There’s no doubt. Growing an email list is THE most important thing you can do for your business. If you have an engaged email list then you have got a group of fans ready and excited to buy your next product.
It’s the number one way to make your creative business sustainable, no matter what life throws at us (Coronavirus, anyone?). It means that when things happen that are out of your control, you can still find your customers and tell them what you’re up to. And it also means all that hard work you did finding your customers on social media in the first place isn’t wasted.
Yup growing your email list is a total no-brainer!
But how can you get people to sign up to your email list?
(To get more details, you can grab the FREE checklist version of this article here. You’ll find a lot more information on how to action these tips in the checklist!)
Here are 33 totally simple ways you can grow your email list and make your life waaaay easier:
- Make sure you actually want people to sign up
- Offer a freebie
- Discount
- Offer exclusive offers
- Offer a free course
- Website Pop ups
- Do webinars/digital classes
- Word of mouth
- Events
- Media coverage
- Put it on your cover photo on your Facebook page
- Put a sign up button on your Facebook page
- Tell people on Instagram
- Take a video screenshot of yourself scrolling down your newsletter and share it on Instagram stories
- Insert your sign up link in your Instagram bio.
- Do a poll on Instagram stories
- Share it in Facebook groups
- LinkedIn featured posts
- Banner on website
- Plaster it all over your website
- Ask people when they check out
- Tell customers about your email list when they direct message you on social media
- Run a social competition
- Use optimised sign up forms
- Use persuasive language
- Promote them on Pinterest
- Create a graphic in Canva which you can use on all your socials
- Ask your email list to recommend your list
- Guest on a podcast and encourage listeners to sign up
- Guest blog
- Facebook/Instagram ads
- Don’t just ask once!
- Your email signature
To find out exactly how to action these 33 tips – you can sign up for the more detailed checklist version of this article here.
So there you have it – a whopping 33 ways of growing your creative business email list. Don’t pick just one, try to use as MANY as you can.
How many can you use? And how many do you use now? Can you think of any I’ve missed?
To find out exactly how to action these 33 tips – you can sign up for the more detailed checklist version of this article here.