5 Methods to Collect More Emails

While we used to drop business cards in fishbowls, the internet has ushered in a new era of lead capture.

Email marketing will continue to be the gold standard for customer communication. According to McKinsey, email is 40 times more effective than social media at reaching and engaging consumers. Why? Because most emails are opened, and email is native to our mobile phones.

If you want to keep pace with your competitors, you must collect emails and engage users with tools like iLoyal eClubs.

Let’s take a look at some of the best ways to collect emails.

1. Capture Leads

If you want more leads, you need to give your customers the chance (or multiple chances) to give you their email address.

To do this, make sure that email capture is early on in your marketing funnel. If you’re asking a customer to download a product, for example, consider collecting their email address early in that flow. Asking them early on like this will mean that you can re-engage with them as you need.

And, before you ask, yes, exit intent pop-ups do still work. For those unfamiliar, an exit intent pop-up is one that populates as your user moves to exit your page. It may sound obvious, but it does really work. In fact, 10 to 15% of your users can be “saved” by using an exit intent pop-up.

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2. SEO

SEO is the holy grail of digital marketing because it can mean free traffic forever. It’s also one of the best ways to capture leads. Companies like Mint collected over 30,000 leads as part of their launch strategy, just by writing great content. SEO can be boiled down to a few things:

Keyword research: To do well in SEO, you need to know what users are searching for. Once you understand which keywords people are utilizing, you can begin to create content that’ll answer those queries. Using the right keywords in your answers will tell Google that your content has the right answer for the question, leading it to populate your page on Google. Before you know it, you’ll have clicks coming in for free.
Great content: You can have all the keyword data in the world, but, without translating that data into great content, you have nothing. Creating content that people want to read is crucial to your SEO success, so make sure you’re constantly analyzing your pages, figuring out what works and what doesn’t, and keeping your content fresh.
Backlinking: Any good SEO strategy includes backlinking. Backlinking is when you get other websites or pages to link back to your site. It’s a covert way of showing Google that others rely on your page for information, and they should feel comfortable doing the same. Ask other sites in your space to help out or try writing guest posts. You can also put out press releases, add your site to directory sites, and reach out to industry news publications.
A good SEO tool: Making sure you have an SEO tool like SEMrush, Ahrefs, Moz or GrowthBar to support your efforts will make life a whole lot easier. It can help you in all of the above tasks to make sure that you have the most successful SEO campaign possible.

Once you have your SEO traffic flowing, you’ll have a regular stream of lead generation. The more traffic you generate, the more leads enter your funnel.

3. Live Chat

Where live chat was once optional, it’s becoming an obligatory part of the customer journey and customer success.

Live chat is also an incredible way to capture email leads by allowing you to capture email leads directly in the live chat widget. It makes your customer’s experience with the site a seamless transition, from browsing to entering an email to chatting.

4. Webinars & Live Video Streams

For B2B, webinars are an engaging way to connect with users, but all companies can connect with scheduled Live Streams. And live video connections have exploded in popularity. Live video is more effective than ever at harvesting leads for your business. In order to make sure your live stream is a hit, do the following:

Come up with a topic that’s extremely engaging for your audience. Interview influencers, go behind the scenes, describe a growth hack that works for your business or will help them optimize theirs. Invite your audience to tell their friends and family about an exclusive live stream – accessible only via invitation and with registration.
In the lead up to your session, do some things to generate leads (also generating contacts for your email list):
- • Partner with other companies/influencers in your space to advertise your live-stream. Two lead funnels are better than one.
- • Enable sharing with a referral widget (native in some tools), so that attendees can invite colleagues and friends. You could even consider supporting with retargeting ads on Facebook or Google.
- • Record the event and turn it into evergreen content, so you can continue capturing leads long after the webinar has happened.
Use email marketing to engage the audience and make sure they actually show up. Engaging via email as part of the lead up to the event will warm them up to open your other emails later.

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5. Facebook Lead Ads

Conversion rates on Facebook ads are seeing a decrease, which means that increasing your ad spend to take advantage of the low CPM might not lead to the high conversion rates you were hoping for. In fact, your conversion rates might not even be enough to make your ad spend worth it.

While this does mean you should be taking care with what you advertise on Facebook, it doesn’t mean you need to get rid of your ads all together. Take this opportunity to switch your ad focus to lead generating Facebook ads. This way, you’ll get the most out of your spend by increasing your lead list.

To implement this change, switch your Facebook promotion category from “Get More Website Visitors” to “Get More Leads.” When you make this change, customers will be prompted to enter their contact info instead of converting on a landing page on your website. Lead generating ads like this have a much higher conversion rate than ads asking users to buy something. Once you have that long list of leads, you can focus on email marketing to push them over the conversion finish line. And, with low CPMs, now is the time.

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