Top Three Strategies To Grow Your List

 

A lot of people have been asking me how they can start growing their lists TODAY – what are the actions that they can take today to start growing their lists immediately.

Here are my top three strategies to help you invite more people to your list. Start using them today and you will see more people joining your list:

Strategy #1: Article Marketing

I love using article marketing for list building. It is effective, it works great and you can use it to invite exactly people you want to invite to your list! How do you do that? By writing articles on topics that are of interest to people that you want to invite to your list.

What is article marketing? Article marketing is the process of writing articles that people in your target market are interested in reading and then submitting them to article directories to be published. It is extremely important to write articles that are of interest to your target market, because that is another way to qualify your subscribers. When the topic of your article is of interest to people in your target market, people in your target market will read your articles and find out more about your newsletter.

When you submit your article to directories, your article will also include a Resource Box. Your Resource Box is a one-paragraph description of you and your business and a link back to your web site. Use the Resource Box to invite your article readers to get your free gift and join your list!

Strategy #2: Social Networking

Social networking web sites, such as Facebook and Twitter are great for inviting people in your target market to join your list.

In order to invite more people from social networking web sites to join your list, first you need to have an effective profile page. If you do not have any information about your newsletter in your profile, how are people going to even know that you have a newsletter?

Next, you need to get involved, become visible and start building relationships with people you meet on those social networking web sites. If you are invisible on social networking web sites, people will not be able to sign up for your newsletter. When you are visible, you will get many more subscribers.

And then, make sure to share about your free gift using your social networking updates. Your profile is not the only place to let people know about your free gift. People should also hear about your free gift from your status updates on Facebook and your tweets on Twitter.

Strategy #3: Blogging

Blogging is another great technique to use to invite more people to your list. There are a ton of things you can do with your blog to bring more subscribers to your list.

First, your blog itself should contain information about your newsletter and your free gift. If you don’t tell your blog readers about your newsletter, how do you expect them to ever subscribe? Make sure that your blog has at least some information about your newsletter.

Your blog posts themselves are also very important for inviting people to your list. Remember – you will write your blog post once and it will be seen by people and search engines for a very long time. This means that if you write an interesting blog post and it gets indexed by search engines, you will be able to gain blog visitors and newsletter subscribers from the same blog post for a long period of time.

Use search engine optimization each time you write a blog post. Research keywords and find effective ones to use in your post. Then use the keywords in your blog posts, so that your blog posts can be indexed in search engines for the relevant topics and you can get traffic. Each time someone finds your blog post in search engines, they will be able to read your post and find out about your free gift and your newsletter!

This is just one blog post. Optimize each blog post that you write and you will start getting more traffic from search engines to your blog.

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10 Responses to “Top Three Strategies To Grow Your List”

  1. Biana Babinsky Says:

    Share with us – what are YOUR favorite strategies to grow your list?

  2. Eric Goldman Says:

    A useful technique with social networking and blogging, is of course to comment! If you read blogs that are similar to your business or offering, you can really help your business. First, you can communicate with other people in your industry which helps provide collaboration and synergy. You can also demonstrate your background and experience, and provide extra insights. You should encourage readers to respond and bloggers to comment on your articles as well. Don’t look for competitors, but look for partnerships so that everyone can be a winner.

    –Eric Goldman–
    EricGoldman.name
    WebDesignHero.com

  3. peter Says:

    Great insights.. it has helped me see a glimmer of light across the minefield of social marketing..
    The best thing is to have a workable strategy.. one that you can actually achieve..

  4. Julie Bestry Says:

    Thanks, Biana. I’m pretty efficient at accomplishing the second and third strategies, but not so well with getting inspired to do the first. That’s pretty ironic, since the blogging (and newsletter) writing–all of which I’m busy promoting via social networking–mean that I’ve already got the article content and just need to put them in the directories.

    I bet I’m not the only one failing to take advantage of strategy #1 when it could be so very easy!

  5. Debra Says:

    If you can narrowly define your niche and the keywords a person uses to search for that topic, you can build your list big and quick using google adwords and a squeeze page. Although, it does cost money, unlike the options mentioned above.

  6. Biana Babinsky Says:

    Eric, thank you for your comment and for demonstrating how it works by commenting here. Great point about creating win-win partnerships.

  7. Biana Babinsky Says:

    Peter, glad the post helped you see a glimmer of light in social marketing.

    I recommend creating a plan and taking action. Break your plan into smaller actions you can take and you will be able to start seeing more social marketing results.

  8. Biana Babinsky Says:

    Julie, yes, since you already have content, it will not take you long at all to repurpose it into articles.

    Jump into article marketing – you will see more traffic and more newsletter subscribers as a result!

  9. Biana Babinsky Says:

    Debra, thank you for sharing about using pay per click for growing your list. Great point on the need for narrow focus when doing pay per click.
    If you don’t do that, you will spend a lot of money on pay per click, but won’t get the results that you are looking for.

  10. Marion Grobb Finkelstein Says:

    Hi Biana. I’ve never blogged. Where/how would you suggest I get started? And how to leverage/promo the blog?

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