Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

Building an Opt-in List
One of the most important parts of an online business is to develop ways to grow and keep in contact with your visitors/customers. I'll admit I haven't worked nearly as hard as I should on this. My newsletter subscription list still is in its early phases, but is growing steadily.

I've done really only two promotions to boost my list, though, and both have been very successful. I submitted my newsletter to a good number of ezine directories and got a sudden rush of subscriptions right after I submitted.

And an even bigger influx of subscribers have come from my article submissions, approximetely 30% of my current subscribers.

I've used a couple of tools to speed both submission processes and I recommend them both. Ezine Announcer was fast and easy to use for submitting my newsletter to the ezine directories and Article Announcer has been outstanding for submitting articles to article directories and lists. I've found them to cover everything I need to make promoting my site and ezine quick and simple in the limited time I have.

Give them a look if building your traffic and increasing your subscriptions is a priority. (And if it isn't a priority, it's time to rethink the priorities for your business!)

I'll talk a little more tomorrow night about some specific strategies I used to boost subscriptions with articles.
Jeff