How To Build An Email List For Free (4 Easy Ways)
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I have seen many questions online where people ask "how do I promote my online business?" And the best answer to this question is by building an email list alongside your online business.
Maybe a blog business, doing affiliate Marketing, any other type of online business. An email list is very important.
However, I will tell you that building an email list is one of the best ways to connect with people directly, increase site traffic, generate more money, and expand your business.
Most people believe that building an email list is dead and that the email strategy is ineffective nowadays, but that's a big lie
You will see that the majority of bloggers always create an email list. There is no other reason than for them to be successful in their blogging business.
But how can you build an email list for free? What programs or services will you use? This is what I am going to be talking about in this post.
I'll show you some tips on how to build an email list for free. What I mean here is that you can build thousands of email lists without spending a dime.
Therefore, before I walk you through it, I'd like to provide a more thorough explanation of the importance of building an email list
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What is an email list?
An email list is the list of verified email addresses and names collected from consumers or visitors in which you send out information about your business.
An email list can be 3000, 4000, or more than that. You will not be sending emails one by one; instead, you will send them all at once with a single click using some services and software that we will discuss in this post.
An email list is absolutely the same as a mailing list.
What is the importance of an email list?
Almost all bloggers, business people, and entrepreneurs know the importance and value of having a responsive email list, and I think you also have to know the importance of building an email list.
The importance of building an email list is as follows:
1. As I've already mentioned, one of the easiest ways to communicate with your followers or subscribers directly is by building an email list. because it allows you direct contact with your customers.
2. An email list is the best way to get people to buy your product, even if it's someone else's (affiliate marketing).
As a result, it will increase client loyalty, improve customer happiness, and aid in keeping your business at the top of your customer's minds.
Therefore, building an email list is important for marketing.
3. A mailing list can help you keep track of consumer behavior, allowing you to better your products and services while also increasing customer engagement and marketing strategy.
Furthermore, an email list provides some measure of security. For instance, your preferred social networking platform may decide to shut down, or your account may have been suspended. You can contact them since you have an email list.
As a blogger, building an email list will help you attract more visitors to your website. It's important to start creating an email list as soon as you launch your blog as a blogger.
After that, let's discuss several tools or services that can be used to collect email addresses.
Email autoresponder services
Before creating an email list, you must first go and register with an email autoresponder provider.
These are services that allow you to collect people's email addresses and keep them stored in one place You can also use this software or service to email people on your list.
There are many different email programs to use, each with different features and different pricing plans.
Though to start with, you can use one that offers a free plan.
The email autoresponder service that offers a free plan are:
1. Mail chimps
Mailchimps allows you to have a list of 2000 emails for free before you need to upgrade to a paid plan.
2. Mailer lite
This allows you to have up to 1000 email subscribers for free before upgrading and also a free 30 days trial for premium features.
3. System.io
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It has a free plan that allows you to have a list of 2000 emails for free and also send out unlimited emails. I think this is perfect for beginners.
What you need to do is to sign up for free and you now own an account with email auto-responders.
4. Aweber, constant contact.
This allows you to have a free trial before you need to pay. Maybe like a 30-day free trial or so.
5. Getresponse
Getresponse will give you a free trial before you need to pay. It's one of the best email marketing services.
With that being said, let's talk about how to build an email list for free.
How to build an email list for free.
You need to have your own verified email addresses before you can create an email list. You are free to create as many emails as you like. It's unpaid.
By offering freebies
Giving away a freebie in exchange for an email address is one of the best and most common strategies to build an email list.
Just go ahead and give freebies if you are currently producing blog articles, YouTube content, or other types of content. This approach is effective for all internet businesses.
Most people do this by adding it as a bonus to their content.
For instance, you are an affiliate marketer who sells books or software online.
All you need to do is to go ahead and get the books or software. Add it as a bonus and whenever your customer wants to get access to it, they will have to enter their name and email address before they can get access to it.
So what can you give out for free? Yeah, what are the things you can give out for free? Ebooks, software, videos with good value in them, and many more.
Let's say you are a YouTuber who makes videos about a fiver.
So after the whole video, you can offer the freebies by telling them you do have a bonus for them and that they should go to a particular URL to get the bonus. It might be a book or software.
So before they could get access to it, they had to enter their email address and name. just exactly like the image below.
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Me, I used Getresponse, systems. io and mostly MailChimp.
Watch the video below.
It will walk you through how to use Mailchimp to create a page that will help collect email addresses for free.
Using exit pop-ups on your site will also help you get your followers' or readers' email addresses. But how do you do this? Yeah, you can do this by using tools like Hello Bar, MailChimp, or system.io to create one.
So, when someone wants to leave your site, you can ask them yes-or-no questions that will grab their attention.
For instance, you can ask them, "Do you want to make more money daily?" If yes, please enter your email address in the box to get updates. And I am very sure they will never say no.
Aside from asking them yes or no questions, you can also offer them freebies. This one will just pop up on your website whenever someone wants to leave your site. just like in the image below.
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And of course, you don't have to overdo it because if you do by having so many pop-ups on your site, people won't like it and it will also disturb them from reading your blogs or staying long on your site.
You can start by using services like Getresponse, Getsitecontrol, or Convertful to build pop-up windows on your website.
Even under their free plan, ConvertFul will let you have 3000 contacts.
Hosting webinars
Most people love webinars. People want to interact with you.
Another way to build your email list is to host webinars, challenges, or other events.
It's an easy way to grow your business, get more income, and build your email address. It's kind of simultaneously.
So, if you want to sell a product, course, sell a guild or an ebook, instead of you saying this product is for sale, you might consider hosting webinars, or challenges, or other types of online events that are going to give away free information.
They will have to sign up with their email address and that will go to your mailing list.
People just come to your event. You give them free information; you build a relationship with them by getting them to trust you; you also build your email list and possibly make money.
It's not mandatory that you have to sell before you can host a webinar. You can host a webinar by just building an email list for marketing or other business.
Since they trust you, you can later host webinars in the future and sell to them.
You can also run an evergreen webinar, which means you record a webinar once and you can keep displaying it as a replay, but it also seems like a live webinar. You just have to engage with them for like 30 minutes or so.
You can use a tool like Webinar Jam.
Doing joint ventures
Instead of you hosting a webinar by yourself, you can absolutely do some type of joint venture to grow your email list.
You can do joint webinars by doing a collaboration on YouTube, Facebook, or other social media sites and having that grow your email list.
Doing joint ventures is a really great way to get eyeballs on you and hopefully grow your email list if you do it strategically.
For instance, I am a website developer and I have a friend who is a writer or a copywriter.
This person has a small audience, and I also have an audience of about the same. We might have like 300 people following us on social media collectively.
We can come together and host a joint webinar, so my audience thinks he is awesome and my own also thinks he is good, and we both get this sign-up for that webinar on our email list.
So, joint ventures are awesome and a great way to build your email list for free.
Both sides now have the same followers because you shared your audience, and these followers believe you.
Now you can sell to them afterward.
They used to use this strategy where people would buy an email list. Please don't do this because those people are not interested in you and also in what you are selling.
It's preferable to grow your email list organically and sell to people who know you.
Therefore, be sure to communicate with your audience at least once a week. In addition, I want you to sell to them at least once a month.
Because there is no purpose having an email list without generating an income from it.
Conclusions
After reading everything I've taken you through here, I hope you'll be able to build your email list for free.
The best part about this is that most businesses do not already use email marketing successfully, making it easy for you to interact with more people and build your email list more quickly.
In light of all you have learned here, from offering freebies to doing joint ventures, if you have any questions, please do post them in the comment box and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks.
