Posts Tagged ‘email marketing’

Parenting Niche: How to Build Your Opt in List

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

One of the most important things we internet marketers do is building an opt in list. Whether they’re newsletter subscribers, email feed readers, or simply handed over their email for a mini course, your opt in list is one of your most important assets.

This is true for mom bloggers and other bloggers too. It’s often the last thing a blogger thinks about. They’re concerned with getting involved with social media and being seen everywhere, but there is major power in showing up in someone’s email inbox too. ;)

This article from the folks at Mom PLR Ebooks have some great ideas for using Private Label Rights content to quickly build your opt in list.

PLR – A Cost-Effective, Time-Efficient Solution for Building Your Parent-Targeted Mailing List

By now you’ve probably heard of PLR and its use in online business. If not, it stands for “private label rights” and refers to ready-made content that you can purchase, edit and brand for your business. It may come in the form of articles, reports, ebooks or even pre-made sales pages, opt-in (or squeeze) pages, graphics, audio recordings and even video.

There are plenty of uses for PLR from adding content to your website to creating products for sale, but have you considered what an effective tool PLR can be for building your mailing list?

How to Build Your List with PLR

- Brand and publish a PLR report as an ethical bribe for signing up for your list. Your visitor signs up for your list and you give them instant access to a valuable report that helps parents become more informed or solve a problem. Make sure you include mention of the free report with all your sign up boxes.

- If the PLR reports include ecovers, use them to make them more attractive and tangible to your potential subscriber. It also draws the eye into your subscription box when it’s on a page with other content. Parents are busy people, make it easy for them to find your great offer.

- Use PLR opt-in or squeeze page templates to simplify the list-building process. Many PLR providers sell ready-made templates that streamline the process of collecting email addresses. Simply modify the text, insert your autoresponder code and load up the html pages. Promote your opt-in pages in your article bylines, YouTube videos and wherever you publish content.

- Use PLR banners to promote your report giveaway. Put them on your blog, invite your affiliates to use them and swap or purchase ad space to get the word out there. Find out where your target parent market hangs out and be seen.

- Use topic-relevant PLR articles and other content to drive traffic to your opt-in page. Include a recommendation for your mailing list as a place to get further information.

- Don’t stop there. You don’t just have to make one freebie offer to build your list. Publish other opt-in pages with offers that will attract more parents in your targeted audience. The nice thing about PLR is that it’s cost-effective and time-efficient to test out a variety of free offers to build your list.

Key Tip – Make the PLR Your Own

Private label rights means you have the opportunity to make customize the content so it suits your message and your target audience. Although the terms of service with PLR providers varies, in most cases you can do things like add logo, insert case studies, comments from customers, add your own opinions and more.

Parents who subscribe to your mailing list want to get a feel for WHO you are before they buy from you, so taking the time to make PLR uniquely yours can go a long way. That doesn’t mean you need to rewrite it from scratch, but insert elements that will give your readers more insight into your company and what you stand for.

A Free PLR Package to Help You Build Your Parenting Mailing List

It’s amazing how easy it can be to build a list when you’ve got ready-made tools to help you. You can actually get a free PLR list-building package right here. It includes:

- a free report
- opt-in page template and suggested text
- ecovers in 4 sizes
- promotional graphics

…to help you get started. Click here to get yours

Checklist For Your List

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Wow, this is fantastic.

A few days ago I downloaded and read Lynette Chandler’s checklist on setting up your email list. While it’s not technically difficult and I’ve done it dozens of times, it’s a teensy bit tedious and you can easily forget a step.

This checklist is so easy to follow so you don’t miss a thing.

Then Lynette gave me permission to give it to you guys. Ain’t she sweet?

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Download the List Setup To Do’s here

Why Aren’t You My Customer Yet?

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

I just sent this out to my affiliates and thought I would publish it here for those of you who aren’t yet my affiliate (I still love you, but if you want to sign up I would be ever so grateful. Go here. Thanks!).

But first let me say one thing. If you have a Mom-ish website, you need to have some content on your site about Green/Eco-Friendly living. Why? Because it’s hot. Green is the new black you know. :-) Read on.

It’s early on a Saturday morning but I am up working. Why?

Because I wanted to get this article to you right away so you could start earning residual commissions by promoting http://www.NaturalMomPLR.com

Whether or not you serve the “green”, “natural family” market or not, you must have noticed how HUGE this niche is getting. Everyone is going green – and not for St. Patrick’s Day either!

Earth Day is coming up in April. Are you ready? We are! Infact we’re waaaay ahead of ya!

