Episode 229: What Makes a Good Email Freebie? 9 Utterly Clear Examples (FS229)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Hey, we all need to be growing our email lists. Email is still the centerpiece of modern online businesses.

But it’s challenging to do so.

People bounce away from our pages
Our message gets lost in the clutter of our website
Our call to action falls flat

Well, a well-known best practice in online business is to offer a freebie or “opt-in incentive” to visitors as an invitation to join your email list.

What most of us online have found is HOLY CRAP THIS REALLY WORKS!!1!

A freebie can be an insanely effective tactic for growing your email list.

IN THIS POST YOU’LL LEARN:

How effective a good freebie will be for you
What makes a GOOD freebie
What’s working for others (9 examples)
How to design the right freebie for your business

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle show.
0:11.7	That's my air on, folks, because it's time to start talking about independent business
0:17.4	and things that are interesting to indie business owners.
0:20.9	Here at Fizzle, we want to help everyone figure out how to earn a living doing something that they actually
0:26.2	care about.
0:27.2	And specifically, we're talking about creating your own business.
0:30.8	How do you grow your own audience online?
0:33.9	There's more tools and resources available than ever before.
0:37.5	But there's also more competition. There's more noise. There's more tools and resources available than ever before. But there's also more competition.
0:39.4	There's more noise.
0:40.5	There's more distraction.
0:42.3	So you've got to be focused and you've got to find your way to do this,
0:46.9	a way that turns you on and lights you up.
0:49.3	If you're new to this show, if you've never heard it before,
0:51.8	we've got a huge back catalog of stuff where
0:55.8	we have, I don't know, what is this episode 229 right now? 229. Incredible. So we talk about
1:04.4	this stuff every single week and you can head over to our website, fizzle.co. And in fact,
1:10.1	you can go to fizzle.com slash guides because we've
1:13.7	got a bunch of free guides there on things that are interesting and important and necessary for
1:18.0	doing indie entrepreneur stuff. You know what I'm talking about. All right. So I'm here with Corbett Barr. Corbett
1:24.8	say hi. Hey. And Steph Crowder. Stouf, Stouf, stay hi.
1:28.8	Hey, everybody. Hi, guys. Today we've got an interesting topic. It's really, really, I don't know,
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