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    July 14, 2008

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    Elizabeth Bertani

    As a marketing consultant and professional organizer, I'll pass this along to my business clients.
    Many times, we tend to overlook the concept of "opportunity cost" -- as in LOST opportunity when we don't collect email addresses.

    John Bokelmann

    Thanks for all the great ideas. We hadn't considered including a sign-up in our emails that may get forwarded or at the tradeshows we attend.

    Les

    Good ideas on optin form. Btw, I sent too many issues of my newsletter before I saw the bit about the subject line.
    Changing each issure made a big difference. Thanks

    Gloria Jean

    Thank you for the great information ...I am going to put these ideas to work.

    Email Marketing Journal

    Having it in as many places as possible is vital to attaining the desired amount of subscribers. Just make sure you don't put them in places that will make visitors shy away from signing up or leave your site altogether.

    Jody Earle

    We have an e-commerce site, and we offer several ways for customers to opt-in to our list. We're starting an instant incentive program that will give customers $ off instantly. At trade shows we offer a drawing for a substantial prize for all email addresses received. These methods have been very effective for us!

    Ian Davies

    We used to have 'sign up' on our home page only. Changed it a few months ago to feature on every page and it has made a massive difference.

    Andrew S

    Excellent suggestions. But make sure you test having the form on landing pages as I've seen it - sometimes - depress sales via these pages.

    Halo Design

    Great idea. It's a cheap (free!) and effective way to extend your mailing list with people who have already shown an interest in your products or services. I, for one, will make sure I suggest it to my clients.

    John Szram

    Those are some great ideas. I run an Internet Business blog and I just want to echo the fact that although I like to have a link to my RSS feed on my page, it's much more profitable for me to capture a visitor's email address and to build a relationship with my customers over time.

    Thanks for the offline tips too!

    Jim H.

    Great suggestions. Currently we just have one of those spots (homepage). We'll need to look at incorporating the opt-in form in more places. Thanks for the suggestions.

    Chris McMahon

    We build custom kiosk applications and several of our clients use them in their lobby, at trade shows, or at special events (festivals, football games, etc) to collect email addresses as part of a request for more info or for a sweepstakes entry.

    It's been a pretty effective way to grow their opt-in list.

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