Category Archives: Email Marketing

Subscriber Re-Engagement Planner

It happens to the best of us: we have great plans and intentions for growing our businesses and we vow to email our subscribers regularly; but then life and/or business events get in the way and those awesome plans are forgotten or given a lower priority.

With the help of this planner – you will create a process for staying in touch with your email list and you’ll be excited to make offers instead of dreading what to write.

Here is What You Get with the “Subscriber Re-engagement Planner”:

The Step-by-Step Planner Covers:

  • Step 1: Renew Your Commitment to Community Building
    Instead of seeing your email subscribers as simply a way to make money, think of them as your community, the group of people who look up to you to help them solve a problem.

    • Exercise: Set your email marketing intention.
  • Step 2: Review Your Current Opt-ins
    Your free content should naturally lead to your opt-ins, which should naturally lead to your paid offers.

    • Exercise: Create consistent messaging.
  • Step 3: Ask Them What They Want and Need
    When in doubt about what your community needs from you, simply ask them.

    • Exercise: Create a survey.
  • Step 4: Get Personal
    Let your community get a glimpse behind the curtain and see what’s really going on in your life and/or your business.

    • Exercise: Write a “Here’s What I’m Up To” email.
  • Step 5: Bring Them Back to Your Blog
    Driving traffic back to relevant blog posts is a great way to create more engagement, both on your blog post itself as well as on your social media post.

    • Exercise: Write a “Here’s What’s New” email
  • Step 6: Invite Readers to Connect in Different Ways
    The more ways you connect with your readers, the more likely they will be to engage with your emails.

    • Exercise: Optimize and create consistent branding across all your platforms.
  • Step 7: Don’t Lose Your Momentum
    Relationships take time, nurturing, and caring to develop into something more than pen pal status.

    • Exercise: Plan your autoresponder sequence.
    • Exercise: Plan the frequency of your emails.

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How to Get More Out of Your Squeeze Pages

Your squeeze pages are a huge part of your list building efforts. Squeeze pages are distraction free pages that are solely designed to help you build your list. They typically offer something for free in exchange for an email and name sign-up. They look like mini sales pages, typically.

Take a look at the squeeze pages you have out there. Do you have any at all? If not, now’s the time to fix that. It’s going to be very difficult for you to build your list or have any really meaningful sort of hold in your niche if you don’t have one or several squeeze pages out there. If you’re struggling with building your list and trying to figure out why, it might be that you haven’t given enough thought or effort to squeeze pages.

If you have put some effort into squeeze pages, do you have ones that convert poorly? Now’s the time to fix that. Even if yours are great, there’s always room for improvement. Depending on how poorly or how well yours are converting, it might be time to do a total overhaul or you might just need a few tweaks here and there.

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Improving Your Conversion Rates and Building Trust Over Time

Don’t worry about doing too much tweaking until you have the basics down. Don’t worry about making your squeeze page exactly perfect. It’s so much better to have an imperfect squeeze page up and getting sign-ups for you than it is to stew over your squeeze page for months because you’re worried it’s not perfect… not doing anything for you at all.

But once you do get things started and you’ve started to see some results and feel more comfortable, then it’s time to think about improving your conversion rates.

You can test and track the conversion rates of your squeeze page. You can try different headlines, different bullet points, different opt-in form styles, and so on.

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Showing Your Audience You Care So They Open Your Emails Every Time

As an email marketer, you’re open with your audience, right? You don’t want to be just a faceless, nameless marketer who’s only out to earn a buck. If you want to succeed as an email marketer or use email marketing to boost your business in ways that will surprise and delight you, then you have to care about your audience and make it clear that you care about them.

Show people you care and they’ll care about you and open your emails. All people want is for someone to understand and connect with them. They want someone to help them solve their problems.

You’re a marketer, which means you’re selling people solutions. In your opinion, you have the very best solutions – ones that can really help people. But if they don’t trust you and know that you have their best interests at heart, they won’t give you the time of day. They’ll sign up for your freebie and then disappear, quickly clicking the unsubscribe button.

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