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Hello and welcome to this week’s Monday Minutes. Each week in this series I am going to share simple tips that you can implement quickly to help your business become more successful.

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This week’s tip is all about email deliverability and we're going to go over a few tips that will help you get your emails opened and read by your subscribers.

Deliverability: is a way to measure the success at which an email marketer gets a campaign into subscribers' inboxes. It involves anything that touches email delivery, like ISPs, MTAs, throttling, bounces, bulking, and spam issues ~ Mailchimp

FACT: You spend a lot of time each week writing emails to your subscribers, but none of that will do you any good if you don’t have a decent delivery rate.

If your emails land in their spam folders, you don’t have much of a chance of making a sale or building a relationship with them, so in this post I'm going to share some easy to implement tips that will help insure that your emails actually make it to your subscribers’ inboxes.

First, use a reputable service

Using a reputable autoresponder service is the single best thing you can do to improve your chances of avoiding spam folders. Companies like Aweber, Mail Chimp and GetResponse work hard at making sure they are white listed with the big Internet Service Providers and email providers like Gmail.

Most autoresponder companies will list their delivery stats. In addition the good ones will make sure your emails are compliant, provide you with tips and tools that will help keep you out of hot water.

Set expectations

Your chances of staying in the main inbox are high when your subscribers regularly open your email. The best way to insure that outside of providing great content that your readers look forward to reading is to set expectations from the beginning.

An easy way to do this is to let them know early on when and how often they can expect an email from you. You can also let them know when they will hear from you again at the end of your email. For example, look for another email from me on Monday where I will share some more great tips with you.

Once you’ve set those expectations do your best to meet them. Of course, things happen every once in a while. In general though, do your best to keep your promise and email when your readers expect it.

Doing this regularly will improve your open rates and your overall deliverability.

Clean your list regularly

Another good habit is to clean up your list regularly. If subscribers haven’t been opening your emails for the past six month, chances are they're no longer interested in what you have to offer, so delete them or move them to another list where you can try to revive their interest without hurting the deliverability rates of your main list.

If you aren't sure how to do this check the help files of your autoresponder service to see how you can go about deleting or moving anyone that hasn’t opened an email from you in the past six months to a year depending on what type of business you have.

Following these tips and keeping an eye on your email deliverability rates in general will make sure your emails are being read by your subscribers and that’s the point of email marketing, isn’t it?

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Thank you for reading,
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Topic: Getresponse List Building Program shows you how to add up to 10,000 new subscribers to your list in as little as 90 days!

Hello there,

In this post I want to talk to you a little bit about the new list building program from Getresponse. It's free to get started and it can take you from complete newbie to
expert list builder in a matter of weeks. Watch this quick video and then look below
to find out what is included in the program.

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With the Getresponse List Building Program, you will learn how to:

• Grow your contact basegetresponse
• Receive exclusive educational materials in each session:
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• Create beautiful newsletters
• Learn how to combine online marketing tools effectively

If you aren't familiar with Getresponse, it it a very powerful email marketing and autoresponder platform that allow you to create and mange campaigns from one easy to navigate dashboard. To take advantage of the free training you are required to  register for a free 30 day trial which you can easily cancel at anytime with not strings attached.

I have been using Getresponse for many years and I highly recommend it and when you take advantage of the free training along with the free trial you really don't have anything to lose and plenty of subscribers to gain!

Start your free trial and get access to the
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By the time you complete the program, you'll have an eager audience of up to 10,000 subscribers.

Enjoy,
Lisa M Cope

A squeeze page is a dedicated page that entices someone to sign up for something. This could be a webinar, a free video or a gift such as a coupon, ebook or report. You can include any type of gift you like but it is best to offer something which is related to your business.

Before setting up your squeeze page you want to get your free offer or gift prepared. You can write this yourself, use a ghostwriter, or use a PLR product which you modify. Once you have this ready upload it to your website or deliver it through a service like Dropbox or Box.com.

Now it is time to work on your squeeze page. There are several ways to do this as well including:

  • Creating an html page
  • Using a free template
  • Purchasing a Squeeze page software
  • Using a plugin

Your squeeze page should highlight what your offer is about. You need to list the main features and benefits of the product. It is best to highlight these by using a bulleted list.

A good squeeze page should always include the following elements:

  • An attention grabbing headline
  • List of benefits
  • A desire for your reader to want more info
  • A strong call to action

By combining all of these elements you are creating a strong desire in your reader, one that they will act on. With the end action being that they subscribe to your list to get your free gift or offer.

Having a striking image or using a video are two other good tactics which you can use on your squeeze page. An image makes your page visually pleasing and a video is a great way to include additional information about your product. You could even pop in a couple of testimonials in there.

Once your squeeze page is finished you can upload it to your website and your page will be live. Don’t forget to add your autoresponder code into your form so that subscribers are added to your list. If you are using a squeeze page software there will be a place to add this in.

Your next step is now to promote the heck out of your new squeeze page. You can promote it on all your social sites, and you can use the link in your signature file in forums. Even when you leave blog comments you can use the URL as your website. Just look for every opportunity you can and leave your link.