Grow your list with your ideal subscribers

Grow your email subscriber list with Kit (formerly known as ConvertKit)

Subscribers = future income

One of your daily tasks must be adding ideal subscribers to your email list. This is a task that will never end and if you condition your mind to accept that, everything else becomes easier to process.

Subscribers who are the right fit for your business and nurtured in the right way, once on your email list, will become paying clients who’ll want to buy your products and services.

Why filtering via content is key to success

One common mistake I see people make when employing email marketing in their businesses is to add anyone they can to their email list – a recipe for disappointment further down the line. It’s short-term vanity over long-term sanity. It’s as important (if not more so) to repel those who are unlikely to become clients as it is to attract the right-fit subscribers to your list. 

There is a 3-phase approach I use to grow my email list as effectively as I can, one that’s been proven to work not only by me but by the millions of those who have gone before me! I’m not here to prove it works, I’m here to show you how others have done that for us.

 

Get their attention

The first phase of securing a right-fit subscriber for your email list is getting you and your business on their radar.

Pique their interest

Next, you need to demonstrate how you can help them overcome a problem they have right now, and fix it for free.

Offer to fix their problem

Make an offer to fix the common problem or challenge in exchange for them sharing their name and email address.

Even though it may sound like a simple task, growing an email list with right-fit subscribers takes a well-designed strategy and consistent execution to pull off. Through your content, you need to declare your authority in your niche and stay front-of-mind with those you want to attract to your subscriber list.

And it doesn’t stop there – once you have your subscribers on your list, you need to employ a robust automated maintenance schedule that continually cleanses it of unengaged subscribers – this will improve your deliverability rates, which in turn increases your sales success rates.

There is a 3-phase approach I use to grow my email list as effectively as I can, one that’s been proven to work not only by me but by the millions of those who have gone before me! I’m not here to prove it works, I’m here to show you how others have done that for us.

Your subscriber attraction system

A desktop tour of Kit by John Bellingham

The desktop tour has been crafted using short and easily digested videos (average video length 3 mins) meaning you can dip in and out whenever you have a few minutes to spare. And if you decide to go all in, the entire tour will take about 45 mins.

Just let me know where to send you the link to the video tour, and it’ll be with you in the next few minutes.

FAQs about list growth

Even though it may sound like a simple task, growing an email list with right-fit subscribers takes a well-designed strategy and consistent execution to pull off. Through your content, you need to declare your authority in your niche and stay front-of-mind with those you want to attract to your subscriber list.

And it doesn’t stop there – once you have your subscribers on your list, you need to employ a robust automated maintenance schedule that continually cleanses it of unengaged subscribers – this will improve your deliverability rates, which in turn increases your sales success rates.

You can get started with Kit using their free ‘Newsletter’ plan, which allows you to collect up to 10,000 subscribers and includes one visual automation and one email sequence. Premium plans start at $9/month.

No, not at all. Kit has a very intuitive user interface, and with some basic instruction, you can have your system up and running in no time. Embrace it, there’s nothing you can break!

Yes, in fact, there are several native integrations already created inside Kit, plus you can connect pretty much any other system you wish using a 3rd party connector tool like Zapier.

It’s easy. Just click on kit.com and follow the instructions – you’ll have your free 14-day trial of all premium features in a matter of minutes.

Yes, Kit’s email editor has an abundance of elements you can include in your emails. Once you get your account, open a draft broadcast email and click the little ‘+’ icon you’ll see inside the editor – this will show you the long list of available elements.

The Creator Network is pretty much what the name suggests, a network of many creators. By creating your Creator Profile in Kit, you can then join the Creator Network and start to recommend other creators to your audience and also be recommended to other people’s audiences – it’s a great way to grow your email list.

The short answer is ‘yes’, provided you have a WordPress website that you want to use to host your course. Kit will control the purchasing of, and access to, whatever course content you create. Students of your courses can purchase your courses (either through one-off payments or via a subscription model) and then access it using the links provided. When clicking on the course content, Kit challenges every student for a unique 6-digit code in order to gain access.

Yes, Kit has created a WordPress plugin which is free to download and use. It allows you to share data between Kit and your website and control access to certain protected pages.

It also provides functionality to automatically detect a new public email that you created and add it to your website as a blog article. The reverse of this is also possible, i.e. detecting a new website article and creating a broadcast email to be sent to your subscriber list (or a subset).

Absolutely! That’s what Kit’s free plan is designed for – it’s called the ‘Newsletter’ plan and allows for up to 10,000 subscribers. It also includes one visual automation and one email sequence, features normally only available via premium subscriptions.

Yes, this is one of the cornerstones of any good email marketing platform and Kit is no different. With a range of templates to choose from, you can build your perfect landing page using your brand colours, fonts, and images.

Yes, of course, provided you collected your subscribers with their consent, then you can transfer them from your current email marketing platform to Kit. And if you subscribe to a premium plan, the Kit team will take care of the import for you.

This is kind of a ‘how long is a piece of string’ question, but honestly, you can have your first landing page up and running, collecting subscribers within a couple of hours. 

If you want help getting started on the right tracks, download my free guide, “The Email Marketer’s Starter Guide“.

Yes, tagging is a key activity in every good email marketing platform and Kit is no different. you can also use custom fields in conjunction with tags to create powerful list segmentation – if you want to learn more about each, check out the article below;

 

Yes, you can if you wish. It’s not always advisable, especially if you have large lists with complex automation, but the short answer is ‘yes’, you can. You’ll have to verify two domains, one for each business (or domain).

Kit’s ‘Newsletter’ plan is free for up to 10,000 subscribers and includes one visual automation and one email sequence, features normally only available via premium subscriptions.

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