This post is going to be short and to the point.

We received this question from a fresh faced newbie email marketer the other day.

How can I build an opt-in list (fast)? 

We see this question or variations of it all the time. People super-eager to kick-start their email marketing campaigns. Sometimes companies even ask us if we provide them with email subscriber lists (the answer to that one is no).

And in all the cases our answer to "How can I build a double opt-in email list - fast?" follows along the path to opt-in prosperity as mapped out below.

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I was buzzing around Quora recently when we came across this question:

Is email marketing or twitter more effective to reach potential users?

And well - we couldn't resist chiming in with our insights.

But when I looked at the question, the "Actual" question and the real issue that this individual was really bumping up against I knew that this wasn't going to be a battle of which marketing channel has the best ROI. The topic turned out to be a problem a lot of businesses face each and every day.

So below I've tweaked and expanded on my take.

It's an important topic. One that I even addressed in a Q&A session at an internet marketing event I was a featured panelist at. Especially with all the buzz and hype revolving around social media marketing over the last few years. 

So here goes...

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In this week's edition of the MyBizMailer Marketing Minute you'll discover if The Gap's email marketing strategy is too aggressive, an Epic resource to practically become a conversion expert overnight, how a single button tripled revenue and more...

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Wow. This update has been a long time coming. We've been chipping away at the core of MyBizMailer and one of the major changes we wanted to do was update our Autoresponders.

Well I'm proud to announce that as of today Autoresponders 2.0 has been released (insert ticker tape parade here).

With autoresponders you can really put your email marketing on autopilot.

Right now there are four main autoresponder sending options that you can put into use right now.

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