Building subscribers from visitors to your website or blog should be very high on your list of business building priorities. If you are not building a list of subscribers from your websites or blog then you are already failing!
I know the word failing may sound a little harsh, but the harsh truth is, your subscribers are the lifeblood of your business. They are the people who connect with you, recommend you, buy from you, promote you and support you.
If you were to ask the question to any blogger, internet marketer or online business owner what one of their biggest mistakes or biggest assets are? They will say their subscriber list.
The biggest mistake you can make is not building a subscriber list from the start. Don’t ignore this, do this today!
Depending on your choice of opt-in software, you will see that there are a lot of features to play around with. One of those features is an auto responder and it’s the auto responder what I would like to talk about right now.
When you first start to discover the power of your auto responder software and what it can do, most people are tempted to fill the auto responder with a ton of messages and offers. This sounds logical right? Wrong!
Filling your auto responder with messages can be a huge mistake if you run an active website business or blog. If you run a niche website where you don’t email subscribers then this may be ok, but if you run a busy blog or online business where you email subscribers regularly it can cause problems. You can run into problems such as double email broadcasts and out of date promotions.
Here are 5 tips which will help you create a great auto responder sequence and build relationships
1. Don’t build a huge list of offers! As I mentioned earlier, building a great big list of offers can cause a real problem. Your subscribers are real people, never forget this, they don’t need to be hit with offer after offer after offer. Yes you can send offers but not all of the time. Focus on relationship building as well as offers.
2. Your auto responder sequence has a lifespan. As time goes by it can get out of date! If you are promoting products or affiliate offers, remember that your own as well as other peoples offers may have a date attached to them. This is another reason not to over fill your auto responder list with emails. Be aware of exactly what you are communicating and what you are promoting.
3. Limit your messages to around 3 or 4. Limiting your messages will allow you to email your subscribers without the fear of an auto responder messages going out at the same time. If you are running a busy online business or blog such as this one, and you email your subscribers regularly, you don’t need to have a huge auto responder list. Keep it simple.
4. Don’t think about promoting products right away. Imagine the scene here. You have just subscribed to my blog or free offer of some kind, then bam I hit you with an offer to buy something! How are you going to feel about this? Yes some people will buy, but 90% will unsubscribe before you even get a chance to send another email or auto responder sequence. We are all real people here, treat your subscribers with respect and build trust. I find it helps to Imagine you are emailing yourself when compiling email sequences.
5. Build a relationship with your subscribers. The first 2 or 3 email sequences are very important, so you should always start off with some kind of welcome or information on how to get something for free. When it comes to setting up your auto responder sequence think about communicating and building relationships rather than building your bank balance.
i) Compile a welcome email in your first email with some details of how to contact you.
ii) In your second email, ask a question which your subscribes can respond to get to know them. Also direct them to your Facebook or Twitter page to get to know them on a social level.
iii) Give something away for free to show your appreciation. People like nothing more than free stuff that helps them improve their business or lifestyle. If you don’t have a free offer, direct them to a previous blog post which provides some really cool info.
iv) When it does come to promoting products, you should always be sure to promote the stuff which works and the products you have used or use. Don’t promote something just because it has a high earning commission.
When it comes to using an auto responder within your business you do need to be mindful about the messages you are sending out to your subscribers. The bottom line is treat them with respect and trust will be earned. Treat them poorly and that respect will be gone as quickly as they subscribed!
What do you think? Do you have a ton of email added to your auto responder sequence? Do have nothing in there at all? How do you communicate with your subscribers?
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Hi Dan
I am guilty of having too many emails added to my autoresponder and know I need to have a clean up, your post has reminded me to do this.
I need to check out any links/affiliate products to see if any are out of date, I am sure there will be some!
I am going towards sending out more broadcast emails that are more about new blog posts, up to date news etc but still schedule a series to my campaigns but I will take your advice and cut down on the amount I have scheduled.
I totally agree with you that we need to build up relationships with our list, it is vital to our business.
Thanks for sharing Dan, hope you have a great week.
