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How To Build A Big Responsive List

If you want to make money online then you need to know these things... How to target a group of people who have money to spend online. How to sell them more of what they like to purchase. And how to sell them on buying from your website.

List building is the next step in the process.

Everything comes down to having a big list of responsive people. That's where the money is. Therefore, building your list should be your number one priority.

Traffic generation and list building are the cornerstones of Internet business success. You need to get people to your website. Then you need to persuade those people to give you their email address. This is how it's done...

First, you've got to put your focus on building a list. Nothing else should be more important to you. All your marketing efforts should result in getting people on your list.

The second part of the process is to put up a landing page with an opt in web form. The reason you give website visitors for opting in is to get a free information product (like report or audio or ezine subscription) they want.

Remeber, your primary purpose is to build your list. So, the next thing you must do is promote the lead capture page. Here are a few good ways to drive traffic...

What I rely on to get more website traffic is joint ventures with ezine publishers, ezine ads and targeted articles.

In no particular order let's go over these traffic methods. Articles are great because the search engines love them. A simple five to six hundred word article that is full of good content is something people will read. Then, many of them, will click on the link in your resource box and go to your website.

My suggestion is that you write up and submit one to three articles per week. The more the better. Don't do manual submission because it's tedious and you won't reach all the directories. Get some kind of submission service or software to do this for you.

Ezine advertising is powerful. In any market a number of ezines (or electronic newsletters) exist. The publishers of these ezines will accept both articles and ads. The ads are either classified or solo emails. Solo emails work better.

Since you are building a list, use ezine ads to get people to the opt in page. That's the whole point. The more people you get there the more will opt in and the bigger the list will grow.

Joint ventures are a little more tricky. The idea is to find people in your market with lists who are not direct competitors. Then ask them to promote your free offer to their list. And, of course, you'll do the same for them.

Joint ventures work when there is reciprocation. In most cases, you can't expect a joint venture partner to promote your free offer if you can't promote something for them in return.

Don't allow yourself to get sidetracked. On a daily basis, focus your efforts on growing your list. Take some action daily to get people to join your list.

Next time I'll go over some of the basics of monetizing the list.