Ian Cleary@iancleary

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EMAIL NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS

BY 200%

HOW TO INCREASE

Despite all the talk about social media eMail is not disappearing and is still a very valuable way of maintaining contact with readers of your blog.

If you have a ‘subscribe now to my newsletter’ box on your website and have not focussed on increasing email newsletter subscribers, you can easily increase the conversion rate by at least 200% if you follow some of the following tips.

TIPS

1. Implement Social Proof

We are conditioned and influenced by other people around us.

We have a herd mentality and are more likely to follow the herd than stick out on our own.

This can be used to our benefit when we want to increase our e-mail subscribers.

Social media examiner displays the large number of subscribers they have. This helps improve conversion.

Action – Implement social proof on your website to improve conversion.

If your number of subscribers is small then get a quote from someone really influential in your niche that is prepared to say great things about you.

2. Provide an incentive.

You need to think of ‘What’s in it for me’.

Think of an incentive you can offer that will help subscribers.

A common approach is to provide a free guide that your subscribers get when they subscribe. This can be applicable to any business, for example:• Business Consultancy• Tourism Blog• Entrepreneur Blog

Business Consultancy – Sign up now and get a strategic marketing planning template.

Tourism Blog – Sign up now and get a free tourism guide for your area

Entrepreneur Blog – Subscribe and get 20 tips from some of the leading entrepreneurs around the world.

Mari Smith- (Facebook Marketing Expert) provides 2 free bonus reports to incentivize people to subscribe.

If Mari wanted to improve this subscription I would provide a little more information on what the bonus reports will do for me!

Neil Patel- (founder of CrazyEgg and Kissmetrics) provides a great incentive for people to subscribe.

When you subscribe you get a free course that will double your traffic in 30 days.

There’s also a value put on what you will get at $300. This gives you a further incentive to subscribe.

3. Use a Popup

To catch people’s attention a popup can be useful.

You have to be careful that you don’t annoy people with the same popup appearing every page of your website and when the popup appears it’s not providing any great incentive to subscribe.

But popup’s can be very effective if used right. The following page shows an example of Amy Porterfield’s popup (Facebook Marketing expert).

EXAMPLE

This popup provides social proof and incentives to subscribe.

4. Add More Subscription Options

David Halpern from Social Triggers and David Risley from Blog Marketing Academy have some great information about where to put subscription boxes on your blog. The following pages provide some tips we gleaned from them that is working for us:

PLACES FOR SUGGESTION BOXES

a). Right hand side of all pages – This is the most common place to find subscription boxes. Your visitors generally read top to bottom left to right. So over on the right hand side of the page is a good place to put a subscription box.

b). Footer – If someone has scrolled all the way to the bottom of your page they can’t go any further. This is a good place to put a subscription box.

MORE PLACES

c). End of Blog Post – If your reader gets to the bottom of a blog post then you have a good chance to convince them to subscribe by having a subscription box.

d). About Us – Quite often your visitors may leave your site after reading the about page so this is a great place to increase subscribers.

e). Feature Box – David Halpern more or less invented the feature box which is a subscription option that appears on the home page generally under the banner image.

5. Test with Words

The words you use for subscription can have a serious impact on your subscription rates.

What words do you use in your headings, content or call to action button?

For example, in your call to action button do you say subscribe now, get updates, join now etc.

This is something you really need to test out to see what works for you.

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