So, by now you know: the money is in the list! Grow your list and you grow your niche site income. But you also know that one of the best ways to get people to part with their email address is to give them something valuable for free, in return!

This is what I have done to build a list for myself:
1. Signup a Free Giveaway Event
2. Upgrade Tab
3. Make Own Product
4. Setup the Squeeze Page

I joined  “Easter JV Giveaway” as an contributor for the coming giveaway on 4/21/2009 and I upgrade my tab during the One Time Offer upgrade. You won’t be able to upgrade your tab again if you miss that OTO. You can sign up an tab with “Easter JV Giveaway” as a contributor and kick start your list building.

After I have upgrade my tab, I add in my gifts and finalize my squeeze page which is at http://trafficgenerationsystem.net

Once I have finalize my website, it’s time to add in my stay on up email. I didn’t write all of these stay on up message myself, but I use a third have fun service which is call Simple Marketing Newsletter. I have added in 5 newsletter and set it to send out once every 7 days. This will help me to build long-term relationship with my list.

So how can you build a list quickly?

Step one is, don’t offer something for free that is widely available. I know… I can hear the groans now. But the reality is if it’s something that can be found somewhere else for free then it’s really not that valuable to every visitor.

The secret is to make something of your own that’s completely unique or find something new and fresh. You want your offer available from only one place, and that’s by subscribing to your opt-in list. Of course, if you’re able to get a hold of a groundbreaking new ebook or report before it saturates the market, this works
too.

But creation of your free offer isn’t hard. In fact, I made this total logic in the span of a couple hours on a bone idle Sunday. But the real trick when making your free offer is to make it something that ranks high on the desirability scale.

Your free offer (ebook or report) should be something that directly targets your visitors. For instance, if I was running a classified ad that promised to teach people how to make money online with opt-in lists when they click the link, then this small article could be used as my report.

In fact, if you want to build an opt-in list using this article as the free offer (while it’s still fresh), I have a way for you to do that and I’ll clarify in a moment.

Register a Giveaway Tab here

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