Aweber is definitely the way to go if you're wanting to build a list
of subscribers. I would also suggest that you send the majority
of your traffic to a squeeze page, which will increase your opt-in
rate dramatically.
If you're looking for some free ways to build your list, here are
some of my favorites:
1. High-Profile Content Syndication - Instead of just posting your articles on sites
like EzineArticles.com, look for high-profile websites within your market that
you could start submitting articles to.
For example, if you had a website on health / fitness, you could submit your
articles to sites like:
These sites are going to bring you exponentially more visitors than general article directories.
2. Forum Marketing - If you are in the Internet Marketing space, then one of the best ways to build a list of highly targeted subscribers is to run a Free WSO on the Warrior Forum. http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-offers-forum/
There you would offer something of tremendous value in exchange for their name and email. This method alone brings me a couple hundred subscribers every time I post a free WSO offer.
3. Ebook Syndication - One of the best ways to to re-use and re-purpose your content is to combine your articles into an ebook and submit them to all of the top Ebook directories.
This is an extremely powerful technique that very few marketers are taking advantage of.
Simply combine your articles into a PDF ebook, which you can do for free at a site called http://www.youconvertit.com
In order to collect subscribers from your ebook, be sure to put an ad at the top of the ebook that points them to your squeeze page. You can also use a PDF PopUp to collect subscribers. (http://www.brothersoft.com/pdf-pop-up-pro-231969.html)
4. Ad Swaps - Once you’ve built a list of 1,000 subscribers, you can start using ad swaps to grow your list exponentially.
This is one of the best ways to build your list very quickly.
Ad swaps can add hundreds of subscribers to your list at a time.
Here are some places online where you can find other list owners who are looking to do ad swaps:
An ad swap is simply when two list owners agree to email their
list about the the OTHER person's free offer. In this way, both
parties are getting their squeeze page in front of a new audience.
And as a result, they are both adding hundreds of subscribers to
their lists.
Keep in mind that it doesn't matter if your potential ad swap partner
has a bigger list size. For example, let's say you want to swap ads
with someone who has a list that has 10,000 subscribers and you have
1,000 subscribers. Not a problem! The person with 10,000 subscribers
would just send your ad out to 1,000 subscribers of their 10,000 person
list. So they would just send it to a segment of their list.
Ad swaps are one of the best ways to grow your list and start developing
relationships with other marketers in your niche.
Plus, the really cool thing about ad swaps is that you can do them
MULTIPLE times... with the same people!
Since both of your lists are growing all the time you can do an ad swap
with the same people on a monthly basis by sending the ad swap only to
your newest subscribers.
So you can actually set up monthly ad swaps with the same people and start growing your list on autopilot.
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