How to Start an Email List — Tutorial Video #1 Best Education Page #Online Earning

What's up guys?

Pat Flynn here from smartpassiveincome.com,

and welcome to your email marketing tutorial.

I'm here to help you grow your email list.

So, we'll start from the beginning

and then walk through an outline on

exactly what you're gonna learn here.

And then I have a few things to say

before we get started.

This video's gonna show you how

to set up your email service provider,

the little tool you're gonna use

to start collecting your email list.

And then I'm gonna show you how

to create an opt in form and place

it on your website.

In video number two I'm gonna show

you exactly how to create lead magnets,

which are little incentives that you

can create to gather more email subscribers.

And also, I'll show you exactly where

on your website you can place an opt in form.

In video number three I'm gonna

give you some more advanced strategies

that people are using to start to scale

the list building process.

Then in video four I'm gonna show

you exactly how to use your auto responder,

which are emails that you write ahead of time

that get sent out to your subscribers

after they subscribe.

And then in video number five I'm gonna

show you how to actually create broadcast

emails that get sent to your list.

And then finally, in video number six

I'm gonna show you some more advanced

segmenting and tagging strategies.

So you can really start to do some ninja things

to really deliver some amazing content

to your audience and, obviously, get better results.

So, before we dive into an email

service provider and I show you

how to create and opt in form

and place it on your website, I wanna

talk really quick about why emails are very important.

Now, when I was starting out, I didn't

really think collecting email addresses were very important.

I was more focused on creating content on my blog

and actually getting traffic.

I didn't really care about emails

because, well, I didn't have anything to sell.

Or I didn't even know what I was gonna say.

Well, the one big thing that I would change

if I could do it all over again,

would be I wish I could start my email sooner,

my email list sooner.

And the reason is because, it's not

just because you can have then a list

of people that you can share things with

in terms of selling and recommending products.

Yes, that's part of it.

And actually it's a very small part of it.

Moreso, you're able to build a deeper

relationship with your audience.

You're able to teach them and give them information.

And provide value that will help you build that trust,

that's very important, before any sort

of transactions happen.

It's a way for you to keep your audience

informed when things happen.

There are so many benefits of an email list

besides just having a list to sell to.

And actually, your audience can help tell you

exactly what they would buy.

That's the beauty of an email list,

more than anything, is you're able

to use that list of people who have

given you permission to send them stuff,

who know that you are there to serve them.

You can ask them, "Hey, what can I do

"to better serve you?"

That can inform then, what blog posts

you should write, what podcast episodes

you should create, what videos you should do,

and also what products to sell.

So, your email list is way more important

than just, you know, what can you sell?

Yes, that's gonna be the end goal for a lot of you.

But please make the end goal to be

better serving your audience and you're

gonna get better results throughout.

As you're going through this process

and you're starting to build your email list,

you're going to check your email numbers

every single day.

And how many subscribers you got,

how many people are opening those broadcast emails,

and all those sorts of things.

And yes, those numbers are very important.

But you gotta remember, throughout

this whole process, every single

person on your list is a real human being.

It's not just about having 1,000 subscribers.

It's about having 1,000 human beings on the other end.

And even if you're starting out

and you just have, let's say, 50 subscribers.

Compared to others, that might seem like nothing at all.

But imagine a room full of 50 people.

Who are there because they wanna hear from you.

Now, that starts to put into perspective

exactly what we're doing here.

So treat your numbers like actual human beings

and you will better serve them

and you will get more results that way.

So, just wanted to get that out there.

Let's start the tutorial now.

So let's dive into an email service provider

and I'll talk about my favorite one ConvertKit.

And then we'll get into how to create

an opt in form and place it on your website.

Now, that being said, it doesn't matter

what email service provider you end up using.

Whether you go with ConvertKit or

a completely different one, it doesn't matter.

All of these principles, in this tutorial,

throughout the entire six videos,

are gonna be useful for you.

So, let's dive right in.

So what I wanna do is walk you through

the beginning stages of how to get started

with an email service provider.

No matter which one you end up going with,

there are, universally, some really

important things that you need to do

the moment you sign up and set up your account,

that are vital to your success with email marketing.

And I'll show you those things in just a moment.

I do wanna speak on really quick,

why I choose to recommend, why I choose to use,

and why now I'm actually an advisor

for this company ConvertKit.

They're my ESP of choice because

they are the easiest to use, the best

designed ESP out there.

They also have a lot of amazing,

advanced, features that I've always

been looking for, that are gonna

be really helpful for you to maximize your results.

And I'll show you those things in later videos

within this email marketing tutorial.

I will say however, if you'd like

to check them out, go through my link

smartpassiveincome.com/ck.

And that is my affiliate link, so I

do get a commission from that.

I just wanna be up front.

But it's at no extra cost to you.

