List Building | 7 Ways to Grow Your List

If you're well on your way with list building, you may be overlooking some sources of new subscribers. Here are 7 super ways that you can build on what you already have:

Whenever you send out a message to your list, put a short paragraph at the end that asks them to pass the newsletter along to a friend. Or, tell your friends that they can subscribe, and give them the email address to your autoresponder.

Be sure to put opt-in boxes for list building purposes on all your web sites and blogs. It's generally better to put them at the very top of the page. That way, people can't miss it. If they like your blog, or your site, they'll opt-in to get more information from you.

Write articles with your keywords in them, and send people to your blog or web site. Since you already have the opt-in boxes there, when people click on your links, the list building box will be the first thing they see.

Write or develop a product to give away and join some of the free giveaways that are always going on. Just be sure that you're able to have people sign up directly for your autoresponder. Don't make your getting someone's name and email address a condition of how many people you recruit. Those suck. Free giveaways where you actually put in your list building opt-in box code code or your autoresponder email address, for whichever list you are building, are the only way to go with those.

Do a joint venture with someone. Say, "I'll put one message about your product or service into my autresponder series, if you put one message about my product or service into yours." That way, you're promote each other's stuff forever, and as you get better at list building and as your partner's business grows, so will both of your lists.

Join a co-registration program, where your newsletter or ezine is listed with several others. Hopefully, the box is pre-checked, so that when people sign up for other newsletter, ezines, or free offers, they also sign up for yours. That's how the best co-reg systems work, and can be very productive in terms of list building.

You've heard the term: ABC for sales, which means "Always Be Closing," right? Well, in the Internet Marketing world, you'll often see "ABT," which means "Always Be Testing." I say, "ABL," which means... drum roll, please... "Always Be List Building." But then, I suppose you already knew that. The point is look for ways that you can successfully build your list because list building is the first, the most important thing you can do, if you want to make money online. I'm sure you can come up with some pretty cool ways of your own.

Always Be List Building.

Tellman Knudson is a list building expert and CEO of OvercomeEverything, Inc. Learn his dynamic techniques of building a massive opt-in list at MyFirstList (http://ListTechniques.com).