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Yesterday, we told you that you’d need to have a big mailing list in order to be very profitable in your online business, which you can save lots of costs on online advertisements. But to build a large mailing list, you’ll need lots of efforts and you will not know where to start as a beginner.

Thanks to Gideon Shalwick, who has published a video that shows you his top 7 tips of setting up a mailing list. The video is included at the end of this blog post. The 7 tips are summarized as follows, in case you have not had too much time to view video.

1. Increase value of the thing you give away As we’ve told you to get someone to sign up, you have to give away something such as a free e-book, a useful software or reports. So you’ll have to find a way how may the things you’re gonna give away useful.

2. Have a news letter sign-up on your blog Just like what we’ve done on this blog, now you can sign up to our news letter, which we use AWeber service to deliver the newsletter to you!

3. Have lightbox hover on your blog – While you’re configuring your Aweber subscription web form, choose the “lightbox hover”, as this will at least double your opt-in rate as what we’ve just done here.

4. Use ultimate footer ad – Use pop up ad at the footer that draws attentions of others to sign up.

5. Get sign-up from blog commentators – use WordPress plugin called Optin Comments to get your commentators to sign up.

6. Get signups from RSS readers Add to feed footer to get your subscribers to sign up

7. Get signups from Facebook Create a Facebook Fan Page, add your subscription form in your fan page and turns those fans into your mailing list subscribers.

And watch the video below for more information!