How I Built an Email List of 40,000 Subscribers

Yesterday, The Religion Teacher email list passed the 40,000 subscriber mark. It is hard to believe that many people sign up to get emails from me or that there have been almost 60,000 people total who have signed up if you count those that unsubscribed.

Here are a few of the things that helped the most in building such a large list:

Start early: Everyone says this but it’s true. I wish I had started an email list during those first two years when I was blogging at The Religion Teacher. The...