Email lists are a wonderful tool for MLM entrepreneurs who use attraction marketing techniques to generate MLM leads – but it’s important to follow a few basic rules of engagement in building and interacting with email lists. There are tools to use, procedures you should follow and basic courtesy you should observe that will help you turn your blog or website into a lead generation system that keeps giving and giving and giving.
Offer Great Bait to Get Email Addresses for Your List
An email address is something of great value to you. What do you do to get something of value? In attraction marketing, you always offer something of value to get something of value, and that’s especially true when you’re asking people to hand you access to their Inboxes. The bait you offer may be an ebook of marketing tips, access to an MLM system review or an email seminar of techniques for marketing, crafting or using your product – it doesn’t matter what form it takes. What matters is that it provides something valuable to other people – and coincidentally, establishes you or your organization as an expert in those techniques.
Tool Tips: Sign up with an MLM system that includes email list management software to help you create and manage your email marketing lists. Some of the best include software that allows you to track whether or not your mail was opened and what actions were taken after the mail was opened. These are vital metrics for any attraction marketing guru.
Always Use Double Opt-In Mailing Lists
The last thing you want to do is become a pest – it completely sabotages your attraction marketing efforts. Double opt-in mailing lists send an email to those who sign up on your website and require them to visit a link to confirm that they actually do want to receive communications from you. It’s another step in qualifying your contacts – and ensuring that you’re not sending out spam to people who don’t want it.
Tool Tips: There are many blog plug-ins and MLM marketing systems that automate the process of recruiting and qualifying people for your mailing lists. Some of these, like Google Feedburner, are free and offer decent metrics. Others are premium services that offer you deeper and better statistics and additional benefits – like professional templates for your newsletters.
Treat Your Email List Like Gold
Your privacy policy should lay out exactly how your email list may be used – and you need to follow it precisely to avoid breaking trust with those who sign up with you. That means no sharing or selling your email list to others unless you tell people up front that you may do that – and keeping your contacts through your email list to a tolerable, acceptable level.
Of course, if you’re following the principle rule of attraction marketing – provide value – that tolerable level will be much higher. In fact, those on your mailing list will look forward to receiving your email communications – and seek you out to learn even more about your business, your products and becoming a member of your team.