List building is the keystone of a successful Internet business, but when you start out just how do you do that? It may seem like an impossible task, but I have been using using some very simple tips for many years now and if you implement them you will soon see your list increasing. Assuming you have great content to offer in your newsletter or giveaway then check you are doing all of the following:

Simple Tip 1 - Add More Email Opt-In Boxes To Your Website

This is a no-brainer, but sadly few people make the most of it. However many pages your website has, then that's the number of have opt in boxes to subscribe boxes that you will need. You can use a pop up window or integrate a subscribe box into an article at the beginning, middle or end. How you do it does not matter - just make sure you do.

Simple Tip 2 - Give A Great Gift

It goes without saying that your gift must be both useful and hard to resist. Create something unique for your website visitor and be sure it also complements your newsletters topics. One way to do that is to adapt something from PLR or offer back issues of your newsletter.

Simple Tip 3 - Use Free Viral Ebooks To Get New Subscribers

When you start out in a new business you look for ways to save money, and this will bring in new subscribers and won't cost you a penny. Give it away to visitors to the site, or you could also offer it to other website owners in your niche with reprint rights to the product. This is very attractive to them as this way they can sell your product while making 100% commission for themselves in the process. Just make sure your details are all over the ebook and that its in pdf format so it can't be changed.

Simple Tip 4 - Talk to an Expert

Interviewing experts over the phone and recording it will get your newsletter splashed all over the Internet and a bonus is that audio interviews are a great idea to get more subscribers to your list from non internet marketing circles.

Starting out and don't know any experts? Visit ezinearticles.com, and find the category related to the niche you are in. Look for the top rated articles and contact those authors through their website, and ask if you can interview them because you thought their article was great and your subscribers would like to know more about them and what they know.

Good news is that this can cost very little, as most will do it for free in return for promoting their product or website. You then have a great product to offer to your list, and if you tell all the publishers you've been in contact with from tip 3 in your niche then you can offer it to them too. t

All you need to do is put a setup a page on your website with the download link to the interview MP3's and put a subscribe form near them for your newsletter. You will be surprised how many people will sign up after they listen to your interviews, but DO NOT make them sign up for your newsletter before they get do so - it only puts people off.

Simple Tip 5 - The Value of Back Copies

Because people might hesitate about giving you their information on first visiting your site it's really useful to archive back copies of your newsletter and give them access to them.

If you let them do this without first having to sign up for your newsletter, they can read your content and see how good it is and this will encourage them to sign up. h

Also, make sure you tell them on the website that newsletter subscribers get each issue a month before it is published on the website for non-subscribers and if the information is especially time sensitive they will definitely want to subscribe.

Summary:

These simple tips work whether you have a sales or a membership site and they are tried and tested over many years. If you are serious about building your list then these tips are the ones to try first.