Episode
How to Build an Email List From Scratch
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- The Email Marketing Show
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- Feb 18, 2026
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- 1089
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Summary
If you want to build a serious online business, you need an email list. It is the one channel you truly own. Social media platforms can change their algorithms, limit your reach, or disappear entirely. When someone joins your email list, however, you have a direct and reliable way to communicate with them whenever you choose. The challenge is that everyone starts at zero. No subscribers. No audience. Just an idea and a blank dashboard. The good news is that building an email list is not complicated when you understand the right steps. Here is how to build it properly from the ground up. Useful Episode Resources FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). Grab your FREE list here . Join our FREE Facebook group If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches . We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to. Try ResponseSuite for $1 This week's episode is sponsored by ResponseSuite.com , the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. Try it out for 14 days for just $1 . Join The Email Hero Blueprint Want more? Let…