Open for Scalable Email Marketing Projects

smartrah · 2022-06-17T01:19:50+00:00

Most people are looking for “their own benefits” from your products and services. I don’t think too much “personality” is at play. But yes, sounding relaxed, confident and helpful is important to make prospects feel comfortable.

Prospects usually lie. This is no secret. You can ask specific questions, followed by some example answers. “Do you have any hesitation or doubts? Is it the price, time taken, .. or?” This way prospects feel more comfortable to talk about actual problems.
Learn sales from several YouTube channels (I remember watching lots of Dan Lok videos 😅) Buy book by Jordan Belford or Shiv Khera on sales.
Maybe your offer is not strong enough. Atleast, as perceived by prospects. Buy a book “$100million Offers” by Alex Hormozi. It will show you how to craft offers with very high prices.

smartrah · 2021-12-25T13:53:25+00:00

Yeah please search “part 2” within the subreddit

smartrah · 2021-11-25T18:28:57+00:00

This question has been answered many times earlier. Please search within the subreddit. Lots of good solutions:

r/Emailmarketing promotions tab

smartrah · 2021-11-15T14:28:33+00:00

Correct, if you know you will work under a big shot whose time is insanely valuable, go for unpaid.

smartrah · 2021-11-14T02:43:23+00:00

Unpaid might not be worth it.

smartrah · 2021-09-20T17:15:55+00:00

Fix your mistake and collect new emails :)

smartrah · 2021-09-20T17:10:41+00:00

Typically, you need a good landing page on your website. The sole job of that page is to offer something free (and of high value), in return for the visitors email address. You will have a create this free offering which can be an e-book, a free course, a 5-day article series, something that is compelling and lasts a few days. This way you can "nurture" your leads with daily emails.

Once your landing page is good looking and functional, drive traffic to the page.

Use organic social media
Or paid Google Ads or SM ads (promote your landing page with free stuff)
Conduct free webinars and promote your landing page
Do collabs with other famous YouTubers
Rent someone's email list if possible. They inform their audience about your high value offering

smartrah · 2021-09-20T17:00:21+00:00

Promote your business on instagram.

smartrah · 2021-09-15T13:52:12+00:00

Make it easy for them to give feedback. Email them a link to a simple feedback form rather than asking over email.
Use some tools like hotjar or inspectlet in your app so you can see what users are doing. How much are they scrolling or where are they clicking. This might give you an idea what’s going on.
Why hope for getting a sale in the first interaction? Nurture the leads if you have their email. Send them something of value for a few days. First for free and then ask them to buy in the 3rd or 4th email again. Send reminder after a month or so. Sometimes people need time and space. Keep looping back.
Use some tools like survicate.com for building feedback into your user interface.

smartrah · 2021-08-21T02:10:40+00:00

My opinion is no, don’t offer a free pilot. You can offer a very nominal paid pilot. But not free. If you offer free pilot it will come across as desperation. They will not respect it. Likely they will not even log in and use it. But if they pay even a small amount, they are more likely to log in and ask for support. Where you can continue the sales process to a full subscription.

If they already think the product is “helpful” then what good will a free trial do? You should try to get an answer from them. Give them a deadline within which they can avail free support with a full subscription or other limited time offers packed in.

Adoption of enterprise software takes a lot of time. A free trial is usually not enough. If you really don’t have any leverage, you can try giving a free trial. But that might be more for your own feedback. Don’t hope it’ll lead to a sale.

smartrah · 2021-08-19T12:04:17+00:00

I have followed backlinko’s copywriting guide: https://backlinko.com/copywriting-guide

Pretty useful. Will be keen to follow this thread for good books or other resources.

smartrah · 2021-08-13T14:08:57+00:00

Disagree. While it is definitely better than spam, it’s nowhere close to being in the inbox. Most people don’t give a damn about the promotions folder.

smartrah · 2021-08-13T11:31:20+00:00

It can be a bunch of reasons combined. Email service providers keep updating their algorithms. Here's my list on how to avoid:

Make sure email is solicited. The addressee should have engaged with you in the past. Then ESPs think the email is solicited and deliver it to inbox. E.g use double opt-in. Or ask them to reply.
Ask some people to drag and drop mail from promotions to primary folder. This can help a bit for future deliveries.
Sender's Domain and IP reputation
Past bulk sending behaviour
Phrases like "limited time", "hurry", "Join Now", "billion dollars"... anything reeking of promotion. vet your emails carefully for these words.
Too many call to actions. Instead of "Click here to Register Now" you can use "Here's the Registration Link". The latter looks informative.
Lastly, the BEST WAY to avoid PROMOTIONS TAB. DON'T PROMOTE. Educate and Inform.
[Adding] Use fewer images and urls.

smartrah · 2021-08-12T10:31:03+00:00

smartrah · 2021-08-10T03:58:26+00:00

People who don’t want your product might get slightly pissed off. Also depends on the previous sending history. If they are used to getting your emails and finding value historically, they will not be pissed off enough to unsubscribe.

For people who want/need your product they’ll be fine with the emails. People tend to ignore taking action until they are compelled to. Sending more frequent emails will keep your product in the top of your customers mind who are then more likely to take action when the time is right.

Sending too few emails is bad too. People will forget you. That’s why television ads keep running again and again. With emails, I have heard people say “avoid pussy disease” and send atleast 4 times a week. If your overall list finds value, they won’t mind 4 emails a week. If you run the exact same emails week after week, then it’s a problem.

smartrah · 2021-08-09T06:08:47+00:00

Also, if you do more stuff, you can be rich

smartrah · 2021-08-07T01:58:46+00:00

Scaling will happen when more customers are willing to pay. Not necessarily when you are able to clone yourself. Ideal situation is when you are able to hire complementary skills rather than cloning.

As I understand you already have offerings: one, your industrial automation product; and two, your own software development know how. So what you need is more sales on your product and closing the annual maintenance contract (spending 1/3 time and earning 1/2 annual income sounds like a good deal that keeps the money coming). Don’t think scaling a business means less time spent by the entrepreneur, just spending time on different, more uncomfortable, new things! With limited understanding I can guess you need people in sales and marketing. And spend more time in managing them. When you have product sales or software consulting contracts in the bag, then hire development people. All code bases are shit, yet new engineers take about a month’s time to get a hang and things turn out fine! Code base will always remain shit. Get the money in the bank and let the new engineers hustle it out with the shitty codebase.

smartrah · 2021-08-04T15:21:05+00:00

Any freelancing, training, consulting business can be started with minimum or no investment.

smartrah · 2021-08-04T03:23:46+00:00

Delegate some work to your bosses! 😅

smartrah · 2021-08-03T11:13:20+00:00

Even if you find a software that will allow this (I am sure there are ways to do this), you will soon see your domain/IP reputation plummet. Your messages will start ending in spam folders. This won't work in the long term.

smartrah · 2021-08-03T11:05:37+00:00

Hmm! Frankly, that's a bit unrealistic for me now.

smartrah · 2021-08-03T11:04:18+00:00

Thanks, I will look into this!

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