282: This Simple Freebie Strategy Grew My Email List to 100,000+

She Means Business Show

Carrie Green

Womenledbusiness, Femaleceo, Entrepreneurship, Womanceo, Business, Femaleentrepreneur, Businesswomen, Womeninbusiness, Marketing, Womenentrepreneur, Womanentrepreneur

4.9 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Building your email list doesn’t have to be overwhelming, complicated, or time-consuming.

In this special “do it with me” episode of the She Means Business Show, I’m walking you through the exact steps I took to grow my email list to over 100,000 subscribers - starting from 0.

I'm sharing:

Why your freebie doesn’t need to be perfect (or even big!) to be powerful
The exact strategy behind my first-ever viral freebie (and what made it take off)
What kind of freebies convert best - from PDFs and checklists to email challenges and quizzes
A step-by-step walkthrough to help you create your freebie idea today
How to use ChatGPT or other AI tools to help brainstorm, write, and even design it
Smart tips to make your freebie irresistible and high-converting

Read the full show notes: https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/2025/05/this-simple-freebie-strategy-grew-my-email-list/

Transcript

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0:00.0	6,000 people signed up for it. 6,000 I was like, oh my gosh, like this works. Having a freebie works.
0:06.2	I think the most important thing is that you bring your magic to the table with your freebie and you
0:10.4	share your personality in it. You don't have to get it right the first time. You can have fun playing
0:15.7	with this and I guarantee you once you've created one freebie, you're going to be hooked.
0:22.7	Oh, hello, hello. Welcome to this episode of the She Means Business Show. So this episode is a
0:28.7	little bit different. This is a do it with me episode. So in this episode, you and I together
0:34.1	are going to create an amazing freebie because this is a question that keeps coming up
0:39.1	over and over and over again. How do I actually build my email list? How do I actually create a freebie?
0:45.4	What do you actually do? And so I just thought, you know what? I'm going to make a podcast episode
0:50.0	and I am going to break it down and share how you can build your email list, how you can create an
0:54.8	amazing freebie, and we're going to do it together with the help of our good friend chat GPT,
1:00.0	or whatever AI tool that you want to use if you want to use AI. So for me, building an email list
1:06.8	is still such an important, powerful thing to do if you have an online business. You own your
1:12.6	email list. You do not own your social media following. Like, there's been so many people who
1:16.8	get blocked from their, like, Instagram account or their Facebook account, and it's a plumber
1:20.4	nightmare. But you can't get blocked from your own email list. You own your email list. I mean,
1:26.6	you do have to make sure that you have a healthy email list and that you have a healthy email list. You own your email list. I mean, you do have to make sure that you have a healthy email list
1:30.7	and that you have a healthy domain name so that your emails actually get delivered. They've got a high
1:37.8	deliverability rate. But of course, you will do that because you're not going to be sending
1:41.2	people crap. So, but it's really powerful.
1:45.3	For me, email marketing has been one of my most important marketing strategies in terms of
1:52.9	generating, not only building my community and generating, like building a relationship with
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