Top 15 Ways to Build Your Subscriber List
Email marketing can be profitable for any business, no matter what kind of product or service you offer. It is significantly cheaper than other advertising methods and, if done right, helps build loyalty and trust with customers. As a result, you generate more sales and more profits!
The foundation for successful email marketing is a targeted, permission-based email list. Marketers call contact lists their 'goldmine' because it can generate much of their sales revenue. If you've built up a list of opt-in subscribers that are qualified and interested in what you have to offer, then you've completed the first step and are on your way. Now it's time to 'mine' for gold!
Below you'll find several list-building and retention ideas that will help you get the best results from all your email marketing activities:
Provide useful, relevant content. Your visitors will not give you their email addresses just because they can subscribe to your newsletter free of charge. You have to provide unique and valuable information that will be of interest or use to them.
Add a subscription form to every page on your website. Make sure it stands out so it is easy to find. If it doesn't look cluttered, you may want to include more than one on some pages. For instance, if your opt-in form always appears in the top-left corner of your site, you may want to add one at the end of your most popular articles.
Add subscription forms to your social media pages. Make sure that you don't waste this valuable source of revenue opportunities. Integrate your sign-up forms with Facebook and more!
Make it easy for readers to sign up. The more information you request, the fewer people will opt-in. In most cases, a name and an email address should suffice. If it's not necessary, don't include it here. You can always survey them once they're customers! We do recommend that you provide a link to your Privacy Policy however.
Publish a Privacy Policy. Let your readers know that they can be confident you will not share their information with others. The easiest way to do this is to set up a Privacy Policy web page and provide the link to it below your opt-in form. (Note: If you don't have one, put the words 'privacy policy generator' into a search engine and you should be able to find a suitable form to use.)
Provide samples of your newsletters and Ezines. This lets potential subscribers review your materials before they sign up to determine if it's something they'd be interested in.
Archive past newsletters and articles. An online library of past newsletters and articles is both appealing and useful to visitors and builds your credibility as an authority. In addition, if your articles are written with good SEO techniques in mind, they can increase traffic to your website through enhanced search engine positioning.
Give gifts subscribers can actually use. Offer an opt-in bonus for joining your subscriber list! Write an ebook or provide a PDF business report, or even hire a programmer to create downloadable or web-based software. But don't limit yourself to offering gifts to opt-ins. Give them out when your readers fill out a survey, provide a testimonial, success story, or a great product idea. Let them know when they can expect the next gift offer. Everyone likes to get something for free! And if you pass out 'goodies' throughout the year, your subscribers will feel truly appreciated − and that's good for business!
Ask your subscribers to pass it on. Word of mouth is a powerful viral technique that works great with email marketing. If your subscribers find your content interesting, amusing or informative, they'll probably share it with their friends. This can be a great source of new customers, so make sure to remind them to 'pass it on'.
Let others reprint your newsletter as long as the content is not modified. If you're happy to share your content with the universe, then why not! Many webmasters and newsletter publishers are actively looking for high-quality content and, if they reprint your newsletter, you'll get new subscribers, and more traffic and links pointing to your site.
Include a 'Sign Up' button in your newsletter. If you're using plain text instead of HTML, be sure to provide a text link to your subscription page. You may feel that this is not required because the subscriber is already on your list, but remember that readers will forward your newsletters to others, or reprint them online. Make it easy for them to subscribe!
Add a squeeze page. A squeeze page has one goal − to acquire opt-ins and build your list. Think of it as a mini-sales letter to go along with your subscription or opt-in gift. It should feature a strong headline and a couple of powerful benefits that should make subscribers salivate to sign up! Once created, use a service such as WordTracker to find hundreds of targeted keywords, and promote your offer using pay-per-click advertising from Google, MSN and Yahoo. Now that should make a splash!
