A blog is basically your own website that you can use for whatever purpose you like. To talk about current event or your favorite topics, or you can use it to market and promote stuff.
You may heard that sometime Internet marketers call it niche marketing. It is all the same. More recently, people have been realizing the benefits of using their blogs to create an opt-in list.
The money truly is in the list, more detail go to www.build-own-list.com trust me! From a general quality list, you should be able to gain ROI as high as 1000% or more. And the ROI will continue increasing because when you have a better relationship with your list, you will be able to gain more.
All you have to do is set up your blog to have an email address form on it. Then, you write a short, informative report on the topic of your niche and offer it to your readers for FREE in exchange for their email address.
Simple, but it is so effective. Go to www.freelist-pro.com your readers (and future customers for life!) will type in their first name and email address into your auto-responder form (look up auto-responder if you are not familiar with what it is) in order to download your free report.
You'll harvest their email addresses, you have begun building your blog opt-in list!
Now you have so many opportunities to make money with your list once you have built a responsive one.
Remember, your list does NOT have to be huge in order to make you a recurring income that you can live very comfortably off of.
It is all about the relationship you create/build with your list and the quality of the material that you give them (and also sell them).
An opt-in list is a vital and valuable asset for any business, especially online ones.
A blog is just a great tool for you to use to build your list. It's free, it gets picked up easily by the search engines, it's a wide used platform that you can find additional functionality easily and it looks professional!
To be able to build a list for FREE that can earn you literally millions of dollars is quite an incredible phenomenon and we should all be grateful for this great opportunity.