Top 10 Proven Strategies to Build Your Email List + Freebies

By Jennie Lyon / April 18, 2023
Top 10 Proven Strategies to Build Your Email List + Freebies

How often do you sign up for a brand’s emails? If you’re like me, you most likely only subscribe to an email list if you KNOW you’re going to get VALUE from the emails. Because let’s face it, there are certain brands that I absolutely adore, but I’m only signing up for their newsletters if I believe in what they promote and the stories that they tell in their emails. BONUS, if their emails make me smile.  Email marketing is a highly effective way to reach out to customers, build relationships, and boost sales. In fact, email marketing has the…

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6 Powerful Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Conversion Funnel

By Jennie Lyon / April 11, 2023

Have you ever been sitting in traffic thinking to yourself, Dang, I wish I could get traffic like this to my website? If you are stuck at stagnant levels of growth or if you’re searching for ways to get more traffic into your ecosystem, you are not alone! There are a lot of things you can do to drive more traffic into your world, but more importantly, once you get the traffic, you need to convert it to boost those bottom-line profits!  Today, I’ll discuss what conversion funnels are and how they impact your customer journey. Then, you’ll learn how…

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How To Capture And Convert Leads (5-Day Email Challenge)

By Jennie Lyon / February 27, 2023
How To Capture And Convert Leads

Generating leads is essential for growing your business, but converting them into paying customers is the real challenge. If you need help turning leads into sales, it’s time to take a closer look at your lead generation and conversion strategies. We’re excited to introduce the 5-Day Email Challenge, designed to help you capture and convert leads. Here are some steps to ensure success: Blog Overview:  Define Your Objectives Clear objectives for your challenge are key to its success as they provide direction and focus for the entire challenge. When you clearly understand what you hope to achieve, you can tailor…

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Stuck at 1k Email Subscribers? 5 Steps To Fix It! (+Free Download)

By Jennie Lyon / July 26, 2022

A Solid Core Lead Magnet  Picture this: You’ve spent hours and hours creating a core lead magnet that isn’t converting. Or it’s converting, but at a glacial pace. Either way, you’re stuck at 1,000 followers, or the people in your email list aren’t converting into paying customers. Let’s chat about how to fix that! In this episode of Digital Marketing Made Simple, we’ll unlock the mystery behind your email list growth strategy and teach you how to entice mountains of new subscribers to your list! Today’s Blog Overview  Today we’re going to unpack email subscriber growth strategies and find the best…

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9 Expert Tips To Achieve Maximum Funnel Conversion

By Jennie Lyon / February 8, 2022

Over my 20 years in marketing, I have witnessed time and time again business owners, just like you, work endless hours burning the midnight oil to achieve maximum funnel conversion. If you’ve been in business for any amount of time, then you already know it’s difficult to convert your ICA the first time they come across your site. And it’s even more difficult to get them to come back and buy from you.  Since the customer journey has changed many times since online marketing began to be the future of sales, conversions no longer depend on good copywriting and pretty…

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6 Steps to Capturing & Nurturing Leads to Conversion

By Jennie Lyon / January 11, 2022

Every user has their pain point, and they’re looking for products or services that can help them address that pain point. Make the right first impression, and you have a chance to convert your potential customer into an actual customer. But your efforts to build relationships with your leads don’t stop there. That’s how you begin to nurture your leads, so they buy from you when they are ready. I call this your lead generation strategy. A lead generation strategy is crucial for any level of business. Why? Because, without one, you’ll rely on your ICA to find you, and…

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2022 Marketing Audit: 6 Things to do NOW to be Ready for the Future

By Jennie Lyon / November 2, 2021
2022 Marketing Audit: 6 Things to do NOW to be Ready for the Future

Running a business means taking on a lot of hard work, and one way to stay aware and optimize poorly performing areas is with an audit. The scope of a business audit varies depending on what you’re looking for, from a social media audit to a more detailed operational audit. By implementing these strategies early, you’ll ensure that your business is ready to weather the storm and continue to grow in unexpected ways in 2022. Today I want to talk about marketing tune-ups. You can’t just set up a business and hope for the best. For companies to prosper, they…

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How the iOS15 Update will Impact Email Marketing

By Jennie Lyon / October 26, 2021
How The iOS 15 Update Will Impact Email Marketing

Apple has done it again. Every small business owner and entrepreneur is well aware of the iOS14 updates and its impact on tracking paid marketing. Now, it’s time for email marketers to feel the same pain and panic that ensued between media buyers and ad agencies with the iOS15 update. We all remember the scramble to change our marketing plans and figure out the new way to have insights into our audience’s preferences and actions. Apple is taking it to the next level.  According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple believes that privacy is “one of the top issues of the…

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How to Super-Charge Your Email List By Offering a Fantastic Lead Magnet!

By Jennie Lyon / June 29, 2021
JLVAS - Lead Magnet

When you see a “sign up for my newsletter” on a website, do you click “Yes?” I would put money on your answer being “No, of course not!” And I understand why. We are conditioned to HATE email. Every time you check your email, you likely have dozens of messages sitting in your inbox telling you that “Won a free cruise” or “Your Outlook Email is About to Be Cancelled!” Spam has ruined email, plain and simple. So, why on earth would anyone want to give their email out to a random website?  With all of that in mind, when…

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Email Marketing vs. Social Media Marketing? Which is Better?

By Jennie Lyon / March 23, 2021
JLVAS-Blog-Email marketing cs social media marketing

I get asked this question all of the time! Should I focus on social media marketing or email marketing? Which one is more important for my online business?  Ok, I am going to preface this by saying that I absolutely love social media marketing. The arrival of Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and other social media networks we use today completely changed what digital marketing meant for small businesses. Before that, your digital marketing options were limited. There was your homepage, landing pages, and maybe pop-up ads on some websites, and that was it.  Social media changed all that. It allowed small…

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