Five strategies for growing an email list

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An organization's email list goes a long way in aiding it in marketing its products and grabbing the attention of target audience. When managed appropriately, your email listing can help you in boosting your organization's revenues and attaining online marketing goals exactly as planned. Here, find five simple strategies for expanding your email list.

1. Providing Valuable and Relevant Content

When it comes to sending emails to their clients, businesses must focus on including relevant and quality content in them. Customers hate being flooded by irrelevant and useless emails. Thus, organizations should emphasize on creating relevant as well as useful emails for their clients. This strategy would automatically help them in growing and strengthening their email list.

2. Opt-In is Important too

Every business must include a short opt-in form on their webpage as lengthy forms can annoy the subscribers and they may choose to end the subscription once and forever. Organizations must also ensure that their subscribers don't have to go through a lengthy form submission process. Typically, they must concentrate on collating only that much information that they really require, for instance email address and name. This enables them in gaining enough subscribers and further expanding their email listing conveniently. Also, don't forget to introduce opt-in promotions and offers every now and then and pay heed towards the location of these offers. Ideally, you should be placing them on your webpage's footer.

3. Social Media Campaigning

Needless to point out, social media platforms is highly effective and extremely useful for businesses that are looking to grow their email list. Organizations can use social media to promote their newsletters and encourage their clients to subscribe to it. Remember, consumers find it easier to connect with a company via different social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter etc. Thus, individuals who have recently set up their own business can conveniently design social media campaigns to promote their brands as well as entice their customers to subscribe to their email list.

4. Organize Online Contests

A nice and quick way to grow your email list is to organize online contests on a regular basis. Subscribers are always attracted to offers pertaining to free products or services and companies can organize numerous contests and encourage potential clients to subscribe to their emails. Additionally, you can also prompt your clients to share the contest details with their network of friends and associates on social media and attract enough subscribers instantly.

5. Go Mobile

Businesses must also have a separate opt-in form for mobile phone users. Remember, a number of people today use their smartphones to visit numerous websites and perform a number of online activities. Thus, having a mobile opt-in page will only help them in increasing their email list and strengthening their brand's reputation.
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  • Profile picture of the author onehalf
    Great Vaibhav! You can also collect email addresses at offline events like trade shows and import them into your database. Be sure to send these contacts a welcome email that confirms their opt-in to your list. You can also host your own offline, in-person events like meetups, conferences, hackathons, educational panels, etc., and collect registrations online using email addresses.
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    • Profile picture of the author Vaibhav Mahale
      Originally Posted by onehalf View Post

      Great Vaibhav! You can also collect email addresses at offline events like trade shows and import them into your database. Be sure to send these contacts a welcome email that confirms their opt-in to your list. You can also host your own offline, in-person events like meetups, conferences, hackathons, educational panels, etc., and collect registrations online using email addresses.
      I totally agree with you
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  • Profile picture of the author wordsandthebees
    Hi Vaihab,

    Thanks so much for sharing this list, it’s a great resource!

    I have a few to add from various trials and tests that I’ve carried out over the years so I hope you don’t mind me adding to your list

    Encourge forwards.
    Add a ‘sign-up’ button to your email and encourage your existing subscribers to forward to their friends. This way they are doing the marketing for you by choosing an appropriate audience who are likely to join your email list too.

    Revive old lists.
    If you’ve got a group who haven’t interacted with you for a long time, send them an email with a promotional offer and offer to unsubscribe those who don’t respond. Depending on how god your offer is you should hear from a few. While it’s always risky to offer unsubscribing people, it also helps to remove ‘old wood’ and ensure that your list is of quality not quantity.

    Add links to your signature.
    Add an automatic ‘join us’ link to your email signature. People can click on it and easily enter their details within a matter of seconds.

    Free offers.
    Offer an eBook or ‘cheat sheet’ in your area of expertise. Anything that can make people’s lives easier is guaranteed to bring in the email addresses!

    Add opt-in’s through other mediums.
    Add an email signup box to your direct mail campaign or social media posts. If people like what they’re reading they will want to continue on their relationship with you.
    I’m sure there are plenty of others but these are just a few that I’ve trialed over the years and seem to have worked pretty well for me 
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  • Profile picture of the author Diskretni
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  • Profile picture of the author madahason2
    in my view the "offer" is the most important aspect of building an email list. no matter how we follow the rules to build the list if the offer is not that great some people will unsubscribe. What i find to work for me is to offer a service. Will are willing to optin when you offer them a service they would have to pay to get. Ofcourse future upsells should always be in the same niche.
    You offer them a service you are sure they will be needing on a reguler bases. so the first one can be free but they get to pay to continue benefiting .
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  • Profile picture of the author PhillipsHayden
    Great tips and tricks have been mentioned in the write up. it is quite important to follow those tricks in order to grow email list faster. Apart from the tips that has been mentioned by you, I would like add few more.

