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Connections 09: More Subscribers Rule

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 by Shelly Griffin
This  morning I am attending Connections 09 breakout session focused on growing your email marketing subscriber base with Morgan Stewart serving as commentator.  This concept is a great follow-up to my recent posts on how to grow your email marketing list.

8:30am - 50% of consumers consider non-permission email from companies that they are familiar with as Spam...that number has doubled year over year.

8:45am - what are they keys to growing your subscriber base?  Asking basic questions of your subscribers...do they want to receive email from you and what kind of email do they want to receive?  Then what?  Make sure you have a strong follow-up after registration.  Don't leave your subscribers hanging. 

9:00am - Email and social networking...building stronger relationships through social networks like Twitter and Facebook.  You can offer exclusive discounts through these networks to drive subscribers to your email list.  Ensure that the process is a closed loop...getting subscribers to a landing page with good creative and a good call to action and then getting the data you need to be able to market to that subscriber.  Knowing the source from where your subscribers some...whether from co-registration pages, social networks, referrals (forward-to-a-friend).  Between the source and the data, you can drive the right message to each subscriber and stop "marketing to the masses".

9:10am - List append is "bad"...it may make you money but you just left the taste of spam in your subscribers mouth. 

9:15am - the number of tactics and touch-points that can be used to grow ur subscriber list can and should be many...your subscribers are not just sitting at their computers looking through the internet.  They are on the go, so you need to be where they are - mobile, Facebook, Twitter, print - everywhere.

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