Are you frustrated that your email list is growing at a snail’s pace? Do you find traffic coming to your site, but few visitors turning into subscribers? For years, I was frustrated with the slow growth of my email list, and I didn’t know what to do. I thought all I needed was a popular blog to link to me, or a post to go viral. Or maybe a new plugin! Yeah, that’ll do it. Like that would solve all my problems.
If you’re going to do email right in your business, you may need to start over from scratch and reset your foundation about how to use email as a tool to grow your audience the right way.
Email is still the single best relational currency online. You can pinterefacetweetplus all you want, but email outperforms them all where it counts. But building and running the email side of your business is problematic.
When I first started out in the online business and blogging world, I tried every tactic I could get my hands on to try to gain more traffic and build my email list. I felt like I was throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what would stick, and what I ended up with was a splotchy wall and very little traffic to show for it.
There are literally hundreds of millions of blogs in existence. Thousands more are started every day. In a world where 99.9+% of blogs go mostly unnoticed, Derek Halpern has made a big name for himself and his blog Social Triggers in less than a year.
The journey from newcomer to successful blogger isn't always easy to track. Wouldn't it be great if there were some milestones you could follow to figure out if you're on the right path? From my experience and from watching other people become successful online, I pulled together 20 milestones that might mark the journey of a typical a-list blogger in-the-making.