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Eliminating Non-Converting Newsletter Readers

Believe it or not, the best way to optimize your email marketing campaigns is to reduce the size of your email list. Many programs are available to help with this, read the iContact review for more details. Although opt-in email marketing is really the best practice, just because your readers request to receive your newsletter doesn’t mean that they will enjoy it forever. In truth, you can expect at least one third of your list to dry up once every six months, and if you don’t remove these subscribers, you will be paying for a lot of underperforming readers. We are going to review one of the best ways to optimize your list: removing deadbeat subscribers.

Underperforming Subscribers Waste Your Money
As your newsletter list grows, you will begin to notice that along with an increase in converting readers, there will also be a boost in underperformers. These “deadbeat subscribers” don’t convert, don’t read your emails and will sometimes mark your emails as spam! As you can imagine, this will seriously waste your money as your email list grows, because you still have to pay to send those emails. Even worse, these bad subscribers will lead to inaccurate results when you decide to test different headlines or email templates. You must actively eliminate these deadbeat subscribers.

Save Your Money & Optimize Your List
Even though it will help to simply delete Poor readers, be careful not to overlook the real problem: getting bad subscribers in the first place. Believe me, it’s far better to have a small, but high converting list than a very large, but poor-performing list. With this in mind, you need to focus on acquiring great subscribers from the start.

1. Make it a challenge
I find that many new email marketers do a great job at making their sign-up form too visible. For example, if you include your sign up form on every page of your website, what you’re actually doing is making it too easy for subscribers to sign up, and this leads to an influx of poor subscribers. Ideally, you want to include a newsletter call to action on all pages of your site, but also make them go through a few steps in order to sign up. Simply making it a link off your website to another page will do wonders to your list quality simply because low quality readers don’t want to be on the list bad enough to take an extra step!

2. Convey your newsletter’s benefits
Sure, you know your email newsletter is amazing, but nobody else does! You must tell your potential subscribers about your newsletter and sell them on it. This will boost the number of quality subscribers simply because once you have pre-sold them on your list, they are going to want to receive it! Just sell you newsletter like you would one of your products and then watch your conversion rates explode.

Follow these steps, and your conversion rates will increase, you will save your money by not wasting it on low quality subscribers, and your readers will be ready to receive, and respond, to your company’s newsletter.

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