into your list after your first five referrals must now themselves refer 5 people to your list before they can 'unlock' their list-building siphon website.

So if you get 10 people to subscribe to your 5yphon website using your 5yphon referral link, that's 10 people subscribing to your newsletter, but it also means you'll get up to 50 more subscribers because you're getting their first 5 base referrals as well. This means the majority of your list is going to be built on autopilot.

If you go for the upgrade called Extreme, you can monetize the backend of your 5iphon squeeze page. So this means 5 times the eyeballs on your offers. For every 100, that means 500 now looking at your landing page url/sales page.

So how do you use your Siphon website?

Well, you promote it much the same way you'd promote a squeeze page, the only difference being you wouldn't enter it to a giveaway competition, for instance, as the 'gift' here is not tangible like an ebook, say.

So you'd start off with free traffic methods, like ad swaps or emailing your internet marketing Facebook page and/or group. You can send out tweets, write articles (including your link in the body or resource area), create a Squidoo lens, write to your list

And of course, whoever joins Siphon through your referral link will WANT to get their first 5 'base referrals' (which are added to YOUR list and not theirs) as quickly as they can, so that they start getting the same viral list-building benefit from the people they refer.

Normally, when doing an ad swap or running a paid ad to somebody else's list (i.e., a solo ad) to build your own, "x" number of people will subscribe, and that's where things end. But with your Siphon website, those initial subscribers are only the beginning! As they each begin referring people to their Siphon websites, their first 5 referrals are added to YOUR list (and not theirs) as just mentioned...Viral list-building to the power of 5

So let's say, for example, that you do an ad swap, or run a solo ad that produces 100 new subscribers to your list through your Siphon website. Normally that's it. But thanks to the viral nature of your Siphon website, you'll get up to 500 more subscribers on complete autopilot, off the 'work' of those 100 new subscribers!

As you can see, this is a pretty cool way to leverage your online marketing efforts and build your own opt in 'money list' at lightning speed - faster than ever before. It sure makes building a list one by one seem painstakingly slow and old fashioned.

The sign-up fee for Extreme (the upgrade) is $40, then $20 a month. I made nearly $20 back 30 minutes after joining. I'm pretty confident I'll be making a fair bit more between now and the end of the month.As a Siphon EXTREME member, you make ongoing $10 monthly commissions any time one of your referrals upgrades. And that's in addition to the income you'll make with your OWN special offer displayed right after each of your subscribers - and their first 5 subscribers - sign up through your Siphon website.

Of course people might sign up to your site and fail to deliver 5 referrals, but as mentioned they have a major incentive to get at least those first 5 because they can't get the viral benefit of the system until they do.

If you're looking for a faster way of building your list the uses a power viral effect and can make you money at the same time, check out this system for yourself: 5iphon Hardcore (see link below).