How to Create a Free Email Mailing List Without Having a website

 

This paradox is what many business owners find difficult to accept: While you're supposed build your email list before you launch your business, how do you get leads for something that doesn’t exist online? This is basically saying "Hey, sign-up for my thing." It's going to be a thing, I swear! Imagine if I said that Harry's shaving brand collected 100,000 email addresses before the product was available for purchase. Below is how it was done. But that's only one example of many that show that email marketing can be done without a website.

 

Host the Giveaway

Giveaways are a great way to grow your list quickly. There are a few reasons giveaways work so well, E-Mail Contact List People love to get free stuff, so you can offer something before the product is ready. Your campaign will feel more urgent due to the deadline-driven nature giveaways. Partnering with other businesses or influencers can help you increase the virality and reach of your giveaways. You can use the products of your partners even if you don't have your product ready. Are you still sceptical that this stuff works? Raffle copter’s own giveaway software helped it grow its email list from zero up to 35,000. By partnering with brands, Who Needs Maps was able to double its email list in just seven days. In just 10 days, Foundry had 13,603 signups for email.

 

How to Find a Giveaway Prize Even If You Don't Own a Product

It would surprise you how many businesses are willing to give their products as prizes in your giveaway. It's up to you to ask, "What's in the deal for them?" Sponsors are often attracted to giveaways if they can be proven impressive by sharing their email lists or social media followers. However, if you are reading this post, chances are you don't have much reach. Another option is to offer to share email addresses collected from the giveaway with the sponsoring company. This will allow you to inform participants that third parties may have access to their information.

 

After she had launched her giveaway, and collected new email addresses for her main mailing list, she kept her giveaway separate. Her target audience was business owners who were interested in webinars. The first email she sent to her new subscribers included a call to action for them to unsubscribe if that wasn't their preference. The launch sequence included three emails promoting her online course, How to Use Webinars in Your Business. Those who stayed on her list were then sent three more emails. Here are the exact templates for her post-giveaway email sequence.

 

How to host a giveaway even if you don't have a website

Even if your website is not available, you can still host a giveaway using these sites.

·        Short Stack

·        Wish pond

·        Vyper

·        Promo Simple

The giveaway will be hosted on their platform. You'll receive a link that you can share or embed anywhere else. Giveaways are a great way to increase your email list. People love getting free stuff. The downside to using giveaways for growing your email list? People love free stuff. This means that you will likely attract many people who signed up only to win the prize. That's fine. This means that you must filter out people who aren’t interested in your business.

 

Create an Easy 'Coming Soon’ Landing Page

Although building a website for your business is time-consuming, you don't have to stop at a landing page that collects email addresses and allows you to launch your site right away. Our friends at Harry's! The brand was launched to over 100,000 subscribers via email in March 2013. Jeff Raider, co-founder of the brand, explains how they did it in this Tim Ferriss blog. Another page with a referral reward program. It had a shareable link. The more people who subscribed, the greater the prize for the entrant. Raider doesn't mention paid advertising for their microsite pre-launch. It sounds like word-of mouth marketing was their best friend during this phase due to the virality of their referral rewards program.