Listbuilding is one of the hottest topics for internet marketing. Many people try it and most of them fail. That’s because they don’t know the small but effective secret techniques that the Gurus know. Yes, there are some very special tricks and techniques that most Gurus won’t tell you about. But don’t worry, after reading this article you’ll know about these dirty tricks and you’ll soon become a Guru yourself!

Building a list is the most important task for any online business owner. Your list is your marketing capital! When starting out it will all start very slow but your results will increase as time goes by. We all started with a list of zero subscribers… And many of us managed to build a list of 10.000+ in less than 6 months. Seriously, start today and work hard on building your list… Soon you’ll be one of those Top Internet Marketers with a list of 10.000 prospects and more.

Building a huge opt-in list is based on 2 factors:

- It depends on how much traffic you send to your Opt-In page

- And it depends on how many of your visitors you convert to subscribers

When looking at these 2 factors you’ll soon see that it’s not hard to master these 2 factors. Your traffic will always depend on how much work you put into your traffic generating strategies. Do you use one method of generating traffic or do you use 10 methods?

Do you get it? You need to implement as many traffic pathways as possible, so that you get visitors from all kinds of programs and websites. Your traffic can’t rely on one source… you need to use as many traffic sources as you can!

It’s not done with using as many traffic sources as possible… You still need to convert the traffic into signups for your opt-in list. We are talking about the signup rate! It makes a huge difference, imagine you have a signup rate of 5% instead of just 1%… You’ll get 5-times as many subscribers to your list!

That leads us to tracking, testing and improving your Opt-In page. Split-Testing is the magic word here. Setup 2 Opt-In pages… one with a different headline or a difference in any other part of the site. Soon you’ll know which of your 2 pages performs better than the other one. Then you take the better one and Split-test it against a new version again. Do this until you reach an opt-in rate of at least 3%.

Once you have mastered this most important part of listbuilding, you can move on and split-test your traffic sources. You’ll soon be able to dump the non-performing sources and concentrate on those that suck in the signups.

It’s not hard to do this… all it needs is hard and persistant work. Your increased results will push you to test and track even more… You’ll soon be able to determine which traffic sources to rely on and how you have to design your Squeeze Pages. That leads to not only getting more signups for your current list, but also in knowing what to do when starting your next project. You’ll know that you need to avoid certain things or that you need to implement certain strategies… Tracking will give you the knowledge to build up a multi-million dollar online business! You’ll become better with every Squeeze Page that you design and you’ll become better at knowing what you need to implement for backend profits.

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Below you can find a video about testing and tracking.

You have heard it a thousand times: “The money is in the list”… and I won’t tell you different because it is true. Building your own opt-in mailing list equals to building residual income. That’s because you can advertise different products or opportunities to your list and build up multiple income streams this way.

Imagine: A new program launches and you have a 10k mailing list… You’ll instantly get 100 or more signups to that new program with one mailing to your own opt-in list. You already know that? Well, I bet you do… but do you also know how to build that 10k list in less than 6 months? No? Then read on and put the here learned tips into practice, so that you’ll soon have your own 10k mailing list!

In order to build your own opt-in list you need to have a system in place first. This is mostly an autoresponder filled with your emails, a Squeeze Page to signup new people and backend offers to moneytize your list.

An autoresponder can either be web-hosted by a company that provides such a service or you can host your own autoresponder script on your own domain. A company-hosted autoresponder is probably better in regards of delivery rates, your own script gives you more control over your list… so it’s just a question of what you prefer: More control or higher delivery rates. Choose the type of autoresponder that you are comfortable with.

The Squeeze Page is the front-end of your opt-in list system. The quality of your Squeeze Page will determine the percentage of signups that you’ll get from your visitors. A bad created Squeeze Page with a weak web-copy will get you signup rates of 0.1% up to 1% … a top designed website with great web-copy will result in much higher signup rates of 3% or more.

Let’s do some math: You get 10.000 visitors to your Squeeze Page that has a signup rate of 0.3% … So you’ll have 30 opt-in leads. Now you send the same 10.000 visitors to a different Squeeze Page that has a signup rate of 3% … You’ll get 300 opt-in leads! do you see where that leads?

Before you send huge amounts of traffic to your Squeeze Page, make sure that you have the best signup rate that you can achieve. This can be done by split-testing and improving your Squeeze Page. Once this is done you can start to send as much traffic to your Squeeze Page as possible. Here are some free of cost techniques that will result in signups… providing you have a strong Squeeze Page.

1. Participate in JV Giveaway Events as a contributor

2. Use Manual Click Exchanges

3. Use Credit Based Safelists

4. Use Forum Signatures

5. Use Article Marketing

6. Use Viral Advertising Techniques

7. Use PPC Advertising (if you can make a positive ROI)

That’s it… no secrets, no dirty tricks and no black-hat techniques… it’s all about hard and persistent work and using as many traffic streams as you can. The above 7 are just some examples from literally hundreds of techniques that you can use to build your own opt-in list. Use this article as an “eye-opener” and digg deeper into each technique.. they all have some little special difficulties that wants to be mastered before they show their real potential.

Here is a great software that has helped me to add thousands of new subscribers on my lists: The Giveaway Announcer