Building a mailing list is a fantastic way to make your audience feel as though they are on board with your message and to gain more trust and more authority within your niche. But while building relationships with your fans or customers is important, It is also important that you make a profit in the short term! Most of us can’t afford to wait months or years until we start selling So sooner or later,…
Promote Your Mailing List With a Blog When growing your mailing list the most common way is to promote a single-page landing page This is a single page on your website that is focused on listing the benefits your subscribers will gain by giving you their email and signing up for your list It will detail what the new subscribers can expect to get from signing up And it will provide the opt-in form where…
How to Avoid the Spam Filter and Get Into the Primary Inbox One of the biggest challenges for email marketers over the years has always been beating the spam filter. The job of the spam filter on most email providers is to prevent unwanted messages from getting in – especially those that might contain viruses, phishing scams or other harmful types of content. Today this has become even harder though. Now we not only have…
Build Trust using Testimonials Let me ask you a question. Who do you trust more about what movie to watch? A commercial on TV, or a recommendation from a friend who’s seen it? The friend wins every time. Because it isn’t an ad or marketing message. It’s a testimonial for the film given by someone who doesn’t have a vested interest in selling more tickets. That builds trust and makes you more likely to go…
What’s In It For Them - Value Over Feature Let’s talk about feature over benefit and why it matters when it comes to your marketing. If there is one thing you should take away from this, it’s that your customers don’t really care about all the bells and whistles of what you have to offer. All they care about is what’s in it for them. What will the product or service they are buying do…
One of the best ways to build trust with your audience is to be consistent in everything you do. Think of it as keeping a promise to them. You set an expectation and then meet it without fail. Do this again and again, and you’ll build a reputation as someone who can be relied upon. Let’s look at the different areas in your business and how you can be consistent. One of the first places…
Admit Your Mistakes And Make Things Right We all make mistakes on a regular basis. Yes, we do everything we can to avoid them when it comes to our online businesses, but things go wrong and we mess up. It’s okay. How you handle them is what will set you apart. It’s also an important strategy for building trust with your prospects and customers. Like so many things in life, your mother’s advice holds true…
Under promise And Over deliver Everything How would you like to know about a strategy that instantly builds trust and keeps your customers happy enough to brag about you to everyone who will hear them out? It’s simple under promise and over deliver. This goes for everything you do in your business from sending emails and posting on social media to delivering your products and services. Why It Pays To Under promise And Over deliver…
Give Away Freebies and Increase Your Traffic. Freebies can bring your site free traffic. Who doesn’t like receiving something free? That’s why online freebies are so popular. Freebies bring visitors to your site and when done right they leave the visitor wanting more, which leads to a purchase. Choosing quality freebies will ensure you have an increase in your free traffic. What do some of the freebies that have value look like? Here are some…
Increase Your Free Traffic Before we talk about how or why you should decrease your Bounce Rate it may be a good idea to explain what the heck is "Bounce Rate" really is. Here’s Google’s technical definition: Bounce Rate is the percentage of single-page sessions (i.e. sessions in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page). [Source] If there is one thing search engines hate, it is a high…
If your goal is to increase your free traffic. Great news! If you create a social site you can do exactly that, increase your traffic for no cost. Let’s have a look at what your social site needs to accomplish. #1 Incorporate Call to Action – Ask your visitors to become involved. If they like what your site has to offer they’ll likely return. Your call to action will engage your visitor and ask them to…
With affiliate programs, you can easily sell products without even having to have the product in your hand. As nice as it sounds, you still need to have your own website; it is a requirement for many affiliate programs. Having a website is ideal, but to really make money with affiliate programs, you need to have a website that receives a relatively high amount of traffic. If you would like to increase the amount of…