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Offering A Freebie Absolutely Works On Building Your List!

littlemama

Published on August 27, 2017

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I have recently added a free guide on making money online on my site as I mentioned in an earlier blog here:

6,300 Word Guide For My Site

It was implemented on August 15, so 11 days ago, and I want to share what's happened.

I've been here for almost a year now, so without my guide, you can see below, it took me almost a year to get 43 subscribers (September 2016 to Aug 15th, 2017):

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Now that I have a free guide to offer, it only took 11 days to surpass that number!!

So this is definitely proof that having a freebie works to get new subscribers to your email list.

I still have much work to do with this list as I still have to build my email series as I only have a welcome message set up, but they will get the guide from subscribing.

Could you imagine how big my email list will be in a year if this keeps up?!

At the same time, this guide is available within my posts without subscription and with subscription - and some still subscribe. Lol

My guide is available also on side bar, site menu, and all over social media so I hope I will continue to get lots of subscribers. :)

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