In the list building model, you are generally sending traffic to a lead collection page, which generally offers your visitor some free gift for subscribing to your email list, then sending your list traffic itself to your sales pages once they have opted in to your list. I call this the leveraged traffic model, because, as a function of being able to send your list traffic to multiple pages in the future, you can gain more traffic over time by using the list building model. Of course, the list building model can be used in conjunction with any of the web business models; the list building model is more about leveraging traffic than anything else.

So what are the first practical steps to getting your web business of the ground?

These are the first things you need to do:

1) Get a domain name

2) Get web hosting

3) Get an autoresponder (to automatically email your opt in email list)

4) Put a squeeze page on your web site

5) Find or create a free giveaway product for your squeeze page

6) Write a series of emails to send to your email list

7) Send traffic to your web site / squeeze page

These are the first steps to getting your web business off the ground. These are the bare minimum activities that you have to do, just to get started.

Once you have completed these steps, your next steps will involve:

1) Learning to monetize your list and your web site, via your products or others

2) Studying your email list conversion rate numbers to improve each of your campaigns

3) As you learn, continue to create new products or new web sites to grow larger with

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1200 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.