Pauline
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Hi Pauline,
Yeah keep it fresh and current. Old AR posts can cause problems. I am cleaning up and deleting a lot of lists and removing AR’s ad subscribes. It’s definitely worth remembering about what you are promoting. If it’s not working, bin it.
thanks Pauline.
Just taking a break from writing my new email sequence so when you emailed me about your post I had to pop over and read it. The magic number always used to be 7, so I found 4 to be a bit short. My autoresponder is called “7 steps to top search engine rankings” so I suppose people would like to achieve the goal in only 4 steps. (I’ll have to re-think this).
Go pint points about asking a question, (I’d forgotten about this) and also a free give-a-way, I will work this in. I have a bog about the same subject so I will be sending out information about my blog posts and only sending out an offer every third post. I think if I send out information and offers in a 2:1 ratio I will get less un-subscribes.
Cheers
Roger
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Hi Roger, the magic delivery day frequency used to be 4 as well. That’s way to long IMO. I have reduced AR to no more than 2 days. People get a ton more emails these days and my aim is not to be forgotten about. If I deliver too many emails then so be it. I have a plan to setup a low frequency list which I think I will do here.
As fr the 7 steps, that’s great if you are not going to broadcast to that list and allow them to signup for something else at the end or use it as a prospects list to buy a traffic product at the end. This works if you are not going to interrupt it with offers or broadcasts.
I should do a post about unsubscribes. I get unsubscribes for giving free info away! lol
Hi Dan,
This is just the information I needed, because I’m just now setting up my welcome email.
I’m getting several people that are signing up to my site as users. I’m not sure how they are signing in. Should I add these people to my subscriber list?
Thanks Dan, – Steve
Hi Steve,
Could you explain a little more when you ay users? Are you allowing WP users to your website membership site using wishlist or something like that? If you are running a membership site then yes add people to a members list. Outside the members area add them to a prospects list and push the members area in the AR. Let me know if I’m getting that right?
Hi Dan,
When I go to my Wordpress dashboard, in Users, it shows me as Administrator along with 15 more people shown as Subscribers, along with their email addresses.
When I go to General Settings, the box is checked that says “Anyone can register”.
Should I uncheck this box?
Thanks, Dan. – Steve
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Hi Steven,
I would remove the link from the login page as this is your personal blog. Unless you know these people and want them as part of your blog then definitely remove them. I would think they will be spam robots anyway as people don’t usually go to your login page to register.
Hey Dan,
I’ll remove the link immediately. I have been getting a lot of spam.
Thanks, Dan. – Steve
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Hi Dan,
Nice blog post! It’s a good thing I did everything right from the start. I actually offered my subscribers a free report and then send them 4 follow-up messages providing a TON of amazing content. I was actually lucky to have the mindset and ethic of building a real, long-term relationship with my customer.
Anyways, good stuff Dan and I enjoy receiving your emails. There’s a TON of lessons to learn from you.
Cheers,
Fonzy Montenegro
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Yeah great stuff Fonzy, the days of the wild west are over when it comes to email marketing. People expect relationship building first rather than a direct link to an offer. Although we did make more money in those days, I like it better these days as I get to connect with new people like yourself
Thanks.
Thanks for the compliment, Dan.
Cheers.
Fonzy Montenegro recently posted..6 Powerful Self-Help Concepts That Accelerate Your Manifestations
Hey no problem!
Hey Dan, how you doing? Hope you are fine.
Email marketing a big asset of internet marketing, yet many newbie’s get it wrong.
They don’t build a list of targeted subscribers, and some of those who do write their style of emails and whole autoresponder series incorrectly.
I will chime in on this with some quick tips.
10 QUICK TIPS FROM ME:
1) Provide variety in your email series, not just email articles
but links to videos, blog posts, podcastes, other peoples blogs/
2) Build up trust first, instead of immediately hard selling affiliate offers.
