HOW CAN YOU BUILD A LIST? This is all well and good, but how exactly can you build your list? The first thing is to not make the mistake I made. Don't wait a full year worth of blogging before starting to build your list. Make sure you have an opt-in form on your blog and start collecting those email address contact points with your audience. However just using your blog to build your list is not enough. It's too slow. You need more leverage than this if you really want to ramp up your list growth quickly. Let me illustrate exactly how I grew my list from zero subscribers to over 15,000 in just two years with a little background chronology - November 2004: I start my blog on the topic of proofreading, which was the business I was running at the time. January 2005: I switch my blog over to the entrepreneurs-journey.com domain name and change the topic to entrepreneurship and Internet business. December 2005: After a year of blogging I have 1,000 RSS subscribers, but I realize I need to build an email list. January 2006: I add an opt-in form to my new blog design and create my first landing page at blogtrafficking.com to start building my list. December 2006: I end the year with 3,000 RSS readers and 3,000 email subscribers. At this point I'd like to clarify how painfully slow everything was going. That's two years of solid blogging and one year of email list building and I only had 3,000 subscribers on each medium. That's not a bad result of course, but it could have been so much more as I later found out if I just did a few things differently. In the year 2007 my list grew from 3,000 subscribers up to 15,000 subscribers. That's dramatic growth compared to the previous years. Did I reach a tipping point? No, I don't think that's the reason. What happened was I did something I should have done long ago - I released my own product - a training program membership site called Blog Mastermind, which you no doubt know about.