List Building The Best Way To Earn Money Online

I opened an email from a friend the other day. The general gist of the email was that he wanted to learn how to earn money online. It’s a very broad question and I could talk for days giving an answer. Instead I gave him the answer to what’s the best way of making money online, after all I’ve done the work and research, now I want to impart my knowledge to the world.

Starting out online can be tough and there are literally thousands of methods of making money online. I would argue that list building is the best and a lot of the top earners online would agree!

List building simply means putting together a list of email addresses to send a newsletter to. Your list needs to be targeted to the niche or market you are in, this way you’ll have a better chance of making sales. For this reason when it comes to list building biggest doesn’t always mean best.

You should build a list that’s targeted and specific to your niche. If you put together a list of email addresses that are not interested in the niche you are in they are highly unlikely to buy the products you are promoting. If you’re in the dog training niche and you promote a product to do with cooking to your followers, you’re unlikely to make a lot of sales. If list size was directly proportional to the amount of money you earn; spammers would be the top earners online.

So what do you need to do to build a targeted list and earn money online? You must put together content specific to your niche and so gain the interest of your intended market. Then by use of an opt in box try and capture their email addresses. A good idea is to put your opt in box on an opt in page that has been optimized to gain subscribers. If you don’t know how to set up an opt in page a web designer can help you do it and you can earn money online.

For an excellent article by Neil Russell; The Net Cash King on creating a great opt in page go to: Creating and Optimizing An Opt in Page