Include testimonials on your squeeze page. This is crucial. Put one or two strong testimonials from satisfied customers on your squeeze page. This can be in any format, but you may find that multimedia (audio or video) is more 'believable' and inspires more people to action. To further enhance believability, get permission to use actual customer names, locations and/or urls (Don't use 'Bob K, FL'). Add a note inviting others to participate. After all, it's free publicity!
Blog religiously. Blogging is a great way to communicate with prospects and potential customers, and creates a nice synergy with your email marketing. Be sure to include your newsletter sign-up form on each page of your blog. You can start a free blog at Blogger or WordPress.
Post on other blogs. Post thoughtful comments and information on similar blogs with a link to your squeeze or opt-in pages. Also comment on others' blogs through trackbacks. In most cases, your comments will be posted on their blogs with a link back to your site. This is an easy way to generate new traffic and subscribers, and get your brand out there!
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Clean Water From Dirty Wells!
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So Rahm used a politically unacceptable word and now must quickly perform damage control. In my opinion, he's going to meet with various leader within the disabled community who sway the thinking of the disabled community. They're gonna make him jump through some hoops. They'll be sure as to not set any of the hoops on fire for sure. In essence, he'll probably get a pass. Why, cause that be the times we lived in. Clean water does not flow from dirty welsl. The problem with U.S. politics is that the well is dirty. Clean water can only flow from a clean well. Whatever proceeds out of an individual's mouth especially in casual conversation is most surely what is in that individuals heart.
Dear friend, this is the same type of thinking and speaking that was overlooked in Germany and gave way to the rise of Hitler. An entire populace thinking, if I can get mine, and it doesn't directly affect me then, give me the remote and refill my glass.
Hat's off to Palin:
Sarah Palin is calling on President Obama to fire his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel for using the phrase “f—ing retarded” in a meeting with liberal allies. Writing on Facebook, Palin said, “Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking
On another note: I was listening to a well know Houston Minister. He compared the passage of the healthcare bill to that of David returning the arc. I though to myself, how sad the black community falling for the OKEY DOKE once again. Freedom is being absorb by the beast mixture of iron and clay. Ochlocracy, Ocher. The pale horse has started it's ministry.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
So The Spin Begins...
Main stream media has started the massive spin of Nidal Hasan’s murderously criminal rampage at Fort Hood last Thursday. Being ex-military I don't call Nidal a Major in the U.S. Army. Let me explain.....
I joined the U.S. Army in 1974. Nixon was promising to bring all the troops home from Vietnam. I felt like the possibility of another war soon was pretty slim. Granted, I wanted to serve my country but, my main goal was to travel, meet girls, get all the bennies........I didn't want to trade bullets with someone. If I would have wanted to do that, I would have stayed home. Actually, the reason I joined the military was in response to a dare from some friends. I wasn't thinking rationally at the time because I had been on a long binge of drinking, getting high and partying which lasted all the way up to about my second year in the military. I was half-way thru my permanemt duty station when I met my wife and was married. Marriage is a time when hearts are tender and I renewed some vows that I had made to God as well.
After my first born I began to sense God pulling at the reins of my heart again and turning me towards him. It's God's Love that draws men's hearts. Anyway.....I was confronted with a real dilema, raise a family or stay in the military. If I stay in the military, I may be called upon to kill people. Duh!
Maybe it's a different military now but, when I was in the service, ranking officials had no problem telling you that the main reason you where a part of God's Fine Army was to kill the enemies of the United States of America. And if we (The Army), wanted you to have a family, we would have issued you one when you enlisted. If you thought you were there for any other reason, you should have joined the Peace Corps. So, I did what a rational person would do. I completed my time, thanked Uncle Sam for the opportunity and the bennies, and went my way. God Bless Our Military!
I thank God for all the different individuals that he has allowed to cross my path during my lifetime. I've been fortunate to have been exposed to so many views and personality types. I remember during a basic law class the concept of rational thinking. This concept is the glue that holds most laws together. All our actions are judged based upon comparison with what a rational thinking individual would do in the same circumstance or situation. If Nidal Hasan didn't agree with the war effort, he should have simply left the military instead of going on a murderous criminal rampage at Fort Hood last Thursday. This cowardly disregard and dis-respect for human life is not rational and should be swiftly dealt with.
