Just decided to get an autoresponder account and build a list? Or maybe you already have one and you are scratching your head on how to get subscribers. So what is one of the fastest ways to start building your list?

Well, I have been there and it’s frustrating to see just a trickle of people joining your list despite putting up attractive optin pages where you offer some free reports. It’s all very well creating compelling optin pages but if nobody visits then they might as well not exist at all.

So how do you build a list if you can’t get anyone to visit your website or optin page?

Well, one of the quickest and easiest ways to build a list is by participating in giveaway events. All you have to do is give away a downloadable product such as an ebook, software, or graphics package and in return people sign up to your list.

These giveaway events are promoted heavily so traffic won’t be a problem if you can offer something that is fresh and new – not the same old stuff that everybody has seen a thousand times before.

If you give away a quality product then you can expect many hundreds of new subscribers joining your list in a matter of days. In fact the first one I ever participated in brought me over 500 new subscribers in a couple of weeks and I still get a few more every week even now.

Of course, you need to find or create a product to give away, maybe create a nice ebook graphic, an optin page and download page and set up your autoresponder as well, but a few hours work can bring big results. And you can add a one-time offer page after someone has signed up to make a little money too!

However, if you can’t find a product to give away then with a little work you can rewrite some PLR articles and create a report from them. To make your report unique you could use content rewriter software but some of them I have tried churn out indecipherable rubbish or at best poor grammar.

The bottom line is that when rewriting PLR there’s simply no way that a robotic piece of software can turn out acceptable English. Maybe one day it will happen but not any time soon. But there is software available that can help you to rewrite private label rights products and still retain good grammar and style.

If you enjoy rewriting articles the hard way that’s fine, but if you don’t then you’ll be glad to know about an amazing little tool I just discovered. It’s called WordFlood and was created by Brandon Tanner, and it’s one of the most powerful tools that an article writer could own.

The thing is, WordFlood is not just another “dumb” content spinner. Instead, the program produces content that people will actually *want* to read! And it does so very quickly!

You really have to see it in action in order to truly appreciate just what WordFlood is capable of. Luckily, you can do just that. You can download a free, fully functional 2-week trial from the link below.

WordFlood Free Trial

Why not download and use it on some PLR that’s gathering dust on your hard drive, and create your own unique report that you can then submit to a giveaway event and build your list quickly?

Or if you are not building a list just yet, simply use it to create new articles that you can submit to article directories and get free traffic to your website?

Once you see how much time this little tool is capable of saving you, you’ll wonder how you ever got by without it! Whatever you use it for, it will pay for itself in no time at all.

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I recently got an email from a list that I am subscribed to which, to say the least, got me pretty mad at the underhand tactic used to keep me subscribed. This is the first time I have seen this method used and it goes against all best email practises.

As you know, submitting articles to article directories, aka bum marketing, is a good way of getting traffic to your website. When I first started creating my websites I wrote many articles to start the traffic rolling in and I still use this tactic today as it works.

Article directories require you to be subscribed to their list as part of the deal and some use this to send you product offers which I can’t really argue with as it’s what most people would do.

After getting to the end of one recent email which was touting the latest product launch I read the following lines.

You have recived (sic) this email in that as a registered author with [NAME DELETED] you have agreed thereto.

Should you no longer wish to receive these messages you can delete your entire author account, INCLUDING ALL YOUR ARTICLES, by replying to this email with the word “unsubscribe” in the subject line.

So what this means is that if I had the temerity to unsubscribe from this list then all my articles will be deleted as well.

This is a quite threatening statement, akin to blackmail, which goes right against the best email practise of building a relationship with your list. I ask you, what kind of relationship can develop by bullying your subscribers into staying on your list?

So what should I do?

Stay on the list and keep my articles on the directory?

Unsubscribe and have all my articles removed from this article directory?

Well, on a matter of principle,what I am going to do is unsubscribe and see if the threat is actually carried out. Even if my articles are removed I doubt if there would be any effect as this particular article directory is not that important.

The moral of this story?

Respect the subscribers on your list and they will respect you.

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