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In this video let's go through how to actually set up your email list so that
you could start getting subscribers on your website. To get set up we'll go
ahead and go to Constant Contact where you'll need to sign up for free it's 60
day free trial and then after that it will cost $20 a month to get going. So
I'll let you go ahead and sign up and I'll do the same and then we'll come
back on the other side. Great, once you sign up they automatically create a, an
email list for you so all you have to do is go under contacts and you can come
under here and then you see the default one you can rename that so I'll do that
here. You want to name it something that's easy for you to remember what the
list is about and by default it'll also add you to the list which is great way
for you to see what your audience is seeing when you send out email lists. So
I would go ahead and stay on the email list if you can. So going through
Constant Contact we were able to knock out the top two tasks in one setting we
set up our service provider and then by default it already creates our email
list. When you need to set more email lists up here you can go right here and do
that and that will simply be for targeting other audiences or maybe a
different website. So you can just go in here and set up a new one if you needed
to but we'll just stick with this one. Okay now that we've set up our list the
next thing we want to do is we want to create an inline form or an optin form
that we can put on our website and once you sign up for the pricing, you can sign
up using the signup form here, I'm actually going to walk you through how
to use our sister company product which is OptinMonster and it just does a much
better job of allowing people to showcase their signup forms on their
website. So we're going to head over to OptinMonster and we'll get set up with
that and basically real quickly the concept is you have an
email list that grows your email list campaign. They deal with the
deliverability of your emails and the open rate, the bounce rate, and things
like that so you need this. In order to get people on your email list you'll
want to use something like OptinMonster which makes it much easier to gather
those emails. Once you set up your OptinMonster you'll be shown a campaign
area or your dashboard area and this is where we can create a new campaign. We'll
create a campaign here and this is where you want to select the type of campaign.
The in-line is usually the one that goes after your blog an inline campaign is a
great one to use all across your blog or your website where you can put it at the
end of all of your articles. So we're going to use inline for this and
scrolling down you can choose the campaign template. There's some great
campaign templates to choose from you can even choose by your goal and
actually for this one let's choose grow email list because that is our goal and
you see as I choose which one it changes the types that are available to me. I'm
going to use the basic one and we'll call it choose the website and we'll
start building it. Okay now here's where we can make this look and feel exactly
how we want. So here you just want to decide what you want to say assuming
this is a lifestyle blog that the focus is on organizing. We can change all of
that, you can change what this says here, and
here that's pretty good. You can change the name of what it says
on the subscribe button, you can choose what to say down here if you want it to
say anything, and you can choose to turn off the powered by, great. Now if your
website is a different color you want to change that color here, right here, and if
you happen to know your color hex here you want to change that. So that's
looking pretty good. Once we're done that with that we can click Save.
Let's go to integrations so we can click add new and choose
the provider here. From here we need to register constant contact with our
OptinMonster. So we'll open it up in a new window we need to login and it'll
ask us if we want to allow access for the OptinMonster app and we'll say allow
then we need to add a label and this is just for our use so, and then connect. Now
what it does is it goes out to Constant Contact and it connects with our account
and from the drop down you see that there's the email list that we created.
So now we'll click on that because we want when somebody signs up here we want
them to go to our blog. So I'm happy with that integration, I'm going to go ahead
and click Save. Now we can also click on analytics and connect with our Google
Analytics and that'll be great for seeing conversion of our email list.
Great, now that we've created the optin we want to go ahead and click publish.
You see right now it's paused so we want to click publish to get it going. So I'm
going to make it go into live and down here you see the information of how to
integrate it with our WordPress site. So what we need to do is, now is, connect it
to our website. So let's login to our WordPress
dashboard. From here we'll go to Plugins, Add New because we need to add the
OptinMonster connector. That simply connects OptinMonster with our website
so that we can work from there. So go to my plugins, add new, and I'll search for
OptinMonster. This is the one we want so let's click install now. Make sure once
you install it you also wait around to activate the plugin to make it live on
our site. Great, and now we see this welcome page where we can connect our
account to it. You just need to go and get the API key from your dashboard on
OptinMonster's site. Open up a new window and go to my dashboard. From your
dashboard you can go over to your my account and your API key tab will be
right here. Click copy go back to OptinMonster,
and we'll right click to paste that in here, and connect. Great, it sees that
we've successfully added our API and now we can go up
to campaigns to see any campaigns that come over. Now this is a previous one and
if you don't see the one you've created go ahead and click refresh campaigns and
now we see the one that we've been working on. You look over here and it is
showing that it's disabled so it won't be live until we actually click on the
go live button here. Great, now that it's live. Okay, now that we've gone live we
also want to edit the output settings since this one is going to be after
every blog post and you want to make sure that this is enabled that makes it
live on the site we also have some ways that we can add it you can either choose
to add it to certain posts but since we want to we'd like to display the
campaign after all blog posts. So I'm going to click that
and we want to show the campaign to all visitors and users. You see you could
also do it to just people who are not logged in or just to people who are
logged in for more granularity. We could also add a widget to the sidebar if we
wanted. So I'm going to click save settings and I'll go to a blog post on
my site and we'll scroll down and now we have a great looking optin form after
every blog post on our site. Thanks for watching and don't forget that this
video was brought to you by OptinMonster. You can use OptinMonster to convert and
monetize your website traffic and grow your email list. Don't forget to click on
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