3) Tell your list about yourself, what you do, and your marketing background
4) Keep your squeeze page simple, don’t over complicate things
5) Test and tweak your squeeze page for the highest conversions
6) Drive targeted traffic to this squeeze page, which will be more quality traffic than just random untargeted traffic.
7) Offer ‘unannounced’ bonuses which they don’t expect, by surprising them with these in their inbox, without even telling them.
8) Stand out from the crowd, with your own unique twist.
Your emails should be writing to them like they are your friend, rather than they are a buyer.
9) Spell check your emails. I know people who have sent emails without doing a basic spell check. This loses them subscribers. A spell check is quick, use it.
10) Conduct surveys to your list to ask them what their problems are.
and then develop products around these products, and sell them to them.
Matt Morgan
Nice tips, Matt. Will be implementing tip #1.
Cheers,
Fonzy Montenegro
Fonzy Montenegro recently posted..6 Powerful Self-Help Concepts That Accelerate Your Manifestations
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the additional tips, I like number 7, this is always a big hit! I will add to number 1, although I do agree with sharing content I would not push a new subscriber to another blog post which I was not directly included in. I would however pass them onto a guest post or in the case of some information requested as a question to me I would do it then, but not in AR.
Thanks Matt.
Excellent points, Dan. I have a sequence loaded, just 2 emails a week and for four weeks, after that it’s broadcasts only. I never promote a product I have never used myself and found to be valuable, although it does limit how many options you have in your sales arsenal! I am planning a workshop this year for new marketers on just this topic, email marketing, so this has been great to read as it’s good to know other successful marketers are thinking along the same lines.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
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Hi Mandy,
I actually conducted a little research for this one and asked the likes of John Thornhill and Dave Nicholson what they do and they are the same. Basically a welcome email, a little free content and then into the sales funnel of their own products and free downloads. No more than 3 or 4 AR emails and no affiliate broadcasts.
Let me know when you are doing the workshop it sounds interesting.
Hi Dan
This was a very timely post for me and have given me some food for thought.
I am on email 12 in my auto responder sequence and I have tried not to offer stuff for sale but am concentrateing on building relationships.
I think I will have another look at my emails.
Thanks for the info
Regards
Mark Burrows
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I would say it’s ok to add free stuff and your own products Mark, but be careful when you are adding affiliate related products as you have no control and affiliate will not notify you pf any changes. I have had in the past pages taken down and redirected to non affiliate offers. The whole point of an AR is not to have to broadcast to your subscribes, but if you are broadcasting regularly it’s worth thinking about lowering your AR.
Hi, Dan
Thank for your sharing!
You’re right! Build customer groups and not the product.
This is what i learning now!
Cavon
Thanks Cavon
Hi Dan,
I think it’s most important to schedule some mails with more free gifts or valueable advice for my subscribers. So I have to give something worthy away before I can ask them to buy my offer.
I thought about adding about 30 mails to my autoresponder so I could have one for each day of the month, but I don’t think that’s useful after I read your post. I will have to rethink that
Thanks,
Phil
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Hi Philip,
It’s easy to add emails for people who initially enter on to your list, but what about the future, say in 6 moths time when you are sending out emails. I guess if you kept this evergreen it could work, but don’t forget to keep an eye on your AR as your lists grow you can forget about them.
Hi Dan
It’s not just old outdated links in your email you have to watch out for. If your email points to your blog, as yours has Dan, then the links on your blog should be current too.
As this email was referring to autoresponders your ‘Related Posts’ picked up on this and showed a link to an old review about the Wizard Responder. As the posts themselves are not dated it might have been taken for a current review. Fortunately, the comments are dated so I could see that the Wizard Responder has NOT resurfaced after all this time so I needn’t go looking for it.
I also think it’s a mistake to say that every on-line business needs an email list to go with it. There are some very lucrative businesses where it would be almost impossible to build an email list. Businesses where customers want to stay secretive. Telephone number look up services is one of these. Many physical product buyers, once they have bought the product they are looking, for never want to hear from the sellers again as it was a one off purchase and their interest has moved on. I know of a few Amazon affiliates that build email lists but they often find that the list costs them more than they make back in commissions through sales from it. Yes, it depends on the product bought but, as we all know, the products affiliates promote on Amazon are not always what the purchaser buys.
