Category Email Marketing

Client questions and my answers Every month, from several sources, I field questions about ConvertKit. Some are new and never asked (of me) before - and others are regulars that pop up quite often. I thought it would be helpful to share some of these with you so you can benefit from the questions asked, and from the answer I give for each one. The 10 questions are in no particular order, so jump in wherever you like! Do I need a domain to use ConvertKit? Is ConvertKit a CRM too? Is the...

Tutorial: How to create an email course as your lead magnet, using ConvertKit. Firstly, just in case there's any doubt about what I'm referring to as an email course - it's a course that's delivered to your subscribers, via email, using automatically drip-fed content over a predetermined time; e.g. a series of 7 emails, drip-fed to each recipient at a rate of 1 email per day, starting whenever they join your subscriber list. There can be many elements to the content contained in the emails...

How I publish website blog posts directly from my ConvertKit emails Step 1: The blog post images The first thing I do when I come up with my blog post idea is create the images that will accompany the post. I do this using Canva. I have a template that doesn't change, apart from the title, so I only need to type in the title and download the new images. I create 2 images for each post; one that's 1920px x 1080px (i.e. the image you can see above) which is used as the feature image on my...

How to sell your freelance services using ConvertKit. What is ConvertKit? As one of many on the market today, ConvertKit is my preferred email marketing platform, one that I've been using for a few years. Started in Boise, Idaho in 2013 by Nathan Barry, it was his frustration with Mailchimp that incentivised him to take the plunge into the SaaS (Software as a Service) world and create an alternative that would be powerful in features yet simple to use. Amongst its ever-growing list of...

People need a good reason to subscribe to your email list Nobody scrolls through social media or websites thinking... "I need more emails.". Subscribing to an email list happens only when a subscriber is convinced that enough value exists on the other side of that sign-up process. You've done it yourself, you'll be on LinkedIn, and you see someone sharing a post saying they are running a webinar next week showing you how to [fill the blank] - the only way to get access to the webinar is by...

Leveraging ScoreApp to attract email subscribers What is ScoreApp? You may have heard of Daniel Priestley, he's an Australian entrepreneur who's now based in the UK. He mainly focuses on helping small business owners start and grow their businesses and offers various tools to assist that outcome - one of which is his software platform called 'ScoreApp'. Essentially, it's a quiz/assessment/test/scorecard* software platform that he sells using a SaaS** model, i.e. you pay a certain amount each...

Send more of what your subscribers want, using polls Arguably, the difference between a subscriber opening and reading your emails and reaching for that 'get me out of here' link, is how personal your messages 'sound'. To weave effective personalisation into your messaging, you need to collect zero-party data* from your subscribers - one of the simplest ways is by using 'polls' in your emails. (*zero-party data is personal data collected directly from subscribers, given voluntarily and...

How to edit an existing ConvertKit Visual Automation without impacting in-flow subscribers. The challenge we need to overcome Now and then, we need to make changes to existing Visual Automations when several subscribers can be mid-flow (i.e. started the automation, but not yet completed) and we don't want to upset or impact their progress (which editing a Visual Automation can do!). So, rather than tinker with the 'live' version of a Visual Automation whilst people are funnelled through its...

How to automate your email marketing system using ConvertKit’s ‘Rules’. What are 'Rules' in ConvertKit? 'Rules' are best summed up as this... "If this event happens, do this 'thing'." The first part of this is the 'trigger' and the second part is the 'action'. Triggers cause actions to occur. Here are a few examples; (It's easier to wrap your head around these things with contextual examples); If a subscriber clicks on this link, add the 'tag' - "Interested in Pottery". If a subscriber buys...

How to create an opt-in form in ConvertKit and embed it on your website. What's an opt-in form? An opt-in form is something you've probably seen a thousand times before; they're widely used and look similar to the example shown below, taken from my website; In their simplest form, they collect subscribers' email addresses, however, you can request additional information, if you wish. I collect my subscribers' first names to make my emails more personalised by referencing each subscriber by...

How to create and use 'Link Triggers' in ConvertKit. Firstly, let's look at exactly what 'link triggers' are and how they can be used to take care of automated tasks for us. What is a link trigger? The clue's kinda in the name... it's a 'link' that 'triggers' something to happen, based on your configuration. You can use them to automatically fire an email sequence, a tag to be added to, or removed from, a subscriber's profile, add or remove subscribers from sequences, or update the value of a...