How To Use 8 Easy Techniques To “Skyrocket Your Email List”
Are you new to list building or wish to skyrocket your email list? If you are not working or optimising your email list, then you have to start now. All of the social media platforms you are currently using do not care about you so you should start building your list daily. Apart from your blog, your email list is the only thing you own online. It is the only direct way in which you communicate with your subscribers and nurture a relationship that leads to sales or business deals.
A few years ago I got started with my online business and trying to find out how to grow the business online and get traffic and all that. I was so confused and had to learn a lot about the online world ( it is a very crowded and noisy place). One of these things I learned was email marketing, and I have consistently educated myself and tried to improve my knowledge about it
Here I will show you what I do to grow my email list and how I attain success with it. One quick question, How many email subscribers do you have? Have you ever considered starting to build your list and create a good relationship with all of yours subscribers? Even if you have just one subscriber so far because, with these easy tricks, you will be able to start building your list gradually.
Why is email marketing king? Think about your customers on social media? Are you aware that we do not have any control over them? With email, you have control over your subscribers hence it is king. You should set a benchmark for yourself that for every 100 people who visit your site, you should have at least two sign-ups from these.
How To Use 8 Easy Techniques To “Skyrocket Your Email List”
1. Make A Welcome Mat On Your Site
A welcome mat is the first thing any visitor sees immediately they visit your website. It is a full-screen call to action and will help to increase your conversion and email sign ups. It is a powerful way to collect email addresses on your site from all your visitors since it is the first thing they see without any distractions from your site and its content. You can use SumoMe to get this as they offer both a free and Pro version depending on your needs.
2. Set Up Smart Pop Ups
Setting up this is a smart way to collect email addresses from people who are about to leave your site. It will only show up when your visitors are about to leave your site. It is an ingenious way of getting information from those who have just visited your site even if they do not buy anything. Having their email address is a cool way of connecting with them later. You can easily integrate this using the List Building Tool from SumoMe. It helps you create pop-ups and even the welcome mat and much more.
3. Run Easy Testing For Big Results
Many people do not think or know how this can produce remarkable results. Make AB testing on both of your Mats or Pos Ups above and see which of them works best. You need to determine which of them increases your conversion and go for it. Make sure you do not change much on the testing version. Try changing just one thing on the Mat or Pop Up and see how it converts and you should continue testing till you find which performs best for you. It is super easy and imperative strategy for you to skyrocket your email list campaign or growth.
4. Get Traffic To Your Site
Getting traffic to your site means an increase in the number of people visiting your site hence more email Opt-Ins. Some of these ways to drive traffic to your site include,
- Give- Aways are an excellent way to get traffic to your site.
- Getting involved in online Forums like Reddit to drive traffic to your site. Have a presence where your niche or customers hang out and interact with them. You can turn them to clients and email subscribers too.
- Make use of all the groups you have joined on social media. That is groups on Facebook and LinkedIn for example. Most people join these groups and forget about them. Use these groups to interact with possible customers. Let them notice your presence and find values in what you share. It will help you drive traffic back to your website and possibly grow your email subscribers list too.
- Targeted Ads on Facebook can help you get traffic back to your site. It is also a brilliant way to turn traffic into active email subscribers and finally paying customers.
5. Use Social Media
- Create catchy offers on Facebook that require your audience to opt- in to claim them.
- You can also create targeted Leads Form Ads on Facebook and generate tonnes of email subscribers to your offers.
- Create a call to action button at the top of your Facebook page
- Leveraging Twitter Lead Ads and Website Clicks And Conversion from Twitter to get more subscribers and also drive traffic to your site.
- Alternatively, create a tweet on and pin to your profile on Twitter. It is trigger many retweets from your audience and subsequently more people exposed to your tweets.
- Add an Influencer in your blog post and tweet it to them hoping the will retweet back to their followers and increasing the reach of your tweet and attracting more subscribers
- Also include Lead Magnets on your LinkedIn page and get targeted Leads
- Add call to actions on your Youtube videos that lead to Opt-in pages.
6. Using Emails
- Creating and engaging email blast to an old and decaying list telling them to react or you will delete them from the list.
- Adding share buttons to your emails and encouraging those in your email list to share your emails with their friends, family and social media platform.
- Write high-quality emails with useful content to your email subscribers so they get value from it and never think of unsubscribing from your list
- Adding opt-ins or lead magnets to the signature of every email broadcast you make.
7. Prominent Opt-Ins On Your Website
You have to create prominent opt-in forms that stand out and are impossible for your visitors miss. It should have a prominent colour as compared to the colours on your site and do not hesitate to AB test them and see which works best. Try running a test campaign with several colours and options and analysis which of them works best. You want to capture as many email subscribers as possible from your website visitors. Endeavour that you have explicit opt-ins that gives your audience just one option.
8. Creating An Ebook
Creating an Ebook makes you stand out from the crowd and build authority in your niche. When in the process of making one, consider your target market, brainstorm on their burning questions and problems and provide solutions to these in your Ebook. Make sure it is packed with value so that they will be enticed to give in their information to have it for free. It is an excellent way to grow your email list especially if you target correctly and provide great solutions to their problems.
The journey of a Social Media Marketing Consultant / Blogger and Freelance Writer is one of constant learning and AB testing. You should always focus on what produces great results to your business especially when it concerns tips to skyrocket your email list. Your email list is vital to the growth of your business so you should focus more on it. It is my wish that the above tips will help you all grow and skyrocket your email list gradually. Do not forget that your subscribers may be future customers hence create great content to keep them and not scare them away.
I hope you did enjoy it and thanks for reading. Do you have questions? I will be glad to answer them below.
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