Building Mailing Lists..

Hey guys,

I run a clothing company, and I'm looking at ways of making my website more mailing list friendly, I'm looking for plugins for wordpress and any other methods I can use to encourage people to sign up.

Just through sales I've generated 180, which isn't massive, but I want to start building, IE as soon as people enter an email into the email box, even if they don't complete, it rips their emails.

Thanks!

well its great! start some fashion blogs , make people subscribe you, offer promotions I am sure you will get a more better way of getting your potential leads.

It just seems a bit long winded to start an entire content based site just to get a few leads, I get about 120 unique views a day, and I wanna try and get their attention, or get them to sign up. Maybe a splash popup.

Do a popup or exit intent popup with a discount coupon of some type. They were going to leave anyways. Optin Monster.

No popups and no screenblocking crap etc on a legit site selling clothing!!! You'd only hurt your sales that way.

Add a small "sign up for our newsletter for news blabla" field somewhere. And what about social media? Or maybe a tumblr blog with pictures of your designs leading to the site?

Go to WP-ADMIN - PLUGINS and search for opt in pop ups. Test which is the best. Go for the least annoying one..

I don't mail directly from wordpress because it could never support my volume or stats requirements, but if you want something pure-wordpress and you expect to have a tiny list (2K to 5K records), this combo might work for you:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-notification-bar/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/newsletter/


I purchased a site a month ago that had a 2K user mailing list with it that the seller had collected with the newsletter plugin. The plugin is decent for very small time stuff (i.e. under 5K messages per day).

I already have a mailchimp account with a subscriber base. I'm kinda wanting to expand on that.