Thanks for your good email updates.
Regards
Tony C
Hi Tony,
Yeah I hear you man. Wizard responder post deleted. Great tip for the guys here if you are using the related posts plugin.
Obviously I can’t speak for every online business especially the ones that don’t warrant any online communication with subscribers. I was generalizing about business who deal directly with subscribers and the need to communicate with their subscribers. I hope this clears that up.
Thanks for the update on the reply me.
Great post about creating a good, quality Auto-responder series.
I know how crucial it is to build a good subscribers list.
I’ve been working more on improving it – my welcome emails contain an awesome free report, so hopefully I’m starting off on the right foot. At the moment, I also have some people signing up to my site as users. Should I include them in my list?
Cheers,
Jo
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Hi Jo,
It sounds like you are starting off on the right foot there. Don’t think about making money but rather building subscribers and trust. People will buy your recommendations when they know you yourself provide value.
I actually canned a lot of my auto responder emails today
Hi Dan,
Great tips on building an autoresponder series. There definitely is an art and a science to it with a lot of physcology as well.
Lots to know and study with this subject.
Thanks for sharing ,
Tonya
Hey Tonya,
Thanks for the comment. I must admit I still delete and add messages trying to find a balance. I’m currently deleting messages
Hi Dan – I’m planning to start a list in the near future, so this is really helpful stuff – thanks for giving us such practical tips. Will definitely bookmark and share!
Sue
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Hi Sue,
Start one right now and build your subscriber base. I’m glad this post pushed you a little closer
Hey Dan,
As always, great info! Just about to start a blast on list building and will be studying this post for sure.
Great new look on the blog by the way!
Ciao
Kelly
Thanks Kelly, much appreciated. Go for that list building! I’m sure you will do well.
I use to do what you shared here Dan about loading my autoresponder series up because that’s what I was taught. Oh my goodness, it was so hard to go back through them all periodically because things had changed, offers changed, way to do things had changed, it was a nightmare.
That’s one of the things I confessed in my post about building a responsive list that I bet I’ve abandoned about eight to ten lists over the time I’ve been online. I would build them, do what I was taught and have no signups. Or get them and they would unsubscribe. I mean I’m learning from the pros right so why did it work for them and not me?
Yeah, I eventually learned that they had already built that relationship with their list which is why it worked but for some reason they just left that part out. Just glad I finally learned it all.
Great tips here Dan and I know a lot of us have made these same mistakes.
~Adrienne
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Hey Adrienne,
At least using Aweber it is easy to delete messages! I have deleted so many auto responder series over the years I have lost count. It is funny when something works well for one person and not for the next. Relationship building is all about the person and how you communicate with your subscribers and we all know you are good at that!
Thanks Adrienne.
Hey Dan
At the moment I only have 1 message in my autoresponder, which is a welcome email.
I had no idea what to follow it up with. I’d read so many different takes on this subject but what you’re saying makes sense. You don’t want to end up with an autoresponder message and a broadcast going out at the same time necessarily.
Three or four messages is do-able and manageable, so that’s what I’m going to work on. Timescale for a free giveaway is the end of February so I’d better get cracking!
Thanks Dan. I hope you’re well.
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Yeah that should make a nice little sequence Tim. Good luck with the free giveaway I look forward to seeing what it is.
