Your list is all important to the future of your business. I know that you all know that, but there are some of us out there that don’t know what to do with their list. Some are afraid to contact anyone on the list for fear of scaring them off. Then there are the ones who haunt their list, sending them a hundred tweets, messages and facebook links in an effort to make friends and/or sell them something.
Both too much contact and too little contact have the same effect upon your list. It will drive people away. You’ve gone through so much trouble, efforts and funds to get them. Why scare them away?
There is another way…
If you are blogging daily, you can send your post directly to your list. I will take for granted that you are using Get Response for your list. If you do, you may already have a list. It’s easy to share your posts with them. I promise to keep it simple. Not sure how to do it? Let me help.
Here’s a step by step guide to sending your blog posts to your GetResponse list.
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Step 1. Login to your Get response.
Simple enough.
Step 2. At the top right corner, choose which of your campaigns you want to send to. If you have only one campaign, then don’t worry about this step.
Step 3. Go to Messages at the top of your screen. Click on Create Newsletter.
Step 4. Click on New Email Creator.
Step 5. You will be taken to Newsletter Settings. Here you will have the opportunity to put in some information about your post. Your choices are:
-Message name. This can be anything you want. I would recommend calling it something that will remind what the post is, like a short cut. The Message name will appear in the list of your messages, but it won’t be seen by your subscribers.
-Subject. What’s your post about? This can be personalized.
-From. This would be your name.
-You can choose to send this Newsletter to your Twitter feed and your Facebook page.Click Next Step.
Step 6. This is the template page. Scroll down until you find Plain Text or HTML code editor. Click on that.
Step 7. At the bottom left of the screen you reach, click on WYSIWYG. This will create a screen that will allow you to write your message and paste the link to your post. You can make it look any way you want, but I would suggest you don’t write a single long message. It will be hard to read. Instead, make a message in a block only 6-7 words long. It would look like this:
Good Morning All!
I hope everyone is well. I have a new article
that will help you think of topics to write
your blog posts about. It is the latest in my
ongoing series about The Blogging Alphabet.
Here’s the link:
http://www.hightrafficwizard.info/the-blogging-alphabet-d-is-for-determination-drive-desire-dreams-and-doing/I hope you get some good thoughts out of it.
Let me know if you can add to the ideas in the post.-Copy the link for your blog post.
-At the top of the page, there is a symbol to make a hyperlink. Click on that.
-Paste your link where it says Link URL.
-Click Insert.
-Click on Next Step.Step 8. Here you will find where you can Include Recipients.
-Choose which of your campaigns you want to send your post to.
-You can also choose to exclude parts of your list. This could be because your post about Frisbee Golf might not be of interest to your Ebay Selling list.
-Click Next Step.Step 9. Message Summary page. Here you will see the Message Subject, the template you chose (if any), Spam score and the total number of recipients that will receive your blog post.
-If everything is in order, click either Schedule or Send.
-Send will do just that. It will send your post right away.
-Schedule will allow you to set a time when your message goes to your list. You can set:-Delivery date and time
-Perfect Timing. This will deliver your message when the receiver is most likely to open and click on it.
-Time Travel. This will deliver your message at the receiver’s appropriate Time Zone for the hour you have chosen.
-Hit Schedule. You are done!*** Please note that Perfect Timing and Time Travel are mutually exclusive and cannot be used together.***
Here is a video that will help you with step by step directions.
I hope that this will be helpful to you. Please let me know if I have missed anything in my steps.
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