How to Build an Email List Using a Free Gift

Always be aware of your market and their needs, so that you can make the right choice. A good quality free gift will help you to get more subscribers. If your free gift is an e-book or e-course written by you your subscribers will get a small taste of what they can expect and be more curious to read your newsletter.

Different gifts you can give:

• Free report: a free report on a hot topic is easy to put together. You can either write it yourself or hire a writer. Basically you can put together some articles that are all about this topic and make it into an informative report. You can then convert it to a PDF document.
• E-book: You can expand your report and make it into an e-book. Or write some articles on a different topic that will interest your subscribers.
• E-course: An e-course is always popular. Here you can split your articles into lessons and make 5 to 7 of them. At the bottom you can have a small ad for an in demand product. In this way you can make a sale as well as get a subscriber.
• Audio: you can make an MP3 audio for your subscribers. This needs to be information on a popular topic or even a recording of you giving tips and talking about useful products.
• Video: a video is even more fun for the subscriber as they can actually see how to do something.

Setting up your website to give your subscribers your gift: In order for your subscriber to receive their free gift they will need to access it. You can put the download on the thank you page or send it by email.

• Landing page: the subscriber will come to this page by means of your promotions. Your landing page will include; headlines, benefits, your call to action and of course your free gift offer.
• Thank you page: After the visitor subscribes they will be taken to the thank you page. Here you will have the link to the download for their free gift. You can also put a little note on your thank you page to “watch your email for the link.” This will reduce theft of your free gift from spammers and hackers. A thank you page is easily accessed by these people, who will pick up your gift without subscribing.

As you can see a freebie or multiple freebies can go a long way in persuading your visitor to subscribe to your newsletter. It is really a little thank you gift and I know as a subscriber to newsletters myself I appreciate a nice little gift for signing up for someone’s newsletter. Again it should be emphasized always give a quality gift even if it is free. Plus in order to attract the right crowd remember to choose your gift especially for your niche market.

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