By Terry Dean

The best way to make money on the Internet is to build your own opt-in list.
This way you can build a relationship with thousands of potential customers
all over the world without spending more than a couple hundred dollars a year
for the Internet access and the list management tools you use.

Once you have built a list, you can make money through it by selling
advertising, doing Joint Venture deals, listing your affiliate programs, etc.
There are dozens of ways to make money from your opt-in list, once you learn
how to build it.

We have spent the years of our Internet life coming up with the best ways to
build opt-in lists, and I am going to show you 7 ways to build your list quickly
and easily.

1. Post It Prominently On Every Page Of Your Site.

This one should go without saying, but many opt-in list owners still aren't
doing it. You need to give people the opportunity to subscribe to your list on
every page of your site. The more people you expose to your message, the
more that will respond.

2. Add an Ebook Bonus for Subscribing

We first tested this over a year ago and it doubled our daily subscribe rates
from our site. It was proven years ago that your sales rates will increase if you
add a bonus to a product or service you are selling.

Well, we have proven that more people will sign up for a free newsletter if you
also include a free bonus with that as well. There are hundreds of free ebooks
floating around the net which you can use for free bonuses. Find one that
relates to your site and use it to increase to your number of subscribers.

3. Create a Signature File With Your Ezine

You should have your email software set to include a signature file on every
email message you send out. Your signature file should include an ad for your
opt-in list along with your free bonus ebook for subscribers.

You will find it is easier to use an ad to get people to subscribe to your ezine
than it is to get them to purchase a product. Then, once they are on your list,
you build a relationship with them and sell them your products.

4. Submit it to all of the Listings.

Continually find places to list your newsletter. For example, pick out some of
the main subscribe pages of your competitors and find all of the sites linking
to them. This can be done using the link finder at
http://www.siteowner.com/

Then, go through and submit your site to the same directories. Marty Foley
also has a listing of some of the best places to submit your ad at
http://profitinfo.com/ezine-pr.htm

5. Trade Ads with other Newsletters.

Once you have built up a list of at least a few hundred subscribers, you can
start trading ads with other publishers. Create a recommended ezine section
(instead of classifieds) and start trading with ezine publishers in every single
issue. You publish their ad in your ezine and they publish your ad in their
ezine.

If you consistently do this with every issue, your newsletter is going to start
growing exponentially. There are several lists of ezines willing to trade ads out
there, and we have one you can use at
http://www.bizpromo.com/ezinetrades.htm

6. Do a Newsletter Joint Venture.

Joint Ventures are one of the best ways to build an Internet business and
opt-in list building is no exception. Find three to five other ezine publishers
who would like to trade with you and do this.

After someone subscribes to your ezine, have another page there which asks
them if they would like to subscribe to your partner's ezines (give the names
and a short description of each). Then, have your JV partners follow the same
strategy in return. If you were receiving 20 subscribers a day from your site,
five publishers teamed up together could be doing 50 to 100 new subscribers a
day.

7. Use the Web Caller-ID Automatic List Builder.

This new tool is the ultimate quick and easy list builder.It doubles or triples
your number of subscribers immediately. Basically what it does is create a
small Java pop-up box that looks like a Windows tool. In it, you can tell your
visitor about your newsletter, your free bonuses, and more. Then, all they have
to do is click "OK" and their name and email address is put on
your list.

I can't really fully explain just how easy it is to build a list this way. You need
to check out this tool in action at:
http://www.webcaller-id.com/terrydean


Terry Dean is the webmaster at http://www.bizpromo.com
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