Hi, I'm Aisha and I love helping others achieve financial independence though blogging. I run a portfolio of 6 blogs and teach others how to grow and monetise their blogs using evergreen strategies that don't stress you out! Follow me for valuable blogging tips and digital nomad hacks.
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7 Tips to Increase Your Email Open Rate!
Published about 2 years agoΒ β’Β 4 min read
Today, I want to talk about email marketing and how it can make you A LOT of money.
Having an email community can also prevent heart attacks every time you hear of a platform algorithm change because you are in FULL control of your email subscribers and traffic πͺ
But first, I want you to learn from my mistakes.
*Story Time*
You see, back when I was a newbie blogger, I didn't see the value of having an email list.
I knew every expert blogger, and their cat recommended building one.
So I stuck a generic opt-in form on my blog and *tried* to do what everyone else was doingβ¦.
I sent salesly emails.
I sent boastful emails trying to show I was an βexpertβ in my niche.
I covered topics everyone else was talking about
The result?
Over 5,000 email subscribers, but none of them cared.
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Low open and click-through rates
Bored rude readers
And many unsubscribes
Someone even told me to jump off a cliff β¦..
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So, utterly fed up and frustrated, I deleted over 5,000 subscribers and decided email marketing wasn't for me π Fast forward a few years, and Iβve rebuilt my email community to way more than 5,000 subscribers, but now, I get different feedback from my emails :
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Now my subscribers care about me, and vice versa
They buy the products I recommend and trust the brands I work with
They also ask for my affiliate links to help me earn a commission!
My email subscribers are a bright, engaged bunch (that's YOU, by the way!), and they reply with valuable questions and feedback.
I also get a lot of traffic to my blogs from my emails, which increases my blog ad, affiliate, and product revenue. β
Clearly, past failures should not hold you back from future success.
I am going to share a few things I did that helped me grow my email subscribers and improve my engagement and open rates so you, too, can build your own email community :
1- I created a useful Opt-In-freebie instead of having just a generic Opt-In form
This enticed readers to hand over their precious emails in return for something useful
Here are some of my opt-in freebies for my first blog: β
Some of the links in the email are affiliate links. You received this email because you signed up for my newsletter, for a freebie, or purchased one of my products or courses.
To unsubscribe from all emails, including updates about courses & products you may have purchased, click here:β
Hi, I'm Aisha and I love helping others achieve financial independence though blogging. I run a portfolio of 6 blogs and teach others how to grow and monetise their blogs using evergreen strategies that don't stress you out! Follow me for valuable blogging tips and digital nomad hacks.
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