List Building Fire: 50 Powerful Ways To Build Your List To The Thousands

Introduction
If you don’t yet have an email list, you’re missing out. It doesn’t matter what
you’re selling or promoting, a list is an essential marketing tool. It creates an
inner circle of perhaps hundreds or thousands of people who understand your
business and have an interest in what it does. And it allows you to easily and
profitably communicate with this inner circle on a daily basis.
In short, if you don’t have a list, you need one. And, if you have a bad,
unresponsive list, then you need to begin developing a better one and cultivating
the people on your current list.
With that said, building a strong, responsive list is no easy task. If it were,
everyone would have one. Fortunately for you, I created this book with people
like you in mind: people who know that list building is essential, but who have yet
to build a robust, profit-generating list.
In the rest of this book, I will discuss 50 different ways in which you can build a
list. My hope is that you will settle on at least a handful of these techniques; and
will put them to work immediately. If you can do that, you will see your list grow
rapidly in both size and responsiveness.

1. Do Ad Swaps with other people in your industry
If you haven’t heard of ad swaps before, the concept is quite intuitive: in
exchange for incorporating someone’s ad into your mailing, they agree to do the
same for you. Typically, this is either done with someone in the same industry or
in a related, but non-competing industry.
If done correctly, ad swaps can be both easy and profitable. You can initiate one
by first looking for high traffic sites in your niche and in related niches. As you
find them, start signing up for their respective newsletters. Monitor the content
and decide whether or not it would be a good idea for your idea.
Once you have made the call, contact the list owner and initiate the swap. Let
him or her know that you’re a subscriber on his/her list; and then tell him/her all
about your own list and your proposed idea.
Use this technique every 2-3 weeks and you should see your subscriptions climb
rapidly over time.
2. Join Safelists networks
A safelist is a list of email addresses of individuals who have agreed to receive
emails from other individuals on the list. By joining safelists, you can gain access
to a large group of individuals who may be interested in joining your list.
Of course, as with any other marketing technique, when a particular medium is
saturated with ads, the responsiveness to any one of those adds will fall. For this
reason, expect your pitches to get relatively small responses.

With that said, if you join enough relevant lists and make your pitches periodically
(to avoid the appearance of being a spammer), then you should have no problem
picking up quite a few good leads from this strategy.
3. Place an opt-in form on your blog
Another good way to get subscribers is to simply put an opt-in form on your blog.
If people like reading your content and find themselves coming back to read
more, they may decide to opt-in to your newsletter, too. After all, why not put
yourself on a list to get more of the content you’re seeking out on a daily basis?
4. Create a Facebook fanpage
If you’re a Facebook user, you’ve no doubt seen countless “fanpages” for various
businesses. Virtually all businesses that wish to have a social media presence
one. This is a practice you should adopt, too, if you want to develop a social
media presence and use it to generate list subscribers.
In short, setting up a Facebook fanpage is not very different from setting up a
profile. Just remember to incorporate all of the relevant information about your
business on the page, along with links to your list and to various freebies. Also,
consider giving people who “like” your fanpage discounts or coupons for various
products.

5. Use banner advertising (list some banner networks)
Banner advertising has long been a mainstay of webmasters. While it is difficult
for newcomers, it can be very rewarding if you spend the time to 1) create a good
banner; and 2) find the right networks.
To get a good banner, consider spending $50 on Elance.com. Next, place your
banner ad in a rotating exchange (and also agree to put the code for other
banners on your own site), such as this one:
Alternatively, consider one of the following two sites, which simply allow you to
purchase a rotating banner slot on various sites: or

6. Create videos
When it comes to enticing people to join your mailing list, another good avenue
you can ...