If you are serious about making sales with email here are 27 mistakes you should avoid. When you’re done reading this check out it’s sister-article, 45 Email Marketing Tactics to Boost Response. I’ve linked it at the bottom so as not to distract you.
- Saying, “Email marketing is dead”
- Wasting opportunities to link to your landing pages and optin forms from your social media accounts.
- Posting frequently on social media but rarely asking people to subscribe to your list.
- Asking people to subscribe to your list without offering something of value in return (e.g. bonus content).
- Offering a ebook as a bonus content (if you actually want the information to be consumed).
- Setting up complex automations for a tiny mailing list (or obsessing about funnels and segmentation).
- Never segmenting your list.
- Rarely mailing your list (less than once a week).
- Giving your readers too few opportunities to opt-in when they come to your website.
- Not using a double-opt-in.
- Asking readers to do anything else on your website other than subscribe to your email list.
- Distracting readers by asking them to share posts and follow you on social media. (if it’s worth sharing they’ll share it manually).
- Using Accelerated Mobile Pages on your website (much faster on mobile but you sacrifice a lot of conversions).
- Only having one content offer.
- Having too many content offers.
- Not resending your email to people who didn’t open it the first time.
- Not pruning your list every few months.
- Listening to people who say, “No one reads long emails”.
- Only using email as a broadcast/distribution channel (like social media).
- Making them come back to your website to read a blog post when you can just put the whole post in your email.
- Not learning how to write emails that persuade the reader to click through.
- Buying a complex email software like Infusionsoft when you’re not ready for it.
- Signing up for Mailchimp (or any email tool) just because it’s free.
- Writing weak copy on your landing pages and opt-in forms.
- Not understanding email is the handwritten letter of our time.
- Ignoring people who write you while you’re still a nobody and perfectly able to reply.
- Never selling anything to your list.
How many of these mistakes are you making and what are you going to do to fix them? Let me know in the comments.
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