How to Build Your Email List Fast: 6 Proven Ways You Haven’t Thought Of
By Sarah
This book is dedicated to all the people who have helped me get to where I am today. Thank you for believing in me and my vision. I couldn’t have done it without you. I love you all!
Thank you to my parents, who have always been there for me, and to my husband, who has been my biggest cheerleader. I am so blessed to have you in my life. I also want to thank my children, who are the light of my life, and my nieces and nephews, who make me laugh every day.
Chapter One
HOW TO GET STARTED
Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to grow your business. It’s a great way to stay in touch with your customers and prospects, and it’s an easy way to keep your brand top of mind. In this book, you’ll learn how to build your own email list, and you’ll find out how to use email marketing to promote your products and services. You’ll also learn about the latest trends in email marketing and how you can use them to your advantage. This book will teach you how to:
– Grow your email list quickly and easily
– Use email to build relationships with your prospects and customers
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the different ways you can get started with email marketing. We’ll start with the basics, and then we’ll move on to the more advanced techniques. If you’re new to email marketing, this chapter will give you a good overview of what you need to know before you start building your own list. And if you’re already an email marketer, you may find this chapter to be a refresher on some of the things you already know, but haven’t used in a while. Either way, you’re sure to learn a few new tricks along the way!
THE BASICS OF BUILDING AN EMAIL LIST
If you want to build a successful email marketing campaign, you have to start with a solid email list. You need a list of people who are interested in your products or services, and who are willing to give you their email addresses so you can send them information about your business and your products. You can build your list in a number of different ways, and each method has its pros and cons. The best way to decide which method is right for you is to think about what you want your list to do for you.
1. Direct Mail
2. Social Media
3. Content Marketing
4. Email Marketing
Direct Mail
One of the oldest forms of marketing, direct mail is still a very effective way to get your message in front of your prospects. Direct mail is a physical piece of mail that you send to your prospects or customers. It can be anything from a postcard to a brochure to a catalog. When you send a piece of direct mail to someone, it’s called a direct mail piece. You may also hear it referred to as a mail piece or a mail campaign.
Direct mail can be a very cost-effective way to market your business, but it can also be a time-consuming process. You have to create the mail piece, design it, print it, package it, and send it to your customers or prospects. It takes a lot of time and effort, but the results can be worth it.
Social Media
Social media marketing is the practice of using social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ to drive traffic to your website or blog. The goal of social media is to get as many people as possible to see your posts, share them with their friends, and link back to your site. Social media can be very effective for driving traffic and building brand awareness, but there are also some drawbacks to using social media for marketing. For example, it can be difficult to measure the success of your social media marketing efforts. You don’t know how many people actually saw your posts or how many of them clicked on the links in your posts. You also can’t control what people say about you on social media, so it’s important to be careful with what you post and who you share your posts with.
You can use social media to build an email list by posting links to your blog or website on your social network pages. If people click on your links, they’ll be taken to a page on your site where they can sign up to receive your emails.
Content Marketing
Content marketing is a form of marketing that involves creating and sharing valuable, relevant content on a regular basis. Content marketing can take many different forms, including blog posts, ebooks, white papers, infographics, webinars, videos, podcasts, and social media posts. The great thing about content marketing is that it doesn’t cost you anything to create and share it, so you don’t have to worry about how much it’s going to cost you to get people to see it. The downside to content marketing, however, is that you can’t measure its success like you can with social media or direct mail.
Email Marketing
Email is the most widely used form of communication in the world. In fact, according to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), more than 90 percent of adults in the United States have an email address, and more than half of those people use email on a daily basis. Email marketing can be an extremely effective marketing tool if you know what you’re doing, and there are many different ways to use it to build and grow your list.
There are many reasons why email marketing is so effective. First of all, it gives you the opportunity to communicate with your audience in a personal way. People like to feel like they’re part of a community, and they like to know that someone is paying attention to them and what they have to say. Email allows you to do just that.
Another reason email marketing works so well is because it’s so easy to do. All you need is a computer, an Internet connection, and a way to collect email addresses from your audience. Once you have your list of email addresses, you can start sending them emails that are relevant to their interests and needs. You’ll be amazed at how quickly your list will grow when you start using email marketing to build your business.
HOW TO GET STARTED
Now that you know a little bit about the different types of marketing you can use to grow your email list, let’s take a closer look at how to get started. In this section, you’ll learn how to set up your email marketing software, and you’ll find out how to create your first email.
Setting Up Your Email Marketing Software
Email marketing software is the software you use to manage your email campaigns.