List-Building: Ways to Explode Your List

Focus on building a list of people who care about the same thing as you do, whether it's Internet Marketing or pet grooming. Then, write a blog every single day, in order to get search engine traffic, and put together press releases to spread the word about the news about whats happening in the world of pet grooming. Keep on top of it.

Write one press release a day. Do one blog entry a day. In the meantime, build a list of people who care. Monetize the whole thing with something like AdSense.

If your niche is that important to you, then you need to have the most high-traffic website on this topic in the world, so go for it. Depending on where you are financially, if you can afford to just dive in and do it full force, do that. If you cant, do it part-time but make sure that youre working on marketing and all of the other activities youre working on within your niche, in order to learn how to drive more traffic, build a bigger list, and get more readers for your message, right?

Then start finding good products, the ones that convert well, and the ones that have a comprehensive sales process. In the meantime, youre still list building. Maybe youre marketing a whole bunch of smaller ClickBank products in the meantime, in order to make money. Youre marketing your ClickBank products, youre list building, and you stumble upon something that has a great funnel system of multiple products that you can promote, or one primary product youll promote and theyll take over the promotion for the rest of it and pay you on affiliate commissions across the board.

To continue list building, start doing free interviews with prominent people in your niche, and promote that persons product, which is always easier to set up. Call the person who owns the product and say, Id like to promote your product. Heres what Ive got--a list of this many, but Im talking to these 10 other people. Theyve all already agreed to do interviews with me, but were switching the format around a little bit so we can be focused on helping you to sell your stuff instead of helping me to sell my stuff. How does that sound to you? Theyll say, That sounds good.

Then you just go ahead and do it. When you do, you're list building because these prominent people send a message out to their lists about your interview. When that person's list goes to your main page, they sign up for the call and for your list, too. Then you do another seminar the next week. Then you do another one the next week. Does that make sense?

All of a sudden, for your list building efforts, you walk away with a 5,000 or 10,000 person list, or maybe bigger! A few simple steps, and you've got List Power!

Tellman Knudson is CEO of OvercomeEverything, Inc. and a master of list building. Learn the 9 Laws of List Building at MyFirstList.com