Even on Email Lists Your First Impression is Important
? Delete, and unsubscribe. Click, Click, Click. That fast, and that permanent.
If you do not want to be in the spam folder or the recycle bin of your subscribers then remember that first impressions count. Your subscribers are judging you from the first time they land on your website, until they get their first welcome email to your e-list, and beyond. You have to look at everything that you do from the user’s or client’s perspective instead of as the creator whose baby is being judged.
If you aren’t able to look at your welcome email from new eyes, ask someone else to do it who has not seen it, and ask for honest to goodness feedback. Better a friend or paid collaborator hurt your feelings than have people subscribe, then unsubscribe that fast. (or not subscribe at all) Believe me, it happens. The best way to avoid these issues is to test.
Unsubscribe rates — If you are getting a lot of un-subscribes after your welcome email, take a look at it and consider rewriting the welcome letter. You can ask people why they unsubscribed by creating a redirect from the unsubscribe successful page so that you can get a few responses about why.
Open rates — You should be checking open rates on your welcome email, plus any email that you send to your list. The reason is that if one opens then they unsubscribe immediately, the reason might have something to do with the email itself, but if they just unsubscribe and never open anything it could be something else. Maybe your subject lines, maybe something else.
There is, of course an alternative way to look at this problem of un-subscribes after receipt of welcome email. Your welcome email can be a way to weed through people who really aren’t interested in your information or products but are only after freebies. Did you offer a freebie to this subscriber? If you’re trying to draw people into your list and soft sell to them your products and information, you don’t want them turned off right away by your welcome email. Read it out loud, have a friend read it. Pay someone to judge it if you have to.
Testing is fundamental to ensuring that your websites, welcome emails, ad copy, sales copy and all your content is functioning properly. Third party feedback can be essential in helping you improve your offerings. You can include a survey to people who unsubscribe and ask them why, or you can get professional feedback.
Bruno
5 Tips for Building a Subscriber List
Online marketing is trememdous and most people are on the Internet, so it is safe to say that the Internet is one of the best places to advertise your business. There are several ways to build an opt-in list, but you want to ensure that people are interested in your products. This means that there are several things that you need to do on your website to ensure that you are setting yourself up for success.
1. Set Up a Opt-in form on Your Site
Place this form on the side of your site or directly at the end of your homepage’s content. If a person is reading through your site and they see something they are interested in, they are most likely going to go ahead and sign-up. A good form is simple. It should provide a short statement about your newsletter and have a call to action. You should also tell them that they will be kept updated about the site and then provide an area for their name and email address. The form will automatically save and the send you the information. This is by far the most popular way to build a website opt-in list.
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