List Building - Where on Earth do I start?

You can also use this thread as a learning source - http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-building.html

Skype is the worst place. The scammers run amuck there. FB is your best best. look in the testimonial sections and contact those that have good reviews.

A squeeze page on a sub-domain should be fine, as the presentation of the web page and the quality of what your giving away for free is more important than the web page address.

Four years ago I built a list of 2,600 people in one month in the lotto niche, which was a big mistake for me because I didn't want to write to people about gambling systems.

I flipped that website and began working on a website in niche I was mildly passionate about. I purchased a turnkey website, which come complete with some malicious code and got me slapped by Google. I spent a lot of time and money trying to get that account back and the website going again, but gave up and I pretty much moved onto the next bright idea at the time.

About 2 weeks ago I started a website in a niche I am passionate about, I add content daily and I speak to the list frequently. I don't try to sell them things all the time, preferring to build a long term relationship, by providing them with value first and foremost.

The website has been modestly monetized and Traffic to the site is growing, as is the number of members on the list.

My best advice is to start by finding something you're passionate about and feed great information to people with a similar interest.

Obviously you need to also have a market place with products to sell and a large number of people who are just as passionate as you are.

Search the forum here and you will find plenty of evergreen niche lists like the following.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ts-niches.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...en-niches.html

When the foundation has been laid start your marketing efforts, introducing niche specific squeeze pages, driving traffic and landing them on offers and all the things that will provide you with rewards for your efforts.

Although this is a formula I used in the past to build a decent size list, it also paid well from the affiliate product and Adwords placements in the website. I am following this method again right now and it still works, I am just kicking myself now that I stopped doing it 3.5 years ago, because any list I started building back then would be massive now.

You asked for help and here are the steps I used:

1: I purchased a nice looking niche blog (from a reputable developer) with a decent amount of articles.

2: I deleted all the content and wrote my own (it takes time, but is all mine and unique)

3: I added niche specific advertising for products from other vendors as an affiliate (graphical and text links throughout the site)

4: I began sharing every post I made in Facebook, Google+, Stumbleupon, Pinterest and a few other social media websites

5: I added a mailing list subscription box on every page and pop up which is on a slight delay, asking people to subscribe to my mailing list the first time they come to the website.

6: I began doing a little promotion via Facebook ads and am about to expand into some alternative advertising as soon as I put in place a couple more squeeze pages, which are relative to the niche topic.

Just do it! -

Even if you start out slow, it will grow if you feed visitors great content and are persistent.

This is only one model for building a list and I know you can also just suck people into joining your list and spamming the living daylights out of them, but how more much enjoyable would it be to build a business around a topic you're passionate about.

Good luck

aha....wise man. The difference between a list of tire kicking freebie seekers and people with money and willing to spend money is huge!