How I Easily Got Over 17,000 Email Subscribers in Just 6 Weeks

A few months ago I became desperate on having more returning visitors on my blog so I started finding solutions. While one of them was to focus on better, more quality content, the other one was about increasing the subscriber base. Until then, I did only have about 1,000 subscribers and I was very disappointed about it.

I knew that I had to find something I had to offer to my readers in order to subscribe, though I didn’t know what, because I am talking about a technology blog. Fortunately for me, a lot of game producers began launching beta games and a writer of mine managed to get his hands on a few thousand beta keys.

I’ve checked out the other blogs to see what were they doing with those beta keys and figured that they were doing it all wrong. Everybody was offering beta keys to anyone who commented on that post, so they were getting next to nothing from that.

Then I thought about giving a beta key to everyone who subscribed to my email newsletter and I’ve set up a small subscription form. After that, I’ve got my writer to write the posts and offer the beta keys and I’ve wrote a nice call-to-action text inviting them to subscribe to our newsletter in order to get a free beta key.

Shortly after that we ran out of beta keys and we hardly managed to get a few thousand more to be able to keep our readers satisfied. I have to say that our subscriber base started to increase immediately and would have continued like this if the games didn’t come out of beta. In just 6 weeks I managed to increase my email subscribers by 17,000 and this means a lot to returning visitors. Also my traffic increased dramatically, because now there are 17,000 more people who receive daily emails with my posts. Unfortunately now I can’t continue like that because I don’t have such a good product to offer them in exchange for subscribing. Though since that day I continue finding solutions and offering them a lot of different rewards just to test, but nothing worked as well as that.

What I’m trying to say is that you have to find working solutions for everything you want to achieve and that there is always an easy and very good working solution. So keep researching and testing if you want to achieve your goals.

I will continue with a long series of posts on how I managed to create a lot of successful blogs that counted over 100 million visits until now and continue growing like mad. I suggest you to subscribe to my RSS feed or newsletter if you want to get more interesting posts like this one. New, more in-depth posts are to come !