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WordPress Meets Marketing:Opt-In Form Plugins

Email marketing is one of the most popular and effective ways to build a list and market to people. An opt-in list is essentially a list of emails that you can send your marketing materials to.  Opt-in (Option In) means that you are asking people for permission to market to them by having them fill out that form; and Double Opt-In means that your subscribers have to confirm their subscription to your Newsletter to eliminate any SPAM concerns.

To build that list; you would need an Opt-In Form to post on your site:  Your visitors see it, fill their information if they liked what they saw and you would have the beginning of a mailing list.

The following Plugins provide you with a simple way to insert an Opt-In Form in the sidebar of your WordPress blog as a widget and without changing a single line of code:

 

Constant Contact WordPress Widget

I use Constant Contact for my Newsletter at my other web sites, and this plugin allows me to change the look and feel of the Opt-in Form to fit nicely in my page template.

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This widget adds a Constant Contact signup form to your blog’s sidebar without touching code. Includes options for Title, Button Text, Tag Wrapper, Form ID Code, and Intro Paragraph, show or hide CC link, Safe Subscribe link, and template options.

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iContact Widget

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Add the iContact ‘Automatic Sign-up Form’ to your sidebar with this widget. Simply paste the code from the form you created in iContact into this widget. Your form will be converted into HTML

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VerticalResponse Widget

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Add a Vertical Response signup form to your sidebar without touching code.This widget includes many configuration options: Custom widget title, Define your own Button Text, Show an intro paragraph and define your own wrapping tag, Choose from two styles, Choose your own colors, Choose from three types of forms. 

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ActiveCampaign Email Marketing plugin

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The ActiveCampaign Email Marketing plugin connects WordPress with your email marketing software and allows you to choose a subscription form to embed (as a widget) anywhere on your site.

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SendIt

Author Description

Sendit enable you to send newsletters and collect subscribers from your blog. You can manage one or more list and using in post/pages or using the widget(customizable). You can extract content from post or pages or create your content to send to subscribers. You can also edit the template for each mailing lists just put some XHTML code on header and footer. Newsletter will be send in XHTML format.

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GWA AutoResponder

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Build your mailing list right from your WordPress Weblog. Subscribe and manage your entire list directly and automatically with WordPress. Build a list of unlimited size, Send daily email auto-responses, Easy to add, edit, and reschedule mailings,Send single messages to your list anytime, Import/Export entire list format.

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WordPress Email Capture Plugin

Author Description

This creates a 2 field form (Name & Email) for capturing emails. Email is double opt in, and allows you to forward opt in to services such as ebooks or software. When you are ready to begin your email marketing campaign, simply export the list into your chosen email marketing software or service.

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AWeber Integration

Author Description

This plugin provides a simple way to add one or more AWeber form(s) to your sidebar and optionally enable AWeber email web analytics for your website. It gives you access to a new “AWeber Mailing List” sidebar widget, that lets you enter the subscription form’s details. These details are used to automatically display your AWeber email subscription form.

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While all of those plugins provide you with a way to post Opt-In Form on your sidebar, none of them will actually MAIL your Newsletter to your list or handle the Back-end management tasks, you still need to pay for EMail Marketing Service such as AWeber or Constant Contact  to do that.

The only one that gives you Free Auto Responder Service is GWA AutoResponder,  needless to say I recommend it and use it myself.



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Cash Building Strategies Series: Marketing Your Online Business, Part A

Marketing Your Online Business

Strategies to Make your Business Successful

   Now that you’ve learned some different online businesses to choose from, you will want to learn some ways to market your business so it can become successful like many other internet marketers who have been down the path you want to travel. Let‘s explore some of the more popular strategies of marketing your online business.

Website

   Your online business website is the perfect place to start. If there’s one thing that could make or break your business, it would be the website itself. Here are some things that are important to know about your website for marketing purposes:

Domain name- The domain name is the address to find your site on the internet. You want to choose a domain name that matches closely to your site or business name. This helps any internet user find your business easily if they’re searching for a certain topic. An exact match would be the best option, but if it’s not available, try finding one that comes as close as possible.

