You know the riddle, “How do you eat an elephant?”. The answer to it is “One bite at a time.”

I was reminded of it as I was reading a discussion on my Facebook Page, What is the BEST way for a service professional to build their list?

Here is my response to it:

“I don’t think there is one best way for every service professional to build their list.

There are many different ways to build your list – teaching free teleseminars, article marketing, blogging, search engine optimization and many more.

I recommend picking one that resonates with you the most and mastering it. Then, once you know how to use it for inviting people to your list, continue using it, while trying out other techniques.”

It won’t work if you start using ALL of the techniques at once. You will immediately get confused, and abandon the idea of building the list altogether. It is much better to start one bite at a time, the same way you would eat an elephant.

Here is what I mean. Let’s say you picked article marketing technique to get started with. Here is what you will need to do:

1. Find good topics for your articles by doing research and finding topics that your target market is interested in. Create a list of topics.

2. Pick one of the topics to write an article, keep the rest of them for future articles.

3. Create an outline of the article, doing this will make it much easier to write your articles.

4. Write the article, edit it.

5. Create an eye-catching headline, the better your headline, the more readers you will get for your article.

6. Create a Resource Box that invites your readers to subscribe to your newsletter.

7. Post your article to article directories.

Repeat steps 2-7 for the rest of the topics that you have research. Once you have written enough articles and mastered article marketing, you may move on to the next technique, such as blogging, free teleseminars, social networking, etc.

More blog posts to help you build your list:

– How To Invite People To Your List In A Non-Salesy Way

– How To Create An Irresistible Gift

– List Building Secret No One Is Telling You About

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