What is an email list and what do you do with it?

What gym do you go to?! Haha

I go every single day and not one person knows a thing about running websites and I end up doing Q&A sessions at least once a week lol

ANYways...

Your list could be what you mentioned (a client list) or even people who are interested in your product or service who may not have bought from you yet.

It's absolutely vital for long term business growth!

You have to figure which route is easier for you:

Generating a new customer

or

Gaining repeat or referral business

It's proven time and time again that gaining repeat and referral business from a happy, existing customer is much easier than generating new business. Not just in online marketing, but car sales and pretty much any industry where selling a product is involved.

I sold a car after talking with a customer for weeks and they brought me 2 new customers without me doing a thing, resulting in a ridiculously large paycheck.

Without building my prospect and customer database, I wouldn't have been able to make any of those sales.

Back to IM, it's vital to grab an email marketing service and build a list of potential customers. Then you can convert those prospects into customers which you store on a separate list.

Follow up with that separate list offering more value and when you have a new product or service, you can offer it to them and your sale rate will definitely be higher.

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Thanks for the answer. But with the item I sell there really isn’t “repeat business.” Or if there is, its extremely rare. People come to my site for one thing only. Once they buy it theres no need for my service again.

I told this to one guy and he said that the list of emails is still valuable but didn't explain how. He was overcome by being so out of shape lol.

most probably they are referring to an email list. but a list of phone numbers and contacts in general is also a list. A list is just a database.

No offense but where have you been?
The forum is littered with threads and posts about "building a list"
Just saying...

With an email list you can keep in contact with people and give them multiple opportunities to buy your product. The leads you get, the higher your chances are at getting multiple sales per day, and the higher your chances are at getting more traffic and boosting your conversion rates.

The list is damn important to you because they are the list that where you can generate repeated income from .
You can use the list by sending your gym update and keep them back , sending email to them about your promo of upgrade their current plan, doing affiliate by selling other buildup milk powder or accessories as your side income.
The lists of people are either they interest with your gym or already your existing client.

trade4861 If you specialize in one non consumable product you are selling yourself and your business short. There is always repeat business to replace, compliment, enhance, improve, and etc... You ask for minimum amount of personal information to send free info or offers of their interest.
The fact that they give you this info signal a willingness to do business with you.
You get this repeat business by staying in touch with your former and/or prospective customer.
By doing this you build a relationship with them and should you come across a related item(preferably) or some unrelated item you which to sell them. They are approachable because of the trust from your previous business with them and the contact to update them of your business ventures.
It is ok to specialize but I fail to recall and single item that can support a business without the threat of becoming obsolete.

If you sold some automotive product send follow up email and communicate the changes the industry is going through.
Diversify your business by finding automotive affiliate program you can relate to, it should fit with your niche.
Occasional, send some offers or coupon you find in those affiliate program on any automotive related item.

Here is a question though, how do you formulate an email to send to your past clients that doesn’t end up in their spam folder. Just asking because I get hundreds of spam messages in my email address from IM’rs that I never see.

Wow, you seem to be in a gym where it is good opportunity to network with them. It is great to meet a group of people who know the things that you are doing especially offline.