If you are not building a list then you essentially are not building a business online. I think you would agree if you really want to be successful then you need to work smart not hard. What does working smart mean and how can you put it to work in your business?

These days, with all the video and audio, you can find all sorts of presentations that can further increase your confusion about how to build a business online. The reason why we become information junkies is because we seem to think that there is a magic bullet out there which we have not found yet.

As a consequence, you start to join all sorts of lists of various different experts promising the moon and the stars. And finally, you find yourself on the other aspect as the hungry buyer rather than building your own business.

List building and email marketing is a very powerful part of online business. If you have tried to make money on the Internet, then you know how powerful of it, as I know you have taken part in a few email offers.

You do not have to look far to understand that having interested people on a list can prove to be very profitable. So now, rather than being on the receiving end, you need to start to build your own list.

You do not have to own your own product to start, in actual fact. I highly recommend not to spend your time to create your own product at the beginning, why? because you can start with affiliate program which provide you a lot of useful information to promote their products. And later on, you can use it for your own product.

As an affiliate, you can experience how to build a business without a product and furthermore you can use this experience to help your own affiliate to promote your product if you make it.

The next step is getting targeted traffic to your website. To build a list quickly, I suggest creating a squeeze page. A squeeze page has only one objective and that is to build your list. If all this seems like rocket science, do not worry, as there are plenty of tools out there to help you do this.

Once you have your squeeze page in place, you can offer them a free e-book if they sign up for your list. This e-book should relevant to what they are looking for. If you have vegetarians coming to your website, you are not going to give away a free e-book on how to cook meat.

Beyond that, you can also offer them a gift if they refer others to your site, and since you will be giving them a free e-book, you can also allow them to share this book with friends and family, which makes your book go viral.

Since your book will be branded with your links, you will have additional traffic coming back to sign up for your list. This is the power of viral marketing. So the fundamentals are this. Start to build your own list now using a squeeze page and work smart by developing a viral marketing campaign, therefore getting paid for you efforts both today and in the future.

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