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How to Build an email list

One of the most powerful ways to bring people to your website again and again is to have them sign up for your opt-in email list.

Once someone has signed up you can send them tips, articles and special offers, while at the same time reminding them to visit your website. To see how this works, you can use the form on this page to sign up for my Internet Home Business newsletter. You'll also receive a free EBook explaining 30 different ways to get traffic to your website for free.

On this page I will explain how to build an email list, including how to setup your list initially and what you need to do to grow a bigger list using both free and paid advertising methods.

Creating Follow Up Messages

There are numerous ways of creating content for your automatic follow up messages. You could write the content yourself, outsource someone to ghost write your content, use PLR articles, use reprint articles from an article directory, purchase a ready made autoresponder sequence or a combination of all of these.

To get your own free 400 day pre-written ezine in a box, complete with autoresponder, sign up for your own Plugin Profit Site. here.

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Using Autoresponders

Once you have decided on your material, the next thing you need is the tool to make it work - an autoresponder. An autoresponder allows you to send automatic follow up emails to your subscribers.

There are many autoresponders available on the market today, but I personally use an autoresponder from Get Response. The basic version is free and you can optionally upgrade to a paid version which has more features and no advertising.

A popular alternative autoresponder is Aweber. Many top internet marketers use either Aweber or GetResponse.


Getting Subscribers

Once you've got all of this set up, you will need some subscribers! The first thing you want to do is make sure that you have an optin form on all your web pages and blog posts. Offer an enticing reason or a free gift to encourage your visitors to sign up.

Another way of getting subscribers is to search for ezine directories on Google and submit your website/ezine in these directories. Another way is by having a form on your website and promote your website using some of the ideas on my Beginner's guide to Internet Marketing, Promotion and Advertising page.

Another option is to use a lead capture page, also known as a squeeze page.

If you want to do it yourself, you may want to get a free memberships with Instant Squeeze Page Generator


How to Build an email list - Free Methods

If you are on a tight budget, there are a number of free methods that you can use to build a list:

  • ListInferno allows you to insert a simple piece of javascript in one or more pages of your website. This script displays a list of newsletters (scroll to the bottom of this page for an example. Every time I display this list I receive a credit. For every credit I earn my newsletter is shown on another web page.

  • Advertising Know How is both a traffic exchange and a list builder. You can earn ezine credits through the list builder by promoting other ezines on your "Thankyou" page. This is the page on your website that people arrive at when they have bought something from you or signed up for something. You can also earn ezine credits by choosing to receive articles by email. Each article you receive has a link in at that you can click on to receive ezine credits. Your credits are used in exchange for free advertising of your ezine on other people's thankyou pages.


How to Build an email list by Purchasing Leads

If you have some money to spare, it also possible to buy leads. I personally only recommend double opt-in leads who have actually signed up for my newsletter, as these are of a much higher quality than the leads who have just signed up to receive information on a particular subject. I have used all the following before (please note that if you use GetResponse, you can't use any of these companies to build your list as it is against their terms. You can only purchase leads from GetResponse)

Click on the links below to find out more information:

I believe that the best leads are the ones that you generate from your own site. You can find out how I recently quadripled my daily subscribers here.

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