The hardest part of building a list is to start with it. just getting your first 100 subscribers could take ages for some. here is a quick plan for newbies to start building a huge list fast. get a great free offer and make a squeeze page for it. now use low cost content network on adwords for traffic. also join all giveaway events and upgrade for all the big ones. dont be scared to spend some money for supercharging your list. also use all free traffic methods that you knpw about. use this until you have 300 subscribers. Then start doing 3 adswaps a week with similar lists. try going for adswaps with bigger lists. if you have a really good offer you will get some swaps with bigger lists. keep doing adswap and entering giveaway events. when you start doing adswaps you dont need asdwords anymore. your list will grow exponentially. I hope this strategy is useful. If anyone wants to add something?
I believe people are using their secondary email addressess to sign up on such pages. And they never check their mail there - besides one time registration... Cheers,
Great ideas there. I would also suggest tweeting the offers it helps bring in a few more subscribers to your list.
Usually you just google IM giveaway events. Here is a link of the easter giveaway which I think will be a big one: http://www.imservicecenter.com/easter/contributor.php?id=60
I would also add that it be a "course" of some sort delivered over several days time in sections by email. You give this away for free in exchange for their email. This ensures that you get an active email address that they will actually check. Hope that helps. Paul paulmcgraw.com