How Do I Grow My Email List Without Over-Promoting?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today’s question comes from Will: How can he grow his email list without being overly promotional? In this episode I mention my 100 Email Challenge, a free, three-day challenge to help you build an email list of 100 subscribers. Check it out at http://100emails.com. Do you have a question about email marketing? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today’s sponsor is FreshBooks. Go to http://www.freshbooks.com/askpat and enter “Ask Pat” in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section for more information. 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	AskPath.
0:04.9	AskPath.com.
0:06.2	Dot com.
0:08.6	Askpats.
0:10.4	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:11.4	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 942 of AskPath.
0:14.8	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.4	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.2	We have a great question coming in today from Will.
0:22.1	All right.
0:22.7	Now, here's today's question from Will.
0:24.7	Hi, Pat.
0:25.3	My name is Will, and I run a personal development show on my YouTube channel and a podcast and blog as well.
0:34.7	So my question is quite simple. I went through the 100 subscriber
0:41.3	challenge that you recently released. And I already have over a thousand email subscribers.
0:50.8	However, I still feel there was a lot of improvement there.
0:55.7	So I went through this challenge.
0:58.8	And what happened was I got a few people who were actually willing to, but someone who was a
1:07.7	friend slash acquaintance from college initially said he was interested.
1:13.4	And then when I asked for his email, he just stopped responding and started ignoring me.
1:19.1	I do feel really bad because I feel like I was overly promotional.
1:24.0	I did feel a little scared that this would happen when I followed your instructions.
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