subject: How To Expand Your Mailing List [print this page] A mailing list is one of the most critical ingredients in your Internet marketing campaign. Many successful and top Internet marketers have been preaching about how the money really is within your email list.
Building a list can be a lot easier than you might think. If you've never built a list before and don't know where to start, here are some ideas for you:
Present Something In Return
The most classic way of getting people to sign up to your list - give them something in return for their name and email. It can be as simple as a special report that will be sent to them automatically once they've signed up.
You can set your email marketing software to automatically send the link to those who've already confirmed their email address. You don't have to worry about sending it manually to every person who subscribes since the software will do all the work for you.
Adding a Sign-up Component In Your Blog
A blog is easy to start and once you start, you can quickly and easily start generating traffic immediately, especially if it's interesting to readers.
You can just create your own blog and add an opt-in box on the sidebar where it's visible to visitors and start driving traffic to your blog by commenting in other blogs, through either forum posts or by using social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. It really is that simple! Most email marketing software programs will supply you with a code which you can copy and paste in your blog to create a pertinent opt-in form.
You can easily offer to send updates to any of your new blog posts to help attract people to subscribe to your mailing list.
Start A YouTube Channel
Implementing your own YouTube channel is a surprisingly effective and very underused method. When you start your own channel you have the option to upload interesting, humorous, or informative videos to it.
There are millions of people that view videos on YouTube and more people are joining in every day, thus helping to make it one of the easiest methods to get your message across a large and vast audience.
You can add a link to an opt-in form in your channel or profile page, but the most effective method would be to add a link in the video description.
The videos you create don't have to be professional looking. Even just a simple PowerPoint slideshow has the ability to attract thousands of viewers if you have the products or services that people are looking for.
Organize An Event
Have you ever noticed how an organizer of an event gets lots of traffic to their site? Conducting an event such as a contest, charity or simple get together can really create much needed buzz on the Internet.
People enjoy to talking about events, especially if they are playing a role in it. It's this type of activity that helps to generate a lot of traffic to your site. You can easily get people to sign up to for your mailing list by giving updates related to the event.
If you are creating a contest, you can influence people to give you their name and email as a part of "entry form." Once you attain this contact information, you can utilize the email marketing software to randomly choose an entry as the contest winner.
