Tips for Building Your Client List Offline

Everyone’s on the move in the summer – and that means new opportunities for you to add contacts to your email list. It’s a great way for beginning marketers in particular to “get their feet wet” and find out what words or tactics entice people to sign up to their newsletter. Plus it’s FREE! For you “old pros”, we’re happy to gently remind you of a few basics.

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Add contacts you meet on the fly manually or import from your Address Book to your client database. For those of  ou who’d like to use it but haven’t, you can download it here.

 Flyers

Leave a few brightly colored, single-page flyers with your newsletter information and subscription address where potential customers are likely to visit, e.g. restaurants, day care centers, boutiques, beauty salons, bookstores, sports venues. Just ask the owner/managerfor permission first!

QR Codes

Summer’s a busy time for everyone, but more consumers are mobile all year round now. And more of them are using smartphones – over 500 million by 2012. So why not create a unique QR Code in GetResponse for all your materials and giveaways?! It lets prospects scan your subscription email right into their phones, so they can sign up on the spot or at their convenience. Don’t know how to start? Download the latest GetResponse whitepaper “Mobilize Email marketing with QR Codes”.