Article Marketing and List Building are a perfect combination when you want to build a highly qualified and hyper-responsive list. If you are having trouble building the kind of list you want and need, this just may be the cure you have been looking for...

5 Simple & Repeatable Steps

With Article Marketing there are 5 simple and repeatable steps for building a great list. Let's take a closer look at these 5 steps.

Article - First you want to craft a great quality article with a compelling title that pulls the reader in. Make sure your article lives up to your title, and delivers at least one gold nugget of information the reader can use right away.

And don't stop there! Don't be one of these folks that say "Well, I wrote a few articles and it just didn't work for me." This process takes more than a few articles. Remember each article is an "article agent" out on the Internet working for you 24/7/365. You want to create an entire army of agents working for you.

Resource Box - At the end of every article you get to invite the reader back to your web world in order to get more information from you. Make sure what you are offering in the Resource Box is a no brainer for someone that has just read your article, by offering something that is related to the article and a sample of one of your products that will start the reader down the road to achieving their goals.

Opt-In Page - You want your Resource Box to invite the reader to an opt-in page where they can trade their email for more good information from you. Make the instructions clear, and be sure there is nothing else on that page to distract them from the action you want them to take - opting in!

Follow Up - Both your future and your fortune is in the follow up. Whether you do it automatically with auto-responders, live with teleseminars, or some combination of these and other strategies. make sure you are following up with those who join your list.

When you do so you are doing what most marketers fail to do, and you begin to stand out.

Great care - When you serve and lead your list community you are taking great care of them. And always remember this:When you take great care of your list community, they will take great care of you