Apr
6 Tips to Create Good Email Lists
This is a guest post by Divya Rawat, who has years of experience in SEO and SMO. Want to contribute? Contact me!
List building has been there for quite some time. Many major music bands and writers have used the power of mail lists to intimate their fans about their latest releases and tours etc. Email lists have also been used by various businesses to provide exposure to their products and create a tribe. Hence you can also start building your email list for the better focused exposure for your website.
Benefits Of Email List Building
There are many benefits of list building which you can utilize for your website. Some of the main reasons for list building are:
• By using a list you can easily notify your readers of any new posts and hence create loyal readers. This way it will also help in promoting your website.
• You will get more feedback through email as compared to on-page comments. Also you can expect to get direct answers for your questions through emails as compared to other methods including RSS feeds and direct comments.
• By creating a large and loyal (give more emphasis on loyal rather than large) email list you can be sure of a good and steady traffic to your site.
• Emails are more personal and hence you can create a sense of trust with your audience.
• An email list usually composes of people who are interested in your product and hence are more likely to buy products which are related to the niche. Hence you can easily make more money through email lists by selling various products related to the niche.
• Your site gets indirectly bookmarked as readers can easily come back to your website whenever they want through the link in their emails. Hence having email lists can be really beneficial for traffic reasons too.
6 Tips to Create Good Email Lists
1. Use An Email Service- Add a good email service like Aweber or Mailchimp in your website. It will provide visitors with the option to add their email accounts in your mailing list and hence create a decent email list for your website. There are also good FREE email services available in case you want to go safe or have a lower budget.
2. Create a catchy sign up form- Having a sign up form is not enough and you must make sure that it is really catchy to impress your visitor for greater conversion.
3. Use various promotions- You can create various promotions like giving a FREE ebook or some other useful thing related to your site’s niche to tempt people to subscribe to your email list.
4. Reward your subscribers for referring to friend- You can provide various incentives and rewards for subscribers who refer their friends and thereby increasing your email list.
5. Use video sites like YouTube, Metacafe etc. to create email lists- Many people visit these video sites and you can harness this fact to your advantage by creating quality videos to create your email lists.
6. Prominent Sign-Up Form- Create a prominent sign-up form which people can easily notice preferably at the end of the post or at the side of the page.
Author Byline:
Divya Rawat has years of experience in SEO and SMO. She is currently with iNetZeal which is in the business for six years. click here to read more about their various serivces.
Justin McGill is a web marketing professional and runs a successful Small Business SEO Firm. He is the founder and CEO of SEORCHERS (read: [surch-ers]) - a local web marketing firm specializing in organic search engine optimization (SEO) with a focus on converting visitors into clients. He is available for SEO Consulting and now you can connect with him on Google+!.
