If you're been list building a while, you may not be getting many subscribers every day, if you keep up the same old tactics. Here are some new ideas for you:

• Each time you send a newsletter or a message out to your customers, why not put a little blurb at the end that says, "If you've enjoyed reading this newsletter pass it along. Or, tell your friends that they can subscribe at..."? Then, give them the email address for your autoresponder, and you'll be duplicating your list building power.


• Be sure to put opt-in boxes for list building purposes on all your web sites and blogs. It's generally better to put them at the very top of the page. That way, people can't miss it. If they like your blog, or your site, they'll opt-in to get more information from you.


• Articles are very popular as a traffic tool, too. Use your main keyword at least 2% of the time, and use them to send people to your list building page or your blog, where the opt-in box is the first thing they see.


• Write or develop a product to give away and join some of the free giveaways that are always going on. Just be sure that you're able to have people sign up directly for your autoresponder. Don't make your getting someone's name and email address a condition of how many people you recruit. Those suck. Free giveaways where you actually put in your list building opt-in box code or your autoresponder email address, for whichever list you are building, are the only way to go with those.


• JV. Tell people that if they'll send out to their list once, you'll put their link into your autoresponder series forever. It works! That way, you're promoting the other person's stuff forever and your list building efforts have suddenly become quite productive.


• Join a co-registration program, where your newsletter or ezine is listed with several others. Hopefully, the box is pre-checked, so that when people sign up for other newsletter, ezines, or free offers, they also sign up for yours. That's how the best co-reg systems work, and can be very productive in terms of list building.


• Have you ever been in direct sales and heard the term ABC, for Always Be Closing? In the Internet Marketing world, you might see, ABT, or Always Be Testing. But here's what I think before anything else: ABL, Always Be List Building. If you want to succeed online, it's really all about the list.

Always Be List Building.

Always Be List Building.

List building afficionado, Tellman Knudson, is CEO of OvercomeEverything, Inc. Make your list grow as fast and as big as his through MyFirstList.com (http://www.MyFirstList.com).