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How do I get people to Opt-In to my internet Marketing Email List?

I currently run a small internet marketing blog and I have an email autoresponder with which I offer a free 5 day mini course on my subject matter. The subject matter is: Internet Marketing and making money online. How would you suggest I promote the actual opting in to my email list to build a list of prospects etc.

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1. My suggestion is to find some blogs that have relevant topics and then reach out to the blogger. Ask them to review your material and if they like it, they'll talk about it and once value has been established for the mini course, people will come and register for it. If you can't get someone to do this for you for free, try payperpost.com and pay a few bloggers to review it in order to get you started. Hope that helps!
2. You have to get out there with your links. Try Google Adwords Try forums Try classifieds Give your offer away as someone else's bonus Buy a space on someone's site. Start a wesite here..see example: http://www.squidoo.com/EarnaLiving
3. You should have your own domain name. Create links to your optin page there. Also, install a forum as well. Get people talking at your site. Use other forums to create traffic to your site. Set up your profile/sig file to link to your optin list. Use blogs, safe lists, traffic exchanges, banner exchanges. Offer an incentive, give people a reason to enter their name into your optin list site. Tweak your site with SEO. Get it to the best SEO you can get. Add your site to online clasifieds, directoris, and search engines. You can domost of this stuff for free. Except the getting your own domain name. You can get it cheap and make it self funding by using GDI Global Domains International. You can re-sell the service while promoting your own business at the same time. They give you a domain name, webspace to host your site, and email accounts for very cheap. They don't put ads on your site. It's yours for whatever you like. http://www.homeforwork.ws/main.html
4. The best way to sign people up and keep them coming is useful, original content that is always fresh and updated. In fact, if you're talking about making money online, I'd hint at ways that you could do it which are easy or at the very least intriguing. Since you're touting yourself as a subject matter expert, you need to demonstrate that what you have to say is valuable and they can benefit from it. Success stories are good for this and will improve your chances that they will stay tuned. Other ways to build opt-ins are referrals (ask subscribers to refer a friend), an incentive of some kind, purchase an email list (this is kind of a gray area), or find a partner who might already have a decent list and sponsor them. Also, since you run a blog, are you fully syndicated? There's a lot of chatter out there and at the very least you should participate in boosting your blog's reputation.