Most Internet Marketers know this phrase like the back of their hands: The money is in the list. Many people in the

IM niche think they need a big list to make a decent amount of money online. This is an almost established way of thinking

and I'm certain it will pop up in your mind sooner or later. The biggest problem with this way of reasoning is that it

stops people from building a list for their online business.

People think they need a list of at least 10,000 or even 15,000 members before they can make a decent income. And when they realize that it's not going to be something easy to do they simply stop trying to build a list.

I can tell you right here and now that this is absolutely not true. There's a case study where an Internet Marketer

with a tiny list of 1,236 subscribers made an amazing $15,000 from that list.

How did he do that? How can you sell $15,000 worth of products to only 1,236 potential buyers? There are a few criteria that have to be met before you can make money like that. First of all, you need to have a close relationship with the

members of your list. It means you'll have to earn their trust. Secondly, they have to be well informed about the products and services available on the Internet and they have to hear it from you. Last but not least they must be willing to buy an expensive item from you.

In the case study I mentioned earlier the big ticket item was $1,000 a piece. So as a list owner all he had to do was selling

15 copies of that item to make $15,000 gross. Since he was selling it as an affiliate, his take was probably around $7,500 (50%). That's still not bad for sending just one email to your list.

Let's go back to the size of that list. Just 1,236 members, a little bit more then a 1,000 subscribers. Can I ask you a question: can you build a list of 10,000 subscribers? If you're new to list building, probably not. But can you

build a list of 1,000 members? Or, to be a tiny bit bolder, say 1,500? There is no doubt in my mind that everybody can build a list of

1,000 subscribers.

So how are we going to do that? You will have to build a squeeze page and put it on your website. Then you

will have to drive visitors to the squeeze page and gobble up as many subscribers as you can. You can drive traffic

to your squeeze page very fast with paid advertising, like Google Adwords. But if buying clicks is not a viable solution for you, you certainly should try article marketing. Suppose you write and submit one article a day, which is very doable, and you stick to this scheme for at least a few months. For most people submitting the articles to the

right directories is tedious and boring but you can spend your time more wisely and outsource this work to an article submission service.

It might take some time to see any significant result with article marketing, as this method of driving traffic to your

website needs some time to get into gear. But after a while these articles will pull in a flood of visitors to your site and you

will see a constant flow of subscribers added to your list on a daily basis.

I think it's fair to say that you don't need a huge list to make a nice income. But what are the possibilities with a huge list?. Think about it. If you can make $15,000 with 1,236 subscribers, how much would that be if you

had a list of 10,000, 50,000 or even 100,000 members? You do realize that this can be done with article marketing, don't you?

Just keep writing those five articles a week for a whole year and you will see some staggering results.

To put things in perspective, even the so called gurus of today had to pull in their first visitor and waited anxiously for their first sale.

It all begins with making that first effort. So why don't you start today and build a big list with article marketing?