1. The first thing you must do is get a system in place to build your list. This seems so basic, yet it is amazing how many websites you go to that have no way to build their list.

We are talking about having a lead capture form on every page that your website or blog has on it. You will not need a lot of information from your prospect to follow up with them.

You really want to keep it simple, because the easier you make it for your prospect to subscribe to your list, the more of them that will do it. Therefore you really only need their email address and first name to start following up with them.

For this reason every sign up form must contain a short piece of information telling them exactly what you're going to give them in exchange for them giving you their e-mail address and first name. This realy has to be something valuable that would make a person want to subscribe to your list.

The other part of this system is to use a quality auto responder and follow up with it. You should have a way to deliver your information to your prospect on a consistent basis and already have a preset series of e-mail messages ready to go.

This allows you to really automate your business which is one of the secrets to making money online today.

Another part of this system is to build various landing pages also known as splash pages, lead capture pages or squeeze pages. You really only need one, but the benefit of promoting more than one music gives you an opportunity to test which one is working the best.

2. Once you have your system in place, the most important thing that you can do now is to drive targeted traffic to your site or lead capture pages. Initially you need to master one form of getting traffic to your site.

This may take you several hundred hours to learn how to do properly, but you must be committed to this if you want to build a list and make more money in the future. You can combine paid advertising with free or nearly free advertising to get the same results.

This is 2 list building and money making secrets that will definitely help you build a profitable business and a long term one as well.