Guess what is the fastest way to build your email list?

Now, we all know the importance of having a huge, responsive email list. Your email list is essentially your gold mine. Getting your website’s visitors emails are important because most (99%) of people who come to your site will forget about it after they leave unless they bookmark it or subscribe to your feed OR you have some really good, original content.

But more often than not, you need to have a substantial list that you can cultivate and monetize eventually. And when I mean monetize, PLEASE – Don’t treat your list as a spamming hole. Your job as a marketer is to provide genuine value and useful content to the people who whole-heartedly gave their emails to you.

Ok, that being said. Here’s how to build a budding email list which is huge.

STEP 1: Have a useful “Opt-in Gift”

Something that your target market wants. You want to give them something that is a prelude to something that you intend to sell one day. It could be a free chapter of an amazing e-book or just tips to solve a huge problem in your niche.

STEP 2: Give, give GIVE!

You have their emails. Now its time to be Santa Claus and give them lots of presents for being good subscribers. Of course don’t just spam them with gifts. It’s getting harder and harder to even give away free e-books. Give them something they want! If you want to know what they want, do some research to understand your market or just ask them politely.

STEP 3: Draw tons of traffic to your site

The other day, I wrote an article on the basics of drawing traffic. Use it if you haven’t already. Besides that, you might want to consider alternative traffic generation methods such as paid advertising, social media or link exchanges with fellow marketers in the same niche.

The fastest way to get new leads

I came across this shortcut to getting new leads fast. I’m sure you’ve heard of it, it’s called an Ad Swap. Which means, you send a promo email of another person’s squeeze page and he/she sends a promo email of yours. That way, you exchange subscribers and get new leads and customers. It’s that simple!

But where do you find ad swap partners?

The hard way would be to go around searching for blogs in the same niche as you and ask them. The problem is, you don’t really know if they can be trusted or their list is as big as they say it is.

The easy way? I came across this site which i’ve been using every now and then to build my list.

The good part is, ad swap partners have to verify their list sizes within the site (they have their way). Searching for partners is as easy as A-B-C through their ad-swap partner search engine. You can try it for free. You’ll get a few free swaps but in order to do more swaps in the future and to verify your list you’ll have to subscribe to a small fee. It’s definitely worth it though, because you can build your list in a much faster time. Also, if you verify your list, people will be more willing to do swaps with you because they can trust your list size. It’s a win-win situation! Genius!

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