{"id":1229,"date":"2010-08-23T00:25:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T06:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2010-08-27T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:57:09","slug":"12-ways-to-create-a-mailing-list-that-will-sell-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/12-ways-to-create-a-mailing-list-that-will-sell-books\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Ways to Create a Mailing List that Will Sell Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/a-marketing-expert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1246\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"a-marketing-expert\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/a-marketing-expert.png\" alt=\"a-marketing-expert\" width=\"358\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/a-marketing-expert.png 995w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/a-marketing-expert-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from &#8220;The Book Marketing Expert newsletter,&#8221; a free ezine offering book promotion and publicity tips and techniques. <a href=\"https:\/\/amarketingexpert.infusionsoft.com\/link\/601fd960\/e66860\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amarketingexpert.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div>We&#8217;ve  all heard this: capture email addresses on your website so you can  market to them again. So we capture email addresses and then we wonder  what to do with them. What if you don&#8217;t really have news? Do you mail  the list anyway? How can I monetize my list and how much is too much?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve  had The Book Marketing Expert Newsletter for over eight years now and  the newsletter, bursting in content, is one of the best promotional  tools my company has. We&#8217;ve never done a single piece of advertisement  for my firm, all of it has come from word of mouth, online, and our  newsletter.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><!--more-->The key to a good newsletter list is simple really  and the biggest piece of this is you&#8217;ve got to have something useful to  say. While your friends and family might enjoy hearing about your latest  book signing, people who happened onto your site and subscribed to your  ezine might become bored with this information and unsubscribe. If you  have a list or are considering starting one, consider these tips to get  you going and help you maximize your newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1. Timing<\/span>:  How often you send the newsletter will really depend on your crowd but I  don&#8217;t recommend anything less than once a month. I know some people who  send a quarterly newsletter and that&#8217;s fine if you don&#8217;t really have  much to say, but if you&#8217;re looking for content so you can send the  newsletter more, then read on, I have some ideas and ways of maximizing  the use of content for your newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2. Distribution<\/span>:  How will you send your newsletter? If your plan is to email it forget  it unless you have less than 100 subscribers. Anything over that and you  should consider using a service like Aweber or Constant Contact. These  places will handle your subscribed and unsubscribes for you. If you  start mailing to a list larger than 50 from your email service, you run  the risk of getting shut down for spam.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">3. Easy Opt In<\/span>:  Make it easy for people to sign up. Make sure there&#8217;s a sign up on your  website, preferably the home page and then a mention of it again on  your most popular page which, for most of us, is our blog. The opt-in  will take new subscribers to your welcome page (which we&#8217;ll talk about  in a minute) and handle sending your new readers right into the mailing  list.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">4. Ethical Bribe<\/span>:  So what will you give readers to get their email? It might not be enough  just to tout that you have this fabulous newsletter, in fact often it  isn&#8217;t. Having something that they&#8217;ll want, a key item, e-book, tip sheet  whatever will entice readers to sign up for your newsletter. Here&#8217;s a  hint: give them something they&#8217;ll have to keep referring to again and  again so that your name and book stays in front of them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">5. Free<\/span>:  There are some folks in the industry who try to charge for their  newsletter. Listen, I get it. A newsletter is a lot of work but if done  properly, it is a key promotional tool and therefore, should be free.  Magazines can charge for subscriptions, you can&#8217;t. Make it free. Don&#8217;t  even put a value on it. I know folks who do this too. I think the value  of the newsletter should be evident in its content, not in the price you  chose to put on it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">6. Welcome pages<\/span>:  After someone signs up for your newsletter, what will they see? A  simple thank you page on your website is a waste of an opportunity. Make  sure there is a welcome page that shares their freebie (the ethical  bribe) and tells them about one or two of your products. It&#8217;s also a  great idea to offer a special on this welcome page as a &#8220;thank you&#8221; for  signing up to your mailing list.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">7. Check your facts<\/span>:  The quickest way to lose subscribers is to publish a newsletter full of  factual mistakes. Do your fact and link checking prior to it going out.  Seriously. It&#8217;s important not just to the credibility of your  newsletter, but to you as well. I mean who wants to buy something from  someone who can&#8217;t even be bothered to check their facts? Also, please  get your newsletter edited. I&#8217;ve seen some newsletter with a disclaimer  that they are unedited. If you aren&#8217;t an editor and can&#8217;t afford one,  see if you can get it done for free and then blurb the person in your  newsletter as a way to reciprocate. Remember, everything is your resume.  Would you send a CV to a potential employer that was full of typos. I  didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">8. Promote<\/span>:  This is key because once you decide to do a newsletter you&#8217;ll want to  promote it. You can do so by adding it to your signature line in email  (sign up for my newsletter and get something), you should also never go  to a book event without a signup sheet, and add your newsletter info to  the byline of any article you write that gets syndicated online.