Learn How To Build A List Fast

If you want your online business to be successful quickly then you need to learn how to build a list fast! Lists, as in your email lists, are the lifeblood of your online business. The more people you have in your list, the more people you can reach to promote your business and any affiliate products you endorse. It's impossible to maintain a continuous number of people on your list since 97% of people who start an online business quit within the first three years. To counteract a diminishing email list it's pertinent to learn how to build a list and the faster the better.

There are many techniques you can use to build your business list but if you want to build them fast here are a few that I have incorporated into my business plan.

Social Networks & Media

Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace were once thought of as websites young people could use to express their personal creativity and allowed them to stay in touch with their friends. Now, that is not the case at all. With over 500 million users on Facebook and more than 100 million videos being watched on YouTube it would be foolish not to use these websites to build your email lists.

The growing popularity of social networks is so enormous it has placed them on the cusp of replacing search engines such as Yahoo, Bing and Google. Internet users would then log into a social network to search for you and your business instead of using a search engine and if you don't have a social page then you're going to miss out on a lot of business.

E-Mail Broadcasting & Bombing

Email bombing allows you to blast one email to thousands of people at once without having to personalize, type in every email in your address book without the possibility of having your email account suspended for over mailing.

A good service to use for email bombing is ListJoe. This service allows you to mass email as many as three thousand people at once with your business message. You can email bomb every three days, that's ten times a month giving you the chance to reach thirty thousand people a month. You pay a small one time subscription for a full year usage.

A good service for email broadcasting is AWeber. If you don't already have an AWeber account I highly recommend getting one as soon as you're done reading this article. This service is completely automated so anyone who leaves their contact information will continue to receive a series of messages, either you have created or your company provides, until they unsubscribe. If they transition from a website visitor to a customer then you can set it up so they start receiving a new series of emails alerting them of business calls, webinars or events.

In addition to those emails, you can do an email broadcast to your entire list that promotes your personal website, an event you are hosting or an affiliate product you recommend. You can schedule these emails to be sent at a certain day and time so when your list checks their email yours is one of the first they see when they wake up in the morning.

Pay Per Click & Banner Advertising

Pay per click and banner advertising is by far the fastest way to build an email list, but I only recommend this type of campaign marketing if you have the budget for it. This can be done on any major search engine website but your lead capture page cannot be similar to someone's from the same company. If you don't know what you're doing you can end up spending a lot with little or no list contacts. The key is start small and as your business increases you can budget more.

These are just a few of the techniques you can use to build an email list fast for your business. Learning one of these skills will take your business to new heights. Learning two will position yourself as an influential business leader.

Scott Gustafson

E-Business Expert

Scott Gustafson is an E-Business Expert with five years of experience growing a successful online business and helping others create wealth around the world by leveraging the power of the internet.

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