What Looks Amateurish? Two Ways to Communicate w/Your List

Published: Sun, 10/15/17


I had a great night out last night - my daughter and I went to have dinner with my sister Jeni and her husband, who are in town. Then I went and picked up my new glasses, which are sooooo comfortable, even if they're ugly. My sister was heading on to a haunted house but not me! I tend to panic and the last time I went, I instinctively punched the person who jumped out at me and I felt SO bad for that. My arm just jutted out before I knew what was happening. 

Over the next two weeks, I'm dragging my Mom with me to home decor stores. I can't decorate to save my life. I'm like Al Bundy or Homer Simpson when it comes to being classy, and I want my home to look a little less cheesy when my son brings his girlfriend over on the 27th for our "Carve the pumpkins" night. Yes, my house will be decorated for Christmas but he can warn her about that ahead of time. LOL! And I plan on having y'all vote on the best pumpkin and the kid (I say kid - some are 25) with the best pumpkin wins $50 like I did with the Easter Eggs - they love it when they hear a tally of y'all's votes. 

Questions Came in About What Makes Me Think Something Looks Amateurish

I did a lesson for y'all yesterday about working with graphics and after watching the video below, a few people asked me, "But what looks amateurish?" Several of you are doing your own graphics but now wonder if others look at it like it's amateurish. 

So here's the first video from yesterday: http://tiffanyl.converzly.net/darren-graphic-tutorial

Then I did an updated video tutorial about amateurish versus professional looking. You can watch that here: http://tiffanyl.converzly.net/amateur-graphics

Two Ways to Communicate with Your List

A question came in after the graphics tutorial that was about communicating with your list after you get the opt in. The person asked:

"I have a question on how do we plan our AR messages? Say I'm building a list in a niche and I've set up 3-5 messages in the AR series, what happens after that? Do you move them to a 'main' list and continue to send broadcast to the subscribers? Then you'll have so many messages to write each day!"

So I used to do this - have separate lists and separate messages. Then it got grueling to me. Some emails got outdated. And if I broadcasted it meant some people got TWO emails that day if they'd just recently signed up. I hated the whole "follow up email" system for most niches I was in. 

I developed two different ways of doing things - and trust me, everyone has their own system, so do whatever makes you feel most natural. 

For niches where I just want to see if they'll convert to buy a single product, I'll set up a quick series of 5-7 emails. I normally won't email the list unless anything exciting and new comes out after that. I don't do continual emails - these are generally for selling something tangible. 

But in all my digital niches like marketing, survival/prepping, etc., I email on a regular basis, so I scrapped all but one follow-up email. The only follow up email I queue up for new subscribers is the welcome one - where I give them their free gift and maybe some unexpected gifts as well. 

Then they're on for the daily broadcast. Or, they can opt out and go onto the weekly digest. 

I have a hands on communication system with my list here - y'all ask questions, I answer them in emails the following day to help others etc. But in some niches, I simply set up a site and don't want to be hands on - so a followup email series works perfect for that. 

Just depends on what you want to do. 

I'm working on one or two tutorials I hope to show you tomorrow. They're strategy ideas - one for the chronic stress niche and the other for online marketing. Stay tuned for those!

Tiff ;)

P.S. Prefer a weekly digest?
http://www.tiffanylambert.com/weeklytiff.html