How to Grow Your Email List CheatSheet

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• 1. Add a Call-to-Action to Every Article You Share

• Find most popular articles from influencers who you want to connect with.
• Use LeadGrab to add box or welcome gate with call the action to your landing page on their articles!
• Great way how to get traffic by sharing influencers’ stuff and build relationships with them at the same time. Win win...

• 2. Optimize thank you page

• Setup a SmartBribe to give away something even more awesome on the thank you page in exchange for people telling their friends about your lead magnet (giveaway)

• 3. Welcome Gate (Homepage)   

• Use Welcome gate for the first time visitors.
• Offer most converting lead magnet you own.
• You can use Leadpages to set up welcome gate.
• Examples of completed welcome gates (homepages): Videofruit, Mixergy, Michael Hyatt

• 4. Ask your Friends

• Contact all you email contacts, Facebook friends, LinkedIn contacts, Twitter followers, etc.
• Send them a simple question like: „I'm working on a weekly newsletter teaching people _____. Is that something you're interested in learning more about?”
• If they reply “yes” ask for their email address and put them into your autoresponder.

• 5. Promote your Best Content

• Find out what is your most popular blog post with a content upgrade.
• Then look for similar content from influencers in your niche and find out who shared their content (using Buzzsumo, the cheaper alternative is TrafficFresh).
• Contact 50 most influential people from that list and let them know about your article (It must be better than influencer’s article) and ask for a share.

• 6. Contest

• Every three to six months create viral contest & giveaway using Kingsumo plugin or Gleam.
• If you’re not sure how to do this - read this article on Bryan Harris’s site - How to use a giveaway to get 2,239 email subscribers in 10 days!

• 7. Exit Intent Popup

• Offer your best lead magnet with great value as an exit intent pop up (Be sure your lead magnet is really great)
• Let the visitor pick between something silly before showing the Optin Form.
• Example: „Yes, I want to lose weight“ „No, I want to be fat.“
• Resource: PopUp Domination

• 8. Author Byline

• Put a call to action next to the author of the blog post.  For Example „Written by Jan Orsula – Get weekly updates of new posts here.“

• 9. Use Content Upgrades

• Log into your google analytics account and find the most performing blog post.
• Then think how you could make that post better, how to add extra value. (How to guide, checklist, cheat sheet, slideshow, video, ebook..)
• Create the content upgrade and announce it at the bottom and the end of the post using content upgrade plugin.

• 10. Scroll Box

• The same process like with exit intent pop up. When a visitor scrolls down to 50% of the page - scroll box with moc performing lead magnet pop up. (Use Sumome or OptinMonster)

• 11. Social Media

• Replace link to your website with the link to your landing page on all social media accounts you’re using.