How to build an email list and grow your online business?

One of the most 'must-have' components of any successful online business is an email list. Fostering its growth and development means long term profits. This may be true but a lot of people find it extremely arduous to build their lists, so let me give you 3 of the most successful tips on how to build your list.

Squeeze page creation and offering of free gifts: It is essentially a website with only one page and by tying up with auto responder system you can offer your visitors some free gifts when they give you their name and email address. The free gifts can range from a report to an audio or videos. The more useful you make your free offers the more number of people would sign up for your list. This is quite frankly the most powerful and aggressive way to start your list building.

Exchange Promotional Email with JV Partners: The key is to find a marketer who has a similar line of business, having an email list and is generally keen to work on a joint venture with you. Then get in touch with this marketer and inquire whether he is interested in a cross promotion with you both in terms of products and lists. Not only is list building fast by this method but it goes a long way in building a name yourself too as a reputed marketer has promised to promote your products. It is also critical for you to think the advantage this cross promotion is going to bring to the marketer when he ties up with you and this can increase the chances of the venture to happen.

Advertising in the Ezine: Though hardly shared this method is still one of the most successful ways to build an email list. This strategy effectively utilizes efforts of other people as most Ezine owners have spent a lot of effort in building their subscriber list. So, how this method works is that you can purchase advertising space in the newsletter which the ezine owners sent out every month or week. Since ezine publishers are perpetually looking for new and meaningful content, you could also send them articles, which is yet another way in which this process can be made use of. Insert the author resource box at the bottom of each article, so that the reader by clicking it can reach your squeeze page.

It is impossible for your email list to grow unless you use some or all of the methods discussed above. Opt for any one process and put it to operation and watch your list grow fast.