Hi Dan,
Thanks for the great, informative post! I wholeheartedly agree with everything you’ve written here. A lot view their AR as a ‘set & forget’ type of thing but the problem with that is, as you say, if you’re promoting affiliate offers then the offers might have changed or the pages might not even exist. I had an experience about a year ago where I bought a WSO that affiliates were promoting like crazy but it was total garbage and I got a refund. There was some controversy in the Warrior Forum thread about it and the WSO sellers weren’t happy that they’d been exposed as offering rubbish. So on one of their rotating squeeze pages they replaced the page with a picture of a man’s genitals! Now, if their affiliates had been promoting that particular link to their subscribers it wouldn’t have done anything for their credibility! I know that if someone e-mailed me a link to a supposedly revolutionary product and upon clicking on the link I was greeted with a picture like that I would be most displeased and it would certainly affect my view of the credibility of the person who sent me the e-mail. So it’s absolutely vital that you keep on top of your AR and ensure that, although the automatic process is a good one, you’re not allowing everything to be TOO automatic. I think that to use auto sequences is better for your own products and funnel, but if you’re promoting affiliate offers then it’s better to manually send a broadcast rather than putting these in an auto sequence, otherwise the results could be disastrous.
Glenn
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Hi Glenn,
lol I never seen that WSO and it’s a good thing they were exposed. It’s people like that who bring this business down and that’s why people lose trust in others. I don’t like scammers at all.
I couldn’t have described the way to use an AR better myself Glen. Keep them for your own products and funnels, then promote others affiliate offers you trust manually.
Great comment Glen thanks.
Yeah, these scammers ruin it for everyone else. The sad thing is that one of the persons involved is quite a major player in IM and most people think that butter wouldn’t melt and don’t know what sort of things he’s been up to, especially as all the complaints about the WSO in question were swiftly deleted and the threads locked and/or deleted. Perhaps some of his products are good but some are downright abysmal and his behaviour alone is enough to warrant that I’d never buy or promote his stuff. Oh well, my view is that if he makes a habit of behaving that way then it’ll all come back to bite him in the backside eventually! At the end of the day, treat your customers right, treat them with respect and dignity and they will look after you. Honesty, value and respect are the three most important aspects of any business in my book. It certainly seems that you’re doing things the right way here, Dan. Keep up the great work!
Glenn
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Thanks Glen. Some people just don’t know how to act in business. I tend to stay away from the Warrior forum as there is a lot of controversy on there. I have been a members for a long time, and do still pop over for a read or search for a product review of my own stuff. Nothing bad yet
Thanks again Glen.
Interested in your 5 tips responder sequence. Just talked to my friend Stanley at http://www.crichtons.co and reminded him to move his Valentines offers and to let his clients know of the best sellers in UK Electronics. The tips that come out on the Bloggers Roadmap help to keep us all up to date.
Thanks
John
Hey John,
Thanks for the comment and the Bloggersroadmap.com mention. Thanks again.
Great tips, Dan, on creating an autoresponder series that works.
I unsubscribe from lists when all I see is one promotion after another, without any added value.
Nobody wants to be sold to.
As subscribers, we want valuable information so that we can feel informed and keep up to date with what is out there in the marketplace in our topic of interest.
A good post, Dan, thanks!
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Hi Jude, I must admit I am kind of guilty of pushing Dave Nicholson’s Coaching this week and may have annoyed people. But it’s something I believe will help everyone and for the price is a great opportunity.
If there is one thing I can say about subscribers is that we can’t keep everyone happy. There is never a one size fits all and works with everyone. I just try my best to provide a good balance
Thanks for the comments Jude much appreciated.
Hi again Dan,
I hope you didn’t think I was referring to your emails…LOL…because I wasn’t. I enjoy receiving
your messages, and with something so truly time limited, I can see why you would remind everyone up until the last minute. No problem.
The deadline alone indicates those emails will cease once the offer ends so I don’t find those kinds of emails to be a problem at all.
It took a lot of willpower for me not to get Dave Nicholson’s offer, especially with your great bonus included. I held back because I am already in two coaching programs and time-wise I couldn’t do it justice any time soon.
I will kick myself later for missing out, and I almost clicked on your “buy” button, but one of my New Year’s resolutions was not to buy anything I could not reasonably run with immediately.
I have had a habit of accumulating ‘stuff’ that I intend to get to later, only sometimes the later never comes or by the time I get to it, the momentum is gone.
As for autoresponder messages, if we do the right thing most of the time, which you certainly do, then people should not mind a few extra emails now and then.