So, you can get started and give them a shot.

And, of course, being an advisor,

if you have any questions or comments,

feel free to ask me.

I'm here for ya'.

Now what I'm gonna do is click

on the get started button here,

and set up a totally brand new account.

I'll see you on the other side,

after I fill out my billing information

and get everything set up.

So, hang on.

Be there in just a sec.

After you sign up, there's going

to be a few more details that you need to include.

And it starts with your address.

Again, this is universal, no matter

which email service provider you use.

You will not be able to send any emails

unless you include an address.

And the reason is, because there

are anti spam laws into place that

require you to have that address

at the bottom of every email you send out.

Now, keep that in mind, when you might

be thinking about putting your home address on there.

I actually wouldn't recommend doing that.

If possible, put a business address there

or different address.

Because you want that information

for your own home, private of course.

So keep that in mind.

But, whatever the case may be,

you need to include an address there for sure.

Then you can include information

about your website, whatever that website might be.

And then finally your default email settings

which are gonna be your from name

and your reply to email address.

Now the from name is going to be

what people see, in terms of where,

or who is sending this email.

And you might be inclined to put

your brand name in there, or your

website name in there.

But I would highly recommend against that.

I would recommend including a real person's name.

Hopefully, your name, if you're the one

who's corresponding with your email subscribers.

And the reason for that is because

when you see an email come into your inbox,

you're more likely to open it

if it comes from a real person.

And as I always say, "The more human like

"you can be online, the easier it is

"to connect with people."

And for things like opening emails

and clicking through the links within the emails.

The more you can become a person,

the easier it's gonna be for you.

So, I would include a real name in here.

So I'll just include mine.

And then the reply to email address

is where people will reply to.

So if people click the reply button

on an email that you send out,

that's the email that will receive those

replies from your subscribers.

So, once you have all that filled out,

click on, save your information, and we'll keep going.

And next step, we're going to create a form.

A form is something that you embed

and place on your website, so you

can begin collecting new subscribers.

You may ask for a name.

But no matter what, you're definitely

gonna be asking for an email address.

And we'll show you how to set that up

really quick here in ConvertKit.

And then finally, I'm gonna show you

actually how to embed that form onto your website.

We'll save a lot of these other things

in this handy checklist for the later videos.

But for now, let's start by creating a form.

To create a form, all you have to do

is click on the create form button.

At this point, you choose whether

or not you want to build a landing page

or have a form like, which I said earlier,

then you can embed on your website.

A landing page is, essentially, a website.

A single page, that ConvertKit

will provide for you, that has a form on it.

So you can even begin collecting

subscribers right now, without having a website.

This is extremely useful if you are

setting up a website very soon.

But you wanna start collecting email subscribers now.

Like a coming soon page for example.

Well, this will be really helpful.

It's also a great way to collect email subscribers

on just a full page.

About a particular incentive, which

we'll talk about in the next video.

Some sort of reason for people to subscribe.

So that they don't have any other option

but to either subscribe and check that thing out or exit.

So, if you wanna just try that you can.

But for now, I'm going to click on a form here.

And we'll be able to show you how to set that

up and then put it on your website.

From here you can choose the form style.

On the left you can see that there

is a form that you can embed within a post,

for example, or within a page that is inline

with the actual text there.

And you can add a few more things,

like a headline and a sub headline

that will incentivize people to subscribe.

Here in the middle you have a little bit more

options in terms of customizing the text

and images around your subscription button here.

And then finally, you just have this

plain and simple, name and email address

subscription line, with no text around it,

that you can choose, as well.

So, for now I'm just gonna choose this first one.

And we'll show you how to set that up.

Here you're gonna see a preview of the form.

But it's also editable.

So I can change the headline to,

get your free gift, for example.

I can change the subtext to something

else, if I'd like.

I can even change this text down here

and even what it says within the box,

best email address.

Sometimes it works out really well.

Even what's in the subscription button, get it now.

So once you do this, you wanna click, save,

whatever it is you end up changing.

You can also change the colors here, as well.

So let's say I have a, more of a red color,

instead, that I wanna highlight,

for the border there.

And then I'm gonna click, save,

to make sure that is saved.

Now, before I embed this on a website,

and you can always end up changing

these options later, I do want to mess

with the settings a little bit.

And what I mean by that is by clicking on settings,

I can change the form name.

Which is gonna be really helpful

for organizational purposes, later on.

So I'm just gonna make this be,

primary offer on, let's say, about page, for example.

You can get very specific with this if you like.

And then for now we're just gonna

keep it as a form on the website,

instead of a full landing page.

Again, like I said, you can change

any of these settings that you previously

set up, later on.

I'm also going to click on style here.

To show you that you can always change the style.

You can go back to the full form style,

which includes the images and a little

bit more room for text.

