1. Create a report and give it away for signing up: You can buy private label rights articles or use some articles that you wrote yourself, then compile them into a report. You can offer it on your list building page, just above the opt-in box or as the primary copy on the page. It really doesn't matter. Either way, you'll see your opt-ins increase dramatically, just because you're giving something away.

2. Try co-reg: Co-registration involves advertising your newsletter, ezine, or mailing list alongside the ads of others. There can be any number of sites advertised on one page, and it all depends on the service you try as to whether or not it's targeted to your niche. List Hero is my co-registration service, and it is targeted to your niche. You design your ad, which his like a classified ad with a headline and a short sentence or two of description, and the co-reg site then gives you a bit of HTML to put on your web site. Your ad will appear there and on other web sites, along with about 4 other lists in your niche. There are other co-registration services that charge you, but you don't have to advertise on your site or anywhere else. You design the ad, and they do the advertising for you. You can decide how many subscribers you want each month, but the more you buy, the more they cost.

3. Find a good joint venture partner: It's not hard to make deals with other business owners in your niche. Just be sure that they have a sizable list to share and a product to sell. Then, tell them, "I'd like to do a teleseminar and sell your product to the people who attend. Would you be interested?" When they agree, you set up a list building page, just for that event, and you ask the other person to drive their list members to it by announcing the teleseminar to them. Voila! You'll have your list building very quickly.

List building is the most important thing you need to do, and you need to work on it every single day. If you have a decent advertising budget, then you might want to think about using paid co-registration, which is like list building on rocket fuel. If you're adventurous and are looking to form long-term relationships with other business owners, then think about doing joint ventures. But if you're just starting out, don't know a lot about marketing yet, and don't have a very big budget, then you may want to consider offering a free report on your list building page. Whatever you decide, just don't hesitate, start one of these three methods today and watch the size of your list increase almost instantly.