What is the fastest Way to build a list?

Offer something that a lot of people would want such as a free software product.

It entirely depends on what YOU want to use and it also changes from people to people and squeeze page to squeeze page and also niche to niche.
The theme is more or less the same, give something people would want to opt in for.. But I think the challenge comes to actually get people to visit your site in the first place.

The WSO answer is good because it focuses on traffic. You could have the best offer in the world, but if noone sees it, no one opts in. Spend as much time as possible driving traffic. Just one of many factors, but the hardest for me.

I am just starting out my first 'real' list and the way I have started to build my list is simple and outlined below.

I created a free report on something I know about (VERY important)
I then created a squeeze page including a quick ecover I knocked up
Currently I am offering the chance to reserve a copy of the report and recieve it 2 days before anyone else.
I am using Facebook, Twitter, Forums and my personal blog to traffic people to the squeeze page.

Thus far I have been having alot of success and this is currently spurring my on to start looking at other ways to drive traffic.

Watch this space for any updates

My favorite way to do it was to put up a free offer in the digital point forums with a link to my squeeze page and put up a free WSO. This worked out great for me and I got my first hundred subscribers within a day or two.

Well like all my other fellow warriors mentioned, you need to have a good FREE product that you are going to give away. I assume since you are on the list building stage you already know how to drive traffic? As that needs to be mastered firts before trying to build a list

Yeah, offering a valuable product for free would entice people to sign up with your list.
Products like, softwares, ebooks, instructional videos etc.. Something like other people has to pay for to get on other sources, but is offered for free at your site so long as you sign up for the list.

My favorite technique for building the list is using contests. contest not only get people to join your list, but they also get people to the share the contest and get more people to join your list. For instance, I had a contest to give away a hat that was only $45 I got over 400 people to join the list now do not have to do worthy any work whatsoever. I spent may be $40 and Facebook ads and that was it. And not only did i get 400 people on my e-mail list, I also got almost 200 people my Facebook page, a bunch of content written for me and a huge spike of traffic.

One of my favorite ways to build a list is using 100% instant commission offers.
It is usually much easier to get people to mail for these types of offers because they don't have to wait to get paid.

Make sure that you spend some time and find someone to help you get some initial conversion numbers.

The easier that you can make it for affiliates.. ie) premade emails and banners will also go a long way with potential jv partners.

This gets you a higher quality list, that has already purchased one of your products.

Lance

Assuming you already have your free ebook/video and your squeeze page set up you can also purchase solo ads from people with large lists and have them mail your promo. Make sure their list fits what you are offering and that they have a good reputation. If you do research you can see their reviews.

You can also do adswaps, both in the joint venture section of this forum as well as others. I also recommend going the WSO route, you will have to pay the posting fee but if you have a good offer you can get several subscribers over 2-3 days.

i use video and seems to work well. Give them a few tips and create curiosty. That way you will get teh optin.

But I would say, its not about building a list fast..its just about building a list. When I actually starting building some sort of a list online things pretty much snowballed. So stop putting it off...build that list and send people good quality info...it will change your business forever. I promise. The quicker you do it, the more money you will make.

One of my friends here in OZ makes about 2000 bucks a month and he only has about 800 people on his list. But when you see the emails he sends, people trust him and buy at the drop of a hat. Now that list is powerful. But shows you what is achievable.

Just focus on building that list.

Well, I'm sure everyone knows but JV is the number one to build the FASTEST way to build your list. But that can be hard. The next best thing is buying a solo ad. I've bought a few and got 300-500 optins per blast. Not bad, huh?

Jazzy

Buy it.

A lot of people say "Give stuff away" - but this is the internet, many things are free, and free is pointless if people can't find it.

When I started in eCommerce, I went to all of my competitors and gave them a deal. Big and small, eBay sellers, little site owners, essentially if you sold something similar to mine, I wanted to buy your list. Many people were actually more than happy to sell you their list of contacts once they felt that you weren't going to rip people off or something, but building a small relationship was necessary. I did give out free products, but money was the most common interest among people who had big lists.

Then, I compiled my purchased list. I sent out a couple simple offers and e-mails to get people to opt in, and this gave me a responsive list. I even added a bunch of these people to facebook.

Within a week, I had a list of about 4,000 people that I paid probably $80 for. Sure, it isn't the hundreds of thousands people claim to have in their list, but after I gave out a couple coupons, I was good and my list grew and my sales greatly increased.

Fajeeb, I'm also totally fascinated by that as well. I'd love to hear more.

Fastest ways to build a good list is for you to know what extract customer you need if you know that well,All you will do than is go to google.com and look for free eBook e.g "how to make fast cash online in 48hours" re-brand it and use it as a free stuff to download in your website. how to get traffic i can hear you asked , facebook,twitter,forum and more many.
Hope is help,

Its good creating a WSO or pay for solo ads if your in the IM niche for building a quick list, but if you are in the non-IM niche you may struggle to find ways. However I would recommend creating fan pages and pay $5 to fiverr for loads of invites. PPC is also another quick way of getting results but may need lots of trial and error before you create an ad that can convert well.

Offer free ebook and service = the best free there available. If your ebook is good then it will spread like crazy and give you lots reputation + subscribers.

The two fastest ways I know to create a list of buyers is:

Solo Ads, and the other is affiliates.

Franck

Beside contest, freegive away and etc. You need a kick ass landing page!

I think the fastest way is to get started. It might sound silly but even in the few days since you posted this thread you could have already got a squeeze page up and started your list building efforts. It isn't hard - really it isn't. It's all about taking the step and getting started.

Work on building traffic. The more people that you visit, the greater number of people are likely to sign up for your newsletter.