Bob Coleman is the owner and creator of Bob Coleman Recommends. He is also the principal at Rhema Web Marketing, an SEO/Social Media Marketing firm that helps small businesses get results online.
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Never fails. Every month I get a question from someone and they ask should I be building my email list or my social media profiles? And you know what? Here’s the answer if you’re not building your email list you are an idiot. If you are not using an email address checker tool, well you should consider it now! This is according to Derek Halpern, the founder of Social Triggers, and he stills want to hit his head against the wall for not building his email list sooner on every single one of his websites. So let’s get into it. I got two numbers for you three hundred and forty-two hundred.
So let’s get into it. I got two numbers for you three hundred and forty-two hundred. OK, a few months ago when I updated my Twitter account and I sent the link to my Twitter followers I sent about three hundred clicks to my website, but when I shared that same link to a similar amount of email subscribers I sent forty-two hundred clicks to my website. Now I know you can’t spend clicks but those clicks are people the more people you get to your website the more money you can make.
More people more clicks more money. Why does email outperform twitter by such a large margin, even though you are sending links to the same amount of people? Look at it like this. How many e-mails the do people get per day? A hundred? How many Twitter updates do they get per day? Thousands? What’s more likely to be seen? One in a hundred or one in a thousand? Obviously one in a hundred.
That said I know I’m talking about Twitter right but I’ve seen the same exact thing with Facebook and Google plus. If I send an update to my Facebook or Google+ following I find that it drastically under performs email as well. Now since email performs so much better than social media you would think building an email list is harder but in my experience, that’s not the case. As a matter of fact, I think building a social media following is harder than building an email list. I’ll explain When I sent about a thousand clicks to an opt-in page about fifty percent of those people then went ahead and opted into my email.
So a thousand people fifty percent five hundred people became email subscribers. On a whole other twist of fate when I sent a thousand clicks to my Twitter page I didn’t even gain five hundred new followers. The Twitter page actually underperformed an email opt-in page people were seemingly less likely to follow me on Twitter than they were to subscribe to my email. Now, this is strange because e-mail crushes social media. The question is how can you begin growing your email list? It turns out that people can start growing their lists today with these two simple strategies. Number one
Number one, add opt-in forms to the right places on your website. Alright, that’s it seriously just add opt-in forms to the right places. one of my readers Laura of momables.com followed my advice and where to place opt-in forms and here’s what happened she went from getting between five and eight email subscribers per day new email subscribers between five and eight email subscribers to twenty-five to thirty-eight email subscribers per day.
That’s a huge increase. All by adding the email forms to the right places on her website. So where are the right places to add the email sign up forms? I’d add one to the top of your sidebar, one to the top of your pages and one in your about page and I’d even consider using a pop-up.
Number two I’d eliminate clutter from your web design because I believe clutter is the Number one conversion killer on web designs.
Alright, and I talked about this study before but to really drive this point home Sheena Iyengar did this famous jams study where she discovered that people when confronted with too many different decisions to make too many options they tend to walk away from that decision process and choose no options. So when you have a cluttered website and there are too many things for people to click on, people often decide to click on nothing and leave your site never to return. And check it, the same goes for email sign up forms. If there’s too much clutter on your website people are not going to sign up for your mailing list because they’re going to be overwhelmed with too many options.
So are you building your email list as your main priority? If yes congratulations go ahead and leave a comment below this video letting me know how it’s working for you. If no I want to hear about that too but I have a fair warning I might make fun of you. That said do you know anyone who is not building their email list as their main priority? Go ahead and send them a link to this post to help change their mind. They’ll probably thank you and me later.
And here’s my blatant self-promotion telling you to go to WPOptinBoxes to get on my email list because building your email list should be priority number one.
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There are millions of folks competing for sales online. The goal is to set yourself apart from the competition. One way to accomplish this is with video.
Online video helps you sell more…
Use Video to Improve Conversions
81% of people feature their video on their brand website
52% of marketers believe video marketing is effective for brand awareness
67% of marketers found video marketing somewhat successful
Adding video to your email marketing can increase click-through rates by 96%
Having a video on your website makes it 53X more likely that you’ll appear on Page 1 of Google’s search results
Consumers who watch product videos are 85% more likely to buy products compared to those who don’t watch a video (Internet Retailer)
Watching one minute of video is the equivalent of reading 1.8 million words! (Forrester Research)
There are lots of ways that you, as an online marketer can boost your income recording and posting first-rate, full motion and streaming screen-captured videos.