    • Adding a link to your employees' signature that will lead people to a landing page where they will be able to sign for your mailing list.
    • Work on running a promotion on partner website or email newsletter that will target new but appropriate audience so that email addresses can be collected from a fresh source.
    • Host a co-marketing offer with a partner-like ebooks and webinars and tell them to promote the registration to their audience. Once it gets released, swap the leads.
    • Host an online webinar and this will help you to collect email address at the registration.
    • Host your own offline, in person events like conferences, meetups, educational panel, etc. whereby you'll be inviting people and collect registrations online using email address.
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  • Profile picture of the author sprucevn
    1. Adding a link to your employees' signature to lead people to a landing page and sign up for your mailing list.
    2. Work on running a promotion on partner website or email newsletter
    3. Host a co-marketing offer with a partner-like ebooks and webinars and tell them to promote the registration to their audience.
    4. Host an online webinar that helps you to collect email address.
    5. Host your own offline, in person events like conferences, meetups, educational panel, etc. whereby you'll be inviting people and collect registrations online using email address.
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  • Profile picture of the author ProducerK
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  • Profile picture of the author dhoni752
    Encourage your current email subscribers to share Associate in an forward your emails by together with social sharing buttons and an "Email to a Friend" button in your selling emails. That way, you may gain access to contemporary networks, friends, and colleagues World Health Organization may check in for your list. At all-time low of your emails, embody a "Subscribe" CTA as an easy text-based link in order that those receiving the forwarded emails will simply opt-in, too.
    Promote an internet contest, sort of a free giveaway, and have entrants check in or submit mistreatment their email address. (And remember to market your contest on social!
    Produce multiple email subscriptions varieties that you simply use to send additional targeted content to specific segments of your selling personas. Email recipients area unit additional possible to click through emails that are targeted at them, therefore if you produce multiple, targeted subscription varieties, you {will|you may} increase the prospect that guests will take one amongst them.
    Stimulate a stale email list with an opt-in campaign. does one have an previouser list that you simply suppose is usually decayed? produce an enticing opt-in message and send it to your old list encouraging contacts World Health Organization would like to re-opt-in and promising to get rid of all contacts World Health Organization do not respond. tho' it would appear unreasonable to get rid of people from your email lists so as to grow them, emailing solely engaged contacts may improve your deliverability and increase the percentages of your email obtaining shared with those outside your current contacts info.
    Add a link to your employees' signatures that leads individuals to a landing page wherever they will check in for your listing.
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  • Profile picture of the author EmailKing


    1. Create remarkable email content

    2. Encourage your current email subscribers to share and forward your emails

    3. Promote an online contest, like a free giveaway, and have entrants sign up or submit using their email address

    4. Create multiple email subscriptions types


    5. Reinvigorate a stale email list with an opt-in campaign

    6. Promote one of your lead-gen offers on Twitter. Create a Twitter campaign to promote an ebook or a free resource to your followers that requires an email address to redeem.

    7. Use your Facebook Page to promote an offer that requires an email address submission.
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  • Profile picture of the author desireedavid
    You can also convert fan page followers into subscribers.
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  • Profile picture of the author AkashBorah
    Put Your Best Offer on Your Homepage
    Use a Feature Box to Present Lead Magnets
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    Display a Scroll-Triggered Box
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  • Profile picture of the author SamNuku
    Good 5 thats for sure. Also note a relevant opt in for the relevant content being provided.

    What I mean is if you write a blog post about email marketing then provide an optin for email marketing.

    Coach Sam
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  • Profile picture of the author Kherk Roldan
    very will said Mr. Vaibhav Mahale

    your 5 strategies for growing email list will work for those who are starting email marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    simple I have done tests

    NO FRESH leads each day, your sales go down.

    FRESH LEADS each day, your sales go up.

    Plus I email my list more these days. For my different niches. THis is helping increase sales, as long as you provide value to them, and doing your job you can create some serious income.
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