43. Unlock your podcast's hidden potential to grow your email list
Jan 16, 2023
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Learn how to use your podcast to grow your email list by offering bonus content and creating a funnel that compels your audience to join. Discover the value of audio lead magnets and building an engaged podcast community. Find out the steps to effectively utilize a podcast to expand your email list and engage with your audience.
Creating bonus clips from podcast episodes can attract listeners to join your email list.
Using content honey traps in show notes can entice listeners to access bonus content and join your email list.
Deep dives
Step 1: Creating a Bonus Clip
The podcast episode discusses the importance of creating a bonus clip from your podcast episode to attract listeners to join your email list. The host shares personal experiences of being afraid to email her list and losing subscribers, but also highlights the positive outcome of attracting the right audience by providing valuable bonus content. Examples of bonus clips include asking a separate question to a guest or extracting interesting segments from the episode. By offering bonus clips, the host was able to increase email subscribers and podcast downloads.
Step 2: Using Content Honey Traps
The episode explains the concept of content honey traps and how they can be used to create curiosity and entice listeners to visit the show notes. The purpose of content honey traps is to direct people to the show notes where they can access the bonus clip and ultimately join the email list. Examples of content honey traps discussed include teasing the bonus clip throughout the episode, highlighting relevant and valuable information that is available in the show notes, and appealing to the curiosity of listeners by showcasing the benefits of accessing the bonus content.
Step 3: Converting Show Notes Visitors to Email Subscribers
The podcast episode emphasizes the importance of converting show notes visitors into email subscribers. After attracting listeners to the show notes and introducing the bonus clip, the host explains the need to reiterate the benefits and create curiosity again to convince visitors to opt in and provide their email addresses. By crafting effective content honey traps in the show notes and constantly reinforcing the value of the bonus clip, podcast hosts can successfully build their email lists and continue to engage their audience through email marketing.
We get told to use our email list to grow our podcast (by emailing them) but what about using our podcast to grow our email list? In this episode we show you how to do exactly that using the power of curiosity and value-add bonus content.
Here's what you will learn:
1. Why your podcast lead magnets are not generating leads for you
2. The one tweak you can make to your podcast lead magnet to increase opt ins to your email list
3. How to set up your funnel in a way that compels your podcast audience to join your email list
Check out the full show notes here: https://www.winthecontentgame.com/43