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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

7 Creative Ways to Collect Email Addresses Without Being Spammy | Ep. #967

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In episode #967, we count out 7 creative ways to add to your email list without being spammy. Tune in to hear our tactics for collecting email addresses. We have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles, once Marketing School reaches 1M downloads in a 30 day period. Take action: Rate, review, subscribe, and SHARE. Check the progress here! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: 7 Creative Ways to Collect Email Addresses Without Being Spammy [00:33] 1: Spin the Wheel. [00:45] As long as you offer something of value, people will be excited about it. [00:48] 2: Add little yellow boxes and get them to opt-in to offers. [01:03] 3: Block off content. [01:15] Make a portion of the content accessible only if someone enters an email address. This could also just be bonus content. [01:44] 4: Create cloaked links and drive people back to an offer. Try Pretty Links. [02:22] 5: Create quizzes. [02:34] Collect enough info for a full lead. [02:41] 6: Use Outgrow to put calculators on your site. [02:54] 7: Use MobileMonkey to opt-in to your Facebook Messenger list and your email list. [03:13] That’s it for today! [03:15] We hit our goal of 1 Million downloads! So, we will be throwing a free event in Los Angeles this June. Check out this website if you would like to attend. Remember: we are capping the event at 500 people, so sign up now, if you’re interested! Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

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with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

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Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue.

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And I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to give you seven creative ways to collect emails without being spammy.

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Number one. All right, spin the wheel.

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Errik used spin the wheel. I've used spin the wheel. As long as you offer

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something that's amazing gives you gives people a lot of value they're going to be

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ecstatic and they're going to want to spend the wheel.

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All right number two what you can do throughout your post is you can actually add little

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yellow boxes as they're reading a

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post you can get them to opt in to whatever your offer is that actually has a

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decent conversion rate in addition to whatever spin the wheel pop-ups things that

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