So now that we identify this type of behavior as irrational, what steps can be taken to irradicate it from the Our Great Country: One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice For All?
We need to develop psychological examinations profiling radical religious combatants and test the entire military force. What if some hair brain idiot is in a higher rank than "Major", with access to an even more destructive arsenal? Think how much carnage could be reaped.
Next we need to fortify U.S. Ports and Military Bases. This is a given! Our soldiers are our greatest assets contrary to what some General I recently heard speak, "Our diversity is our strongest strength".
Don't believe the lie! Diversity and homogenization has pushed our great country off track and toward the oncoming ochlocratic system we see rising from the earth. We as a nation need to humble ourselves, pray, seek God, turn from our wicked ways and God will heal our land.
Related Articles: Ft Hood Shooter liked the Tittie Bars, It's Not Islam, it's the Military's Fault
Everyone who knew should be question, Obama Sides with Muslims
I joined the U.S. Army in 1974. Nixon was promising to bring all the troops home from Vietnam. I felt like the possibility of another war soon was pretty slim. Granted, I wanted to serve my country but, my main goal was to travel, meet girls, get all the bennies........I didn't want to trade bullets with someone. If I would have wanted to do that, I would have stayed home. Actually, the reason I joined the military was in response to a dare from some friends. I wasn't thinking rationally at the time because I had been on a long binge of drinking, getting high and partying which lasted all the way up to about my second year in the military. I was half-way thru my permanemt duty station when I met my wife and was married. Marriage is a time when hearts are tender and I renewed some vows that I had made to God as well.
After my first born I began to sense God pulling at the reins of my heart again and turning me towards him. It's God's Love that draws men's hearts. Anyway.....I was confronted with a real dilema, raise a family or stay in the military. If I stay in the military, I may be called upon to kill people. Duh!
Maybe it's a different military now but, when I was in the service, ranking officials had no problem telling you that the main reason you where a part of God's Fine Army was to kill the enemies of the United States of America. And if we (The Army), wanted you to have a family, we would have issued you one when you enlisted. If you thought you were there for any other reason, you should have joined the Peace Corps. So, I did what a rational person would do. I completed my time, thanked Uncle Sam for the opportunity and the bennies, and went my way. God Bless Our Military!
I thank God for all the different individuals that he has allowed to cross my path during my lifetime. I've been fortunate to have been exposed to so many views and personality types. I remember during a basic law class the concept of rational thinking. This concept is the glue that holds most laws together. All our actions are judged based upon comparison with what a rational thinking individual would do in the same circumstance or situation. If Nidal Hasan didn't agree with the war effort, he should have simply left the military instead of going on a murderous criminal rampage at Fort Hood last Thursday. This cowardly disregard and dis-respect for human life is not rational and should be swiftly dealt with.
So now that we identify this type of behavior as irrational, what steps can be taken to irradicate it from the Our Great Country: One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice For All?
We need to develop psychological examinations profiling radical religious combatants and test the entire military force. What if some hair brain idiot is in a higher rank than "Major", with access to an even more destructive arsenal? Think how much carnage could be reaped.
Next we need to fortify U.S. Ports and Military Bases. This is a given! Our soldiers are our greatest assets contrary to what some General I recently heard speak, "Our diversity is our strongest strength".
Don't believe the lie! Diversity and homogenization has pushed our great country off track and toward the oncoming ochlocratic system we see rising from the earth. We as a nation need to humble ourselves, pray, seek God, turn from our wicked ways and God will heal our land.
Related Articles: Ft Hood Shooter liked the Tittie Bars, It's Not Islam, it's the Military's Fault
Everyone who knew should be question, Obama Sides with Muslims
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Racist Attack Not Personal!
