1.) Offer freebies.
In selecting which freebies to offer, think of the things which you know visitors would truly like or need. For instance, you can offer an e-book about what to do in the vent of panic attacks or one written about the best home-based businesses one can embark upon. This would provide motivation for them to signup. Once they do, you get to acquire their email addresses which can help you build your list more quickly.
2.) Allow visitors to publish your articles.
Allow visitors to publish your articles but by having them to request for permission first. Include a request form that they will be asked to fill in. Make sure that the email address is included in the required fields.
3.) Prove to your visitors why they must subscribe.
People hate scam. Everyone does. This is the reason why many refuse to subscribe to free written content because they think it could be only mean more spam in their mails. On your landing page or signup page, convince your visitors that your newsletters are not another spam schemes. Justify this by quoting testimonials from older customers and including some samples of the previous newsletter issues. Furthermore, make sure that you provide interesting and unique content for your newsletters so visitors will not grow tired of reading it and make them look forward to the next issue.
4.) Apply the basics of search engine optimization.
All written content in your site such as newsletters, articles, e-books, e-zines and web content must be written with the appropriate keywords included in them so that during search engine indexing, your content will be easily located. A simple concept that most internet marketers fail to recognize is the importance of changing the names of title pages. So what if you have this outstanding article about forex trading but on your site, it is named as “01896.html”? The search engines would not find it easily. Hence, rename! An example of a good title for it would be “generate-dollars-by-becoming-a-forex-trader.html”. Also, if your content is embedded with the right keywords, it will have high rankings in the search engines when people try to search for materials related to it. This then increases the amount of traffic to your site.
5.) Administer a “membership drive”
You can have a membership drive administered by including an “Invite Your Friends!” option where visitors will be asked to provide the email addresses of the people to whom the invites would be sent. Usually, most people would not bother to do so because they would not get anything from it anyway. Therefore, you can provide a prize to the visitor who makes the most number of invites. The number of email addresses you will acquire with this approach could be overwhelming and this lets you build your list in record time.
