How to Create Your Email List for Free

Easy Sign Up Plugin

Edit November 24, 2020

Easy Sign Up may have been abandoned by its developers. I now recommend Mail Poet as an alternative.

Install and activate 'Easy Sign Up' plugin, then open the settings in your dashboard.

Modify the 'Notification Email', 'Automated Reply Email' (these can be the same email address), 'Reply Email Subject' and 'Redirection URL' (to your 'Thank You' page)

Edit the 'Thank You Email to Client' to include the link to your 'Download' page.

If you need instructions on creating links in WordPress see my training: Add Links in WordPress Text and Images

Next Up Add Easy Sign Up Widget to Capture Names and Email Addresses

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TracyIrv Premium

Hi Marion, I need to build up my email list, but don't know where to start. My customers are business owners themselves ( my website is spa consultancy helping the spa owners).
Is it ok to find their email addresses myself through their websites and just manually email them with an offer or introduce myself? Is this okay to do this to a business just once, or is or seen as spamming them?

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telemarktom Premium

@TracyIrv

Hi there, as a marketing manager, I get literally dozens of those emails a day, they all go to spam. It's not the best way to go about things, but certainly, people do it.

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TracyIrv Premium

@telemarktom

What would you recommend for starting from scratch?

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telemarktom Premium

@TracyIrv

You have a great niche because there are a number of very targeted keywords you could go after that only potential customers would be searching for.
If it was me, I would get my website up to a point where it looks presentable, say around 30 pages or so, then I would start with Google AdWords.
Send traffic to landing pages that are designed to capture an email address, start collecting the email addresses, and then set up automation campaigns in GetResponse or similar.

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TracyIrv Premium

@telemarktom

Many Thanks for both replies. They are of much help.

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telemarktom Premium

@TracyIrv

No worries, all the best.

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MarionBlack Premium

@TracyIrv

tommysedge has given you some good advice.

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PeterWolf Premium

There is a super affiliate here who makes it to vegas every year, has no auto responder and does not collect or ask for emails. He strictly promotes WA and uses only SEO. Never uses paid ads.
His website IMO looks like shit.

Found this out on chat one day when he was in Vegas

But, I know nothing about how to make money online because I haven't made a dime in 2 years. Good for him for cracking the code. Thanks for the tips

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JIllW Premium

@PeterWolf

Thank you for sharing this as I am very tempted to do what this super affiliate is doing as I hate setting up accounts and I dislike setting up and figuring out things with the companies that collect emails. Even it they have trainning I am always suspecious that something is not working right. I guess this triggers paranoa.

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MarionBlack Premium

@PeterWolf

Everyone has their own method. I hope yours works for you soon.

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PatsyC Premium

Hi Marion, this is excellent! I went through every page and it's the best tutorial I have seen so far especially how easy it is to understand :D I appreciate also that you left us the link for the free products. I'm with Benchmark though already (it's not a plugin)

Thank You :D

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MarionBlack Premium

@PatsyC

Yeah I get a lot of stuff to sell on my ebooks website.

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Magieken Premium

Hi Marion, have you done training on autoresponders? I tried MailChimp but found it very difficult to work out how to send out bulk emails. Your training is always first class and easy to follow so I hope you can do some on using autoresponders and which one you prefer and why.

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MarionBlack Premium

@Magieken

Re-writing this tutorial is on my to do list at the moment Magie.

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Magieken Premium

@MarionBlack

I didn't realize you had already done one of the autoresponders but will check it out and look forward to your update Thanks

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Kambas Premium

Thank you so much for this training Marion.

I now have an opt in widget on my site thanks to you!

Very much appreciated and I will recommend others to this training.

Trying to figure out how to make it a bit more attractive so it stands out, do you know if there is training on this? For the Songwriter theme. I have looked and will look some more but thought you could point me in the right direction.
Thanks again Marion, this was really a SAVER! ;)

Best regards,
Kamil

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MarionBlack Premium

@Kambas

Thanks for going through the tutorial Kamil. Design is such a huge subject I can't think of any specific training to recommend. Perhaps the best advice I can give you is to look at what other bloggers are doing, especially the big name bloggers, and use that for inspiration.

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