List building is seen as the life blood of any online business, without an online list, you cannot succeed with your online business whether you are into affiliate marketing, internet marketing or adword promotions. You need to find a way of building targeted traffic to your website to be able to build a successful business and build relationship with your customers.
Here are tested and proven ways you could use to drive targeted subscribers to your online business.
1. Article: Article marketing is one of the proven free methods that you could use to drive free traffic to your website and have opt in subscribers to your email list. You just have to write informative articles about the theme of your online business, submit it to article directories and in the author's resource box,add a link to your website /webpages where you have opt in form for capturing subscribers to your list.
b Free reports,e-books or courses: Also you could use free report,ebooks or e-courses to increase the opt in rate of subscribers to your online list by offering to your website visitors free informative offers such as free ebook, courses, or reports related to what your site is offering to be able to generate more opt in subscribers to your online list
3 Autoresponder system: An Autoresponder serves as a program, in which your opt in subscribers information are saved and sent to them periodically.it is one of the essential tools needed to succeed online. With an autoresponder system that comes with opt in subscribers scripts that you can use to capture generate subscribers to your online list.
This opt in form is the platform you need to use through the autoresponder systen to build and drive in more subscribers to your list. You need to have one and a good one I am currently using that has all the features you need that I can recommend for you is available at http://www.getresponse.com/index/globalngr check it there.
4 Link Exchange: link exchange with other webmasters that are offering related products or services like your website is another good method of driving traffic and building your opt in list.Note that you should not partner with a site that is a direct competitor with your site ie offering the same product or services like your site but partner with a site that has a related product to your business.
5 Joint venture: Also you could partner with other related sites and webmasters to joint venture by offering their products to your opt in subscribers while they do the same with your own offers. You gain here more, if you find a partner that has a larger targeted list than yours and you could use the opportunity to drive in more traffic to your site.