  Keywords- Utilize the best keywords to place within the content on your site. Keywords are words that internet searchers use when they go to the search engines to find information on a specific topic. The keywords would get indexed by the search engine and placed within the results page for a user. The higher your site is ranked on the results page, the more chance you have that the user will choose your site to visit.

  Market with a Niche- A niche narrows down your business to market to a certain group of people. Narrowing down your marketing efforts to a smaller group to help you give what your consumers want. Larger groups have too many people that have too many different needs. This makes it difficult to get your audience interested in what you have. The smaller groups will be the people that are more likely to want what you have, so marketing will be much easier.     Your website will need to reflect whatever niche you choose for your business. If you’re targeting mothers with young children, your site should reflect that. You would have graphics that would connect to mothers with young children and the content on the site should be written to something they could relate to. This will help with the search engines as well.

Blog- Provide a blog to go with your website. It should relate to the theme your business site has. Personal blogs should not be used here. If you use a blogging program that isn’t connected with your site, try to design the blog’s template to match your business site as close as possible, so it appears that the blog goes along with the site. Blogs are another way to utilize the search engines to gain visitors. When a visitor finds your blog, they can see that you have more information to offer them on that topic elsewhere on your website, so they can just click through on the link provided.  

E-Mail Marketing

   E-mails are essential to any marketing campaign. This is how you keep your business and products fresh in your potential customer’s minds. Getting a visitor to your site is one thing, but getting them to remember you over the millions of other websites out there is a whole thing in itself; especially when they’re interested in buying.    E-mails come at regular intervals to provide information to website visitors to help build credibility as well as get your business name in the forefront of their minds. This can be done in a couple of different ways. To get e-mail addresses to send your messages to, you will provide an opt-in email feature on your site so that people can sign up for updates on what you’re offering or for more information.

  Newsletters- These are used to provide small articles in topics that relate to your business. For example, if you sell vitamins and minerals, your newsletter can offer articles on alternative health practices, etc. to show how important your product is to them.    Newsletters can be sent to their e-mail inboxes with the introduction to an article and a link where they can go to your site to read the rest of the article. This enables users to become familiar with your site and makes it easier to remember you when they decide they want to buy something you’re offering.

  E-Courses- You can have a sign up feature on your site for visitors to use to learn the basics about a topic. If you’re selling vitamin products, you can use an e-course to help teach your readers how to pick the best ones for different kinds of health problems. E-courses are typically sent over a 5-7 day period and are often offered for free. This keeps your business name in their minds by reminding of it every day that the e-course comes into their inbox.

  Updates- For those who have purchased something from you or people who have signed up for this feature, you can provide them with updates on your products, discounts, freebies, etc. This way if you don’t hook a visitor into buying in their first visit they may see something later on that catches their eye and entices them to buy. The updates can also help bring in more traffic for your site. Those who have already signed up for your lists will have friends, family, neighbors and co-workers that they could refer to your business by simply forwarding the messages on.

 

Coming up Next:

Marketing Your Online Business, Part B

 



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Firstname Syndrome infecting email Lists ?

   It is spreading everywhere like wildfire…! That little add-on to your email you use to personalize your messages is acting against you;  claiming more victims and slashing your opt-in ratio like there  is no tomorrow.

   You did not bother to re-check HOW that add-on is showing up in your message, and John for an example will now receive your email with a header that says: “I have some good news for you firstname!” Or he will read something like: “Do not miss out on this firstname, I’ll tell you why”

   By now, John is wondering: Who is that firstname? Is he a new comer to Internet Marketing I do not know about? Did I open yet another Spam mail by mistake? And feeling left out of the whole conversation!

   No, it is not funny by a long shot, it is Firstname Syndrome claiming another name out of your mailing list that you worked so hard to enlarge!

And you have a choice: Revise your emails before sending them out OR Keep doing “Hello firstname”, Firstname Syndrome will be waiting!



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Quick Notes: Signs of Over-Sell in Internet Marketing

I should have called it Signs of Over-Kill, but that would be unkind to some fellow marketers!
  • More than ONE e-mail A DAY
  They saw your salecopy, they signed up for your Opt-in and gave you another chance to show them what you have…..and everything is smooth…THEN you went e-mail trigger-happy and start shooting them e-mails left and right ! What do you think will happen next? You know that last line in your responder e-mail that says: Unsubscribe? That is where your list is heading!


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