I get this question asked all the time. “How do I build my opt in list?” There are more ways to build your opt in list than Plaxico Burress has team fines. All you need to do is just sit down and map out a strategy. If you’re having trouble doing that, what follows is a brief guide. You’ll get plenty of ideas from this article alone that you can quickly and easily put into practice TODAY.

One of the best and cheapest ways to build an opt in list is through article marketing. This doesn’t take a lot of time and it can actually be done without any cost at all. Simply get yourself a blog and put an opt in form on it. Blogger or WordPress will do just fine. Then, make sure you put some content on the blog relevant to your niche. You want your visitors to have something to read when they get there.

After your blog is all set up, start writing articles on the niche itself. Make sure these articles are informative and NOT sales pitches. You want to give your readers some real value here. Then at the end of the article, in your resource box, tell them that if they want more information, to visit your blog and give them the URL of it. That’s all. Nothing fancy here. If the article was good and the resource box gives them a reason to go to the blog (that’s coming next) they’ll go.

Okay, so what’s a good reason? A great reason would be by giving them a free report that will help them with their problem. Make sure the report is really informative. If you give them something of value, they’re going to want to remain on your list once they sign up for the report.

Don’t want to create a report? No problem. Create a newsletter series that you’ll send to them every few days or even every week. I have one series that is 52 weeks long. Each week they get a different issue of the newsletter. I make sure each issue has information that will help them with a particular problem they’re having.

It’s all about offering and then delivering value. Promises without the goods to back them up will get you tons of people leaving your list in droves.

Follow these few simple tips and you should be building an opt in list in no time flat.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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