The buzz this week has been on starting and maintaining a mailing list for your website or blog. At least that’s been the buzz in the circle of sites and blogs I visit; your mileage may vary.

John Chow covered the topic in his post “Why Your Blog Needs a Newsletter.” By the way, if you decide to sign up with Aweber, please go through the link on my blog. John Chow doesn’t need the extra affiliate referral. He’s making over $30,000 per month on his blog already. Here’s my Aweber link again.

You’ll note that many of the big money online gurus all have mailing lists. Maybe you’re even subscribed to some of them. That’s where many of them can make money quickly. Let’s say you have 5,000 subscribers and you send them an offer for your new eBook or program or whatnot for $97. If just 2% of them buy it, you’ve just made $9,700 sending out a single eMail! That’s why list building is so important.

Even if you don’t have a product to sell, if you send, for example, a newsletter to your subscribers, you could sell ads in that newsletter. You could even try ads for affiliate programs where you make some money if any of your subscribers buy.

If you don’t already have a mailing list for your website or blog, it’s definitely something you should look into. I’ve been planning on one for at least a couple weeks now, and finally set it up today. It is for The Thrifty Entrepreneur blog. You can sign up below.

I’m going to see how well that goes, and look into doing more lists on other blogs if things go well.

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