Think about Your Freebie, your Opt-In or Content offer- Would you sign up for that?
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Even if you’re just starting out, you should be capturing emails on your homepage. It’s a great opportunity to reach out to people who are already interested in you or what you’re offering. Social media algorithms are always changing and a platform that is working for you today might go out of style in a couple of years. Then what? If you don’t have an email list, you might be out of luck.
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Now that we’ve gone over the importance of an email list, let’s talk about how to actually get people to sign-up on your homepage. I hate to break it to you, but having a soft ask like “sign-up for my newsletter” isn’t going to get a lot of traffic. I can tell you from experience because I used to have that on my website. Over the course of 6 months, I only got a few people to sign-up for my list and most of them were already clients of mine.
You’re asking people to share their personal email addresses with you and that’s kind of a private thing. If you want people to join your list, you need to offer something in return for that email address. Try creating a free offering like an eBook, a course, guide, checklist, or anything that is related to your expertise. If you make something that is helpful and exchange it for an email address you are a lot more likely to get people to sign-up for your list.
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I understand it takes time to create those things, however, you are in luck because I have created some templates for your ebook, course guide, or checklist that you can use in your creative online business.
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A lead magnet, also known as an opt-in is a free offer to your audience (it could be a worksheet, checklist, audio recording, video access, workbook, etc) that will “lead” them into a funnel where you eventually promote your paid offerings … Need some suggestions Check out my post on that right here.
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