This post is part of my Write 31 Days Challenge series, based on results of the Online Christian Creative Survey. Click here to see all posts in the series Hold on to your keyboard. I’m about to say something that goes against conventional online growth advice. You may not need to build an email list. What? … Read more
Over the last couple of years, I’ve written a lot about growing your email list if you are building any kind of online presence. Some list building strategies can feel manipulative or self-promoting and rub roughly against our faith-based sensibilities. But giveaways are right up our alley. We value giving over receiving and when we … Read more
Whether you call it a challenge, a drip campaign, an autoresponder or an email series, mulit-part emails are one of the hottest ways to grow your email list. Need some proof? How about these: Christian blogger Arabah Joy has a 40-day prayer challenge that helped grow her list into the thousands …. ten times in … Read more
By now, you probably know how important it is to build your email list as you grow your online presence. Your email list allows you to control when, how and where you interact with your audience. And you probably already have things set up well on your site to collect subscriber emails … forms, pop-ups, … Read more
If you’ve been following along this month, you know that we are looking at the results from the Christian Bloggers Survey and the top four struggles you identified in the survey. So far, we have looked at: #3 Balancing Family and Ministry/Blogging #1 Increasing Traffic (Part 1 and Part 2) In this post, we’ll look at … Read more
Pop-ups, content upgrades, subscriber “freemiums”. All the tools of building an email list. Every article on growing your blog or online business will remind you how important it is to build a list of subscribers. It’s the one marketing channel that you have complete control over (if you ignore the pesky problem of email services … Read more