5 Email List Building Secrets Revealed!
1.) Offer free stuff.
Many people would not mind exchanging their email addresses for something useful that can help them solve a problem or handle a certain concern. Hence, by offering to send freebies to their emails, you easily acquire more names to build your email list with. Examples of ideal freebies are self-help e-books, free newsletter subscriptions, and a freebie for every product purchase they make.
2.) Write articles that are free for publishing.
Another effective tactic is writing articles that are free for publishing as long as the visitor officially requests for permission. Your site should have a request form where they will be required to enter their email addresses, names and other details.
3.) Make your visitors see the benefits of signing up.
Many people are hesitant to sign up for anything because they do not want any more spam in their emails. On your signup page or landing page, justify to your prospects that your e-zines or newsletters will not be a waste of their time and are not just some more spam to accumulate in their inboxes. Many people are often loaded with too much information that they grow tired of reading emails and just choose which ones seem new and interesting. Therefore, your newsletters must be of fresh content and something the prospect will find informative and helpful. Provide testimonials from old subscribers or even samples of the older issues.
4.) Use the basic search engine optimization strategies
See to it that all written content in your website are embedded with the correct keywords so that when people search for reference materials and information about subjects pertinent to your content, the search engines can easily find your articles and direct readers to your site. Be careful though, because too much appearance of the same keywords can be considered as keyword "stuffing" and you might even get penalized for it. Remember also to rename web page titles. Most internet marketers do not realize that web page titles are usually something like "824%_88.html" or "page1.html". If you fail to rename them, search engines will not be able to locate your articles easily.
5.) Ask visitors to help bring more people to your site.
Ask your visitors to assist you in getting more people to subscribe. Provide "Invite More Friends" options on your site and prompt visitors to send invite emails to friends and business colleagues. By having your visitors enter the email addresses of the recipients-to-be, you accumulate a lot of names you can use to build your list. To motivate them to invite more people, give away some kind of prize to the one who gets the most number of friends to subscribe.