If you’re not already a customer of Natural Mom PLR, check out our article packs. The one on Green Family Living would be perfect to get your feet wet with…. get those articles published on your website or blog and enjoy the additional traffic from keyword searches like the following:

  • earth day
  • earth day projects
  • earth day activities
  • earth day lesson plans
  • when is earth day
  • earthday
  • earth day events
  • what is earth day
  • first earth day
  • earth day ideas
  • earth day for kids

I could go on but I won’t… you get the idea! And goodness, I’ve done all the work for you.

If you have a mom related website, have you added a Green section yet? Why not? :) http://naturalmomplr.com/green-living-plr-articles.htm

Ok here is the article I promised you. Take care and have a great weekend!

p.s. you will find more resources for this and other products here: http://www.affiliatesfun.com

How PLR Benefits Your Business

PLR, or Private Label Rights content is a concept that is mysterious to many, but is really very useful – even essential to the success of online business owners. Purchasing PLR content for use on your websites and in your newsletters or other materials can be quite beneficial to you and your business. It can save you time, money and the headache of having to sit and write all your content yourself.

PLR articles can be edited and changed to suit your specific needs and to personalize the content to your website and your target market, which is one reason that it is so versatile and profitable.

PLR can be used in many different ways. For example, you can use PLR to add fresh, informative content to your website, blog, an e-course or newsletter. You can utilize it to create an e-book or other information product to sell. You can give PLR articles to your affiliates as a means by which to promote your current information products. There are literally dozens of uses. Your imagination’s the limit!

An e-book or e-course can virtually be created from PLR by using multiple articles and breaking them up or piecing them together to form the book or series. Sending out several emails for the e-course over a 5-7 day period will put you in front of those on your list or help you to build a list. Then, the e-book can serve as another stream of income.

If you’re an affiliate marketer and struggle with creating enough content to promote products to your website visitors, PLR can be just the ticket. Product reviews lend themselves extremely well to making affiliate recommendations. Articles can also promote affiliate products as a resource for more information or to solve a problem the reader is experiencing.

Using PLR in your business can free you up some time to spend on other more specialized tasks that are your focus and things that you probably enjoying doing more than creating content.

For PLR content that serves the natural mom and green family market, visit http://www.NaturalMomPLR.com. Get articles, natural product reviews and healthy recipes written by – and for – natural families.

Don’t forget to replace the url with your affiliate link. :-)

Focus: This unsubscriber could teach me a thing or two

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

I’ve said before on my blog that people who unsubscribe from your newsletter can be a good thing for your business.

For one, they can teach you what you might be doing wrong. If all your unsubs say the same thing like: “Your newsleter is crap!” then that’s pretty valuable information.

They can also teach you who your target audience is. If they all say something like: “I’m not a Mom with young kids”, you know that you’re mostly talking to Moms of young kids.

You can even make money from your unsubscribe page. And, sometimes unsubs can teach you something entirely new.

Last weekend, I wrote as a guest on Kelly McCausey’s blog about focus. Focus for me is like a journey, not a destination. Just when I think I’ve focused, I realize I need to refocus!

Awhile back I got an unsubscribe message from a subscriber. It read like this:

Comments:
Please understand, this has nothing to do with your product so much as it has to do with my focus. I am becoming accutely aware of the fact that too many options available to me is only a distraction. You are not the first and only marketer I have recently opted out from.
I have recently chosen two directions on the Internet in which to begin my Internet marketing, and two is overwhelming already. I have to sacrifice from one just to work on the other. Three would certainly be out of the question: Although your product does look interesting…but I think I would go into information overload if I took another step forward with anyone eles’s offers.
I wish you the best in your endeavors.
Take Care.
Sincerely,
John Doe
First of all, aren’t my subscribers nice? :-) He took the time to write a long explanation almost as if he cared about my feelings. But the point is, he realized something very valuable:
That listening to too many people or going in too many different directions would make him lose his place in his marketing efforts.
Pretty smart marketer. ;)
What have you done recently to focus? Or re-focus? I sold a website and am moving completely away from one of my markets. What about you?

Friday Freebie: Make Your Newsletter List Love You

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

I’ve decided each week on Friday to give away some type of freebie here on my blog. This week, it’s a How To Make Your Newsletter List Love You.

This is an 11 page report with tips on getting started with your list: why start a newsletter and how to plan one that your website visitors will enjoy reading, how to get more subscribers to your list and secrets on how to get them to spend money with you.

You can download it here, no strings attached: Newsletter Love

Enjoy! And feel free to share it too.