What follows is an article entitled: Activists protest Va. strip club's Obama banner
Sep 28, 3:16 PM (ET)By STEVE SZKOTAK
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Activists gathered outside a downtown strip club Monday to denounce as racist a banner depicting President Obama as the Joker from Batman.
"Not only is it an attack on the president, but also on all men and people of African descent," King Salim Khalfani, president of the Virginia NAACP, said of what he called "the abomination that's on the wall" outside Club Velvet.
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Contrary to the thinking of Salim Khalfani....all black men don't consider this an attack, nor do they feel the need of yet another mad, anger pimp mouthpiece. Salim believes in earnest that, "the beginning of wisdom is to know who you are!"
Real men know that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of of wisdom: and knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Sep 28, 3:16 PM (ET)By STEVE SZKOTAK
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Activists gathered outside a downtown strip club Monday to denounce as racist a banner depicting President Obama as the Joker from Batman.
"Not only is it an attack on the president, but also on all men and people of African descent," King Salim Khalfani, president of the Virginia NAACP, said of what he called "the abomination that's on the wall" outside Club Velvet.
Read Entire Article...
Contrary to the thinking of Salim Khalfani....all black men don't consider this an attack, nor do they feel the need of yet another mad, anger pimp mouthpiece. Salim believes in earnest that, "the beginning of wisdom is to know who you are!"
Real men know that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of of wisdom: and knowledge of the holy is understanding.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
I'm Black and I'm Taking My Vote Back
Are you a student of Bible prophecy who has discovered that the Bible teaches the planet will soon be under the control of the one-world government of the Antichrist before Jesus comes and institutes His one-world government? Do you believe the Bible teaches murdering our children is wrong and homosexuality destroys lives and that we should speak out against them? Do you feel the increasing immorality is fueling increasing crime, and wish to defend your children with a firearm? Do you love America and want to see it obey its own Constitution limiting federal power and enforcing its own immigration laws? Are you a military veteran who has bled for the freedom of your country?
If you can answer “yes” to just one of these, then you are now considered by America’s own Department of Homeland Security, to be a “domestic rightwing terrorist.”
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The left is quick to claim that the report is only a memo and that there's no need for alarm. Well...I don't know about you but, I'm suspect of a government which turns it's focus away from the real threat of terrorism and instead directs it's attention toward law abiding, freedom loving, tax paying, God fearing, gun toting, citizens. I DEMAND MY VOTE BACK!!
So, you will see a change in the writing of my blogs as I bring attention to some of the obvious taking place in our current administration. I'm hereby classified as one of the Loyal Opposition. Hopefully our government has enough constitutional fiber remaining whereby I can legally present opposing viewpoints.
Read DHS Report
If you can answer “yes” to just one of these, then you are now considered by America’s own Department of Homeland Security, to be a “domestic rightwing terrorist.”
Read Entire Article
The left is quick to claim that the report is only a memo and that there's no need for alarm. Well...I don't know about you but, I'm suspect of a government which turns it's focus away from the real threat of terrorism and instead directs it's attention toward law abiding, freedom loving, tax paying, God fearing, gun toting, citizens. I DEMAND MY VOTE BACK!!
So, you will see a change in the writing of my blogs as I bring attention to some of the obvious taking place in our current administration. I'm hereby classified as one of the Loyal Opposition. Hopefully our government has enough constitutional fiber remaining whereby I can legally present opposing viewpoints.
Read DHS Report
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Lazy Niggers and White Trash Honkies
It's was a warm Sunday morning and I was sitting in church daydreaming when the Pastor started his sermon with the following words: "I'm so tired of Lazy Niggers and White Trash Honkies that I don't know what to do!" Boy, did that get the church's attention.
