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While you may think that having your own website is all that’s essential if your home based business is to succeed, any successful Internet marketing email home based business needs another asset just as much. What is it?

If you have a mailing list of people who have purchased a product or provided a response to one of your ads, with verifiable email addresses, you are in possession of something that will make you the envy of many Internet marketers. But it will take a while for you to build it. What are your best methods for getting a list big enough to set you up with a profitable Internet marketing email home based business?

1. Article Directories

If you want to build a list of email addresses genuinely interested in whatever your home base business is selling, write, or pay to have written, articles on your product. Then submit hem to article directories, where you‘ll be given a resource box at the end of each article. Use the resource box to include a newsletter signup, and if your article were good, you’ll get the email addresses of readers who’d like to follow up.

2. Free Reports

Most people can’t pass up a free offer related to something in which they are interested, so by writing and offering free reports about your products to those who join your mailing list you’ll be following in the footsteps of some very savvy Internet entrepreneurs. Just make sure the information in your free reports is current and accurate, because they may be the first impression you give to potential customers. You certainly don’t want them to be the last!
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