[Business Ignite] Grow Your Email List Massively in 2014 With Staci Ann
About Staci Ann
Staci Ann is a list-building and sales funnel coach who helps entrepreneurs design a sales funnel ATM that attracts your ideal clients to your products on autopilot so you can spend less time “selling” and more time enjoying your luxurious lifestyle. Connect with her at StaciAnn.com
[E09] Email Marketing Mistakes. #3 Is My Biggest Pet Peeve.
It’s pet peeve time! In today’s episode I share my email marketing pet peeves.
I bring you:
3 Signs You’re Doing Email Marketing Wrong
Unsubscribe? What unsubscribe? Exactly.
Holding people hostage to your mailing list is not going to get you anywhere. Especially if they never opted-in in the first place.
It’s 2014, if you *still* don’t have an unsubscribe button on your email marketing messages you are doing it wrong.
And I’m not trying to be cute. You really are doing it wrong. As in- it’s not legal.
Automatically adding me to your mailing list.
Handing you a biz card at a networking event is not the equivalent of me signing up to your mailing list.
Please, don’t automatically add people. We have to choose to opt-in.
And.. if you’re going to add me to your mailing list (without my permission) let me at least get off, easily, k? (see point one). None of that hit unsubscribe and then ask me to re-enter my email address and then count from 10-1 backward business. Keep it simple.
Email marketing without an email marketing service is not email marketing.
Say that 5x fast.
See point above. Adding hundreds of people to an email message (don’t get me started on the ones that don’t BCC) and telling them about your latest/greatest widget/blog post/sale/telesummit/FINAL OFFER OMG is *not* email marketing.
Stay classy and sign up for a service like Mailchimp (and it’s free).
Do it right or don’t do it all.
And this.
The Email/Facebook/Twitter/’insert other social media’ Bomber
In the history of mankind has this approach ever worked? This is the offline equivalent of a sleazy-car salesman or the telemarketer who is trying to sell you a device that you can plug in to your outlets to ‘save electricity’. I kid you not.
I mean seriously?! I’ve got nothing better to do than vote for a complete stranger..EVERY DAY of OCTOBER. Why not the rest of the year?!. #lesigh
Don’t be *that* guy. Don’t do online what you wouldn’t do in real life. Unless you are in the business of annoying people, it doesn’t work.
Any other email-marketing faux-pas you’d like to share, let me know in the comments!
[Business Ignite] 3 Tricks To Better Blogging With Jules Taggart
About Jules Taggart
Jules is the founder of amp & pivot, a content marketing agency and has started a BLAH Rebellion, showing entrepreneurs and small business owners how to tell their story in a bold and unforgettable way.
[Business Ignite] How To Create Systems In Your Business With Natasha of SystemsRock
About Natasha aka SystemsChick
Natasha Vorompiova is the founder of Systems Rock where she breaks the stereotype that systems are just for big enterprises and put damaging constraints on creative spirits. Her unique approach nourishes the creativity of entrepreneurs while helping them establish the essential foundational systems that will enable their businesses to truly flourish. Grab your FREE copy of ‘Systems Chick’s Guide to Transforming Busyness Into Business’ at SystemsRock.