I sometimes wonder how the media would have reacted to my Pastor's message. It definitely wasn't politically correct. It might have been viewed by some as being racist or eristical. With the proper editing it could have been used to cause a string of city riots. I looked around the room full of soigne church members all with stunned expressions. The only member who was unaffected and seemed to lack sentience was our resident lycanthrope who often introduced himself by saying, "I like cats".
I learned many life lessons from my good friend and pastor. I would go as far as honor him with the title of S.T.D., not the worldly definition but Sacrae Theologiae Doctor. I learned that one must remain longanimous in one's pursuit of knowledge. I learned that God rains on the just and the unjust. I learned that everyone who looks like a brother is not necessarily a brother. I learned that some people who don't look like brothers will stick closer to you than a brother.
Personally, I felt this to be my favorite pastor's greatest message. The essence of the message dealt with breaking stereotypes and class restrictions. The pastor stated that one must disconnect from mental, physical, and verbal ownership of one's natural bloodline and be joined to the death, burial and ressurection of Jesus Christ by his blood. The natural bloodline so ridden with anger, resentment, disease, generational limitations and of course death must be left on the cross with the lamb slain from the foundations of the world. This natural bloodline passed down from the first man adam must be reckoned dead, buried and ineffective.
This was no ordinary pastor and this was no ordinary message. In the course of my time working with this pastor I had the opportunity to watch first hand as he raised individuals from the grips of death. I know individuals who are perfectly healed this day by the work of God thru the hands of this great man of God. I remember traveling with him to a church meeting. After we left the meeting, we stopped a restaurant for a short time, to grab a bite to eat. When we left the restaurant and walked outside we discovered that a tornado had blown thru the neighborhood blowing down trees and buildings all around us.
What was interesting about my pastor and personal friend......this man, that I held an tremendous amount of love and respect for.....this man, full of the Holy Ghost and operating in all the gifts of the Spirit of God,......this man, and his powerful, timely message about lazy niggers and white trash honkies, was that..............this man was a white man who had a real heart for God's people especially blacks.
I sometimes wonder how the media would have reacted to my Pastor's message. It definitely wasn't politically correct. It might have been viewed by some as being racist or eristical. With the proper editing it could have been used to cause a string of city riots. I looked around the room full of soigne church members all with stunned expressions. The only member who was unaffected and seemed to lack sentience was our resident lycanthrope who often introduced himself by saying, "I like cats".
I learned many life lessons from my good friend and pastor. I would go as far as honor him with the title of S.T.D., not the worldly definition but Sacrae Theologiae Doctor. I learned that one must remain longanimous in one's pursuit of knowledge. I learned that God rains on the just and the unjust. I learned that everyone who looks like a brother is not necessarily a brother. I learned that some people who don't look like brothers will stick closer to you than a brother.
Personally, I felt this to be my favorite pastor's greatest message. The essence of the message dealt with breaking stereotypes and class restrictions. The pastor stated that one must disconnect from mental, physical, and verbal ownership of one's natural bloodline and be joined to the death, burial and ressurection of Jesus Christ by his blood. The natural bloodline so ridden with anger, resentment, disease, generational limitations and of course death must be left on the cross with the lamb slain from the foundations of the world. This natural bloodline passed down from the first man adam must be reckoned dead, buried and ineffective.
This was no ordinary pastor and this was no ordinary message. In the course of my time working with this pastor I had the opportunity to watch first hand as he raised individuals from the grips of death. I know individuals who are perfectly healed this day by the work of God thru the hands of this great man of God. I remember traveling with him to a church meeting. After we left the meeting, we stopped a restaurant for a short time, to grab a bite to eat. When we left the restaurant and walked outside we discovered that a tornado had blown thru the neighborhood blowing down trees and buildings all around us.
What was interesting about my pastor and personal friend......this man, that I held an tremendous amount of love and respect for.....this man, full of the Holy Ghost and operating in all the gifts of the Spirit of God,......this man, and his powerful, timely message about lazy niggers and white trash honkies, was that..............this man was a white man who had a real heart for God's people especially blacks.
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