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By David Hudson
In order to make a success of your website or online business,
it is obvious that you will need customers. Although everyone
who visits your page will not become a customer, they must
have
some interest in your product or service that brought them
there
in the first place. Therefore, they are potentially a
customer.
Potential customers are much more likely to become actual
customers if you make an effort to keep in touch with them.
This essential marketing tool is called an opt-in list.
An opt-in list will allow you to keep track of your potential
customers by obtaining their email address in order to keep
them informed about the latest updates for your product or
service. You can create your own opt-in list or you can use an
opt-in list creator that is available online from several
sources. The benefits of creating your own opt-in list is that
you will be able to send personal messages to the potential
customers and they will not need to do anything. Whereas with
commercial opt-in lists, the customer will receive a generated
message and will be required to verify their acceptance of the
message.
An important part of creating a successful opt-in list is to
keep in mind that potential customer will visit your site from
many places and may not see your homepage. Therefore, it is
imperative to make it possible to subscribe to the mailing
list
from all pages of your site. You should not, however, make the
subscription information a focus point of every page. It is a
good idea to put it at the bottom or top of the page where it
is visible but not distracting. It is also a good idea to
promote your mailing list by using a give-away. You could
offer
a service, a discount, or an ebook. You can also drive
potential
subscriber to join your mailing list by writing articles that
will benefit the reader and at the same time, build your
credibly as an expert. You can include the subscription
information in the byline of the articles. You could also
write
an ebook with your subscription information on each page,
which
will allow the customer to easily access the information and
join the list with ease.
Once you have created the mailing list and now have your
potential customers within your grasp, it is your
responsibility to keep them updated and interested. Provide
them with quality information that is up-to-date and of
interest to them. Offer discounts or a newsletter, something
that the reader can use. This will keep them interested and
will drive them to your site over and over. Eventually, they
may make a purchase, and if not, they will be informed enough
to use word of mouth advertising for your site.
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