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One common element in all successful squeeze pages is that they offer considerable value upfront. They don’t make hollow promises and hope that visitors will fall for it and sign up. Rather, they offer very specific items in exchange for the visitor’s email address.

If you want to have a successful email list, you will do this, too. So what options do you have?

Create a Report and Give it Away for Free

One of the most commonly used strategies for getting people to subscribe is simply offering them a free report. Generally, these reports are somewhere between 10 and 20 pages long and provide useful information about some facet of the niche in question.

For instance, let’s say your niche is golf. You might create a guide that tells visitors how to shave 10 strokes off of their game using a specific training regimen. This is something that visitors will find enticing. And once you make it clear that the guide is free and that they can opt out if they’re not satisfied, you’ll have many people who are willing to subscribe.

Take this concept and apply it to your own niche. It doesn’t matter what you sell; creating a guide and giving it away for free is virtually always a great way to build a large list.

To make things easier, you don’t even need to create the guide yourself. If you’re not an expert in your own niche, that’s fine (maybe you’re just good at marketing or administrative tasks). You can always hire someone else to research and write your short guide.

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Some people look upon time management the same way they would a crossword puzzle, a short story, or a math problem. Puzzles, stories, and math problems have a defined beginning, a middle, and an end that is clearly identified. While the process of time management certainly does have a beginning, there is no real end to the process. It is ongoing, much like the way that a river continues to flow when there are no dams or other impediments to stop its flow.

Once you have created a solid beginning to your time management mindset and approaches, you will continue to refine them for the rest of your life. That is, you will do so if you do not make the mistake of assuming you have learned all there is to know about the subject.

Just as time continues to flow, the process of time management continues to evolve. Part of the reasons for this is that the world continues to change. As new situations arise or old situations are changed in some manner, methodologies and approaches that worked very well a few years ago may not be so effective today. Hence, the need to create, learn and implement new ways of applying the basic principles of time management.

Not everyone who claims to be an excellent time manager grasps this basic understanding. They continue trying to fit new situations and settings into the same old mold they’ve used successfully in the past. Often, the result is much like attempting to shove a square peg into a round hole. It simply doesn’t fit and slows progress down to a crawl.

In order to keep evolving in your understanding and use of time management, you must prevent yourself from getting too attached to any one way of doing things. There must always be a sense of openness to new ideas, new strategies and new ways to handle different tasks. Without this openness, there is a good chance that some very productive approaches will slip past, leaving you unprepared to deal with a number of situations.

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95. Alltop

Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop syndicates top stories about a vast variety of topics so submit your site to it and many will find you through it.

96. DMOZ

DMOZ is a highly esteemed directory and getting listed on it, your site holds a lot of weight in the search engines. Every new link to DMOZ is manually reviewed, and few are accepted, so you may or may not be included but it is still totally worth a try.

97. Put Your Website Everywhere

Get your wesite URL known by doing a little Guerilla Marketing. Some ideas: Give out business cards with an incentive for people to visit your site on them and leave them everywhere. You can also get a decal of your URL for your car. Do whatever it takes to get people to your site!

98. Ask your Readers for Feedback

Don’t be afraid to ask for opinions from people about what they think of your site because the better you can create your site to be, the more visits you will get over time from repeat visitors.

99. Track your Rank in the Search Engines

Check out the free Rank Checker firefox plugin to regularly check your rank in Google. In this way, you can track your results and make efforts to improve your site ranking. Market Samurai also has a rank checker tool.

100. Do not install ads

Popularize then monetize. Before adding ads, first ensure that you already have a steady amount of traffic and repeat visitors to your site because ads send traffic from your website elsewhere on the web, and once your visitors click away they may never return.

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Why do people offer teleseminars? Sure, some of them want to get the word out about their causes, but most hosts know that teleseminars are a great way to make money, and some of them make a very nice living with their teleseminars. Here are just some of the ways you can make money with your teleseminar:

Charge for registration. Charge people for access to your teleseminar. How much you can charge ranges from a few dollars to thousands of dollars; obviously, the higher the rate, the higher the perceived value needs to be. I would suggest that you keep the registration fees on the lower end of the scale when you first get started. It will give you a chance to prove your value to your market before you ask them to invest huge amounts of cash upfront.

Charge for the transcripts and/or recordings. You can generate income by making the initial call free, and then creating an “upsell” and charging for the audio recording or the transcript of the call, preferably both. How much you can charge will depend on your market, the content, and the length of the teleseminar.

Here's a special strategy: When people register, you can invite them to buy the recording/transcript at a pre-event special discount, and then raise the price after the call has taken place. This sort of pricing strategy provides an incentive to act "now."

Sell your own products. You can also sell your own products either towards the end of the teleseminar or even after the call, in a follow-up email. Make sure those products are related to the call, useful, and targeted to your market.

Sell an affiliate product. Don't have your own product, or want to expand your options? Offer your attendees a “special offer” on a related affiliate product, perhaps one created by your guest expert. Again, you can sell during the call or in a follow-up email. And for an even better conversion rate, offer a special bonus if they act quickly.

Turn the contents of the call into an ebook or a special report. When you conduct a teleseminar, don't think that's the end of it! Transcribe it (or have someone else transcribe it) and turn it into a special report or an ebook. You may not even need to do much formatting if you hire a professional transcriptionist and tell him or her how to format it.

Bundle your calls together. Think creatively about new ways to package and present your content. Take a series of related teleseminar calls and bundle the audios together into a larger product for sale to your market.

Turn your calls into physical products. Of course you can also turn your calls into physical products. The audios will make fine CD sets and the transcriptions can be turned into physical books thanks to Amazon's new publishing options. Then again, you could also put the transcripts into binders, maybe along with action sheets, and command a much higher price as you sell your combined set as a home study course.