How to Build a Big Database of Customers (LIVE) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Building a large database of contacts, email addresses and followers can be one of the most daunting prospects in marketing. Live at a Marketing Masterclass Rob talks through how you can make the most of ‘Paid’ and ‘Organic’ advertising on social media and more. Learn how multiple streams of income are a fundamental of marketing, and why testing every single piece of content you put out there is key even before you spend any money. If you’re looking to take your database or list from 0 to a million subscribers listen here for how to do it.   Key Takeaways Define what your list or database is? There are email opt-ins, but then there is podcast listeners, people in facebook groups, and more broadly LinkedIn followers and connections. There are lots of things that can be defined as subscribers. One of the fundamentals is that you need to have multiple streams of leads otherwise you can be more easily affected by external changes such as GDPR.   It’s really important to have all the platforms set up. When you’re growing your database you can split them into ‘paid’ and ‘organic’. At some point you will have to go to paid advertising otherwise you will stop growing. As the platforms will own your subscriber's contact information make sure to ensure that you have as many of their contact information signed up in your own list, to avoid losing them when a platform changes or ends.   On a rolling three month cycle, I will do an offer on LinkedIn to subscribe to my podcast. I will then carousel them across platforms. Over the course of a few months, every platform has been asked to join each of the other platforms. If you ask people to join some will, nag them to join some more will but the best way is to bribe them. I offered a marketing and KPI’s document for free and then I got more than 700 followers.   If you create two or three ‘Lead Magnets’ and give them away for free in exchange for a subscription or review or alike you’ll get more followers. Most platforms will allow 1 in 10 of your posts to be seen by your followers. Sometimes a top fan will see five of your posts, whereas others will only see 2. So you have to post a lot of your content for more people to see.   The consistency of your marketing and content. If you see someone good content, you’ll probably go and google them off your own back. That’s more powerful than asking them to follow you. When you do content marketing you’ll get a stronger subscriber and better lifetime value customer.   Social media is a great place to test your paid adverts. I don’t want to upload a Facebook or Google ad with an untested one. I would test them in a Facebook group, in a community or in other peoples groups and only when it works I’ll pay for it as an advert. Then you do a small test on Facebook. You have to know how much you are willing to lose each month in testing ads. If you only have £50 then spend only £50. This will grow over a period of time. You should ideally do this before you start a launch campaign.   You want to be doing lead generation across multiple platforms. The positives of this are that you can grow easier, it can be easier to test different client avatars and you’ll generate more leads. There are some negatives that you might get a feeling of overwhelming, and some of it will be wasted time. Test products and services, test language and copy in all your ads. As you test wider you can build more verticals, more micro niches. Have a goal to have all the testing you need to be done in 4-8 weeks before your launch.   If you link away from a particular platform your reach will be decreased. If you pay for an add it will have a large reach on Facebook because you’re paying for it. But each of these platforms will have a lower reach if you link to another platform as they want people to stay on their platform. Use innovative methods to link off to another platform.   Best Moments ‘One of the fundamentals of marketing is that you need multiple streams of leads.’ ‘Each individual platform other than an email opt-in owns your follower.’ ‘Leverage your existing followers to build that database.’ ‘Lead are documents or things of perceived value that you are willing to give away for a subscriber.’ ‘Product magnet are products that you’re willing to give away in exchange for a subscriber.’ ‘These platforms will only show your content to 1 in 10 of your followers.’ ‘The consistency of your content marketing is key.’ ‘There is an argument that you need to be doing 3 pieces of content each day.’ ‘What amount of money would you be happy to lose every month?’ ‘If you only have a £50 budget then spend £50 on paid advertising.’ ‘On a low budget, it works to get in there yourself and work it out not an agency.’ ‘Test products and services, test language and copy in all your ads.’ ‘As you test wider you can build more verticals, more micro niches.’ ‘It’s important to reinvest profits into marketing, staff, and leaving some in the company as cash.’ ‘Make sure that if you are in a magazine include ‘If you write 3,000 articles and get them up there with rich keywords you’ll get it shared.’ [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. 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