Or you can go to the naked one.

Which is just the name, and the email,

and the subscription button.

You can even have it become a Modal window,

which means people click on a button

or a link to then have the form pop up.

Or you can have it slide in.

But for now, we're just gonna keep it as an inline.

There's some other options here as well.

You can delete or archive it if you want.

You can duplicate the form if you have

the same form but you want it on different pages.

You can integrate it with other

fancy, more advanced tools, which we'll

talk about later.

But for now, I'm just gonna click

on save form, to make sure we have that.

It should change the title, as you can see here.

Primary offer on about page.

Now what I'm gonna do is show

you what this looks like on the dashboard

of ConvertKit really quick.

I'm gonna click back on forms here.

And you're gonna see that form show up.

You're also going to see the timeline

of your subscribers here, which will change over time.

This is where you'll be able to start

to get into the analytics.

And you can create as many forms as you'd like.

There's an unlimited amount that you can create,

here in ConvertKit, if you wanna do that.

Again, just go through the same process as we did before.

Now I wanna go back and edit or actually

select one more thing here in this form.

So I'm gonna click on that.

And you'll see the form there.

I'm gonna click on settings one more time.

And I'm gonna go to embed.

Because now we're gonna take this code

and place it on our website.

So that we can see this form and then

get our first subscribers.

So you can do this in a couple of ways.

You can do it using the Java script code.

Which you can then copy down here

and then put on your website.

You can get the raw HTML which some

more advanced people like, because

they wanna change a few things and style

it up a little bit more.

Those are for people who are a little bit more technical.

And then finally, if you have a WordPress website,

ConvertKit has a WordPress plug in

which makes this even easier for you.

So that within your page or your post,

you can just simply place a short code.

And that's all you need to do, after

that WordPress plug in is installed.

For now, I'm just going to collect

the Java script code.

And hit Command + C here on the Mac

so I can copy it and put it on the website.

And I'll show you what that looks like in just a moment.

Okay, so here we are at GreenExamAcademy.com,

which is the very first business

that I ever created, back in 2008.

Still alive today, still generating an income.

And I'm here on the about page.

Notice that I didn't have a sign up form.

And even though the website is different

and it's a different account.

I just wanted to use this as an example

because a lot of my other sites are

very customized, where it would actually

change the look a little bit.

But I wanted to show you just how easy this was.

So here's the edit page section in WordPress.

With whatever editor you end up using

even if it's WordPress or not,

where you insert text there should

be a place where you can then switch it over to HTML.

Meaning the code that then generates that text

and shapes it in the way that it looks online.

And in WordPress, all you have to do

is when you're editing a page or post

you click on the text tab here.

And now you can see codes, like different websites,

and links, and whatnot.

So at the bottom I'm just gonna simply

paste the Java script just like that.

And I'm going to hit update.

And then I'm going to go back to my about page here,

and refresh it for you, to show you.

And as you can see, here it is

there on the website, very easy to do.

If I wanted to change its' position

I can highlight this and cut that.

And then maybe I'll put it after this paragraph here.

And then I'll hit update.

And then I'm gonna refresh, on this page.

And you should see it move up the page like that.

So this is a great way to get in front

of your audience when their on your website

so that they can then be incentivized

to leave their email address,

which will then be collected.

And ConvertKit will get into how

you can look at even more information

about your subscribers, where they're at,

what they're doing, in later videos.

So that's how easy it is to do.

Now one more thing I wanna show you

is you can also embed this particular

form into the sidebar, using a widget, on your page.

Especially if you're using WordPress, this is quite easy.

So I'm gonna go back here to edit page.

I'm gonna go to appearance and click on widgets.

I'm gonna open up the right sidebar here.

And I'm gonna find the text where

we can add arbitrary text or HTML.

I'm just gonna drag and drop that in

there, open that up.

In the contents section I'm gonna

paste that same, exact script and save.

Now when I come back to this page

that should insert itself down here.

It should resize in a proper way.

It may look a little funky.

Sometimes you have to tweak it a little bit.

However, this is really cool.

Because then it should be live on every

single page where that sidebar shows up.

So I'm gonna hit refresh.

And see what happens.

There it is, it kind of laid itself out

perfectly for me there, that's great.

So that's how you can put it on every

page on your website.

Let's go to just another page to see what happened.

So this is a page that I set up

for people who are brand new.

And yep, it's right there too.

So people should see it all the time.

Now before we finish up I have one

more thing I wanna do.

And that is actually subscribe to this email

list and show you what that's like.

So what we're gonna do is actually

type in my Smart Passive Income email address now

and hit, get it now.

Now there is no free gift yet, or anything like that.

You will see in the next video,

what kinds of incentives you could give

to your subscribers in exchange for their email address.

And that's gonna be what the next video's about.

