Email List & Lead Building

Email Marketing: 3 Proven Tips

Donna Ward
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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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emailThere really is nothing new about the concept of building your Email list. The idea of building a list of contacts is not the  “shiny, bright object” for you to check out.

  • It is really just the difference between the customer files and Rolodex systems that are still in use by many, and building contacts online.

And, understanding that online list building systems give us a HUGE advantage.

  • We can connect globally, faster, easier, and use the power Social Media. Reaching…Well, literally the ‘sky is the limit’!

But, EVERYONE is trying to do the same thing in their business. The Challenge, then? Read more →

5 Creative Ways to Repurpose Your Content

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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creativeWe all send out…Newsletters or Emails to Subscribers on our list.

This is investing what sometimes feels like a lot of time and energy. As we write a compelling newsletter or email that we hope is helpful and is read.

When we send emails to our subscribers or send out our regular newsletter do we need to stop at that?

Have you heard of re-purposing? Why not recycle those older newsletters and emails?

5 smart and creative ways to repurpose your own content… Read more →

3 Secrets to Building Your Quality List

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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qualityAs a small business, you want ways to not just grow your business, but to thrive and prosper.

You must be continually adding the right prospects to your list

Once you know the strategies for building your quality list, you’ll find it to be vital to your success as an entrepreneur, online and offline.

Start now to insure you have the tactics in place…

List Building Secret #1 – Make Your Content Relevant

This Keeps Your Subscribers Happy And Boosts The Amount Of People Who Will Recommend Your Newsletter To Their Friends.

One of the biggest problems I see newsletter and content writers have online is that they write about subjects no one in their market is really interested in (unless it is a paid ebook). They just write about whatever they think people want to know about without doing any of the research, which is a huge ‘no-no’

This problem can be solved,  when you have your market well defined.

You write content in your newsletters that interests your readers. There is no use having an ezine on coin collecting and running articles on stamp collecting just because you couldn’t be bothered finding the right content for your for your coin collecting information.

3 Power Steps to Success in Business

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Business SuccessPower Step #1.    Know what is your goal for building your list.

EX: List building, opt-ins, selling, creating connections, a certain percentage of conversions?

Most of us know that effective list attraction, retention and monetization skills are ESSENTIAL for long-term success or just to get started!

==> This means you set up a develop smart habits – set up a routine from your plan, and stay consistent in reaching your goal.

Power Step #2. Your prospective clients need to know what to do when they visit your online site. Read more →

Build an Online List

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List Building OnlineOne of the most challenging steps to making money online is to build a list, a ‘responsive’ opt in list is your real goal. Not just “Build a List.”

  • The money is in the list, right? We’ve been hearing that since day 1 of Internet Marketing 101.

Yes, it is in the list, or more accurately, the ‘relationship’ with the list.

  • So once you have a list started, you begin email marketing…

I’ve read that a large (95%) percentage of people subscribing to your list will probably never purchase what you have to offer whether it is affiliate programs or your own products/services. But that’s OK – as you keep in touch, you’ll build that relationship with more of your education marketing to your list.

And, the more you keep in touch with your list in positive ways,  each person will start to trust, like and find you credible, then more will step up.

==> That’s one of the reasons we are persistent!

  • In order to build any list you need to entice visitors to your blog, website or landing page with something of very high value. Read more →

Building Your List With Interviews

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Interviews and List BuildingDoing audio interviews with experts in your field is a great idea to get more subscribers and build your list of contacts.

I am proof of this as my list has mostly been built from interviews.

Interviewing experts over the phone and recording it on mp3 will get subscribers onto your list, especially in fields other then Internet marketing where people don’t expect to get this much quality information for free

When you take marketing tactics from the Internet marketing field and apply them into other niche markets where they have never been seen before, you will get noticed more.

  • Everything has been done in the Internet marketing field, we are all  immune to even the most brilliant marketing tactics as we see them almost everyday, but other niche markets will be very interested and jump on board.

Creating audio interviews isn’t hard at all equipment wise and finding experts to interview has been very easy for me!

  • Do you know how I find experts in any field almost instantly? Read more →

Basic SEO

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Basic SEO is Search Engine Optimization and is simply the act of manipulating the pages of your website to be easily accessible by search engine spiders. A spider is a robot that search engines use to check millions of web pages very quickly and sort them by relevance.

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Email Marketing Tips

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Here are just a few email marketing tips. But understand them well. Learning a few email marketing tips is just the start of email marketing success and sales for your business.

We don’t normally send marketing emails for just fun. The purpose is to convince those who receive your email to act on it.

  • You want the recipients to buy what you are selling, rather it is a program or your services. Read more →

Find Clients

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Find ClientsJust being an expert in your field doesn’t find clients for your business.

Gaining knowledge on how to find clients as you are building a business, online, or a storefront business, is similar to planning a big trip for your family. You need to have an understanding of what you want, where you want to go, and how you will get there. Then put that into a plan that will get you where you want to go. In your business that would be a plan that means going from a few clients to many clients, and a waiting list. Read more →

How to Build a Mailing List

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If you have been in business for any length of time, you know about how to build a mailing list. There’s nothing new about learning the concept of how to build a mailing list, or list building.

For years we have written down contact information, or put business cards in our Rolodex.  Business owners have normally regular customers and vendors with whom they keep connected with. When you know how to build a mailing list, you discover that it is still one of the most effecitve and least costly ways to communicate with and build your customer base. Read more →