Email Marketing Help!

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Hello everyone,

I need some help starting out in email marketing. I have a nice site that is getting about forty to fifty unique visitors a day to various product pages from the search engines. About thirty five percent of these visitors are taking action to go on to the vendor where they hopefully will make a purchase. Unfortunately at this point only about two to three percent are converting once there. Now you might say "thats great" but don't forget, thirty percent of my visitors are already hitting some type of action link such as "buy now" so I think the vendors site could use improvement, but I cannot do anything about that right now and I need to keep working this site.

Anyways, I think with the products I am selling I might need to pre-sell and inform the customers a bit more and provide some incentives, so I want to start collecting emails and doing some list marketing.

My initial question is what is the best way to collect email addresses? My first thought is a pop-under once the visitor leaves the page. What are some of your good ways of capturing email addresses of interested visitors?
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  • Profile picture of the author Loren Woirhaye
    You need an offer a large percentage of visitors can't resist -
    a free ebook may work if you successfully portray the content
    in your squeeze copy as must-have knowledge.

    People are getting kind of blase about ebooks, and often
    a free online goodie is a tough sell because there's so much
    free stuff easily available online.

    Free ringtones and stuff like that can work in some markets
    to grow a list

    Another trick is to promise good news of steep discounts in
    their email in-box. Coupons, special bargains, the inside
    scoop on amazing deals, you know?

    The mechanical way you get opt-ins - popups, sidebars and
    so forth, is secondary by far to the seductiveness of the
    goodie you are offering.
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  • Profile picture of the author commercee
    If your selling something, you can use a pop-under or the thank you page. Most ecommerce sites don't offer any freebies for signing up to a newsletter. They just say stay informed of our deals.

    Just do it. Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author NateC
    Yes, the best way to get them on your list is to give them incentive, if you give me your email I will give you this free report, ebook, "insiders guide to..." or other great information or discounts. It is much more effective than saying, please let me send you emails so you can buy stuff from me...
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    • Profile picture of the author junkbox
      Right...see this is indeed an e-commerce site and I am actually not allowed to really offer incentives (monetary or free products of what I am selling anyways) so I have to come up with something creative that will get me emails!
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  • Profile picture of the author alcymart
    I agree with a previous poster. Offer something for Free and you will get a much better conversion rate.

    Bernard St-Pierre
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  • Profile picture of the author Big Al
    Just throwing this out as an idea to brain storm a wee bit.

    If people are reviewing and shopping around you could try treating it like the product launch bonus wars. Knock up or acquire a product with a mainsteam appeal and complements the main product for buying through your affiliate link.

    Would be good to tie this in with getting them on your list too... somehow.

    If that doesn't work and turns out to be a complete failure... then change tactics and just offer it for free for joining your list to follow up.
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