📬 How to start a mailing list in 7 days 📬
[A THREAD]
You already know you need one. You know how important it is for building a sustainable business.
So why don't you have one?
It feels too big, right?
Commit to these steps, and you'll have a mailing list in 7 days:
[A THREAD]
You already know you need one. You know how important it is for building a sustainable business.
So why don't you have one?
It feels too big, right?
Commit to these steps, and you'll have a mailing list in 7 days:
/Day 1: Preparations
-Register an account (@MailerLite is good)
Learn how to:
- create a landing page
- make an automated sequence
- send out a single email to the list
Give yourself a pat on the back. Baby steps!
-Register an account (@MailerLite is good)
Learn how to:
- create a landing page
- make an automated sequence
- send out a single email to the list
Give yourself a pat on the back. Baby steps!
/Day 2: Define your knowledge
Make a list:
- What do you know a lot about?
- What kind of tools can you use?
- Which problems can you help others to solve?
- For each of the above, try to write several "sub-problems". Divide the big into smaller parts.
Make a list:
- What do you know a lot about?
- What kind of tools can you use?
- Which problems can you help others to solve?
- For each of the above, try to write several "sub-problems". Divide the big into smaller parts.
/Day 3: Choose your audience
Decide on one very defined target audience that will get A LOT OF VALUE from your knowledge.
What:
- position or title do they have?
- industry are they in?
- do they want? Goals?
- are they struggling with?
Pick a small niche!
Decide on one very defined target audience that will get A LOT OF VALUE from your knowledge.
What:
- position or title do they have?
- industry are they in?
- do they want? Goals?
- are they struggling with?
Pick a small niche!
/Day 4: Plan your freebie
You are gonna create a 5 day email course:
- Choose 1 of the sub-problems from day 2, that your audience would LOVE to solve.
- Divide the sollution into 5 steps - one email a day for as many days
- Write a simple brief for each step.
You are gonna create a 5 day email course:
- Choose 1 of the sub-problems from day 2, that your audience would LOVE to solve.
- Divide the sollution into 5 steps - one email a day for as many days
- Write a simple brief for each step.
/Day 5: Start writing the emails
- Create an automated sequence
- 1st one should be an introduction to the problem and sollution
- Then, help solve the problem step-by-step
- Add as much value in each email as you possibly can.
- Create an automated sequence
- 1st one should be an introduction to the problem and sollution
- Then, help solve the problem step-by-step
- Add as much value in each email as you possibly can.
/Day 6: Create your landing page
(- Finish writing your emails)
- Use the built in tool to create a landing page where people can opt-in
- Describe WHO it is for
- Describe the problem it will help them solve
- Ask a few people to try it out and give you feedback
(- Finish writing your emails)
- Use the built in tool to create a landing page where people can opt-in
- Describe WHO it is for
- Describe the problem it will help them solve
- Ask a few people to try it out and give you feedback
/Day 7: Time to launch!
It won't be perfect. But it is something much better than nothing!
- Share you landing page on social media
- Send DMs to your friends and colleagues
- For the next 5 days, people will get emails from you
It won't be perfect. But it is something much better than nothing!
- Share you landing page on social media
- Send DMs to your friends and colleagues
- For the next 5 days, people will get emails from you
/Day 8+: write more emails
Now, you have everything you need to start growing.
While your 5 automated emails are being sent, start writing your next one.
Once a week, give people more value by talking about one of the sub-problems you listed.
Now, you have everything you need to start growing.
While your 5 automated emails are being sent, start writing your next one.
Once a week, give people more value by talking about one of the sub-problems you listed.
Want to know how to build an even better mailing list?
I've written a free ebook, download it here:
jenslennartsson.com/emailmarketing/
I've written a free ebook, download it here:
jenslennartsson.com/emailmarketing/
