Most experienced Internet marketers would tell you that a mailing list is even more important than having a product to sell or promote.To a new internet marketer who wants to make job-quitting amounts of money and significant disposable income online, the mailing list is the business, in my opinion. It is the number one way of putting hungry buyers in front of product(s). The most important thing to realize is that you can expose the same list to new offers over and over again (within reasonable limits) – and make money every time!In fact a mailing list is so powerful that you will find that product and service owners need mailing list owners far more than the other way round. This is because the mailing list owners have targeted prospects that these potential business partners can sell to.That to me is the best part. If you own a well-nurtured mailing list, you can make money from selling or promoting other peoples’ products. There are many ways you can do this, amongst others: selling advertising space, promoting products as an affiliate, or through a joint venture. When you strike the right Joint Venture deal, you could see recurring commissions for many months or years to come. Just from one campaign! And you can do it over and over again…This is exactly why many of the most successful and largest web businesses on the Internet today often establish the mailing list (or subscribers) first – before the product is even ready.The social networking sites like Facebook, Friendster, and MySpace, which connect friends and potential friends from around the world through free membership access, are very compelling cases in point. They do not need to make money directly from their huge subscriber lists, but do fabulously well selling advertising space and partnering with other big large merchants and businesses.The attractiveness of these social networking giants’ subscriber lists to Joint Venture partners is why every Internet marketer should build a subscriber base, or ‘list’ as we call it. Sometimes we make so much short term ‘easy money’ with ‘bum marketing’ that we forget (or neglect?) to do the one simple thing that actually makes earning an online living much easier – capturing email addresses.As they say, “the money is in the list”, so just build it…