Your “list” is your database of people you can contact with your marketing messages and communications. Email marketing is the most common form of permission-based marketing, which means you must have permission to add people to your email marketing list, and permission to email them information. Email addresses should be obtained only by legitimate means like through opt-in and subscribe boxes on your website, or by specific request. This is why online marketing lists are often called opt-in lists.

It is difficult to talk about email marketing and not talk about list building. In fact, many experts make it seem as if building a big list is the only thing Internet entrepreneurs need to worry about. But when it comes to your list, does size really matter?

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You may hear some marketing experts say “It’s all about the size of your list.” But I disagree. While a large list gives you a large pool of people to market your services and products to, it isn’t ONLY about quantity. Yes, at several of the conferences I have attended, experts say that the tipping point for a truly successful email newsletter is 1,000 subscribers. But I am here to tell you that HUGE results can come much smaller lists, if your readers are engaged and you are actively working to build long-lasting relationships with your subscribers.

For example, when my client Melissa first came to me and asked me to help her figure out why she wasn’t getting the sales results she wanted out of her email marketing efforts, she was shocked to hear my recommended course of action – To STOP focusing on list building.

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