Join Liz Wilcox in Episode 103 of the Email Soundbooth podcast as she shares three fast methods to grow your email list. From leveraging Facebook ads with expert Zach Spunkler, to enlisting help from your current subscribers, and finally, participating in industry-specific bundles, Liz provides practical insights and cautions listeners about the potential downsides of rapid growth. She emphasizes the importance of targeting the right audience and hints at her upcoming software project, ListGadget.com. Tune in to prepare for List Building Live, her micro audio summit, happening from March 11th through the 13th.
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Transcript
What is up? Liz Wilcox here. Lucky me that you are listening to episode 103 of the Email Soundbooth podcast. 103 episodes, still no intro music, still awkward, still doing it anyway. This is three ways to grow your email list fast. Now I want to caution you. I want you to think, why are you wanting to grow it fast?
I mean, I totally get it. But remember that slow growth is still growth. So I’m gonna share these, um, tactics with you. Um, maybe they’re not all my absolute favorite way to grow, but this is a common question and I wanted to give it a response. So how are we going to grow our email list fast? Well, number one, the most obvious way is to Grow it with ads, right?
Facebook ads, Google ads, you know, whatever is prominent in your industry that is going to grow your email list fast. Okay. Now remember a word to the wise, like it takes a while to. Learn Facebook ads and like how, you know, who’s signing up and how to find the right people. So I’m going to link in the show notes, Zach Spunkler, I think is how you pronounce his last name.
I feel like I always get it wrong, but he is the Facebook ads pro that I suggest. I’m going to put his affiliate link, uh, to his website or whatever. He runs challenges all the time. He’s really, really good. Um, because I don’t recommend just running Facebook ads by yourself. This is an advanced strategy, hence why it goes faster, right?
Um, and so I really recommend checking out Zach. He’s even got like Not Your Average membership. Um, Membership. And so I, I, if you’re going to go the Facebook ads route, that’s who I suggest. Now, the second way to grow your email list fast, and this is something I’m hoping to do, uh, in 2025, is enlist the people on your email list already.
Now, I haven’t formally announced this, but I actually am now part owner, founder, whatever, with a software. Uh, that’s going to be able to, or what we’re working on, and I don’t want to, I am like jumping the gun here. I didn’t want to announce this yet, but basically I’m co owner of listgadget. com. And one of the things we’re working on is to get recommendations.
Now I know kit. com already uses spark loop, um, you know, things like that to help incentivize people to share. Uh, the email list, but I wanted my own and so that’s what listgadget. com is. So i’ll link that in the show notes too if you want to check that out. Um, but yeah enlisting the help of your subscribers.
Hey, I want to you know, If you know anybody that needs emails like this Send them my way and you can use spark loop. You can hopefully one day use listgadget. com, um, you know, to help people to help incentivize people to actually promote, but also you don’t even need those things. You can just ask, right, but it’s going to work better if you have incentives.
Now the last way you can grow your email list fast. And I’ve already done, I think it was episode 18, I talk a lot more in depth on why this isn’t my favorite thing, but it really depends on the industry is to be a part of a bundle. Now Kate Doster of katedoster. com, she is the bundle email queen. She knows a lot more about bundles than I do.
And depending on your industry, bundles are still working really well. Again, I used to be a travel blogger, right? So I was part of a few bundles back in the day and they grew my list like crazy and it was awesome subscribers. Because in the travel industry, bundles aren’t everywhere and everything, right?
Now that I’m an email marketer and I’m in the online business industry, I find that bundles, there’s just so many of them and there’s so many freebie seekers, so to speak. And I hate that term, but You know, we want to keep this episode short that you know, people just gobble it up Everywhere and then you know, there’s not much to show for it after it’s not growing The list in the way I want it to grow But if I was in a business to consumer I would definitely participate in bundles or host my own bundles, uh, to, I think in the last episode I talked about, like, if you’re a yoga instructor, right?
So if, again, if let’s keep that going, if you’re a yoga instructor and you’re trying to make it online and you get all these other, you know, yogis in on a bundle. or you find one, that’s going to be a great thing because I don’t know of a lot of yoga bundles, right? I don’t often see Facebook ads for, you know, get this bundle of yogi goodness, right?
So, again, Facebook ads, if you’re going to do Facebook ads, link in the show notes, check out, uh, Zach, enlist people on your email list already. So how can you get, how can you incentivize those people to recommend your email list? And then the third thing. Is to be a part of a bundle. Those are really the fastest ways to grow your email list.
But again, word to the wise, sometimes we want slow growth over fast growth. So if you’re going to try these strategies, really think about them strategically and how you can get the right people, not just grow fast, but get the right people on your list at the same time, that’s the challenge. And that’s something we’re going to be talking heavily about at List Building Live, my micro audio summit coming March 11th through the 13th.
Dang, that was a smooth segue, wasn’t it? I’m so proud of myself. I’d love for you to join. That link is also in the show notes. It’s just going to be quick episodes, just like the email sound booth podcast, quick episodes about how my peers, colleagues, and members of EMM are really really Growing their email list what has worked in the last 6 to 12 months.
I’d love for you to sign up Link in the show notes as always. I’m liz willcox and you are awesome And last thing i’m so excited for you to grow your email list this year and beyond get signed up for list building live It’s gonna be amazing. Talk soon
