How to Quickly Build Your Optin List

How to Quickly Build Your Optin List

There are a number of different techniques you can use to quickly build your optin list and generate thousands of subscribers to your newsletter. I currently have over 15,000 subscribers to my health and fitness newsletters. You can do the same!

If you already have a web site, you should obviously start there. I've found that too many people do not make it easy for people to sign up for their list. You should have a sign up box on every page of your site. Don't use a simple email link. Use the actual sign up box. You'll get a lot more subscribers this way.

If at all possible, place the sign-up box above the fold on the page so your visitors don't have to scroll down to see it. But anywhere on the site is better than nothing. You can even add a second sign-up box at the very bottom of the page.

Make sure to include some kind of privacy statement to reassure people. Spam is getting out of control, making more and more people hesitant to give out their email address.

Always over an incentive to your visitors for subscribing to your newsletter. In fact, sell them on the incentive and not the newsletter itself. Write articles and submit them to the top article directories like http://www.ezinearticles.com Include a resource box at the bottom that tells people about your free report and direct them to your web site where they can subscribe to get the report. You'll not only drive traffic to your site from the article directory, but many web sites will post your article on their site as well. This could be worth thousands of extra visitors to your sign up page.

While it may seem like it will get little in the way of results, use your email signature to advertise your newsletter. After all, you only have to do it once and then it's on auto-pilot. Think about how many emails you send out in a year. It adds up.

If you participate in forums you can include a signature to your posts telling people about your newsletter. Make sure to check the forum rules, although most allow you to do this in your signature.

Consider ad swapping with other newsletter publishers. Place their sign up box on your thank you page and have them do the same for you.

A couple of pay options would be to take out ads in other newsletters or to advertise using Google Adwords or other PPC engines to drive visitors to your newsletter sign up page.

Yes, it will take a little time to begin growing your optin list but with these tips you'll start to see subscribers coming in and your actions will build on themselves, eventually generating thousands of new subscribers for you.