There's a number of different things you can do.

Not all of them are very difficult.

So we'll get into that in video number two.

But for now, you can see, I just subscribed,

it says success.

Now check your email to confirm your subscription.

And what that means is that [email protected]

is gonna get an email that says,

"Hey, are you an actual human being?

"Click here to confirm."

And then you'll be subscribed to the list.

Now you can have it so that people

don't have to have that email and click

through it in order to subscribe.

But I would highly recommend doing that.

That's called your double opt in.

And when you go here to the main

settings of your form, you will see,

actually it's not there.

It's incentive email.

You can click to turn this off.

And remove that double opt in email for new subscribers.

That is actually not a good idea.

Yes, it's an additional step.

But this way you know that people

on the other end are human beings, who subscribe.

Because they will have to click through

to say, "Yes, I'm a human.

"I want the emails."

And the more you can actually make sure

that the person who's subscribing is a human, the better.

That's gonna make sure you have a quality email list.

It's not just about the quantity.

It's about the quality.

It's also gonna help make sure that

robots aren't signing up to your list,

just to get those free incentives

that you're gonna offer.

Which, like I said, we'll talk about in the next video.

So, at least, when you're starting out

always click yes to this.

Click that on and then you'll see

what this email looks like.

This is actually where you can craft this email.

And update this text if you'd like.

Later on, in the next video, I'll show

you how to include your incentive here

and all those really important things.

So that's gonna be really cool

But yeah, let's see what happens.

So I am going to go to subscribers.

And there are no subscribers yet.

Well, that's because smartpassiveincome.com

has yet to subscribe.

So let's go into my email right now

and then click on that link.

Okay, here's that email that came through.

It actually is from Pat Flynn.

And you can see that there's this button here.

And also pay attention that address is there as well.

And there's always, every single time,

a way for people to unsubscribe.

There's no way to get rid of that.

And again, that's because of the law.

Now, I'm gonna click, confirm your subscription.

And it should take me to a generic page,

a generic thank you page.

You can customize your own thank you page

that people can land on, after they click to subscribe.

Which is a great way to continue that conversation.

But for now, just starting out, keep it simple.

You have your subscription confirmation here.

Now what I'm gonna do is go back to ConvertKit.

And I'm gonna refresh my subscribers page.

And it should show my email address there.

And that also dates the time of this

tutorial, by the way.

But I promise you I will continue to keep this updated.

And I can actually click on the subscriber

and get information about this person.

So the email address and a first name,

if you're collecting it.

If you do wanna collect first name,

you would have to change the form

to one that actually includes the name on it.

It can actually show me which form they subscribed on.

So I can see that Pat subscribed

on the about page on this date.

And it is an active email.

Meaning it's somebody who had

clicked that confirm your subscription button.

I can also see a history of the activity

that this particular email address has had in the past.

So there's only one email that was sent out.

And it shows that it was that confirmation

email as you saw.

However, every time I send a sequence

or an auto responder email, which I'll

get into in video number four, for you,

every time I send a broadcast, which

we'll talk about how to craft and create

the perfect offers, in video number five.

You will be able to see whether or not

people have opened them.

Whether or not people have clicked the links in them.

It's a really powerful tool.

And then finally, you'll see here

on the right hand side, tags.

We'll get into tagging and some

more advanced segmentation items

in video number six, in this tutorial.

Which will allow you to even categorize

your email address to create different

groups and hierarchies, that'll allow

you to better serve your audience too.

So until then, just congratulations

on getting this far.

Thank you so much for watching this video.

If you wanna get involved with ConvertKit

and try them out, again, I'm an advisor.

I just wanna disclose that, for the company.

You can go through my affiliate link

which is smartpassiveincome.com/ck.

Again smartpassiveincome.com/ck.

And if you happen to be watching this

on YouTube and you want to get access

to all the other videos in a very convenient place,

where there's some additional information

for you, to help you really crush it with your emails,

head on over to startanemaillist.com.

That'll redirect you to my site and all the videos.

And this complete tutorial which is, again, free.

I'm not even asking you for any

emails to sign up for it.

I suspect that if I give you enough

value through this tutorial, you'll

want to subscribe to get more stuff from me.

So that's my goal here.

So tell me what you liked about this video.

And I look forward to seeing you there

at startanemaillist.com.

Congratulations once again.

And I'll see you in video number two.

Hey, thanks again for watching this video.

If you wanna move onto tutorial number two,

which is all about how to create lead magnets.

You know, little incentives to help

get even more subscribers, you can

click on the video over here.

And if you're interested in seeing

the tutorial page on my website,

which has all these videos laid out,

more information, even some give aways

that you can get, you can click over here.

♫ Video, video one, it was lots of fun

♫ And now it's time for you to go to video two

♫ Ahhhh

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