ASKING FOR SUBSCRIBERS TO YOUR EMAIL NEWSLETTER
Many of us would not be in business if we did not know how to ask for a customer’s order, but how many business owners realize the importance of asking people to subscribe to your newsletter, read your blog or follow you on Twitter and Facebook? Nancy Black of Organization Plus used her 30 second elevator speech at this morning’s North Shore Business Forum networking meeting to ask the members to please sign-up for her newsletter since she is trying to reach a goal in her newsletter subscriber count before the New Year. YAY! Great job Nancy.
Often we forget to “ASK” for help from the people we network with every day. We create fans pages on Facebook and sign-up for Twitter and create great content for our newsletters and blogs, but we do not think to ask the people closest to us to please follow us and sign-up for our newsletters. Organization Plus needs your help in breaking their subscriber count goal for their monthly newsletter and I am choosing to blog about it because I like to support people who are not afraid to ask for help.
How are you growing your on-line networking? Are you thinking outside the box in building a following and do you see how valuable that following is for your business? This is not a time to sit on the sidelines and watch others build their business and continue to procrastinate on your own. Be smart and connect with as many people as possible and share with the world why your services are essential to their life!
All my best to your success!
~Charlene
“Success wears the Purple Diamond!”
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Ok, I get it. I am asking for you or others to follow my blog at sensationaltrvl.wordpress.com
Lets see how many sign up during the month of December 2009! Marisa
Hi Marisa~ Yes! I will check out your travel blog and please be sure to post this message on my Purple Diamond LLC Fans Page on Facebook!!! All my best to your success ~ Char
I agree, you shouldn’t be afraid to ask. If you don’t most people may not even have a clue about it. I ask people all the time to subscribe to my personal blog at Tweeaks.com, which has very few subscribers still, and for the Port Candle http://portcandle.com mailing list. Yesterday morning there was about 10-15 people who signed up, just from asking on Twitter if people had signed up for it, and if not why they should.
There is a line though, where you can seem ’spammy’ making less people interested.
Hi Jared~
Thanks so much for posting and for adding your web address. I want to let you know that I did try to sign-up for your mailing list and I used the address I use for all the other mailing list I sign-up for which is an AOL account [PurpleDiamond89@aol.com ] and the your site said it was an invalid email. Since this email is valid and other sites use it, your filter on your email newsletter might be too strict. Who is your email newsletter host provider? If you want to manually add me to your mailing list I would be fine with that.
All my best to your success! ~ Charlene
Note to Jared~ I was able to get on your mailing list by signing up to your Facebook fans page and using the link you gave there. But, I would still look at the home page sign-up box on your website and figure out why it rejected my aol email. You could be losing people from that.
I saw you subscribed, thanks
And I have no idea why the sidebar form on the site wouldn’t work, but thanks for letting me know about that 
I always post the link to this page http://eepurl.com/fcKU Just because it’s easier than explaining on Twitter to go to the site, and use the form in the sidebar. Better to have it as it’s own page for some things.
btw, you can follow me @tweeaks or @portcandle if you like, I follow back
Hi Jared~ I will follow you on Twiiter!
ooops…typo….that should say “Twitter”.