Viral marketing is a methods of list building

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List building is one of the most important tasks that you need to do in your internet business. As a famous marketer once said "Build a huge list and you will eat for a life time".

That comment is really funny, but it is so true. If you look at all the internet gurus they all have big lists of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. These lists usually took them several years to acquire, but when they send out an email they will earn tens of thousands of dollars.

So let us look at some core list building strategies that you can apply to your internet business today that will help you to build a very big list of subscribers.

1) Build an authority site

This could be a blog, magazine, forum site or a membership website where you offer a specific service for free. The benefit of this is that you will attract large amount of traffic from search engines. You can easily add a popup that cannot be blocked to capture the email addresses of your visitors.

2) Use traffic exchanges

Design a splash page promoting a free report in exchange for the visitor's contact details. Advertise this splash page in traffic exchanges to build your list.

3) Write articles

Article marketing is one of the best ways to build your internet business. The leads are high quality and can convert up to ten times better than leads from other sources. Write articles consistently and submit them to the major article directories. Just remember to include a link to your squeeze page in your bio.

4) Advertise in newsletters

Advertise your squeeze page offering a free report in related newsletters. This is one of the best ways to get quality traffic to your web site almost instantly.

5) Advertise using ppc

Ppc is a really good way to drive traffic very quickly to your web site almost instantly using Google Adwords. Just be careful not to target the very expensive keywords and look for long tail keywords that have cheap bid prices.

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Mark Abrahams is a full time internet marketer who has helped others to earn a living online.