How Can I Grow My Email List with a WordPress.com Website?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today's question comes from Leslie, who has a question about building email lists. What email marketing plugins works best for a WordPress.com (not self-hosted) site? How do you grow your email list without a self-hosted website platform? Leslie's website is at http://www.pureenergylifestyle.com/. In this episode, I mention Mail Chimp's subscriber pop-up feature, which you can find in the Mail Chimp database. I also mention Drip, which is a new tool I use. You can get started with Drip for free at http://www.askpat.com/drip/. Do you have a question about building your email list? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Design Crowd. To learn more about working with their designers, go to http://designcrowd.com/askpat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Ask Pat.
0:05.1	AskPath.com.
0:10.7	What up, everybody, Patflin here, and welcome to episode 737 of Ask Pat.
0:16.7	Appreciate you being here.
0:17.7	And as always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. All right, thanks so much. And here's today's question from
0:24.0	Leslie. Hey, Pat. This is Leslie from Pure Energy Lifestyle.com. And I actually just had a question.
0:31.8	I am working on building my email list. And I'm currently using MailChimp. I'm just getting started so the free application
0:40.1	is best for me. But I'm using WordPress.com for my blog. And I just realized that WordPress.com
0:49.1	does not support the Mailchimp app that actually WordPress.org does. What would you suggest doing or do you
0:57.1	have any plugins or anything that would work best for a WordPress.com blog site in order to
1:05.6	start getting those emails and really start building my email list. Thanks for everything, Pat. I appreciate it.
1:12.7	Hey, Leslie, thank you so much. I appreciate the question. To quickly answer your question, actually,
1:17.8	WordPress.com, they don't allow you to add in plugins, and I know there's a mailchip plug that
1:23.4	would allow you to integrate it quite nicely. And WordPress.org would.
1:28.2	So initially I was like, okay, well, I would recommend actually getting off of WordPress.com, setting up your own self-hosted website, go through something like Bluehost or whatever hosting provider you want to be able to have more control over your website.
1:41.3	You can select from a lot more different themes a lot more different
1:44.5	plugins to help you enhance your website but then i looked it up and actually you're right uh the plugin
1:50.3	isn't supported uh that would allow you to integrate it but there is a way for you to use mailchimp
1:55.1	to grow your email list using wordpress dot com so even before all that other stuff i mentioned
1:59.6	you can test that test this out although i would still recommend getting on a that other stuff I mentioned, you can test this out.
2:01.7	Although I would still recommend getting on self-hosted platforms so you can take advantage
2:05.2	of a lot of the options that you have.
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