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You probably know by now that it’s important to build a list and develop a relationship with your subscribers. So what do you need to get started?

You’ll need 3 things:

• Autoresponder
• Opt-in Box
• Free Gift

Autoresponder
A “follow up” autoresponder is software that simply allows you to collect your visitor’s details (usually just name and email address) and send out emails to many subscribers at once.

For this I use Aweber but you could equally use GetResponse , or another of the popular autoresponder services as they all operate in much the same way.

Aweber has all the features I need and more, including some great analytical tools so that’s what I personally recommend. You can take a free test drive of their software at their site.

Opt-in Box
Next up you’ll need to create a webform or opt-in box like the one you see at the top of this page. Aweber makes it really easy to create multiple webforms and also lets you track their performance. You can then place it on your blog or squeeze page and this enables you to start adding subscribers immediately.

People will still need a compelling reason to opt-in though which leads to my next point.

Free Gift
Give something of value away in exchange for your visitor’s email address. This could be a free report, a video, an email series, audio series or similar. The rule of thumb is it has to be something of value. Something that you could sell, something that would ordinarily cost money to obtain.

But I’ve got nothing to give away?
Have a look at my current opt-in box and you’ll see the free report I just started giving away. I didn’t write that report it was created by Internet Business Coach Terry Dean .

It’s a great report full of extremely useful information for both aspiring and experienced Internet Business owners alike and contains a lot of information that really resonated with me the first time I read it.

The version of the report I’m offering is a brandable version, in other words it contains my affiliate links. You can download the original report at Terry Dean’s Blog .

Giving away a product of your own is, of course, far more valuable especially if it’s something that people can’t get anywhere else. But if you haven’t created a report yet why not find one, preferrably brandable, and give that away at least until you’ve created one of your own.

Easy huh?
Now you’ve started building your list you can keep blasting promotion after promotion to your subscribers and squeeze every penny out of them right?

I hope not.

The Money’s In The Relationship
You’ll have heard “The money’s in the list” countless times but hopefully you’ll also know that this is only half true. The money is really in the relationship you have with your list. If you treat your list like the human beings they actually are, your list will be much more responsive when it comes time to sell.

Before I sign off I thought I’d share a couple of videos I recently stumbled across from Frank Kern that will shed more light on the subject of mailing lists and that go over the process in more detail. I hope you find them useful. Check them out here: http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?page_id=9