I wanted to write this right after I got off a coaching call with a subscriber of mine, but I thought I better wait until morning to better organize my thoughts.

By now we’ve all heard about the importance of list building in growing momentum (and your profits) in your internet marketing business – right?

But…I bet there are still many of you reading this that have launched a website, started long-tail marketing, run a campaign to try and make a few bucks by promoting an affiliate program  or other small steps to start your own online business that ARE NOT yet collecting or incenting your prospects to build a list.

More than 80% of the blogs I look at have not opt-in – and you know what? 

That’s NUTS!!

Since blogs quickly become one of the most significant sources for attracting traffic today – in fact, it’s one of the very first steps we teach for traffic generation in the 45-Day Information Product Profit Course – that you are missing out on a massive opportunity to build a red-hot, responsive and profit-producing list with online marketing.

Do this for me, if you are NOT building a list today, scroll down to the bottom of this message and raise a Comment letting us know what the challenge you are having is — we’ll do our best to post a helpful response so we can get everyone building and growing their list.

Deal?

A common mistake, although understandable, are those of us who rush to promote the latest affiliate program, but do not put an intermediate step into the campaign to have prospects register with US first, then send them to your affiliates page.

How?

Let’s say you are promoting a travel-related affiliate program (remember, this could be in any niche), and you want to promote a special travel package to Europe.  Instead of simply writing an article that pushes people directly to a re-direct toward the affiliate site, write the article and tell people that you will update them on the LATEST, greatest information on travel to Europe.  You will share personal experiences or experiences of others who have gone to Europe.  You will find "insider" deals for them – so sign up to this "Insider’s Club" – it’s free and you have nothing to lose. 

Within a few weeks you could have thousands signup to your list and from there – how many exposures to different products could you get?

Unlimited right?

Assuming you put out good material, those people will still be with you a year from now and best of all…still BUYING from YOU.

It doesn’t matter if it is your very first website, blog or internet marketing campaign – make sure you signup with a simple autoresponder like Aweber, create a list campaign, pre-load it with a few messages, download a form and get it on your site.   The entire process may take 30-minutes, but the reward is a list that can continue to generate profit for months and years to come.

Remember – if you have a specific question or story to share on list building, comment on this blog post and we’ll get everyone on the same page when it comes to building their lists.

Jeff