Step 7 – Develop A Long Game & Plan Your Future Business
We touched a little at the end of the previous session on the whole idea of moving forward and continuing to improve our email marketing game.
Trust me, there’s always room for improvement, by everyone.
While an audit like this is a great way to update and improve things, it’s just as important to keep an eye on things and tweak them more regularly going forward. At the same time, it’s easy to put this task on the back burner and focus on new and exciting or more urgent tasks instead. That’s why it’s important to make a plan to keep working on and improving your auto-responder sequences going forward.
Let’s start by looking at some of the things we already talked about.
It’s a good idea to review your lead magnet and consider changing it out every three to six months. Go ahead and put that on the calendar.
You also want to continue to add new auto-responder messages to the list. You can either set aside a particular day of the week to do that, or work on it in larger batches. Let’s say you’re going to add one new email message per week. You could put it on the calendar as a weekly activity that gets done every Tuesday morning for example.
Or, if you prefer to work in batches, you could set aside a day every couple of months where you write and add 3 months’ worth of emails.
Find a rhythm that works for you and then get in the habit of doing it regularly.
Next, I want to share three other tasks related to list building and email marketing that you want to plan on doing regularly going forward.
They are all important, just as everything we’ve talked about sduring this audit has been, but try and make them a priority, put them on the calendar and get them done.
Your list and your business will grow that much faster if you do.
The first thing is to make it a habit to look at your opt-in stats.
We talked in earlier posts about how much you can learn from them. Look at open rates and unsubscribes in particular. The most important stat for your bottom line is of course how many people take you up on your offers. Study any email offers or solo emails that are converting well for you and try to do more along those lines.
Next, you want to look at your opt-in conversion rates.
Play around with your opt-in forms and pages, the placement of the forms, the copy etc. and see if you can get that percentage to go up. Most auto-responder services give you the ability to split test your forms and pages. Take advantage of that. Set up tests and always have one running. Continue to try to beat your previous conversion rate.
And finally, consider setting up several different opt-in funnels.
You can target specific subsets of your target audience with special funnels designed just for them. This allows you to speak directly to them and their particular needs.
Of course you could also go wide by setting up a funnel on a related topic that your current readers may also be interested in.
But above all, keep growing your list by setting up new funnels with new auto responders on a regular basis. That will ensure longevity!
Good bye for now & Good Luck.
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Tim Dodd www.3dConsultingServices.com Magnifying Your Mission : Multiplying Your Reach |
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