Turning Listeners into Customers Using Email Marketing | Liz Wilcox
May 28, 2024
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Liz Wilcox shares secrets on converting podcast listeners into customers through email marketing. She discusses the 'email staircase,' gaining followers, nurturing relationships, and converting friends into customers by selling and knowing your subscribers. Email marketing allows you to own your audience, have high ROI, and build real connections.
Email marketing provides a high ROI and ownership of the audience.
Utilizing the 'email staircase' helps in converting followers into friends and then customers.
Deep dives
Building a Successful Online Course
The podcaster shares their experience of creating an RV maintenance course that achieved a 100% conversion rate. By identifying the top concern of their audience, RV maintenance, they tailored the course to meet this need. Through a strategic launch sequence, including a waitlist and a straightforward sales approach, they successfully converted followers into paying customers.
The Power of Email Marketing
The importance of email marketing is emphasized, highlighting that owning an email list provides a direct and lasting connection with the audience. The high ROI of email marketing is underlined, with examples showing the significant returns generated per dollar spent. By focusing on building connections and trust through consent-based emails, businesses can establish a loyal customer base.
The Email Staircase to Customer Conversion
The concept of the email staircase, transitioning followers to friends and finally customers, is introduced. By demonstrating investment, relatability, and consistency in emails, businesses can nurture relationships with subscribers. Converting friends into customers requires clear communication of offerings, avoiding guesswork by understanding subscriber needs, and building rapport to establish trust and drive sales.
Are you struggling to convert your podcast listeners into paying customers? Conventional wisdom says it's challenging. But it doesn't have to be! In this episode, Liz Wilcox explains how she turned podcast listeners into email subscribers and then converted 100% of them into sales! Get ready to learn the 3 email secrets that you can apply to your own podcast strategy to skyrocket your sales!
00:00 Introduction and Personal Experience 02:23 The Email Staircase 03:19 The Power of Owning Your Email List 04:18 High ROI and Real Connections with Email Marketing 05:15 Gaining Followers and Nurturing Them as Friends 09:04 Converting Friends into Customers: The Importance of Selling and Knowing Your Subscribers 12:26 Summary and Conclusion
Takeaways
Email marketing allows you to own your audience and have a high return on investment.
The 'email staircase' involves turning followers into friends and then into customers.
To gain followers, you need to get visible and actively promote your content.
To turn followers into friends, show your investment in their journey, be relatable, and stay top of mind.
To convert friends into customers, you need to sell and stop guessing by getting to know your subscribers.
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