The Forward to a Friend Strategy – How Simple it is
by Annie Cooley
It’s the simplicity, stupid! Hugh MacLeod, a cartoonist who blogs over at gapingvoid.com wrote a guest blog for Copyblogger on simplicity.
The most
effective and efficient mode of communication that has moved his
business forward has been – “My newsletter subscribers telling their
friends about my newsletter, and suggesting that they sign up”
He goes on to pose two simple questions:
1. Is your list
telling their friends about you? I mean, really telling them?
2.
Have you made it as easy and friction-free as humanly
possible for your list to tell their friends?
Here is how he put these questions into action…
He created a simple link
on the bottom of the newsletter.
Hello from Hugh: Please share this link with your friends.
If their friends get the link and click on it, the page has a personal message from him.
Hello!
One of your friends sent you the link to this page, and so here you are. Welcome!
My name is Hugh. I’m a cartoonist. I have a
newsletter, “Hugh’s
Daily Cartoon,” which I send out five mornings a week. A wee chuckle
in your inbox, to start your day off on the right foot (so to speak). I hope you
will subscribe.
Simple as that!
Read more of his article at Copyblogger.
Learn more list building techniques from Swiftpage Email Marketing Blog.