How To Use Articles To Build Your Mailing List

Jan 15
09:22

2008

Richard van Beek

Richard van Beek

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We will assume that you understand the importance of building your own list to market to. There are many different ways to do this and one of those is write and submit your articles online. In this article we will talk about how to use articles to build your list.

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Building a mailing list is an important part of Internet marketing. Although there are many ways to do that. One way that is often overlooked is article marketing. Let's take a quick look at how to write and submit articles to help build your mailing list.

You can build your list writing and submitting articles and you may not have even realized it. What you do is you write and submit articles on things you know something about or you can research them. You then submit them to article directories where ezine publishers,How To Use Articles To Build Your Mailing List Articles webmasters, and visitors are looking for information.

Leveraging your articles to use them to market can pay off my writing and submitting many of them. What you are doing is showcasing your worth and expertise on a topic through the articles you write.

So, how do you build your mailing list doing this? Every article can contain a resource box on the bottom of your articles. In this bio box you can include your website address and a little bit about you or your products.

One way that has proven to be very effective is to have the website address in your resource box lead to a landing page where you can collect the contact information from your visitor. You can trade something for free in return for their name and e-mail address.

This form goes to your autoresponder and then they are provided the information that they have requested. Your autoresponder then is used to follow up in the future to help build your list.

If your article is good other e-zine publishers will put it in their newsletters, which can allow you to get more subscribers to your list as well. This is true viral marketing at its finest.

The best way for this to work is by writing quality articles and including an interesting bio box. This is a very nonthreatening way for people to request more information by clicking on your link and then opting in to your list.

The people who do the best with this are people who write lots of articles. If you can get 10 subscribers with one article, then how many could you get with hundreds of articles. And how you really factory in the results that come from the viral marketing your articles can give you!

This is a real quick brief overview on how to use articles to build your list. If you will commit some time to do that on a daily and weekly basis you can build a large mailing list of your own.