Article marketing is one of the easiest but powerful tools that affiliate marketers can use to money online by selling affiliate products. But do you know that articles can also be used as a list building tool? In fact one can easily build a powerful opt-in list by leveraging the power of article marketing. How? Read on.

One can easily build a powerful mailing list by writing articles and utilizing the power of article marketing. But before starting, one must know what is article marketing? Article marketing is not simple writing articles and posting them to all available article directories or publishers. In fact it is about how you use creatively crafted articles, that includes proper keywords and information, to become an authority figure in your niche.

So, be creative while writing articles for your article marketing campaigns and don’t simply promote products. People want information. Give it to them through your killer articles and win their heart or respect. This is how you can become an authority figure. If people found your information helpful, they will definitely look at links on your bio-box or resource box.

Yes, it is the author resource box or bio-box which is going to help you in creating a good opt-in list. In your resource box, you normally include a brief detail about yourself or your business and a brief elevator pitch with one or two URL(s). Now, what you need to do is put a link to your your mailing list’s landing page. The mailing list’s landing page will ask your visitor to provide their name and email address, which will in turn help you build your opt-in mailing list at no cost.

If your articles are really good, publishers of ezines and bloggers will republish your articles together with your resource box for their readers and subscribers. So, your articles will go viral without any extra effort from your side. And interested users will soon start to join your mailing list via your mailing list landing page. Now don’t ask me what to do with you opt-in mailing list subscribers!