After all, you are offering your own time, effort, help and valuable resources on a time sensitive offer. I would never have a problem with that.
Regards,
~Jude
Jude Banks recently posted..Reality Check For Your Internet Marketing Business
Hi Jude, no not at all
Ahh the power of will is what prevented you from snapping up my bonus. Shame on you lol
I can see why you never bought though. If I am in the middle of something like a product development, I need to focus all my time and energy on that and allow 0 distraction. Buying products and courses doesn’t help in this case.
Thanks for the comment Jude, much appreciated.
HI Daniel. This is the first time I’ve visited your blog. Stopped by in particular because I am just beginning to build my list and you provided valuable information and details that I have not learned. I was told just send out emails. You hit upon a lot of things that actually annoy me as a subscriber – the don’ts, so to speak, so this is great information for me.
Thank you for sharing,
Barbara
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Hi Barbara, thank you for taking the time to stop by and make a comment. Very much appreciated.
The most important email of all Barbara, is the connection in the welcome email and the ability to replay to people who want to talk to you. In the early days I started out with messages which never created a channel of communication or the ability to reach me. The internet has changed so much and people are now naturally more social.
Don’t forget the welcome email:-) Thanks again Barbara.
Still working on setting up my eMail list opt in page and “freebie”…
Like your Idea about not overloading with weeks of followups…..almost every training program
encourages you to fill up, set and forget….
Things do get changed, especially when you are including affiliate links, so if you don’t
have a stuffed followup series, makes housekeeping faster and simpler.
Remember clicking on the above mentioned WSO and getting the unacceptable picture….can’t remember who it was, but do remember deleting anything to do with it from my computer….
Wish I had made a folder for People Not to Buy from and put him or them in it.
Cararta
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Set and forget is the biggest problem. You forget what you wrote and a while later it’s out of date!
You can always ask around if you are not sure of a person or product Cararta.
Thanks for stopping by.
When I first got started in this industry I bought a software program that helped me write a whole year worth of messages – and that’s exactly what I did! Although useful to write “evergreen” promos, I eventually did have quite a few messages that were obsolete in several months time.
In the best case scenario, it’s great to recommend products you personally use, but it’s not always feasible or practical. The next best thing is to recommend products from people you TRUST and those that have a good reputation for putting out solid products.
I can tell you there a few well-known marketers whose reputation is tarnished in my mind because they’ve recommended junk products.
Nice post Daniel, you make some great points. I’ll have to stop by your blog more often!
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Hi Corrisa,
Yes I completely agree with you regarding product recommendations. I don’t buy every product (I try to) but sometimes, like you say it’s just not feasible to go buy everything.
Some marketers promote product because they have to. Sometimes it the favors they do for others which can further their own interests. Sad I know but sometimes this happens. I try to stay away from these traps and think about subscribers.
thanks Corrisa, a great comment
Hi Daniel,
I’m not yet with the idea of building a list for me mate
I mean, I have a simple email subscription option where I wonder still many people use it as their choice as I’m not fond of email now though. I had it when I think of goals for this year, but yet it’s in optional state and given new skills the priority.
I think sending out updates for that list is so far good with me as nothing promotional goes in there Dan. So far the clients I’ve got are visitors of my blog and they recommended me for their friends
It’s really wonders me that they count on me without knowing me personally.
Mmm… So building a list quite overlook factor for me. But commenting, online support community and direct email are options where we use to interact mostly
Cheers…
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Mayura,
You need to build a mailing list. Imagine how much more reach you can have when you can email your subscribers? It really makes a difference buddy. email marketing is still the number 1 way to reach people.
Thanks Mayura
Hi Dan,
Great Post!
This is a timely post for me. I need to start compiling my autoresponder series and start building my list. This is one of my goals for 2013 and I should get to work. Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks again Dan for sharing this valuable information.
Be Blessed,
Neamat
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Thanks Neamat, no problem at all. I’m glad I could help share some knowledge with you. Keep building that list!
Dan,
I love your suggestions for autoresponders.
