How To Build An Email List?
I will be the first person to say, “I did not build an email subscriber list.” It was boring, to me and I felt it was unnecessary. I’m not going to ask people to sign up for an email list. That would mean that I would have to send out emails every so often. That’s more on my to-do list of blogging.
But I will tell you that was one of the mistakes I made early on. It is true what they say, “it(the money) is in the list.” Don’t be like me. Listen build your list today. And I will walk you through it step by step.
What is an email list?
An email list is a group of people that willingly signed up for your website. No matter if you have a blog or just a website. Do you ever see those forms that ask you to add your name and email address to receive notifications about the site.
This is an opt-in form. Once you opt-in on this form, you are now a subscriber on their email list. This is what you need to do if you want to gain returning users and money.
Why Build An Email List?
This is when they say it is on the list. Yes, I know I said it a thousand times now.
I’m just trying to push the point to you, if you still feel it is unnecessary.
Trust
Once someone signs up for your email list. That means two things. They found your information valuable and interesting. Two they trust you to deliver them more greatness to their inbox.
This is your supporters for your site. If you have even 5 people on your list starting out, that’s 5 potential customers. They are familiar with your site and will be your leads when you are trying to promote your products and services.
More Personal
Unlike social media, your customers will see your post right in their inbox. On social media, if you share your content, it is a 50/50 that your friends/readers will see it.
However, when they are on your email list, you have their full attention. Now you do have people that will sign up and will hardly open your emails. It happens to us all. Read this post on how to get your subscribers to open your messages and to interact.
Related Post: How to turn your email list into customers
How To Build An Email List?
Okay, let’s get right to the steps of building this list.
1. Find an Email Provider
There are great email provider services. I have tried several lists. The one that I started with was Mailchimp. It was easy and free. But once your subscriber list grows past 100. You have to upgrade your plan. I heard great things about Mailerlite. I switched over to them and I love their service.
Related Post: How To Switch From Mailchimp to Convertkit
2. Provide Value
You have to provide quality on your site for your readers to want to get more from you. The best tactic to providing value to your audience is to solve a problem for them. Don’t give a half a** delivery. Point out a problem. Take them through the steps to solve it. They will praise your work and look to your site for their future reference.
Related Post: How To Write Great Post Worthy Posts
3. Give an Incentive
The seal of the deal is providing a freebie in exchange for their email address. Everyone loves freebies. Set up an opt-in form using your email provider service(Convertkit, Mailerlite, Mailchimp).
Add you’re opt-in form inside your post. Make it something relevant to what they are reading. Give them a freebie that would benefit them.
Related Posts: Perfect Opt-In Ideas for a Lifestyle Blog
Conclusion
You need an email list to start your success. You need loyal supporters. Get on that email list today. Start now by heading over to Mailerlite,with their free service. To end this post with positivity and confidence. Speak this affirmation into existence.
I will build a powerful email list, that will bring me more traffic and more money.
List-building is so important! (Mine is still a work in progress) Thanks for your post.
This is definitely something I will be working on for the upcoming year to grow my blog.
Great. I’m still doing the building as well. Happy Holidays!
Okay so thank you for sharing all of this information. I’m still trying to get this whole blogging thing down and this is one of the areas I want to improve on going into 2020
Your very welcome. Make sure you subscribe so you can get all of the new tips for beginner bloggers straight to your email. Happy Holidays and thank you for your support!
Yes, working on this for 2020. Actually, I am planning on scheduling some out today. My issue is trying to figure out what to say. Sometimes, I am good, sometimes not so good. But, it is so important to figure out who your audience is and how to get them to interact. It is a slow process.
Yes, I find email lists scary for just that writing and what to say. But the best bloggers that I am signed up with they emails contain this: a plain email, write briefly about your day or week and sharing a related blog post.
Great tips!! Thank you!
Thanks for reading Justine.
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Nice post. I found the information valuable.
Thank you glad that you found this article useful.
Thank You Akshaya.
Great tips! I am looking to soon work on my email marketing strategy. I completely agree with you that one of the most important things to do is to provide value to people! Thanks for sharing.
Laura / https://www.laustworld.com/
Thanks Laura and good luck on your journey.
Great tips. Thanks.
Thanks for reading Elle.
So many people don’t understand the importance of having an email list of followers. Facebook friends and Instagram followers can be taken from you at any time. The only list you can own is your own. Very simple steps in this post. Much appreciated.
I agree. That is the scary thing about social media is anything can happen. Facebook or anything can just be gone. So yes thank you for pointing out your list you own.
I really needed this as I’m looking at ways to increase my email.list. thank you for such an informative post.
Very well. Email lists can be scary glad that you are tackling this head-on. Happy Holidays!
My email list has definitely evolved over the past year. I used to just post links to whatever I had published over the past month, but now I post extras that only my subscribers get to read. Growth has been slow and steady so that’s all I can ask for.
Yes you will get there. I know of people that made very good money starting out with a small list of only like 20. I would recommend joining facebook groups and participating in their promo days. You can get lots of subscribers this way.
Email list building is one of the most critical part of your online business. It is one thing that is in your control and you can decide what you want to present in front of those people and when is the good time to sell your product.
Yes I love being in control of my own list my own blog. Thanks for reading Nadia.
You’ve got some great advice, an email list is so important!
Just one small change – for those currently with Mailchimp or that like the way it’s laid out, it’s free up to 2000 contacts
Thank you for the update I will make note of that. Thanks Britt!
What an awesome post! So many helpful tips! Thank you so much for sharing all this info! It will definitely help me with my new blog!
Great! I’m glad this was resourceful to you. Good luck and congrats on your new blog. Connect with me anytime for one on one blogging assistance.
These are some really great tips. When you’re just starting out, you struggle with email marketing. I never took it seriously until a few months ago. It is one of the most effective ways to get the word out about your products and services.
I’m glad you took the first step in not shying away from email marketing. Keep up the good work!
Great tips! I am definitely struggling with this so I found this post quite helpful.
Thanks Claire! I’m glad you found this helpful. Have a great day. Thanks for stopping by.
I am looking to create an email list so this was a helpful post for me. I have many content ideas, and an idea of how I want to present it. What I am working on now is incentive!
Great Jaya. This post was indeed perfect for you. Glad this was helpful to you. Have a great evening.
Great tips! I struggle with creating an opt in I think people will enjoy. This gives me motivation!
There you go Beth keep up the motivation!
so many useful tips, especially for me as I’m starting to learn more and more about e-mail marketing! I saved this to my bookmarks 🙂
Thank you so much Kerst. I struggled with email marketing too. So, I tried my best to make this post easy to understand. I’m glad you were able to find it useful. Have a great day!
This is a great resource. I have mailchimp currently but I really don’t find them user friendly. I heard great things about mailerlite and converterkit – which of these two do you recommend and what’s the main difference?
Thank you. Mailerlite and Convertkit has the same main features like automation, email designing, landing pages,opt-in forms and more. Mailerlite is the best because most of the main features you can easily do on their free plan. They free plan is free up to 1k subscribers. On Convertkit 0 to 1k subscribers is 29.00/month. Starting out I would not pick Convertkit.
These are great tips, especially for someone who is just starting out! Thanks!
Thanks Kennedy! I’m glad you found this post resourceful. Have a great day!