The Best Tools To Grow Your Email List Fast
If you have the right tools you can get the job done faster and easier. There are a number of tools that are essential for your email marketing business, and others that will really help you. This article explains all.
Autoresponder
This is the only tool in this article that is a must have. You have two choices here. You can go for an autoresponder service where another company will send your emails for you using their servers, or you can host your own autoresponder software.
If you are not technical then go for the autoresponder service. It will cost you a monthly fee, but it is a hassle free way to send lots of emails. If you know what you are doing then a hosted autoresponder could be a good option as you will save on monthly fees. The problem here is that your web hosting company will probably impose limits on the number of emails that you can send each day.
There are many autoresponder service providers out there. The most famous of these are Aweber and GetResponse. There is also Mailchimp, Imnica Mail and a host of others. The pricing for these will start at around $20 a month, and they all charge on a subscriber threshold basis. This means that the more subscribers you have, the more you will have to pay each month whether you send any emails or not.
Squeeze Page Software
Using software to create your squeeze pages will save you a lot of time and effort. Some applications will not only create your squeeze page, but your entire funnel which will include landing pages and thank you pages.
One of the leading vendors in this market is Leadpages. They will actually host your pages and you will pay a monthly fee for the privilege. You should be able to easily integrate Leadpages with your autoresponder. It is possible to design all of the pages that you need in around 10 minutes with this service.
If you are using WordPress then there are free and premium plug ins that you can use to create great looking squeeze pages. Instabuilder is a very good premium plugin for this. Optimize Press is a premium theme that does a similar job to Instabuilder.
Email Capture Software
If you run a blog and want to capture email addresses (and you should) then you can use a couple of free plugins that will do this well. One of these is MailMunch and the other is Sumome. You can create popup forms, side forms, top bar forms and all manner of other fancy applications with these free plugins.
Survey Software
Running surveys on your website is a great way to get people to subscribe to your list. It is very easy to create an online survey with tools such as Survey Monkey. The free version will let you build a survey that will collect a maximum of 100 responses, so you can try it before you buy. There are other survey plugins that you can use as an alternative.
Grammar Checking Tool
Most word processors have a built in spell checker and grammar checker and WordPress offers this at a basic level. When you are composing your emails using a good quality autoresponder service there will be checks done there too.
Grammarly takes this to the next level. There is an extension for Google Chrome and a plugin for Windows that can be very quickly installed. It will check your grammar every time you use the Internet, and it will also check when you are writing emails or using your word processor. This is a great tool for ensuring that all of your messages do not have any grammar errors.