If you want to improve your response rates and increase your profits you need to start building a relationship with your subscribers using a simple strategy that will give you instant credibility and result in more sales of your products.

Its important to realise that your subscribers are actually real people with real feelings who require care and attention to keep them happy. Many list owners fail to acknowledge this and end up earning far less than they should because they could not be bothered to put in a little effort.

To try to understand how your subscribers feel you need to put yourself in their shoes and look at how you treat them from their perspective. This will give you an idea of how they perceive you and what their feelings toward you might be so that you can change your ways and start building rapport with them.

If you constantly ignore any emails that you receive and just keep recommending products every week trying to make a quick buck here and there you will become isolated from your subscribers because they will feel that they are getting nothing in return for being on your list.

To start building a relationship with your subscribers you will need to give something back to reward them for being on your list. The easiest way to do this is to send a free gift at least once per month which they will find useful. As well as this you should also be sending quality free content on a regular basis in the form of articles and reports.

Whenever you receive a question from a subscriber you should try to answer it as soon as possible so that they know you actually care about them. If you don't reply to questions from your subscribers they will feel that all you care about is money and nothing else which will most likely result in them leaving your list.

So instead of trying to sell products to your list all the time you should concentrate on building a relationship with them to improve your credibility. Provide quality information in your emails that will teach them new things and they will appreciate and remember your help the next time you recommend a product.

If you still want to recommend products on a regular basis you can include links at the bottom of articles that you send to your list so that when they finsh reading the content they will visit the website. By using quailty content to sell products you will improve your response rates and generate more sales. The more that you give your subscribers, the more they will give back to you.

About the Author

This article was written by Simon Akers who is the editor of the Marketing Oasis newsletter, a free internet marketing ezine packed with tips to help you succeed and increase your profits: http://www.MarketingOasis.com