If you have just started out online and need some marketing tips the best tip I can give you is to start building a strong list of qualified subscribers and customers as soon as possible. It is one of the most fundamentally important things you can do for your business. Not only is it the cornerstone of your day-to-day business, says David Anderson but it is also an asset — something that is actually worth money when it comes to the value of your business. Any prospective buyer of a business will be interested in how big your customer base is (in other words your list). A good list will allow you to make money whenever you need it, for as long as you want, so if you haven’t already started building your list — do it now — it’s the one thing you can do today to create success and wealth for the future. Size isn’t everything You might think that the most valuable lists are the biggest — but that’s where you’d be wrong. A small list of the few thousand customers can easily out-earn an enormous list of over 500,000. The trick is to develop a list of qualified prospects and customers — not just everybody who has opted in to your list via your website. It’s all about quality, not size. Practically every marketing guru will agree that a list of 5,000 will keep you in the lifestyle of a millionaire — as long as it’s a quality list. Also, don’t forget that people with enormous lists end up working all hours and employing expensive staff just to keep up with delivering and maintaining a service. Big lists come with big headaches! Getting traffic to your website I will frequently be talking about marketing and generating traffic, so look out for those articles as they will give you plenty of ideas and introduce concepts you may not have heard of before. However, for now I can tell you that they are several mainstream ways of getting traffic to your site including, but not limited to: SEO to promote your website in the organic search engine listings Pay per click, such as Google ad words, Yahoo! search marketing and others Advertising via social media such as Facebook, Linkedin, Digg and so on Articles — aka giveaway articles or syndication Paid advertising such as banner ads and traditional off-line media Buying traffic, although I certainly don’t advocate this Blogs Video marketing such as via You Tube Viral marketing E-mail marketing Try to develop as many as you can in your business. I’ll be giving you more details about each of these strategies in the coming months…