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What Is A Newsletter Signup?

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

The advantage of capturing the email ids of your site visitors goes a long way than actually anticipated by most beginners. These ids give you an opportunity to market your products and services to the subscribers and help you to keep reminding them of your presence. The visitors may not sign up to buy products at the first visit but if they are genuinely interested, there is a great possibility that they can go for your newsletter signup. It is a great way to keep the people interested in your business, brand, special offers, its major events and its products and services.

Having a newsletter on your site means that you are willing to provide your visitors a lot of helpful information and tips about the niche industry and advertising your products and services comes as a valuable plus for you. The newsletter signup process will involve asking for the visitors email address and storing it in a database. You will need to send a confirmation to the email id that they signed up with to ensure they have signed up and its not a computer ‘robot’ (named ‘double opt in’). This address of the subscriber is now their acceptance to receive further information via the form of newsletters to their nominated email address.

The form of the newsletters should take place as important and valuable information. It should be helpful and your subscribers should want to receive the next newsletter to assist them in some way. If the receivers of newsletters turn into loyal readers, you have the ground set up for turning them into potential customers.

A newsletter signup has many benefits. To begin with, it allows you to stay in touch with your existing customers and convey to them any latest offers or discounts especially meant for them. You can use it as a vehicle to answer customer queries and more importantly it takes the reader-entrepreneur relationship to the next level of building trust and loyalty. This has a direct effect with increasing the brand value of your business. It can be a major brand building exercise if done wisely.

What Is A Squeeze Page?

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Any online business is successful only when people are interested in your product/s and they want to hear more about it. Your goal is to get people to opt into your website, and you want those people to WANT to receive more information about you and your products. This can be in the form of newsletters, press releases or regular communication emails. A squeeze page can help you achieve this objective in the simplest and most effective possible manner.

To explain it further, a squeeze page is basically a one page web page that is specifically created to attract visitors, for your particular business, service or product, and you have ONE action on that page – and that is to get them to sign up to your database. You are basically asking for their permission to keep them informed about various offers, discounts, products and services.

The major benefits of using a squeeze page are as follows:

• It is fast and easy to build and is very productive to lure readers into becoming potential customers. (You can give away freebies, reports, tester and samples and competitions in return for an email address.
• This page allows you to gather data of those people who are genuinely interested in knowing about your products and services hence a targeted and qualified person to market too.
• A squeeze page can be tested (A/B tested) to see what your customers respond to better. You can then customise your message to them as appropriate.

The main purpose of a squeeze page is to inform the user of benefits they will get by providing their relevant data. It should thoroughly explain what is in store for the reader in a very attractive way so that he or she is compelled to try it out. To make this effort more productive, marketers usually complement it with emails to drive visitors to the site. The emails are a very powerful source of putting across your point is a more personalized form. Normally set up in an autoresponders manner at days 0,1,3,5,10, 15 and so on every 10 days. You can then add newsletters to this. (Ensure you also add value to these email or you will lose your subscriber base straight away – do not sell to them until they trust you)

There are different approaches in terms of styling, design and formatting your squeeze page, so choose the one that reflects your site, product and company. The content should have be convincing, but make sure you deliver what you promise or else you will lose credibility. Squeeze pages are known to increase the percentages of sign ups so use them wisely and build yourself a targeted mailing list.