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">9. Collaborate<\/span>:  If you&#8217;re strapped for content and time, why not open up your  newsletter to other collaborators? Our newsletter, The Book Marketing  Expert, is a collaboration of a lot of voices. We have publishing tips,  web site tips, social media tips, and the main article. It&#8217;s a great way  to let others have a voice in your newsletter which helps to promote  them and the best part of this is that if you have a collaborative  newsletter you can all promote it to the different people you touch in  your travels. This will help increase your sign up exponentially because  you&#8217;re hitting that many more people. Your collaborators should be in  the industry, but specializing in different areas. This will give your  newsletter the flavor and interest it needs. Don&#8217;t worry about sharing  your newsletter space with others, we&#8217;ve done it this way for years and  it&#8217;s a great way to build lots of useful content.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">10. Be generous<\/span>:  Give lots of good information. By giving away good information people  will want to read it, when they read it you will build a readership and  loyal following, not just for your newsletter but your books and  products as well.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">11. Balance<\/span>:   The key to a good newsletter that will not only get read, but passed  along is balance. By this I mean balance giving with selling. My general  rule of thumb is 95% helpful information and 5% selling, while that  number may seem low trust me, this is a great balance and yes, you can  offer specials, and offers to your readers but that&#8217;s the 5%.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">12. Content creation<\/span>:  While it may seem daunting to have to write content for a newsletter  every month or every two weeks, you can use and reuse this content  because not everyone will find you in the same place. What I mean by  this is that some folks will find you on your blog, others might find  you on Twitter and still others will find you by searching online and  happen on an article you&#8217;ve syndicated. Once I create content for The  Book Marketing Expert Newsletter that content is then redistributed and  reused in places like our blog, my Twitter account (<a href=\"https:\/\/amarketingexpert.infusionsoft.com\/link\/601fd960\/602160\" target=\"_blank\">@bookgal<\/a>) our Facebook Fan Page <a href=\"https:\/\/amarketingexpert.infusionsoft.com\/link\/601fd960\/632ea0\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bookmarketingame?ref=ts<\/a> or on my page at The Huffington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/amarketingexpert.infusionsoft.com\/link\/601fd960\/663be0\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/penny-c-sansevieri<\/a>.  Use and reuse your content, though not too much. I generally will use  my articles in one or two other places and that&#8217;s it, but the point is  they can be used again.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind a good newsletter is one  that not only brings your readers in but keeps them in. It&#8217;s the  marketing funnel we marketing people love to talk about so much, once  you get someone to sign up, stay on their radar screen with helpful  content. Once you do, you&#8217;ll find not only loyal readers, but loyal  buyers as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from &#8220;The Book Marketing Expert newsletter,&#8221; a free ezine offering book promotion and publicity tips and techniques. <a href=\"https:\/\/amarketingexpert.infusionsoft.com\/link\/601fd960\/e66860\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amarketingexpert.com<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from &#8220;The Book Marketing Expert newsletter,&#8221; a free ezine offering book promotion and publicity tips and techniques. http:\/\/www.amarketingexpert.com We&#8217;ve all heard this: capture email addresses on your website so you can market to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,323],"tags":[345,344,239],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-marketing","category-book-sales","tag-mailing-list","tag-penny-c-sansevieri","tag-sell-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>12 Ways to Create a Mailing List that Will Sell Books  &#183; Writer&#039;s Fun Zone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/12-ways-to-create-a-mailing-list-that-will-sell-books\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"12 Ways to Create a Mailing List that Will Sell Books  &#183; Writer&#039;s Fun Zone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reprinted from &#8220;The Book Marketing Expert newsletter,&#8221; a free ezine offering book promotion and publicity tips and techniques. http:\/\/www.amarketingexpert.com We&#8217;ve all heard this: capture email addresses on your website so you can market to&#046;&#046;&#046;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/12-ways-to-create-a-mailing-list-that-will-sell-books\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Writer&#039;s Fun Zone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bethbarany\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-08-23T06:25:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-08-27T19:57:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/a-marketing-expert.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"995\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Beth Barany\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bethbarany\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@BethBarany\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Beth Barany\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/writersfunzone.com\\\/blog\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/23\\\/12-ways-to-create-a-mailing-list-that-will-sell-books\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/writersfunzone.com\\\/blog\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/23\\\/12-ways-to-create-a-mailing-list-that-will-sell-books\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Beth Barany\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/writersfunzone.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9716e70facf67ac5be22883cfdbc684b\"},\"headline\":\"12 Ways to Create a Mailing List that Will Sell Books\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-08-23T06:25:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-08-27T19:57:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/writersfunzone.com\\\/blog\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/23\\\/12-ways-to-create-a-mailing-list-that-will-sell-books\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1417,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/writersfunzone.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/writersfunzone.com\\\/blog\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/23\\\/12-ways-to-create-a-mailing-list-that-will-sell-books\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/writersfunzone.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/a-marketing-expert.png\",\"keywords\":[\"mailing list\",\"Penny C. 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