Do you have even a small list of good, subscribing customers? Are people subscribing to your newsletter or ezine? Are they buying from you? Most importantly, is your traffic and list. . .active? Having those last three items in place doesn't happen overnight, but it can happen sooner than you think. You have to build relationships with people and gain their trust. Offer value to them, give them a burning reason to keep coming back to you and your products/services. Here are three of the most important things you can be doing to build a massive, active list of subscribers:



1. Offer a free newsletter, ezine or report. Use previous articles you have written about your niche to compile a report. Above your opt-in box, put something like, Sign up for free, instant access to my special report on: "How to succeed in my industry," for example. When you offer something of value to other people, whether it solves a problem for them or it's an area in your niche that you know people have challenges with, they'll sign up every time!

2. Sign up for a co-registration account like, List Hero, List Opt, or List Builder Pro to name a few, though there are lots of co-registration sites out there. They will help you with co-reg list building by creating an ad that is like a classified ad. The most important part of the ad is, of course the headline, and a short statement as to what your ezine, mailing list, or newsletter is about. The ad is placed alongside other classified ads for other people's lists. You can have it on your web page, as a pop-up, or it can be on the co-reg company's website. The reason it is a co-registration is because people have the opportunity to sign up for more lists than just yours all at once. So everybody on the co-reg company's website is list building together. Together is a good thing!

3. Sell other people's stuff! In other words, sign up to be an affiliate marketer for other people's products/services. Find some products you have tried, or would like to try (try them first, being an expert about the things you promote is an important key in building credibility and long term relationships), and promote them. In doing so, you are entering into an agreement with other business people to promote their products/services and you'll have the opportunity to get subscribers from their lists as well. You can then have teleseminars with the business owner(s) about their best products/services, while offering solutions to your audience's problems. Remember it is about your audience, not you! Then advertise the teleseminar through ezine ads or your list building page, for example. Have the business owner email about the teleseminar to their list three times and have them drive traffic to your list building page. The bigger the list they have, means getting to more people faster, which also means your list building will be put into overdrive.

Though there are lots of ways to build your list, these are the 3 of the best ways to get started very, very quickly. There will be a continuation to this article. . .