If you’re sitting below that magic number
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 4:27 am
If you’re sitting below that magic number of 100 subscribers or you feel strongly about needing to acquire a larger audience before building a proof of concept, let’s get into growing your email list beyond where it’s at right now.
I’ve written about a lot of list building tactics that have worked well for me over the years, but here are a few of my favorites for quickly growing your email list beyond the limitations of manual outreach.
1. Guest Posting (to Grow Your List and Validate Your Business Idea).
While guest blogging is significantly more effective in the long run once you have time to make a website or of your own already (could be a good reason to learn how to start a blog today and eventually learn how to make money blogging), recent blogging statistics suggest it’s not as necessary in the context of validating an idea quickly.
All you need is a very basic “landing page” that gives you the opportunity to afghanistan phone number database the name and email address of any readers who are interested in learning more about what you’re planning on building—based on a brief description written on your landing page. This landing page will be a foundation for the proof of concept you’ll be building in the next step anyway.
Within your guest post that’s topically relevant to what you’re planning on creating, you’ll tastefully link back to your landing page so that readers can click through to learn more and sign up for updates.
Here’s an example of a guest post I recently wrote for Lifehacker, one for Forbes, one on Inc, and another on CreativeLive’s blog. You’ll notice that I always make sure to include at least 1 link back to a specific post, landing page or project I’m seeking to promote (or validate) within the first few paragraphs of the guest post to make sure I’m maximizing my chances of driving back readers who are interested in signing up to learn more. This is a smart blog SEO strategy to incorporate from the start.
Again, you do not have to go through the process of choosing the best website builder and getting a site online before guest posting. Your landing page can be as simple as you allow it to be. I’ve created basic landing pages from (free) Google Forms, (free) Google Docs, (free) Gumroad sales pages and through free trials with a more robust blogging tools like Unbounce or Instapage.
What’s most important about the basic landing page you build, is that you’re able to (1) write a brief description of your upcoming solution and (2) ask readers to sign up with their email address for updates. You can collect their email addresses by using a Google Form, which will store them neatly in a Google Sheet you’ll be able to refer back to later.
I’ve written about a lot of list building tactics that have worked well for me over the years, but here are a few of my favorites for quickly growing your email list beyond the limitations of manual outreach.
1. Guest Posting (to Grow Your List and Validate Your Business Idea).
While guest blogging is significantly more effective in the long run once you have time to make a website or of your own already (could be a good reason to learn how to start a blog today and eventually learn how to make money blogging), recent blogging statistics suggest it’s not as necessary in the context of validating an idea quickly.
All you need is a very basic “landing page” that gives you the opportunity to afghanistan phone number database the name and email address of any readers who are interested in learning more about what you’re planning on building—based on a brief description written on your landing page. This landing page will be a foundation for the proof of concept you’ll be building in the next step anyway.
Within your guest post that’s topically relevant to what you’re planning on creating, you’ll tastefully link back to your landing page so that readers can click through to learn more and sign up for updates.
Here’s an example of a guest post I recently wrote for Lifehacker, one for Forbes, one on Inc, and another on CreativeLive’s blog. You’ll notice that I always make sure to include at least 1 link back to a specific post, landing page or project I’m seeking to promote (or validate) within the first few paragraphs of the guest post to make sure I’m maximizing my chances of driving back readers who are interested in signing up to learn more. This is a smart blog SEO strategy to incorporate from the start.
Again, you do not have to go through the process of choosing the best website builder and getting a site online before guest posting. Your landing page can be as simple as you allow it to be. I’ve created basic landing pages from (free) Google Forms, (free) Google Docs, (free) Gumroad sales pages and through free trials with a more robust blogging tools like Unbounce or Instapage.
What’s most important about the basic landing page you build, is that you’re able to (1) write a brief description of your upcoming solution and (2) ask readers to sign up with their email address for updates. You can collect their email addresses by using a Google Form, which will store them neatly in a Google Sheet you’ll be able to refer back to later.