So many places or people recommend that the first thing you need to do when setting up an autoresponder is to write about 12 emails to be sent out automatically.
That always bothered me because for the most part I try to send a broadcast message out at least once a week. I do put up a couple of automatic emails to be sent out when people first join my list but then they just get the broadcast messages.
My thought was always if I have 12 messages going out automatically the people on my list will be getting to many emails from me if they are getting my broadcast as well and there is a chance they will get two emails at once.
I should probably send more than one email a week but that is what I am sending now unless I am promoting something specific.
Dee Ann
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Hey Dee Ann,
Depending on how you use your list Dee Ann, should always determine the way you compile your AR. If like me you broadcast a lot, then the need for an AR is minimal. This way you keep your subscribers current.
Don’t be afraid of sending more than one email per week Dee Ann. This also keeps you current and not forgotten. So many people are worried about losing subscribers! As long as you are giving content then there is not need to worry.
I am just venturing into the affiliate networking arena and this post comes at a perfect time. Thanks so much!!
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Thanks for the comment and good luck with your ventures
Hey Dan, it’s funny that you mention not to fill our autoresponders with offers because I have never done that before.
What I’m actually going to do is to load a new video campaign teaching a few basic things that will help the beginner and the long term newbie as well.
Hopefully I can build more trust with this and I’ll see how it goes from there.
Sergio
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Hi Daniel:
How are you
Just coming over from the blog of Sue Neal –
Saw you there.
Thank you for sharing this awesome info.
Great tips on ARs and how to build a rapport with a list.
Take care.
Best wishes and regards
Veena
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Hey Veena, thanks for dropping by much appreciated. It’s great to connect with new people
Hi Daniel:
How are you?
The pleasure is all mine –
And I too love meeting
And interacting with new people.
Will be back for more of your
Interesting topics.
Take care.
Best wishes and regards
Veena
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Yes, I agree that we must make use of autoresponder lists wisely otherwise we will lose our subscribers and readers. So we don’t have to over fill our autoresponder lists with emails. It is not effective and make our subscribers bothered. In fact we must respect them and treat them as human and keep on building keeping good relationship and good communication with them.
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Well said Heru. Thanks for stopping by
Great info and great ideas, as usual, Dan! eMail Marketing is such a crucial part of any product launch. After any product launch the best way to keep your customers happy and satisfied is to maintain a relationship with them. eMail Marketing can also strengthen your traffic capabilities to your blogs, sites, and offers.
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Hi Dan
Interesting post, i must admit that is very useful.
I have a blog, and I have not been too much into list building, yet. One of the reasons I did not go nuts on this is, when you start a blog, your first blog, it seems a little…. odd, to start a list.
Having two two three messages in the AR series would be more content than was on the site!
So, I have waited, to allow my style to come out, to get some headway into posting, and finding what i am passionate about, and can write content for, longer that a couple of weeks.
I am also sharing info, and, the plan is, to provide value.
I am now planning some little products.
Not to be a ” Woohoo – Let’s get rich” type product, but to have a … oh, here is one of my products, products!
Price point… Barely worth charging. BUT, a start.
The first part of which, is free. And MOST people who have had a blog for a little while would not need any more than the free part of the product – well, micro product!
So, hey, THAT is worth adding to an mailing list, and having a LITTLE AR series with it.
So, I have no regrets in not having a list, upto this point, I felt that I needed some “proof”, some background, and to find ME in the middle of all of this.
Thanks for the tips, I am, right now (this week) adding the Lists to a new AR system, and getting optins sorted, ready to go!
Thanks again!
Posted By Jon Barry of JonBarry.co.uk
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Hi Barry,
One of the biggest regrets from any blogger who never built a list from the start is building a list. Take my word for it and start ASAP. It expands your reach, and that is what you want.
You seen to have a good plan going, so stick with it, but do add list building in there Barry even if it is on small blog scale.
Thanks.
This is really great to have such a nice information about creating a autoresponder series. I think it is best for email marketing.
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