Nearly anyone (including you) can put together amazing videos, from multi-media guides and step-by-step reports out there online.
Shoppok is becoming one of the largest classifieds all over the USA and a great way to make money. While it was started as a neighborhood market of buyers and sellers that meet on a regular basis to buy and sell products, it has now evolved into one of the biggest online classifieds with tons of buyers and sellers. A lot of people visit the site every day looking for something they want or need, and lots of sellers to list their products.
The approach is like having your customers seated next to you and watching your desktop, as you show them the things they need to see and hear. All this executed step by step.
7 Ways To Use Video Marketing to Drive Traffic & Conversions
Increase Conversions with Product Videos
Drive Traffic With How-to Videos
Onboard Users with Product Walkthroughs
Reduce Customer Service Cases With Screencasts
Create Social Proof With Testimonials
Increase Sales With Video Ads
Retarget Website Visitors
With Video You can…
Create eye-catching multimedia reports that are demonstrated to enhance sales because all the senses are engaged. This also has the propensity to cut down skepticism among difficult customers, which is why partnering with a conversion rate optimization agency can be particularly effective in driving better results.
Greatly reduce refunds and other customer issues by displaying visually how to work with your product and how to do it properly. Grievances will also be minimized because all the facts and the presentation are there for the customers to just see and hear about.
Market affiliate products and services using visual presentations. This is a reliable way of redirecting your viewers straight to your affiliate website after they are finished with the video. Make the most of the presentation by putting your website location in the end and make them go there directly if they want more information.
Post valuable info-products that you can easily sell for a much higher pricey including video content.
Reduce misunderstanding with your clients. Quickly show them what they sought in the first place is makes them recognize clearly the substance of your affiliate training course. The good thing about multimedia is, nothing much can go wrong. It is there already.
These suggestions are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to using video to achieve real results with your online marketing.
But nothing happens unless you can get your videos ranked on YouTube and Google. I’ve been using a new web-based, video marketing technology to get page 1 rankings in Google in 48 hours or less. You can learn more about it here.
If you’re not using video to boost your online profits, let me know why in the comments section below.
Use Video To Increase Click-Through Rates and more…
More and more video is appearing online – both personal videos people share with friends and videos marketers are using to sell their products, build traffic to their websites, as products themselves, and to build their lists.
The infographic below tells the story…
When you talk about using video for list-building, most people immediately think of offering downloadable videos as bait to get people to opt-in – and that’s a very good use of video. But there’s an even better way to use video for building your list – Video Squeeze Pages!
Watch This An Example Of An AWESOME Opt-In Video
The results from video opt-in pages are extremely encouraging – marketers are reporting much higher opt-in rates with video squeeze pages than the standard HTML pages that were there before. And that’s not really surprising if you think about life in the offline world.
It’s human nature that we prefer doing business with people we know, as opposed to big, faceless corporations. You like dealing with Bob the grocer, Mary the hairdresser, Donna the newspaper girl and Billy the pool boy. But what emotion is called up by thinking about the government, the banks, the telephone and cable companies or an oil company? Which of those two groups would you rather your money was going to?
The same will most likely prove to be the case online, based on the results being achieved from video. When you do a quick video inviting people to sign up and telling them about your offer or your incentive, they’re doing business with YOU – a real, live human being they can probably relate to, as opposed to a big faceless website.
You’ve been to a number of the huge websites – from corporate sites to the search engines. Feel any emotional attachments to them? Would you care if they disappeared tomorrow and were replaced by another? Would you even notice?
But if you frequent a marketer’s site, one that presents themselves in videos for you, the connection is stronger. Not as strong as if you’d met them in person, perhaps, but MUCH more so than a corporate site.
And THAT’S the reason emerging for the fact that video squeeze pages get better results. And like anything in the realm of marketing, better results means more profit – and that more and more people will be following suit until the market is saturated – if that level CAN be reached online.
9 ways you can use video to build your opt-in lists.
Add annotations to YouTube videos.
Include a pitch to join your list at the end of every video
Of course, you’ll never realize the benefits of using video to build you list unless you take action. The truth is, it’s easier than ever to create video content thanks to Smartphones. With technology that you use every day, you can create a video for an opt-in page in minutes.
In a future post, I’ll be showing you step-by-step how I create simple videos for opt-in pages using my cell phone.
So, let me know what you think in the comments below. If you’re using video to build your list, how? If not, what’s stopping you from getting started?
