Anyhoo…<\/p>\n
Since this is the year the world is scheduled to end (at least that’s what a few conspiracy theorists are telling me), I thought I’d exit this planet giving away one of my most valuable pearls of wisdom ever.<\/p>\n
It’s a secret that’s helped me put a lot of fiat currency (i.e. greenbacks) into my Federal Reserve holding vessel (i.e. my bank account).<\/p>\n
Use this one secret alone, and you’re going to wish you did this decades ago.<\/p>\n
In fact, this secret works so well, I should be locked up and gagged by my fellow marketing pals for giving away this gold for nothin’.<\/p>\n
Instead I should crank out a 257-page, Dr. Seuss-style PDF along with a few fill-in-the-blanks swipe files and sell it as a BSO (Bright Shiny Object) for a cool thousand smackeroos.<\/p>\n
But I’m not going to do that to you. I think that sucks. Instead, I’m just going to pull back my sunny Florida curtains and reveal it all to you right now:<\/p>\n
My #1 secret for getting more subscribers to opt into my email list is to…<\/p>\n
Give away a free Now before you start emailing me and screaming that I’m a hypocrite, let me be CLEAR. As I’ve advised in the past, this nonsense about “moving the free line” is just crap. This tomfoolery is put out by the “gurus” to give us the idea that they’re giving us golden nuggets of information (when in reality they’re merely telling us what-to-do, not-how-to-do-it clap trap disguised as a clever sales pitch).<\/p>\n What I instead suggest doing is giving away a free gift as a bonus in order to ethically bribe your visitors to gleefully hand over their email address.<\/p>\n Because giving away a gift as a bonus is so important (and so worth it), I invest almost as much time and energy on my giveaways as I do on my paid offerings. (Because giving away a lame bonus is well, just lame. Plus, it conditions our new prospects to expect lame stuff in the future.)<\/p>\n But by offering a high-quality gift as a bonus, our prospects are blown away because no one else puts much time and effort into a giveaway.<\/p>\n Here’s my secret for turning a free bonus gift Let’s face it. It’s getting harder and harder to convince our visitors to hand over their email addresses these days. And I don’t blame them.<\/p>\n Their inbox is littered with spam or blatant, worthless pitches. (Studies show close to 8 out of every 10 emails are perceived as spam. Yikes!)<\/p>\n Even worse, more and more people are concerned about their privacy (and who can blame ’em) as the alphabet agencies continue to monitor us like lab rats.<\/p>\n With all that said, everyone has a level of greed in them. Whether it’s financial greed or ego greed… people who visit our websites are looking for that quick fix. They’re willing to enter our sales funnel if we offer a painless solution to their perceived problem.<\/p>\n Knowing this, I offer a valuable bonus gift that shows up on every single blog post on my site. Check it out:<\/p>\n It’s true. No matter what blog page you’re on, there’s an offer for my free bonus gift as a trade for your optin email address. And it works REALLY well…<\/p>\n But there’s a nasty problem we marketers face daily… getting our new subscribers to confirm their subscription.<\/p>\n
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